Ariy Unda

• 1 cup ponnai or matta rice
• Wash the rice well.
• Spread the rice into a small towel to dry.
• Dry roast the rice in a pan until golden brown in a medium flame.
• Remove from the heat and let it cool.

• 10 pcs cashew
• Dry roast them also.
•  Grind the rice into fine powder.
• Then the cashews into fine powder.
• Mix in a bowl.

• 6 tbsp jaggery
• 6 tbsp grated coconut
• Grind it for one or 2 pulse. (Do not not make it into a paste)
• Mix into the dry powder.

• Add salt to taste.
• Mix well using your hand.

• Take some of the mixture shape them into lime sized balls.

Enjoy Snacking

S

Muringa Leaves Curry

 2 cups of muringa leaves(Drumstick leaves)

• Wash well by soaking in water for 2 or three times.
• Strain it.

• 1 cup coconut granted
• 2 tbsp cooked rice( if you need to thick gravy) optional
• 2 tbsp coriander  powder
• 1 tbsp chilli powder
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 2 or 3 small onion
• 1 green chillie
• 2 pods of garlic
• Grind all the above ingredients.
• To a fine paste.

• 2 tbsp oil
• Salt to taste
• Heat oil.
• Add the strained leaves and fry for few minutes.

• Add the grind paste , 1/2 cup of water into the paste grinder and pour in the pot.
• Add salt as needed.

• Cook on slow flame until it is well boiled.

Enjoy Cooking 

S

Oatmeal & Chocolate chips Cookies

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• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp powdered cinnamon
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• Remove 2 tbsp of flour and add the cocoa into it.
• Sieve the flour, salt, baking soda, cocoa powder and cinnamon.
• Whisk in a bowl.
• Keep it aside.

• 2 stick butter (226 gms)
• 1 cup dark brown sugar
• 1/2 cup  granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla essence
• In a large bowl or stand mixer  add the butter (@ room temperature) cut into small pieces.
• Add the brown sugar and granulated sugar.
• Add the vanilla essence and eggs.
• Beat the them until creamed together for 2 to 3 minutes on a medium high speed.

• Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
• Mix on low speed until well combined.

• 3 cups oats
• 1 cup of chocolate chips

• Add the oats and chocolate chips.

• Mix well.

• Cover and keep in the fridge for 30 minutes.

• Preheat the oven for 10 minutes at175C.

• Line the baking sheet on a baking tray.

• Using ice cream scoop lay the leaving little space between them.

• Bake for 15 minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.

• Remove from the oven  and allow the cookies to cool in the baking tray for few minutes.

• Cookies stay fresh for a week.

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Enjoy Baking

S

Moist Chocolate cupcakes

•  1 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 6 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 tsp salt
• Powder the sugar for one minute.
• Sieve the flour, coca powder and salt.
• Add them to a large mixing bowl.
• Mix them well and keep it aside.

• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• In a bowl mix the egg , oil, milk and vanilla essence.
• Whisk together until well combined.
• Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
• Mix well.

• Add the water into it.  And mix well.

• Preheat the oven for 175C for 10 minutes.

• Prepare the cupcake pan with cupcake liners.

• Fill the cupcake liners using ice cream scoop about half the liners.

• Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

• Remove the cupcake from the oven.

Enjoy Baking 

S

Recipe Source: https://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/homemade-moist-chocolate-cupcakes/

Quick Prawn Biryan

•  1 onion
• 1 tomato
• 2 tbsp oil +2 tbsp ghee
• 1 small piece cinnamon
• 1 bay leaves
• 3 cloves.
• Heat oil and ghee in a pot.
• Add cinnamon, bay leaves and clove.
• Add sliced onion into it. 
• Once the onions turn transparent and soft , add tomato.
• Cook in slow flame until it becomes very soft.

• 1 small ginger
• 6 garlic clove
• 5 green chillies
• 2 small onion
• 2 tbsp curd
• Grind the ginger, garlic, green chillies and small onions together.
• Add into pot and fry for few minutes.
• Add the curd.
• Cook for few minutes.

• Strings of curry leaves
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp jeera powder
• 1 tsp garam masala
• Add coriander, jeera and garam masala powder.
• Saute it for few minutes
• Add the curry leaves.

