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Marie biscuit condensed milk pudding recipe, an easy chocolate pudding with biscuits and condensed milk, perfect to prepare even for beginner bakers. Pin Marie Biscuits, chocolate, and condensed milk are an amazing threesome, a match made in heaven which is what makes this Marie biscuit condensed milk pudding this amazing! There are a number of dessert recipes with Marie biscuits and condensed milk but this pudding is probably my favourite because of how easy it is to make....

Mirchi ka Salan is a delightful gravy that is served with biryani, particularly in Hyderabad. if you asked me to pick one dish, and only one, that stood out to me during my 2.5 years of life in Hyderabad, it would be Mirchi ka Salan. There, I said it, it’s not even the famous Hyderabad Biryani but the underrated chilli based gravy that they serve with the biryani that stole my heart....

Poori masala is a classic Indian dish that is popular all over the country. It is mild and perfectly balanced to pair with puffy fried pooris. Typically served for breakfast, poori masala is also a popular tiffin or tea time meal and I don’t think anyone will oppose having it for dinner either! About Poori Masala Poori masala is the most beginner friendly Indian recipe I can think of. In fact, during my school years, we would get summer holiday homework to learn simple dishes and I remember learning how to make this poori masala when I was 10....

This roasted coriander chutney or malli chammanthi is a favourite from my childhood. I have many memories of enjoying this chutney along with some flavoured rice - usually lemon rice - wrapped in banana leaves for an overnight train journey I don’t do guest posts very often simply because it’s hard enough to manage my own blog and cook, click, download, edit, upload, compose, and publish 3-4 recipes in this here blog per week....

Oh wait, before I get into the recipe, an important thing. I waited to go back and share amma’s exact recipe with you because there’s an essential ingredient that makes it truly like restaurant-style Vegetable Fried Rice . The flavour and aroma is unmatchable and you have to use this if you want your fried rice to shine. Ok, I’ll tell you already. It’s celery! Spring onions are important too but the most important ingredient to give flavour to fried rice is drumrolls celery ....

If ever I was obsessed (well, almost) about a baking book, this is it. A Passion for Baking by Marcy Goldman . Its nothing short of brilliant. I am basing this out of the 4 recipes I tried from it - Sticky Date Toffee Cake with Hot Toffee Sauce , Toblerone Candy Bar Shortbreads , and 2 more I am yet to post - and all came out superb. Pin...

If you have boiled potatoes in hand, these aloo bondas will come together very quickly and make for a super quick snack for tea. Even if they go cold, the taste is not compromised much. Aloo Bonda | Potato Bonda Recipe Ingredients: 3 medium-sized potatoes 1 onion, chopped 1 teaspoon of ginger garlic paste 2-3 green chillies, deseeded and minced 1 cup of besan / kadalai maavu ½ teaspoon of red chilli powder A fat pinch of hing / asafoetida ¼ teaspoon of turmeric powder A small pinch of soda powder (soda bi carb) Salt to taste 1 tablespoon of oil + enough to deep fry A small bunch of coriander leaves...

For the potato / aloo filling: Potatoes - 2 to 3, cooked and mashed until soft Green chillies - 2, finely chopped [if you are not used to chillies and don’t want your tongue to fall out when you accidentally bite into them, use ½ teaspoon red chilly powder] Jeera powder/ jeerakam - ½ tsp Garam masala - ½ teaspoon (optional) Ginger - ½ tsp, finely minced Fresh coriander leaves - a generous bunch, finely chopped Turmeric powder - a pinch Salt - to taste...

This is probably the simplest and one of the healthiest snacks you can make and most kids would love it. I know I did, though I always insisted that it be sweeter. Flattened rice is a dehusked rice which is flattened into flat light dry flakes. These flakes of rice swell when it absorbs water,milk or any other liquids whether hot or cold. The thicknesses of these flakes vary between almost translucently thin to nearly four times thicker than a normal rice grain - Wikipedia....

Thoran is part as much a part of Kerala as the monsoons are that inevitably show up in June every year after a blistering summer. Growing up, there was usually a thoran for lunch every day and the beauty of this dish is in its consistency, versatility, and simplicity. Thoran is essentially a dry vegetable stir-fry that can be made with a wide variety of vegetables and some dry lentils. The vegetables are cooked and then a semi-dry mix of coconut and very simple spices are mixed through to finish off the dish....

