Avocado Milkshake Recipe | Milkshake Recipe

       Avocado Milkshake a really quick and very nutritious milkshake made with butter fruit.Yes Butter fruit is the other name for avocado.Its creaminess makes people say it as a butter fruit..While seed and peel is thrown ,creamy yellowish green flesh is eaten or added to any dishes.Flesh has a very bland taste or you can say is really tasteless(so i hate eating it as is).But it really makes any dish tasty and healthy.You can also replace it for butter, in any baking recipe.You get a spongy and moist bake as a result .You can enjoy your bakes without thinking about the calorie in take, if you add this fruit.

How to Make Sprouts | Sprouts Health Benefits | Homemade Sprouts Recipe

      Sprouts - what is it ? Its a nutrition packed whole grain with more fiber.Its really easy to make your own, in our house.When you make at home its fresh without any additives and or preservatives.Basically its a power house of vitamin K,folate,vitamin c and Vitamin A.More minerals like copper,zinc ,magnesium,iron and calcium.All these vitamins and minerals will be in tact when its not  Heated.

Cabbage Vada Recipe | Vada Recipe | Urad Dal Vada | South Indian Snack

     Cabbage vada - a south Indian medu vada made with whole white urad dal and cabbage leaves as the main ingredient.Adding of cabbage made the vada crispy and taste different than usual.The hole made in the center resembles a doughnut shape but is more healthy than the sugary holed sucessor.
   

Pomegranate Juice Recipe | Christmas Recipes | Healthy Juice

       Pomegranate juice is a healthy juice made with fresh pomegranate arils.Its a good source of vitamin c,vitamin K,folate and potassium.Arils itself is really sweet containing 24 grams of sugar in one cup.Peel has more antioxidants and help to keep your heart healthy. Heard a lot about its abiity to improve hemoglobin in patience.

Mixture Recipe | South Indian Style | Snack Ideas

    Mixture is a south Indian snack made by mixing various deep fried ingredients.It is spicy ,sweet ,crunchy and very addictive.I love especially oma podi very much.When i was a kid my grand pa used to buy it for me .Its his favorite i guess.

Tamarind Paste Recipe | Home Made Without Any Additives

       Tamarind paste- one of the widely used ingredient in southern India. It is used as well in many other cuisines.Tree grows in a tropical climate where there is abundant of sun and less rainfall.

Avocado Paratha | Paratha Recipes | Healthy Dinner Ideas

       Avocado paratha a softy soft green paratha made with mashed ripe avocado.Paratha is a Indian flat bread prepared with whole wheat flour and spices.Sometime people complaint about chapathi not being soft and look for alternatives like milk ,hot water to make it soft.

Bengali Pineapple Chutney | Sweet and Spicy Pineapple Chutney

          Pineapple chutney a sweet and spicy chutney famous in Bengali cuisine.I don't know much about their cuisine, but came across many recipe calls for panch phoron as a spice.So i can say one variedly  used spice in bengali cuisine is panch phoron .'panch' means 5 , 'phoron' means spice.so the powder is a mix of five seeds like Mustard/rai,jeera,fennel/saunf,nigella/kalaunji and fenugreek/methi daana.Usually panch phoron is added to ghee /oil that makes the oil aromatic and give the dish a special taste.

Mushroom Masala Recipe | Spicy Mushroom Stir Fry For Rice

   Mushroom masala a super quick spicy stir fry for rice.Its a dry version of regular masala made for chapathi.

Pineapple Kesari Bath Recipe | Pineapple Sheera | Fruit Kesari

             Pineapple kesari or kesari bath is a popular breakfast item of karnataka.Kesari is a sweet,flavored with saffron to get the natural yellowish tint to the dessert. Because of the affordability now a days saffron is less used and is replaced by edible food colors.

Pori Urundai Recipe | Karthigai Deepam Recipe | Healthy Snack Ideas

     Pori Urundai - an easy snack made with puffed rice and jaggery. Pori/Murmura/mudhi/Parmal   names for puffed rice in different Indian states.Pori is basically made by puffing the rice in steam over a sand filled oven or by heating rice kernels under high pressure in the presence of steam.This also resembles popping the corn under high heat, am i right ?
   

Keerai Biryani | Spinach Biryani | Sunday Lunch Recipes | Video Recipe

              Keerai  Biryani   a delicious spicy rice made with fresh spinach leaves and masala. Like everybody we love eating biryani on weekends.I make only vegetarian version and some non-veg side for my dears..Hotels/restaurants serve different foods yeah !! of course there must be some good amount of fat and pretty much high salt compared to our homemade food.

