Rice Idli Recipe - How To Make Soft Fluffy Idlis

Here is authentic fluffy soft idli recipe. I used both sona massori and basmati rice, can be replaced with any regular rice or parboiled rice.

Mango Kalakand

Mango season is round the corner so here is  soft and grainy and not very sweet indian dessert recipe : Mango Kalakand. Cooking Mango pulp first for 2 minutes gives enhance mango flavor and intensifies orange color to Kalakand.

Instant Nachani or Ragi Dosa

Ragi Dosa is a quick and very healthy dosa. Ragi is gluten free and rich in calcium and iron, has some essential amino acids, also high in fiber and low in fat so promote weight loss. Ragi is also known as Nachani in marathi, finger millet or red millet in english. 

Coconut Chutney Recipe

This coconut chutney is very easy and quick and made from fresh grated coconut. This chutney goes very well with idli, dosa and medu vada.  

Amrakhand ~ Mango Infused Yoghurt Dessert ~ Happy Gudi Padwa !!

Happy Gudi Padwa !!! Gudi Padva is the first day of Chaitra(first month) in the Marathi Hindu Calendar. As a offering I made Amrakhand. Amrakhand is simply Shrikhand blended with mango pulp. 

Shrikhand is a very popular Indian dessert made from strained yogurt, sugar and some dry fruits. This exotic Dessert is super simple to prepare and much healthier than other sugar coated Sweets.

Here I used store bought mango pulp. Fresh and ripe mangoes can also be used to make Amrakhand. For flavoring can add some cardamom powder, saffron(not used here), nutmeg powder(not used here) and dry fruits. 

Rich Eggless Cake

If you have one bite of this cake I bet you will want to finish it off. Its so good and melt in mouth delicious cake I ever had. This is very simple to bake and result will be rich spongy cake.  Recipe courtesy : My Gorgeous Friend Megha Gupta.

Chilled Cold Coffee (Instant Classic Coffee)

This chilled cold coffee is made in less than 2 minutes and is ever refreshing specially for summer months. First time I had cold coffee in Pune at Durga Cafe and got in love with it. 
Craving at late night? replace with decaf coffee, same taste without sleepless nights. To make the cold coffee more creamier and thicker you could add dash of fresh cream or sweetened condensed milk or a scoop of ice-cream.

Instant Rava Dhokla

This is an easy, quick and spongy dhokla recipe made in 30 minutes. Dhokla can be served as breakfast, snack or even as an appetizer for party or picnic. Dhokla can be served with tamarind chutney accompanied with green coriander or mint chutney or even coconut chutney.Adapted from vegrecipesofindia.com

Solkadhi(Coconut And Kokum Drink)

Solkadhi is a type of appetizer drink usually had with rice or sometimes drunk after the meals. Popular in the Konkan region of India, it is made from coconut milk and kokum. It's known for it digestive properties.
This recipe is easy and all you have to make is coconut milk, dry kokam or kokam agal(ready made kokam juice), garlic, chilies and water. Soak Kokam for 30 minutes in water, squeeze nicely and will get a beautiful pinkish red colored kokum extract. Mix all together, refrigerate and its ready.

Gujarati Methi Muthia

Methi muthia are steamed or fried dumplings made from chickpea flour and fenugreek leaves/methi. There are various ways of making muthia, mainly many people do with chickpea flour only, but can replace or add with whole wheat flour, bajra (pearl millet) or jowar (sorghum) flour.

Methi muthia is great for snack, goes very well with tea/ coffee make it fried, tempered or steamed your choice. Steamed muthias can be made in advance and then added to any veggie dish you make, like in gujarat they add it to undhiyu.

Delicious Pistachio Falooda / Faluda

Basic falooda can be made with just Five ingredients – soaked sabja seeds, rose syrup or rooh afza, falooda noodles (these are vermicelli made from corn starch), chilled milk and scoop of vanilla ice-cream. there is no need to add any sugar as the sweetness of the rose syrup is enough to make the falooda sweet. 

Pistachio falooda has same ingredients just instead of rose syrup, I used pistachio nuts. Soaked and grind into smooth paste. This falooda taste authentic with pistachio ice-cream on top.

Oatmeal Cookies

These are delicious and easy to follow oatmeal cookies. Original cookie recipe has all purpose flour and white sugar in it. I replaced it with half of all purpose flour, half of oats flour and brown  sugar. You can make these cookies in variation by adding different nuts, protein powder etc. Also can use different flours to make it multi grain oatmeal cookies. Enjoy :-)

Microwaved Spicy & Sour Masala Peanuts

Masala Peanuts are usually deep fried but this one is microwaved. It is good low fat snack, goes very well with tea/coffee.

Cocoa Hazelnut Butter

Hazelnuts are very high in energy and loaded with numerous healthy nutrients Raw hazelnut butter provides the good fats high in cholesterol-reducing monounsaturated fats, vitamin E (more than twice as much as peanut butter!) and magnesium. 

Oats Mango Protein Milkshake

Crispy Spicy Chakali - Taste as good as Bhajani Chakali

Chakali is most essential snack in Diwali festival. It goes very well with hot cuppa Tea and nothing beat if its home made. Yes it has "wow" factor.

Sweet Shankarpali/ ShakkarPara - Happy Diwali

I am very pleased, nominated as Featured Blogs on The Foodie Blogroll site! So here is some sweet for my blog readers. 

Chana Choor Garam Chat

On a sunny day, or a rainy.. chana choor garam is a perfect snack. Very easy to make and flavorful one.

Chili Garlic Paste

Chili Garlic paste is a basic element for any kitchen. Use of different chilies give different unique flavors. I prepare chili paste with different chilies like green chilies, fresh red chilies, dried red chilies and even red chili powder. Make a paste ahead of time, store in the refrigerator upto 3-4 weeks and use it whenever required.

How to Make Chocolate Shards?

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