Khara Paruppu Poli/Channadal Paruppu Poli

Puran Poli is well known as Obbattu or Holige, is quite a popular sweet flatbread which have their own place in every festivals. And this Poli is prepared with channadal, jaggery and coconut which is flavored with cardamom powder.However even toor dal is commonly used in the state of Karnataka,Gujarat and Tamil Nadu as well. But Moongdal is very much used in Andhra pradesh where this flatbread is called as bobbatlu or bakshalu. However savoury version of this fabulous sweetened flatbread do exists. And we call it fondly as Khara poli, which is definitely a tasty and dangerously delicious evening snack to enjoy with your favourite drink. Stuffed with spiced mashed channadal filling, this khara poli makes a filling snacks or starters depending upon how you serve this fantastic flatbread.

Cauliflower Whole Wheat Fritters/Gobi Atta Pakora

Winter evenings are so chilled here, obviously after a long day work, everyone at home love to have some crispy fritters. Fritters makes everyone happy, and needless to say kids love to munching hot pakoras for their snacks. Hence i prepared this cauliflower pakodas aka bajjis with a combination of wheat flour and gram flour. Adding wheat flour may sounds completely different from the usual way of dishing out these fritters. But trust me wheat flour works awesome for making puffy and dangerously delicious fritters as well.

Varagu Arisi Upma Kozhukattai/Kodomillet & Black-eyed Peas Steamed Dumplings

Upma Kozhukattai is a healthy, filling and satisfying South Indian breakfast, which is also enjoyed as a mid-day snacks, tiffin items to serve with some spicy coconut chutney. This steamed dumplings is prepared usually with rice rava or else with rice flour. And this steamed dish is also called as Kara pidikozhukattais as well. I love to replicate some traditional South Indian dishes with some healthy stuffs in it. Hence i opted for a millet dumplings aka gluten free upma kozhukattai. This is quite a healthy version of steamed dumplings which is seriously loaded with protein rich black-eyed peas beans. Obviously you cant miss this incredible protein rich to try if you are looking for a super healthy dinner or breakfast for week days.

Cashew Dark Chocolate Fudge

This week's theme for blogging marathon is going to be Christmas candies. Christmas is nearing and its going to be much fun here, we love this period of festivity. This year, we will be celebrating Christmas and New year at our friend's place as we are planning for a get together with other friends since a while. Obviously each and everyone are supposed bring some of their home made dishes to make this get together more delicious. Am planning to make some bakes and some starters to carry. Am eagerly waiting for this day, as its going to be some super fun moments to meet few of our friends who were living in South France. Coming to today's post, am kicking starting this week's theme with a simple yet a nutty, rich, chocolatey and dangerously delicious fudge.

Zucchini Tikkis/Zucchini Cakes

Vegetables, whenever we feel like feeding our kids with veggies, most of the kids refuses to take them easily without any fuss. Fussy eaters are seriously very difficult to handle and everyday each mom struggles in their own way to feed their kiddos. Even i crossed all these situations,fortunately i always followed few tricks and tips to include veggies everyday in my kids diets. Now they are grown up, intaking veggies in their diet is quite a routine now. Most of my cooking involves vegetables though we are meatoholic. We get fresh vegetables every week from our farmer's markets without any fail. Some vegetables are seriously versatile and you can make some fabulous fusion dishes with them. My most favourite zero calorie vegetable is always Zucchini. Zucchini is quite an interesting vegetable to dish out any sort of dishes/bakes/cakes with them.

Leek Masal Vada/Leek Channadal Fritters/Leek Paruppu Vadai

Leek is one of the most fabulous vegetable which i never forget to grab whenever they shows their head in our farmer's market. Usually they can be found easily during fall and winter season. French people uses this vegetable for making some creamy or chunky soups out of them. But being an Indian, i do make some delicious Indian dishes out this vegetables. Leek belongs Onions, scallions, chives,garlic, shallots familly, their edible part is their leaves though people calls them as stalk or stem. I came to know about this vegetable once i came to France, seriously i love this vegetable, as they have a subtle flavor personally for me. Earlier my kids are not fans of this vegetables but now they are grown up hence they know very well the nutritional benefits of this vegetable and they just love their bowl of leek soup.

Mini Vegetable Cheese Poppers

Kids are great fans of deep fried fritters, though being a health nut mom, am trying to keep ourselves away from deep frying. However deep fried fritters once a while, makes everyone happy at home. Though i usually goes for baked version, my younger one was asking for some cheesy balls since a while. Obviously i planned for a simple, yet dangerously addictive mixed vegetable and cheese poppers for our weekend snacks. These mini vegetables loaded cheese poppers are extremely addictive, easy to make and one of the best way to feed vegetables to the kids. I went for a lovely medley of grated vegetables, bread crumbs and mashed potato which i simply spiced with garam masala.

