Chocolate Chip Cupcake Recipe | Eggless Butterless Recipes | 200th Post!!!

I am so glad that I managed to post 200 recipes in a span of 9 months into blogging!!! I am so excited as the blog and its readership grows too with each day!!!I am also equally excited about the event I am planning to celebrate blog's first birthday with...well not just cakes but have an event with giveaways!!!

Soya Chunks Green Peas Curry Recipe | Easy Veg Side Dish Recipes

A protein rich semi gravy for chappati or dosa made of a thick flavoured coconut paste with soya chunks and green peas. It is a perfect side dish for a rich semi gravy to tiffen items.

Sev Puri Recipe | Chaat Recipes

Sev Puri is a papdi topped with different veggies, chutneys and garnished with sev!!! It is one of the street food I crave for when we go to chaat shops, sometimes it's so hard to decide between all those yummies like pav bahjji, pani poori. This is one snack, which gives you crunchy treat with mixed sweet, sour and spicy flavours!!!

Making these at home is so easy. All you need is a few hours of preparation in your leisure and can be just assembled to serve for kids as snack after school or guests with a cup of coffee!!! 

Sweet Chaat Chutney Recipe | Khajur Imli Ki Chutney | Chaat Recipes

No chat item is complete without this sweet and sour chutney. Iron rich dates and jaggery makes it healthy too. It can be stored and used for making quick chaat's. 

Vegetable Briyani Recipe

Nutritious and yummy one pot meal!!!

Vellai Poosanikkai Juice | White Pumpkin Buttermilk | Healthy Drinks

A simple buttermilk drink with white pumpkin/poosanikkai which has many health benefits. Amma makes this whenever we have mouth ulcers. I drink this now to keep my body flushed out of toxins, natural body coolant, and for weight loss as it is believed to take away water retention from the body. Amma advises to take it in empty stomach for best results. It is best to have in summers as you might easily catch cold with this coolant drink. 

Curd Rice Recipe | Thalicha Thayir Sadam Recipe

One of the easy, healthy and comforting food. Thalicha curd rice is easy to pack and eat while travelling. Curd rice just requires pickle to make it complete.

Fig Milkshake Recipe | Milkshake Recipes

Fig Milkshake was introduced by my best buddy who is also in Chennai with a busy life. We happened to catch up in Railway station when we both had gone to drop our parents. It was already 11PM but he insisted we have at least a juice somewhere. So, we went to a famous food joint for juices and milkshakes. He wanted only Fig combo of drinks and when asked about it, he shared the health benefits of figs. Then on, I make few drinks to bring fig into our lifestyle in a delicious way. Read about Health Benefits of Dried Figs.

Mocha Kottai Sambar | Pidukku Paruppu Sambar Recipe

A favorite dish in my husband's home, whenever mochai is in season, I see his mom making him different recipes with mochai though I have just learned a few. I never liked this from childhood, but when my MIL makes it very delicious I couldn't resist having them. Now, it's one of my favorite too!!!If you haven't tried, try once and I am sure you will love the taste. 

Cucumber Mint Salad Recipe | Salad Recipes

Another cucumber salad with mint and nuts after a quick and a simple cucumber salad. This salad is rich and flavoured to refresh you!!!

Chicken Mughlai Briyani Recipe | Chicken Recipes

One briyani which my father loves to have again and again is mughlai chicken briyani. It is simple, flavorful and less spicy briyani. Briyani with Chicken 65 makes a filling Sunday lunch. 

But if you love the dindigul thalapakatti style briyani, you can check the recipe there.  

Tomato Chutney | Easy Chutney Recipes

Our home always prefer tiffin varieties so I make different chutneys for dosa. I have already few chutneys with tomato like Tomato Chutney using coconut, Tomato Thokku and Tomato Garlic. This recipe is an easy, quick and spicy one for a busy morning. 

Rasamalai Sweet Recipe | Indian Famous Sweets

Rasamalai or Ras Malai is a famous Indian sweet made with soft cheese and soaked in rich flavoured milk. My husband's most favourite sweet and also the first sweet we served him after engagement. I made this for him on Valentine's day and he loved this soft, sugary, milk rich dessert served chill with badam pista topped. 

Boiled Corn Recipe | How to cook corn in a pressure cooker?

Got some fresh corn??? 

A perfect evening snack with a cup of coffee!!! This recipe brings back memories of my career in Coimbatore when we used to regularly have sweet corn in a shop then we would have the most famous Coimbatore roadside kalan and finish our dinner. Here is the method to prepare a Spicy, buttery boiled corn with a touch of lemon. 

Coriander Chutney | Kothamalli Chutney Recipe | Easy Chutney Recipes

Coriander chutney is another yummy option when you have no coconut at home to make coconut chutney for Idli Dosa. 

Soya Chunks Curry Recipe | Easy Side Dish Recipes

Another favourite food I grew eating from my mom's kitchen is soya chunks recipes. Amma has few recipes which I could have more and more. Now, I have started exploring new recipe with soya chunks and this recipe is tried from Pakashastra though I have adjusted the recipe to suit for my family. 

Gongura Chutney | Pulicha Keerai Thuvayal

Gongura Chutney is a popular dish in Andhra. It is also known as Red Sorrel in English and Pulichakeerai in Tamil. There are two varieties of this keerai in market, pick the nattu keerai. I watched a program in which the health benefits of pulichakeerai was discussed so I picked up a bundle to prepare it and it turned out good. Once in a while I make this and we have it with hot rice. The keerai stays good for a week when refrigerated. 

