Kesari Modak recipe | Ganesh chathurthi recipes

Kesari modak | sheera modak is modak made with sooji ka halwa | kesari as stuffing. I have this in my to do list last year itself, but finally made this today for ganesha chathurthi 2016. This tasted quite awesome. I have made this using my paal kesari recipe. If you want to make it with usual kesari also go head and make it. Check out my full collection of ganesh chathurthi recipes. Stay tuned for more interesting ganesha chathurti recipes coming up on jeyashri's kitchen.  Check out my Video recipes for Ganesh chathurthi too. 

Jackfruit Modak Recipe | Ganesh chathurthi recipes

Modak recipe with video

Jackfruit modakam | jack fruit modak is modak prepared with jackfruit poornam. Modakam is a the traditional one made in all South Indian homes for Ganesh chathurthi. Maharastrians also make modak, they call it as ukadiche modak. I have already posted modakam with khoya poornam, moong dal poornam and  dry fruits poornam. I wanted to make some interesting stuffing for the modak and finally ended up trying the jackfruit modakam. It turned very well and the house was filled with nice aroma when i was making this jackfruit modakam. As Ganesha chaturthi 2016, is coming up next week stay tuned for many varieties of modak and kozhukattai varieties in jeyashriskitchen. Check out my collection of Vinayagar chathurthi recipes. 

Kalyana Mor kuzhambu | Bonda morkuzhambu

Kalyana mor kuzhambu | wedding style mor kuzhambu, also called as bonda morkuzhambu , is a popular recipe served in Tamil brahmin weddings. I have posted my mom's version of mor kuzhambu long back and mambazha mor kuzhambu recently. Though i have heard from many relatives in the family adding coriander seeds to morkuzhambu, never tried that in my version. During my trichy trip 2 months back, my perimma was explaining me this Iyengar bonda morkuzhambu ( she told me this name) recipe to me. the way she explained made me to try this at home soon, but some how it got delayed. Finally i tired this last week and we all loved it very much. It tasted the same morkuzhambu which are served in weddings. Try this kalyana morkuzhambu at home and let me know how it turned out.  We also make paruppu urundai morkuzhambu, with the same style but for that the dal miture will be steamed. Will post that version latter. Check out my

• Kalyana rasam
• Kalyana sambar

Apple kheer | Apple rabdi recipe

Apple kheer | apple rabdi is a fruit based Indian sweet. I tasted this for the first time in a restaurant and noted down in my to do list. When i was seeing that list two days back, saw this apple kheer| apple rabdi recipe and thought of giving it a try for Janmashtami 2016. While talking with few of my friends yesterday, was talking about this apple kheer. One among them roughly gave me the idea of making the kheer | rabdi and gave few tips also. This apple rabdi turned out very well. Try thsi easy kheer for this krishnajayanthi and celebrate the festival. Check out my collection of Janmashtami recipes.  Check out my other related recipes.

• Kesar rabdi
• Malpua

Dry fruits Kachori recipe | Kachori recipe

Dry fruits kachori, is a deep fried snack, filled with dry fruits, nuts and  few aromatic Indian spices like cardamom and fennel seeds. I have made this post for Holi 2016, but somehow couldn't post it. Also i have drafted this to schedule it during my June vacation, but couldn't post as i had already array of recipes scheduled for that. So finally i thought i will post this for Rakshabandhan 2016, which falls on Aug 18th this month. I have posted moong dal | khasta kachori some time back. Check out my other raksha bandhan | rakhi  sweet recipes.

Mexican paratha | Rajma cheese paratha recipe

Mexican paratha | rajma cheese paratha is a kid friendly easy lunch box recipe. Even this can be served hot, when the kids are back from school also. i have used the same filling for making a wrap, when i did a cookery show in London. Now wanted to try out paratha with the same filling , so made it today for my lunch. Also the kids when they come back from school, will have this yummy cheesy paratha. There is no hard and fast rules for measurements or ingredients in this recipe. Go wild and make the paratha with your creativity and ideas. Share with me your interesting ideas too.
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• Sev paratha
• Gobi mutter paratha

Kovil thayir sadam recipe | Temple style curd rice

Daddojanam | thayir sadam

 Curd rice | yogurt rice | dahi annam is a quite common south Indian rice variety. From the childhood, our meal is never complete without a curd rice. Generally we eat it by mixing plain with home made yogurt . When we have guests or on any special occasion we do seasoning to the curd rice and serve it. I have already posted a curd rice recipe few years back. When i shared the temple style sakkarai pongal post in facebook few weeks back, one of my friend asked me to post temple style curd rice recipe too. Coincidentally, 2 weeks back we joined a prayer at perumal temple here, on the occasion of a friend's mil birthday. We took back home puliyodarai, kesari and thayir sadam. Tasting the thayir sadam, i could make out the ingredients and make it at home yesterday,for my lunch. The taste was very close to the one we had in the temple. Since today is varalakshmi pooja and for doing the punar poojai tomorrow, many of us will make thayir sadam as neivedhyam for amman. So try out this temple style thayir sadam at home and let me know how it turned out.
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• temple style sakkarai pongal
• temple style puliyodarai

Eggless Whole wheat Pancake recipe

Pancakes i make rarely in my kitchen as only Varsha likes it a lot. Me Suresh and Varun are a not a great fan of pancakes. I have given this same recipe, replacing flour with  millet flour in my Millet cookbook  2 years back. So i thought i will try a pancake recipe using whole wheat flour. I just tried replacing half of the flour with whole wheat and turned out pretty well. These pancakes turned out soft and fluffy and perfect one to serve for  breakfast . Try this at home and let me know how it turned out.

Ginger Lemon Rasam | South Indian Rasam recipes

Ginger lemon rasam | Inji elumichai rasam, is a simple south indian rasam with lemon, ginger and tomato as a major ingredient. This rasam did not include tamarind or sambar powder. So you can try this easy and simple South Indian lemon ginger rasam at home. Also this rasam can  be had as a soup too. Overall i can say it is a perfect one for Rasam lovers. Though we make lemon rasam at home, this varition of lemon rasam is quite interesting. I learnt this from my mom's sister(my perimma), recently. She didn't mention to add ginger but i wanted to make a slight variation so i added ginger to this rasam. Check out my

• Kalyana rasam
• Pineapple rasam 

Dal Baati recipe | Masala Dal baati

Masala dal baati | dal baati is an authentic and popular rajasthani recipe. I have tasted this in Rajdhani restaurant in chennai few times and tried at home once too. But i am not so satisfied with the results and so I  didn't post  that time. Recently i happened to try this at my friend's place, who has come from chennai, to stay with her daughter who is studying here. they are basically from Rajasthan and settled in chennai. The dal baati tasted awesome and she served me this Masala dal baati and also panner stuffed dal baati. Along with that she served me a delicious aamras too, which i have posted few months back. Though i asked her the recipe, somehow i forgot the details of the recipe. So again messaged her for that. She patiently explained my queries and today i tried it at home. It turned out very well. Traditionally split green gram dal is added but if you want you can replace with yellow moong dal or toor dal or mix of both. Check out a similar Dal dhokli recipe