Boneless chicken dum biryani is a very flavorful and scrumptious one pot meal prepared by cooking marinated chicken over which half cooked rice is layered and cooked in dum style. “Dum” is one of the ways to cook biryani where all the flavors and aroma is locked/ sealed within the […]
Methi rice/ Vendhaya keerai sadam is a very flavorful and delicious rice. It is prepared by tossing cooked rice in methi and freshly ground masala powder. Sounds simple right? It is simple and healthy as methi leaves/ fenugreek leaves are nutrtious. It is a much sorted winter produce as it […]
Thalappakatti style soya chunks biryani/ Thalappakatti veg biryani is a vegetarian version of the popular Dindugul thalappakati biryani. It is known for their unique style seeraga samba chicken and mutton biryani loaded with spices. In this recipe I have replaced chicken with soya chunks. It has equal amount of protein […]
Parda biryani/ Chicken parda biryani is a delicious dum biryani prepared by layering partially cooked basmati rice over cooked chicken masala and coved with puff pastry sheet and baked to perfection. You heard it right! The dum takes place in the oven with biryani covered by puff pastry sheet topped […]
Chicken yakhni pulao is a delicious and aromatic Kashmiri style pulao prepared with lots of whole spices which gives this pulao a distinct flavor. This pulao is prepared by cooking chicken first then cooking the soaked rice in chicken stock flavored with whole spices, onions, ginger and garlic. This pulao […]
Gongura pulihora/ Sorrel leaves rice is a very popular and delicious variety rice prepared by adding tempered sorrel leaves/ gongura paste to cooked rice and mixed to perfection. These gongura leaves are well known for their sour taste and is abundantly available in monsoon season which is happening currently (May […]
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.
