KK's Home Kitchen

Orange Tea । ಕಿತ್ತಳೆ ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ಚಹಾ । ಆರೆಂಜ್ ಟೀ  Orange tea is a combination of cinnamon, Orange and ginger. Here we use whole orange with peel. Orange peel has lots of health benefits. Consumption of orange is more beneficial when you have it with its peel.  Histamine is a chemical which causes allergic reaction such as sneezing. Orange peel prevents the release of histamine.  Ginger has anti inflammatory property helps to reduce allergy symptoms.  Ginger and its active components helps to smooth airway muscles by modulating intracellular calcium in airway smooth muscle.  Honey helps to reduces the mucus secretion. And relives from cough and reduces airway inflammation, it has antibacterial property and property to fight against few viruses.  Cinnamon  plays an immense role to improve your immunity.   Orange Tea helps to relive stress, and it improves the sleep quality.  Orange Tea is best solution  to improve the sleep quality....

Mangalore Buns । Buns । ಮಂಗಳೂರು ಬನ್ಸ್ । ಬನ್ಸ್  Mangalore buns is a famous breakfast/ snack recipe of south canara region (Udupi- Mangalore). Traditionally it is made of banana and refined flour with little sugar. But in our today’s recipe we have replaced refined flour(maida) with wheat flour. This change make this buns bit healthier. It doesn’t change the taste, but definitely mild difference is texture is noticed. Mouth-watering taste of buns with mild sweetness can be enhanced with a cup of chai(Indian Tea). It is also served with sambar or coconut chutney. But my choice is to dip the bun in chai and have it, it gives you a heavenly feel. Do try it. Sugar added in this recipe is completely optional, if you don’t like sugar, it can be skipped. But in that case, make sure that bananas are in sweeter side. Otherwise you may not like it. If Maida  is used in recipe, make sure jeera or ajwain is used. Ingredients required : Ripped banana - 4  W...

 Wheat Biscuits | ಗೋಧಿ ಬಿಸ್ಕುಟ್ಸ್ Wheat biscuits are the best tea time snack. It’s easy to prepare and doesn’t take much time. It’s much healthier than the biscuits which we get in market. No butter is used here, instead ghee is used as healthy option. Everyone can try this recipe, because we have prepared it in gas stove. Involve your kid with mixing and other activity, they would love to prepare it and definitely they will like these biscuits if they prepare by themselves. Wheat biscuits are merging of wheat flour and sugar. As a binging agent ghee and milk are used. All these ingredients are used in preparation of divine foods or prasadam. Most of the kids love biscuits, so this is the best way to provide them biscuits. Do try it out and share your opinion with us.  Ingredients Required Wheat Flour – 1 Cup Ghee / Clarified butter  – 2 tsp Vanilla Essence  – 1 tsp Salt  – a pinch Baking Soda  – ¼ tsp Baki...

Badam Burfi । ಬಾದಾಮಿ ಬರ್ಫಿ  Badam Burfi is a delight with healthy element. Badam Burfi can be consumed occasionally as a treat to your soul as well as tongue. It is a combination of Badam, Sugar and Kesar. Wellness of Badam is known to all. Consumption of Almond without skin, helps to absorb the nutrition easily, its better to use almonds without skin to get the full benifit. Almond also helps to reduce asthma, if its consumed every day morning without skin. Enhancing the flavour is completely personal choice. This can be just prepared with Badam, Ghee and Sugar. But to enhance the flavour, in this recipe Milk, kesari and Elaichi / Cardommom is used. Every recipe can be changed as per the requirement, availability or family preferences. Definetly try this recipe and share your opinion with us. Ingredients required : Badam - 1 cup Milk - 2 cup Sugar - 2 cup Water - 2 to 3 cup Kesari - 5 to 6 leaves Elachi powder - 1 tsp Ghee - 8 to 9 tsp Method of Prepara...

Mango chutney। Mavinakayi chutney। ಮಾವಿನಕಾಯಿ ಚಟ್ನಿ Mavinkayi chutney or Raw mango chutney is a traditional dish. we can do this in mango season. The recipe here is our mother's recipe and it is very simple one. You can add onion, coriander leaves if required. In our household traditionaly this recipe is prepared without onion. If you add onion, strong taste and pungency of onion dominates the actual flavour and divine smell of raw mango.  Its very good to have with dosa and rice. Try it out and share your opinion with us. Ingredients Required :  Raw Mango Slice - 1 cup  Grated Coconut - 1 cup Salt - As per the taste  Green Chilli - 2 Water - 1/2 cup or as per the requirement For tempering : Coconut oil - 1 tsp Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp Curry leaves - 1 tsp Red chili - 1 Method of Preparation : Initially take a mixi jar, add mango slice, grated coconut, salt and green chilli. Now grind them to fine paste using water. you chutney ...

Pizza Sauce  Homemade pizza sauce is best solution for the people who are crazy for pizza's. Pizza sauce shown here doesn't contain any preservative. This sauce can be stored for more than a month in refrigerator. This can be used to prepare bread pizza or even pasta. The recipe below produces the quantity of 200gms and is prepeared at cost less than 50 rupees.  Ingredients required :  Tomato – 4 Refined Oil / Olive Oil – 2 Tbsp Onion – 2 Chopped Garlic – 2-3 Tsp Chilli powder – 1 tsp Redchilli flakes – 1 ½ Tsp Pizza Mix / Mixed Herbs – 3 tsp Salt – As per the taste Tomato Ketchup – 2 Tsp Sugar – ¾ tsp Water – As per the requirement Method of Preparation : Initially take a tomato's and give one seal at the top of all tomato or make a square mark on it ( If you didn't seal when you boil the there is a chance of burst in tomato) and keep a side. Now take a bowl, add water to it. switch on the gas stove. Now add tomato...

Methi Tambli । Menthe Tambli । ಮೆಂತೆ ತಂಬುಳಿ  Methi tambli is mostly prepared in south canara region like mangalore, Kasaragod and Udupi. It is also prepared in malnad region. Tambli is served as first item in thali. Reason behind this is, it improves the digestive system and provided good appetite for rest of the thali.  Variety of tambli’s are prepared. Menthe Tambli is one of the famous and favourite recipe. Tambli’s cool your body, so it mostly prepared in summers with different ingredients. Variation of this tambli can be done by replacing green chilli with red chillies.  Ingredients Required : Methi seeds / Fenugreek Seeds - 1/2 tsp Coconut oil - 1/2 tsp Grated coconut - 2 tsp Salt - As per the taste  Curd - 1 cup Green chili - 1 to 2 For tempering : Coconut oil - 1 tsp Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp Red chili - 1 Curry leaves - 1 tsp Method of Preparation :  Take a pan, add oil to it, once oil is heated add methi seeds and...