Curry Leaves Rice Karuveppilai Sadham (Tamil) is a quick one pot meal for school and office lunch boxes.I also added Moringa / drumstick leaves powder to this rice. So both powders are interchangeable. You can add veggies to this rice like carrot , broccoli and cauliflower or just frozen peas and corn with capsicums on…
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Red Rice Millets Idli Dosai Batter Video Recipe
Red Rice Millets Idli Dosai Batter Video Recipe : Being a South Indian Idli Dosa Batter is a must at home, no day pass by without it. Honestly our regular idli dosa batter always has mixed millets in it. Last year when we went to India for vacation my son asked “Why ma these idlis…
Eggless Ladi Pav Bun Bread Video Recipe From Scratch
I always prefer homemade buns and breads for every day breakfast, kids school snack , to pack for holiday outing so and so. Instead of baking long loaf this single serve buns / ladi pavs are always my family favorite. Its very convenient with short baking time and don’t need to wait a long to…
Perfect Crispy Punjabi Party Samosa Video Recipe
Party Punjabi Samosa you heard it right , this method doesn’t need any double fry techniques to keep the samosas crispy. But sharing some secrets that I learnt while I did this samosas in large quantity for a potluck last year. It was 70 plus samosas and the leftover dough I kept in the refrigerator…
Horse Gram Sprouts Salad | Mulaikatiya Kollu Salad
I have brought Horse Gram / Kollu from my native trip and have updated my good old Horse gram Sprouts Post with Video Recipe. I have several good recipes (recipe links follows) using those sprouts and once such healthy thing is this Horse Gram Sprouts Salad. Addition of raw sprouts (no cooking), raw veggies, Oil…
Spinach Cheese Bites Recipe Using Homemade Crescent Dough
I have made this Spinach Cheese Bites with Homemade Crescent Dough twice this week for us and to welcome kiddos friends who came for play date. Since they are on Holiday break keeping them busy with friends, parties and obviously food. So I made the dough in bulk and frozen it. I have recently posted…
Homemade Eggless Crescent Dough Recipes
Homemade crescent rolls are flaky, buttery and easier to make which are the perfect accompaniment to any holiday meal. The Thanksgiving break has begun and we are not planning to go anywhere in this cold weather. So to engage myself making something special for kiddos and some of them are on their request. Today I…
Baked Samosa Cups Video Recipe | Potato Pie with Homemade Dough
Winter is the time we friends meet a lot in the name of Potlucks and Holiday get together. Last year for one such party, I made some 70 plus jumbo Samosa ie is a fried or baked dish with a savory filling . I used my electrical food processor to knead the dough and later…
Arisi Paruppu Sadham Version II
I am here with version II of Kongunadu Arisi Paruppu Sadham. Compared to my first version this version has tomato, sambar powder, skipped ginger etc. My first version is typically followed by my maternal grand mother, my mom and me. So with few ingredient changes this second version is obviously my puguntha veetu valakkam. When…
Peanut Pulao Recipe | Verkadalai Pulav | Quick One Pot Meal
Peanut Pulao / Pilaf / Pulav or Verkadalai Thengai Paal Sadham is a quick one pot meal to pack in school or office lunch boxes. Peanut is a poor man’s nut and we take peanut often … If interested do check peanut my peanut posts HERE. Coming to today’s quick one pot meal, this peanut…
Kambu Uthappam Video Recipe | Millet Onion Ootappam Recipe
Kambu Uthappam is a soft sponge version of pearl millet dosa batter and I never thought the regular idli dosa batter with little millet addition gives this much response till I posted it in my instagram story. While grinding my usual idli dosa batter casually I shared few video clips (complete video tutorial HERE )…
Peanut Rice Recipe | Kids Lunch Box Special
Peanut Rice aka Verkadalai Sadham is a quick lunch box special and my kids love to take it to school (its one among the few rice varieties they take to school). I often make it either with freshly cooked rice or if there is any left over rice will give a make over under this…