Thandai | Spiced Milk with Dry Fruits | Holi Recipe

Thandai with step by step pictures.

Happy Holi to all, my hearty wishes for all and I wish you lives be colourful.This thandai is a spiced milk with dry fruits and a must in this holi festival.Being a food blogger i too want try it.We all loved it to the core

Kalakand | Easy Kalakand Recipe | Festive Sweet recipe

Happy Diwali , lets this festival of light brings you prosperity and good health. No festival is complete without a sweet so let me share with you a simple dessert which can be prepared in a jiffy.With just a few ingredients you can make this easy sweet for this festival.

Thandai spice powder | Homemade thandai powder

Thandai is a drink prepared on a colorful day, Holi, the starting of the spring season.Although Holi is celebrated in a grand manner in northern India nowadays I see people in the south also enjoy this fun-filled day by splashing color over one another. Two years before I have prepared this drink with instant one-time masala where all ingredients are soaked, ground, mixed with milk and then filtered. You can check that recipe here.

Bread Halwa | Easy Dessert with Bread

Bread halwa a sweet which comes in handy when there no special ingredients in the pantry  to make a sweet.Usually, in many marriages, I have seen they serve this sweet in banana leaf when the main course is biryani.This sweet taste awesome after having heavy biryani.Have you not tasted this combo ,then do try in the home.

Munthiri Kothu | Kanyakumari Special Christmas Recipe

Munthiri Kothu with step by step pictures.

This recipe is one of the famous recipes in the southern district of Tamilnadu. "Munthiri" which means cashew and "Kothu" means a bunch. If you happen to visit any places down south during Christmas you can find the recipes in almost all houses. Whenever we return from there after Christmas  I make sure to load some of this with me. I love this recipe to the core and was happily making it here in Chennai in my kitchen.I gathered some information from my sister-in-law and proceeded to make it. As doing alone for the first time I just made a very small quantity. I regret it as it quickly got vanished.

Eggless Achu Murukku/Rose Cookies |Step by Step Pictures | Festive Recipe ( with a small video)

This is one of recipe which will definitely be in the list for Xmas sweets in our native(kanyakumari Dist.).This is a sweet crispy murukku sometimes called as achappam. My MIL has different shapes of achus with her.Last month when i went for my grocery shopping i grab one achu/mold for me.

Motichoor ladoo | How to make motichoor ladoo

Motichoor ladoo with step by step picture.

Motichoor ladoo are made with very fine shaped boondhi, fried and soaked up in sugar syrup. Unlike boondhi ladoo here the boondhis are very fine. To make it very fine here a specially perforated ladle is used. I bought this ladle last year and tried this ladoo. But I didn't get fine balls hence didn't blog about it. This time I gathered tips from many pages and I some what made smaller ones from my previous batch. The trick is while making boondhi after pouring the batter over the ladle immediately have to tap/bang over a weight so that the boondhi falls in tiny forms in the hot oil. Don't worry if you didn't get smaller boondhi, get give a coarse grind in a mixer and make ladoo.

Pori Urundai | Murmura Ladoo | Puffed Rice Balls

Pori urundai with step by step pictures.

Pori urundai is a sweet ball made with puffed rice, jaggery, and cardamom powder. This sweet is usually made for Karthigai deepam festival, which is festival of light, on which people lit hundreds of earthern lamps on the house. When I was a kid I remember our neighbour litting many lamps on the compound wall and we use to enjoy the sight. The best part is they will share kozhukattai with us. One of it would be made with palm leaves and just love it. I want to try that but don't know where I will get that tender palm leaves.

Pasi Payaru Sundal | Mung Beans Sundal | Snack Recipe

Pasi payaru aka whole green gram is one of the healthy pulses.It is also called as mung beans.I usually boil it and serve as an after-school snack for kids.Its can had a such or with some sugar ,I mostly prefer sweet version.With navarathiri people may lack ideas what to cook for sundal.With this legume, you can easily make sundal in no time.

Thinnai Adhirasam | Foxtail Millet Jaggery Sweet | Diwali Sweet

Thinnai adhirasam with step by step pictures.

