Egg Fried Rice Recipe | Indo-Chinese Style Egg Fried Rice Recipe | Easy Egg Fried Rice

 Egg Fried Rice is a quick and simple recipe that can be prepared in no time & perfect for lunchbox or weekend lunch. Egg Fried Rice is also one of the easy way to cook left over rice in a yummy way. Most of the time I finish my left over rice with this Egg Fried Rice Recipe. My kids favorite rice recipe, they will eat Egg Fried Rice everyday. So I Often make this egg fried rice for their lunchbox or weekend lunch along with their favorite Chilli Chicken.

Methi Paratha Recipe | Easy Methi Paratha & Mint Aloo Raita Recipe | Methi Roti Recipe

Methi Paratha & Aloo Raita Recipe with video. Methi Paratha is a flavorful, healthy and delicious Paratha/Rotis which I learned from my Neighbor Aunt. She makes methi paratha often for their breakfast and I had eaten her parathas so many times in these 8 years. She makes the Best Methi Paratha, Aloo Paratha & Onion Paratha.

Paneer Kulcha Recipe / Restaurant Style Paneer Kulcha Recipe / Stove Top Paneer Kulcha Recipe

Paneer Kulcha Recipe, an easy and super tasty stove top method. Last month from our local Indian Restaurant kids had Paneer Kulcha & Tandoori Roti. And they loved the Paneer Kulcha a lot, the paneer stuffing was so simple used fresh paneer with some chillies and spices and we liked it. Also the Kulcha was not super thick, just little thicker than Paratha and it was soft and buttered well. From that time they kept asking me to make Paneer Kulcha at home. And I myself wanted to recreate that recipe and followed my neighbor Aunt's Kulcha Recipe, which I posted few years back. And the Paneer Stuffing was also simple just like what we ate at our local restaurant. Paneer Kulcha turned out pretty good and it was so flavorful and delicious, my little one even said it was way better than the restaurant ones, and what else you need right?! Now off the recipe..

Chilli Garlic Noodles Recipe / Street Style Chilli Garlic Noodles Recipe/ Spicy Veg Hakka Noodles Recipe

   

Chilli Garlic Noodles is a simple, little spicy and flavor rich Veg Hakka Noodles Recipe. Fresh finely chopped garlic & red chilli fried in sesame oil gives lots of flavor to the simple veg noodles. IF you haven't tried spicy hakka noodles, give this recipe a try and am sure you gonna love it. A must try recipe for who love spicy and garlic flavored foods. I made this noodles for my little son's Birthday Party few years back and everyone loved it including kids. Little spicy for them but they still loved it with some tomato ketchup & some butter on noodles. 

Cilantro Potato Rice / Kothamalli Urulai Kizhangu Sadam / Coriander Rice With Potato - Easy Lunchbox Recipe

 

Today's recipe is an Easy to Make Lunchbox Recipe - Cilantro Potato Rice. Coriander Flavored Potato Rice is a mildly spiced, flavor rich Rice recipe which is perfect for Kids LunchBox along with some Fryums. My kids love Sabudana Khichdi a lot mainly because of the Potatoes in it. So I combined their most favorite potato with their least favorite cilantro and made this Super Tasty Rice with more cashews and peanuts for extra crunch.  Also, this rice recipe can be done in no time if you have cooked rice ready. Addition of cilantro makes this rice healthy and tasty too. Next time do give this Cilantro Potato Rice a try for your kids lunchbox and let me know how it turned out to you. Now off to the recipe

InstantPot Mint Pulao Recipe / Pudina Pulao - Easy Lunchbox Recipe / Instant Pot Pulao Recipe

 

I prefer One Pot Meal for a Quick Lunch meal, and this Mint Pulao is one such time saver recipe using InstantPot. The whole meal is ready in 30 minutes and everything done in one pot, don't worry about ginger garlic paste or chopping vegetables for a flavorful Pulao, Just blend handful of mint, cilantro, ginger, garlic to a paste and use any available veggies or just some cut potato cubes and frozen peas works for this Pulao. InstantPot Mint Pulao can be served with just Onion Raita or some Chips & Plain Yogurt/Curd. 

Paneer Fried Rice Recipe / How to Make Paneer Fried Rice - Indo-Chinese Style Recipe

My kids love all varieties of Indo-Chinese recipes and Paneer recipes a lot. So why not to combine both and made a simple yet flavor rich rice recipe, Paneer Fried Rice. Instead of adding plain paneer pieces I just spiced up paneer with dry spice powders and roasted in Cast Iron pan before adding it to the rice. This way the paneer was crispy and tasty and everyone at home loved it. You can serve the roasted paneer separately along with some grilled vegetables as a started/side.

