Another day, another snack. This is like murukku with urad and rice flours. I prefer these to besan based ones for some reason. These can be made in 2 ways – one, where urad dal is cooked and then added as a paste and two, where urad flour can be roasted and used directly. This…
Sunnundalu
This is another quintessential Andhra thing. I categorize it as a dessert here but it technically is a very healthy food. Protein rich due to husked urad dal, trace minerals from jaggery and healthy fats from ghee make this a very wholesome and filling food item. I have had this when terribly hungry and I…
Salted Almond Jeera Biscuits
After many a failed attempts at baking cookies finally I stumbled upon the right ingredients measures. So here goes the recipe with some simple tricks to get it right every single time 🙂. Ingredients: – 1 cup all purpose flour or even can substitute wheat flour – 1/2 cup of flour made by grinding almonds…
Andhra Pappu Chakkalu
Andhra pappu chakkalu, one my favorite snacks ever! These are rice flour based snacks that can be customized to suit anyone’s taste buds. Here I present you the version we love and make most often at home. Read on for ingredients and steps to prepare these. Ingredients Rice flour – 4 cups Melted butter –…
Homemade Pizza Without Yeast
Had I known earlier that pizza could be so easily made at home I would have saved so much money that I spent on various pizza joints whenever the craving had struck. And so many times I even had got disappointed with it not being upto my taste. Thanks to the lockdown that I spent…
Malaysian Kek Batik
So I was craving for chocolate cake as usual and just didn’t want to go through this whole process of baking. Yup, call me lazy ! One of those times when you just want to put together some minimal ingredients and expect magic to happen 😉. That’s when I digged down few recipes of this…
Eggless Banana Blueberry Pancakes
Raised in India, breakfast usually was a savory item. Idly, dosa, utappam, upma, even rice. Eating something sweet for breakfast was not a thing, at least at my parents’. Corn flakes, toast with jam, ghee roasted bread in milk were an occasional thing though. And to this day I prefer savory breakfasts to sweet ones….
Easy Chicken Curry
This is one of the easiest chicken curry to cook. If you have forgotten to marinate chicken overnight or do not have time to do so even then this recipe tastes great. And the best part is you do not need to spend a lot of time near the stove too. So let’s get started….
Chenna Poda (Odisha Special Sweet Dish – Cheese Cake)
If you have ever been to Odisha or known anyone from there then you would have definitely heard them raving about this sweet dish Chenna Poda (Meaning Burnt Cottage Cheese Cake) . This is one sweet dish of Odisha that is just not available in its authentic form anywhere else on Earth. And for a…
Roasted Carrot Masala Stir Fry
No one likes to have carrot in my house :/! Well, I don’t blame them I am myself not a great fan of it either. So when S got a whole packet of carrots and they were near about to spoil I had two choices. To make gajjar halwa or to experiment with stir fry….
Amateur Cooks Recipes 