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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.

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

Potato is my favorite root vegetable. Podimas is slightly different from the usual potato fry. You don’t need to use too much of oil or spices. Very simple yet delicious one. This is my grandmother’s recipe. She is a great cook who never tastes inbetween cooking. But the end product will be awesome.

Its summer time in India. My mom will be busy making pickles using Mango, Lemon, Maavadu etc.. That bug has gotten into me too 🙂 Bought some fresh Granny Smith Apples yesterday and prepared a beautiful tangy & delicious South Indian style pickle out of it. Preparation was similar to that of Ma

I used white sorghum seeds to prepare the batter. I am planning to incorporate millet in our diet. Jowar has lots of health benefits including lowering cholesterol and even helps in weight loss too. Also this is Gluten-Free 🙂 A healthy alternative to our regular dosa batter.

One of my favorite breakfasts in recent times 🙂 You get beautiful fresh breads here and am making the most use of it. To spice up the usual normal sandwich I add spicy mint chutney as a spread first and then top it off with veggies. You can even pack this sandwich if you are going on a trip or can

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

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.

To get rid off midweek blues thought of baking a cake yesterday evening. I wanted to bake something eggless and since we don’t have much of a sweet tooth settled for a simple sponge cake. You won’t believe it exactly took 10 minutes to prep the batter for the cake. 20 minutes for baking and hence I

This is a very simple pan fried broccoli dish. You can serve it along with hot fried rice or you can even prepare it for evening snacks. You can also deep fry the florets or else bake them if you wanted it to be healthy and minimize the oil consumption.