Masala puri is one of the most popular chaat recipes in Bangalore. Being in Bengaluru for the past 20 years, I have tasted this masala puri in many street side chaat shops. It has a special flavour and taste. We all love it. Recently when my daughter was asking me to make masala puri at home, I tried to recreate the chaat shop style version after watching many YouTube videos. Actually there are two versions of Bangalore masala puri recipe. Today I have shared the version which was close to the ones I tasted in chaat shops. Friends, do try this recipe and let me know your feedback.&nbs ..read more

Mangalore Cucumber sambar (Southekayi sambar in Kannada) was in my try list for years. I have tasted this kind of sambar in temples and marriage functions. When I was looking for the recipe, I came across this one in Udupi recipes YouTube channel. I tried it for the first time. It came out so well, colourful and tasty with a nice aroma. Its taste was so close to the Karnataka temple style sambar and more like Brahmin's arachuvitta sambar recipe. I am glad to share this post in my blog.  Friends, do try this Karnataka temple style sambar with Mangalore cucumber and enjoy with plain rice a ..read more

After a long time I tried a Broccoli recipe in my kitchen. As I have already tried broccoli curry / stir fry recipe, I wanted to make an Indian style broccoli gravy for rice. Though its my first attempt, It came out so flavourful. We all loved it. It tastes great when mixed with plain rice adding ghee. Its a kurma style kuzhambu recipe. You can have this broccoli kuzhambu with rice, roti, idli, dosa as well. Friends, do try this easy and yummy Broccoli gravy / Broccoli kuzhambu for rice and enjoy with a papad on side. I enjoyed it with mullangai poriyal and achappam. Broccoli gravy for ..read more

I made this easy, healthy and a traditional sweet recipe - Karupatti paniyaram / Palm jaggery sweet paniyaram on New year day. Usually I make sweet paniyaram and Kara paniyaram recipe in two ways. One with leftover idli dosa batter and the other one is my MIL’s recipe that is prepared with a batter ground using rice and dals. To make this sweet paniyaram recipe, I prepared a separate batter with idli rice, raw rice and urad dal. You can also use our regular idli dosa batter instead. Lets see how to make sweet paniyaram with palm jaggery / Karupatti paniyaram recipe with step by step pictures ..read more

Recent days I have been trying out varieties of Keerai masiyal and Keerai kadayal recipes for our lunch. Mostly I try to make a simple keerai masiyal or kadayal recipe without dal and coconut. I feel addition of dal or coconut gives more yield and tastes more like kootu but I wanted to consume more keerai. So I make it plain with simple tempering. Recently I came across this Kongu style keerai masiyal without dal and coconut in Chef Deena’s YouTube channel. Actually they showed it with Panna keerai but I made it with pasalai keerai i.e Palak. It came out so well and tasty. Friends, do try thi ..read more

Here is a super easy and one pot Snake gourd kootu without dal and coconut. You can call it as Pudalangai kadayal too. Its a very simple recipe that can be prepared directly in a pressure cooker. Working women and bachelors can make this side dish for rice quickly under 15 minutes. Not just a side dish, we can mix it with plain rice adding few drops of ghee. It tastes great ! Just add in chopped snake gourd, tomato, onion, ginger, garlic, sambar powder, salt and pressure cook it for one whistle.  Mash it well and temper in ghee. Voila, Snake gourd kootu is done. You can mix this kootu w ..read more

This year I am starting my Diwali recipes with this must try Diwali snack – Mixture recipe. Its basically a South Indian style Mixture recipe which is popularly known as Madras mixture. This Tamilnadu mixture is a combination of Omapodi, Karaboondi, Fried aval, cashew nuts, peanuts , curry leaves mixed with spice powders like salt, red chilli powder and hing. In this mixture, I have also added small maida biscuits which is fondly called as mixture biscuit. When I was a kid, I used to pick these mixture biscuits alone from the pack of mixture and savor it. Iam not a big fan of South Indian mi ..read more

I love Karnataka style rice bath recipe in hotels here especially Darshini and SLV rice bath is my favorite. Though the ingredients are similar to veg pulao, its cooking method, taste and flavor is slightly different from Karnataka Veg palav recipe. I tried this recipe from Rekha aduge YouTube channel. It came out so well in my first attempt itself. My Karnataka style veg pulao recipe which I have shared long back is a super hit recipe in my blog. I recommend you try this rice bath recipe as well. It tastes and smells so good. This recipe and taste will surely remind you some resta ..read more

Every week I wash the brass and silver pooja items at home for doing my Thursday Guru pooja and Friday Lakshmi pooja. Usually I use Vim liquid and Sabeena dish washing powder for washing the silver lamps, vessels and pooja items. But once or twice in a year, I follow this method to clean or polish the tarnished Silver pooja items look new especially before Navarathri, Karthigai deepam, Diwali or before Varalakshmi pooja for which we utilise most of the silver utensils at home. To wash the tarnished silver pooja items at home and make it new, all you need is just two ingredients namely Alumi ..read more

Sorakkai kadayal | Sorakkai masiyal | Bottle gourd chutney is an easy, one pot recipe for rice. It tastes good with idli, dosa and chapathi as well. It can be prepared directly in a pressure cooker. I got this recipe from Kavitha’s samayalarai Youtube channel. I made small changes in the ingredients and recipe as per my liking. It came out so well. Nowadays I am making this sorakkai kadayal recipe at least once in a week. Addition of ginger is the highlight of this recipe. So don’t skip it. Ok, lets see how to make Sorakkai kadayal recipe for rice, idli, dosa and chapathi with step by step p ..read more