Mulled Wine | Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Version| Christmas Recipe

Mulled wine is nothing but an alcoholic drink where red wine is boiled along with spices and then served warm or hot.It best for this Christmas season.I have already post homemade red wine recipe on my blog.I recently did some wine for my dad and was having a bottle of it.I want to make a new drink with it for Christmas and googled up.Mulled wine got my attraction.Each recipe uses different spices and I ended up adding my own spices to make it.

Snake gourd baji | | Podalangai baji | snack recipe

 

Snack gourd / Podalankai baji with step by step picture and video.

As the weather here in Chennai is rainy and cool we are appetite towards some bhaji/pakora for tea time snack. Bhaji can be made with any vegetable. Just prepare the batter, dip the vegetable, and fry it. Serve it hot with some tomato sauce for evening chai. check out the baji bonda ready mix here.

Oats Muffins | Healthy Breakfast Muffins

Oats muffins make an excellent breakfast option as it is loaded with oats, egg, milk.To enhance more nutrition you can even add some nuts/dry fruits in it.For people opting for eggless option avoid egg and use yogurt/curd to get a moister muffin.

Ajwain leaves/ Karporavalli rasam | Immunity boosting rasam

Ajwain leaves rasam with step by step pictures and video.

Ajwain leaves also known as Karporavalli in Tamil, Dodapatre in Kannada is a medical herb.  The dried version of this leaf is oregano, the seasoning used in Pizza toppings. This leaf is best for cold and cough. One can directly have the leaf raw. During this monsoon season try to include this leaf more in your diet. One such way is this rasam which can be served with hot steaming rice or can have as soup.

Beetroot Rasam | South Indian Rasam with Beetroot

Beetroot rasam with step by step pictures.
Mostly it will Saturday when I will be clueless what to cook for lunch.One such day I got this idea to cook simple rasam with beetroot.The recipe is same as rasam only difference is I added some cooked beetroot juice init. It was on that day I made beetroot chaas to accomplish the meal.

Dry Fruits Ladoo | Dates & Nuts Balls | Festive Sweet Recipe

Dry fruits ladoo with step by step pictures.

Dry fruits and nuts laddoo/ balls are so easy to make which makes the best way for kids to eat them.Its healthy since no other sweetening agents were added to it as the sweetness for dates & raisins are quiet enough for the taste.With festive season around make this and have fun.You can even make it any shape cylinders and then cut it or even in a shape of  modak.

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.

Potato Murukku | Aloo Chakli | Easy Snack Recipe

After many sweet recipes here i come with a salty one.Diwali ,Festival of Light is around the corner and I hope all will be busy preparing sweet & savoury for it.Do try this chakli  variety which is very easy and tasty.

Adhirasam | Festive Sweet Recipe

Adhirasam is  one of the famous sweets i think which i made in all religion for their festival,its one of my favourite.Mostly now a days people buy them shop,as it very easy,me too the same.This is the first  time i tried and it came out quite well.

Ragi Murukku | Finger Millet chakli

Ragi murukku with step by step pictures.

Another millet recipe to add to my collection. As I promised in my thinnai adhirasam post, as I"m going to try millet recipes for this Diwali, I am here with the deep-fried snack. Though it s deep fried recipe considering the addition of millet I mention it healthy when compared to other rice flour snacks. Here for binding, I have used besan/kadalai mavoo, but you can also use potukadalai flour.

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.

Rose flavored Coconut Balls | Rose Coconut Balls | Easy Sweet Recipe

Rose flavored Coconut Balls with step by step pictures.

Craving for any sweet dish like me  then try this easy and yummy coconut balls with rose flavor.Why not try this  easy sweet for Rakhi festival tomorrow to treat brothers.Thanks a lot priya for this sweet coconut ladoo.

Kesar Kaju Katli | Saffron Flavoured Cashew Burfi | Indian Sweet

Sweets/desserts always cheer me up and hence I always prefer to start a new month with a sweet note.Kaju katli/ cashew burfi is commonly liked by all and my kids to love it.This Kesar Kaju katli has an extra flavour of saffron in it.I already have some methods of kaju katli in my little space,you can check instant method and regular method by clicking the link.