I always find it interesting to make store bought food products at home and butter was in my to do list for a very long time.Homemade Butter recipe has only 2 ingredients Malai and Iced cold water.Making your own butter at home is more satisfying ,it takes just few minutes and no special equipment.You can … Continue reading Homemade Butter Recipe
I have already shared a post about PUTTU FLOUR from scratch and here comes another recipe Rice Semiya Puttu from scratch which requires a mill to get it ground with thread like semiya structures.If you don't have access to mill you can just ground them in your mixie,but you cannot yield strings using mixie. For … Continue reading Rice Semiya Puttu Recipe From Scratch
Maavilakku is rice flour lamp made especially for Puratsai viradham,adi viradham,thai maadham and for karthigai deepam.It is prepared by grinding freshly soaked rice with jaggery ,cardamom and sesame oil.The prepared dough (maavu)is then placed on a banana leaf and lit for neivedhyam.After the ritual(poojai) ,it is offered as prasadham.You can also use store bought rice … Continue reading Maavilakku maavu recipe (Rice flour lamp)
As I have been making lot of sweets for Diwali ,I have used almost 2 liters of ghee so far.Still running out of ghee and sugar everyday.So thought of making a post on Homemade ghee from butter.I never buy ghee from the stores for they are very expensive and doesn't smell that good too. Homemade … Continue reading Homemade Ghee
Homemade Puttu flour is always the best one to make soft puttus because of the time we give for each process from soaking the rice,drying,grinding and sieving .And also we use the best quality of rice. So I always prefer making my own puttu flour and refrigerate for later use.Puttu four is usually made with … Continue reading How to make Puttu flour
Paneer(cottage cheese) is quite easy to make at home.Paneer is a good source of calcium and protein.It is used in many Indian recipes for desserts,gravies,pulaos and many more. INGREDIENTS 1 litre full fat milk 3 tbsp lemon juice METHOD Bring the milk to boil in a heavy bottomed vessel.Turn off the heat,after 5 mins add … Continue reading Homemade paneer
Chena is a key ingredient used in many delicious milk sweets like rasmalai,rasgulla,kalakand etc.Chena is prepared by curdling the milk using any one of the following items like lemon juice,orange juice,vinegar or curd. INGREDIENTS Full fat milk 1 litre Lemon juice 2-3 tbsp METHOD Boil milk in a deep bottomed vessel.When it boils switch off … Continue reading chena recipe
Szechuan sauce is a bright coloured sauce made from dried red chillies and used in the Chinese cuisine.Very easy to make them at home and tastes great than the readymade sauce for the store bought sauce have lot peservatives in it. INGREDIENTS 15 dried red chillies 5 garlic pods 1 inch size of ginger 1/2 … Continue reading Szechuan sauce
