Ribbon Pakoda
Ingredients: Idiyappam flour/ rice flour – 1 cup Besan flour/ kadalaimavu – ¾ cup Roasted gram flour – 2 tblsp Softened butter – 1 tblsp Coarsely grounded pepper – 1 tsp Crushed garlic – ½ tsp Asafetida – ½ tsp Salt – as req Water […]
Everything from Scratch
Festive Food
Suyyam
Ingredients: For Filling: Channa dhal/ kadalaparuppu – 1 cup Jaggery – ¾ cup Water – ¼ cup Shredded coconut – ¼ cup Cardamom powder- ¼ tsp For outer base: All-purpose flour/ maida – ½ cup Salt – a pinch Water – as required Oil – […]
Dry nut Halwa
Ingredients: Unsalted pistachios – ¼ cup Pecans – ¼ cup Almonds – ¼ cup Walnut – ¼ cup Granulated sugar – 1 cup Water – ¼ cup Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp Ghee – ¼ cup Procedure: Shelled and grind all the nuts into a […]
Coconut Ladoo
Ingredients: Shredded Coconut – 1 cup Granulated sugar – ¾ cup Water – ¼ cup Ghee – 1 tsp Chopped cashews – 1 tblsp Cardamom powder – a generous pinch Procedure: In a heavy bottomed pan add the sugar and water. Bring it to boil […]
Rava Ladoo
Ingredients: Rava/ sooji – 1 cup Granulated sugar – ½ cup Ghee/ clarified butter – ¼ cup Cardamom powder – a generous pinch Cashews – 5-6 nos Procedure: In a heavy bottomed pan dry roast the rava in a medium flame until the nice aroma […]
Deepavali
Deepavali/Diwali means “Glow of light”, also known as “Festival of lights”. It is believed that, deepavali is celebration of inner light over the spiritual darkness, also the knowledge over ignorance or good over evil or hope over despair. In south india we call it as […]
Vinayagar Chathurthi
Ganesh Chathurthi/Vinayagar Chathurthi is a very famous festival all over india. The most primary sweet during this festival is Dumpling/ Kozhukattai/modak along with some sundal varieties. Sundal Varieties: Split channa Sundal Navadhanyam/ multigrain Sundal Horse Gram/ kollu Sundal Green peas/pattani Sundal Black Channa Sundal White […]
Special Menu
Some of the special recipes on this occasion are NO Onion-Garlic Full Meal (or) Variety Rice Mango/Mangai Pachadi: Ingredients: Grated raw mango – 1 cup Grated Jaggery – ½ cup Salt – a pinch Fresh/dried neem flowers – 1 tsp Gingelly oil – 1 tsp […]
Tamil New Year
This is the month of Chithirai, the first month of tamil solar calendar and Tamil New year typically falls on Apr 14th, Since the Tamil month called Chithirai , people celebrated this occassion as Chithirai Thriuvizha/ Chithirai Kani. On this special day, people have the […]
Variety Rice
SWEET PONGAL: Ingredients: Raw rice – 1 cup Moong dhal – ½ cup Ghee/ clarified butter – ¼ cup Milk – ¼ cup (optional) Cashews – 5-8 nos Dry grapes – 10 nos Cardamom powder – a generous pinch Pacha karpooram/ edible camphor – a […]