• 9 to 10 leftover fried prawns (over marinate prawns with chilly paste with a tbsp oil, air fry it )
• Cut the prawns into small pieces.
• Add 1/2 cup water.
• Let it cook in small flame for few minutes.

• 2 glass of jeerkasala rice
• 4 glass of boiled water
• 2 tbsp ghee
• Add boiled water into it.
• Add the washed rice into it 
•  Add salt to taste.
• Add the ghee.
• Cook in slow flame.
• Once the water is absorbed, turn the flame off.
• Cover a banana leaf or foil on top  and leave it for sometime before serving.
• Serve with raita and papad.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Aloo Palak Gravy

•  2 potatoes 
• Clean and cut the potatoes.
• Cook and drain the water out.
• Keep it aside.

• 1 bunch of spinach
• Soak the spinach in vinegar water before washing.
• Boil water and then add the spinach. 
• Boil of 2 minutes.
• Transfer the the leaves into cold water and keep in it for few minutes(This process is called blanching)
• Strain the spinach and keep it aside.

• 5 garlic cloves
• 1 small piece ginger
• 5 cashew nuts
• 3 green chillies
• Grind the spinach with garlic, ginger, green chillies and cashew into a smooth puree.

• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 small cinnamon stick
• 1 bay leaves
• 1 medium onion chopped
• Heat oil.
• Add cinnamon, bay leave.
• Add onion and cook until it turns soft golden brown.
• Add the boiled potatoes cut into small pieces.
• Now add the spinach puree with 1/2 cup of water.

• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 2 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp jeera powder
• Add turmeric ,coriander and jeera powder into it.
• Cover and cook for few minutes.

• 1 tbsp kastori methi
• 1 tsp garam masala
• Add the crushed katori methi and garam masala.
• Salt to taste
• Cover and cook for few minutes.

Serve hot with roti.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Kadla Masala Curry

•  1 cup brown chana
• Soak chana overnight.

• 1 small onion
• 1 small tomato
• 1 tsp coconut oil
• salt.
• Wash the chana.
• In a insta pot or cooker add the chana, onion, tomato, oil and salt.
• Cook for 5 whistles of a cooker.
• keep it aside.

• 1 small ginger
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• Crush the above ingredients.

• 2 tbsp oil or coconut oil
• Heat oil in a pot.
• Add the crushed ingredients.
• Saute for a minute.

• 1 big onion
• Chop the onion.
• Add into pot.
• Saute until brown in color.

• 2 green chillies
• 2 string of curry leaves.
• Add green chillies and curry leaves into it .
• Saute for few minutes.

• 1 tbsp chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder 
• 1/2 tsp gram masala
• Add chilly, turmeric, coriander and gram masala powder.
• Fry for few minutes.
• Add 1/4 cup water and simmer for sometime.

• 1 medium tomato
• Pulse it in a chopper
• Add into the pot.
• Cover the pot and cook until tomato are mixed into the masala well.

• From the cooked chana in the cooker take 3 tbsp of chana and grind it into a paste.

• Add it into the masala along with chana gravy.

• Allow it boil or until it thickness the gravy.

• Add a tsp of pepper if needed.

• For seasoning
• 5 small onions
• oil
• curry leaves.
• Heat oil.
• Add the sliced small onion.
• Add curry leaves.
• Fry until onions turns brown.

• Pour it into the chana masala.

• Close the lid for 5 minutes.

Enjoy Cooking 

S

Quick Vanilla Cake

 

• 2 Eggs
• 40 gms powdered sugar
• Beat well until light and foam.

• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
• Mix for few seconds.

• 40 gms flour or cake flour
• Sift the flour into the egg mix.
• Gently fold the flour and mix well.
• Pour the batter into a pan.
• Remove the bubbles using a toothpick.

• Preheat the oven 175C for 10 minutes.

• Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

• For Sauce:
• Pour chocolate ganache on top.

Enjoy Baking

S

French Macarons

• 60 gms egg white ( 2 egg white)
• 2 pinch of cream of tartar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

• Weigh the egg whites to almost 60 gms.  Then refrigerate for at least 24 hrs.
• Bring it to room temperature.
• Add cream of tartar and vanilla essence to the egg white.
• Beat until soft peaks are formed.
• Now add superfine sugar beat until stiff glossy peaks form.
• One can add color prefer gel directly to egg white.

