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ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. During our childhood days, very rarely we used to get bakery food at home. We loved chocolates and bakery food more than anything else which was prepared at home :) Couple of years later, my mother mother learned preparing cake using pressure cooker. Then, she started preparing cake whenever we want! Especially, we loved the cake prepared using different colors :D She tried adding different flavors and dry fruits in her next experiments. Even now, we prepare the same cake with slight variations. This cake can be prepared very easily using pressure cooker. This time, I have prepared it using oven since I didn't had a wide vessel to fit in the pressure cooker. It came out very well in oven also! The only difference you can observe is when you use pressure cooker, base of the cake will become slightly dark in color; whereas base color won't change when oven is used. Preparation time:1 1/4 hours Yield: 1 round cake Ingredients: Maida / All...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ . This snacks resembles the memories of my childhood. I was born n brought up in a joint family. So, myself and 2 - 3 of my cousins we of the same age group. Daily, we used to have some snacks after coming back from school in the evening. Poha seasoning was our favorite snacks those days and most of the days, we used to demand for the same :D Even when I was working, I used to carry this poha seasoning for my lunch box. Although its not a stomach filling snack, I was preparing it for lunch box on some lazy days ;) There, it was a big hit! My colleagues were fond of this poha and they used to finish my lunch box whenever I carry poha! And I was satisfying myself with somebody else's lunch box :) This poha is a perfect snacks for evening time with a cup of hot tea or coffee.  Preparation time: 15 minutes Servings: 2 Ingredients: Thin poha / Paper Avalakki - 2 1/2 bowl Groundnuts - 3 spoon Urad dal - 1/2 spoon Dry red...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ . This is one of the rice variety which I usually prepare for hubby's lunch box. Recipe is also very simple, and it won't take much time to prepare. If you have no time to prepare a side dish or raita, simply it can be had with plain curd also!  Normally, mint leaves will get spoiled within very few days even if you keep them in the fridge. I want to share a nice tip with you to avoid the spoiling! Clean the mint leaves and grind them in a blender along with little salt into fine paste. Add little water, if needed. Then, transfer the paste into a glass bottle and refrigerate it. It will last for at-least a month or more :) I will use this paste for chaat items, chutney, rice items, etc. Preparation Time: 25 - 30 minutes Servings: 2 Ingredients: Rice - 1 1/2 cup Mint leaves - 1/2 bunch Green chillies - 3 Ginger - 1 inch Garlic 3 - 4 cloves Grated coconut - 1/4 cup Cardamom - 2 Cloves - 4 4 - 5 small pieces of cinnamon 1 medium size onion Po...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. Gavvalu is a famous snack item from Andhra. Few months back, one of my Andhra friends offered these lovely goodies to us. We were wondering about the shape of these goodies! They look alike small shells and tastes very nice.Then, she told me the recipe of these sweet shells. But there was a small confusion. She told that she had used the Gavvalu board, a small board with zig zag surface to give that shape to the Gavvalu. Then, I searched in Google for an alternative for the Gavvalu Board. I ended up with two easy alternatives which are - a fork or a big comb! I tried with both, but for giving a nice shape, I felt the comb better than fork. These days, I am maintaining a separate comb in the kitchen exclusively for Gavvalu preparation! These sweet shells goes well with a cup of hot tea or coffee. Or simply you can eat them anytime (like me??) :) Be cautious a bit while eating Gavvalu..coz you can't stop munching them!!    ...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. Last week, we had been to a shop nearby for the weekly shopping. There, I saw some fresh bitter gourd in the vegetables counter. Simply I went there and picked few of them. It was a long time ago I prepared Bitter Gourd Palya at home. Bitter gourd makes me remember one funny incident happened when we were in Australia. It was not even a month ago we stayed there, we had been to a Weekend Market where farmers themselves come directly and sell their produces. We had bought some bitter gourd from there and I prepared Palya. As far as I observed, water content is relatively high in most of the vegetables available in Australia. Bitter gourd palya needs to be fried for longer time till the water content is almost reduced. I prepared Palya with 2 - 3 bitter gourd, once it was nicely roasted and done, I could have measured the quantity in spoons! :D It was reduced that much!! After this experiment, I never tried Bitter Gourd Palya during my stay there...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. Actually, this posting was planned long time ago! Whenever I prepare Banana Rotti, I was thinking of posting the recipe. But I was bit lazy to note down the measurements ;) This time, I have noted down the measurements properly and thought of posting the recipe! If you have a stock of fully ripened bananas at home, just try this soft and sweet rotti. Its very easy to prepare and there is no compromise in taste. This rotti suits for your breakfast as well as for lunch box :) Preparation time: 30 minutes Servings: 3 Ingredients: Fully ripened large bananas - 1 & 1/2 Rice flour - 2 cups Wheat flour - 1/2 cup Water - 1 cup Salt - 1 1/4 spoon or to taste Sugar - 4 spoons Jaggery - 2 spoons Method: Peel and chop the bananas into medium size pieces. Grind them in mixer and prepare a fine paste. Add salt, sugar, jaggery and water to the banana paste and boil it for 2 minutes. Then, add the flours and saute it ...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. We had a mixer grinder of Butterfly brand from past 3 years. My sister has been using this brand mixer from around 10 years. She suggested me this brand after my marriage. I was happy with the mixer and loved the juice jar which comes along with it! Due to our luggage limit, we sold it in Australia while relocating to India. After coming to Bangalore, I wanted to buy the same model from butterfly again! We searched and searched here, nowhere I could find the same kind of mixer :( Most of the big and branded shops won't have the Butterfly mixer these days and very few shops have some other model in Butterfly. Finally, I was able to get the same model mixer in a small shop and without a second thought, we bought it from them!! Now I have decided not to loose this mixer for any reason for at-least a couple of years. We had been to our native recently. One of our relatives had brought some home grown Amatekayi (Ambatekayi) for us. Since we can...