Vegetable Biryani | Vegetable Pilaf | Jeera Samba Veg Biryani

Vegetable Biryani | Vegetable Pilaf | Jeera Samba Veg Biryani  is the easiest one-pot healthy meal, that too when it is prepared using pressure cooker.  In my opinion, any biryani prepared in a pressure cooker is no way inferior to that prepared in a traditional way.  This pressure cooker biryani gives us a hand on busy days as well as on lazy holidays. I used to make it quite often but somehow I couldn’t make an attempt to add this in my blog even after receiving a request  for the  recipe of vegetable biryani from my friend. At last it happened today... Let me move...

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Masala Cheeyam | Masala Seeyam | Chettinadu Masala Paniyaram

Masala Cheeyam | Masala Seeyam | Chettinadu Masala Paniyaram is one of the traditional Chettinad dishes made by Chettiars on all auspicious days, marriage functions etc. It is a tasty replacement for our regular  Ulundu Vada (Urad dhal fritter) in the  breakfast | dinner menus  in marriage functions. It can also be had as a tea time snack.  It is prepared by deep frying the seasoned batter in oil.   The masala seeyams, with crispy  outer layer & porous, soft, spongy inner,  taste great when  eat them hot with  any dip  like sambar...

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In the Media....Malligai Magal

My collection of recipes in Malligai Magal… I know I had been a bit lazy the last 3 months.  I posted rarely and the front page was quite static. But I came to lament this and told my friend that I never even posted  about  my supplementary feature in Malligai Magal.  When 2014 was about to get over, my friend asked me a good question.  “Have you decided to post only 68 posts in a year?”.  Only then I realized that my blog had 68 posts in 2013  as well as  2014. What a coincidence?!!! But it is not a coincidence I’m proud of.  In 2013, I had...

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Ulundhu Kali | Urad Dhal Halwa | Sweetened Black Gram Halwa

Ulundhu Kali | Urad Dhal Halwa | Sweetened Black Gram Halwa is an authentic, traditional South Indian dish. First and foremost word, I want to tell about this dish is …it is not a gorgeous | appetizing one to bring waters in your mouth but words are scarce to say about its health benefits. A healthy thickened porridge, called “Kali” in Tamil, is usually  prepared during the occasion when girls attain their puberty since it is believed to strengthen the pelvic and back bones. It is very good for girls in their teens, lactating moms, ladies in menopause, etc. Every household in Tamil Nadu...

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