My Receipes

I came across this recipe while browsing through Facebook . My dad usually take light dinner and this came out handy one day when I had nothing left in the fridge. Here is what I did. Ingredi...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2016/02/wheat-rava-idly-godhuma-rava-idly.html

This is a recent favorite of my girls. We were watching some lunch box ideas in YouTube.  I had my girls with me while I was watching so that they can suggest their ideas for packing their lun...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2016/02/vegetable-quesadilla.html

Yup, this is what my husband eats during the weekdays for his breakfast. Initially I found it hard to cut the vegetables and saute it every morning when I have to deal with two middle-schoolers....

http://www.iyercooks.com/2016/02/vegetable-stir-fry-veggie-filled.html

This one of the easiest snack I have ever made.  In less than 15 minutes this chips can be made. We bought the Tortilla Land Wheat uncooked tortillas from Costco. I used these tortillas to make...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2016/02/tortilla-chips-home-made.html

This is again another healthy breakfast recipe I tried yesterday.  I got the motivation from Pavithra's Facebook pictures .  Oatmeal is my almost everyday breakfast. I will just fill the one ...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2016/01/oatmeal-breakfast-in-bottle.html

I got the motivation for making these bars from Pavithra .  I have bookmarked couple of granola bars from her blog and wanted to try for a long time now.  This weekend, I somehow managed to f...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2016/01/granola-bars.html

This is a very easy breakfast recipe I made for my girls.  If you have Idly batter ready, it will just take less than 10 minutes to prepare and 10 minutes to steam the idly. Here goes the recip...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2016/01/vegetable-idly.html

This is just a review post.  We bought this Molinaro's stone baked organic pizza kit from Costco.  I thought of writing a simple review for the product.  I have used Pillsbury pizza crust be...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2016/01/pizza-using-pizza-kit.html

The goal for this new year is to use very less sugar in whatever I bake.  While going through many sites, I came to know that honey can be substituted as sugar along with fruits which are natur...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2016/01/banana-almond-butter-muffin.html

Happy New Year All! My first post for this year and happens to be a simple and easy sandwich. I made this yesterday for my girls. It took less than 10 minutes to finish it and give it to them ...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2016/01/simple-sandwich.html

This is another goodie I baked during the Thanksgiving break this year! Saw bananas going bad on the counter top and wanted to make something with it.  Immediately this bread came to my mind.�...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/12/banana-walnut-bread.html

 I baked these cookies last week when my kids had Thanksgiving break.  It came out really really good.  I never thought I could really bake a buttery textured jam filled cookies.  I was bro...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/12/jam-filled-cookies.html

I made this pasta for thanksgiving feast at school today. It came out pretty good and it was pretty easy to make. I used the rotini pasta from Safeway.  I used the whole box as it was for more ...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/11/pasta-with-veggies.html

When we were in Delhi, we had chance to travel to many places in North India. I came across different types of kachoris during those trips. Every time we stop for breakfast or for snack, one of...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/11/aloo-kachori.html

I made this green apple pickle using super sour green apples from my back yard. We were literally wasting those apple as none of us like sour apple. Came across this recipe when one of my relat...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/11/green-apple-instant-pickle.html

So, I call this a no guilt snack.  Why? Reason is I used few ingredients which are really good for health and you don't have to feel bad for eating a sweet.  First thing here I used Whole whe...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/10/pineapple-muffins-no-guilt-snack.html

This is again one of my favourite receipe. In my mom's place, I haven't seen her making podimas with platain (vazhakkai). But in my In-laws place, they make this plantain podimas. The main ingre...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/10/plantain-podimas-thanjavur-style.html

I made this cake after reading the post from Sony's Kitchen .  I almost followed the same recipe except I used dark brown sugar instead of granulated white sugar.  When we melt the sugar in mi...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/10/eggless-dates-nuts-cake.html

I made these crackers today for evening snack.  As usual got the recipe from Priya's blog . I almost followed the same recipe except included Ashirwadh atta along with APF.  Here goes my versi...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/10/spicy-salty-potato-crackers.html

I just love this Dal Makhani.  Gravy with so nutritious lentils.  When we were in Delhi, we had a chance to live in Intercontinental Hotel for more than a month.  They have a restaurant insi...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/04/dal-makhani.html

I make Pasta for my girls once or twice a week. Every time I try to put different kinds of vegetables. Once with corn , once with broccoli , once with green peas and carrots.  This time I made...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/04/basil-pasta.html

Rasam is one of the most comforting food.  My MIL is an expert in making so many varieties of Rasam.  I learned a few from her and you can check it out a few from here .  We make rasam using...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/03/ginger-garlic-rasam.html

This is something I made yesterday.  Kids wanted to eat chocolate chip cookie.  Instead of making plain chocolate chip cookie, I wanted to try something new.  I got this recipe from allrecip...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/03/quinoa-oats-chocolate-chip-cookie.html

Idly is considered as one of the healthy breakfast dish.  My husband somehow is not a fan of idly.  He always complains that it has more carbs and there is no way you can fill it with veggies ...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2014/03/idly-sandwich.html

I always wanted to try making veggie puffs.  Not sure whether i can do it or not.  Finally i managed to find the puff pastry sheets from my local grocery and tried this nutella filled puffs co...

http://www.iyercooks.com/2013/01/nutella-filled-puffs.html