Do you have Over ripe bananas in your pantry and thinking what to do, try this Banana halwa. Banana fudge is not only easy but my toddler who hate banana also enjoys it.
I started experimenting with fruit based recipes for my son. As I mentioned before my son is very choosy when it comes to fruits. I have posted few Banana based recipes before, pls check it out if you are interested.
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Ven Pongal | Ghee Pongal | Khara Pongal | Spicy Pongal | Ven Pongal recipe | South Indian kichadi /Khichdi with step-by-step pictures and video recipe. Check out the Pongal video recipe and If you like the video pls SUBSCRIBE to my channel. Also, check out the Ghee Pongal chutney combo recipe
Ven Pongal | Ghee Pongal | Khara Pongal in a pressure cooker and Instant pot instructions. Pongal is a popular south Indian tiffin variety prepared with rice & moong dal. We prepare Pongal in a sweet and savory version. Ven Pongal and chakkarai Pongal are often offered to God as naivedhyam/ prasadam. In our home, we make Ven Pongal during the Thai Pongal festival, during Navratri, Varalakshmi Pooja, etc.
Ven Pongal is one of my favorite tiffins as it is easy to cook. For our phase of life many days we feel like wrapping up the kitchen soon. One-pot meals like Pongal are such a boon. Soak everything together, a few whistles, and Pongal is ready. Just spend a few extra minutes extra for thalippu(tadka) and cook everything together, protein-rich filling meal is ready. Green Moong bean kichadi is yet another family’s favorite dish.
Ven Pongal with lots of ghee makes me lazy and I will do nothing but sit on the couch and watch some random television channel. After I started cooking, we prefer to have Pongal as a weekend brunch. Once in a blue moon, I pair Ven Pongal with Sakkarai Pongal and vadai.
Pongal can be easily prepared in a pressure cooker and an instant pot. For instant pot cooking, use rice mode and cook Pongal and follow the rest of the procedure.
Traditionally in our home, Ven Pongal is prepared with pepper spice. You can also add red chili or green chilli while tempering
Checkout other Pongal varieties in TMF,
Pongal recipes | bhogi recipes | kannum Pongal recipes
Ingredient:
Rice - 1/4 cup
Split yellow moong dal - 2 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tsp
Water - 2 cups + 1/4 cup
Salt - as needed
To temper:
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Peppercorns - 1 teaspoon (Adjust according to your spice level)
Fresh curry leaves - few
Cashew nuts - as needed
Ginger - 1/2 tsp, peeled and grated
How to make Ven Pongal with step by step pictures:
Butter biscuit | Indian bakery-style butter biscuit | Shortbread cookies | tea kadai butter biscuit | butter cookies | 3 ingredients shortbread cookies | Eggless cookies | Holiday cookie | beginner friendly baking | 3 ingredients butter cookies | Mysore bakery biscuit | ayyengar bakery butter biscuit | butter shrewsbury biscuit | Benne biscuit | crispy Iyengar bakery style Indian butter biscuit/ cookies with step by step pictures and video recipe. Check out the butter biscuit recipe. If you like the video pls SUBSCRIBE to my channel
Butter biscuit | Indian bakery-style butter biscuit | Shortbread cookies | tea kadai butter biscuit | butter cookies | 3 ingredients shortbread cookies | Eggless cookies | Holiday cookie | beginner-friendly baking | 3 ingredients butter cookies 3 ingredients Indian bakery-style butter biscuit | cookies are melt in the mouth and super addictive. These Shortbread cookies are egg-less and it can be prepared without a Whisk or electric Mixer. Perfect for holiday treats/holiday gift basket and after school snack.
Ever style childhood days I love Iyengar bakery style super soft melt in mouth butter cookies. With just 3 ingredients butter cookies taste super addictive and make perfect teatime snacks.
Butter is one key ingredient for butter cookies to get the perfect cookie always use room temperature softened butter. Keep the butter at room temperature for at least 3 hours. Avoid cold butter from the fridge. If you have planed the recipe way ahead soft the butter by microwaving for few seconds but avoid cooking for a long time as butter will starts melting down.
