Vegan Besan Coconut Ladoo | Besan Nariyal Ladoo Recipe

Vegan Besan Coconut Ladoo, Besan Nariyal Ke Laddu is easy, healthy laddu made with minimal ingredients and taste delicious. Popular during Ganesh Chaturthi, Diwali but besan laddu has to be the most popular ladoo for any occasion, celebration. I have already posted Besan Ladoo recipe so this time I made it adding along dessicated coconut and made Vegan, Glutenfree version which makes this laddoo healthy too but if you wish you can use regular ghee too.

Garlic Sev Recipe | Lahsun Sev | Diwali Recipes

Garlic Sev , Lahsun Sev or Poondu Sevpodi is easy and delicious snack recipe for Diwali or works great as tea time snack. Garlic Sev is similar to normal sev but here we add fresh garlic to add wonderful garlic flavor to crunchy sev. Diwali is incomplete without sev in my parents home, my mom always use to prepare sev with lot of variation and I continue to do same also.

Besan Ladoo Recipe | Diwali Sweet Recipes

Besan Ladoo , Besan Ke Laddu is easy, healthy laddu made with minimal ingredients and taste delicious. Popular during Ganesh Chaturthi, Diwali but besan ladoo has to be the most popular ladoo for any occasion, celebration. Made with bengal gram flour or besan as it's known, sugar and ghee melt-in mouth laddos are delicious, we just need to make sure we roast the besan well to get delicious laddoo.

Palak Pyaaz Pakoda | Spinach Onion Fritters Recipe | Palak Pakoras

Palak Pyaaz Pakode, palak ke pakode or spinach onion fritters are easy pakora recipe with fresh spinach (palak) and adding little onion for crunch. Another winter specialty is having fresh, green vegetables with ample of beautiful looking spinach. In North India now spinach is everywhere, fresh and cute and during our trip we were making every second day palak dal, palak pakoda and finally towards the end of our vacation I manage to click the palak pyaaz pakode pictures.

7 Cup Burfi | Seven Cup Burfi (Cake) Recipe | Easy Diwali Sweets Recipe

7 Cup Burfi, Seven Cup Burfi, 7 Cup Cake or 7 Cup sweet is easy burfi recipe with only 5 ingredients and the name 7 cup comes from 7 cups ingredients measurements are used to make this burfi. This is very easy burfi recipe but just need to take care of the consistency before we pour the mixture to set and we have delicious 7 cup burfi or cake. It taste delicious with coconut flavor, soft and yum.

Ratlami Sev | Ratlami Sev Recipe | Diwali Snacks Recipes

Ratlami Sev, Masala Sev is popular sev recipe from city of Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, also known as Ratnapuri in Malwa region. Ratlami sev does looks similar to kara sev but it's very different recipe and of course it's not similar to normal besan sev in taste, shape or size, made with besan (gram flour) and lots of spices this is great to eat. Though the sev is not very spicy in taste but it's very flavorful, aromatic with all the spices that we use in this sev, good snack for Diwali.

Kara Sev | Karasev Recipe | Diwali Snacks Recipes

Kara Sev, Khara Sev, Karam is popular sev recipe in South Indian made with simple ingredients and quickly it's very good recipe for beginners and perfect for Diwali 2014 snacks, this is my absolute favorite, I love kara sev and can eat all day long :) the peppery flavors makes this sev so so good for people whom like spicy snacks will love this. Have it with a cup of coffee or tea and it's a bliss.

Methi Thepla | Gujarati Methi Thepla Recipe

Methi Thepla is popular Gujarati flat bread or paratha made mostly for breakfast. Methi thepla is one of those paratha we can have it as breakfast, lunch, dinner, lunch box and it's perfect for travelling as thepla stays good for 2-3 days if handle properly and it goes well with just a pickle makes it more interesting for travelling or to have as quick breakfast or dinner. Methi thepla is one of the favorite recipe and it used to regular tiffin box during our school days.

Chhattisgarhi Kadhi Pakoda | Kadhi Chawal Recipe

Kadhi Pakoda or Kadhi Pakora is excellent side dish with steamed rice and prepared in various method across various states in India. Basic besan, yogurt mix remains same but the flavoring differs in most of the kadhi recipes of course not considering Sindhi Kadhi in which yogurt is not used. Kadhi pakora or as we call it kadhi chawal since normally kadhi is served with steamed rice or jeera rice for a delicious and comfort meal.

Besan Mawa Burfi | Burfi Recipes | Diwali Sweets Recipes

Besan Mawa Burfi or besan burfi is one of the popular burfi in and suits all festival, celebration, occasions etc. Besan burfi is made in few way mostly using sugar syrup and lot more ghee but here I have used easier way and used mawa (khoya), condensed milk which is very easy to prepare and taste creamy, delicious. If you have little of khoya with you then you can make this burfi in no time and specially now to holi.

