Sweet potato cutlet recipe

Sweet potato cutlet | sakkara valli kizhangu cutlet recipe with video and step by step pictures. Cutlets are always loved by everyone at my place. Though i make it rarely,but whenever i make, i make Potato cutlet only. Last year, when i posted sweet potato chaat itself, i planned to post the sweet potato cutlet recipe. Finally i tried sweet potato cutlet today and i loved it very much. The sweetness of the potato with the flavor of the spices added, complimented the cutlet so well. I am sure this is a perfect tea time snack for a rainy day evening, along with a cup of hot ginger tea.
     Generally sweet potato cutlet is made during fasting days. But i didn't make it as a no onion no garlic version.

Custard Powder banana pancake, Eggless pancake recipes

Custard powder pancake with banana puree, these soft fluffy eggless pancakes was my breakfast yesterday morning. I got the idea of  Custard powder pancake, i got after seeing this Instagram post. She used pumpkin puree in that and i replaced that with banana puree. It turned out so soft and tasted so yum. We have 2 pancake fans at our home, the moment i say pancake, the eyes will wide open with happiness, one is Varsha and another one is my helper. Somehow me, Suresh and Varun are not a great fan of pancakes but we still eat whenever we make it at home. This Custard powder pancakes were so flavourful and me being a big fan of fruit custard loved the pancakes. I used the measurements of my Eggless Whole wheat pancake recipe.

Margherita Pizza recipe, Pizza Margherita

Pizza Margherita | Margherita pizza is a classic cheesy pizza uses mainly cheese and tomatoes for topping. Generally we add veggies like capsicum ,sweet corn, baby corn, olives for pizza topping. I have posted Tandoori paneer pizza (with video)too which is again a classic pizza with Paneer toppings. This morning i planned to make pizza for kids when they are back from school. I asked them about the topping options and Varsha suggested Margherita pizza and Varun too agreed to that. Approval form both the kids for a dish is a bliss. Moms with 2 kids will vouch for this. Treat your family with this easy Margarita pizza recipe this weekend.

Masala murukku recipe, Easy murukku recipes

Masala murukku | Poondu murukku, the idea i got after the Popular Grand sweets in chennai. I saw the packet of Grand sweets Garlic masala thattai and saw the ingredients in that. First i thought i will make this as mini thattais, just like the Krishna sweets one. Since i have posted thattai and milagu thattai recipe, thought i will post this as murukku. It turned out very crispy and flavourful. In fact, the murukku turned out more flavorful the next day. Try this easy masala murukku recipe for this diwali.

Coconut Ribbon pakoda, Diwali snack recipes

Coconut ribbon pakoda with video

Coconut ribbon pakoda| seeval, i just saw this name in Krishna sweets during our trip to India in June. I didn't check out the packet to see the ingredients but noted down the name itself. I have already posted 2 version of ribbon pakoda in Jeyashri's kitchen. I tried this coconut ribbon pakoda at home by adding coconut milk, to make the dough. But some how i am not satisfied. Finally after 2-3 attempts, got the taste, which i had in my mind😃. I made this for my Cookery demo in Pasir ris CC, Singapore. Try this yummy, crispy coconut ribbon Pakoda. Check out my full collection of Deepavali Snack recipes | Diwali snack recipes.

Cashew Pepper murukku | Diwali recipes

Cashew pepper murukku recipe with video

Cashew pepper murukku | mundiri murukku, i first tasted in my friend's in-laws place. Few years back when i visited my friend's mil's house,(from whom i learnt Kalyana rasam)in Chennai, she made cashew murukku and thengai burfi for me. She was excitingly shared with me that she learnt this mundiri murukku from a TV show and tried it at home. It tasted awesome and i happily ate the murukku. She also shared with me the recipe of the murukku. I have tried this too and sent for Aval kitchen magazine Deepavali edition few years back. I tried this again with the addition of pepper powder. It tasted so well,the pepper and cashew nuts complimented each other very well. The murukku was super crispy. Try out this cashew pepper murukku for this Diwali. Check out my full collection of Diwali recipes. 

Garlic Karasev recipe | Diwali recipes

Garlic karasev | Lehsun sev is a gram flour based deep fried savory recipe. I have already posted karasev recipe with video. During our childhood days, appa used to buy karasev from a shop in our hometown, Madurai. They used to wrap it in a newspaper and tie with a jute thread. The moment we open the packet, the flavour of garlic and other ingredients, tempt us to finish the whole packet in one go. I wanted to try out garlic karasev for last year diwali itself, but somehow couldn't make it. Try out this easy tea time snack. Check out my full collection of diwali recipes. Scroll down till the end of the post to see the tips section.

