Ingredients for Onion Chutney (Without tomatoes)Small onions (sambhar onions) peeled 1 cTamarind 1 marble sizeRed chilly 8Curry leaf fewSesame oil 3 tbspMustard seeds 1 tsp Asafoetida 1 tspSalt as requiredPreparation Method for Onion Chutney (Without tomatoes)Grind onions, tamarind, and red...
Classic Combo
Spinach Mint Rice and Creamy White Sauce Vegetable Curry Recipe | Classic Combo 47
Béchamel sauce also known as “white sauce” or the “glue sauce” was introduced to the French in 1533 and till today remains as one of the five “mother sauces” of the French Cuisine. Traditionally this sauce was made by cooking...
Pickles Relish Chutney & Sauces
Pumpkin Pith Pudina Thogayal Recipe
Take a look at your chopping board………cubes, slivers, sticks, julienne, slices of healthy vegetables. Peels and seeds ready to discard….STOP….before you unceremoniously wipe you cutting board off these nutrient powerhouses. Rinds, peels and seeds are abundant in nutrients…. vitamin A,...
Bakes
Eggless Muffins Recipe | Vanilla Muffins | Carrot Muffins
Muffins always remind me of a nursery rhyme learnt as a kid…..‘Do you know the muffin man the muffin, the muffin man……”A delightful rhyme of British origin written in 1820 and still preserved in Bodleian Library University of Oxford. Like...
Sweets & Desserts
Vermicelli Payasam Recipe | Semiya Payasam | Kheer
A decade and a year more…. She came into our small family not just as a whiff of fragrance but as an everlasting glimmer of good fortune. Reminisce, it’s more a collection of happy times and precious moments. She has...
Vegetable Cookery
Tamatar Sev Subji Recipe
GI tagged in 2014, Ratlami Sev from Ratlam a small town of the princely Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh originated in the late 19th century. An innovation by the Bhil tribes as a substitute to vermicelli on the request by...
Idly, Dosa, Adai & Vada
Vendhaya Dosa Recipe | Fenugreek Seed Dosa
Fenugreek, also known as methi, is a versatile ingredient that has been used in Indian cuisine and traditional medicine for thousands of years. Rich in galactomannan, a soluble fibre, it lowers the risks of cardiovascular health and helps to slow...
Pickles Relish Chutney & Sauces
Moremilagai Recipe | Sun Dried Curd Chillies | Sendige Menasu
Searing hot Chennai summers….after maavadu, plump green tanjavur molaga (green chillies from tanjavur) begin their market rounds. These crisp chillies with a slightly lower scoville scale are bought in kilos for preservation. The chillies are slit and soaked in a...
Kids Combo
Sweet Corn Pasta and Garlic Bread Recipe | Kids Combo #7
Pasta Italian in origin and Americas most celebrated food, definitely brings in huge smiles on the faces of Indian kids too. Oh Pasta …no…the Maida myth ogre tries to grab the joy from kids. Is pasta that bad?? Think of...
Classic Combo, Sambhar & Rasam, Vegetable Cookery
Murungakai Paal Kootu with Podi Kathirikai & Parangikai VathaKuzhambu Recipe | Classic Combo 46
It was a weekend getaway to Chennai, a whirlwind trip which included all my favorites….shopping, a visit to my mother, basking in the hospitality of my sisters. …..Sunday morning the kitchen was full of excited chatter …..exchange of recipes, happening’s,...