Pudina Rice

I had gone to visit my sister this week, and joined my mom and sister for lunch. My mom had prepared pudina rice. It was totally different and very tasty. Thought would share with all of you. It can be added to our list of fried rice’s, for, whenever there is a party or gathering, we would like to have one type of fried rice. This dish would go well for these occasions.


Also, this dish would be fine for a hurry or working women as well as the preparation is very simple :)


1. Pudina - a small bunch cleaned
2. Rice - 200 gms
3. Garlic - 8 cloves
4. Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
5. Grated coconut - 2 tbsp
6. sounf - 1/4 tbsp
7. cumin - 1/4 tbsp
8. Green Chillies - 4
9. Ghee - 1 tbsp
10. Oil - 3 tbsp
11. Bay leaf - 1
12. Onion - 1 medium sized.
13. Water - 2 cups
14. Salt to taste

Peel ginger and garlic, add sounf, cumin, green chillies, pudina and grind it to a paste. Now, grind coconut separately into a fine paste.

Heat oil and Ghee in a cooker, add the Bay leaf. Leave it for 15 secs. Now add the Onion finely chopped. When the onion turns brown add the pudina mixed paste and stir for 2 mins. Then, add the coconut paste and stir for a minute. Add the washed rice and fry for one more minute. Add water and salt. Close the cooker and leave it for a whistle. Simmer for 5 mins and let it cool.

Serve hot with raita.

I can feel the smell of it..mmmmmmmmmmmm :)

Just let me know how it worked out for you :)

Garlic Podi – Poondu Podi

If you are the kind of a person who likes spicy food, then this is a right choice. Easy to prepare and tasty to relish. This dish goes well with idli or dosa.


1. Garlic – 30 cloves
2. Salt to taste
3. Chilli Powder – 2 tbsp
4. Oil – ½ cup


Peel the Garlic. Grind the Garlic and salt together. Heat oil in a pan. When it comes to boil, switch off and let it cool.

Add chilli powder to the ground mixture and mix well. When the oil is a little warm, add the oil to the mixture and mix well. Hot Red Garlic Podi is ready!

Serve with idli or dosa.

You can prepare it instantly as it takes very little preparation time and also you can store this podi for a week.

Bottle Gourd Dosa - Sorakkai dosai

Different varieties of Dosas following.... Here is another version of healthy dosa.

1. Bottle Gourd(Sorakkai) - 300 gms
2. Rice - 300 gms
3. Onion - 3 medium sized
4. coriander leaves a small bunch
5. Curry leaves - 5 to 6
6. Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
7. sounf - 1 tbsp
8. Asafoetida - 1/2 tbsp
9. Red chilli - 3
10. Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
11. Salt to taste
12. Oil

Peel the skin and cut the bottle gourd to small pieces with the seeds.
Soak the rice before 2 to 3 hours for preparation.
Grind the rice, red chilly, Asafoetida, sounf, cumin seeds together little coarsely.Pour it to a bowl. Now grind the bottle gourd also little coarsely and mix it with the grinded rice.

Add salt to your taste. Now, finely chop Onions,Coriander leaves and curry leaves and add to the mixture. Add the grated coconut for extra flavour.

Heat the tava. spread a little of the dough on the tava and spread it like dosa. reduce the flame to half. add oil and cook for about a min. now turn the dosa on the tava and let it cook for another minute. when the dosa turns brown on both sides remove from heat.

Serve hot with chutney of your like. This dosa also goes well with any version onion or tomato chutney.

Enjoy the new healthy dosa!

Green gram Dosa - Paasipayar Dosai

Its time to write a breakfast! Just felt that I have to write a maincourse to be relished with the chutney written on my previous post.
Something different... Paasipayar Dosai! This is how we call it.. Green gram Dosa.

1. Whole Green Gram - 300 gms
2. Idly Rice(Boiled rice) - 300 gms
3. Onion - 3 medium sized
4. coriander leaves a small bunch
5. Curry leaves - 5 to 6
6. Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
7. sounf - 1 tbsp
8. Asafoetida - 1/2 tbsp
9. Red chilli - 3
10. Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
11. Salt to taste
12. Oil

Soak the green gram for about 6 to 8 hours. Drain the water and let it sprout.Sprouted green grams have high fibre content and are very good for health. Soak the rice before 3 to 4 hours of preparation.Grind the rice, red chilly, Asafoetida, sounf, cumin seeds together, little coarsely. The ground mixture should not be very soft nor very coarse. Add little water when you grind. Pour it to a bowl. Now grind the sprouted green gram also in the similar fashion, little coarsely and mix it with the other ground mixture.
Add salt to your taste. Now finely chop Onions,Coriander leaves and curry leaves and add to the mixture. Add the grated coconut for extra flavour.
The consistency of the dosa mix should be like idly mix, like a thick gravy.
Now heat the tava. spread a little of the mixture on the tava like dosa. Reduce the flame to half. Add oil and cook for about a min. Now turn the dosa on the tava and let it cook for another minute. when the dosa turns brown on both sides remove from heat.
Serve hot with Onion chutney.

Healthy Dosa ready! :)

Onion Chutney

The most traditional south indian breakfast are Idli and Dosa. For the matter, any breakfast say paddu, akki roti, adai dosai, neer dosai we need a side dish. When we decide on what are we going to prepare for breakfast, the next thing to think is what will be the side dish?
Here we go with a whole variety of chutney's which would go very well with any south indian breakfast.
Onion Chutney
1. Onion - 4 medium sized
2. Tomato - 2 medium sized
3. Red Chilly - 4
4. Tamarind - 1 inch piece
5. Salt to Taste
6. Oil - 2 tbsp
7. Mustard - 1/4 tbsp
8. Urad Da1 - 1 tbsp
9. Asafoetida - 1/4 tbsp
10. Curry leaves - 5 to 6 leaves
Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard, urad dal and let it splitter. Add asafoetida. Now add all the remaining ingredients and fry. Keep stirring it continously till the onions turn brown and tomoatos are completely cooked. When all the water from tomato is dried up, remove the pan from heat.Let it cool. Grind it and serve with idli or dosa.
More varieties of chutney's to follow :)

Rava Toffee

Hello All!

This is my first blog.

Let me start my first blog with a Sweet message.
Here is the sweet for all who read my blog.
Get said go.. Just walk around with a small bag and shop Rava, sugar, milk and ghee.
Enjoy the blog with Rava toffee.
Take 1/4 cup of rava, 1/4 cup of ghee, 3/4 cup of milk and 3/4 cup of sugar.
Add all the ingridents to a bowl. Start heating the mixture and keep stirring it continuosly. Once the mixture starts getting thicker, try making a small ball with a little piece, if it doesnt stick to your hand and make a fine ball, you are done.
Apply ghee on a small plate and pour this mixture to it. Let it cool.
Cut them into small pieces of your favourite shape and enjoy the toffee.

It would melt in your mouth :)
Kids love this home made toffee!