Category: Festive Recipes

festival recipes

  • Rava Laddu

    Rava Laddu

    Description:   Rava Laddu or Rava Urundai is a quick and delicious sweet made with Semolina, sugar, ghee and roasted nuts. A great make ahead-sweet option with excellent shelf life.  Here is a fail-proof method for making these scrumptious laddus. This is one of the easiest sweet which you can make for Deepavali or for…

  • Ribbon Pakoda Recipe – Easy Diwali Snacks – Ola Pakoda Recipe

    Ribbon Pakoda Recipe – Easy Diwali Snacks – Ola Pakoda Recipe

    Crispy tea-time savoury  snack made with rice and gram flour flavored with garlic and fennel. We call it Ola Pakoda also known as O’ttu Pakoda or Nada Thenkuzhal. This is one easy snack to try for this Deepavali! Ola Pakoda / Nada Thenkuzhal / O’ttu Pakoda / Ribbon Murukku / Nada Pakoda / Oatu Pakoda…

  • Milk Kesari

    Milk Kesari

    Description: Rava Milk Kesari is a south Indian sweet made with semolina / cream of wheat, milk, sugar and nuts mildly flavored with crushed cardamom.  One of the easiest of all sweets which can be made in a jiffy for any special occasion. Plain rava kesari is made using water and in this recipe its…

  • Milk Coconut Burfi Recipe – Healthy version

    Milk Coconut Burfi Recipe – Healthy version

    Burfi  is a fudge like sweet usually made during Indian festivals and to celebrate special occasions. The preparation and ingredients can vary depending on the each variety… some are real easy while some test your patience.  Recipe shared here is easy as along as you stick to the steps with right ingredients and measures. I…

  • SUZHIYAM RECIPE ~ Suzhiyan / Suyam / Seeyam / Sukhiyan recipe ~ Diwali Recipes

    SUZHIYAM RECIPE ~ Suzhiyan / Suyam / Seeyam / Sukhiyan recipe ~ Diwali Recipes

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  • Vegetable Brinji – How to make Brinji rice

    Vegetable Brinji – How to make Brinji rice

    Vegetable Brinji, a special kind of rice dish which is very popular in TamilNadu,  made during weddings and special occasions.  Basically its a mixed vegetable pulao kind of dish…. where rice is cooked in thick coconut milk base with loads of veggies and  flavoured with special spices. This is one type which normally shows in…

  • KASI HALWA RECIPE – Pumpkin Halwa

    KASI HALWA RECIPE – Pumpkin Halwa

    Description: White Pumpkin Halwa or Kasi Halwa is a sweet usually made during festivals and  special occasions. Mostly all wedding engagements ceremonies will have this on the menu.  This mouth watering halwa which is also called as “Kasi Halwa”  is prepared with Winter melon / White Pumpkin / Ash Gourd / Donggua / Poosanikai ,…

  • Fig Halwa

    Fig Halwa

    Description: Simple and quick halwa with dried figs and mixed nuts. Anjeer Halwa / Fig Burfi / Fig bars / Athipazham  Halwa / Dried Fruit Halwa           Ingredients 20 nos Dried figs 2 cups Warm milk 2 tbsp Ground almond 2 tbsp Sugar 2 nos Cardamom powdered 1/2 cup Toasted nuts…

  • Ragi Kozhukattai

    Ragi Kozhukattai

    Description: A simple and healthy recipe to prepare kozhukattai using finger millet / Ragi flour.  These are made with ready made store bought roasted ragi flour and few other simple ingredients. Traditionally white rice flour kozhukattai , stuffed modaks and sundal are offered to Lord Ganesha during Vinayaga Chatruthi pooja. Lets go one step ahead…

  • MICROWAVE PAAL KOVA RECIPE ~ Milk Halwa

    MICROWAVE PAAL KOVA RECIPE ~ Milk Halwa

    Microwave Paal Kova is one simple preparation which can be made with  few ingredients in under 10 minutes.  It can’t get any easier than this, you got to try!!! Always keep a few cans of sweetened condensed milk cans at home which can come in handy when you have unexpected guests, prepare this sweet quickly…