Schezwan Egg Fried Rice Recipe | Restaurant Style

A simple, spicy, quick rice which we have very often at home is Schezwan Egg Fried Rice. I make Vegetable Fried Rice with Mushroom 65 for lunch box which is a favourite combo at home!!! If you have the vegetables and schezwan sauce at home, this recipe can be prepared easily. I have used store bought schezwan sauce here since I had no stock of homemade one. Homemade once are more spicy and flavourful. 

Paneer 65 Recipe | Veg Starters Recipes

Whenever my amma and I go to a restaurant, we order Paneer 65 as a starter which my dad doesn't like it. Sometimes, we order again if we like the taste, so he gives a stare like how come we enjoy eating it so much...! He never liked paneer and has tasted only when I started cooking, as he was the only person in my family who has eaten those bad shaped dosa's and burnt hard roti's. Love you Daddo:) 

My Bucket List!!!

All of us have grown in  different states or even in other countries, but we connect through our words and action. We all have our own dreams, passions and priorities. For some, my dream would be a least priority while for others it would be their life dream and goal that they want to achieve. 

Schezwan Paneer Sandwich Recipe

I get this sandwich from a shop outside the supermarket where I buy vegetables. I love to try different types of filling and this is one I would suggest anyone to try first. 

The cheesy, spicy and delicious paneer filling makes it a perfect tummy filler with a cup of hot coffee or juice. 

Nendran Chips Recipe | Teatime Snacks

Who doesn't love munching chips? That too the most famous Kerala chips??? Amma makes it at home and we used to happily eat. Now when I made, I was happy to have my DH helping me which he always does when I deep fry anything!!! Lol....Hope he skips reading this post....:) We started making this by 10.30 in the night and couldn't stop eating the hot spicy nendran chips in the late night:)

Chickpeas Sundal Recipe

Easy, nutritious and healthy evening snack recipe. 

Papaya Watermelon Salad Recipe | Healthy Foodie

I have always been a fit-foodie throughout my college days, after getting married and being away from family, cooking my own food, most of all delicious food blogging and my less active lifestyle has become an challenging phase. Its the phase of my life where I am learning to understand health, responsibility, weight gain, work out, diet, pregnancy, motherhood and so on...!!!

Mini Donut Muffins Recipe | Eggless Baking Recipes

A special day needs a special delight, isn't? Celebrating my DH birthday in Pondicherry so scheduled an little delight post which was sitting in my drafts for a long time!!!

Aren't these little donut muffins look adorable? Yep, they are so beautiful and tasty. It can be prepared in minutes for an yummy bite!!! 

Chicken Masala Recipe | Side Dish Recipes for Roti/Chappathi's

Easy chicken curry made with roasted spices and coconut milk for side dish of chappathi.

Papdi Recipe | How to make papdi for chaats?

Papdi's are small flattened puri's used for making chaat items like sev puri or bhel puri. They add crunch to the chaat recipes when loaded with veggies making it a one bite delight. I would say, Papdi as the hero of famous Indian chaats. 

These are readily available in the market, but making at home gives you the satisfaction of using good oil. Trust me, homemade ones are best when compared to the readily available ones. 

Mushroom 65 Recipe | Veg Starters Recipes

Who wants some Mushroom 65? If you want something crispy, spicy and fried then try this simple recipe for a evening teatime snack or a lunch starter!!!

Bread Halwa Recipe - A Guest Post by Sathya Priya of MyKitchenOdyssey

Back with a guest post in the blog from Priya of MyKitchenOdyssey. Its so interesting in doing a guest post and when you receive one!!! The readers get a chance to know other good bloggers around and we get a lot to share, talk and chit chat knowing each other well. Blogging offers so much and I am so happy for being a part of this amazing food blogger world!!! And Priya is one among them!!!!  

Methi Leaves Sambar | Vendhaya Keerai Sambar Recipe

I love sambar's of any kind as I have grown up eating varieties of sambar with veggies in Sambar. Though, there was a time in my college days, when I would never taste sambar. Luckily after my studies, I got the sambar crush once I started having amma's made!!!

Prawn 65 Recipe | Seafood Recipes

One of the easy cooking protein in less time is prawn. Grew up eating authentic prawn masala that amma makes on weekends, my brother and I would finish the whole in minutes. Now, when I make these for amma, she enjoys it!!! What else I would ask for, loved cooking for my Amma!!!

Madurai Kari Dosai Recipe | Mutton Dosai Recipe

I am lucky to have been brought up in Madurai during my schooling. Madurai has given me lot of friends, culture and memories. To the foodie side of me, I know Madurai not just for the temples but the famous food joints. Madurai serves the best jigarthanda, konnar kadai kari dosa, amma mess, and so on. The list of food joints are so many which always keeps your tummy and wallet happy. 

No Fikar, Chat Quikr

Do you want some space for your new purchases? Are you thinking to replace your old sofa with an modern one? Are you thinking to upgrade your gym equipments? Think no further when Quikr is there!!!

Watermelon Salad | Salad Ideas

Easy and refreshing salad. The mint infused flavours to watermelon and cucumber along with the goodness of flaxseed is amazing!!!