How to make Kozhukattai maavu - 4 ways | Ganesh chaturthi recipes

Vinayagar chaturthi | Ganesh chaturthi | pillayar chaturthi, the main prasadh made for this ganesha festival for neivedyam is modak | modakam. Though we make different varities of modakam | kozhukattai, the base for making all kozhukattai is the outer cover made with rice flour. Traditionally the rice flour is processed at home for this festival. I have given the recipe of home made rice flour. Few readers asked me as how to avoid cracks while making the outer cover. When i was explaining them, i felt like making a detailed post on the same. So took the step wise pictures of making the outer cover of the kozhakattai. While i finished making the pictures, suddenly remembered of my very close friend Mythili, she is an expert in making in the outer cover of the modakam. I called her up to add up any tips from her side. Then only she shared her way of making the outer cover for kozhukattai. That was totally different and i never heard about that too. So i added up in this post too.  Check out my modakam recipe 

Elai kozhukattai recipe | Green moong dal kara kozhakattai

 With green moong dal poornam

Elai kozhukattai | green moong dal savory kozhukattai, is a different one i learnt from Venkatesh bhat's cookery show last year. He showed with ulundu poornam stuffing in that show. It was quite easy and interesting. Even you can tell your kids to join the fun of making this elai kozhukattai. Check out my complete collection of ganesh chaturthi recipes. While i was thinking what to stuff inside the elai kozhukattai, the idea of stuffing green moong dal was told by my friend yesterday when we are having a chat. Also one of my friend told me a different procedure for making the outer cover too, which i have given in this recipe. The kozhukattais were very soft and tasted well too. Stay tuned for more ganesha chathurthi recieps coming up on jeyashri's kitchen. Also tried another method of making outer cover, which i will share with more tips in my next post.

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.