Palada pradhaman/ Palada payasam with homemade ada is a delicious sweet prepared by adding ada (rice flakes) to boiling milk which is flavored with cardamom and garnished with ghee fried cashews. This sweet delicacy is a traditional Kerala pudding usually served in “Onam sadhya”(an elaborate platter of dishes consisting of […]
Mambazha pulissery/ Mango pulissery is a sweet and sour side dish prepared with mango, curd and coconut in just 15 to 20 minutes. Super simple right? However simple it is to make this dish is unbelievably delicious and you wouldn’t regret trying it out. This pulissery is a traditional Kerala […]
Vendakka thoran/ Kerala style Ladies finger stir fry is a simple and easy to make coconut based side dish served usually for lunch and always have special place in Onam sadya. Now you might have guessed why this recipe is here. Yes Onam is almost there and I thought to […]
Instant milk powder modak/ Instant modak without mould is an easy and quick to make sweet that can be made with handful ingredients for the upcoming Ganesh chaturthi festival. This modak is very special as it is made without modak maker/ mould! Yes you heard it right! Want to know […]
Samai karupatti pidi kozhukattai/ Little millet palm jaggery kozhukattai is an easy and quick to make healthy snack prepared with little millet flour, karupatti/ jaggery and flavored with cardamom. Little millet/Samai like any other millet is rich in protein, fiber, acts as antioxidants and combats with diabetes. Millets are suitable […]
Karupatti thengai poornam kozhukattai/ Palm jaggery coconut mothagam is a healthy and delicious dumpling/ snack prepared by filling/ stuffing palm jaggery coconut pooranam in the rice flour dough and steamed to perfection! So its the regular kozhukattai recipe with a little tweak to it! Ok so everyone might be really […]
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.
