Thengai Poli
- 04
- November
- 2009
Ingredients: All purpose flour 2 cups Salt – pinch Grated coconut 2 cups Jaggery Cardamom pods 6 crushed Ghee Method: Knead the all purpose flour, using warm water and bring it to a smooth dough. Now in a skillet, heat jaggery and add coconuts and cardamom to it, bring this to halwa consistency. Now make […]
Paani Poori
- 18
- October
- 2009
Paani Poori: Pani Puri. Paani Puri/poori. Golgoppa. Street Food – Paani Poori. Healthy version of Paani Poori. I am not so good when it comes to chaat food, certainly its not my cup of tea. Though I like the fact of having fun with my friends, its totally unacceptable to my diet ritual! Its from […]
Egg Rolls
- 25
- June
- 2009
Egg Rolls: Sudden fix with left over stuff! Towards the end of the week, I tend to clean up all the left over stuff and make use of long lying eggs, vegetables and dough! Evening snack, ready in minutes! Ingredients: Rolling Sheets: All purpose – doughEgg white 1 – for egg washOil for bastingDry Flour […]
Garlic Naan
- 22
- June
- 2009
Garlic Naan: Nothing much to say, when I was in India…relished this a big time, at the restaurants! Miss the fun here, but why to give up on ‘naan’ though! Hmmm, fixed it at home…pretty much home adopted version, absolutely no grilling! Just baked and broiled them…so howz that sounds to you?!! Ingredients: All purpose […]
Lentil’s Stuffed Indian Flat Bread
- 02
- April
- 2009
Moong dal Paratha: Dhall Roti. Dal Roti. Lentil’s Chappathi. Lentil’s Roti. When I was studying in New Delhi, my hostel cook…Kamalesh Roy cooked this for breakfast!! Some of you guessed it already, yeah…he fixed it with left over dhall!! According to me he is a gifted cook! A real cook doesn’t like to waste food…its […]
Chicken Puffs
- 26
- February
- 2009
Chicken Puffs: Myself and my friend Sridevi, were big time ‘Chicken Lovers’. We can’t take one day with greens and vegetables. While in hostel…almost every single day, we step out for ‘Chicken Pakoda’ or ‘Chicken Puffs’. There was a saying back then among our friend’s circle…’Even if we say…the Chicken is poisoned, these two stupid’s […]
Creamy Saffron Chicken Soup
- 31
- December
- 2008
Creamy Saffron Chicken Soup: Saffron/Zaffron is one of the costliest spice/herb in the world. It costs more than Gold! These are actually flower’s anthers…..a fine strand that holds up the pollen grains! So….if one needs a gram of saffron, he needs to pluck at least 10,000 flowers. Now you know….why it is so expensive! These […]
Veg Puffs
- 30
- December
- 2008
Vegetable Puffs: Veg Puffs. Spicy Puffs. As usual another rainy day snack! Yeah got little better in making puff pastry(after few trial and error with egg puffs). To look at the method of making puff pastry sheets, please go through my ‘Egg Puffs’ article! I don’t want to re do the whole thing! Ingredients: For […]
Chicory Leaves Fritters
- 11
- November
- 2008
Kasini Keerai Bonda: The Botanical name of this greens is Cichorium intybus. Common English name is chicory leaves. Yeah….the roots of it….is powdered and used in coffee(my fav’). We call it Kasini keerai in Tamil. Some of its Uses: It balances pitta and kapha. Cures chronic and deep-rooted fevers. Purifies and improves blood circulation. It […]
Egg Puffs
- 01
- November
- 2008
When I was in College+University…..this was my favorite snack! Myself and my friend Shridevi used to go to bakery in the evening, get egg/chicken puffs and eat them during tea time! Awesome……gossips, puffs, tea…..what else can make a perfect day. Hostel life was full of fun! There were very few good bakeries in the city, […]
