Coconut Oil is a must have ingredient in a South Indian kitchen. We use it widely in our day to day cooking. Also it acts a great moisturizer to your skin and has a lot of healing capabilities. Coconut Oil & Shredded Coconut has become a new fad in recent days and it is used from breakfast smoothies to breads and various other recipes. Glad people all over the world are realizing the nutritional values of this oil. When I saw the #SwearbyIt challenge by Vita Coco hosted at Foodies 100 website, the first thing that came to mind was…
Dessert
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White Pumpkin Halwa / Kasi Halwa
October 23, 2015This was on my to-do list for so long. Then I came across Venkatesh Bhat (Vijay TV’s cookery show host) recipe on Youtube. I followed his recipe to the tee and the output was awesome.The texture was perfect and it did not become mushy. I could bite off pumpkin that was cooked well through.I prepared
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Pears & Berries Crumble (Quick dessert)
June 8, 2015This is one of the quickest desserts you can prepare when you crave for something sweet. There are so many variations with regards to fruits being used and the ingredients that is used for topping. Here I have used very basic ingredients and the following measurement serves two. I used a standard si
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Carrot Kheer
August 20, 2014This year didn’t prepare any bakshanam for Kicha on Krishna Jayanthi. Due to all this shifting and moving to new house I was completely unwell on Sunday. But managed to make kheer as neivedhyam for Lord Krishna and along with some Low-Fat Yogurt 😛 & butter. This isn’t a traditional way of prepa
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Palada Pradhaman
December 23, 2013It is the most popular payasam/kheer recipe in Kerala. But now a days most of the weddings here in TN as well serves Pradhaman as a main sweet item for lunch. Last Thursday was Shiva’s birthday and made this dish during breakfast 😀 The following measurement yielded around 12-15 cups. I felt it was
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Rasmalai | Indians Sweets | Rasmalai from scratch
December 20, 2011It is one of the most delicious and a popular bengali dessert even in southindia. The preparation might sound difficult however it can be made at home within an hour.
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Gulab Jamun
May 3, 2010A feast is incomplete without a Dessert. Indian Dessert recipes mostly contain sweets,cakes and occassionally pies,puddings.My favorite dessert is Gulab Jamun.Whenever there are guests.