Pepper Murukku | Easy Murukku Recipe | Diwali Snacks Recipes

Pepper Murukku or Kalimrich Chakli is one of those rare murukku recipe that is difficult to find these days in store where kara sev has become more popular. I always liked pepper murukku than usual mullu murukku or for any other murukku since it's spicy, crunchy and with a cup of tea or coffee it's just amazing. If you like spicy snacks then this pepper murukku fits your bill perfectly and during any festive it's great to have and share too.

Bombay Chutney | Besan Chutney Recipe (For Dosa, Poori)

Bombay Chutney or Besan chutney is easy chutney or side dish with poori, roti, paratha, dosa etc. This bombay chutney comes handy when you are bored of usual side dish with poori, paratha or don't have any vegetable in hand or instead of normal chutney try this bombay chutney with any dosa and you will love it, the combination works like a charm.

Ribbon Pakoda | Ribbon Murukku Recipe | Diwali Snacks Recipes

Ribbon Pakoda, Ribbon Murukku, Ola Pakoda, O'ttu Pakoda, Oatu Pakoda, Nada Thenkuzhal, Ribbon Karalu is all same name for Ribbon Pakdoa.  Made mostly during Diwali or other festival it's also great snack idea for tea time, party or kids snacks box.  Ribbon pakoda is popular South Indian murukku variety easily available in all the sweets shops, it's crunchy yet soft a perfect tea time snack.

Besan Murukku | Easy Murukku Recipe | Diwali Snacks Recipes

Murukku or Muruku or Chakli is popular evening snack or Diwali/festival recipe made normally with rice flour. Besan Murukku is different from general murukku there is no rice flour used in this recipe, it's just made of besan/chickpeas and spices. Murukku means twisted in Tamil and so this twisted snack is called murukku or Chakli in hindi.

Arbi Patta Pakoda | Taro Leaves Fritters Recipe

Arbi Patta or Colcasia (Taro) leaves, Rikwach or Kacchu or Kochai patta as it's called in my in-laws place is a treat to eat.  In my home Arbi Patta only relished while a visit to hometown that also depends on season if it's available, as I never seen taro leaves in Chennai.  But now I have ample of access to this gorgeous leaves at my in-laws place there are plants in our garden, house if not get it from neighbors and if they come to know I want to eat then get extra leafs :).

Besanwali Bhindi Sabzi | Okra Recipes

Besanwali Bhindi Sabzi is similar to bharwa bhindi in this we just don't stuff okra but rather cook the masala or chickpeas flour mixture along with okra/bhindi.  You can say it's easy version of bharwa bhindi as it's taste something similar and we don't have to do the stuffing part making it easy and quick. When I don't have much time in hand or just want to try something for a change then I make this bhindi sabzi with besan (chickpeas flour).

Besan Fish Fry Recipe | Pan Fried Fish with Chickpeas Flour

Fish recipes are something that I lately ventured into that thanks to my brother whom gets the fish and I have no choice but to make it. Generally I like to make different fish curry as it's easy task for me and doesn't have to cook much but my brother gets bored of only fish in gravy and ask me to make fish fry, normally I do South Indian style Fish Fry or Meen Varuval as it's called but this time I tried it something different and added besan (chickpeas flour) and other spices to make this fish fry in Northern style as it's called Besan Ki Fish Fry or Besan Ka Macchi.

Saga (Hara) Pyaaz Pakora | Spring Onion Fritters

We all love pakoras, bajji or bhajiya and this Hara Pyaaz ke Pakode or Saga Pyaz as we call fits the bill perfectly these pakodas are crunchy outside and soft inside.  I have mention in my Lauki Pakoda post that my dad doesn't eat potato so after onion, lauki (bottle gourd) another featured pakoda in our home is this hara paayz or spring onion/scallion fritters.  Hot pakoda, tea or coffee along with rain to enjoy and if we are not the one frying the pakode then it's double bonanza for sure right?  Now that monsoon has arrived and no more trouble of hot sun it's time to chill out and munch some hot tasty pakoda.  

Lauki Pakoda | Dudhi Bhajiya | Bottlegourd Fritters

Lauki (bottle gourd) bhajiya is one of the popular pakoda in our home, since my dad don't eat potato so bottle gourd fritters gets featured a lot. As a kid I was not a very big fan of dudhi bhajiya we would remove the bottle gourd/dudhi pieces from pakoda and eat the only the outer skin so my mom has to always make potato pakodas for us.  It's strange that most of the things we use to dislike a kid start to be fond of it in our life later I have numerous things like that in my list and this lauki pakoda is one such item.  Now I don't remove the bottle gourd piece any more from the pakoda and in fact I like to eat this one.

Onion Pakoda | Pyaz Ke Pakore | Onion Fritters Recipe

Onion pakoda is one of the pakora that I make most often simply cause I make onion pakoda very good and generally everyone prefer my onion pakoda than any other pakoda or bajji.  If I have guests at home then mostly for evening tea I will make this as this is my no-fail and crowd pleaser recipe.  I wonder now why I took years to post this recipe!