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One of my favorite pasta recipes. With very less ingredients this is such a rich, flavorful dish.I have prepared white sauce as a base. You might try it with Marinara sauce as well.

In Tamil Black Eyed Beans is known as காராமணி and my mom used to often make சுண்டல் (a popular evening snack in TN) using it. We all know pulses are rich in protein and being a vegetarian I always plan and include them at least twice in a week.Today morning I prepared a very simple gravy with this b

This is my favorite in festival menu. But this is a tricky dish to prepare too. Initially when I got married I struggled a little to prepare this. But then after started making it more often, now I can say I am kind of good at it. Grinding the urad dal is key in making crispy (outer layer) & sof

In a blog updating spree today 😀 Next on list is paruppu vadai. When I prepare paruppu vadai as Neivedhyam I generally don’t add Onions. However if you are going to prepare it for evening snacks then you can definitely add finely chopped onions and saunf. Even chopped mint leaves can be added. The

Another popular breakfast in TN. You have to get the proportions of flour & rava correctly or else dosai will not have the crisp texture.The batter has to rest for about an 1 hr atleast. It goes well with chutney/sambar/molagapodi. With the following measurement you can prepare around 10-12 dosa

I used ‘Fox Millet’ (Thinai in Tamil) for the very first time. There are several food bloggers I follow in instagram, twitter and other social networking sites. It just helps me to know lots of facts about food, ingredients, various cuisines and as a whole its fun & a great learning too.

Being a tambrahm, growing up eating vethakuzhambu & poricha kootu I used to think mushroom as some non-vegetarian stuff when I was a kid 🙂 Things changed after I got married. Shiva is very fond of mushrooms and whenever we go out for dinner he will defnitely order something made out of it. Ev

This is such a simple yet healthy breakfast recipe. Or you can even pair it with curd and have it in your lunch menu. It takes around 15 minutes to prepare this dish. The following measurement serves two.

Incase if you don’t like to eat chunky tomatoes in a gravy you can always use Puree. You can store in refridgerator and use if for about a week.

This chutney can be used as a spread or dip while making Stuffed Chapathis, Sandwiches too.