Kadai paneer gravy is a delicious and lip smacking restaurant style gravy prepared with paneer (Indian cottage cheese) and colorful capsicum cooked in mildly spicy onion, tomato cashew paste. Adding freshly ground coriander and red chilli powder along with kasuri methi adds to the flavors and taste of this dish. […]
Basmati rice mini idli is soft, spongy and fluffy idli prepared with fermented batter consisting of basmati rice, poha and urad dal. Basmati rice is not used/ recommended for making idli/ dosa other than pulao and biryani as it carries so much flavor and also misunderstood it being unfit to […]
Cucumber kheer/ Cucumber payasam is a delicious dessert loaded with flavors of cucumber, sweetness of condensed milk and sugar, crunchiness from nuts. This super easy kheer takes only 10 minutes to prepare as it requires no grinding or any soaking making it beginner friendly recipe. Also it demands very few […]
Honey cake is a really delish and melt in mouth cake prepared by drenching regular vanilla cake in a syrup consisting of sugar and honey which is then topped with jam and desiccated coconut. This so delicious cake is one of my childhood favorites and I don’t know how many […]
Flax seed/ Flax seeds considered as one of the top most healthiest food, hence needs to be incorporated in our diet in some or the other form. So I got to know about the goodness of flax seeds through my mom, the one who keeps learning, trying and experiments combos […]
Angannan chicken biryani/ Anganna biryani is a delicious and aromatic biryani popularly served in Coimbatore a city in Tamil Nadu. This biryani is unique in its taste due to the preparation method and ingredients as well. To mention the biryani color too is much different due to the use of […]
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.
