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Saturday, August 22, 2009
French Fries
Preperation Time: 10-15 min
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Ingredients
Potato - 2 nos
Salt for taste
Oil
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Preperation Method
1) Cut the potato into long slices.
2) Take water in a vessel, add salt and boil it in water for 3-4 minutes. Drain the water.
3) Heat oil in a pan and fry the potato slices until they start turning brown in color.
Mambazha Kalan
Mangoes are one of the most like fruits in the whole world! April-May is usually the mango season in Kerala and one of the most common dishes in Kerala homes during this period is Mambazha Kalan (Curry made out of sweet ripe mangoes). This is a very sweet dish and liked by one and all. Here is the recipe for this wonderful dish!
Egg Noodles
Mushroom Manchurian
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Ingredients
White Button Mushroom -150 gm
Onion - 2 nos
Green chilly - 2 nos
Garlic pods - 3 nos
Green Onion - 2 nos
Green Capsicum - 1/2 cup
Red Capsicum (optional) - 1/2 cup
Yellow Capsicum (optional) - 1/2 cup
Coriander Leaves - 1/2 cup
Red Chilly pwdr - 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Pepper Pwdr - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric Pwdr - a pinch
Tomato Ketchup - 1 tsp
Soya sauce - 3/4 tsp
Salt for Taste
Oil
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Preperation method
1) Heat oil in a pan. Add green chilly, garlic and saute for a minute.
2) Add onion and fry till onion turns golden borwn in color.
3) Add all the pwdrs, add mushroom and mix well. Cover the lid and allow it to cook for 2 min.
4) Add Capsicum, coriander leaves, green onions and saute for 5-6 min.
5) Add Ketchup and soya sauce and mix well. Saute for 2 min.
6) Garnish with coriander leaves and green onion. Mushroom manchurian is ready :-
Vegetable Samosa with Cilantro Chutney
Ingredients
Potato(big) - 1 no
Green peas - 1/2 cup
Carrot - 1 no
Onion - 1/2 cup
Green chillies - 2 nos
All purpose flour(Maida) - 1/2 cup
Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Chilly powder - As reqd
Salt - As reqd
Oil - As reqd
Preperation Method for Vegetable Samosa
1) Cut potato and carrot into small pieces.
2) Cook potato, carrot and green peas.
3) Heat oil in a pan or kadai.
4) Splutter mustard seeds.
5) Add onion , green chillies and saute well then add cooked potato, carrot and peas mix.
6) Add turmeric powder and chilly powder and cook for 2 - 3 mins.
7) Mix maida and wheat flour and form a soft dough.
8) Roll the dough to oval shapes and cut each oval shape into 2 halves.
9) Put the cooked vegetable mix in each half and close the ends to make triangle shaped samosa pieces.
10) Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the samosas.
Preperation Method for cilantro chutney
1) Add 1 cup coconut, a bunch of cilantro leaves, Juice of 1 lemon, 4 green chillies and salt and grind all together to a fine paste.
:- Serve the hot samosas with Ketchup/pudhina or coriander chutney.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Vegetable Pulav
Preperation Time : 30-40 min
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Ingredients:
Basmathi Rice - 2 cups (for 3-4 people)
Carrot - 1 nos (small)
French Beans - 5-6 nos
Cabbage - 1/4 cup
Green Capsicum - 1 nos
Red Capsicum - 1 nos
Yellow capsicum - 1 nos
Ghee - 4 tbsp
Cummin Seeds - 2 tbsp
Cloves - 2-4 nos
Bay leaves - 1
Cinnamon stick - 1
Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup
Kasoori Methi - 1 tbsp (optional)
Cashews - 5-10 nos
Raisins - 10 gm
Salt for taste
Water - 4 cups
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Preparation Method:
1) Heat ghee in a pan. Add 1 tbsp cummin seed and allow it to sputter. When it starts sputtering, add cloves, bay leaves, cinnamon stick and fry for a minute.
2) Add soaked rice to the pan and fry for 2 minutes.
3) Add 4 cups of water and cook the rice.
