Yellow Pumpkin or Squash Kheer by Saru

This is a traditional South Indian recipe made using milk, pumpkin and cashews. his delicious dessert recipe is prepared on festivals like Diwali and other special occasions as well.Full of flavor, this sweet recipe is a quick and an easy to make recipe.

Pumpkin ginger soup by Saru

This creamy smooth delight is perfect for your chilly evenings.This healthy smooth combination of pumpkin, coconut milk and herb will replenish your taste buds

MINT-BUTTERMILK SUPER COOLER FOR SUMMER by Saru

This is one of the most popular Indian cooler drinks to slake your thirst.All over India this drink is consumed to keep dehydration at bay and to feel fresh,energized and more agile during the very hot summer months.In India we have many variations to this recipe...but here I have one of the best recipes that will not only quench your…

Homemade Sambar Powder by Hina Gujral

Homemade Sambar Powder is an integral ingredient in South Indian Cuisine. Sambar Podi is a kind of Curry Powder but specifically made for giving flavour in Sambar. The Sambar Powder has lentils, curry leaves and dry spices.

savoury vegetable pies by Saru

These can be made either in a microwave or oven.MW saves you a lot of time.These can be had for lunch or breakfast or dinner.It is quite filling when served with a cup of sweet yogurt on the side.

Sweet Melon Magic in a Bowl by Saru

This one dessert we use to wait for during the long Indian summers back when we were kids having fun during our summer school hols. My mum used to make this quite often with any kind of melon that was available...mostly with honey dew melons. You can add/substitute watermelon or musk melon to this too.

Ragi Rotti (Finger millet flatbread) by Hina Gujral

Ragi Rotti is a simple and healthy traditional flatbread of Karnataka, finger millet flour is mixed with variety of colorful seasonal vegetables and formed into dough to make delicious breads served with variety of condiments on the side, I settled for uncomplicated Tomato Chutney tempered with mustard seeds swimming in the ghee with…

Rava Idli (Steamed Semolina Dumplings) by Hina Gujral

Rava Idli is a soft pillowy steamed semolina dumpling seasoned with mustard seeds, curry leaves, urad dal and cashew. There are many theories about the curation of Rava Idli but all of them are intertwined in Karnataka only, so it could be said that Rava Idli have it's roots in the state. Many food historians condemn traces of Rava…

Maddur Vada by Hina Gujral

Maddur Vada is deep-fried savory fritters made with combination of different flours, semolina and lots of onion. Maddur Vada is one of the well liked dishes across South India, it's origin is claimed to be in the small town of Karnataka called Maddur in Mandya district, this town is located somewhere between Bangalore and Mysore the…

RAW BANANA CRISPIES by Saru

These can also be called Banana fritters.But as these are really crisp and hence the name banana crispies!.During a rainy evening,this would make for a lovely surprise for anyone who love to eat crispy snack with a hot cuppa.Adding chillies to this recipe is entirely optional.Since we are used to so much spice and heat and also since…

Mix Fruit Salad / ganapathy homam prashad by Mira

A flavourful and tasty salad prepraed specially for ganapathy homam. I made it as prashad for the day by mixing fruits of the season to the basic recipe. Serves as a good dessert too. You may also serve this chilled.

Rava Idli Sqaures by Hina Gujral

After living in South from past few years one thing in me has definitely changed, my breakfast habits, I have become huge fan of South Indian breakfast and I think I have tasted breakfast of almost each and every kind of South Indian breakfast joint in Bangalore as well as Chennai. There is something very succulent and satisfying…

SUPER SALMON FINGERS by Saru

Pepper Mushroom Fry by Karthikeyan

This is a Simple Dish and very suitable for Lunch and evening snacks

Brahmi leaves chutey by Babitha Antony Costa

Healthy dip using valarai keerai/brahmi leaves