Kitchen and Home Making

Jeera Rice is a simple and a flavorful rice, which is easy to cook and tastes awesome with simple ingredients in it. When I run out of vegetables in refrigerator, I simply cook it and we can pack for lunch too. Any gravy will match with Jeera Rice. I use to make tiffin sambhar along with Jeera Rice. Everyone can think sambhar with Jeera rice? But you will accept that it’s a great combo, when you give a try. I use to prepare it regularly in my home and especially during Pongal festival, along with lemon rice , curd rice and sweet jaggery rice.

Curd Rice, can be done fatafat and a good lunch box recipe for upcoming summer. Curd rice and simply mango pickle sounds yummy and mouthwatering combo whenever we see it. Yet summer has not started but scorching heat outside the home here in Chennai is threatening us now itself. Curd, buttermilk and fruits like watermelon is must to take to prevent us from this heat. My lovely kiddo Amii loves this curd rice, especially the seasoned curd rice. Since curd rice will be cooked until it is mushy, kids love and prefer it to take for their lunch box, so that they can finish it off soon .  It digests easily too. Seasoning ingredients for this curd rice recipe varies from home to home and restaurant to restaurants.

Wish You All My Blogger Friends My Belated New Year Wishes!   Wishing You All A Very Happy Pongal!               Happy to see you all back and sorry all my friends for not being regular in blogging and its all my because of my health condition. We celebrated Pongal yesterday happily and performed Pooja and prepared Ghee Rice , Lemon Rice and Sweet Pongal for Neivedyam. Lets see my style of cooking all these three Rice dishes as it is very common recipe in all homes but everyone try in their own style to suit their taste. Sweet Pongal / Sakkarai Pongal Ingredients: Raw Rice - 1 cup Grated Jaggery - 1 cup Split Green Gram / Moong Dhal - 1/2 cup Cashews - 15 Dry Grapes / Raisins - 15 Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp Ghee - little less than 1/4 cup Cooking Instructions: Wash rice and strain the water completely. Pressure cook the rice with 3 cups of water for about 4 whistles in high flame or un...