Hospitality

Today is Naraka Chaturdashi. It is imperative that one sweet and one salty dish be made at home. Take one glass chana dal and one glass moong dal. Pour one heaped teaspoon good quality ghee in a preheated kadhai. Roast the moong dal in it and keep it aside. Pour ...

Today is Dhantrayodashi. People visit friends and relatives from this day during Diwali. We suggest here an easily made fresh sweet for today. Take a grated coconut. Grate some jaggery and keep it separately. Keep diamond sugar crystals in one small bowl separately. There are some fennel seed peppermints available ...

Diwali begins from Rama Ekadashi during Kartik month. The daughter-in-law coming from a doctor family was in jeopardy as to preparing sweets for Diwali. The doctor did not like to store sweets and insisted on finishing the same within the day it is prepared. The daughter-in-law called my Mom. Mom ...

Sweet Aapam can be prepared from leftover rice. Soak overnight udad dal about 1/3rd measure of the leftover rice, in water. Next day, grind the udad dal into a very thick paste. Also, grind the rice into a very thick paste and mix the 2 together. Grate one cup of ...

Leftover rice can be made into payasam. Roast all the leftover rice in ghee and place it aside. In a preheated kadhai, pour some ghee with a fistful of cashew nuts, a fistful of dried grapes and a fistful of charoli. Roast well and keep this also aside. Roast grated ...

Leftover rice can be refurbished with chutney powder. Dry roast grated coconut as much as the leftover rice and keep it aside. Dry roast 1/3rd part of chana dalia and place it aside. Pour ¼ teaspoon cooking oil into a heated kadhai and stir fry as many red chiilis as ...

Leftover rice can be made into coconut + sesame rice. Take grated coconut as much as there is leftover rice. Also take the same amount of finely chopped onion. Take 1/3 cup of white sesame. Dry roast the white sesame in a preheated kadhai and place it aside. Deseed enough ...

Leftover rice can be made into methi (fenugreek) rice, which is very good for diabetics and healthy for others. Finely chop 1 bunch fenugreek leaves and mix with the leftover rice. Boil water in cooker. Place this mixture in a suitable vessel inside the cooker and steam it for 3 ...

Leftover rice can be made into salted spheres. Dry grind leftover rice and add grated coconut as much as the leftover rice. Add as much salt as required. Add a finely chopped bunch of coriander leaves, 4 sprigs curry leaves and 4 springs mint. Place this aside. Dry roast and ...

Leftover rice can be made into sambhar rice. Pressure cook a mixture of 2 fistfuls of tuar dal, 1 ½ fistfuls of moong dal and 1 fistful of chana dal till tender and place it aside. Wet grind a mixture of a small cup grated coconut, 3 deseeded green chillis ...