Author: Sindhu B Pillai

Semiya Milk Ice

Another nostalgic recipe. This ice stick is very common in summer vacation time during my childhood days, that we used to kill the summer heat with a few pennies…. The preparation is a tasteful blend of semiya (vermicelli) with milk and sugar.

Thenga (Coconut) Puli

A relatively quick and easy side dish gravy recipe from my Mom’s Kitchen !. This one used to be our go-to side dish for rice, back in my childhood days. The sour taste of the Tamarind blended with the aroma and taste of coconut makes Thenga Puli a perfect accompaniment […]

Meat Puffs

I previously have the recipes shared for the sweet puffs and a video recipe for egg puffs. Similar to egg puffs, meat puffs has also become a favorite bakery snack that goes well as an evening tea-time snacks. The general preparation steps for the meat-puffs is same as the egg […]

Cheera Aviyal

Cheera Aviyal is a nutritious side dish made with spinach, and your choice of vegetables and coconut masala. In this preparation I used a mix of both Red Spinach and Swiss Chard. Though the choice of  additional vegetables we can have is that we use in the traditional Aviyal recipe, the […]

Matthi Ulli Masala

Having our origins back in the costal district of southern India, Sardine (മത്തി) is almost daily part of our dining table, even after we migrated to America. Thanks to the local Farmer’s market! ..Multiple sardines recipes [1] [2]  can be tracked on my blogs from the past. Recipe here was […]

Aavoli Varutharacha Curry

Pomfret (Avoli/ആവോലി) is one of the most sought fish in south India. Its is very popular in high quality sea food recipes because of its white flesh and non-fishy flavor. Black and white pomfrets are very common in sea-food markets and both tastes pretty much the same. I used fresh […]