Kids Special

Kerala Rice Halwa

Kerala’s kitchen is well known in the rest-of-India for two authentic recipes, Banana Chips and Halwa (another famous variety is the Calicut-Halwa). This yummy dessert dish is favorite of all festivals and special occasions in the state. Now. let me caution you in advance, this preparation is a little time […]

Milk Peda

Milk Peda (Doodh Peda) is very common milk sweet in most of the sweet stalls in India. In this recipe I used the traditional method of preparation, with concentrated milk fat, molded to required shape after mixing with sugar. It can further be enriched with bit of cardamom powder and […]

Cherry Falooda

Falooda is a very delicious and yummy beverage cum dessert recipe that is typically flavored with Rose syrup. Key ingredients falooda are  basil seeds, falooda sev, sweetened milk and ice cream. Here I made a tasty variation of the traditional falooda with Semia and using cherry syrup instead of rose syrup.

Butter Cookies

Butter Cookies commonly known as Nankhatai is the traditional Indian shortbread cookies or biscuits made with flour, sugar and ghee or butter. It is a popular sweet cum snack recipe which is equally liked by kids as well as elders. Nankhatai is popular as a tea time snack and is easily […]

Masala Peanut

Masala peanuts or masala kadalai, is a deep fried snack with peanut. I still remember having this as evening snack- which my dad used to buy these while returning after work- along with hot tea.  The rich flavor of hot spices and garlic with the aroma of coconut oil makes […]

Rava Laddu

Here a Srikrishna Jayanthi special from my kitchen. This time a quick sweet snack prepared with rava (sooji), shredded coconut, sugar and ghee as its major ingredients. The preparation is pretty simple and the Laddu can be keep refrigerated if you want to use it for couple more days.