This is a tough time for all of us where staying safe at home is important and at the same time staying healthy is also important with dishes that will be easy to cook with whatever we have at home. We are unable get access to fresh veggies just like […]
Rajma pulao / Kidney beans pulao is a very easy and quick to make healthy one pot meal prepared with rajma/ Kidney beans and basmati rice. This flavorful rice can be served with plain curd or simple raita and also serves as excellent lunch box recipe. This recipe works great […]
Barnyard millet appam/ Millet appam/ Kuthiraivali appam is one such soft, fluffy, healthy and delicious variety of South Indian bowl shaped pancakes prepared with fermented millet batter without yeast. Traditionally appam is prepared with rice, coconut and urad dal and I thought to make it a little healthier and different […]
Upma kozhukattai/ Steamed rice dumpling as the name goes is an easy and quick to make savory upma prepared with a shape using broken raw rice/ rice rava. Yes you heard it right upma with a shape! Rice rava/ broken rice rava is cooked, shaped and steamed making it a […]
Idli batter handvo is an easy and quick to make lentil cake loaded with veggies that is usually prepared by grinding soaked dal and rice together, fermented and cooked/ baked to perfection with tempering. This is one such healthy and delicious breakfast/ snack from Gujarati cuisine that can be easily […]
Devangere benne dosa/ Butter dosa is a soft delicious and buttery dosa prepared with idli rice, urad dal and murmura/ pori. Yes you heard it right! As the name goes this dosa is prepared and is super popular in the state of karnataka and that is why it is also […]
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.