4) Cut the vegetables into long thin pieces.
5) Heat ghee in another pan. Add cummin seed and allow it to sputter. Add the vegetables and stir for some time till the vegetables become tender.
6) Add coriander leaves and kasoori methi into the cooked vegetable mix.
7) When the rice is cooked and the water evaporates completely, then add the contents of the second pan and mix well.
8) Fry cashew nuts and dry raisins in ghee in a pan. Distribute it evenly over the top of rice. Garnish pulav with coriander leaves and serve hot :-
Raw Mango and Plantain curry
Preperation Time : 20-30 min
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Ingredients:
Coconut - 2 cups
Oil (preferably coconut oil)
Salt for taste
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Preperation Method:
1) Grind coconut, red chilly pwdr, turmeric pwdr, shellots into a fine paste.
Dish is now ready. Serve this hot :-
Pepper Chicken (Gravy)
Oil
Salt for taste
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Preperation Method:
1) Heat oil in a pan. Add ginger garlic paste and saute for a minute.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Coconut Chutney
Monday, August 10, 2009
Paneer Veg Kuruma
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Ingredients:
Green Peas - 1/4 cup (soak for atleast 4 hrs or use frozen)
Potato - 1 nos
Carrot - 1 nos
French Beans - 8-10 nos
Tomato - 1
Paneer - 10 cubes (small size)
Coconut - 1 cup
Cashews - 5-10 nos
Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp
Garlic pods -2 nos
Kasoori Methi (optional) - 1 tsp
Coriander pwdr - 1/2 tsp
Chilly pwdr - 1/4 tsp
Green chilly - 2
Fennel Seeds - 1 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp
Oil/Ghee
Salt for taste
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Preparation Method:
1) Cook all vegetables (carrot, french beans, green peas, potato) in a vessel.
2) Grind coconut, cashews, fennel seeds, chilly pwdr, coriander pwdr, garlic, green chilly, corinader leaves and garam masala together into a fine paste.
3) Heat oil in a pan. Add the ground paste and saute for a min.
4) Add tomato to the pan and saute for another 5 more min.
5) Fry Paneer slightly in a pan using oil/ghee.
6) Add the fried paneer and cooked vegetables into the mixture and mix well.
7) Boil for 2-3 minutes and serve with Roti/Chapathi :-
Pavakka Mezhukkuvaratty (Bittergourd Fry)
Bittergourd as the name suggests is bitter in taste and many people around may not really like dishes out of this vegetable. But on the contrary, my family likes the dishes made from bittergourd a lot.. One of the most common dishes made is the bittergourd fry.. Here is the recipe for the dish..
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Curd Rice
Preperation Time : 20-30 min
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Ingredients:
Rice - 2 cups
Yogurt - 2 cups
Milk - 1 cup
Ginger - 1/2 tsp
Green Chillies - 3 nos
Curry leaves - a few
Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp
Red chillies - 2
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Black gram - 2 tbsp
Cashews - 5-10 nos
Butter - 2 tbsp
Salt for taste
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Preparation Method:
1) Cook rice in 4 cups of water and allow it to cool.
2) Mix yogurt, 1/2 cup milk and salt to rice and keep aside.
3) Heat butter in a deep pan. Sputter mustard seeds, add black gram and stir till it turns light brown color.
4) Add red chilly, ginger, green chilly, curry leaves and cashews to the pan and fry on a low heat for few seconds.
5) Add the cooked rice to this. If the rice mix is thick, then add little more milk and mix well.
6) Garnish with coriander leaves :-
Puttu and Kappa curry (Steamed rice cake and Kappa curry)
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Ingredients for Puttu:
Coconut - 1/2 cup
Kappa - 1 nos
Preparation Method for Puttu:
1) Take a big bowl. Add rice flour and add salt to the bowl.
