Nachos recipe | Party snack recipe

Nachos with cheese is all time a super hit party snack recipe. Whenever we find Nachos in a restaurant Menu card, we will order this for sure. But i have never attempted to do this at home. I know it is a very simple and easy snack, but somehow didn't give it a try at home. Few days back when we went to Myras beach restaurant in Singapore, we ordered this Nachos cheese there. They generally serve with tomato salsa, guacamole and sour cream dip. I served this as it as, because i already added some veggies to the nachos cheese. Try this easy recipe for parties and i am sure it will be a super hit among your guests.

Oven- roasted Vegetables recipe

Oven roasted veggies,I always used to drool at the pictures of these whenever i see in Instagram and Food gawker. Some how it was big mind block for me to try my hands on Oven roasted veggies. When i did a cookery demo here in Singapore, i once attempted a Veg shaslik in barbecue sauce, which was made on tawa. Oven roasted veggies is similar to this only. Few weeks back, while i was chatting with my school friends, one of my friend told that she makes oven roasted vegetables on a regular basis. I got the tips from her and she clarified all my silly doubts and finally i made the oven roasted veggies, with a simple seasoning of salt and pepper. Try this at home and enjoy your meal.

Venthaya keerai paruppu usili | Methi leaves usili

Venthaya keerai | methi leaves we always get in a big bunch here. I usually make methi thepla or methi kadi pakoda or venthaya keerai sambar. This time, i heard about this venthaya keerai paruppu usili, for the first time, from my friend's mom. During my visit to the nearby mini mart, i bought a fresh bunch of methi leaves and made sambar during the weekend. Tried making paruppu usili few days back and it was awesome. In fact the entire family loved the venthaya keerai paruppu usili and we had with garlic rasam. Check out my

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Vazhakkai varuval recipe| Raw banana fry

Vazhakkai varuval | raw banana fry is a most favorite recipe for most of us. When i was school, one of my friend used to bring vazhakkai varuval in her lunch box. The Vazhakkais will be cut in roundels. I am love the shape of that vazhakkai and the way it is evenly roasted. I have tried many times vazhakkai tawa fry at home, though it turns out well, it will absorb either more oil and also will become dry when i eat it after some time. Some time back in Instagram, Rekha of Reshkitchen shared the recipe of vazhakkai varuval. It was too attractive and immediately tried it next day. We all loved it.  Enjoy this with sambar or rasam rice.

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• Vazhakkai chips
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Appalam sambar recipe| Appala kuzhambu

Appalam Sambar | Appalam kuzhambu is a traditional recipe, made with appalam, eggplants, tamarind and toor dal as main ingredients. I have posted Appalam Vatha kuzhambu during my initial days of blogging. Last year when my friend's mom was here, she was telling about this appalam sambar, actually they call it as appalam kuzhambu only. I recorded the recipe as she was narrating to me. But when i changed my phone that got deleted by mistake. Later i totally forgot about that. Few weeks back, when she visited us again, i asked her for the recipe and noted down again. I tried it the next day itself and clicked the same. It tasted similar to the karuvadam sambar that amma makes. You can skip adding the brinjals and make it only as appalam sambar. When you run out of veggies this can be made and can be accompanied with any sundal too.

Tomato Ginger Chutney | Side dish for idli dosa

Tomato Ginger chutney, is an easy side dish for pesarattu, idli and dosa. Recently we visited a restaurant in Singapore. It is an Andhra restaurant and a friend recommended to try the MLA pesarattu in that restaurant. They served a tomato chutney with this pesarattu and it tasted very nice. Generally i don't prefer ginger much in my cooking but this chutney i liked very much. Somehow managed to find the ingredients present in the restaurant chutney and attempted at home today. It turned out well and tasted similar to the Tomato Ginger chutney we had in the restaurant.

Veg Salna recipe | Parotta salna recipe

Parotta salna is a famous street food in Tamil nadu, espeically in my native town Madurai. Though i have never tasted the salna in road side shops, i used to admire the sound of Kothu parotta and the mesmerizing smell of the salna made in the shops. Most of the salnas are non veg and so i never attempted to try that there. I remember tasting Chilli parotta from a famous road side shop in Madurai, which our friend bought once for us. Recently i got the recipe of vegetarian salna from our neighbor aunty, who gave me the recipe of kuska, kurunai vadai.. Aunty sent me the handwritten recipe through what's app and i tried it immediately the next day. It tasted so yum and we had with Kuska biryani and kids had with store bought frozen parotta. This parotta salna goes well with chapathi too.

Chilli cheese dosa | Cheese dosa recipe

Chilli cheese dosa is a delicious cheesy dosa made with easily available ingredients. When the kids are fussy about usual dosa and chutney varieties, make this Chilli cheese dosa and i am sure they will love this a lot. It is similar to the chili cheese toast which we make with bread. I made this Chili cheese dosa few days back and posted in my Instagram story. I wanted to make this post last week itself but somehow couldn't do. Finally made this Chili cheese dosa on a weekend morning for breakfast and kids loved it. Check out some variations for the same in the notes section.
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Inji sorasam recipe | Ginger lemon drink

Inji Sorasam, is a drink made with ginger, coriander seeds and cumin seeds, generally given to aid digestion, after a heavy meal. I have posted Ginger ale recipe some time back and mentioned about inji sorasam in that post. We can find this Inji sorasam in our refrigerator always, as my patti always stocks this up. As she was aging, she feels discomfort in her tummy after a heavy food. Especially after festival food it is a must for her. Yesterday, after hogging on the pori urundais and verkadalai urundai a lot i had a bad headache. While talking to amma, she told, pori and kadalai is Pitham and told me to have this inji sorasam. I made that yesterday according to her instructions and i found my headache had drastically come down after that. So wanted to share the recipe of inji sorasam with you all.

Millet Nei appam recipe | Karthigai deepam recipes

Nei appam | Unniyappam is a traditional sweet generally prepared in our homes for Karthigai deepam, Janmashtami,Ganesha chaturthi, Onam and avani avittam. I have already posted nei appam, wheat appam and many more Karthigai deepam recipes. Two years back, when i learnt the recipe of Traditional Mysore pak from my friend's mom, she told me the recipe of Nei appam too.Though i noted down the measurement of rice:jaggery, i didn't note down anything else. But i remember the way she was explaining to me. So i tried the same using millets instead of rice. Varagu and Thinai will work out very well for sweet appams. I used Samai(little Millet) for making this nei appams and they turned out very well. Check out my full collection of Karthigai deepam recipes.