Onion Tomato chutney recipe (with coconut)

Onion tomato chutney recipe with coconut, recipe with step by step pictures and video. I have posted onion tomato chutney recipe very long back using chutney dal. Sometimes a small variation in the ingredient will give a twist in the taste. I wanted to try the onion tomato chutney with the addition of coconut and tried it last week for breakfast. Everyone at home liked the taste and personally i find it nice and different from the usual one. So i thought i will share the easy onion tomato recipe in Jeyashri's kitchen.
Generally idlis are not much liked by kids at home. So i always end up making dosai only. But they all love Ragi dosa, whole wheat dosa, barley dosa too. So always i don't make the dosa batter using idli rice. Usually molgapodi will be there available at home all the time. And kids don't bother if i don't make chutney for dosa. But personally for me, i love dosa | idli with chutney or sambar. So if i have time i will make Sambar or else i make Chutney only. One of my favorite chutney recipe is the simple Madurai street style Poondu chutney which i learnt from my mom. Even now i ask my mom to make this for me when i visit her.

Drumstick Sambar, Vendakkai thoran, Lunch menu combo 3

In the series of Lunch menu ideas, this week lunch is a simple South Indian lunch. As most of the week days we make one pot meal and some variety rice, generally weekend is the only time we make a proper meal with Sambar, rasam, aviyal... So if you are not a South Indian, do you think how we are not bored with Sambar every week. The change of veggies in the sambar makes the taste totally different. And also we make Plain sambar and Archachuvitta sambar. So what all veggies which are commonly used for making South Indian Sambar? We make Sambar using Drumstick, Ladies finger, capsicum, Small onion, Keerai thandu, Karuvadam, Pumpkin and mix of brinjal, drumstick also.

This week's lunch menu has

• Plain rice
• Drumstick Sambar
• Vendakkai Thoran
• Raw mango rasam
• Home made Vadam ( sent by my mom)

Mango Hummus recipe

Mango hummus recipe using ripe mango and chickpeas, a perfect dip for a party starters. Hummus is a Mediterranean dip, which i learnt in a Master chef cookery show. Last year when i judged a cookery competition themed mangoes, i happened to ta taste this mango hummus recipe. There was a raw mango hummus too but somehow the ripe mango one gained my attention a lot. It was served with a tangy crackers. Generally hummus will be served with falafel, a deep fried chickpeas based starter.
As the mango season is in peak now, let's give a nice twist to the hummus by adding a ripe mango to the hummus. It tasted so delicious and we enjoyed with freshly cut veggies like carrot and cucumber during breakfast and enjoyed with salt biscuits during tea time.
The sweetness of the mango was balanced by the paprika and pepper powder and the flavour of the mango in hummus was quite amazing. Do give it a try this summer and enjoy the dip.
Check out the full collection of Mango recipes.  


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Dhaba style Aloo paratha recipe

Dhaba style aloo paratha recipe, with video and step by pictures, potato stuffed popular punjabi Whole wheat flat bread recipe. I have shared aloo paratha recipe long back and as much as i love to eat parathas, i love to cook them too. I love all stuffed parathas and i have good memories of eating hot parathas smeared with generous amount of butter in road side dhabas. Though i make good aloo parathas, somehow never got the taste of the ones i have tasted in the road side dhabas. Recently when i was running late in the morning, i made this potato filling, with the ingredients available in hand. Also usually i saute the stuffing and cool before making it, but this time made it just by mashing the cooked potatoes. Wow! the very first bite took me back to the parathas i tasted on the Highways from Delhi to Haridwar. I don't know the authentic way of making the punjabi dhaba style paratha, but the one i am sharing will definitely bring in that taste. So ahead and make the Aloo paratha and do let me know how it turned out.

Mor milagai recipe, Sun dried chillies

Mor milagai, Sund dried chillies, also called as Sandige Menasu in karnataka, is a popular sun dried thing made in summer time, using chillies and sour butter milk. My mom regularly makes mor milagai at home during summer season and stores it for a year. Mor milgai is a perfect accompaniment for Curd rice, also we use it for making Puli upma, puli pongal and the raw mango rasam. The chillies are soaked in sour curd and sun dried till they becomes crispy and stored in air tight bottles.  Whenever needed, we fry them in oil and use it.  So why are we soaking the chillies in sour curd, sour curd balances the spiciness of the chillis. I always buy and keep a pack of store bought Mor Milagai from shops. Last month when i went to chennai, i saw a cart full of bright, green Thanjavur milagais, which are used to make this mor milagais, in West mambalam market. Though i don't have terrace or balcony at home, i still got some chillies and packed it carefully and brought it home. Two years back i have attempted making mor milgais at home, when my mom was here, but couldn't dry it completely due to lack of direct sunlight.

I have a friend, who moved to our apartment last year and she lives in a house which has a huge terrace. So kept it at my house for 3 days and later passed it to my friend, and my friend's mother in law took the complete responsibility of drying it to perfect crispiness and returned back to me after a week. Many thanks to her initiative of doing this for me. Here in Singapore we get rains often and so it took a week. For the summer in Chennai it generally gets dried in 3 days. Let's see how to make mor milagai at home.

Baby potato Biryani, Beetroot vadai, Lunch menu combo 2

Chettinad urulai Biryani | Baby potato biryani, is the ever popular biryani recipe from Jeyashri's Kitchen. Though i replace the small potatoes with vegetables and make Chettiand Vegetable biryani, i still love it with potatoes a lot. To pair this up with an interesting combo, i made Beetroot vadai apart from the Onion raita. Any one pot rice is most welcomed in our family.
And being a pakka South Indian, hailing from a Tamil Brahmin family, our meal will not complete without a Thayir sadam| curd rice, fondly called as Thachi mammu. Even if i cook a North Indian dish, i will make a curd rice for any parties i host at home.