Chilly Beef
Preperation Time : 40-50 min
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Kappa Puzhukku (Yucaroot Curry)
Preperation Time : 30-40 min
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Ingredients:
Kappa - 1/2 kg
Green Gram (Moong Dal/Cherupayar) - 1/4 cup
Red Gram (Vanpayar) - 1/4 cup
Turmeric Pwdr - 1/4 tsp
Coriander Pwdr - 1 tsp
Chilly Pwdr - 1/4 tsp
Garic Pods - 2 nos
Shellots - 2
Green Chilly - 1
Pepper Pwdr - 1/4 tsp
Coconut - 1 cup
Curry leaves
Salt for taste
Oil (preferrably coconut oil)
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Preparation Method:
1) Cut Kappa into small pieces. Put Kappa, water, Turmeric Pwdr and cook in a pressure cooker (Usually kappa would get cooked in 2 whistles)
2) Open the cooker and drain the excess water.
3) Cook Green gram and Red gram together.
4) Grind coconut, garlic, green chilly, chilly pwdr, coriander pwdr together.
5) Heat a pan and add the ground mix, cooked Kappa and the cooked grams and mix well.
6) Allow it to boil for 3-5 minutes. Add Curry leaves and oil and stir it.
Kappa Puzhukku is now ready to eat.. :-
Kovakka Thoran (Tindora Dish)
Onion - 1/2 (sliced/chopped)
Mustard Seeds - 1 tbsp
Turmeric Pwdr - 1/4 tsp
Dry Red Chilli - 2
Black gram - 1 tbsp
Coconut - 1/2 cup
Curry leaves
Salt for taste
Oil
2) Heat oil in a pan. Add dry red chilli, curry leaves, mustard seeds and black gram and allow them to sputter.
3) Add green chillies, onions and saute them for a minute.
4) Add cut beans, turmeric pwdr and salt and mix well.
5) Add 1/4 cup of water and allow it to cook.
6) Once the beans gets cooked, sprinkle coconut on top of the mix and mix well. Serve as a side dish with rice..
Friday, August 7, 2009
Aaloo Bonda
Preperation Time : 20-30 min
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Ingredients:
Potatoes - 1 (Medium)
Onion - 1
Turmeric Pwdr - a pinch
Green Chilly - 1
Ginger - 1/2 tsp
Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
For making batter..
Besan Flour/Maida - 1 cup
Asafoetida - a pinch
Coriander Pwdr - 1/2 tsp
Chilly Pwdr - 1/2 tsp
Salt for taste
Oil for fry
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Preparation Method:
1) Cut the potato into small pieces and boil it.
2) Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and allow it to sputter.
3) Add green chilly, ginger, turmeric pwdr, salt and onion and saute the mix until the onion becomes transparent.
4) Add potato and mix well. Allow the mix to cool.
5) Create a thick batter by mixing besan/maida and all other powders
6) Make small lemon sized balls from the cooked potato mix.
7) Heat oil in a pan.
7) Dip the potato balls in the thick batter and fry it in oil. Serve the hot bonda with chutney/tomato ketchup.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Mushroom Spinach Fry
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Beans Thoran / French Beans fry
Ingredients:
Beans - 1/2 kg
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Preparation Method:
1) Cut the beans into small thin round sizes.
Egg Curry
Preperation Time : 15-20 min
Ingredients:
Bolied Egg - 2 nos
Onion - 1 (large one)
Tomato - 1 ( medium one )
Ginger chopped - 1tsp
Green Chilli - 2 nos
Coriander leaves - 3 tbsp
Coriander pwdr - 1 1/2tsp
Chilli pwdr -3/4 tsp
Turmeric pwdr - 1/4 tsp / or less
oil - 2tbsp
salt for taste
Preparation Method:
1) Heat oil in a pan. Add sliced onion and fry it until it turns golden brown in colour.
2) Make a tomato puree by blending tomato, ginger & green chilli.
3) Add the powders and saute till the raw smell goes.
4) Add tomato puree into the mixture and saute well for few minutes.
5) Then put the chopped coriander leaves and mix well .
6) Cut the eggs into two halves, add boild egg pieces to the mix and suate for 2-3 min.
6) Add 1 cup water allow it to boil . Egg curry is now ready to eat :)
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Stuffed Bread Roll
Preperation Time : 30-45 min
Ingredients: