Mushroom gravy is an easy and quick gravy where mushroom is cooked in spicy and masala flavored onion tomato mixture without adding water. Mushroom gravy is simple to prepare and has very basic ingredients in its making. This gravy goes very well with roti, chapati and pulao. I love mushrooms […]
Idli upma is a spicy, crunchy and yummy recipe where idli crumbs are tossed in tempered onion mixture. This recipe can be prepared either with fresh idli or left over idli and this is my all time favorite recipe. I usually make extra idli for breakfast so that I can […]
Tutti frutti are colorful combination of fruit chopped into small cubes usually used in cake and ice cream. Tutti fruity cake is an eggless recipe made with condensed milk, all purpose flour and other regular cake ingredients combined together and baked to perfection. This cake recipe is easy to make […]
Channa masala or chole masala is a spicy, tangy and masala flavored dish usually accompanied with batura. Channa masala is prepared by adding soaked and cooked white channa to spicy and tangy onion tomato mixture then cooked till everything is combined into thick gravy. This recipe is very simple to […]
Tomato rice is a tangy, spicy and masala flavored rice cooked by adding soaked raw rice in tomato mixture. I made this recipe today because we harvested around 1 ½ lb tomatoes from my home garden. I was so temped to make some dish with it and finally made my […]
Fried modak is a delicious deep fried sweet recipe with chewy coconut jaggery filling and crunchy exterior made with wheat flour dough. This recipe is usually made during Ganesh chaturthi. This recipe is easy to make though the pleating might take a little practice, but no worries even I have […]
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.
