Almond Dry Fruit Roll Recipe | Badam Khajur Roll Recipe | Badam Dates Roll | Almond Roll - Indian Sweets Recipe

Ending this year with a sweet post, Almond Dry Fruit Roll recipe. This Year 2015 went well for us with good memories and fun. Now ready to welcome 2016 with the same hope and prayers. In terms of blog too, this year was good and Me & My blog got featured thrice in Aval Kitchen Magazine & Once In The Hindu, Chennai January Edition.  

Badam Katli Recipe | Almond Burfi Recipe | Diwali Special Sweet Recipe - Badam Burfi !

Badam Katli/Badam Burfi recipe with step by step photos. Badam Katli is another easy and equally addictive sweet like Kaju Katli. I wanted to try this Badam Katli for long time and finally last week gave it a try. The first attempt wasn't successful, the burfis turned out too sweet and hard crisp due to more sugar i think. Then again tried with little less sugar quantity and the burfis turned out pretty good. I followed the same recipe of my Kaju Katli and only difference is instead of raw Almonds / Badam I used Blanched Almonds. If you have blanched almonds in hand then you can make this burfi in 15 minutes or less. My kids loved it a lot and I am planning to make it again for Diwali.

Beetroot Soup Recipe | Vegan Beetroot Soup | Roasted Beets Almond Soup | Beets Soup With Almonds

Vegan Beetroot Soup|Beetroot Soup Recipe|Beetroot Almond Soup Recipe with step by step pictures. I am here with another healthy, delicious and interesting soup recipe that is perfect for your Valentines Day Dinner Menu. The smooth, creamy and silky texture with bright red color is sure to impress everyone. For a change, I added some Almonds to the soup and instead of adding beetroot as such I roasted in oven and added to the soup. It was so flavorful and delicious with mild sweet taste from beets. I loved this soup a lot, even without cream or milk the soup got its rich taste and flavor from almonds. It was filing too. If you want are planning for a healthy meal to serve on this Valentines Day occasion, please add this soup to your menu and give it a try and am sure you will love it.

DIY Slivered Almonds | How To Make Slivered Almonds | How To Make Almonds For Desserts & Baking | How To Make Blanched Almonds

I wanted to post this How To make blanched Almonds, Slivered Almonds and Sliced Almonds technique for long time. And finally decided to share it now since the festival season is ahead and the use of blanched Almonds & Slivered Almonds is must in Indian Sweets, Baking & for Desserts. These almonds gives nice crunch and taste to the dish and also makes the dish more attractive and pleasing. Not only for desserts & sweets general in take of almonds is good for health.
Almonds are packed with vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber, and are associated with a number of health benefits. Just a handful of almonds, approximately one ounce, contains one-eighth of our necessary daily protein. Almonds can be eaten raw, toasted, caramelized and are availbale in many form like sliced, slivered, almond flour, butter, almond milk. The good protein content of almonds aids in lowering cholestrol and reducing the risk of cancer and heart disease.

Almond Halwa / Badam Halwa - Spicy Treats' 3rd Blog Anniversary !

Hope you all had a wonderful pongal celebration. Pongal is a Harvest Festival and also a special day & Thanks Giving day, that we thank God, Sun & Cattle for the years' Harvest. And its Thanks giving day for Spicy Treats too..yes., Spicy Treats turns 3 today.

I couldn't believe that my little space have completed three successful years.  In 2007, i came to know about blogging and food websites and wanted to create one of mine but i don't know how to start, never thought to seek help from google master. Mr.V also was too busy that time and did not helped me. Then after my kids birth, my interest and desire on blogging took back seat. But i used to click my dishes regularly, just a very simple picture and finally on one fine day, Jan 14 2011 signed in to blogger and started my first post, Vazhaipoo Vadai. No intro, just only the Ingredients and Method of that dish with a picture, this is how i started my blogging.

Whole Wheat Banana Loaf / Eggless Whole Wheat Banana Bread

            Today we are in 15th edition of Blog Hop Wednesday, and for this week i am paired with the Master/Founder of Blog Hop Wednesday - Radhika. This time i decided to Bake something from her space and chosen "Eggless Banana Loaf" . This recipe was very easy and eggless version of banana bread. Simply i tried her recipe with Whole Wheat flour and replaced butter with olive oil. It just come out really good but except the burnt Top :( Its due to the over ripe bananas and also i set alarm for 30 minutes but i didn't get the alarm n finally ran to open by the burning smell. I was so upset to see the top but the inner part n overall bread was so soft n delicious. So cut the burnt part n enjoyed the remaining and also managed to clicks few pictures with the slices. Ok now to the recipe...

Almond Oats Bread Pudding

      Bread pudding,a baked dessert popular in many countries.Everyone has a special corner to this heavenly dessert right?? I use to make it in simple way for my kids..they love anything sweet with bread :) This time for a change added some quaker oats(vanilla flavored).I didn't add vanilla extract to my pudding as the oats itself was fully loaded with vanilla flavor.If you are using plain oats add vanilla extract.Its quick to prepare but the cooking time is little long..takes about 45 minutes.

Ingredients

1. Bread slices  5 no.s(cut in to small pieces)
2. Egg   2 no.s(large eggs)
3. Milk   1 and 1/4 cup( i used 1% low fat milk)
4. Icing sugar    1/2 cup
5. Ground cardamom    1/2 tsp
6. Oats    1/4 cup(i used vanilla flavor)
7. Almonds   1 handful( sliced)
8. Butter    2-3 tbsp
9. Raisins    20 no.s
10. vanilla extract    1 tsp

Method

• Preheat oven to 350 degree F.
• Cut the bread slices in to small pieces and keep aside.
• Grease the 8" baking pan with butter/baking spray and spread the bread pieces and pour the melted butter over the bread pieces.
• Then sprinkle raisins,oats and almond over the bread pieces.
• Now take a mixing bowl,add egg,milk,sugar,vanilla,ground cardamom and stir well.Beat the egg milk mixture at medium speed until mixed well.
• then pout the beaten egg milk mixture over the bread pieces and using fork/spoon press them lightly and make  the bread soaking completely in the egg milk mixture.
• Now bake in the pre heated oven for 45 minutes or until done.
• Serve warm or chilled.Pour milk or chocolate sauce or maple syrup on the top of pudding while you serve.My kids loved with milk n whipped cream :)

You can also use granulated sugar and decrease or increase the quantity..After mixing sugar with the liquid ingredient it will remains like small minute lumps tat doesn't matter it will melt while baking.can try without oats also or you can try adding fruits like apple,banana or any fruit of your choice.

Almond Cookies

         This is my first bookmarked post. But i did not follow the original recipe completely. For the first time i saw the pistachio cardamom cookies in Ramya's (Hot from my oven) blog...i was totally impressed on the recipe and her picture n as well the presentation.Thank you Ramya for the recipe. I combined her recipe with the almond cookies recipe from allrecipes.com.I daringly tried this and the outcome was so perfect,super n excellent. It tasted like butter biscuits n melts in mouth like butter. My kids liked them a lot n they finish it in 2 days :) They love homemade cookies more than the store bought one.I used raw almonds you can also use the blanched/roasted almonds.I ground the almonds coarsely so its very difficult for me to get shape n hold the dough firmly.But it also very nice to have a crunchy bite of nuts...

Badam Kheer Recipe / Badam Paal

 Badam Kheer/Badam milk, is a healthy and delicious drink. Just like the Bakery or street side stall, we can prepare this yummy drink at home easily. Badam Drink is my favorite and have so many memories related to this one recipe.