Baked Custard

I am on a dessert making spree I guess…Just feel like.I baked a custard today and it came out darn well.I just got it out of the oven and waiting for the custard to cool as I type this post.I cannot wait to dig into the custard. Ingredients: Eggs-2 nos Whole milk-2 cups Sugar-1/3 cup [...]

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Chocolate Pudding-its vegan

I was looking for a vegan chocolate pudding recipe on the internet and I landed here.It was so easy-ingredients wise, procedure wise and time consumption wise. Ingredients: Soy milk-2 cups Vanilla Extract-1 tea spoon Sugar-1/2 cup Corn starch-5 table spoon Cocoa-3 table spoon Method: 1.Combine milk, sugar, vanilla extract,corn starch and cocoa in a cooking pan.Whisk [...]

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Sesame Seeds Rice- Ellu Sadham

Ingredients: Rice-1-1/4 cup Water-2 1/2 cup Chana dhal-2 tea spoon Dried red chillies-5 Cumin seeds-1 tea spoon Sesame seeds-2 table spoon Curry leaves- few Urad dal-1-2 tea spoon Green peas-1/4 cup Salt Method: 1.Dry roast cumin seeds,sesame seeds,chana dal, red chillies, urad dal, curry leaves until they give out a nice flavour.Set aside to cool. [...]

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Mushroom Manchurian

The first of anything is always special..but the 2nd is even more special..The first year took a while, but the 2nd, went in a jiffy.As much as I soaked in the feelings of being togther,it all went by way too fast.Time flies is more than a cliche! I prefer romance, you prefer action I love [...]

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Vegetable Soup

This is one of my most favourite soups.Very light on cooking as it does not require even one drop of oil and filling on the stomach with all the veggies loaded.You can basically play around with any veggies of your choice just like I did!This soup and a couple of reposts are all definitely off [...]

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Rava Pongal

I am not a wake up early person..but today being Pongal,I had already made plans of waking up early, cooking something apt for the festival.And ya, I plan to make it a tradition for every single festival, starting this year.But before that, heres wishing one and all a “happy pongal- pongal nalvaahzthukkal” Ingredients: Semolina/rava-1 cup [...]

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Spicy Tomato dip ( thakkali thokku)

This is amma’s recipe and it used to be a favourite amongst all at home. It goes the best with hot idlis and dosas. Ingredients: Ripe tomatoes-5 -6 Mustard seeds-1 tea spoon Fenugreek seeds-1 tea spoon Turmeric powder-1-2 tea spoon Red chilli powder-1-1 1/2 table spoon ( I made it real spicy, but the measurement [...]

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Capsicum Pulao

I had loads of capsicum lying in the refrigerator and I decided to make a pulao out of it. Basically, I grabbed all and sundry from the pantry ( rhyme, wasnt intended) and used it to dish out the pulao. As I fried, mixed and laoded it all in the rice cooker for the pulao [...]

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Bread Pudding

One of the easiest desserts around and yummilicious. I baked this for the New year and from the way the baking dish got licked clean, I can declare it a hit. Ingredients: Eggs-3 Evaporated milk- 12 oz can, 3 nos Sugar-1-1/4 cup Butter, melted-1/4 cup Raisins-1/2 to 1 cup Vanilla Extract-2 tea spoon Ground cinnamon-1 [...]

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Penne in Sundried Tomato Alfredo Sauce

Ingredients: Penne pasta-1 packet Sundried tomato alfredo sauce- 5 table spoon ( store bought) Onion-1 , small Carrot-1 Green peas-1/4 cup Garlic-3 cloves Half n Half-1/4 cup Pepper powder Salt Olive oil-3 table spoon Mozarella cheese Method: 1.Cook the pasta as per the packet instructions.Drain and cool. 2.Chop onion, carrot and garlic. 3.Heat oil in [...]

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