Tawa Naan Recipe | No Yeast Stove Top Garlic Naan Recipe | Easy Tawa Garlic Naan Recipe

Today's recipe is Naan/leavened flat bread without yeast, No oven and an easy Stove Top Method.  I have already shared a healthy Naan using Multi grain Flour. This Tawa Naan is almost the same recipe with All Purpose Flour. Just simple kneading and a lot of resting time is more than enough to get a super soft and yummy Naan on stove top itself. Now off to the recipe...

Mutton Biryani Recipe | South Indian Style Mutton Biryani | Mutton Biryani Using Seeraga Samba Rice | Pressure Cooker Mutton Biryani

After almost six months I cooked Non-Veg Recipes as today we had few friends visiting our place and V wanted me to cook Non-veg recipes as they love non-vegetarian more than veg recipes. So I made Mutton Biryani, Chicken Chukka Varuval, Chicken Gravy, Onion Raita, Plain Rice & Rasam for our Sunday Special Lunch. This recipe is also my Mom's special Mutton Biryani recipe that I wanted to share here for long time, Every time when she make this Mutton Biryani she used to tell me that the biryani turned out so good and flavorful and also she made it perfectly with separate grains using seeraga samba rice.  She said the she will make it when we all visit India till that time she insisted me to try it by myself. But, I never tried it before as we don't prefer mutton recipes more and today when I made it for guest, I recollected those words she said and I missed/miss her badly.

Vegetable Pulao Recipe | Easy Vegetable Pulao Recipe | Restaurant Style Veg Pulao Recipe

Easy Restaurant style Vegetable Pulao recipe with step by step photos. This is one of the easiest and simple one pot meal with lot of flavor and taste. This recipe of Vegetable pulao is perfect for weekday's lunchbox or a weekend special lunch along with some kurma or paneer gravy. My kids love this veggie pulao for lunch and I make it weekly once for their lunchbox. I wanted to share this recipe here since long time but due to one or the other reason I kept postponing it.
Last week,  I spent some time by cooking and clicking this vegetable pulao and Onion Raita. Cooking and taking food pictures are really helping my mind free from anxiety and stress but, Not all the time. Some how managing and hoping for the heal soon. Now off to the recipe..

Bhindi Masala Recipe | Bhindi Dry Sabzi | Bhindi Capsicum Masala

We mostly prefer rotis/Phulka for dinner and making a variety side dish everyday is a big task for me. We love sabzi or dry curry kind of side dish for Phulka along with mild dal or plain yogurt. Last week, made this simple and easy to make sabzi using Bhindi/Okra with Capsicum. Bhindi/Okra paired well with capsicum and the sabzi turned out so good, adding capsicum is optional but sure it gives lot of flavor and taste to the masala.

Kothu Parotta Recipe | How To Make Egg Kothu Parotta With Salna | Muttai Kothu Parotta

Kothu Parotta is a popular South Indian recipe particularly in Tamil Nadu. This is a nothing but a minced parotta/layered flat breads sauted with onions, tomato, spices, eggs and with Chalna/Salna. The salna can be vegetarian or non-vegetarian. Here, I used Chicken Salna and it turned out so yummy and flavorful. The taste was much better than the Hotel Kothu Parotta.

Aadi 18 Recipes | Aadi Perukku Lunch Menu | South Indian Variety Rice Menu

Aadi 18 / Aadi Perukku special recipes or Lunch Menu. Aadi perukku or Aadi 18 is celebrated on the 18th day of Tamil Month Aadi. This festival is common in South India and is celebrated as a tribute to water's life sustaining properties. My Mom used to make variety rice, payasam and vada on this special day. I prepared this Variety rice platter for last year's Aadi Perukku and did not get time post it and was lying in the draft for almost a year. Today thought of sharing it as tomorrow is Aadi 18 and this post may help you to prepare your lunch menu.

Egg Dum Biryani Recipe | Easy Egg Dum Biryani | Egg Biryani Recipe

Egg Dum Biryani or Egg Biryani using Dum Method is a flavor rich and delicious Biryani and my kids favorite biryani too. Some how this Egg Dum Biryani tastes similar to the Restaurant style Dum Biryani. This is the recipe I recently cooked for blog and the Egg Biryani turned out pretty well.
I usually prefer one pot method for cooking Biryani, that is cooking rice and gravy together with all spices, herbs and vegetables or meat in one pot method. As, this method is easy and quick and the entire biryani can be done in 30 minutes or less.

