Paneer Rava Coconut Laddu

Festivals around the corner, this simple rava laddu has taken an exotic avatar. Yeah, paneer adds that special taste and texture to the laddu.

Hope you like this version of rava laddu.

Extreme Chocolate Cake

This cake is moist, rich, tasty and all the more decadent as it looks. Loaded with rich nutella frosting and immersed in dark chocolate shards, makes this sinfully yummicious. A hint of coffee carries the taste to an extreme level. With every bite of it, you feel a chocolaty volcano erupting in your mouth.

Poha Coconut Peanut Laddu ~ Atukula Kobbari Palli Laddu

“hare kṛiṣhṇa hare kṛiṣhṇa

kṛiṣhṇa kṛiṣhṇa hare hare

hare rāma hare rāma

rāma rāma hare hare”

This ultimate mantra has the potency to cleanse us from our sins.

A Happy Janmashtami / Gokulastami to all. This festival reminds me of breaking the dahi handi (earthen pot filled with buttermilk) in the streets of my home town. This involves young men forming human towers and reaching a high hanging pot of buttermilk to break it, resembling Krishna’s playful act of stealing butter and milk from the neighbors’ houses.

Perugu Vada ~ Dahi Vada

Dahi Vada, Dahi Bhalla, Thayir Vadai, Perugu Vada, Mosaru Vade, Dahi Bora….as called in different languages / regions in India….are soft, fluffy deep fried lentil dumplings soaked in a thick, creamy spiced yogurt, a favorite for almost all Indians. There are plenty of variations as you go by different regions. South Indians prefer their vadas soaked in spiced yogurt where as people from North like them with plain yogurt topped with green/tamarind chutney. Sweetened curd is used in some places like Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Mango Banana Milkshake

This is an incredibly smooth, creamy, delicious milkshake for the obvious reason of its soft ingredients. On a happier note it can be substituted for a late breakfast especially on those lazy weekends when you just want to avoid cooking your first meal.

Kodi Koora ~ Andhra Style Chicken Curry

This is an authentic chicken curry coming straight from my grandma’s kitchen. Andhra Kodi Koora is a spicy, hot country style chicken curry which goes amazingly well with rice, roti, dosa, idly, poori, vada and many other mains. Andhra Pradesh is known for its wide range of spicy cuisine, and non-vegetarians here love to include kodi koora as regularly as they can.

Slow roasted whole spices are ground to a fine powder which gives the dish rich aromatic gravy. Also poppy seeds add body to the gravy.

Mango Cake

My refrigerator is packed with loads of golden beauties, for the obvious reason, this being the mango season. I have been trying to make as many recipes possible with these ‘king of fruits’. You name it ­­–­ mango lassi, mango limeade, mango kulfi, mango shrikhand, mango milkshake… And now, this is a long pending dessert to be tried since the last season. Yeah, mango cake…