For this year Diwali recipe, I have decided to try some sweet and savories with millets. Let me see how for it goes smoothly and How many recipes I try. To begin with, I tried this adhirasam with thinnai arisi. I am a big fan of this adhirasam and hence I tried this first. Making this millet adhirasam is same as regular adhirasam only with the difference in millet in the place of rice. All the other procedure remains the same. I added more syrup into the flour. So the next day I couldn't make balls correctly. I resolved it by adding some wheat flour. So be careful not to add all the jaggery syrup.

Ellu poran kozhukattai | Sesame Sweet stuffed Modak

Sesame seeds sweet stuffed kozhukattai is a healthy snack and it is made during the festival Ganesh Chaturthi. As my daughter loves kozhukattai I made it for an |evening snack. I couldn't make the shape of the modak correctly with my hands or with mold. So just two pieces look good and other all I made in a shape of somas.

Sesame & Beaten rice Balls | Ellu & Aval Laddu with Coconut sugar | Diabetic friendly Recipe | Low GI index sweet

Coconut sugar doesn't sound weird ,yes I too felt the same when I got this product from plattershare's goorganic belly nirvana  associate program.The product says that it can be used as regular sugar in place of white sugar and it is suitable for diabetic people as it has low glycemic index.
 I have made this laddu/ balls with the sugar and doesn't find  any change in flavors and taste and I world probably say it's tastier than the regular one.I have made with white sesame seeds but you can also use the black one.

Thinnai Sarkkarai Pongal | Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal

Starting my day with a sweet note is always a bliss for me but my daughter won't prefer anything sweet in her food in morning hours .So mostly I make savory recipes and rarely I prepare sweet pongal or puttu  for me to satisfy my sweet carve.

Wheat Diamond cuts(savoury) | kids special | Easy snack

Diamond cuts with step by step picture.

My mum use to make this  diamond cuts often especially during festivals and we love eating it.She make both Sweet & salty with maida but here i have used wheat flour instead of it.

Ring Murukku | Andhra Murukku | Spicy Rice Flour Murukku | Festive Snack Recipe

Its Diwali , the festival of light in just fifteen days. I can see bloggers posting lip-smacking sweets and savories which  really tempts me.I'm enjoying all the virtual treats of festive foods in social media  and feel to grab those directly  from my screen, pity me.Planning ,planning to do some festive post but never cook as feeling lazy.Yesterday somewhat I managed to cope over the laziness and try this snack .

Motichoor ladoo without making boondhi | Easy diwali sweet

Motichoor laddoo with step by step picture and video.

Motichoor ladoo is sweet/balls prepared by soaking tiny fried besan flour balls in sugar syrup. One difficulty in making it is the tiny balls. Here I have shared an alternate way to make this laddoo by not making that boondhi.  Here we use channa dal instead of besan flour. Let us see how to make this.

Pasi Paruppu Sundal | Moong Dal Sundal

Another easy to make Sundal for this festive season. The overall process for this sundal recipe was just 30mins. So if you haven't soaked any legumes to make Sundal just go for this easy sundal variety. For variations you can add chaat masala, chopped mango init. But here I have made it plain by just adding coconut.

Channa Dal Payasam | Kadalai Paruppu Pradhman | Festive Recipe

Channa dal payasam with step by step pictures.

I love sweet and to end my meal i search of some sweets always.Also i love to try my hands on with any new sweet variety.On Onam which was on last Sunday i prepared two payasam one with vermicelli and another one is this channa dal.Do give a try to satisfy you sweet crave like me.

Paal Kozhukattai | Rice Flour Balls cooked in Sweetened Coconut milk

Paal kozhukattai is a simple dish in which a rice flour balls are prepared by boiling milk,water and rice flour together to get a thickened dough consistency.It is then shaped into small balls and cooked again in sweetened coconut milk.

This recipe is so simple and ultimately delicious for people like me who have a sweet tooth.Here I have used white sugar but you can also use jaggery in place of it.

Besan Ladoo- Microwave method

This besan ladoo by microwaved method I tried from Homely food blog of meena.First I thought how its going to be & will my kids like it,to say the truth my  daughter who hates sweet dishes liked it very much and ate few ladoos,i always like sweets very much.It tasted awesome.Its very very easy as it by microwave means.