iyer cooks

I got the recipe from a book called 1001 Cupcakes, cookies & Other Tempting Treats. I got the book from Barnes & Noble couple of months back and finally started trying few goodies from it. The original recipe is made with Museli. I replaced Honey Bunches of oats for Museli. It came super good and I added few chocolate chips in each muffin. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- All Purpose Flour - 1 cup Baking powder - 1 tbsp Honey bunches of Oats Cereal - heaping 1 1/4 cups Brown Sugar - 1/2...

This is a baked version of potato curry. I was going through my cousin's blog En Vittu Virundhu, I came across this baked potato curry with garlic. But I skipped the garlic. Her version was fully baked and mine is half baked & half stove top cooked. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients :- Potato - 4 (big) Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp red chillies powder - 3/4 tsp (acc to taste) salt to taste Oil - 1 tsp Pam spray - couple of sprays Take a microwave safe bowl. Put small holes in potato with a fork....

This post has been lying in the draft for a very long time. Thought of finishing it today. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- Basmati Rice - 1 1/2 cups Beetroot - 1 cup (shredded) Onion - 1 medium sized Garlic - 1 (chopped) Green Chillies - 3 (acc to taste) ginger - a small piece (finely chopped) Red chillies powder - 1/2 tsp (optional) Salt to taste Turmeric powder v- 1/2 tsp (optional) Oil/butter - 1 1/2 tbsp cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp

I made these burfi couple of week back. Just after the varalakshmi Vratam, I had so much coconut (we buy atleast two -one for kalasam & one for naivedhyam). My husband and my girls never take coconut. I was literally wasting two coconuts and I don't use coconut in my cooking. Thought of making this burfi and called my chitti for the recipe. Here foes the recipe.Ingredients:- Coconut - 1 cup (shredded) Sugar - 1 I/2 cup (acc to taste) Cardamom - 1 Edible Camphor / Pachakarpooram - a pinch Milk...

My MIL made this rice last week. I make bell pepper / capsicum rice too but in a regular fried rice way. But this is something new which she made. She used a masala powder (homemade) to finish this rice. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients :- Basmati Rice - 2 cups Bell Pepper/Capsicum - 1 1/2 cups (chopped) Onion - 1 medium sized (chopped) Green Peas - 1/2 cup ( she used frozen) Butter/Oil - 2 tbsp coconut oil - 1 tsp Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp urad dhall - 2 tsp channa dhall - 1 tsp fenugreek...

I love the cake pops we get in Starbucks. I wanted to make some when my girls have winter break. I made these last week and it came out pretty good. I would not say that it looked professional but the taste was good. I used the pre-packed Betty Crocker chocolate cake mix for basic cake and betty crocker chocolate frosting for mixing the cake. Love from the Oven. Check out this site and its an awesome site with lots of cookie recipes.

I made this side dish couple of weeks back. My girls hate eating paneer, but luckily they liked this side dish. I made this as a very rich and creamy side dish. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- Paneer pieces - 1 cup (cut it into small cubes) Green peas - 1/4 cup (I used frozen) Tomato - 1 medium sized Onion - 1/2 (if its big) Cashews - 5 or 6 Coriander seeds - 1/2 tsp Cardamom - 1 Clove - 1 Green chillies - 2 (acc to taste) Salt to taste Shredded coconut - 2 tsp Fat free yogurt - 1 tbsp...

I made this bread cutlet last week. I got the recipe my Nithya's fourth Sense Cooking... Recipe is exactly the same and I also followed the tip she has mentioned. I used bread crumbs and shallow fried the cutlets...

This is something I made for my little one's lunch box. She likes to take it twice a week. Pediatrician wanted my girls to take more dairy. They hate milk and paneer. They like to take yogurt. But that was not enough. So i thought of adding panneer in their diet. Below given quantity is for two parathas Ingredients:- Wheat dough - 2 medium ball sized Shredded panneer - 4 tbsp Salt - a pinch Ajwain - 2 pinches First take the shredded paneer, ajwain and salt and mix it together and make it...

I got this Strawberry Muffin recipe from AllRecipes.com. I followed the same recipe and the outcome was awesome as you can see in the picture. The taste was also wonderful..

I made this vendhaya kozhambu and it came out very yummy. I got the recipe from my MIL. I haven't tried this before. So thought of giving it a try. Here goes the recipe. Ingredients:- Tamarind - 1 medium lemon sized Sesame oil - 2 tbsp Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp Urad dhall - 1/2 tsp Channa dhall - 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Red chillies - 1 Jaggery - a small piece Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp To grind:- Fenugreek seeds/Vendhayam - 3/4th - 1 tsp (acc to taste) coriander seeds - 3/4 tbsp Red chillies - 3...

Mezhukkuvaratti is a common side dish people make in most of the Palghat Iyer family. This is nothing but just a stir fry and requires very less amount of seasoning and very less amount of ingredients. I made Karamani mezhukkuvaratti last week. Here is how I made. Ingredients:- Karamani/Long Beans - 2 cups (cut it one inch sized) Red chillies - 1 or 2 Coconut Oil - 2 tsp Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp Urad dhall - 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp Pre heat oil in a wide pan, splutter...

My girls wanted me to buy them Kurkure from Indian stores. I was very sure that they will not finish it cos they have tried it many times and wasted the whole packet. Again this time, they promised me that they will finish it. I am quite sure that they will not. But I did not want to disappoint them so bought one packet and asked them to share. As usual, they wasted it after trying once. While reading the packet, I came across this recipe. I changed it to our taste. It was pretty good. Here...

I make vatha kozhambu with pumpkin most of the times and also with some vathals. After seeing Prema's Verkadalai Kozhambu, I wanted to try this too. Wasn't sure whether it will be good without any vegetable. She has also used eggplant & onion in her version. I added pumpkin and onion and almost followed the same recipe. Except, I fried handfull of peanuts in oil and added it to the kozhambu finally for extra crunchy taste. I am sending this to Bookmarked Recipes event, by Priya Of Mharo...

I made this cheese Parathas last week for my girls. Well for one of my twin. She actually liked it a lot with a cup of yogurt and sugar as side. Here is how I made this Paratha.Ingredients for making one Paratha:- Chapathi dough- a medium lemon sized Cheese Singles - 1 ghee - for cooking. Just flatten the dough to poori sized circle. Cut the cheese singles in to pieces and put it on top of the circle. Cover it and roll it for about 9" diameter. Heat a skillet and cook it in medium flame. Make...