Subadras Kitchen

Vazhakkai puttu or vazhakkai podimas or raw banana podimas is a quick and easy recipe. This is similar to potato puttu. It is a good accompaniment to rice with sambar and rasam. It is a great combination with vathakuzhambu also. This can be quickly made with simple ingredients that are easily available. My mother makes the best vazhakkai fry , by slow roasting in an iron skillet. My kids and husband are fans of the vazhakkai fry that my mom prepares. But I am so lazy to do it that way, it needs a lot of time. Someday I will learn the exact way my mom does it and post it here too. But I usually prefer to do puttu with vazhakkai instead of frying it. Now my son and hubby have started to like my puttu also. Happy me 🙂 Here is my recipe for Vazhakkai Puttu: Recipe Cuisine: South Indian | Recipe Category: Sidedish | Serves: 2 to 3 Prep Time: 10 mins | Cook time: 20 mins | Total time: 30 mins Ingredients: Vazhakkai / Raw Banana – 2 medium sized Onion – 1 big Green Chillies – 3 Turmeric powd...

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 ...

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 i...

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 b...

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 ...

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...

    Spicy grilled fish is a new recipe that we tried out last week. I had been wanting to do fish fry without oil and this one came out perfect with no oil. Its a quick and easy recipe. I have tried to do a video for the very first time. Do check it out and share your valuable comments. Here is the list of ingredients for Spicy Grilled Fish Fish – 500 grams Garlic paste – 1 tbsp Tamarind – lemon size salt – 1 tsp turmeric powder  – 1/4 tsp Red chilly powder – 1 tbsp corn flour – 1 tsp lemon juice – extracted from half a lemon Instructions on how to make Spicy Grilled Fish 1.Soak tamarind in water for 10 minutes and extract the tamarind pulp. 2.To the pulp, add all the ingredients except fish. 3. Mix well to make a paste. 4. Clean the fish well and marinate it with the tamarind paste. 5. Refrigerate for 10 minutes. 6. Arrange the fish pieces on the grill stand. 7.Then, grill it in the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes on both sides. Spicy Grilled Fish is ready. Simpl...

Idly Milagai Podi is an all time favorite side dish for idly & dosa. I can eat it with idlies anytime of the day. Idly milagai podi is basically a dry powder made with roasted lentils and chilly. Can be mixed with ghee or sesame oil for great taste, or can be mixed with any cooking oil.   My son and I can have idly with idly milagai podi even three times in a day 🙂 We like it so much .. Though my husband is not a great fan of podi, as he does not like dry food stuff. But I always have stock of this. I enjoy having it mixed with rice too. You can add or replace some ingredients in this, the base being chana dal, urad dal and red chillies. I have added pepper , cumin seeds, sesame seeds. You may also roast and add curry leaves, garlic, kollu or horsegram to make it even healthier. Video link here: Ingredients needed for Idly Milagai podi: Chana dal / Kadala parupu – 1 cup Urad dal / Ulundhu – 1 cup Dry red chillies – 15 Pepper corns – 1 tsp Cumin seeds/ Jeera – 2 tsp Sesame seed...

Kothu Chapathi is a recipe we tried from the idea of kothu parota.. I love the egg kothu parotta from the road side vendors in chennai, but I try to avoid maida at home.. so never tried making parota at home. But wished to replicate it with chapathis or rotis, so came up with this recipe. After we did this once, we have started to make this often at home. Whenever I go out of ideas, on what to prepare as sidedish for chapathi , I go with this and I can be sure there will be no leftovers 😀 I have used carrots and broccoli to make it more healthy and colourful, you can use any veggies of your choice. You can use also use your leftover rotis and they will all be gone in a jiffy. 🙂 Lets get on to the recipe of Kothu Chapathi : Recipe Cuisine: South Indian | Recipe Category: Tiffin Prep Time: 10 mins | Cook time: 20 mins | Total time: 30 mins | Serves: 3 to 4 Ingredients: Chapathi /Rotis – 7 Onions – 2 Tomatoes – 2 Salt – as needed Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Carrot – 1 Broccoli – 1/2 cup Chi...