VIRUNDHOMBAL

Plain salna recipe with step by step pictures and full video. Our cuisine has a numerous variety of gravy dishes in both vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes. With so many kinds of gravy recipes there, many of our favourite side dishes for parotta are this plain salna. It is a joy for many of us to mix the parotta with a generous amount of salna and eat it along with onion raita. Although salna dishes have been in our cuisine for many years, they still have some important things you have to remember before proceeding. We will see a few basic tips for preparing a perfect hotel style salna.  1. Always use coconut, cashew nuts and other thickening ingredients like peanuts or roasted chana dal in minimal quantities. Do not increase any one of these ingredients, then your salna will be thick. 2. If the salna becomes too thick during cooking, add warm water and continue to cook for another five to seven minutes. If the salna is not thick enough, close it with the lid and cook until you g...

Susiyam - recipe with full video and step by step pictures. Susiyam is a sweet prepared with maida flour the outer layer and a tasty stuffing made with cooked chana dal, jaggery, coconut and cardamom. Actually traditional susiyam outer covering is made from ground rice batter or rice flour. Even though there are many kinds of  halwas, burfis and ladoo prepared for Diwali, my favourite one is this susiyam. The batter prepared with maida will have a lighter texture and the stuffing inside the batter gives the susiyam a juicy taste and I eat it again and again every time I made it. Now let's see how to prepare Susiyam Check out my sweet recipes for Diwali   Thiribagam (Three in one delight) Rava ladoo Kaju Katli   Kesar peda Easy Milk Sweet Chocolate Burfi Mango and Coconut Burfi Moong dal flour Ladoo Coconut Burfi Paal Kova with milk powder  Paal Kova with Naatu Sarkkarai Kesari Pineapple Kesari Milk Kesari Mango Kesari Badam Katli - Almond Fudge Carrot Burfi Dry ...

Karasev recipe with full video and step by step pictures. Generally, most of us use red chilly powder or black pepper powder for karasev for spiciness. In this recipe, I have used green chilly, which gives a pale yellow colour for the karasev. The taste and texture was really good. I learnt this recipe from my Sarasu perimma who is an expert in making savouries and traditional sweets. She taught me few savouries and I will post one by one in virundhombal. She told me using red chilly powder will give dark colour karasev, so try karasev with green chillies. To make this karasev we need gram flour, rice flour, roasted gram flour(fried grams flour) green chillies, butter, asafoetida and oil.  Tips to make karasev Combine all the flour  and then add the butter. You can add hot oil or melted ghee. Mix well with your palm until the mixture is mixed well with the butter. The green chillies are ground with little salt and then filtered using a fine strainer. Do not add the ground gree...

Adhirasam - traditional sweet recipe with simple and healthy ingredients. Adhirasam doesn't take longtime to make, but it requires a little patience while making the jaggery syrup and mixing the rice flour with the jaggery. It's easy once you know how to prepare the jaggery syrup. Now let's see all the steps in detail with step by step pictures and full video.  Check out my sweet recipes for Diwali   Thiribagam (Three in one delight) Rava ladoo Kaju Katli   Kesar peda Easy Milk Sweet Chocolate Burfi Mango and Coconut Burfi Moong dal flour Ladoo Coconut Burfi Paal Kova with milk powder  Paal Kova with Naatu Sarkkarai Kesari Pineapple Kesari Milk Kesari Mango Kesari Badam Katli - Almond Fudge Carrot Burfi Dry Gulab Jamun Easy Milk Sweet Badam Coconut Burfi Badam Burfi  Badusha Potato Halwa Carrtot Halwa Banana Halwa Thirattupal Badam Halwa  Dates Halwa Ashoka Halwa Adhirasam Recipe Details Here is the video link for Adhirasam Prep time : 1 hour Rest...