Pori Urundai | Murmura Ladoo | Puffed Rice Balls

Pori urundai with step by step pictures.

Pori urundai is a sweet ball made with puffed rice, jaggery, and cardamom powder. This sweet is usually made for Karthigai deepam festival, which is festival of light, on which people lit hundreds of earthern lamps on the house. When I was a kid I remember our neighbour litting many lamps on the compound wall and we use to enjoy the sight. The best part is they will share kozhukattai with us. One of it would be made with palm leaves and just love it. I want to try that but don't know where I will get that tender palm leaves.

Ragi Poori/Puri | Breakfast Recipe | How to make millet Poori

Ragi poori with step by step pictures.
Poori/puri is a deep fried recipe.Although deep fried it is not an issue in having it once a while for breakfast.My son loves poori and insists me to make every week.Due to the deep fry technique, I avoid it.

Ajwain leaves/ Karporavalli rasam | Immunity boosting rasam

Ajwain leaves rasam with step by step pictures and video.

Ajwain leaves also known as Karporavalli in Tamil, Dodapatre in Kannada is a medical herb.  The dried version of this leaf is oregano, the seasoning used in Pizza toppings. This leaf is best for cold and cough. One can directly have the leaf raw. During this monsoon season try to include this leaf more in your diet. One such way is this rasam which can be served with hot steaming rice or can have as soup.

Instant Idli | No soaking no fermentation idli | Idli with Idli rice rava (video recipe)

Instant idli with step by step pictures and video recipe.

Happy new year to all, I wish and pray for success and prosperity to follow in this new year.
Let me start my first post of this year with a healthy note. We all know steamed food and that too if it happens to be idli it is very good and healthy. But making idli need a batter which involves a long procedure of soaking, grinding and fermenting. Many people complain about not getting soft idli and hence they avoid making the batter at home.

Beetroot Rasam | South Indian Rasam with Beetroot

Beetroot rasam with step by step pictures.
Mostly it will Saturday when I will be clueless what to cook for lunch.One such day I got this idea to cook simple rasam with beetroot.The recipe is same as rasam only difference is I added some cooked beetroot juice init. It was on that day I made beetroot chaas to accomplish the meal.

Dry Fruits Ladoo | Dates & Nuts Balls | Festive Sweet Recipe

Dry fruits ladoo with step by step pictures.

Dry fruits and nuts laddoo/ balls are so easy to make which makes the best way for kids to eat them.Its healthy since no other sweetening agents were added to it as the sweetness for dates & raisins are quiet enough for the taste.With festive season around make this and have fun.You can even make it any shape cylinders and then cut it or even in a shape of  modak.

Easy Snack For Diwali | Savory Snack

I have just made a small collection of the some deep fried snack that you can easily at home for this diwali.It may look like hard to make but I assure you that its damn easy to make.Do give a try and stay healthy with home made recipe.



Easy savory snack to try for this Diwali.Click each recipe name to see the detailed procedure.

Wheat Flour Muruku

 

Wheat thattai. (Video recipe)

 

Wheat thattai with step by step pictures and video recipe.

Wheat thattai is a crispy deep-fried snack recipe. We can usually make thattai with rice flour but here I have made it with wheat flour. To get a crispy thatai one needs to roll it very thin else you will get a soggy thattai. Let us see how to make this.

Potato Murukku | Aloo Chakli | Easy Snack Recipe

After many sweet recipes here i come with a salty one.Diwali ,Festival of Light is around the corner and I hope all will be busy preparing sweet & savoury for it.Do try this chakli  variety which is very easy and tasty.

Adhirasam | Festive Sweet Recipe

Adhirasam is  one of the famous sweets i think which i made in all religion for their festival,its one of my favourite.Mostly now a days people buy them shop,as it very easy,me too the same.This is the first  time i tried and it came out quite well.

Ragi Murukku | Finger Millet chakli

Ragi murukku with step by step pictures.

Another millet recipe to add to my collection. As I promised in my thinnai adhirasam post, as I"m going to try millet recipes for this Diwali, I am here with the deep-fried snack. Though it s deep fried recipe considering the addition of millet I mention it healthy when compared to other rice flour snacks. Here for binding, I have used besan/kadalai mavoo, but you can also use potukadalai flour.

Garlic karasev | Festive snack recipe

Garlic Karasev with step by step pictures.

Karasev is the simplest snack to make. I have already posted this during my early years of blogging. In that one, I added pepper for spiciness. To do a little varaition I have made this garlic flavored Karasev. Just grind few flakes of garlic and add to the flour, mix and make the dough. Let us see how to make this.

Rose flavored Coconut Balls | Rose Coconut Balls | Easy Sweet Recipe

Rose flavored Coconut Balls with step by step pictures.

Craving for any sweet dish like me  then try this easy and yummy coconut balls with rose flavor.Why not try this  easy sweet for Rakhi festival tomorrow to treat brothers.Thanks a lot priya for this sweet coconut ladoo.