Tandoori Whole Chicken Roast / Bake for Thanksgiving - Indian Style!

Hope everyone had a fun and enjoyable Thanksgiving! and even more fun shopping on Black Friday! Didn't do much shopping this year, instead went out to friend's place and then to the children's musuem! The kids had lots of fun for sure!:) Did some cooking on Thanksgiving, but wanted to try out a whole chicken baked in the oven. Been wanting to give this a try for a very long time. I did try this out once and it didn't come out that good, the meat...

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Coriander Onion Chutney for T&T

When I saw this chutney on Priya's blog, I knew I had to have this and lucky me T&T was also announced around the same time. So I went ahead and made this. Its a very easy chutney to make and goes good with all kinds of dosas, idlis and even with hot rice. This chutney doesn't have the raw onion taste since it cooked a little before making the chutney, so people who don't like the taste of raw onions, like me, don't have to worry. :)) This...

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Nune vankai / Stuffed baby eggplants

Nune Vankai / vankaya is a very popular Andhra dish. It also goes by the name 'Bagara Baingan' in gravy style, a nice side dish to accompany pulaos, fried rice or biryanis. This is also one of the recipes which doesn't stick to one particular style all the time. It varies on the different spices used. It also can be made with peanuts and cashew nuts to get the more shahi flavor. I have blogged a stuffed eggplant recipe with peanut stuffing before,...

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Kasuri Methi Aloo for T&T

Another beautiful blog is on T&T this week, well all blogs are beautiful and have good recipes, but from this blog you are sure to get some easy to make recipes and they will be yummy too. So this month is Priya's Blog Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes is up for T&T which is being hosted by PJ of Seduce Your Tastebuds...., brainchild of Zlamushka and taken over by Lakshmi of Kitchen Chronicles. I made this last week, when I was...

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Mixture

After a week long of posting one crunchy and other crunchy, I at last came to the end for which I have been making all these crunchies...that's 'Mixture'. One of probably most loved snack in our country! Tho there are many more loved snacks, this is the one which we would go to the sweet shop and not come out without getting a bag of yummy crunchy deliciousness! Every sweet shop and every Mixture maker probably has their own version of what to...

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Sev - Version 2

I have blogged Karampoosa / Thin Sev before. So this is a 2nd version of Sev. Mixture cannot be complete without sev. It gives the body for mixture. There are so many versions of making this too....Like I said before, however you make it, it has to be crunchy in the end. The reason I used equal amounts of besan and rice flour is because, I get too bored with the taste of besan when eating mixture. This way, the besan taste doesn't get stuck in...

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Ribbon Murrukku

Ribbon murrukku is an easy one to make. Mix all the ingredients together and use the kind of rectangle shaped slot disc in the murrukku press to make the murrukkus in the hot oil. Everyone has a different recipe to make these...the only thing is that the end product should be crunchy! My kids love it and even pick it out of the mixture I made!! I have even made these using corn flour, not corn starch, corn flour...is light yellow and soft like...

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Boondi / Crunchy petite balls made of gram flour

Boondi is an all time favorite with kids and adults alike. They are small, more like petite balls made out of besan aka. gram flour mainly bengal gram. Besan is a main ingredient of many Indian sweets and savories. Not that all sweets and savories are made of besan, but many do carry this as the main ingredient. So not all Indians are unaware of this :)) And Boondi, yumms!....can be eaten just like that, or can be added to yogurt for 'Boondi...

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VARO - Indian Praline / Brittle / Chikki with Mixed Dry Fruits / Diwali Sweets for ICC

Varo, I realized is a kind of a brittle / Chikki which we have enjoyed a lot when we were kids. Peanut chikki, cashew nut brittle to name a few. It can also be made into ladoos. Mixed dry fruits was going to be something new. This is also a dish which is enjoyed for Diwali as a festival dish. Even just nuvvulu or sesame seed brittle, chikki or ladoos are made. Its even yummy with just puffed rice or murmuralu. I am glad I got to try to make...

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MEC - FESTIVE DISHES for October round up!

I thank all you guys for participating in MEC-FESTIVE DISHES and I Thank you Srivalli of Cooking 4 all Seasons for giving me the opportunity to host this event. I enjoyed it truly and I hope everyone has too by making these yummy dishes and finding a very good use of your 'MICROWAVE'. I am so happy with the response I got with this event that I am ready to host another event!!!....:))...how nervous I was before I actually did...But I thank you all...

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