Besan flour chakli | Kadalai mavoo murukku

Besan murukku with step by step pictures.

Besan murukku is another easy recipe for even beginners to try. With Diwali around the corner try this quick and simple recipe to share with friends and families. Just mixing the flour to make a soft dough. Then pressing it and frying. 

Sweet Corn Sundal | Easy Snack Recipe

Sweet corn sundal with step by step pictures.

Sweet corn in one of the maize variety which is loved by all people.It is plucked before they are matured as maturation involves conversion of sugar to starch so as to  be eaten as vegetable rather than a grain.It is said cooked corn has anti-cancer properties to try to include it in your diet.Due to the sweet taste it is  a great hit among young ones.By adding salt & spice one can just eat the boiled corn or without spice.In this i have just tempered and added coconut for more flavor.

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 .

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.

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.

Palak Pakoda | Spinach Fritters

When the climate is bit cool automatically we long to have some deep fried pakoras/pakoda for snacks.Yesterday when the weather here in Chennai was  cool so i made up my mind to make this pakoras for evening snack.To make it bit healthy i used spinach/palak leaves for it.Do try and enjoy with a cup of hot tea/chai.

Choc chips Cookies | Valentine Day Special

Simple and melt in mouth choco chips cookies with step by step pictures.It had been months since I baked some cookies in my kitchen, so I decided to do one but this time with an ingredient I never tried before in cookies. Yes its egg, I have baked many cookies but never ever used eggs in it.This is my first try and the result product was soft ,yummy and just melted in our mouth.Within few minutes all of it got vanished and as I mom I was happy.

Easy Snack For Diwali | Savory Snack

I have just made a small collection of the some deep fried snack that you can easily at home for this diwali.It may look like hard to make but I assure you that its damn easy to make.Do give a try and stay healthy with home made recipe.



Easy savory snack to try for this Diwali.Click each recipe name to see the detailed procedure.

Wheat Flour Muruku

 

Mangalore Buns | Banana poori/puri

 

Mangalore buns with step by step pictures and video.

Mangalore buns is nothing but banana poori which is deep fried. It is made by making a dough with mashed banana, flour and spice,  which is given some resting hours. After it is rolled into small poori's and deep fried. With the addition of banana these pooris are super soft and delicious. Do give a try and i'm sure you will fall in love with it.  An over-riped banana can also be used for it. An authentic recipe uses refined flour(maida) but here I have used a mix if maida and atta.

Wheat flour sweet pidi kozhukattai

Wheat flour sweet pidi kozhukattai with step by step picture and video.

Wheat flour sweet pidi kozhukattai is a simple to make easy kozhukatti. Unlike pooran kozhukattai where we have to make outer dough , inner stuffing , make the outer dough into a shape , fill with the proan and steam, here just mix all the ingredients make into shape and steam it. We can make this with any flour, ,millet, rice flour, etc.

Let us see how to make this.

Seedai | salt and sweet version | Festive recipe

Seedai with step by step pictures.

Seedai is a deep-fried snack which is made with rice flour and urad dal flour. A dough is made with both flours along with salt and spices for salt version. For the sweet version, jaggery water ( jaggery just melted is water)is used. Though we don't celebrate these festive I love to make recipe related to each festival.

Thinnai Sweet Paniyaram | Foxtail Millet Appam

Thinnai/Foxtail millet Sweet Paniyaram with step by step pictures.

If you are a regular reader you might know me that I love millets and I try different recipes from sweets to savories with it. I have a big sweet tooth and if the recipe I try is sweet I would immediately try it. On a leave day when children are at home I decided to try this paniyaram for an evening snack, hence soaked the millet in the morning.

How to cook palm sprouts / how to cook panam kilangu

 

Palm sprouts which known as panam kilangu is a healthy, fibrous tube. It is got when Palm seeds are buried in soil. In souther districts of Tamil nadu one can get good and thick variety palm sprouts. This kilangu will purify your urine and has numerous health benefits. When buying these always opt for thick and big sprouts which will have more flesh.

Madras Mixture | Spicy Mixture | Easy Diwali Snack Recipe

 I love to watch chef Venkatesh Bhut's cooking show in Vijay tv as the method involved and the way he narrates make us feel the simplicity of the recipe.I remember him making this mixture in an episode some very long back.In it he mentioned make this snack when you get time as its so simple, pocket-friendly and make a great snack, yes its all really true.When I did it I got a big bottle full and made a great snack for the evening. Since Diwali is fast nearing and if you still have no clue what snack to make for disturbing do try this simple mixture.

Keerai Bonda | Urad dal Bonda with Greens

Keerai Bonda with step by step pictures.

When coming for tea time snacks we always opt for vadai, bonda, murruku , etc. Deep fried snacks with a hot cup of ginger or masala chai/tea are the best combo. Nothing can beat this heaven made pair if you have not tried this do try it and I'm sure you will love it.  Someday in last week Chennai had some slight showers and I was badly craving for some deep fried snacks for my tea. I bought keerai/greens and kept soem stalks to make this bonda the next day to fulfill my craving. Its so easy to make just chop the green finely and add to the bonda batter and make.

Wheat thattai. (Video recipe)

 

Wheat thattai with step by step pictures and video recipe.

Wheat thattai is a crispy deep-fried snack recipe. We can usually make thattai with rice flour but here I have made it with wheat flour. To get a crispy thatai one needs to roll it very thin else you will get a soggy thattai. Let us see how to make this.

Garlic karasev | Festive snack recipe

Garlic Karasev with step by step pictures.

Karasev is the simplest snack to make. I have already posted this during my early years of blogging. In that one, I added pepper for spiciness. To do a little varaition I have made this garlic flavored Karasev. Just grind few flakes of garlic and add to the flour, mix and make the dough. Let us see how to make this.

Toor dal vada/ how to make toor dal vada

 

Toor dal vada with step by step pictures and video.

We all make masala vada with channa dal. For a change, I have made it with Toor dal. We get one kg per month from ration and mostly it won't get over in that month. To get it over I make dosa, vadas with it. I have already shared a dosa recipe and you can check it here.

Caramel popcorn | how to make caramel popcorn at home

Caramel popcorn with step by step pictures.

Caramel popcorn is a quick snack that can be prepared in just a few minutes. To make popcorn the popcorn kernels must be of good quality. I had a few bad experiments trying popcorn with the worst kernels. to check if the kernels are good just drop 1-2 kernels in oil and see. If it pops up well then go further else discard that kernels.

Bitter gourd /Karela Fry | Bitter Melon Fry

Bitter melon which is called bitter gourd or karela in India is one vegetable i hate from my childhood days,even after i started cooking i never buy this vegetable due to its bitter taste. My husband would keep on insist me to include this like other veggies but i never did.This is not the situation now where i started buying this and indulging it. When i made this fry even my kids love it as it does not taste bitter and they finished it off. Do try this way and feed children who hate this vegetable.