Rava kunukku recipe | Kunukku recipe

Rava kunukku recipe with video

Rava kunukku is a deep fried snack recipe made with sooji as the main ingredient. We generally make kunukku with adai maavu. Recently when we visited a friend's house for evening coffee, she made this rava kunukku and served along with coffee. It tasted very nice and immediately i asked her for the recipe, but as usual forgot later. Few days back i messaged her again and asked her for the recipe. She was sweet enough to send a voice note over phone and i tried it today. The rava kunukku tasted the same and we enjoyed with coconut getti chutney and filter coffee. Generally kunukku and coconut chutney pairs very well. Even you can have this kunukku without any accompaniments.

Mor aval recipe| Easy poha recipes

No onion no garlic recipe

Mor aval is a very simple and easy tiffin | breakfast| snack recipe using aval| poha| rice flakes. This quick recipe i learnt from my cousin who was with us here for the past 4 days on a holiday. She is a wonderful cook and during our casual chat session, she mentioned about this mor aval recipe. She told that her mil makes it very well and she learnt it from her. I noted down the recipe from her and tried this yesterday. It tasted very well and Suresh loved it a lot. If you have slightly sour yogurt, then try out this mor aval recipe using poha | aval.

Kothamalli ammini kozhakattai , Kozhukattai recipes

Ammini Kozhakattai is always made at our place during Vinayagar chaturthi, using left over Kozhakattai maavu. Some times amma makes kozhakattai on normal days too as it's our family's favorite. Right from my childhood, i used to love the modakam and these cute mini ammini kozhakattai. This ammini kozhakattai can be had as a healthy snack too. You can substitute rice flour with wheat flour, ragi flour or millet flour too. I have tried curry leaves ammini kozhakattai once and loved it very much. Try out this flavorful Coriander leaves | Kothamalli ammini kozhakkatai at home. Check out my full collection of Ganesha chaturthi 2017 recipes. 

Mexican chaat recipe , Fusion recipes

Mexican chaat, is a fusion chaat recipe, similar to the popular Indian chaat Bhel puri. Yesterday when Varsha was telling about some Cooking without fire competition in school, i gave her this idea. Today morning i sent all the ingredients to her for the competition and kept one more portion for my post too. As most of the kids like Doritos |nachos, this chaat will be a sure winner among kids. I have given few variations for this recipe in the notes section. Scroll down to see it. This chaat recipe is a perfect one for parties, you can keep everything ready and just mix everything at the time of serving.

Besan Murukku recipe, Gokulashtami recipes

Besan murukku | Kadalamaavu murukku is a easy an instant murukku recipe made with store bought rice flour and store bought gram flour. I have given this recipe for Aval Kitchen 2 years back, for Diwali recipes. Later i fwill orgot to post the recipe of besan murukku  here. As Gokulashtami 2017 is on Aug 14, i thought i post the recipe of this easy murukku recipe. Check out my full collection of Janmastami recipes. I have posted the recipe of this murukku with a video.

Onion Bajji recipe, Vengaya bajji

Onion bajji |  South Indian style vengaya bajji is a deep fried onion fritters. They are dipped in a flour batter and deep fried in oil. Bajjis take place in our home very rarely but when we were kids bajjis are made on all Sundays. Amma used to make Vazhakkai bajji often as we get fresh home grown vazhakkai(raw banana) always from the garden. Also kathrikkai(eggplant) bajjis are our most favorite ones too. We feast on bajjis and skip our dinner or just drink some buttermilk and sleep off. Onion bajjis are made rarely as amma makes it whenever there is some extra batter left over. That too she will finely chop all the onions and mix it with the remaining batter and fry in the oil. It is more similar to the north Indian style onion bhajiyas. We love to eat this with curd rice.

  When i called up amma yesterday that i am going to make onion bajji for post, she told me to try out bajji by soaking channa dal and rice. The procedure is to make a thick batter out of this and make bajjis with that batter. My appa's mami sued to do this and she told it would taste awesome. But i didn't have time for that as i already kept everything ready to take video of bajji. But will try this method and post the recipe soon.

Paneer cutlet recipe | Millet paneer cutlet

Paneer cutlet with millet, i tried this for the first time in a cookery class here in Singapore. Even when i was trying this at home before the class, it was a loved by everyone. Also it was a super hit recipe in the class too. Paneer and cooked millet are the main ingredients and gram flour |kadalai maavu is used for binding. It is a perfect starter for parties. Also you can stuff this inside the burger and serve for kids. I won't say this is a healthy cutlet recipe but you can make it healthy by cooking the cutlets on a pan.

Check out my

• Beetroot cutlet
• Soya chunks cutlet
• Semiya cutlet  

Spicy Masala poori recipe | Travel friendly recipes

Spicy masala poori, i happened to taste this for the first time in our Europe trip last year. We landed in London and from there took a package holiday trip to Europe. The travel of 9 days was with a group of 40 people. Among that there is one big Gujarati family from US and also people from other parts of the world were there. The entire trip was awesome filled with joy,music and of course food. The gujarati family packed a whole lot of chivda and masala pooris and distributed to all of us during the entire trip. I have already posted the chivda recipe and since it is holiday season, i thought i will post the masala poori recipe too. It is a deep fried poori, which stays good for 2-3 days, but in the excellent weather of Europe it stayed good for 10 days. If you are making long train journeys, as khakras and dosas  this is also a perfect one.

