Subadras Kitchen

These orange cupcakes are eggless and butterless but still soft and spongy , they are so light and airy that I couldn’t believe that it is made with whole wheat flour. This is orange season and we get real fresh juicy oranges in plenty. So I wanted to try orange cakes and cookies. I found  this   recipe and was tempted to try it immediately. I increased the measurements of the ingredients to get more cup cakes, and I was really surprised with the outcome. My family enjoyed it a lot. I served it for some guests at home and they were also surprised to know that it was made with whole wheat flour, it came out so soft and spongy. Please try it out and enjoy!! Eggless Butterless Whole Wheat Orange Cupcakes Recipe Cuisine: International | Recipe Category: Cakes | Makes : 12 cupcakes Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook time: 15 mins | Total time: 30 mins Ingredients: Oranges – 5  small Whole wheat flour – 300 grams Granulated Sugar — 150 grams Oil  – 75 ml Corn flour – 1.5 tbsp Baking soda – 1 tsp Baki

Moong Sprouts Curry | Moong sprouts sabzi | Sprouted Green Gram Curry with stepwise pictures . Moong can be easily sprouted like  this . I often make this curry as a sidedish for chapatis for dinner. This is a quick and easy recipe and I plan to make it when I feel lazy to cut veggies . My kids like to have this curry along with yoghurt, as sidedish for chapati. My son says it as ‘ payaru thayiru ‘ 😀  Pachai Payaru is green gram in tamil .  Thayiru is the tamil word for curd or yoghurt. Here is my recipe for Moong sprouts curry Ingredients: Moong sprouts   –  1 cup Onion – 1 Ginger – half inch piece Garlic – 5 small pods or 2 large pods Green chilly – 2 Jeera / Cumin seeds – 1 tsp Tomato – 2 Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Chilly powder – 1 tsp Coriander powder – 1 tsp Garam Masala powder  – 1 tsp Kasuri Methi – a handful Oil – 2 tbsp Salt – to taste Method: Sprout the moong dal previous night. Grind green chilly, ginger and garlic. Add roughly chopped onions to it and pulse it , but do not m

Mint chutney or Pudhina Thovayal is a nice side dish for idly and dosa. Mint has a lot of health benefits. It is rich in Vitamins A and C, calcium and iron. It is good for the digestive system, and is also rich in anti-oxidants. So we should try to include it in our food often. Whenever I get fresh mint leaves, I use the leaves and save the stem for planting. I just put the stems in a glass of water. After a week, it will start to grow roots. Then, it can be transplanted to a planting pot. But I just leave it in the glass of water and replace with fresh water once in a week. It still grows in the water glass indoors.  And I get fresh mint leaves whenever needed 🙂 Here is my recipe for mint chutney Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Sidedish Prep Time: 5 mins | Cook time: 15 mins | Total time: 20 mins | Serves: 3 Ingredients: Fresh Pudhina / Mint leaves – 1 cup tightly packed Channa dal / Kadala parupu – 2 tbsp Urad dal / ulundhu – 2 tbsp Garlic  – 5 small cloves or 2 big cloves

Chicken Biriyani is a term that brings smile on the face of me and my family. LOL 😀 No other food can give me the happiness and satisfaction of eating chicken biriyani. I believe you too have the same feeling. I have got lot of praises for my chicken biriyani. Once I made chicken biriyani for an International Food Festival and many foreigners also liked it, and I heard they recommended others to also try my chicken biriyani 😀 and many Indians identified it as typical South Indian style of biriyani and Many people bought it again and again and some of them also came back after it got over . I was really really happy that day. This is a easy one pot biriyani recipe, though it is easy it takes time to prepare it. Atleast an hour. But while it is being half done the aroma fills the house and kindles the hunger in everyone’s tummy. Once it is ready, the cooker takes the center position and the whole family sits around it and the cooker takes several rounds and serves us all till the tummy

  Tandoori Chicken is something I never thought that can be done at home. We have enjoyed it only in restaurants. But first time gave it a try at home and it came out so so gooood. It was soft and juicy but it missed the smokey smell of tandoor. I made it using my oven at home. It was delicious in taste and texture. It is such a simple recipe anybody can do it, but it needs planning. We need to plan it the day before , to marinate and refrigerate the chicken in the spice mix with yoghurt. Next day, it just needs to be baked. And your crispy , soft and juicy tandoori chicken will be ready to be enjoyed.  Lets get on to the making of Tandoori Chicken.     Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Starter Prep Time: 20 mins | Cook time: 60 mins | Total time: 1 hr 20 mins | Serves: 4 to 5 Ingredients for Tandoori Chicken : Chicken – 1 kg Yoghurt – half cup Ginger Garlic paste – quarter cup Tandoori masala – 2 tsp Chilly powder – 2 tsp salt – as per taste turmeric powder – 1 tsp garam masal

Vadacurry is a special south indian dish , a great combo with idly and dosa. I prepare it on special occasions or when we have guests at home, or if we just want to eat something special 😀 Vadacurry is ideally made with masala vadai crumbled in an onion tomato base. Its main ingredient is chana dal or kadala parupu, ground to a semi fine texture and either steam cooked or roasted on a dosa tava and then added to the gravy. I learnt this recipe from my ” Sandhya maami” who is really a great cook , I wish to learn more recipes from her. My hubby likes this vada curry and often requests to prepare it. But it is a time consuming recipe and I am lazy to do it , This time I wanted to post it here so made it with ful enthu. 🙂 Here goes the recipe of Vadacurry Recipe Cuisine: South Indian | Recipe Category: Side dish Prep Time: 1 hour 10 mins | Cook time: 30 mins | Total time: 1 hour 40 mins | Serves: 4 to 5 Ingredients: Chana dal – 1 cup Finely chopped onion – 2 cups Tomato – 1 small Garlic