Looking for a quick, easy breezy munchies for your sudden cravings or to have for mid-day hunger pangs, dont forget to check this incredibly delicious puffed rice chivda. With your favourite nuts and spices, you can dish out this chivda quickly with less efforts. Since this dish call for less oil, one can munch these murmura chivda with any sort of the beverages of their choice for an evening snacks or around 11 o'clock in the morning. Yes this chivda is a prefect munchies to enjoy if you want to have something light and spicy before your lunch. However puffed rice is very much used in Indian cuisine and puffed rice can be munch even without any spices. But i simply love this chivda as it will be bit spicy and nutty at the same.

Once the autumn starts here in Paris, you wont miss street vendors selling freshly roasted chestnuts which is quite common in every street corners. Freshly roasted chestnuts are our favourite street food obviously we never miss to get them. Then later i came to know how to roast and steam cook chestnuts at home which is quite similar to roasting/steam cooking peanuts but it will take more time to get roast/steam cook. Roasted chestnuts tastes fabulous while the weather is too nasty. When i picked Seasonal Special as theme for this week's blogging marathon, i seriously want to give a try to a different dish with chestnuts. Hence i want to give a trial with a smoothie bowl with steam cooked chestnuts and this smoothie came out extremely delicious. Trust me, we enjoyed thoroughly our smoothie bowl for our sunday brunch.

Ari Nellikai are the small sized gooseberries, which is quite easily available in India. Though i get the big gooseberries in Indian groceriesin Paris, i had an immense chance to give a try to this pickle during my last trip to India. This gooseberry pickle is one of my maternal grandma's signature dish. She makes this pickle quite often whenever this gooseberries shows their head in market or else in her own backyard garden. One of the quickest pickle you can dish out with less efforts, yes no sun drying, no sauteing for hours. With usual ingredients and simple cooking process, your pickle is ready to relish with curd rice or else simply to serve along with rice.

Nothing can be easy as like baking veggies in oven, i have been baking vegetables constantly whenever i feel like having healthy foods for our lunch or for our dinner. Especially cauliflower, this vegetable works awesome for baking or for oven roasting. I have already tried couple of baked dishes with this vegetable and one of my recent trial with this incredible vegetable is this simple baked guilt free baked and spiced cauliflower florets. Usually my family like cauliflower when deep fried either as crispy pakodas or bajjis, this time i quickly baked those florets with a spiced chilly paste just to serve along with our meal for lunch.

In Ireland, soda bread are usually eaten as an accompaniment for main course or else for breakfast, obviously Irish soda bread goes for two colors, brown and white and they are called cake and farl. When making farls, the soda bread dough is rolled out into a rough circle and cut all the way through and in crosswise, into four pieces or farls as "farl" is a generic term for any triangular piece of baking or 4 parts, and usually baked in a heavy frying pan or on a griddle, on top of the stove rather than in the oven. It's a flatter bread than cake, and moister after the baking's finished. Each farl is split in half "the wide way" before eating. Its best when eaten hot once gets cooked in the griddle, but sometimes its allowed to cool and then grilled or fried to have along with other dishes.

If you are buying your favourite sun dried tomatoes from stores, am sure after going through this post, you will definitely change your mind and make your own dose of those dried tomatoes at home. This method may be bit time consuming but trust me its really worth to give a try. Recently i tried my hands in making some oven dried tomatoes at home, they simply came out fantabulous. With less money, your oven dried tomatoes are ready to be used. Later i just prepared a small bottle this herbed oven dried cherry tomatoes with olive oil along with rosemary sprigs, needless to say am really happy with those oven dried tomatoes. You may think sun dried are better and cheaper when compared to oven drying, but if you live in a Country where you can see sun rarely its better to make oven dried ones na. Actually its summer here, but the Sun god is playing hide and seek with us, my yearly dose of vathals are still waiting to be prepared and dried  since Sunny days are very rare here now, its often raining or either chilled since few days.However if you are having hot sunny days,you can make your sun dried tomatoes easily too.