I also love the fact that it cooks super fast. Usually, I make a stir fry with mushrooms and broccoli, or add it to pesto pasta or even veg biryan i. To prepare broccoli for cooking, I usually immerse the entire thing in some salt water to remove any small bugs or works (usually there are none but just in case) and leave it there for about 30 minutes. Then I run it under clear water and gently cut off the large florets from the thick stem....

This was part of a group that I was cooking with and since we are 8 people in the group, the host this month decided to give each of us one colour from the rainbow and white. I drew the lot and got blue. Since blue doesn’t occur in (many) natural foods, I had to think outside the box. My first thought was blue frosting or something but then I got lazy as Christmas drew near so ended up with blue-topped cake pops!...

If you follow my Project 365 blog , you would have seen this picture before. The vegetables are fake, the chef is not. Just saying. This is one of those restaurants where there’s enough space for a family dinner but at the same time, the ambience is cosy enough for a dinner date or celebration for two. The placemats listed the history of some popular dishes in Singapore. Groovy idea, I say!...

Pin This is the first picture I took, without bothering with a background sweep or anything. I was super eager to see the results. Remember, this was taken in the night, at around 8:00pm. Taken with one light - SOOC. Pin Another macro shot, taken with one light - SOOC. The first food shot, taken with one overhead lamp - SOOC except for watermark and straightening. I didn’t have the other two lights set up when I took this so I had to depend on editing to make it look better....

Pin Hyderabadi vegetable dum biryani - vegetable dum biryani recipe made Hyderabadi-style cooked using the dum method. Learn how to make vegetable dum biryani with this detailed and step by step recipe. I have included notes and all detailed information below that I personally found useful when preparing this dum biryani. Hyderabadi dum biryani is special, I think we can all agree with that. When living in Hyderabad, one of the favourite food topics among friends was where to get the best Hyderabadi biryani in the city....

I didn’t let that bother me too much, because this is Paneer Butter Masala and some dishes are meant to be eaten without thinking of calories. Then I came across this Nita Mehta book in the library called 101 Microwave Recipes and found a Paneer Makhani recipe in that! I took a picture of the recipe page on my phone, came home, and promptly made it. Now, before I go any further, I must say that I don’t care much for cooking in the microwave....

Pin You will need: Warm bordering on hot water - 1.5 cups Freshly squeezed lime juice - 1 tbsp Freshly grated ginger - to taste (I add very little) Honey - again, to taste, but not more than 2 tbsp Mix well, and drink away. Pin You will need: Warm bordering on hot water - 1.5 cups Freshly squeezed lime juice - 1 tbsp Freshly grated ginger - to taste (I add very little) Honey - again, to taste, but not more than 2 tbsp...

Homemade Pizza may seem like a daunting thing to bake but with this almost instant pizza crust recipe, it’s way easier than you can imagine. The best part about making pizza at home with kids is the free reign you can give them when it comes to toppings. We generally make vegetarian pizzas at home so everyone can enjoy them, The Husband being the key pizza-lover around, who is also vegetarian....

Everything I have tried from Cooking at Home with Pedatha has been a success so if you haven’t already, I would highly recommend getting a copy of the book. Simple South Indian vegetarian food for the win! Raw Mango Rice | Mangai Sadam | Mamidikaya Annam Ingredients: 2 cups of cooked rice 1 sour raw mango (a medium-sized one that yields one cup packed when peeled and grated) ¼ teaspoon of turmeric powder Salt to taste For the paste: ½ teaspoon of black mustard seeds ½ cup of grated coconut 2-3 of green chillies (adjust to taste) 1 small bunch of coriander leaves For tempering: 3 tbsp of gingelly oil like Idayam (Indian sesame oil) ½ teaspoon of bengal gram / kadala paruppu / channa dal 1 ½ teaspoon of skinned halved urad dal / split black gram / ulutham paruppu ½ teaspoon of black mustard seeds 2-3 of dried red chillies (adjust to taste) ¼ teaspoon of hing / asafoetida / perungaayam A few of curry leaves 3 tablespoon of whole peanuts preferably with skin...

Roasted capsicum recipe, an easy way to roast capsicum or bell peppers on the stove top to get smoky and flavourful strips of capsicum which can then be added to sandwiches, dips, etc. Pin When I was pregnant, I mostly craved my mom’s food which is apparently true for most pregnant women. So on top of my list were things like idli , dosa podi , aviyal , and Kerala fish fry ....