I have made the cookie with minimal ingredients. You can play with your flavors and add vanilla extract, cardamom powder, rose essence, or any other flavor of your choice. Even without any additional flavor butter gives an amazing taste to the cookies.
I have made this cookie without chilling the dough. I feel the shape is well retained for chill the dough. Cookies made instantly taste good but the texture might turn slightly crack.
If you are going to use wheat flour it might taste like tea Kadai biscuit. Ingredient quantity slightly varies, I will soon post that recipe on the blog. A whole wheat walnut cookie is yet another favorite.
Another Cookie recipe to try
Eggless Whole wheat walnut cookies
Ingredients:
All-purpose flour/ Maida - 1 cup
Butter- 1/3 cup, softened at room temperature
Powdered sugar - 1/3 cup, tightly pressed
Salt - pinch
How to make Iyengar bakery style butter biscuit with step by step pictures:
Dry fruits laddu | Dry fruits ladoo | Dates laddu | Nuts and dates laddu | Energy Balls | Laddu recipe | ladoo recipe | dry fruits laddu recipe | healthy laddu | dry fruits recipe | Dates laddu | Dry fruits balls | indian sweet laddu recipe with step by step pictures and video recipe. Check out the dry fruits laddu in Tamil and dry fruits laddu recipe in English. If you like the video pls SUBSCRIBE to my channel.
Dry fruits laddu | Dry fruits ladoo | Dates laddu | Nuts and dates laddu | Laddu recipe | ladoo recipe | dry fruits laddu recipe | healthy laddu | dry fruits recipe | Indian sweet laddu recipe is a healthy laddu with mixed nuts and dates. Healthy nuts laddu for kids, Pregnant women, and of course everyone. Zero sugar dry fruits laddu make a great mid-morning and mid-evening snack to overcome the sweet addiction.
They say celebrate a happy occasion with sweet ( I remember famous Dairy milk chocolate commercial "Sweet Edu kondadu" (celebrate happiness with a sweet).
We are relocating to Seattle. After spending an amazing 2 years and 7 months in Bentonville. We have lot of cherishing moments in this small town.. My bundle of happiness was born here, he took his first step here, spat his first food, told his first letter, the first mischief, got his first friend, first word, first favorite things, the first sentence oh man, I can write a full post about many things based on him. Well, change is a permanent thing, but after living in a place for some years, it creates many moments that I can treasure for ages.
Having a 2-year-old, my biggest concern is to give him healthy snacks. Like me, many moms have a big question about mid-morning and evening snacks for kids. These days, my son wants to hold his food and eat by himself – yet another point to be considered. Suddenly, this “dry fruits laddu” sprang to my mind, my mom used to prepare this dry fruits laddu for me when I was pregnant.
Should a healthy and tasty treat always involve a complex cooking process or spending more time in the kitchen? Definitely no. With minimal cooking, these energy balls can be prepared in no time. Loaded with nuts and without sugar (Yes Dates are there, but I believe it to be healthier compared to white sugar), this is a healthy bite.
Dates laddu is a filling, healthy snack after a workout and also a good after-school snack for kids.
Nuts and dates laddu combo works perfectly in our home.. Recently, I posted Oats &Nuts Burfi. This is a quicker version of that with a few changes.
Ingredients:
Mixed nuts - 1 cup (I used walnuts, Almonds, cashew,s and Pista )
Finely chopped Dates - 25 or 1 cup loosely packed
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
Ghee - 1/2 teaspoon + grease
Method 1:
Method 2 :
It's my guest post for Sreelatha from Framed recipes. Sreelatha’s “Oats Banana Smoothie” for my “Toddler Friendly” recipes is very popular at home, and my LO loves it.
Quinoa Crustless Quiche , Quinoa Quiche , Spinach Quiche , Quinoa quiche , Crustless quiche prepared with savory custard, quinoa spinach, and cheese. Loaded with egg and quinoa, this is a great protein-rich meal.
