Nei appam is an instant sweet recipe prepared with wheat flour and banana during festivals like Gokulashtami and Karthika deepam. This appam is very soft, healthy and tastes delicious as it is cooked with ghee. This recipe is very easy to prepare and has only few basic ingredients in its […]
Vella seedai is a fried sweet recipe prepared by shaping small portion of dough into ball and then dropping it in hot oil. The key ingredients in this recipe is rice flour and jaggery which creates crunchy munchy seedai. This seedai is prepared during south indian festivals like gokulastami and […]
Uppu seedai is a crunchy munchy fried recipe prepared with rice flour. Seedai is popularly prepared during Gokulashtami and it can be made in with jaggery as well and is called vella seedai. Both these recipes are very delicious and need to be prepared with proper measurements and directions which […]
Aval kesari is simple sweet recipe prepared by grinding aval/poha into fine rava. This kesari is usually prepared during festivals commonly for krishna jayanthi and I am a big fan of aval ladoo and aval kesari and prefer this over rava kesari. So lets get to the making!
Poha ladoo/ Aval ladoo/ Atukula laddu is made out of flattened rice which is popular both in South and North India. The most delicious and easy sweet recipe that I prepared with poha is this ladoo and this was my Friday prashadam for god. I have been preparing a lot […]
Hello and welcome. I’m Sandhya—the hands, heart, and stories behind Sandyathome This blog was never planned. It began quietly—just like the way my mother and grandmother used to cook. No measurements. No books. Just feeling. Growing up, I didn’t realize I was being shaped by their everyday magic. The gentle clinking of ladles, the warm smell of curry leaves crackling in oil, the quiet hum of love in every dish—they stayed with me. I didn’t inherit written recipes. But I inherited something far deeper—the emotion of cooking, the way food could heal, gather, and speak when words fall short.
