Food Recipe

Aval Urundai /Poha Laddu – Visual Recipe

January 7, 2010
Aval Urundai /Poha Laddu – Visual Recipe

Aval Urundai (அவல் உருண்டை) or Poha laddu is an easy to make sweet dish. Believe me it just takes less than 10 minutes to make! Not just that it also makes a healthy indulgence. Ingredients: Poha (flattened rice) – 3 Cups Grated Coconut – 1 cup Sugar – Half cup or as per taste (you...
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Ada Paniyaram – Visual recipe

November 7, 2009
Ada Paniyaram – Visual recipe

Ada Paniyaram is a traditional sweet delicacy of southern parts of Tamil nadu. Ingredients: Raw rice: 1 measure Parboiled rice: 1 measure Jaggery: As per taste Moong dal (broken and skinned) Coconut (grated) Step 1: Preparing the batter : Take raw rice and parboiled rice in the ratio of 1:1 and Jaggery as per taste. Do remember that...
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Instant Chocolate Mousse – Recipe

September 28, 2009
Instant Chocolate Mousse – Recipe

A lazy Sunday morning which boasts of not much to do was inspiration enough for me to make one of my favorite desserts for after-lunch: Instant Chocolate mousse. It is one recipe that hits the spot quite well after any meal! Might I add that this would also line your arteries well so you...
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Dal Dosa – recipe with pictures

September 21, 2009
Dal Dosa – recipe with pictures

Ingredients: Rice Channa dal Urad dal Onion Curry leaves Green chilly Red chilly powder Salt Asafetida Step 1: Take Rice, Channa dal and Urad dal in the ratio of 3:2:1 (If you want dosa to be crispy, add urad dal a little lesser than 1 ratio) Step 2: Soak them in water separately for at least...
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Simple Sweet Idli – Recipe ( with pictures)

September 11, 2009
Simple Sweet Idli – Recipe ( with pictures)

  It is a  simple but tasty variant of Idli right from our family kitchen. Let’s see the step by step process of making Sweet Idli. The recipe doesn’t demand fancy ingredients and its very easy to make. Ingredients : Idli batter. (Either home made or ready-made batter available in department stores) Coconut Moong dal Jaggery Step 1:...
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The Perfect Ginger Chai

June 16, 2009
The Perfect Ginger Chai

Its official. My wife has crowned me the best Ginger tea maker . For a loving , dotting husband that is a real wonderful certificate bestowed ! So I don’t mind making endless cups of tea for my wife even if she would request a cup of strong piping hot chai at the...
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Congee / Kanji for body and soul

November 26, 2008

Last one week I was down with cough, cold and fever thanks to unpredictable Bangalore weather! Blame it on global warming but the fact is down the years Bangalore weather has become unruly. We get four seasons in the same day nowadays! It’s autumn in the morning, summer in the noon, spring in the...
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