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Friday, January 22, 2021

Channa Masala Recipe | Chickpea masala without coconut | Chole Masala

Chickpeas are one of my most favourite ingredients and I always try to include it in some form every week in our menu. When I make puttu, I pair it with kerala style kadala curry. For appam or idiyappam, I make varutharacha kadala curry or kadala kuruma with coconut. I grow up eating these coconut-based chickpea curries and I love it a lot. However, all these curries are bit elaborate and time-consuming.

Today I am sharing a north Indian style channa masala which I am making often these days for poori and chapati. This is my go-to recipe when I am in a rush or whenever I am very lazy to cook. The combinations we can try with this channa masala are endless, it goes very well with Jeera rice/pulao, roti/poori and sometimes we eat it with appam/dosa too. Let us learn to make this simple channa masala today. Also, please check out my Channa Masala Sundal and Channa Biryani recipe too.

Bread Pizza Recipe | Kid's Birthday Party Snacks

We have passed the school holidays halfway mark and I am literally busy all day long. Hoping to get back to my routine once the school reopens. Recently, Happy has shown much interest in the snacks and bakes I try at home. She had this bread pizza at her friend's birthday party and since then she has asked me to make it for her. Last week when I made the white sandwich bread, I thought of giving it a try and used the minimal toppings that was available at home. It came out so good and we all liked it. I have used store bought pizza sauce for this recipe. However, I have shared the instant pizza sauce recipe that can be made at home in the notes section. I will try to post the authentic pizza sauce sometime soon.

Banana Puttu Recipe | Kerala Ethakka Puttu | Nendrapazham Puttu

If you follow me on Instagram, you will surely know about my love for puttu. It is one of my most favourite breakfasts and to make it more interesting for others at home, I try different combinations. Recently, I found ethan pazham(Kerala Banana) in an Indian shop and I was very much excited since I saw it for the first time in Sydney. I grabbed some and my blogging mind started thinking for the recipes to try. I made this banana puttu, pazham pori and ghee roasted banana. The banana puttu turned out so delicious and we loved it very much. Let us move on to the recipe and do check out the other puttu variations that I had shared earlier in the below links:

Mushroom Pepper Fry Recipe | Mushroom Pepper Roast | Mushroom Recipes

I make mushroom dishes quite often at home and it doesn't mean that I like it very much 😆. It is just because I feel they are easy to make and it is my go-to vegetable whenever I feel bored to chop veggies for thoran or poriyal. I have already shared the below mushroom recipes here:

Kerala Fried Chicken Recipe | Kerala Fried Chicken(KFC) | Chicken Recipes

Happy New Year to all my readers and family!! Best wishes for a healthy and fantastic year ahead. As always, one of my new year wishes is to keep this little space of mine really active. Over the past few years, I was not regularly sharing new recipes because of other priorities. However, I am trying to overcome my laziness and be more productive here. Today I am sharing our recent favourite fried chicken recipe and I learned this recipe from Chef TZac's video. I love the onion and curry leaves flavour in this fried chicken. It goes very well with fried rice, rasam rice and sambhar rice.

Caramilk Snowballs Recipe | Caramilk Balls | No Bake Caramilk Balls | Christmas Special

December is here and it is the most wonderful time of the year. To celebrate this holiday season, I am planning to post some yummy treats. To begin with I am sharing a no-bake caramilk balls. We can make these balls with just a few ingredients and it keeps well in the refrigerator for a week. You can easily modify this recipe as per your sweet and flavour preference.