Mint rice / Pudina rice is a quick and easy to make delicious rice dish. This variety rice with flavors of mint and coriander is a one pot dish and makes excellent lunch box recipe. A spicy potato fry or chips can be accompanied as side dish. This mint rice […]
Gobi 65 rice is a spicy, flavorful and a yummy Indo chinese based rice dish that is also a one pot recipe. So basically this gobi 65 fried rice is prepared by adding fried gobi 65 to Indo chinese style fried rice; which is also enhanced with strong Indian flavors […]
Ghee rice/ Nei choru is a very flavorful and lip smacking rice dish prepared with traditional kerala rice called jeerakasala ghee and spices. This rice is super simple to make and goes excellent with any spicy gravy both veg and non veg. This ney choru also contains cashews, raisins and […]
Coconut Quinoa (keen- wah) is a savory dish prepared by tossing quinoa in tempered coconut mixture. Yes you guessed it right! But before guessing you might think that this combo might not work, Its totally fine I can hear guys, this is what I heard from my husband as well […]
A flavorful and delicious one pot meal prepared in pressure cooker. Yes this simple and quick to make prawn biryani can be made in very less time as pressure cooker comes as magic pan. I have already posted a pressure cooker prawn biryani recipe earlier involving little grinding but this […]
Lauki dal/ Bottle gourd lentil curry/ Sorakaya pappu is a delicious and easy to make dal/ lentil based curry prepared with bottle gourd as the name goes. I was extremely bored to prepare that same old sorkaya milk curry/ kootu (a coconut based curry) all the time with bottle gourd […]
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.
