Blueberry Cheesecake Recipe, No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake Classic Indian No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake recipe using gelatin, hung yogurt and cream. I love easy no bake desserts. This No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake here […]

Cabbage Kootu Recipe, Chettinad Cabbage Kootu. Easy and simple recipe for South Indian style Chettinad Cabbage Kootu. Tamilnadu Muttaikose Kootu Curry. With step by step pictures. South Indian Chettinad style Cabbage Kootu – This is an excellent way of having cabbage. The fennel seeds and the coconut makes this Cabbage Kootu dish a winner. This is a great way to do the otherwise boring cabbage. We all love this cabbage kootu at home....

Eat the Rainbow Series – Carrot and Cabbage Rice with Tofu and Veggies Stir-Fry. Recipe with step by step pictures and video. Healthy everyday recipe loaded with vegetables. We have been trying to eat a variety of colours of fruits and vegetables everyday at home. Renowned doctor Mark Hyman calls this as “eating the rainbow” everyday. “Color is the language of the plant kingdom, so be sure to incorporate an array of colorful plant foods into your diet!...

Recipe for Carrot Chutney. Easy Carrot Chutney that goes perfectly well with idli and dosa. Spicy and tangy carrot chutney. Heat oil in a pan and add in the mustard seeds and dried red chillies. Let the mustard seeds splutter. Add in the urad dal. Let the urad dal slightly brown. Add in the chopped onions, carrots and the salt. Saute for five minutes. Add in the tamarind and the jaggery....

This is an everyday healthy Carrot Pattani Poriyal recipe. This is a kids favorite stir-fry. The subtle sweetness from the carrot and peas is something most of the kids love. This can be paired with dal and that makes a simple and healthy everyday lunch. Here is how to do Carrot Pattani Poriyal. Heat oil in a pan. Add in the mustard seeds and let it splutter. Add in the red chillies, green chillies, chopped garlic and chopped curry leaves....

Recipe for traditional Kongunadu style cauliflower kuzhambu served for breakfast with idli and dosai. Recipe with detailed video. Even if you are pudhu maapilai (new bridegroom), you won’t be served Kari soaru (meat feast) every day in kongunadu. You will be served with a superb thakkali kuzhambu or this cauliflower kuzhambu for breakfast along with idli and dosai and the works. I promise, no one misses the meat if this kuzhambu is served for breakfast....

The main ingredient for a good chicken soup is the chicken stock. I like to use homemade chicken stock for this soup as its more flavorful and one can control the amount of salt that goes into the stock. Its very easy to make chicken stock at home. I use the bones, wings, neck and giblets of the chicken for making stock. I use the pressure cooker method as its fast....

Chocolate Cookies, Gluten Free Chocolate Nut Cookies. Gluten free, Butter free, Chocolate Nut Cookies adapted from Francois Payard Bakery, New York. Excellent recipe for last minute entertaining as this can be put together in 5 minutes. I once had a chewy sophisticated Chocolate Nut Cookie at Payard patisserie in New York. It was then called as passover cookie. It was a chewy, chocolaty and a oh so good cookie. Sometime later I spotted the same recipe in his cookbook Chocolate Epiphany: Exceptional Cookies, Cakes, and Confections for Everyone ....

A long cricket evening needs more than a big screen and a charged phone. Overs stretch into hours, rain breaks appear from nowhere, and every review or strategic timeout invites one more bite. The right snacks turn a tense chase or grinding Test session into a small festival with spice, crunch and comforting aromas from the South of India. On modern match nights, screens often show more than live score alone....

This delicious chocolate soufflé is thick and overflowing with chocolate flavor. Not too sweet, but sweet enough to make up for the strong chocolate flavor. This soufflé’s texture has three layers, which contributes to its wonderful flavor. The top layer is thin and crisp, with cracks. Then you reach into the center to find a rich molten chocolate sauce reminiscent of lava cake. The lower layer is light and breathable, just like a chocolate mousse....

Kavuni Arisi, Chettinad Kavuni Arisi Sweet Recipe The olden day Chettiar community was a very affluent community and traded all over the world. The community had trade as far flung as Rangoon […]

An easy to put recipe for Knol Khol Kurma / noolkol kurma / turnip kurma that can be made in minutes. Perfect side dish for chapati or pulao. Recipe with step by step pictures. These days I do most of my veggie kurma using the OPOS – One Pot One Shot method as the taste of the kurma cannot be beat and the whole dish is ready in ten minutes....

Thakkali aati kaachina kuzhambu is a popular side dish served with idli in the Kongunad region of Tamilnadu. The curry is made by roasting and grinding spices, tomatoes and coconut which is then simmered to form a thick sauce. தக்காளி ஆட்டி காச்சின குழம்பு. “Thakkali aati kaachina kuzhambu” literally means tomatoes ground and simmered to a thick sauce. This tomato curry is an excellent side dish for idlis and is one of the main staples of everyday kongu cuisine....

Kongunadu vellai biryani is a very subtle biryani with the predominant aroma of ground spices and green chillies. Green chillies are ground to a paste and added for the heat. Green chillies are also added whole so the flavour gets in the rice sans the heat. Coconut milk makes the biryani luscious and rich in every mouthful. The fragrant short-grained seeraga samba rice is the preferred rice for making this recipe....

Recipe for Tamilnadu Madras style murungakkai sambar for idli and rice. Indian Chennai drumstick Sambar. This recipe for Murungakkai Sambar is from my good friend Anandhi. This is her mom’s Murungakkai Sambar recipe. We used to work together almost a decade back (gosh – its been a long time). At that time, the food at the canteen/food court was horrible. We were doing crazy night shifts at that time and we were so tired to get into the kitchen after we came back home....

Simple Mutton Kuzhambu recipe. Spicy Mutton curry for rice recipe made in a pressure cooker. Perfect for weekday dinners. Recipe with step by step pictures and video. Mutton Kuzhambu – Kuzhambu is a curry and pronounced as (koo-lum-boo) in Tamil. Here is a simple mutton curry recipe that can be made in a pressure cooker and it goes well perfectly with rice. Here is how to do it. Note: If you are looking for a similar chicken curry recipe, do check this recipe....

Recipe for Naan pizza dough from scratch. Easy beginners recipe with step by step pictures. This is a quick recipe for making pizza at home. We make the dough from scratch. This is a same day pizza dough recipe and very easy to make and is so perfect for beginners. The dough rises once and is ready to go into the oven within a couple of hours. The addition of yogurt and baking powder makes it fool proof....

Paalkatti Mundhiri Masala Gravy is a rich side dish that can be made for parties or special occasions. Paalkatti aka paneer is mixed with potatoes and spices and deep fried into golden balls. These balls are served along in spicy cashew gravy. This Paalkatti Mundhiri Masala goes well as a side dish with chapati or roti. Here are the things you can buy for making this recipe Heavy Duty Indian Mixie https://amzn....

Pachai Payaru Masiyal, Green Moong dal – Green Gram Curry. Pachai Payaru masiyal recipe. Whole moong dal/mung bean curry south indian style. Easy and healthy lentil curry. Lentils and rice make perfect lunches. There is nothing more comforting than a good lentil curry with rice. This is such an easy recipe for the busy mornings where I need to pack lunches for the family. Lentils and rice make a simple everyday Indian meal....

Recipe for south Indian Tamilnadu style paruppu vadai recipe. Made with chana dal. With step by step pictures. My moms family is big. Super big. She has 6 sisters and 4 brothers. The last of the lot is my aunt Prema Sithi. She was the one who would take all the children for shopping in her Fiat car and would buy big boxes of ice cream on the way back home....