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Being ‘Navarathri’ season I prepared this easiest ladoo as Neivedhyam (offering to God). All you need is fifteen minutes of your time to prepare these ladoos. I used fine desiccated coconut. In case if you don’t have desiccated coconut, you can bake the normal grated coconut in a baking tray for ab

This is one of the quickest lunchbox recipes that you can prepare on a busy weekday.Also healthy one too. Fenugreek leaves helps in lowering the blood sugar level and helps in controlling diabetes.Try to include them atleast once in a week in your diet. I used fresh bunch of fenugreek leaves and th

Couscous belongs to Semolina variety and it is widely used in African, Middle East cuisine. It takes very less time to get cooked and I have used them in Salads,made vegetable upma too. Last week yet again prepared a SouthIndian dish using Couscous. First time tried preparing pongal using couscous a

Drumstick comes under spinach variety and it has lots of health benefits. In Tamilnadu most of the individual houses will have this tree and from top to bottom of the tree it has various uses. The root,stem,flowers and leaves are raw materials for many medicines.

I have used cabbage and onions to make balls. If you have any other veggies like carrot or beans you can add them too. A great alternate for the usual potato and paneer based koftas.

Navarathri starts tomorrow. It is always good to give different prasadhams/nevedhyams rather than the usual Sundal (ofcourse sundal is the best. But for a change). I have used around 250 gms of semolina. In case if you wish to serve more people adjust measurements accordingly.

This is one of the most important offerings to Lord Ganesha. It is also referred to as _மோதகம் _ in Tamil. There are two ways to prepare the basic Rice dough. We generally prepare a batter from rice and then use it to prepare the white rice dough. However I have seen many people preparing the

This 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

Channa pulao is an easy-to-cook one pot meal. You don’t have to grind a separate masala for this recipe. I made this pulao with normal rice. However you can use Basmati rice. Also I haven’t added any other vegetables apart from onions & tomato. Incase if you have any left over veggies you might

When it comes to cooking, my unplanned dishes will always turn out great 🙂 One such thing happened today.Prepared this pinapple kesari during breakfast that too without using any artificial colour or essence. It tasted better than the ones served at HSB(Saravana Bhavan) & A2B(Adyar Anandha Bha