Kal Dosa Cauliflower masala dosai Dosa Batter* 1 cup Sugar 1/2 tsp Oil | butter to make the dosa For the potato masala Potato 2 Onion 1 Tomato a small portion Red chili powder 1/2 tsp Salt as needed Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Oil 2 tsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Curry leaves few Cashew nuts few (optional) For the red chutney Red chili 4 Garlic 2 pods Channa dal or Chutney dal (pottukadalai) 2 tblsp Dry coconut (kopparai) 1 tblsp (optional) Salt to taste Oil 1 tsp *Add 1/4 cup of aval |poha |rice flakes to the urad dal while soaking....

Narthangai | citron 3 medium size Sambar podi 4 tsp Jaggery 1/4 cup Green chili 2 Sesame oil 2 tblsp Mustard 1/2 tsp Tamarind a lemon sized Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp Salt as needed Method with step wise pictures: Cut the citron| narthangai into two and add salt on both sides and chop them finely. Adding salt at this stage reduces the bitterness of the narthangai. If you miss to add salt,it will taste more bitter....

I posted Navaratri combo recipes in Jeyashri’s Kitchen in the year 2014. After that, I posted a lot of recipes in Jeyashri’s kitchen. I thought I will post another interesting combo this year. Living in abroad for many years now, the tradition here is, that they offer a mini dinner for the guests who come home during Navaratri. Though we don’t have the custom of keeping Golu, I invite all my friends and neighbors during Varalakshmi pooja....

In a wide bowl add the chopped cashew nuts and raisins. Add the fresh coconut to this. If you don’t get fresh coconut at your place add desiccated coconut or dry coconut (kopra). Ripe Banana* 1 Dates 3 Raisins 1 tblsp Cashew nut 1 tblsp Sugar candy (kalkandu) 2 tblsp Fresh coconut 1 tblsp Honey 1 tblsp Naatu sakkarai or| Jaggery 1/4 cup Cardamom powder a pinch Edible camphor a small pinch * Use karpooravalli banana if you get at your place....

We usually make peas paratha by stuffing the peas masala inside the dough. I wanted to try this like chapati. As matar is in the season I wanted to make this post, but I used frozen peas in this recipe. You can use fresh peas also. Matar or peas is very rich in protein. But I have seen many people doesn’t like peas. This is one of the best ways of adding peas to their food....

This is an interesting lunch box recipe using green peas. We usually make Peas pulao or add peas in veg pulao or other pulao recipes. We are making this Peas masala rice, using fresh homemade masala. The masala is similar to Vangi bath powder. A few months back I saw this recipe on my Instagram feed and saved the recipe. The original recipe used brinjal | eggplant to make this rice....

I have posted a lot of modak recipes with different stuffings in Jeyashris kitchen. This year tried this protein rich pottukadalai poornam kozhukattai. This stuffing is an easy one and we can eat the poornam as such as a healthy snack. I have posted kozhakattai maavu in 4 different methods, Ellu kozhukattai, kozhukattai using desiccated coconut. Apart from this, we have the Maharastrian style Khoya modak, shahi coconut modak and chocolate mawa modak recipes available in Jeyashri’s Kitchen....

We make sakkarai pongal for pongal festival. Traditionally they make it using freshly harvested rice. Apart from this, we make sakkarai pongal for many festivals and pandigais. The key ingredients we use for making sakkarai pongal are raw rice, jaggery, moong dal, and ghee. Cardamom powder, edible camphor, and nutmeg enhance the taste of the Sakkarai pongal. Traditionally we make sakkarai pongal in a brass pot. But we tend to make it in a pressure cooker always....

One-pot veg biryani is always a super hit in our home. I always use Basmati rice for making Veg Biryani. Whenever I have guests I make the Hyderabadi Veg Dum Biryani at home. I was first introduced to this Seeraga samba rice by our neighbor aunty in Madurai. She makes excellent Biryani. She never uses basmati rice and also insists on my mom try this seeraga samba rice. Seeraga samba rice is very aromatic....

Firecracker Beef “I need a spicy Asian food fix!” It’s a well-known wail regularly heard from me, especially during intensive periods of non-Asian food cooking work, like during the making of the cookbook. Lovers of Asian food will understand exactly what I mean. It’s a recurring taste craving that, when left unsatisfied for too long, rears its head like a waking beast. The satisfaction the beast seeks is particular. It’s chilli-laced, big-flavoured Asian food....