Mini English Tea Sandwich

English style tea sandwich are just prefect to enjoy with an afternoon coffee or tea, kids just love to have this sandwich and will definitely enjoy thoroughly this easy breezy sandwich. Easy to make this sandwichs are totally British.An easy finger food to carry anywhere you want  to go for..Usually prepared with crustless bread slices, these tea sandwich are simply delicious. But i didnt used crustless bread slices as i dont feel like trashing them. To make these sandwiches in a traditional way, dont forget to go for crustless white bread slices to make this dangerously addictive mini tea sandwiches. These sandwiches are just prefect for an evening snack, or a healthy munchies for a kid's party menu.Though this sandwiches are enjoyed during the tea or coffee time, you can still enjoy this cuties for your snacks time.

Egg Bhurji Tikki/Scrambled Eggs Patties/Egg Cutlet

Have you ever tried dishing out tikkis/patties with Scrambled eggs aka egg bhurji. I have tried my hands in dishing out some tikkis with scrambled eggs. Trust me, this tikkis came out extremely delicious and we enjoyed thoroughly having these incredible cutlets with some spicy chutney for our evening snacks. You might have noticed that am posting three different dishes with an ingredient, yes my theme for this week's blogging marathon is One ingredient in three ways, obviously after making a lipsmacking Egg white cubes kurma, i couldnt stop myself dishing out this easy yet a delicious evening snacks for this theme. You can prepare these tikkis before a day even for a get together or a party as these patties stays prefect in fridge for a day.

Mint Sweet Corn Balls/Pudhina Sweet Corn Kola Urundai

Kola urundai, this deep fried balls are usually prepared with minced meat, but am trying to replicate those meat loaded balls with different vegetables. I have already tried couple of versions of this popular meat loaded kola urundais. Since these deep fried balls are my kid's favourite, i dont forget to make them once a while eventhough am keeping myself away from deepfrying. I have created few of my own kola urundais with varieties of vegetables and ingredients as these balls are just prefect to feed kids easily with vegetables. Though these balls are usually deep fried even you can prepare them as no deep fried balls just by cooking them through paniyaram pan.
Here comes few of own versions of Kola urundais:
1)Soya Chunks Kola Urundai
2)No deep fry Chickpeas kola urundai
3)Broccoli Kola urundai
4)Soya Kheema Cashew Nut Kola Urundai
5)Mushroom Spinach Kola urundai
6)Egg Kola Urundai

Hyderabadi Fine Biscuits

Hyderbadi Fine Biscuits, these flaky biscuits are quite popular in many cafes in Hyderbad. These flaky biscuits sounds as much as like Palmiers or Elephant ears biscuits. And the best part of this biscuits, you just need 3 ingredients, yes you heard it rite. Just a puff pastry sheet, sugar and some flour is quite enough to prepare these utterly delicious and dangerously addictive biscuits. Actually i have bookmarked these biscuits from Usha's space. Quite a quickest biscuits as well to prepare and bake if you have puff pastry sheets in fridge or in your freezer. My kids went crazy when i served these biscuits for their snacks and they kept on munching. Hence i finished baking these biscuits with two puff pastry sheets.Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Ritu themed on Movie Time Munchies.

Makhana Aloo Tikki/Puffed Lotus Seeds Potato Cutlet

Aloo tikki is a well known Indian street food made especially with potatoes, however many variations and varieties of Aloo tikkis do exists now. A tikki can be shallow fried, pan fried or deep fried depending upon your tastebuds. However my way of frying these tikkis is definitely pan frying as they need less oil than the shallow frying and deep frying. A packet of puffed lotus seeds were sitting in my pantry since a while and i seriously want to finish them before the expiry date. Eventhough those makhana stays prefect intact, i dont want to keep them for a long. Hence i opted for dishing out some delicious tikkis with them.Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Ritu themed on Movie Time Munchies.

Grated Vegetable Pakodas/Mixed Grated Vegetable Fritters

Pakodas aka deep fried fritters have their own place in our snack platter. Yes if its raining or if its time to watch a movie together, i dont forget to get ready with a box of pakodas. However a cup of hot masala chai with a plate of pakodas is definitely a real bliss. Though deep frying is quite rare in my kitchen nowadays, i dont hesitate to prepare fritters once a while as i have some deep fried food lovers at home. Coming to this fritters,this time i sticked with grated colourful vegetables which turned these fritters much catchy and colourful obviously. Grated vegetables gets well mixed with the flour mix and its quite an interesting way to feed vegetables to kids. Anyhow this pakodas makes an excellent munchies while watching a movie.
Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Ritu themed on Movie Time Munchies.

