Sesame Seeds Balls (Til Ke Laddoo/ Tilgul Laadoo /Yellina Unde /Ellu Urundai )

Sesame Seeds Balls (Til Ke Laddoo/ Tilgul Laadoo /Yellina Unde /Ellu Urundai )

Sesame Seeds and jaggery balls are traditionally prepared in India during Makara Sankranti. Sankranthi, or Sankranti is a festival that signifies the beginning of the harvest season for the farmers of Indian Sub-Continent. This is a harvest festival celebrated not only all over India but 

Milkmaid Laddoo/ Coconut Ladoo

Milkmaid Laddoo/ Coconut Ladoo

   Time files and how? It seems like only yesterday we wished each other for New Year of 2008, we watched Olympics, celebrated major festivals, endured the financial crisis, witnessed a historic election, shuddered at the Mumbai incident all this and more. What a year 

Rice Kheer (Pudding/ Payasam)

Rice Kheer (Pudding/ Payasam)

Dear Friends, Wishing you all and your loved ones a very Happy Diwali.  Hope you are all having a wonderful time with family and friends celebrating Diwali. Deepavali called Festival of Lights has had been my favorite festival while growing up in India. The excitement 

Banana Halwa (Burfi)

Banana Halwa (Burfi)

It happened yet again this weekend. I had so many of those over ripe bananas languishing on my kitchen counter top that the smell and the sight just drover me nuts. I had made eggless banana bread earlier, but the quantity this time as way 

Hayagreeva (Chana Daal Jaggery Dessert)

Hayagreeva (Chana Daal Jaggery Dessert)

My plan for Ganesh Chaturthi/Chavthi pooja was to prepare the usual kadabu as a sweet offering to the Lord. Kadabu in Kannada also called as “Ukadiche modak” in Marathi is prepared by first stuffing sweet coconut mixture in a rice flour covering and then steamed 

Instant Mango Shrikhand

Instant Mango Shrikhand

I have always steered clear from making Shrikhand from scratch mostly because of the notion that it is laborious, time intensive and also it is loaded with calories. Now these statements are true and not a pre-conceived one. My mother and grand-mother would make Shrikhand 

Arusuvai: Broken Wheat, Coconut Ladoo (Dalia Coconut Laddoo)

Arusuvai: Broken Wheat, Coconut Ladoo (Dalia Coconut Laddoo)

The “Arusuvai Friendship Chain” was started by Latha and Lakshmi at The Yum Blog along with Bharathy of Spicy Chilly and Bhags of Crazy Curry. Latha from “Masala Magic” continued the Arusuvai friendship chain in USA. Thanks to you all for this wonderful idea.  The