Raw Mango Rice Recipe | Manga Sadam | Easy Rice Recipes | Indian Lunch Recipes

    Raw Mango rice is a quick south Indian variety made with fresh raw mango.Spend 15 minutes and finish cooking your lunch,if you already have some cooked or any left over rice.This can be a healthy lunch box.No grinding and no masala powder makes  it even better choice for bachelors lunch/ dinner.

Cucumber, Kidney Bean,ChickPea Salad | Simple Salad Recipe | Easy Salad

    Salads  are great starters or a fantastic snack especially when it comes to mid day hunger pangs.When you are hungry at around 11 am or 3 pm,you probably would go for a deep fried snack which is not so healthy.Eating salad at that time should be the bestest option, if you are not even taking any healthy meal in a day.After all the deep diwali snack and sweets you can eat this salad off to clean your system.Doesn't this look colorful and appetizing ?

Murukku Recipe | Instant Chakli Recipe | Tirunelveli Murukku | Diwali Recipes

     Murukku -an irresistible snack made in India.There is no diwali /Deepavali without murukku.Previous year diwali i made  dal chakli an entirely different murukku and totally healthy in terms of the ingredients like ragi murukku.

Rava Laddu | Rava Ladoo | Guest Post

     I am very much happy to announce that i got to write a  guest post for Indusladies. Indusladies is a community for ladies especially Indian ladies staying abroad.In there you can make friends ,share your ideas with your buddies .
      Every year they come up with so many interesting ideas,recipe contest to encourage home makers to come out of their comfort level to try something new..This year they are piling up recipes from different blogs in one place .So that its easy for people to read it online.Yes !!! now a days we read news,recipes only online right.
         Just visit their space and have a look at wonderful recipes show cased by wonderful bloggers including mine.So are you looking forward for new recipes this Diwali ? look no further click the link and check the recipes

     I have sent my “Rava Ladoo” recipe as a guest post for Indusladies . Here is the link for the ladoo...http://www.indusladies.com/food/rava-laddu

Curry Leaves Powder | Kadhi Patta Powder | Karuvepilai Podi

       Curry Leaves powder is a podi prepared with lentil (toor dal) and curry leaves.Podi is nothing but a coarse powder prepared with lentils with or without curry leaves.Usually pairs with rice and gigelly oil or ghee.I always have /make idli podi- an instant side dish for idli.Sometimes i make paruppu podi for rice and keep garam masala podi at hand for preparing north Indian curries.

Diwali 2015 Recipes | Sweets and Snacks

 Festivals bring joy and happiness to our life.Also make ourselves close to our relatives and friends.The joy of being together not only bring happiness to our heart ,but teach us /our kids about the culture as well during that time.Diwali is a such a festival celebrated all over India with great fun and joy.Its celebrating the lose of naragasura.He asked the lord on the day of his death,it has to remembered and celebrated amog people.People take oil bath to remove off the bad things that threaten their life.
       In south India Fried items like vada,paniyaram,bajji,bonda is done on the day of diwali.Where as in North, people do lakshmi pooja on night.Whole of India , people wear new dresses and share sweets,snack with friends,relatives,neighbours. yes !! No festival is celebrated without sweets and savories.Here are the collection of diwali recipes from mykitchenodyssey.
         ***Have a happy and safe diwali ***   readers and friends.

Badusha	Besan Ladoo	Bread Halwa
Kashi Halwa	Corn Flour Halwa	Carrot Halwa
Kavuni Arisi	Sakkarai Pongal	Thengai Poli
Basundi	Saamai payasam	HealthMix Ladoo
Kandarappam	Coconut burfi	Wheat halwa
Rava kesari	Oats payasam	Paruppu payasam
Karupatti paniyaram	Javarisi Payasam	Maa ladoo
Kaju Katli	Carrot-Apple Halwa	Cocoa Coconut Fudge
Labongo Latika	Ukkarai	Boondi Ladoo
Aval murukku	Maida Seedai	Kai Murukku
Kara pori	Bread Pakora	Baked Jeera Biscuit
Vella Paniyaram	Aval mixture	Seeyam
Kara sev	Mullu murukku	Ragi Murukku
Vella Paniyaram	Vada	Rasa vadai