Paal Kozhukattai, this is one among my favourite and now its my daughter's favourite, obviously i'll make this delectable dish often as they are very easy to prepare at home. I have already tried couple of versions with this healthy sweet dish. Paal kozhukattai can be prepared either with milk,coconut milk with sugar or else with jaggery syrup and coconut milk..This time i went for sugar and milk, this healthy ragi paal kozhukattais turned out super delicious.Instead of rolling the dough as small balls, i prepared them with murukku press. When the ragi dough pressed directly to the sweetened milk, gets cooks prefectly and makes this super delicious ragi paal kozhukattais.Sending to Pari's Only - Gluten Free Cooking.

Mango, this king of fruit is everyone's favourite at home. Its peak season in India and my mom came back from India with some green mangoes. I was very happy to get those green mangoes, since i have tried couple of delicious dishes with green mangoes, i seriously want to make completely different from the usual dishes with those super fresh mangoes. One of those mangoes my mom brought was between sweet and sour when i chopped it,immediately my mind went for both raita or a simple plate of mango chaat. Finally i ended it to this super attractive chaat,trust me this chaat was extremely delicious with a mixed taste between sweet, sour and bit spicy.

Paneer, this fantastic Indian cottage cheese is our family favourite. We love this calcium rich Indian cheese in anything as anything. Obviously my fridge or either my freezer will definitely have enough paneer cubes to cook up. If you have paneer in your fridge trust me you make a couple of delicious dishes within few minutes. Since this cottage cheese is quite versatile you can do anything with it. From starter to dessert, you can make fantabulous dishes out of this Indian cheese.If you go through my recipe index, am sure you can see many varieties of dishes i have cooked out with this paneer.

My followers knows very well that i make quite often sprouts with beans and seeds at home itself. For sprouting we dont need any specific container. A small bottle container and a dark place can make some magic also you need patience for sprouting,coz sprouts may take more than two days while some may take three days to sprout. Recently i prepared few fenugreek sprouts at home, after making some instant pickles and spicy tamarind based gravies aka kaara kuzhambu finally i prepared this incredible dal powder using some leftover fenugreek sprouts and dals.

Actually this is the first time am trying a paruppu podi with sprouted fenugreek seeds,trust me this podi turned out extremely fabulous with a mild tolerable bitterness. Am having twice a week this podi mixed with rice topped with gingelly oil or ghee. Sprouted fenugreeks, we call in tamil as  mulaivita or mulaikattiya vendhayam(முளைவிட்ட வெந்தயம்) tastes less bitter when compared to the fenugreek seeds. Anyhow this bitter better seeds are seriously very healthy and definitely a diabetic friendly dal powder which helps to reduce the sugar level in blood by frequent intake.Today is the first thursday of the month and its time to post for Vegan Thursdays, an vegan event running twice a month and this healthy dal powder goes to this event too.

Actually dunno whether this post need an introduction, all of us know the medicinal value of dry ginger and also needless to say how healthy amlas are. Seriously these both dry ginger and dry amla makes an incredible home remedy for cough and cold. I simply prepare a drink with this spice powder whenever i was suffering from both sore throat and cough.Trust me with frequent intaking of this concoction will helps you very much and they works wonder anytime of the day. Simply add a teaspoon of this powder in a boiling water, bring it to boil, strain the water and drink with palm sugar, and see how wonderfully they works while you are suffering from the cough and cold.

One of my recent favourite is this dry amla, my mom got them during her last trip to India from an organic shop.No problem, if you dont get dry amla pieces and dry ginger, you can make this drink with fresh ginger and fresh amla pieces, just crush both and bring them to boil with crushed black peppercorns and coriander seeds, your concoction is ready to drink.Sending this home remedy to my event  Healthy Diet - Fat Free Recipes guest host by Dhanish and to WTML guest hosted by Asiya, event by Gayathri.

