Soft, spongy appams are a love anyone who has tasted them can’t deny. Paired with stew or beef or green peas curry, they are just the absolutely most delicious breakfasts out there. This easy recipe makes 8 appams. Ingredients 3/4 cup Jeera rice 1/4 cup Water (for grinding) 2-3 tbsp Cooked Rice 3/4 cup Coconut … More Appam
Ingredients 1.5 cups Toor dal 3/4 cup Onion (chopped) 1 sprig Curry leaves (chopped) 1 tbsp Ginger (finely chopped) 2 Green Chillies (finely chopped) 1/2 tbsp Dry red chilli flakes Salt to taste Recipe 1. Soak toor dal (split pigeon peas) for 3-4 hours 2. Drain and grind coarsely along with salt 3. Add chopped … More Parippu Vada
Ingredients 2 Big bunches of Kale1.5 tbsp Olive OilSalt to taste Recipe 1. Separate leaves (wash and dry if it’s not already clean) from the center rib 2. Preheat oven to 275 F3. Cut kale leaves into 1-2 inch pieces4. Toss with 1.5 tbsp of Olive oil5. Spread on baking trays and sprinkle salt6. Bake … More Kale chips
The sweet pongal in the trifecta of pongal, I make mine a little less sweeter than what is commonly made Ingredients 3/4 cup – White rice (Ponni raw rice or Sona Masoori preferred) 1/4 cup – split, skinless Moong dal 5 cups – Water 1 tbsp – Dry Ginger powdered 1 tsp Cardamom (powdered) 4 … More Sharkara Pongal / Sakkarai pongal
Christmas cakes are always fruit cakes for me, something about these that I can never get anough of. Here are few of my recipes till now: Rum based cakes Rum & fruit cake I – this involves soaking the dry fruits & nuts in rum for a month.Personally mine gets the treatment for 2 months! … More Christmas cake recipes
I can’t get enough of fruit cakes during Christmas season. I often say it must be coded into me. I make at least 2 or 3 version of fruit cakes, at least one rum based and one which is not. So yesterday it was time for yet another fruit cake, this time using Orange juice. … More Another Christmas fruit cake
Onam’s coming up, which means I need the customary chips for the sadhya. This time around I have run into a problem. I cannot find Sharkara varatti in any Indian store 😭. And being the stickler for certain things, it meant that I now need to make something I have always just bought in a … More Sharkara upperi / sharkara varatti (Spiced Jaggery coated plantain chips)
Chettinadu curries & roasts are made with a specific spice mix powder. The recipe for the masala can be found linked here Ingredients For marination 1 lb Chicken (cleaned and cut into small pieces) 1.5 tsp Turmeric powder 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste 2 tbsp Lemon juice 2 tsp Chettinadu Masala For Gravy 5 tbsp … More Chicken Chettinadu
The perfect masala powder for use in Chettinadu roasts & curries. The powder can be prepared and stored in a jar for a long period of time since there is no oil or water involved in it’s preparation Ingredients 24 Cardamom pods 42 Cloves 12 Star anise (whole) 6 Cinnamon sticks (2 inch length pieces) … More Chettinadu Masala
Ingredients 3 large overripe Bananas 1.4 cups All purpose Flour 1/2 cup Sugar (Increase to 2/3rd if you have a sweet tooth) 1 Egg 2 tbsp Coconut milk (thick, unsweet) 4 tbsp Sunflower oil 1 tsp Baking powder 1 tsp Baking soda Pinch of Salt Recipe Preheat your oven to 425 F Line your muffin … More Banana muffins
Ginger, Salt & Pepper 