Carrot Muffins

 I grated the carrot for doing carrot kheer , but suddenly changed my mind and did this muffin. Its good to start a day with this healthy muffin.Below recipe can be made either as a carrot muffin or a cake.

All purpose Flour                                          1 1/3 cup

Carrot grated                                                 1 cup

Egg                                                                2 Nos

Sugar                                                            3/4 cup

Baking  Powder                                            1 tsp

Baking Soda                                                  1/2 tsp

Oil                                                                  1/2 cup

Salt                                                                1/4 tsp

Vanilla Extract                                              1/4 tsp


Preheat the oven to 350 degree F.

In a bowl sift flour,sugar,baking soda,baking powder and salt.

In a separate bowl whisk egg,oil and vanilla extract. Fold the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients along with the carrot. Mix well and divide the batter into muffin pan.

Bake it for 20-25 minutes or until tooth pick inserted comes out clean.

Cool the muffin in the wire rack for 10 minutes and then serve.

Aval Idly | Poha Idly

Every day when i wake up i think from today i have to blog daily. But i'm not able to do that because my lil one always wants me to with him to play or nap .He nap only for Half an hour and he will awake for small sounds. So i have to cook n do my household activities within that half an hour without making noise(really its a tough job).My stories apart lets come back to recipe.


Most of people in south India take idly as breakfast and it is first food baby. As i south Indian i'm also started giving Idly as a first food to my lil one. So i wanted to prepare a soft idly. One of my friend told if you add a fistful of aval | Poha while grinding idly batter you can make soft idlies. Immediately i implemented it and the idly came out as super soft.

Idly Rice                      1 cup

Urad Dal                      1/2 cup

Aval | Poha                  1/4 cup or Fistful


Fenugreek Seeds           1 tsp


Wash and Soak rice and urad dal with fenugreek seeds in separate containers for atleast 5-6 hours.

Grind the rice along with Aval / Poha to smooth paste by adding water.

Grind the urad dal to fine paste.

Mix both rice and dal with salt. Ferment for over night

Steam it in a Idly mold. The Soft Idlies are ready to serve.