Shahi Tukda Recipe
Shahi Tukda is a popular, delicious and simple sweet dish made using bread, milk and nuts. When I was in UK, my best friend made this yummy dish and she taught me how to make. Now whenever I make this...
View ArticleInstant Coconut Milk Murukku Recipe | Coconut Milk Chakli Recipe
Want to make a crispy snacks for tea time? Try this instant Coconut Milk Murukku with readily available ingredients in most of the Indian Kitchen. Generally we make murukku by mixing rice flour, moong...
View ArticleRasa Vada(Vadai)
When I was living in Nagercoil, i used to get the Rasa Vadai from the small tiffen shops along with the morning tiffens. The vadai used to melt in the mouth along with the flavor of rasam. I attempted...
View ArticleAadi Month Festivals and Events
Aadi month(July 17th - August 16th) is the 4th month of the Tamil Calender. The next six months from Aadi to Margazhi is the Dakshinayana punyakalam. It marks the beginning of the night of Devas....
View ArticlePasi Paruppu Ladoo | Moong Dal Laddu | Nei Urundai
We can make variety of easy to make ladoos and one such is Moong Dal Ladoo (Pasi Paruppu Laddu) also refereed as Nei Urundai. Moong dal is very healthy and nutritional. Mixing jaggery and ghee with...
View ArticleMatar Kachori Recipe | Green Peas Kachori Recipe
Green Peas Kachori(Matar Kachori)-Crisp savoury bursting with fresh flavour of seasonal peas.. It has perfect crisp, flaky texture with very flavorful green peas stuffing inside. A quick and easy to...
View ArticleMixed Vegetable Curry Recipe
Delicious and tasty North Indian style fried mixed vegetable Curry would be a perfect side dish for Roti / Naan. Mixed veggies enrich the curry and also makes it healthier and tastier. Sometimes its...
View ArticleAkki Roti Recipe | Rice Flour Roti Recipe
Akki roti is a rice-based breakfast item unique to the state of Karnataka, India. Akki rotti means "rice bread" in the native language, Kannada. It is made of rice flour which is mixed with salt and...
View ArticleDhaniya Paneer Recipe | Paneer in Coriander Gravy
For most of the Paneer masala, the underlying gravy is onion+tomato mixture. But instead of the conventional onion-tomato gravy, here the main ingredient is coriander leaves. The predominant flavor of...
View ArticleAadiperukku (Pathinettam perukku)/ How do we celebrate Aadiperukku?
Tamil Month Aadi, marks the beginning of monsoon in TamilNadu. During this month, water levels in the rivers increases due to monsoon. To show our gratitude to the nature and to thank Mother Cauvery...
View ArticleVaralakshmi Vratham/Varalakshmi Pooja
Varalakshmi Pooja is an important pooja performed by many women in the states of Andra and Tamilnadu. This year Varalakshmi Viratham is on 4th Aug 2017.Varalakshmi Pooja is celebrated on the friday,...
View ArticleAvani Avittam (Upakarma)
Avani Avittam is a most important ritual for Brahmins. It is a ceremony of changing the sacred thread (poonal). I have been told by my father that the right name for this ritual is Upakarma and over a...
View ArticleGokulashtami / Krishna Jayanthi
Gokulashtami (Sri Krishna Jayanthi) celebrates with great pomp and show, the birth of Lord Krishna who was born more than 5000 years ago in the 28th year of Dwapur Yug. It is one of the most celebrated...
View ArticleAval Puttu
Aval Puttu is a delicious snack and is prepared as a neivedhyam for Krishana jayanthi festival.Normally, people will soak the aval in water and add grated jaggery and mix it and keep that for...
View ArticleUppu Seedai / Salt Seedai
Uppu Seedai (Salt Seedai) is another important and traditional neivedhyam dish for krishna jayanthi festival. In my childhood days, my mom used to prepare 5-6 batches of dough and me and my sister with...
View ArticleVella Seedai Recipe | Sweet Seedai Recipe
Vella Seedai or sweet Seedai is one of the important neivedhyam dish for Krishna Jayanthi festival and Thirukarthigai festival. This is one of the trickiest dish. Even for more experienced people,...
View ArticleCoconut Seedai
Seedai is one of the important Neivedhyam dish we make for Krishna Jayanthi. Coconut seedai is a traditional dish made in our home every year for Krishna Jayanthi. Unlike, salt seedai, which should be...
View ArticleVethalai Rasam | Betel Leaves Rasam
Betel Leaves, also called as Vethalai in tamil has lots of medicinal properties. In Southern India, we consider these leaves as so auspicious and we offer betel leaves to God and also its auspicious to...
View ArticleNei Appam (Ghee Appam)
Appam is one of the important neivedhyam dish for Krishna Jayanthi festival. On the auspicious occasion of Krishna Jayanthi, especially in the evening when we plan to invite Lord Krishna home, we have...
View ArticleUdupi Sambar | Udipi Style Sambar Recipe
The main uniqueness of Udipi Sambar(Udupi Sambar) is the sweetness. Udupi type sambar is mostly similar to our Tamilnadu Sambar but with the extra flavor of jaggery. Once I went to Udupi Krishnar...
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