Category: Recipe Region
Recipe Region
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Mushroom Capsicum Pepper Fry – Kalan Kudaimilagai Milagu Varuval
Mushroom Capsicum Pepper Fry is something i make often at home… especially on veg days when you need something healthy, attractive, colorful and tasty too! 🙂 Hey… anything to make the folks at home eat those veggies is my motto and this is one such dish which everyone will eat with no complaints whatsoever! 😆…
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Vazhakkai Bajji – How to make Bajji
Vazhakkai Bajji – is a very popular tea time snack in southern India… the moment is rains, you think of that “bajji” with a cup of coffee, sitting around with family and talk about sweet silly nothings! As a chennaite…my favorite place to hog on these is none other than Marina Beach, calls for soooooo…
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Malabar Fish Curry – Kerala Fish Curry
Malabar fish curry is typically a kerala style meen Kuzhambu… where the gravy is flavored with fresh coconut milk. This recipe of Sandhya @onesillymummy was in my mind ever since she posted on Instagram … Sandhya was kind enough to share the recipe with me and that’s it… all i had to do is make…
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Badam Halwa – Mrs. Saraswathi Dorairaj’s special badam halwa
Badam Halwa – A festival full of sweet memories, sky full of fireworks, mouth full of sweets, house full of deepams and heart full of enjoyment! Here is a scoop of love from my grandma’s Badam Halwa – indispensable for any kind of celebration in our family… be it a wedding, birthday, anniversary, festival, vacation, travel…
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Sweet Pottukadalai Somas – Sweet Somas – Karanji
Sweet Pottukadalai Somas is a light crescent shaped traditional sweet that is prepared during Diwali festival. One major advantage of this sweet is it has good shelf life and can be stored for weeks. At home Amma and MIL will usually start a week before deepavali and make these in batches along with other sweet…
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Godhumai Halwa – Wheat Halwa – Tirunelveli Halwa
Gadhumai Halwa– The festive season has begun… laddu, halwa, murukku, burfi… there’s going to be sweets & savouries where ever you turn. Most of us do prep work… 🙄 practice for the big day, this was one such attempt of me trying to master that so called Iruttu kadai halwa aka Tirunelveli halwa…. also craving…
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Vazhaipoo Kurma – Banana Flower Kuzhambu
Coconut based south Indian style gravy made with Banana flowers!
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Chettinad Tomato Pudina Chutney – Chettinad Kara Chutney
Chettinad Tomato Pudina Chutney – is a no onion, no garlic, no coconut…quick chutney that can be paired with any tiffin item, roti… even rice too. Ever since i saw this under Anusha’s @tomatoblues insta feed it was knocking me on my head… so gave it a try and here it is! I blindly followed…
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Tea Kadai Thengai Biscuit – தேங்காய் பிஸ்கட்
Tea Kadai Thengai Biscuit anyone??? nostalgic snacks haunts me now andthen and this one was on my list for a very long time… coconut macaroon may be a fancy term for these cookies but “thenga biscuitu” is what we use to call it back during my childhood days.. This is slowly disappearing from tea kadai’s,…
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Capsicum Shrimp Varuval – Capsicum Prawn Masala
Capsicum Shrimp Varuval – a simple south indian style dry fry masala made with shrimp/prawn & capsicum. Its our way at home to combine a veggie in any meat or seafood preparation. Often these kind of dihes do a double duty… you get in your share of veggies along with your favorite non veg dish.…