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I have been sharing Deepavali related snacks & sweets posts in Instagram for the past few days. Thenkozhal, Butter Murukku, Thattai recipes are already in blog. I couldn’t believe that…

I love deep fried snacks. Lockdown is making us crave for more norukks 🤪🤪🙆 There is no doubt about it. Though i don’t follow any strict diet, nowadays am trying to avoid making too many deep fried dishes in…

Deepavali is in a week’s time and I thought of sharing some festival recipes that can be prepared easily. First on the list is this awesome Gram Flour Laddoo (கடலை மாவு லட்டு). My mother’s recipe and made it for the first during Navarathri , turned out perfectly well. Do read the notes before starting to make the laddu. From the measurements given below you can make 12 medium sized laddoo. Kindly increase quantity according to your requirement 1. Sifting Gram Flour helps to remove lumps and yields smooth Laddoo 2. Don’t add more sugar than mentioned in the recipe. It…

Have never cooked Courgettes until I was in Chennai. If you give me any new vegetable all I can think of is how to cook a SouthIndian recipe using it. Courgette/Zucchini is a summer squash vegetable popular in UK.Its texture slightly similar to Cucumber & I have made Courgette Kuruma (thick stew using coconut paste), Koottu (lentil based gravy) before. Last weekend I thought of preparing Pakoda from it. Initially I wasn’t too sure how it will work so thought of adding some carrots along with courgette. Turned out so delicious and this is my own recipe. Instead of the usual Onion Pakoda/Pakora try this and am sure you will like it too. I bought this handy cheap spiralizer during a sale. I use it for salads mainly. Instead of grating Courgette & Carrot i used this spiralizer. In case if you don’t have it , use your knife & make thin strips. 

In the ‘Deepavali Special’ snack series today am sharing recipe for Pottukadalai Murukku (Roasted Gramflour murukku). I have used single star plate (ஸ்டார் போட்ட அச்சு) to prepare these murukkus. This is the first time I am using that plate and hence it took a while for me to shape murukku perfectly

‘Karaboondhi’ (காராபூந்தி) is one of my favorite snacks. When I was young Appa (my father) used to work in Villupuram. Its a very small town near Chennai. There was one famous restaurant called _Archana Hotels. _He used to get this snack from that place. That was the best ‘Karaboondhi’ I have ever t

Its a filling snack that can be made within 10-15 minutes. I have stuffed bread slices with Tomato Sauce however you can replace it with Mint chutney,Coriander chutney or any of your favorite sauces.

Easy to prepare Okra fry that can be served as a side dish for Rice or you can even make it for kids as snack in the evenings. If you want it to be healthier try baking or shallow frying instead of deep frying Bhindi. I personally haven’t tried these two methods and hence am not sure how the output

Monsoon started and its time for munching some traditional ‘rain’ time snacks 🙂 :). Onion Pakoda comes first in my mind for two reasons.It is easy to prepare and with its crunchiness accompanied with a cup of ‘degree kaapi’ can do wonders.

One of the easiest snack to prepare and it will not more than 10 minutes to prepare. (since most of the ingredients are always available in our Kitchen).I used whole wheat bread.However you can also use the regular sweet bread.