diwali snack/omapodi/simple plain sev It is not only a traditional diwali snack but it is a great! yet common tea time snack.Take a large handful of crushed sev in your hand have a cup of tea /coffee in hand!!just sit in a peaceful place and you will enjoy "the" pleasurable evening!!yes!I know it is a silly...
dates ladoo /dates and nuts(dryfruits)laddu During pregnancy most of us as a women suffer from severe anemia and during that time we are prescribed to take iron tablet's!of-course in addition to tablet's dates are most valuable "Iron packed" natural tablet's available hand in hand. The dates can be given in the form of ladoo's with whole...
milkmaid coconut ladoos/Thengai ladoo The milkmaid coconut ladoos are "the easiest"sweets ever!!!only two main ingredients..easy peasy job to do.It will be the soft and gooey balls that you will get!should refrigerate so that we can enjoy and appreciate its real excellence(but I like it as such without refrigeration)It can be done with dry coconut,I have tried...
Roasted gram powder laddu(pottukadalai)/maa laddu The roasted gram powder laddu/maa laddu is one of the famous sweet's of Tamilnadu!of-course it is named differently in different languages! it is easy to make and the aroma of the ghee and roasted gram flour combined gives a divine taste.Roasted gram powder is called chutney dhal from which coconut chutney's,thuvayal's...
cooking gulab jamun with khoya /gulab jamun recipe Yet another dessert that I love to make and enjoy!!yes!my total family have great fondness for it.I made it from homemade khova which I think is better than store-bought Khova!of-course as you may all know this khova is always easy to make.I personally have a stock of homemade...
How to make kerala banana chips/nendran chips Nendran chips that are available in Kerala is always "one of its kind" and most of us when we visit Kerala we used to get some packets of nendran chips for our family and some for our neighbor's!"Am I saying it right"? okay!In my place there are special hot...
strawberry halwa recipe/fruit halwa/khoya strawberry halwa Among many inevitable and most popular halwa's this strawberry halwa recipe is unlike any of its kind and totally special.As some almond powder, khoya and strawberry's were sitting isolated in my fridge for quite some time,I decided to convert it into a new form so that it will not be...
Khoya sweet recipe/Toffee-khoya burfi/Khoya with palm sugar Palm sugar or panakarkandu is murky,cloudy kind of sugar got from palm tree.These days we use refined sugar,but in those days they used palm sugar in abundance even for making sweets.It is stickier than cane sugar and also healthier than normal white sugar with loads of calcium in it.When...
Making of Badusha sweet/mini badusha's This disc shaped sweet have won every Indian's heart by its distinct taste and aroma. Flakiness and softness add a special uniqueness to this awesome sweet.I tried making of badusha sweet first during last Diwali.Actually I tried two variation one using butter and the other using ghee . Both came out...
How to make thattu vadai recipe/thattai diwali recipe See this little yellow discs rolling out of the mountain.We will see How to make thattuvadai/thattai Diwali recipe.It is very easy to do if we have enough patience.Proportions are important for this snack.If we add more butter then it will disintegrate in oil and every thing will be...