I was searching something sweet also at the same time something healthy for our evening snacks few days back, while going through my fridge i saw a cup of channadal halwa and finally i prepared this excellent sweet parathas. With a simple wheat chappathi dough, i prepared quickly this sweet paratha and this parathas tastes absolutely fabulous to enjoy with a mug of spiced black tea.

These parathas turned out extremely light,filling also at the same time an excellent tea time snack, this sweet paratha may sounds exactly like our famous puran poli, but the dough usually we make puran polis goes for all purpose flour aka maida, i completely skipped maida here and went for whole wheat flour.Since i cooked this parathas in a non stick pan, these parathas are completely oil free, in case if you want to drizzle some oil, you can definitely go for it. Watever,we just loved this delicious channa dal halwa stuffed sweet parathas for our evening snacks and we just loved it.Sending to my own event Cooking with Seeds-Dals.

My third post for this week's blogging marathon with zero oil cooking as theme is these healthy,protein packed steamed mixed dals masala vadas. Eventhough i have posted already baked and deep fried crispy masala vadas, these steamed vadas was my recent favourite, eventhough none at home enjoyed it. These masala vadas served with a spicy chutney or a simple chilly sauce tastes simply fabulous. Again this vadas are oil free and dont even have a single drop of oil.

Hardly peoples say no to potato chips, if you want to give a try to zero oil,guilt free potato chips this is for you. Yep even am not sure about making these chips until i choosed the theme zero oil cooking for this week's blogging marathon. So for the next two days i'll be posting dishes with zero oil cooking.When i choosed zero oil cooking as theme, i know i'll be making potato chips but not through microwave oven as i have already tried them and obviously i wanted them as baked ones. Until i saw the final result of these crispy and guilt free potato chips i wasnt sure of this baked version.

For my surprise they turned out simply awesome, if you are searching for prefect chips as like deep fried ones, sorry they dont tasted as though , but i wasnt disappointed of this zero oil baked potato chips. Once a while,i'll be making these chips as i loved them munching. Do check Champa, Srivalli, Sumana Deepak,Veena,Jayasri and Preeti Deo wat they baked for the fifth day of bake-a-thon. Also check out the other bloggers running this 23rd edition of blogging marathon here.



2nos Potatoes (medium sized)
Salt
Dry parsley leaves

Peel and slice the potatoes as thin chips with a mandolin.

Preheat the oven to 175F, line a baking sheet and arrange a single layer of sliced  potatoes, sprinkle the salt and herb as per need, bake for an hour until the chips turns super crispy..

Enjoy with a cup of tea..

For my third day of blogging marathon, am posting here a low fat version of kofta, prepared with soyachunks and potatoes.Usually koftas are fried either by deepfrying or shallowfrying, being a health conscious person i always goes for baked ones. Since a long,i want to give a try to this low fat version after going through some of my blogger's space.Finally i decided to prepare my koftas through appam pan with few drops of oil and am very satisfied with the final result.

Seriously these koftas turned out absolutely prefect with a crispy outer. Everyone at home just loved it simply with ketchup. With less oil,this koftas are definitely healthier than the deep fried ones,if you dont like baking this version will definitely helps you a lot. Please get faster your appam pan, if you get a nonstick appam pan you doesnt even need to add those few drops of oil too.Check out the marathoners running this 22nd edition of blogging marathon here.Sending to Kid's Delight-Healthy Makeover guest hosted by Rasi, event by Srivalli.


1cup Soyachunks (cooked & grounded as small pieces)
2nos Potatoes (cooked & mashed)
1no Onion (chopped finely)
2nos Green chillies (chopped)
1/2cup Roasted gram flour/pottukadala maavu
Salt
1tsp Garam masala powder
Few curryleaves
Oil

Take the grounded soyachunks,mashed potatoes,chopped chillies,chopped onions,roasted gramflour,salt,garam masala powder and curry leaves together in a bowl.

Mix well and make small balls with this mixture.

Heat the appam pan,drop few drops of oil.

Once the oil is hot,drop gently the already prepared balls to the warm oil,put the flame in medium and cook on both sides until the crust turns brown.

Serve hot with ketchup.