Thandai is a popular North Indian drink made during Holi festival and Maha shivratri, the festival of colours. I learnt this Thandai recipe from my friend in Singapore. She regularly makes Thandai for Holi party. For me it is a very new recipe and I have never heard of that name before. Even though if you do not celebrate Holi festival, do try out this summer drink at home. This recipe includes poppy seeds, also called as Khus khus, gasagasa in Tamil....

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Try it. It will surprise you! Welcome to Day 12 of the inaugural Holiday Salad Marathon, where I’m sharing 30 salads in a row through to Christmas Eve – just for something different to the usual sugar-loaded baking countdowns!! Today, something FRENCH(ish): Tomato Salad with Olive Tapenade This is a great tomato salad reminiscent of the south of France with the use of black olive tapenade. You can throw this together in minutes if you’ve already got a pre-bought jar of olive tapenade lying around in your fridge, else it’s worth making the tapenade yourself from scratch if you’re just looking to make a tomato salad that’s a little different!...

In this post We have a video of my mother in law explaining the pooja procedures. I have posted Varalakshmi pooja recipes in Jeyashri’s kitchen already. I have compiled everything in one place here. Also, I have given a shopping list so that we can plan before the pooja. In my mom’s house the priest | sastrigal would come early in the morning at 4 am and do the pooja....

Rice noodles 1* Mixed veggies 1 cup Tofu 1/2 cup Bean sprouts 1 hand ful (skip if you don’t get) Dark soya sauce 1 tsp Light soya sauce 1 tsp Refined oil 1 tblsp + 3 tsp Sesame oil 1 tblsp Onion 1 Ginger 2 tsp (grated) Garlic 2 tsp (chopped finely) Green chili 1 Chili sauce 4 tsp Pepper 1/2 tsp (optional) Spring onion few (to garnish) Coriander leaves few (to garnish) Peanuts few (to garnish) Salt as needed *Once the noodles is cooked it gave a volume of 3 cups....

Here are 4 ways to eat a hot dog without a bun: Bacon Blanket Bun? What bun… all I see is… BACON. Hot Dog as the Bun Whoever came up with this is just brilliant. Eating a “Hot Dog as the Bun” is when you split a hot dog down the middle and then stuff it with toppings. Zucchini Weenie This hot dog bun is grain-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free and pretty much everything but zucchini-free....

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You can never have too many Asian chicken recipes – and this one is a great all rounder! Asian Chicken recipe This is a classic Food Memory dish. You know what I mean, don’t you?? It’s when the sight, smell or taste of a specific food brings back a flood of memories of a specific moment in your life. And I will always remember this particular Asian chicken recipe as the one that rendered my girlfriends silent....

Asian Glazed Baked Barramundi The reason pan-fried fish is so much tastier than just sticking it in the oven is because you get good browning. Colour = flavour with anything, whether it’s vegetables or meats. Fish fillets simply cook too quickly in the oven to get any colour on them. So how do you make baked fish tastier and more interesting? You could: What you need for the Asian BBQ Sauce Glaze Here’s what you need for the Asian BBQ Sauce Glaze:...

Use this Asian dressing for leafy green salads, Asian slaws, noodle salads and chopped salads. It’s also a terrific dressing to make steamed vegetables so much tastier. Finish with a sprinkle of fresh sesame seeds and sliced greens onions! Instant Asian Sesame Dressing This Asian Sesame Dressing is one of eight ready-to-use salad dressing recipes that I shared in this post: Ready To Use Salad Dressings. I’ve been wanting to share a bunch of long shelf life salad dressings for ages and was so glad to finally have an excuse to!...

Wheat flour | Atta 1 cup Ghee (melted) 1/4 cup Sugar 1/2 cup Cashew nuts few Cardamom powder a pinch In a pan add little ghee and fry the cashew nuts till they turn nice golden brown, Keep it aside. In the same pan add the atta and roast it nicely till it gives a nice aroma. Roast in a slow flame. Be careful not to get it burnt. Transfer the roasted atta in a wide plate....

Avalakki Khara Pongal is a popular recipe in Karnataka cuisine. I have heard about Aval sakkarai pongal and tasted it in a friend’s house too during Navaratri too. When my friend Meera shared the Ash gourd dosa recipe, she shared this recipe of Avalakki pongal also. I always love her recipes and shared a few of her recipes in Jeyashri’s kitchen. This recipe sounded very interesting and simple too. I tried this a few weeks back at home for a weekend breakfast....

Beetroot 1/2 Green chili 1/2 Ginger a small piece Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp Yogurt 1 and 1/2 cup Water 1 cup Chaat masala 1/4 tsp Salt as needed Chop the beetroot into cubes and cook in little water for 5 minutes. You can skip this step and straight away proceed to grind the ingredients. You can roast the beetroot in the oven too. Allow this to completely cool. No need to drain the water....

Bitter gourd or pavakkai(in Tamil) is mostly made at my place in the form of pitlai or curry, but whatever it is kids will not touch bitter gourd in any form. When nags posted this bitter gourd fry in her space a long back I tried that and so surprisingly my daughter loved that one very much. After a very long time suddenly I remembered that and made this for lunch last week and again she enjoyed it a lot....

Goat meat is a healthy, tasty and sustainable source of meat. We should be eating goat… especially if we’re enjoying foods like goat cheese and goat milk. Why? Because in the U.S., goat meat is a “byproduct” of goat dairy. From what I’ve read, goat farmers in the U.S. have a hard time figuring out what to do with male goat kids (since they obviously don’t produce milk) and sometimes, it’s easier for farmers to kill them young vs raising them for little to no profit (or even a loss)....

This is an ideal recipe for pork neck / collar butt – also known as pork scotch roast. Brilliant pork cut for both fast and slow cooking! Slow roast pork recipe As I was thinking what to say about this recipe, a feeling of deja vu swept over me. I freaked out, wondering if I had already published it…. And then it suddenly dawned on me. This recipe is almost like the baked non-Asian version of Vietnamese Coconut Caramelised Pork!...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Cabbage 1 and 1/4 cup (shredded) Rice flour 3 tblsp Besan | kadalai maavu 1/4 cup Salt as needed Red chili powder 1 tsp Butter 1 tsp Curry leaves few Asafoetida a pinch Oil for deep frying Video of how to make cabbage pakoda Mix all the ingredients ,except oil. Sprinkle little water to it and mix it well. Don’t add too much water....

Milkshake without ice cream . When I got married, my mother in law used to make Carrot juice for my husband and brother in law everyday. After few years, when we moved to Singapore, as we become more health conscious gave up drinking carrot milk as it has sugar in it. Those days we used drink coffee | tea with sugar and eat sweets also a lot. So want to cut down on something and gave up this carrot milk....

I have gone holiday crazy. Not in a good way either – you know, where you feel productive because the house is perfectly decorated inside and out. Nope. I mean I’ve gone holiday crazy in the realllly unproductive sense where I sit on the couch after work and binge watch every single Christmas movie ever made. I mean, sometimes I browse Pinterest for cute Christmas DIY ideas that I’ll probably never make....

“Most One Pot Meals are so loaded with carbs and protein that you need a side salad to make a complete meal. This is truly a complete meal in a One Pot.” There seems to be a One Pot Meal craze going on at the moment. And I highly approve because it’s in my DNA to find shortcuts at every opportunity. However, I find that most One Pot Meals are loaded with carbs and protein so in order to make it a complete meal, you need to make a side salad....