• 60 gms almond flour
• 60 gms confectiors sugar

• Sift the almond powder and sugar
• Add slowly by slowly folding into the egg white mixture.
• Do not overcome the batter.

• Fill the pipping bag with the batter.

• Pipe the batter 2 inch circles.

• Bang your tray 2 to 3 times on the table  to remove any bubbles.

• Let it dry for 45 minutes before baking.

• Bake in a preheat the oven @175 for 15 minutes.

• Let the shells cool on the baking tray and then transfer to a cooling track.

• After cooling the shells are ready to fill and sandwiched together.

• I used chocolate ganache filling.

Enjoy Baking 

S

Thanks to Sally baking https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/french-macarons/

for getting it almost perfect.!!

American Brownies

• 200 gms butter
• 200 gms sugar
• Melt butter , add sugar  and mix well.
• Remove from the heat.

• 3 tbsp cocoa powder
• Once cooled the mixture , add cocoa powder into it.
• Mix well.

• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• Once completely cooled , add the eggs one by one and mix well. 
• Add vanilla essence and mix well

• 200 gms flour
• 1 tsp baking powder.
• Sieve flour and baking powder into the mix.
• Mix well.

• 1 cup chopped cashew or walnuts
• Add the chopped cashew/walnuts coated lightly with flour into it and mix well.
• Pour the mixture into a lined baking pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for one hour or until a toothpick comes out baking.
• Cool and Serve warm.

Enjoy Baking 

S

Mutton Korma

•  1/2 Kg mutton
• 3 tbsp chilli powder
• 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• Tomato paste
• 3 big tomatoes
• 10 small onions
• Grind it together to a fine paste
• 1 cup water
• Cook mutton with the tomato paste, ginger garlic paste, chilly powder, salt and water. In a pressure cooker for 5 whistles. Turn down the heat and let it pressure cook until it releases the valve.
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• 3 tbsp oil
• 4 green chillies
• Few curry leaves
• Heat oil add green chillies and curry leaves and fry few minutes.
• Add the mutton mixture and cook until it reduces to a thick gravy on a slow heat.

Serve hot with Indian rotis.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Egg Roast

•  1 big chopped onion
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 4 tbsp chilli powder
• 1 cup water
• Add the above ingredients to the cooker and pressure cook for one whistle.

• 3 tbsp coconut oil 
• Few curry leaves
• Add oil and curry leaves to the gravy.
• Cook until it thickness to a thick gravy.

•  2 boiled eggs
• salt to taste
• Add the eggs and salt to the gravy.
• Cook for few minutes.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Recipe source: Malabar Tea Room

Cherupayar Curry

•  1 cup Cheru payar
• Soak the cherupayar  for few hours.

• 1/2 tsp chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 2 garlic cloves chopped
• 2 green chillies chopped
• 1 tsp coconut oil
• Wash the cheru payar and cook in the cooker with coconut oil, chilli powder, turmeric powder, cloves and green chillies chopped.
• Add 2 cups of water into it and cook for 4 whistles of cooker.

• 4 tbsp coconut at room temperature
• 2 curry leaves strings
• 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 green chilly
• Grind the above ingredients into a fine paste.
• Add the coconut mix into the cooker. Add hot water if needed to dilute it little bit.

• 2 tbsp coconut oil
• 1/2 mustard seeds
• 3 dry red chillies
• few curry leaves 
• 4 small onions chopped
• 2 cloves garlic chopped
• Heat oil. Then add mustard once it splutters add the curry leaves garlic, onion.
• Saute it few minutes

• Add this into the curry mix. 
• Add salt to taste. Boil once.
• Have with rice or puttu.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Potato Bonda

•  3 Medium potato 
• 1/2 glass water
• Wash the potatoes and cook in cooker with water for 2 whistles. And wait until the pressure goes off.
• Drain the  potatoes, remove the skin and  mash them. Keep it aside.

• 2 tbsp oil
• 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
• few curry leaves.
• Heat oil in pan. Add mustard seeds and when it splutters add curry leaves.

• 1/2 chopped onion
• 1tsp chopped ginger
• 3 chopped green chillies
• salt
• Add chopped onions, ginger and green chilies
• Add salt and saute them in a medium flame.
• Let the raw smell go and reduce the heat.

