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My son’s friend has come home to stay with us. He wanted me to make North Indian cuisine for lunch. So, I made bhindi masala and plain kulcha. I made bhindi masala after a very long time. It’s a very simple recipe and it really came out very well 🙂 Ingredients Bhindi ( lady’s finger/Read more about Bhindi Masala[…]
After a long time I bought baby corns. My plan was to make Chinese food for lunch today. But I couldn’t manage to get spring onions. So I made a new gravy along with paneer and served it with coconut and onion rice:) The gravy was rich, creamy, yummy and my kids really loved it:)Read more about Baby Corn and Paneer Subzi[…]
My school friends, Shanthi, Padma and Deepika came home today as we had planned to do group cooking today. We made Badam burfi and Dilkhush Mixture . Inspite of heavy rains and power cut, we had great fun cooking together. Both burfi and mixture came out very well. Badam burfi is easy to make, thoughRead more about Badam Burfi[…]
We are enjoying a lovely weather in Chennai for the past few days. I really felt like having some hot chocolate today. But to my dismay, I found that I didn’t have enough chocolate or chocolate syrup in stock. So, I started making my usual masala tea. Suddenly got this idea of making chocolate tea.Read more about Hot Chocolate Tea[…]
I wanted make to make something different today for breakfast. I had decided to make corn and paneer parathas. It’s been some time since I made parathas. Instead of mixing corn and paneer for the stuffing, I made separate stuffing with paneer and corn and used it to make 2 layers of stuffing:) My kidsRead more about Double Decker Paratha[…]
I had planned to make chole ( chickpeas) and rice today for lunch. My daughter and I are very fond this combo, while my son is not. While I was draining the boiled chole, I got this sudden idea of making tikkis with chole and serve with rice, hoping that my son would like it.Read more about Chole Tikki With Tomato Rice[…]
Today I wanted to make bagara baingan ( a specialty from Hyderabadi cuisine) and vegetable pulao for lunch. Then I found that the brinjals were of different sizes. For making bagara baingan, I prefer to use small, uniformed sized brinjals. As I was thinking what to do, I got this idea of using yogurt asRead more about Dahi Baingan[…]
I made this gravy two days back. I had very limited choice of vegetables at home, the basic ones like potatoes, onions and some carrots. Initial plan was to make potato stir fried rice and carrot raita. Then I thought I’ll make potato stew and rice. Finally ended up creating a new recipe. As always, itRead more about Potatoes In Creamy Carrot And Cashew Gravy[…]
This dal is a very easy to make, healthy, rich, creamy, restaurant style and delicious.If you have to whip up something quick and tasty, this recipe will be very handy for you. I have made this many times at home and family has always enjoyed this dish:) Ingredients Moong dal ( green gram dal/ pasiRead more about Dal Tadka[…]
Yogurt is known as dahi in Hindi and thair in Tamil and Lady’s finger( okra) is known as bhindi in Hindi and vendakai in Tamil. I remember seeing this dahi bhindi recipe long back in a TV show. I came across this recipe again yesterday when I saw looking through my recipe note book. IRead more about Dahi Bhindi[…]