Tandoori Chicken Burger Recipe | Baked Chicken Patty Recipe | Indian Style Chicken Burger | Baked Chicken Patty Burger Recipe

Tandoori chicken burger recipe with step by step photo. I came across this recipe from a Facebook Page food recipe video. I slightly tweaked the recipe and also instead of shallow frying i baked the chicken patties. I made this Tandoori Chicken Patty Burger last Sunday for our lunch along with baked potato Tots. Baking method is not only healthy but also it gives perfectly tender and juicy chicken. I skipped Egg and Used only breadcrumbs to coat chicken that resulted in crispy crust.
I prepared Mint Flavored Yogurt Dip as spread for Chicken Burger. The patties tasted yum with that dip. Try this Indian Style Baked Chicken Patty Burger for a change from your usual chicken recipes and am sure kids will love it. These patties can be made ahead and also it freeze well.

Parotta Recipe | Parotta - Step By Step Recipe | South Indian Layered Bread - Hotel Style Parotta Recipe

Parotta is a soft, flaky layered South Indian flat bread that is popular in Tamil Nadu & Kerala. Parotta is often served with Salna both Vegetarian and Non-Veg Salna. This is similar to the North Indian Lachha Paratha that is prepared using Wheat flour whereas the parotta are made using maida/APF. Many think that this parotta requires lots of oil to get the soft and flakiness and also requires too much labor like kneading, beating and shaping the dough but it is not true. You can make this Parotta with less oil and minimal work. Only thing it requires is "TIME". Yes.,it need couple of hours to be done without much oil and stress. The more you rest the dough more the softness and flakiness. The rested dough stretch by itself without use of much oil. I used less than 4 tbsp oil for all the 4 parottas.

Aloo Beans Sabzi Recipe | Punjabi Aloo Beans Sabzi | How To Make Punjabi Style Aloo Beans Sabzi | Potato Green Beans Sabzi

Punjabi Aloo Green Beans Sabzi recipe with step by step pictures. Like my other Punjabi Recipes this sabzi recipe is also from my neighbor Aunt. Whenever, I make sweets or snack or baked goodies I share with my 2 Indian neighbor families. And in-return they fill my box with a yummy food. Long back auntie returned my box with full of aloo beans sabzi. Sabzi was so good, full of flavors and my kids liked it a lot. I was happy that they ate all of the green beans along with rotis. So, immediately I want to know the recipe and called auntie and noted down the recipe.
This is one of our family's favorite side dish for rotis and I often make this for lunch box along with Phulka. This sabzi is very easy to make except chopping green beans. If you have helping hand like me yes.,V did this job for me. Most of the time he only chop green beans and okra the previous night. So that it will be helpful for me to cook both breakfast and lunch in the morning.

Kulcha Recipe | How To Make Plain Kulcha Recipe | Kulcha Recipe - Stove Top Method | Easy Kulcha Recipe In 2 Ways

I am trying to update my blog at least twice or thrice in a week but due to one or the other reasons I couldn't update it regularly. I have handful of recipes lying in my draft for long time, also every week I cook at least one recipe for blog but still no boost to sit and write the post. Finally, I am here with my Kulcha Recipe post which i wanted to post 2 weeks back. One more reason for this kulcha post took time, that I don't have step wise pictures.

Egg Curry Recipe | Spicy Egg Curry | Capsicum Egg Curry

Today's recipe is a spicy Egg Curry that is prepared using freshly ground spices & tomato puree. The preparation process may look difficult and time consuming but actually you can make this curry in a jiffy. Last Week, I prepared this Egg Curry for our Dinner. At home, kids were sick and I wanted to make something spicy for them and this Egg Curry using freshly ground spices came to my mind. Also, i wanted to share this recipe here, so without any second thought prepared and clicked it. I served this Egg Curry with Jeera Rice for kids and I had it with rotis. Egg Curry pairs well with both rice & rotis.

Mor Kuzhambu Recipe | Poosanikai Mor Kuzhambu | South Indian Mor Kuzhambu Recipe

Mor Kuzhambu or Moru Curry is nothing but a buttermilk curry using coconut and lentils. Veggies like Poosanikai/White Pumpkin(Ash Gourd), Vendakka/Okra, Zucchini, Yam or Paruppu Urundai or even Masal Vadai can be used for Mor Kuzhambu. After Marriage, I did not cook Mor kuzhamu for 3-4 years because of V. I hate to cook for myself so, I do not cook mor kuzhambu and only 2 times I made it that too for Blog Post. But, I love mor kuzhambu a lot and can eat Mor kuzhambu for all three meals. Recently my kids too started liking Mor Kuzhambu..Luckily, my kids' taste buds are similar to mine and now I make once in 10 days for we three :)
 I have already shared Paruppu Urundai Mor Kuzhambu & Pachai Urundai Moru Curry recipe and this mor kuzhambu is easy,  without onion and garlic. For Padaiyal/Virunthu, we make this Mor Kuzhambu as it is without onions. This is a simple recipe with lovely flavor and taste. Here, I used White Pumpkin or Ash gourd but you can use any desired vegetable or even paruppu urundai to make this Moru Curry.