• 1/2 tsp turmeric
• 1/2 tsp chilli powder
• Add the turmeric and chilli powder. Saute till the raw smell goes.
• Add the mashed potatoes and cook. Let it cook for 5 minutes
• Mix well and remove from the flame.
• Once cooled make small balls. Keep it aside.

• 1 cup gram flour
• 2 tbsp rice flour
• salt to taste
• pinch of asafoetida
• 1/4 tsp chilli powder
• Mix gram flour, rice flour, salt and hing well

• 1 cup water
• Now add water little by little and mix well. To make a batter.

• Oil for frying
• Heat a oil in a kadai.
• Once the oil is hot

• Deep the balls in the batter by rolling all sides.
• Drop them into the hot oil.

• Fry them in a medium flame and until its reaches the perfect golden brown color.
• Transfer them into a strainer.

Enjoy cooking

S

Air fry Pakora

• 2 Medium onions
•  Slice the onions very thinly and length wise.

• 1/2 cup besan
• 2 tbsp rice flour
• 1tsp chili powder
• 1/2 gram masala
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• salt to taste
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Add besan, rice flour, chili powder, gram masala powder, turmeric, salt and baking powder and mix well

• 2 green chilies
• few strands of coriander leaves.
• Add the onions, green chillies and coriander leaves. Mix well.


• 2 tbsp oil.
• Add the oil and mix well.

• Add water just enough to make a thick paste.

• Prepare your air fry with baking sheet paper and brushing it with oil.

• Scoop using small ice cream scoop the batter and lay them on the tray with space in between.

• Cook them at 185C for 10 to 15 minutes.

• If needed spray with oil and turn the side. Cook until it turns brown and crispy.

Enjoy Air frying

S

Thari pudding

• 1/2 cup semolina
• Soak in water for 10 minutes and then wash well.

• 1/2 litre milk
• 1/2 cup sugar
• Boil with semolina and add sugar into it.
• Reduce heat,  cook until it thicken.

• 2 strands of saffron
• 1 tsp of rose water.
•  Add saffron and rose water into it. Remove from heat.   
• Pour in a  flat bowl.

• 1 tbsp ghee
• 5 cashew nuts
• 5 kismis
• Heat ghee and then fry chopped cashew nuts int it. 
• once it turns golden brown add rasins. Remove from the heat.
• Pour over the  semolina mix.

• Keep in the refrigerator before serving.

Enjoy cooking

S

Kai Pola

•  Plantains(Kerala banana)  need to be ripe. Slice them twice, so you get four long pieces ( I always remove the veins(the black part) of this ) and then chop them into small 1/2 inch size.
• 3 ripe plantains

• Heat ghee in a pan. Fry the cashew nuts until light golden brown and keep it aside. Then fry the raisins until plump and keep it aside.
• 2 tbsp ghee
• 6 cashew nuts split into 2
• 6 raisins

• Add more ghee , Now add the chopped  plantains and fry until golden brown in color. 
• 2 tbsp ghee

• Beat the eggs and sugar well with a little pinch of cardamom.
• 3 eggs
• 3 tbsp sugar

• Mix the fried plantains with a egg mixture with a pinch of baking powder.

• Preheat a oven at 175C for 10 minutes.

• Brush the pan with ghee.

• Pour the mixture and put the nuts on top. Bake for 15 minutes until a tooth pick comes out clean.
• Flip it over a plate before serving.

Enjoy Baking 

S

Spring rolls

•  Heat oil, strir fry ginger and garlic till light brown. 
• 1 tbsp ginger chopped into small pieces.
• 1 tbsp garlic chopped
• 3 tbsp oil

• Add spring onion, cabbage and carrot. Stir fry for few minutes.
• 2 spring onions with leaves chopped
• 2 cups thinly sliced cabbage
• 1 cup thinly sliced carrot

• Add green chillies and chicken into it. Stir fry few more minutes.
• 2 green chilles sliced
• 1 cup chicken shredded or chopped in the chopper

• Add salt, soya sauce  and pepper into it. Stir fry for few minutes.
• salt to taste
• 1 tbsp soya sauce
• 1 tsp pepper

• Keep it aside to cool.

• Mix together egg, salt, cornflour and flour. Keep it aside for an hour.
• 1 egg
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup cornflour
• salt to taste

• Heat a pan and make thin pancakes by cooking only one side.

• Keep the filling on the cooked side. Fold the edge over and roll half way.

