Air fryer Fish pakora is a mildly spicy and delicious starter or snack prepared by air frying masala coated fish fillet cubes to perfection. This fish pakora with crispy exterior and soft inside is popular in restaurants both in the regular menu and buffet but is most of the time […]
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 […]
Instant wheat flour appam/ Sweet appam is a super easy and quick to make yummy deep fried snack that can be prepared in no time with only few ingredients that you can easily pull out of your pantry. This instant appam is a great way to make use of overripe […]
Kambu ribbon pakoda/ Pearl millet ribbon murukku/ Bajra ribbon pakoda is a very easy and quick to make crispy snack shaped like ribbon which can be prepared for festivals like Krishna Jayanthi, Diwali or sometimes consumed as tea time snack. Ribbon pakoda/ Ribbon murukku/ Bajra ribbon pakoda is usually prepared […]
Butter cake/Tea time butter cake as the name goes it is a soft, moist, fluffy and buttery cake prepared with basic ingredients like all purpose flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla syrup and a lot of butter. Yes that’s what makes it butter cake and different from the regular vanilla cake. This […]
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.
