Make The Best Wedding Day Cookies

We are entering into 3rd week of Blogging Marathon #37 and for this week I will be sharing the kitchen basics. Today's one is going to be the onion and tomato gravy which is vastly used in Indian cooking to make curries.This gravy is the base for many curries such as paneer butter masala or channa masala.If the paste is handy then your curry will be ready in few minutes.You can freeze this gravy for a month and refrigerate for 15 days.Off to the recipe.................... Basic Information Preparation Time 10 minutes Cooking Time 40-50 minutes Makes 4 cups(approximately) Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Onion(finely chopped) 3(medium size) Tomato(finely chopped) 6-7(medium size) Garlic/poondu (chopped) 6-7 cloves Ginger/inji(chopped) 2 inch Green chilly/pachamilagai 3-4 Red chilly powder/milagai podi 1 1/2 tbs Coriander Powder/dhaniya podi 21/2  tbs Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/2 tsp Garam masala powder 1 tsp Salt 2 tsp Oil 5 tbs Met...

For the day 3 of Blogging Marathon #37 under the theme desserts with fruits I wanted to share a recipe with strawberry.As Valentine's Day is around the corner thought this dessert would be perfect. This is a simple yet rich and perfect dessert for a Valentine Day as it  can be made in no time with fewer ingredients. The strawberry and chocolate combo makes wonder and tastes heavenly after a heavy lunch or dinner. You can decorate the chocolate coated strawberries with candy melts,chopped nuts,white chocolate or simply with sprinkles.As I don't have candy melts,I used some chopped pistachios and colored sprinkles.Off to the recipe............................ Basic Information Preparation Time 5 minutes Cooking Time 10 minutes Serves 2 Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Strawberry 10 Semi sweet cooking chocolate 50 gms Butter/vennai 1 tbs Pistachios(chopped) as needed Colored Sprinkles as needed Tooth pick or wooden sticks 10 Method ...

We are starting the second week of Blogging Marathon #37 and I choose the theme Desserts with Fruits.For the next few days I will posting the dessert recipes made with fruits. Today's recipe is a exotic,delicious dessert mango shrikand,a simple quiet easy to make dessert with no cooking involved.For this recipe you can use fresh ripe mango pulp,as mangoes are not in season now I used the store bought mango pulp.Off to the recipe.................................. Basic Information Preparation Time 40-50 minutes Serves 2 Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Fresh Thick Curd/yogurt/thayir 1 1/4 cups Mango Puree 3/4 cup Powdered sugar 2 tbs Pistachios or almonds(chopped) 2 tsp(for garnishing) Saffron/kungumapoo few strands Cardamom powder/ellakai podi 1/8 tsp(optional) Method Take a muslin cloth or clean cloth and pour the yogurt and tie the ends and hang over the sink for 30 minutes to drain. Now take out the hung curd,transfer to a b...

As the weather is getting colder,especially in the evening time in the weekends we craving  for some spicy or hot snack to munch.When I was thinking to make something for evening snack along with tea,I remembered the mixed dhal vadai,noted sometime back from a T.V cookery show. This vadai is entirely different from Thavala Vadai which I going to share soon.The original recipe calls for fresh corn along with the dhals.As I ran out of corn,didn't add it,lets move onto the recipe........................... Basic Information Soaking Time 3 hours Preparation time 15 minutes Cooking Time 15-20 minutes Makes 15-17 Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Toor dhal/thuvaram paruppu 2 tbs Channa dhal/kadala paruppu 2 tbs Moong dhal/paasi paruppu 2 tbs Urad dhal/ulutham paruppu 2 tbs Horse gram/kollu 2 tbs Green Peas/pattani(dried) 2 tbs Soya beans 2 tbs Green chilly/pachamilagai 2-3 Red chilly/varamilagai 2-3 Ginger/inji 1' piece Fennel seeds/sombhu 1...

When I was cleaning my pantry last week I found out a pack of whole masoor dhal which I bought couple of months back in Indian store.So wanted to try something out of it and finally ended up in making dhal fry along with mung beans. This recipe can be made in no time with pressure cooker and these lentils no need of any prior soaking.This dhal fry goes very well with rice as well as rotis.With no further delay lets move on to the recipe..................... Basic Information Preparation Time 10 minutes Cooking time 25 minutes Serves 3 Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Whole Masoor 1/3 cup Mung beans/paasipayaru 1/3 cup Onion(finely chopped) 1(medium size) Tomato(finely chopped) 2(small size) Garlic/poondu(finely chopped) 3 cloves Green chilly/pachamilagai 3(finely chopped) Red chilly powder/milagai podi 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/8 tsp Salt 1 tsp Curry leaves/karivepillai few leaves Coriander leaves(chopped) 1 tbs Oil 1 tbs For the...