PUDINA SADAM RECIPE | MINT LEAVES RICE | NO ONION NO GARLIC RECIPES

Pudina sadam | Mint leaves rice is simple south indian lunch variety. As pongal festival is nearing, everybody will be busy looking for pongal festival recipes. I have already posted Sakkarai pongal recipe. The next day of pongal is Kannum pongal for which we generally make variety rice. These variety rice shouldn't include onion or garlic in it. I am posting today Pudina sadam | Mint rice , which you can make for kannu pongal. You can try this for lunch box on normal days too. See you soon with a sweet dish tomorrow.

MILLET TOMATO DOSAI RECIPE | THAKKALI DOSAI | MILLETS IN SINGAPORE

Millet is gaining more popularity now a days. Also including millets in your diet, is very healthy too.

  Tomato dosai i wanted to try for a long time. During my vacation to Chennai, my sister made this for me but with normal idli rice. I thought i will replace rice with millet and tried tomato dosa with Kuthravali millet also called as Barnyard millet in English|Odalu in kannada|Jhangora in hindi, is a healthy variety of millet, helps to reduce cholesterol and also good for diabetics too. You can try out this dosa with samai and varagu too. Somehow thinai dosai gives little dry dosa. Check out my

• Samai Upma
• Varagu Idli

BEETROOT SALAD RECIPE | HEALTHY SALAD RECIPES

Beetroot salad is a very healthy one and super easy one to make. The recipe of this healthy Indian version of beets salad was given by my friend very long back. I love beetroot and so even kids too love beetroot. I have posted beetroot vadai, beetroot curry, beetroot pulao and many other recipes with beetroot. Some how raw beetroot never fascinated me and never tried this salad for a long time. When we had a casual dinner at my house few months back with her family,i made beetroot vada for starter. He was telling he is not a big fan of beetroot and the salad which she makes only he loves in beetroot. And complimented me for the vada too. Then i thought i should give this salad a try. That time only i was writing Salads and Soups article for Kungumam Thozi. I made it the next day and it was awesome. After that the beetroot salad is a regular one in my weekly menu. Try out this simple and healthy salad in your meal.

KAIMA IDLI RECIPE | RESTAURANT STYLE KAIMA IDLI

Kaima idli | fried idli is a must one in the list of order whenever we go to Saravana Bhavan. This time also during our vacation heartily had this kaima idli there. But i have never attempted to make this at home. Deep frying healthy food like idli makes me to feel guilt. But wanted to surprise my daughter Varsha, who is a big fan of this idli, i made this today. She loved this very much and surprisingly Varun also liked this. I referred Yummy tummy's blog for this recipe of kaima idli. Give it a try at home and once in a while deep fried is ok. It was too juicy and was very flavourful too. This can be done with left over idlis too.

CHETTINAD CAULIFLOWER SOUP | CAULIFLOWER RASAM RECIPE

Chettinadu style cauliflower soup always give me memories of my school days. We all used to have in our friend's place and her mom makes this very nice. When i was talking to her i was asking for the recipe and she sent me a voice note in whats app. When i made it tasted exactly the same her mom used to make. The aroma of the soup tempts anyone to have an extra serving. This can be had as an filling soup or can be mixed with rice as an rasam too. But generally they callas cauliflower soup. The same soup can be made with baby corn too.

ROASTED BELL PEPPER PASTA | EASY PASTA RECIPES

 
Roasted bell pepper pasta is an easy pasta recipe, which doesn't involve the use of tomato. It serves as an easy weekday dinner. Kids will also love this and you can always make it for them when they are back from school. The taste of the roasted bell pepper makes the pasta more yummy. Try this roasted bell pepper pasta for dinner tonight. Will be back to millet Mondays from next week.

THALAGAM KUZHAMBHU RECIPE | THIRUVATHIRAI THALAGAM RECIPE

Thalagam kuzhambu or kootu is a wonderful delicacy, a very common delicacy made by  Tirunelveli Brahmins. This is made mainly during Pongal festival or for Thirvathirai festival. Since Thirivadirai is on Jan 5 2015 (tomorrow), i thought i will post this today. I have already posted Thiruvathirai kali and 7 kari kootu. This Thalagam is similar to ezhukari kootu, but has it is unique in its flavour and taste. We had this for today's lunch. I have few traditional recipes to be posted in this week. I am back from my vacation and have loads of experience  and recipes to share with you all. Stay tuned for more interesting recipes from Jeyashri's kitchen.

MOONG DAL HALWA RECIPE | HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015

Moong dal Halwa is an awesome North Indian sweet . I have tasted this few times in my friends house but never attempted to make it on my own. I wanted to post a nice and exotic sweet recipe for New year 2015 and tried this before coming to India for vacation. I clicked the pictures and posting now from India. I wish all my readers a  very Happy New year 2015. Let this year bring lot of prosperity and abundance in all positive ways . Thank you for the continuous support and i will give my best to give more nice and detailed recipes in this year 2015 also.
 I adapted this recipe from Tarla Dalal cookbook.

PUPPY FACE COOKIES RECIPE | EGGLESS COOKIES

Puppy face is a normal plain eggless cookies bu the shape only look like a puppy. It is easy to decorate the cookies with easily available ingredients.Surprise your kids with this cute cookies. I made for the Christmas party at kids school. All the kids were super excited and happily had this cookies. I got this idea through a reader who sent me this cute pictures for her daughter and asked me to give it a try. On the moment i saw these i decided to make it on the next day. I took the plain cookies recipes from my Pinwheel cookies recipe and few you tube links showed me how to make the puppy face. Try this out for this Christmas and enjoy the cookies.

VAZHAITHANDU SOUP RECIPE |BANANA STEM SOUP

Vazhaithandu or Banana stem is a very healthy veggie and we make curry out of it and also morkootu with vazhaithandu. I wanted to try out soup for a long time and made it few months ago for the Kungumam thozi supplement book. It turned out very well and this veggie is quite healthy and very good for weight watchers too. Try this  clear soup and start your dinner or lunch in a healthy way.
 I am right now in India enjoying my vacation and so millet recipes will resume on all Mondays from the New year. I am totally enjoying here meeting all my old friends, watching movies, eating out, and spending time with family. Will write some interesting stories of my vacation after i am back to Singapore.