I’m sharing the simplest and fastest way to make stuffed aloo tikki. You can cook potatoes and lentils together in an instant pot – in minutes! What is Aloo Tikki? Aloo tikki is a really popular type of Indian street food. This type of tikki is made with boiled potatoes, spices and sometimes (like in this recipe) it’s stuffed with lentils. Aloo tikki translates to potato cutlet. These pan-fried fritters are both crispy and creamy and thanks to the lentil filling, they’re spicy and tangy and nutty too....

When it’s cold outside, I’ll make one of the following for dinner: casserole, curry, or a one-pot meal. Food is how I cope with the cold. When I get home from work (after walking what seems like a mile in the bitter cold just to get to my car), I immediately take a hot shower, put on my coziest pajamas, and then head to my favorite place: the kitchen. I know it might sound silly, but there’s something about the kitchen that makes me feel… powerful....

Thakkali sadam, Tomato rice is a Popular South Indian variety rice. I have fond memories of taking tomato rice for lunch during my school and college days. Since amma was a working mom, we would mostly take dosai with molagapodi for lunch. Happily, we would take it as we are a huge fan of dosai molagapodi. Whenever amma gets an off day on a school working day, we would get varieties of food for the lunch box....

Thakkali biryani Tomato pickle After so many trial and error, i finally got my perfect recipe. INGREDIENTS: METHOD: Chop the onions and tomatoes. Ground the garlic, ginger and half of the onions into a fine paste. Wash the rice and soak it in 1 1/2 cups of water. In a pressure cooker, add the oil and ghee and throw in the pepper ,cloves and elachi. Add the onions. Add the onion ginger garlic paste....

Such as with Ceviche and Poke Bowls, this can be made with any sashimi-grade sparkling fresh fish suitable for raw consumption. Tuna Tartare I wish I could pass out samples of this through my computer screen so you can taste it. I really hope that you try this at least once in your lifetime because I promise, it is something really special. The combination of finely chopped raw tuna, sweet juicy lychees, creamy avocado and the zing from lime is magical....

Easy Ulundu murukku | urad dal murukku recipe, crispy murukku made using boiled urad dal and rice flour, recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. I bookmarked this ulundu murukku recipe from here, a few years back but I completely forgot about that. Some days while going through some bookmarked recipe collections, I bumped into this ulundu murukku recipe. Even if you don’t have a rice mill in your place and have access only to store-bought rice flour, you can make this boiled urad dal murukku....

Uppu Seedai we make for Gokulashtami and the festival is nearing I wanted to post the uppu seedai recipe , a traditional snack. I used to do this every year and the recipe I got from a Tamil magazine “Mangayar Malar” some 21 years back. I was a beginner at that time and saw that recipe in the magazine, basically they gave a lot of tips for beginners. Those days making STD phone calls to amma was too expensive....

This week’s lunch menu has Varagu rice (Kodo millet)Vendakkai sambar (with freshly ground sambar masala)Pineapple rasamCabbage, carrot, peas poriyal (must try)Chickpeas sundalStore bought mixture- I bought the mixture from Sri krishna sweets, i have posted the recipe of similar madras mixture If you want to know how i cooked the millet, do mention it in the comment box, i will make a detailed post on it. Stay tuned for interesting posts coming up in Jeyashri’s kitchen....

We all know that watermelon is nature’s candy, right? Welllll, research shows it might also be nature’s viagra. Watermelon is rich in citrulline, an amino acid that relaxes and dilates blood vessels. It has also been shown to reduce muscle soreness in athletes and might even help fight free radicals. The rind of watermelon just so happens to contain more of this amino acid than the juicy red flesh we’re used to eating....

Xinjiang Cumin Lamb Stir Fry New recipes that truly catch me by surprise are few and far between these days. But this one did – and hit it so far out of the park that I declared I must share the recipe “immediately”! Succulent pieces of lamb generously flavoured with a cumin-sichuan pepper spice mix, golden on the outside and astonishingly tender inside. This is a dish from the Xinjiang province of China where the food is heavily influenced by food of the Middle East, reflecting the predominantly Muslim population....