kavuni arisi pongal /black rice pongal recipe There may be listless number of rice varieties around the world but this particular black rice differs with its colour,texture and taste. Just because of its glutinous nature its more suitable for making tasty desserts. Its quite magical that when its cooked it gives a purplish tinge. This time...
pottukadalai urundai with jaggery /roasted gram dal urundai Karthigai deepam is round the corner lighting lamps is a speciality for this festival. Beautiful kolams and how nice you decorate the home with lighting lamps represent the symbol of prosperity. By lighting lamps it is believed that we drive out the evil spirits out of our life...
karnataka badam puri recipe / badam poori sweet Deepavali is always special with elaborate spread of sweets and savouries and all at the end we get extremely submerged with all these munchy goodies. Its a dream come true each year with all the expectations fulfilled to have new designed clothings, crackers and food. This time I...
corn flakes mixture recipe / Diwali savoury snacks This corn flakes mixture recipe is very easy savoury snack to try this diwali. Its not only simple to make but its tang, sweetish spiciness is very additive. Mostly for making this they use only dried makai poha/cornflakes and some say they use even ready made corn flakes....
5 Easy and Quick Diwali sweets to make any time Diwali is fast approaching some will be having time to do all the bakshanams(sweets and savouries). Some may feel intimidated to make one. More than anything Diwali celebrations will become meaningless without sweets. As a sweet-mad person I still have a great desire to enjoy mammoth...
bhapa doi with condensed milk / mishti doi It has names like bhapa doi ,mishti doi and in other words its a simple sweet curd based pudding. Traditionally they make this by reducing the milk though the ingredients are few it takes much time to make this mishti doi. Usually a small amount of curd to...
nuts khoya coconut ladoo /mawa laddu Most nurtured festival Ganesh chaturthi is right here and this time it falls on early September. We all know offering modak is very important for this vinayagar chaturthi apart from this they also do pedas and ladoos which is also our ganapathi’s favourite. This time Iam making this nuts khoya...
manoharam sweet murukku /manovellam recipe This manoharam sweet murukku is one of the best legitimate sweets that can be addictive and can be made for any accassion. Its a great snack to have but its hard to stop eating just one. I made it for the first time but was very much impressed to see the...
chettinad special kalkandu vadai / sweet medu vadai Chettinad cuisine already has established its own history among the other dominant food cultures in India. Among the other famous food lists sweets of chettinad has its own identity and Importance. Not only during special accassions these chettinad sweets can become any time snacks any where any time....
chana dal payasam recipe /kadalai paruppu payasam The very word payasam makes our special occasions more memorable and seduces our taste buds. All over India its commonly made and only difference are the names its called piyush ,kheer,payasam whatever but finally its all the one single thing. Usually we make moong dal payasam for all special...