• Fold both sides towards the center. Roll further and seal.
• One can either fry directly or dip in beaten egg and roll over bread crumbs.
• And then fry.
• 1 egg beaten
• required bread crumbs.

• Deep fry the spring roll till brown. Drain the oil on  paper.

Enjoy Cooking 

S

Tomato Chutney

•  Heat oil. Add dry red chilies and fry few secs.
• 1tsp sesame oil
• 3 red dry red chilies 

• Heat oil , add sliced onion fry for minutes until the onions soft. Add chopped tomatoes and fry for sometime. Then add ginger, garlic, few curry leaves and green chilie and fry for few minutes. Fry few minutes and remove from heat, let it cool.
• 3 tbsp Oil/Sesame
• 2 sliced onion
• 3 big tomatoes
• 1/4 tsp sliced ginger
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 green chilies slice
• 1 spring of curry leaves

• Grind to paste.

• Heat oil , add mustard  and curry leaves. Add the paste with water and salt.
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• Few springs of curry leaves

• Boil once. Have it with dosa or idli.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Crab Roast

 

• Clean the crab well and keep aside. 
• 1 kg crab

• For the masala. Heat a pan.
• Add ghee/oil, then add coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds,  pepper, fenugreek seeds, cloves and cinnamon and fry well.
• 1 tbsp ghee/oil  
• 1 tbsp coriander seeds
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1/4 tsp fennel seeds
• 4 pepper corns
• 1/4 tsp methi seeds
• 1 small piece cinnamon

• Then add garlic, ginger and dry red chillies(mangalore) and fry for few minutes.
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 1 inch of ginger cut into thin slices
• 15 dry chillies

• Once it is cooled , grind to a smooth paste with tamarind and turmeric.
• 1 small lime size tamarind
• 1/4 tsp turmeric

• Heat oil/ghee in a pan, add garlic, small onion and curry leaves and fry for few minutes.
• 5 tbsp oil/ghee
• 5 cloves garlic chopped into small
• 4 small onions chopped
• few strings of curry leaves.

• Now add the paste into it with water, roast until the oil bursts out.
• 1/2 cup water

• Add the crab with water and salt. Cook and then fry well.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Channa Masala

• Let us soak channa in water overnight or for a 5 to 6 hours.
• 1 cup Channa/Chickpea

• Make a paste of the following ingredients, grind well.
• 2 tomatoes
• 2 onions medium
• 4 garlic
• 1inch ginger
• 3/4 tsp cumin seeds
• 1/2 tsp gram masla
• 1 cardamom
• 3 cloves
• 1 tbsp coriander powder
• 1 tbsp chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp kastori methi 

• In a pressure cooker add the paste, channa,  pinch of baking soda, oil and salt.
• 2 tbsp oil
• pinch of baking soda
• 2 tsp salt

• Close the cooker and cook for ten minutes and turn  of the fire. Wait until the pressure cools down.

• Once it cools, open the pressure cooker add garam masala and kastori methi.
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1 tsp kastori methi

• Heat oil  and add green chilies and few slits of ginger. Pour it into the curry and mix well.
• 2 green chillies
• 1or 2 thin slices of ginger
• Finally, garnish  with coriander leave.

Enjoy cooking.

S

KattiPettiappam

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup semolina
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
• 2 tbsp ghee

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Method:

1. Powder the sugar.
2. Beat the eggs with powdered sugar well.
3. Add the flour & semolina.
4. Add the baking powder & cardamom powder.
5. Add the ghee and mix well. 
6. Cover and set it aside for 20 minutes.
7. Take small portions, rolled out about 1/2 cm thick and cut into diamond -shaped pieces.
8. Deep fry in hot oil( on medium flame) till light brown.

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Enjoy Cooking

S

Easy Brownies

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 Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 eggs at room temperature
• 1 tsp vanille essence
• 3/4 cup oil
• 11/2 cup sugar

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Method:

1. Add oil, sugar and vanilla essence in a large bowl and mix together until well combined.
2. Add eggs and mix well.
3. Then add the dry ingredients into it and mix well. Do not over beat.
4. Line a square baking tray with parchment paper and pour the batter into it.
5. Preheat the oven to 175C for 10 minutes.
6. Bake for 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
7. Allow the brownies to cool and then cut into squares.

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Enjoy Baking

S

Adapted from https://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/