Rajma Cheese Cigar Rolls/Cheese Kidney Beans Cigar Rolls

While watching a movie or a Tv show, we always look for something crispy, savory and filling to munch. Obviously my mind will always think about adding some interesting ingredients easily in those munchies.I always love to add beans in most of my dishes, yes beans are rich in proteins, i have some picky eaters who doesnt even touch beans aka legumes in their meal. Hence i love to add beans in most of my dishes and mask them with other ingredients to feed them easily. One among those trials is this cheese loaded kidney beans cigar rolls. The stuffing of this cigar rolls is definitely an interesting one. None noticed the addition of Kidney beans as they mashed nicely and mixed with mashed potatoes and spices. Everyone at home enjoyed thoroughly these crispy fried beauties.
Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Ritu themed on Movie Time Munchies.

Mini Baked Veg Pizza Empanadas

Empanada is a pastry which is either baked or fried depending upon many countries in America and Spain. I love baked versions of Empanadas, and this dish is definitely an excellent munchies to have either for snacks or for a meal when served along with either salads or with a bowl of soup. I have already tried couple of Empanadas, though i have few versions to try. Hence my today's post is an another interesting and kid's friendly empanadas which is baked few days back for our evening snacks. Pizza Empanadas, my kids went crazy when i served them once these empanadas came out of the oven. These tiny cuties vanished very quickly than i imagined.
Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Ritu themed on Movie Time Munchies.

Instant Red Rice Flakes Vadas/Instant Poha Onion Vadas

If you want something crispy, an excellent munchies for your cup of tea or coffee for your evening snacks, you should check my today's instant vadas loaded with onions. Very simple to make, these vadas are completely instant and no grinding is needed. Apart from chopping onions and green chillies, these crispy poha aka rice flakes vadas are very quick to prepare. Usually vadas are prepared by soaking dals for more than two hours and grinding them as bit coarse paste or smooth paste depending the dals. These poha vadas are prepared by just soaking thin rice flakes for just few minutes. Once they are soaked , drain them and mash them nicely with your fingers to make as a thick paste, add the chopped onions, chopped green chillies and spices to the paste, shape them as vadas and fry them. How easy na.

Eggless Confetti Microwave Cake

Microwave cakes are seriously a blessing and terribly easy to dish out if you have sudden cravings. Though its simple to prepare anything through microwave oven, trust me am reducing the usage of microwave nowadays. Last weekend, my daughter asked me to make some simple cake for her brunch. She came back to home after her Morocco trip, obviously i cant refuse her request. Instead of preheating oven, i opted for a simple, quick, delicious and definitely an easy cake with some coloured sugar sprinkles. This cake takes hardly less than 3 minutes to get ready. Yes cooking time may varies depending upon on your microwave power. Mine took 1 minute to get ready. Hence if you preparing these sort of easy cakes through microwave dont forget to go through the booklet we usually get with your microwave oven.

Cheese Stuffed Vegetable & Drumstick Leaves Balls

If you dont know how to feed your kids easily with vegetables and greens,dont forget to check my today's post. Trust me, though this cheese stuffed vegetable balls are deep fried, they are loaded with varieties of vegetables and drumstick leaves. Obviously its quite a best way to sneak vegetable and the healthy iron rich drumstick leaves as well. With less efforts and simple ingredients, these crispy cuties gets ready very much easily. Very simple vegetable balls stuffed with mozzarella bites makes this cuties. Kids will definitely go crazy if they see this deep fried beauties for their snacks. Trust me, anyone who ever like cheese especially mozzarella cheese will definitely fell in love with this cute balls.

Red Rice Dal Dumplings/Sivappu Arisi Paruppu Paniyaram

Since am busy with my work, its really a hard task for me to prepare idly batter for every week. Hence i stick with easy adai batter or else with instant dosa batter to whip up some dosa quickly for our dinner. Since the last weekend was a long weeked for me, i gathered all the ingredients to grind some dosa batter for a week. Obviously i couldnt stop myself to grind some red rice-mixed dals batter to make some dumplings.This dumpling batter goes for an easy preparation and no fermentation is needed. Just leave the batter in room temperature for an hour and make your dumplings with your paniyaram pan. You can have them either for snacks, breakfast or else for dinner if you dont feel like making your dinner.

Baked Potato-Carrot Tater Tots

After a month of silence, am here with a new week of blogging marathon. And my theme for this week is Kid's delight - Bite sized foods. Obviously this week's posts are going to be kid's friendly bite sized foods. And my today's post is a simple, gluten free, guilt free, easy breezy baked Tater tots which is dished out simply with our favourite vegetable aka Potato. Since i dont want to prepare a usual tater tots, i couldnt stop myself adding some grated carrots to make them more healthy and catchy. Though tater tots are easily available in some part of the world, they are very easy to dish out ourselves at home. However tater tots calls for basic ingredients which is easily available in our pantry.Sending this to Srivalli's Kids Delight event, guest hosted by Refeeda, themed on "Bite Sized Food" for Kids.