Nithya's Kitchen

As I type these words memories flood my mind as I embarked on a beautiful tour this very day, last year to cherish for a life time. My first attempt to one of my other passions besides food blogging, traveling is compiled in this elaborate post of my visit...

Starting today,on weekends I will be posting some breakfast ideas as well in addition to Lunch Menu Series.I have 3 Lunch Menu Series now and I thought why not do a breakfast series today?I have all these recipes on my blog except Rava Kesari and Filter Coffee which I shall post soon.I made all these last sunday and I didn't make any lunch.It was a nice feeling to make all these recipes and shared this with some visiting friends.You can make Mini Idli Sambhar,Ven Pongal or Keerai Vada too.The choice and variety here is endless. I had idly batter ready...

When holidays come me and my brother would be jumping with joy to visit my grandparents at Chennai. Each year along with my parents bro and i would start from New Delhi and spend 2 full months at grandparents place. All uncles and aunts would be there to pamper us and we got more than what we wanted.Those days!!!!This recipe i learnt from my grandma you used to make it during her fasting days.When i got married my MlL also used to make this and this became a regular feature in my house.My hubby likes the savory version and daughter...

Veppilai katti is one extrordinary dry powder which is usually consumed as a pickle and which does not need oil to prepare.Yes,it is a pickle made out of fresh citron leaves carefully pounded and grounded to perfection along with a few spices.It is also called as narthailai podi i.e.citron leaf powder in tamil and narangi patta in hindi.Normally as far as i know no hotel serves this and is usually homemade,though some like stores which sell vadams,applams and vathals like Ambika Applam company makes this and sells it in the market.My hubby loves this and will always demand for it...

Amongst other things,it is a tasty affair during weekends at home.I normally make an elaborate meal,since we all have time to eat at leisure and enjoy some scrumptious food besides catching up with each other's events over the week.I wake up lazily on weekends,but when I spring in to kitchen,things are a bit different.I enjoy cooking for the family and this week it happened to be a tasty South Indian platter with a few delicious recipes.As I said earlier I will also be posting some North Indian recipe ideas too in the long run,so keep tuned to my blog for...

This is basically a recipe made out of gulab jamun mix and not out of gulab jamun. I was quite tempted to try out this exciting recipe as I had never heard of such a sweet before.But it is Diwali time and I am in search of new recipes....

I usually try pastas with white sauce or red sauce,but for a change tried this pasta recipe with our very own Indian Masalas.I had half a packet of spiral pasta lying in my pantry and this became a tasty snack for my daughter.This can be made with many variations and adding vegetables of your choice.In a matter of few minutes delicious pasta will be ready.This is a change from cheesy pastas which turn out be high on calories too.Prepared with the desi spices and packed with nutrition and taste this is absolutely a winner recipe. As you can see I...

Ladoo with broken wheat, wheat rava or dalia was totally new to me. I first stumbled upon this while browsing for a different, yet tasty and healthy recipe. This recipe is totally easy and very easy to make. As Diwali is fast approaching, it is an excellent way to...

Sometime back I was asked to contribute in recipes for a Tamil Magazine,the topic of which was Soya. Among many soya recipes I made this one was enjoyed to the core as I had made it when it was heavily raining here in Bangalore and Ravi liked this very much.Soya as we all know is abundant in protein and is a legume variety, native to East Asia.As we all nowadays oil is also made from soyabean and is considered to be healthy.As a matter of fact,this recipe was purely an innovative one and I had made it just for the...