Happy's Cook

Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Chana Dal Sundal Recipe | Kadalai Paruppu Sundal | Navarathri Sundal Recipes | Kid friendly Lentil snack

Happy Navaratri to the people who celebrate this special occasion. I was planning to post few sundal recipes for Navaratri. However, I was completely busy over the last weekend and hence I couldn't click any new recipe. Today I somehow managed to try this simple and easy to make Chana dal sundal. It was very flavourful and here I am with the recipe. Apart from Navaratri, this healthy sundal can be served as after school snacks for kids. Check out my other Navaratri Special Recipes too:

Strawberry Jam Recipe | Homemade Strawberry Jam | How to make fresh Strawberry Jam | Bread Butter Jam

It is springtime in Sydney and strawberries are in season. Sweet strawberries are flooding the supermarkets and I have managed to create simple exciting things with strawberries. I will be posting them one by one. Today's post is about homemade strawberry jam. Strawberry jam is very easy to make and it is much better than the store bought jam without preservatives.

In my schooldays, my friend Ramya used to bring tomato jam which her father makes. We literally licked each bit of it and I always ask mom to make it for me. Also, in my native in wedding along with ghee rice and biryani they serve tasty pineapple jam and I am a big fan of that too. So homemade jams are always my weakness and I want to try many other jams too. Let us move on to the preparation steps:

Chicken Chippies Recipe | Chippy Chicken | Chicken Chips | Chicken Fries | Kids friendly Party Snacks

I have not posted any chicken recipe for more than a year since I have not experimented any new chicken dish. Recently, I have tried few chicken items and I will be sharing it one by one. I am owning a Facebook Group "Happy Indian Foodies", which is mainly a platform for home cooks and foodies. In the group, we were planning to cook a dish every month based on the given theme. This month I am hosting the event and the theme is "Kids Pleasure".

When I was planning to try something for this event, the chicken chippies strikes my mind. I came across this after coming to Sydney and I have tasted it quite a few times. Whenever I cross a chicken shop in the nearby Westfield Mall, I have seen school kids ordering this chicken chippies and relishing it on the way back home after school. Though Happy doesn't show much interest in chicken, she too likes it. For the recipe, I referred here and modified a little. Let us move on to the preparation steps:

Semiya Biryani Recipe | Vermicelli Biryani | Vegetable Semiya Biryani | Chef venkatesh Bhat Recipes - Recipe # 11

I have bookmarked many recipes from Vijay Tv's Samayal Samayal show by Chef Venkatesh Bhat. I like all his recipes and I am not getting sufficient time to try many recipes. Today's post is one among them and it is an easy one pot meal. This Biryani has loads of veggies in it to make it a healthy, delicious meal and it goes well with Boondi raita or onion raita. Happy and I love anything made using Semiya. Since Jany doesn't show much interest towards it, I make it once in a while. I have already posted few recipes with semiya, please check that too. They are Vegetable semiya Upma, Semiya Kesari and Semiya Payasam. Let us move on to the preparation steps:

Kalan Recipe | Raw Banana and Yam based yogurt curry | Kurukku/Katti Kalan | Onam Sadya Special

Finally, I am winding up my Onam Sadya recipes with this Kalan post. This is also an important item in the Onam Sadya. Usually, it is made using firm vegetables like raw banana (pacha Kaya) and yam (chena). The consistency and the combination of the kalan are changed according to the occasion. For the Onam Sadya, they make the kalan a little thick with sour curd and it is called as katti kalan or kurukku kalan. (It should not run from the place where it is placed). Other days, they make it a little runny (pouring consistency). Check out the other Onam Sadya recipes too. Let us see the preparation steps:

Idichakka Thoran Recipe | Tender Jack fruit Stir Fry | Raw Jack fruit Thoran | Onam Sadya Recipe

In my native, different variety of Jackfruits is available and I love jackfruit in any form. I have already posted Chakka Pradhaman(Payasam) and Chakka Varatti(Jam) using ripened jackfruit. Apart from these sweet items, mom makes aviyal with jackfruit seeds and thoran with tender jackfruit. After coming to Sydney, I saw tender jackfruit in the Indian shop and immediately grabbed it to try this thoran. I thought of posting it before Onam as one of the special items in Onam Sadya menu. But, I couldn't post it on time. It is better late than never and I am here with the recipe of the yummy and delicious thoran:

Palada Pradhaman Recipe | Palada Payasam | Kerala Palada Pradhaman | Onam Sadya Special

Happy Onam to all my friends and readers!! Hope you all liked my Onam Sadya recipes. I am a great fan of Ada Payasam's and I always wanted to make ada at home. At least, by next Onam, I should be ready with homemade ada. Last week when I visited nearby Indian shop, I saw a variety of ada and I immediately picked this to try the palada pradhaman. It is a simple and easy to make pradhaman with just milk, ada and sugar as main ingredients. I already have posted the Ada Pradhaman (jaggery based payasam), do check it out. Let us move on to the recipe: