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Anu's Kitchen Navarathri Recipe Sundal Recipes

Kadalai Sundal | Peanut Sundal

Peanut also known as “ground nut” is loaded with nutrients! Peanut sundal is one of the easiest snack that you can enjoy at all times. Vendors in Chennai (a city in India) suburban trains fondly call it “Time pass Kadalai” 🙂 You can easily ‘kill’ time munching this inexpensive nut while enjoying(really?!) the long train […]

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Anu's Kitchen Navarathri Recipe Sundal Recipes

Chickpeas (Channa) Sundal

After joyful Krishna Janmashtami and Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations, its time for NAVARATHRI! In south India, navarathri is celebrated with “Bommai Kolu” (aka Golu) and “Sundal” (recipe with legumes, like the one given below). Nava-rathri means nine nights. Navarathri is the Hindu festival celebrated for nine nights and ten days. Last day is called “Vijaya Dasami”. […]

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Anu's Kitchen Modak recipe Sweets

Fried Modak | Modakam

Hope everyone had a wonderful Ganesh Chaturthi! This year I made fried modak for prasadam. “Kozhukattai” and “Modakam” are the sweet dishes prepared for Ganesh Chavithi.  Fried modaks are also prepared on Sankashti (Sankata hara chaturthi) as neivedhyam to lord Ganesh. Fried modaks are easy to make and tasty to relish 🙂 Ingredients: Wheat flour: […]

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Anu's Kitchen Kheer or Payasam

Semiya Payasam

Wishing you all a very happy Krishna Janmashtami!! Hindus celebrate the birth of “Lord Krishna” as Krishna Janamashtami or Gokulashtami. I made this simple semiya payasam (Vermicelli pudding) for prasadam. This is one of the easiest kheer (payasam) recipe! You can make it even more easier by buying instant semiya kheer mix 😉 Another way […]

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Anu's Kitchen Poriyal or Sabji

Onion Tomato Curry

I have a special love for Onion Tomato Curry, for this is the first recipe that I learnt to cook 🙂 When I was working for an IT giant in India, I stayed with my  friends in an apartment close to work. That was when I learnt to cook! Thanks to my friends I turned […]

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Anu's Kitchen Cakes & Biscuits

Simple Vanilla Cake Recipe

While I was browsing for some cake recipes, I stumbled on Countryliving.com and found a perfect vanilla cake recipe. I liked it so much that I decided to try it! We had our friends for dinner and I made this vanilla cake for dessert. Everyone loved it! The original recipe had 1 cup of butter […]

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