Tapioca halwa/ Cassava halwa/ Kappa halwa is one such unique yummy tasting sweet prepared by sweetening the cooked and mashed tapioca with condensed milk which is also flavored with cardamom and garnished with ghee fried cashews. We have heard making halwa with veggies like these: White pumpkin Beetroot Carrot Tomato […]
Chana dal halwa is a delicious and melt in mouth sweet/ dessert prepared by sauteeing ground chana dal paste in ghee and is given richness by adding milk and made it flavorful with cardamom. Usually chana dal halwa is prepared with regular white sugar because of which it attains a […]
Karupatti thengai poli/ Coconut poli/ Thengai poli is a delicious flat bread stuffed with grated coconut and karupatti, which is flavored with cardamom and cooked to perfection with ghee. Thengai poli is traditionally prepared with grated coconut and jaggery, but as mentioned earlier this poli is prepared with an amazing/ […]
Cholam ladoo/ Jowar ladoo/ Sorghum ladoo is a healthy and easy to make sweet that can be served as evening snack/ offered as Naivedyam during festivals like Navaratri and Ganesh Chaturthi. Yes this healthy millet ladoo needs just 4 ingredients in its making and can be prepared in jiffy and […]
Ellu sadam/ Sesame rice is a very quick and easy to make variety rice that can be made with freshly ground sesame podi/ ellu podi. This flavorful rice is a very popular kalavai sadam during purattasi, adi perukku and often offered as prasad/ neivedhyam in temples, also is made as […]
Varagu arisi sakkarai pongal/ Kodo millet sakkarai pongal prepared with kodo millet, moong dal, jaggery, flavored with cardamom and garnished with ghee fried cashews and raisins is a traditional sweet dish popular in South India and is often prepared during special occasions / festivals like navaratri, pongal, varalakshmi vratham etc. […]
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.