Click on the names below to get the recipe.
This Indian Lunch menu combo  has

1. Small potato biryani
2. Beetroot vadai
3. Onion raita
4. Curd rice
5. Vendhaya keerai thokku
6. Mango milkshake. 

Since i had a bunch of beautiful Organic mangoes, i made a small quantity of Thick  mango milkshake, which we had as a dessert. 

Stay tuned for Lunch | Brunch menu combos from Jeyashri's kitchen, every Saturday. 

Paneer Tikka in Oven, Mango Paneer tikka

Paneer tikka in Oven, Mango paneer tikka with step by step pictures, paneer cubes marinated in mango fresh mango masala, cooked in an oven. It's summer and mangoes the king of fruits are in season now. Though i love to eat mangoes as it is, i love to try out different recipes out of mango too. I have posted many Mango recipes in Jeyashri's Kitchen. This time also i have listed few interesting mango recipes. Paneer and mango combo is so awesome and i wanted to try this out last year itself. I got the idea from here and bookmarked it too. For the first time i made Paneer tikka in Oven and i am so happy with the results. I have posted Hariyali paneer tikka on stove top sometime back. This Mango one is a great hit at home and kids too loved it.

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Do check out

• Mango Dhokla
• Mango Phirni

Poondu thokku recipe, Garlic thokku

Poondu thokku recipe| garlic thokku, with step by step pictures and video, a simple and easy to make thokku recipe made using garlic. I have got a reader request to post this recipe of poondu thokku long time back. I have already posted garlic pickle recipe but somehow i couldn't get any satisfying thokku recipe. Recently when i visited my friend Lakshmi's mom, she made an amazing Poondu thokku and i immediately noted down the recipe from her. The only toughest part is peeling the garlic but it is worth the effort. The poondu thokuu tasted so yum.
Generally we don't consume pickles so much. I always make in small batches whenever needed. My mom makes maavadu in bulk, for a year and also mango thokku for 6-8 months too. In my in laws house we don't eat much of pickles, so i didn't take up the tradition of making variety of pickles in Summer. But i have posted few popular South Indian pickles like, Instant Lemon pickle, Gooseberry pickle, Avakaai mango pickle, mango thokku and few more.
Amma used to make maavadu in bulk and send it to my athais too, during my childhood days. The maavadu we get in Madurai will be so good and also the prices will be less compared to the ones in cities.

Do try this Poondu thokku recipe and let me know how it turned out. 

Collection of Aval recipes, Poha recipes

Aval | Poha| Rice flakes is used in Indian cuisine to make upma, sweet, idli, dosas and many more. We get varieties of aval like, thin, medium thick and getti aval. Also for a healthier version we use Red aval too.  I got introduced to Aval upma for the first time after marriage. My mom used to make Vella aval for Janmashatmi only. Later i learnt many poha recipes | aval recipes from my friends. Also posted most the poha recipes in Jeyashri's kitchen too. This post gives a compilation of all the recipes using aval | poha from Jeyashri's kitchen. I will update this post as and when i post Aval | poha recipes.

Click the name to get the recipe.

• 1.       Aval upma
  2.       Vella Aval
  3.       How to make soft idlies
  4.       Set dosa
  5.       Poha bhel served in baked spring roll sheets
  6.       Instant poha idli
  7.       Aval puttu
  8.       Aval mixture
  9.       Aval pakoda
  10.   Lemon aval
  11.   Aval payasam(with jaggery)
  12.   Aval payasam
  13.   Milagu aval
  14.   Aval kesari
  15.   Mor aval
  16.   Tomato poha
  17.   Mango masala poha
  18.   Poha veg fried rice
  19.   Batata poha
  20.   Matar poha
  21.   Tomato poha
  22.   Milagu aval
  23.   Puli aval
  
  

Poosanikai Puli kootu, Beans curry- Lunch menu combo 1

Indian Lunch menu ideas, the series i wanted to start for a long time but somehow i kept on postponing it. I used to share my lunch platter in Jeyashri's kitchen Instagram under the hashtag #jeyashriskitchenlunch and many of them used to ask me to post it regularly. As i couldn't commit on that on a daily basis, i thought i will share a platter once a week. It doesn't mean that i don't cook on a regular basis, i cook 3 meals on a daily basis. But sometimes it will be a salad and a soup on my lunch plate, sometimes it may be a simple left over ones after packing the lunch box for kids and husband. As weekend i generally tend to cook a little elaborate lunch. Also by doing this Lunch menu series, it will bring out the unnoticed, yummy, old recipes from Jeyashri's kitchen. I have noted down some family's favorite combo and also the commonly loved combo recipes for this series. Stay tuned to Jeyashri's Kitchen for this interesting series every Saturday for Lunch menu ideas or Brunch menu ideas. The menu won't be too elaborate always as we did for the Cooking for guest series. Sometimes i will post some simple combos and sometimes i will share an elaborate one. Looking forward to your support in this Indian lunch menu ideas series. 
  To start with, we have a no onion no garlic, South Indian lunch menu for Tamil New year on today.

On this platter we have Poosanaikai puli kootu, the family's popular kootu | pitlai recipe. This is a traditional recipe i learnt from my mother in law, made in our house on festival days. We have beans curry, Vendakkai thayir pachadi, neem flower rasam, maanga pachadi and plain rice. 

Please click the link for the recipe from the title given below.

• Poosanikaai puli kootu
• Vendakkai thayir pachadi
• Beans curry
• Neem flower rasam
• Maanga pachadi

If you want to add Vadai and payasam please click on the links given below. 

• Chana dal payasam
• Cabbage vadai 
• Vegetable medhu vadai
• Aama vadai | Paruppu vadai