MERI RASOI

This is the new boutique cafe recently opened in Velachery ..a good thing to happen because on this road there was not a single eating joint where one could sit in comfort and enjoy. They have given the deco of ecofriendly place..some walls are lined with bamboos, some lovely jute bags in their selling section..yes they have a few things to buy also. Seating is also good, not cramped, the only thing is tables are a little small. Here one gets hot and cold coffees, shakes, smoothies juices and soups in drinks....Rs.40-65 Pizza, chaat , sandwiches,burger and salad for the main course.....Rs 35-99/-- Pastries in the dessert. They have a NIrvana ...its a combo meal of..soup/salad......chat/burger/sandwich......smoothi/shake for 99/--only and For children.. chaat and smoothie....It is either for 35 or 55...I forgot:) We ordered..Pizza Indiana.....it had a topping of paneer , onion and capsicum, I liked it. Coffee was also very good , then pastry with hot choclate and cream was .just yu...

This Diwali I made besan( gram flour) and coconut Barfi, and everyone loved it, so thought of posting it but i forgot to take the picture, so i am writing the recipe will post the picture next time whenevr i make it. Ingredients..... 2cups gram flour 2cups grated coconut 1 cup khoya (mawa) 2 and half cup sugar 1 and half cup water half cup desi ghee Roast the gram flour with ghee o0n a medium firt and then low heat....when it starts leaving the sides take it off. Roast the coconut a little and keep it aside Roast the khoya a little on a very low heat and keep it aside. Now in a pan take sugar and water and make syrup of 3-4 consistency....to chk it take alittle(be caustious as its very hot) betweween your fore finger and thumb and seee that while stretching how many threads you see..its a thick consistency....then put all the things and take it off the heat and mix quickly thoroughly..... and shift it to a greased plate....and let it cool Then cut into the pieces.

Quantity : Approx 10-15 What you'll need : 1/4 cup chana dal 1/8 cup chopped onion 2 tbsp chopped cilantro 1 tsp grated ginger 1-1.5 tbsp chopped green chillies Salt to taste Oil for deep frying Method Soak the chana dal overnight in sufficient water. Grind the dal with as minimum water as possible. The final texture should be coarse, there maybe a few whole grains left. The more you churn the batter, the more fluffy the vada will be which we don't want. Add the rest of the ingredients to the batter and mix well. Heat oil in a fry pan (for deep frying the vadas). Initially keep it at high flame so that the oil gets heated quickly, once the oil is hot reduce the flame to med-high. Take a heaped tbsp of batter in your paln, pat it a little to form a small disc and drop it in the oil. Fry them well so that the dal inside gets cooked properly. Each vada may take around 3-4 minutes. While frying turn over the vada when one side is done to let the other side cook. Remove when they...

ENTRY This is a new multicuisine restaurant designer in Chennai, owned by Manish Malhotra . As soon as I came to know about it and read that even Waiters wear Manish Malhotra there, Iw as so curious to see it. Yesterday we thought of dining there. This is in Egmore near Dasprakash. It must be the first restaurant where the outer wall is completely transprent glass. Restaurant is on forst floor. Entrance is wow with all that pink roses in water and then seating is very spacious.I just loved it..its comfortable, good to look and with sufficient privacy. Now the food..they have north Indian food and pasta and pizza also. For a couple they have a package wherein you can get two soup, two starter, four main course and 2 desserts for 699/--only. We started with golden tomato soup with saffron cream ......it was yummy, this is the first time I liked soup outside, otherwise I dont ever take it outside..perfect creamy. served it a bread stick. In the starters we chose.. dahi wa...

This recipe is courtesy my daughter, i have included her in my team:) for this blog, She is very fond of cooking or should I say working:).. Read it in her words....... I got this recipe from Cook With Love and must say this was my best experience with a recipe tried for the first time! The banana bread came out perfect, in fact DH and I kept comparing it to the Banana Walnut loaf that Starbucks sells . Believe me, it WAS that good! The crust has a slight crisp texture and the inside was soft and moist! Since I had 2 bananas, I scaled the recipe to 2/3rd and that seemed to suffice for 2+ persons. Ingredients 1 cup sugar 3 bananas 4 tbsp melted unsalted butter 2 tbsp yogurt 1 and 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1/4 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 cup milk 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional), I’d 1/4 cup and that seemed fine. Method Pre Heat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit Mash the bananas. Add sugar and yogurt to it. Add butter, salt, and flour. Mix well. Add Baking Soda, ...

This is the restaurant from Sarvanas , and I read everybody appreciating it so much at Swarna's Chennai Foodie, that it was on my list for long. This Sunday we decided to give it a Dekko . I dont why restaurants have such strict timings like we reached there at 7PM as we dont want to get late and we had to wait there for 25 minutes, as they open it at 7.30 only for dinner. Its gujarati and rajasthani cuisine restaurant. We ordered Thali . So they started with jaljeera and in the starters we had.. dhokla , gatta fried type, small khasta kachori with green and sweet chatney .....everything was so yummy and mouth watering and I wanted to fill myself with that only but then thought if starters are so good what the meal would be:) In the main course we had..curd, gatte ki sabji , daal baati (I didnt get any baati in my daal ), kadhi , beans, paneer curry, and poli , poori , chapati and rice and khichdi .salad----In this section except poli , I didnt like anything much,...

Now.a days navratri is going on, so we fast for all the days and take some different food, sabudana bada is one of them, i forgot to take the photo but I am writing the recipe . Ingredients: 1 cup sago or sabudana --soak in 3 cup water for 1 hour 300 gm Potatoes 2 green chilli 1 inch ginger piece salt red chilli powder 2 tbsp peanut..roasted. oil for shallow frying curd and green chatney and tamarind chatney Boil the potatoes and mash them or grate them. Squeeze the water out of sago. Chop the green chillies and ginger finely. Pound the peanuts coarsely. Mix ......sago, potatoes, green chillies, ginger,peanuts, and add salt and red chilli powder to taste. Now make flat tikkis ...make balls and flatten them . They can be either deep fried or shallow fry as you want, both ways tasty. Serve them either with green chatney only or like Chaat ...spread curd, and both the chatneys .