This Quiche goes well during any meal. The food network channel got me acquainted with Quiche. Most of the quiche versions I saw had a pie crust. I don't have a pie pan and didn't want to invest in that, so I didn't try Quiche for a long time. This year for Easter I saw a lot of egg-based recipes, one Kale Quinoa Crustless Quiche recipe in food52 pulled my attention. ...
Pachai Payaru Vella Sundal | Green gram sweet sundal| Pasi paruppu sundal | payatham paruppu sundal | moong dal sundal | sundal recipe | Navaratri sundal step by step pictures and video recipe. You can also check out the Pachai Payaru Vella Sundal recipe. If you like this recipe pls SUBSCRIBE to my channel and check out other Sundal varieties in TMF
Green mung bean sundal | Sweet sundal | Vella sundal | Inipu sundal | moong bean sundal | pachai payaru sundal is a sweet sundal prepared with jaggery, moong dal, and coconut.
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Nutella avocado mousse is a easy dessert made with Avocado and Nutella. Without any cooking Nutella avocado pudding is ready in no time.
I couldn't find a better day to post this Mousse, my Little bundle is "2" today. This year we where very confused while deciding the theme for his birthday. His recent favorites are mickey mouse, spider man and Thomas. Everyday we somehow try to ask him what he wants, but as expected he randomly tells everything alternatively.
Winter has started and his mickey mouse jacket made him to tell that frequently, finally we have the theme.Today evening we have a small party in Indian restaurant. This is my scheduled post....
Ellu Sadam | sesame rice recipe | sesame seed rice | எள்ளு சாதம் | elludarai | ellodarai | Kannum pongal recipe | Sesame seed rice | எள்ளோதரை til rice | south Indian rice variety with step by step pictures and video recipe. Check out the Ellu Sadam recipe. If you like the video pls SUBSCRIBE to my channel
Ellu Sadam | sesame rice recipe | eluodarai | எள்ளு சாதம் | ellodarai | Kannum pongal recipe | Sesame seed rice | til rice | south Indian rice variety is a tasty variety of rice prepared with black sesame seed. Ellu gives an intense flavor to the rice. With some cooked rice, this can be prepared within 10 minutes. Make ahead and enjoy after few hours for the best flavor.
I remember "Ellu Sadam" as prasadam (Offering) for God, prepared during Saturdays. When I was in school we use to have half-day school on Saturday. Every week after I enter home my Amma's Sesame seed rice flavor welcomes me.
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Dry fruits burfi | Oats and Nuts burfi | Dates burfi | nuts burfi is prepared with oats, nuts and dates. I have used dates for the sweetness and this is Zero sugar cake. Dates katli is a filling guilt free mid-morning and evening snacks.
In the month of April, 25 recipes of mine got published in a Tamil magazine. I prepared this burfi for that. I usually have recipes in my draft for ages and post in random order.
Should sweets always be guilty pleasure? My sweet tooth always asks for sweet but sugar alarms me. I started experimenting with honey and Dates. Eggless Dry fruit and nuts cake, sugarless jam , oats Banana bar and nuts and Dates ball are my few posts/ to be posted experiment
Loaded with nuts and oats, this is not only a great nutritional snack/ mild sweet for adults also yummy treats for kids.
Burfi recipe collections in TMF
Ingredients:
Oats - 1 cup (I used quaker (instant) oats)
Almonds - 1/4 cup
Walnuts - 1/4 cup
Dates - 30 (Adjust according to your sweetness)
Water - 3/4 cup
Salt - a pinch
Almond extract - 1/8 tsp
Ghee - 2 tablespoon + to Grease the pan
Cardamom powder - 1/8 tsp
Method:
Green Lentil Sundal | Whole Masoor Dhal Sundal | sundal recipe | Navaratri sundal step by step pictures and video recipe. You can also check out the Pasi paruppu sundal recipe. If you like this recipe pls SUBSCRIBE to my channel and check out other Sundal varieties in TMF
Green lentil sundal | lentil sundal is a healthy snack prepared with green lentils. Coconut gives a nice flavor to this sundal.
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