Corn kebab recipe | Corn kabab

Corn kebab | corn kabab recipe i tried for the first time during the kids term break. When i called Varun's friends for a lunch at home, i made corn kebab and paneer pizza for the boys. The kebabs were vanished in no time. I have posted corn cheese balls in jeyashris kitchen but these corn kebabs are not there. I made this yesterday and clicked the pictures. I wanted to take a video of corn kebab recipe but couldn't make it. Will upload an video when i make it next time. Check out my Hara bhara kebab recipe with video. 
Please check the notes section to see more healthy variations.

Grilled Mediterranean Vegetable Sandwich

Grilled Mediterranean Vegetable sandwich, is made with roasting veggies on tawa and stuffed inside the sandwich. Usually i make corn spinach sandwich and open bread masala sandwich for kids. I have watched a recipe of Mediterranean sandwich recipe in Venkatesh bhat show last year. When i recently, saw a pack of Panini bread in Fairprice shop, it reminded me of this sandwich recipe and tried at home. Since the video visuals are clear in my mind, i just went ahead and tried it for kids lunch box last week. To my surprise it was a huge hit, especially Varun who is bit fussy about trying new foods, loved it a lot. I had a pack of whole meal bread at home so wanted the sandwich using with that. Try this recipe and home and let me know how it turned out. Check out the notes section for variations.
We had this sandwich along with a pineapple coconut water mocktail. Will post the recipe soon.

Savory Dumplings with Orange sauce | Paneer dumplings

Dumplings are steamed food generally popular in South East Asia. It is more like the momo but the outer cover is made with rice flour for dumplings. Dumplings can steamed snack and generally we Indians make it as modak or kozhukattai during ganesha chaturthi festival. I wanted to try some savory dumplings and to make it kids friendly and made that with paneer and potato. I got this idea of shaping from a youtube video and you can make it as a modak too. The orange sauce i learnt from Masterchef Nikita gandhi 's cookery workshop which i attended in November 2016. She is a super talented young girl and all the recipes she taught were interesting and tasted yum. She made this citrus sauce to pair with momos. Try this easy and healthy dumplings at home and let me know how your kids liked it.
  I wanted to make a full video recipe but it had some lighting issues as i shifted to a new location to shoot the video. So ended up posting the shaping part only. Scroll down to see the video on how to shape the dumplings.

Karamani vadai recipe | lobia vadai

Lobia | karamani | cowpeas generally we make sundal and add in karadaiyan nombu adai. I have a pack of karamani lying with me after the nombu. I remembered that my friend anita used to make vadai with that and they call it as alasanda vada. The vada was similar to the masala vadai we make but the soaking time was bit more than that. Actually i wanted to try out a cutlet | kebab recipe using lobia but made masala vadai. I am still having some cowpeas | black eyed beans with me. Will post it when i try it out. Make this karamani vadai for evening snack and enjoy your tea time.

Karamani vadai recipe

  Preparation Time : 15 mins + 6 hours soaking time| Cooking Time : 25 Mins |Serves: 20 vadais approx.

     Karamani | lobia | cowpeas   1 cup
     Fennel seeds   2 tsp
     Mint leaves   a hand ful
    Onion   2 
    Curry leaves   few
    Red chili   6-7
    Asafoetida  2 pinches
    Salt  as needed
    Oil   for deep frying 
   
     

Method:

• Soak the karamani overnight or 5-6 hours.
• Drain the water completely and grind this along with mint leaves,asafoetida,curry leaves,red chili .
• Grind this coarsely. Do not add water while grinding. If you feel the batter is too thick and the mixie is difficult to move, sprinkle little water.

• Transfer it to a bowl. You can keep this inside the refrigerator, if you want to make later.
• When you are about to make, add finely chopped onions and coriander leaves.
• Add salt.
• Mix well with hands evenly. 

• Heat oil. Take a lemon sized ball of the vada mixture and flatten it.

• Drop the flattened vadais into the oil and fry till golden brown. Drain in the kitchen towel. 
• I missed to click the cooked vadais and realised it while editing the pictures.

• Serve hot with tomato ketchup or green chutney.

Notes:

1. You can add finely grated carrots and cabbage.
2. A small piece of ginger can be added while grinding.
3. Few pods of garlic can also be added. 
4. Do not skip the coriander leaves and mint leaves. 

Sprouts chaat recipe | Chaat recipes

Sprouts chaat is a healthy snack recipe suitable for all ages. This can be had as a tea time snack or a mid morning snack or can be served with papdis as a regular papdi chaat too. When I went live on facebook from Jeyashri's kitchen page, on Women's day, i was mentioning about the healthy snacking on Sprouts chaat. After that i wanted to post the chaat recipe here. There is no hard and fast rules in making this chaat. Be creative in adding up the ingredients and make your chaat more tasty and healthy. Follow jeyashris kitchen on Instagram and facebook for updates.