2013

In our house Appams are prepared mainly during this 3 festivals – Krishna Jayanthi, Avani Avittam, Vinayaka Chadurthi. My mom only uses wheat flour. I have heard people preparing it with Rice flour/All purpose flour. It depends on your choice & taste bud. You can also deep fry appams in Oil. Thi

One of my favourite snacks and it hardly takes around 20 minutes to prepare this entire dish. Also you don’t need any occasion to prepare murukku. You can make it during weekends for snacks or if you are going on a road trip you can have this in handy instead of munching on ‘Lays’ :-). My mom prepar

Thattai is a crispy snack that is also prepared as one of the neivedhyams during Krishna Jayanthi. If you have rice flour and urad dal flour ready then you can make t

This is such a simple dish that can be made with minimal ingredients. My grandma is pro in making these awesome seedais. When me and my brother used to visit her place for summer.

Break Jaggery (Vellam) into fine pieces.

Urad Dal flour is essential when making snacks like Murukku, Thattai, and for other savoury items as well. You can store the flour in a container and use it later too.

The measurement given below will yield us around 400gms(approx.) of Rice Flour and you can store it container for future use as well.

I have been planning to write exclusive Krishna Jayanthi Neivedhyam recipe posts for a while. But couldn’t get a chance to try out these dishes before the occassion. Though the celebrations are already over I believe these might come handy at least for next year 😉 Also better late than never.

Today morning prepared rava pongal for breakfast. Easy to make,require only few ingredients and a best alternate to our normal ‘Venn Pongal’ that is made using rice. The following measurement serves 2. Since it was a busy morning

I never imagined making this dish at home. Its quite a laborious task to put up this whole dish. You have lot of prep work to do and patience is the key. To be frank I didn’t know how to pronounce the name of this until I watched the show ‘Master chef Australia’. When we first ordered lasagne @ ‘Cre