Potato,

Poori & Kilangu/ Poori & Potato Masala

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 Poori
Ingredients:
  • Wheat flour - 1 cup
  • Salt as required
  • Water to knead dough
  • Rava - 1 tbsp(for crispness)
  • Oil for frying
Method:
  • Mix wheat flour, rava, salt with required water into a soft dough.
  • Make small balls from the dough and spread it using rolling pin.
  • Heat oil and deep fry poori.


 Potato Masala
Ingredients:
  • Potato - 3
  • Onion - 1
  • Green chillies - 1 or 2
  • Urud dal - 1 tbsp
  • Channa dal - 1 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder - a pinch
  • Curry leaves and Coriander leaves - few
  • Salt as required
Method:
  • Boil potatoes, peel off skin, and mash it nicely.
  • Cut onion and cook it in water until it becomes transparent and soft.
  • In a kadai, add oil, mustard seeds, channa dal, urud dal, chopped green chillies, and curry leaves.
  • Saute it for two minutes, then add cooked onion, finally mashed potatoes along with turmeric powder and salt.
  • Add little water to get the gravy consistency.
  • Garnish with coriander leaves.
  • Cook for 3 to 4 minutes and serve it with hot pooris.

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Channa dal,

Parupu Vadai / Masala Vadai

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Ingredients:

  • Channa dal - 1 cup
  • Green chilli - 3 
  • Chopped ginger - 1/2 tbsp
  • Chopped garlic  - 1 tbsp (optional)
  • Shallot onion - 10
  • Curry leaves
  • Salt
  • Oil for frying

Method:

  • Soak channa dal for one hour and grind it without adding water. (Don't grind it into a paste, grind it coarsely).
  • Then add chopped green chilli, ginger, garlic, chopped onions, salt, and curry leaves to the channa dal mixture.
  • Make small patties from dal and deep fry it in oil.
  • Serve with coconut chutney.


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Desserts/Snacks,

Chick Peas Sundal

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Ingredients:

  • Chick peas - 1 cup
  • Red chillies - 3
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Channa dal - 1 tbsp
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Asafoetida or hing - 1/4 tbsp

Methods:

  • Soak chick peas for four hours and boil it along with salt. (don't overcook it as it will become smashed).
  • Now in a pan, add oil, mustard seeds, channa dal, curry leaves, red chillies, hing, and saute for one minute. 
  • Then add boiled chick peas and mix it until all the ingredients are well mixed.

Cooking Time: 15 minutes.
This is  the best evening snacks and mostly this recipe is prepared for Ganesh Chathurthi, Saraswathi Pooja, and other festivals.

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Breakfast,

Ragi Dosa

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Ingredients:

  • Ragi flour - 2 cups
  • Urud dal - 1/2 cup
  • Raw rice - 1/2 cup
  • Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tbsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Water for mixing

Method:

  • Soak Urud dal and raw rice along with fenugreek seeds for about one or two hours.
  • Grind this above mixture and transfer it to the bowl.
  • Now add ragi flour and salt to the same bowl and mix it nicely.
  • Add water to the batter to form consistency of dosa.
  • Leave this batter to ferment overnight. Now the batter is ready
  • Heat dosa tawa, pour ladleful of batter to it, and spread it in the round shape.
  • Add oil along the edges and flip the dosa to cook properly.
  • Serve this dosa with chutney or sambhar.

Cooking Time: 5 minutes.

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Milkshakes/Beverages,

Pomegranate Juice

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Ingredients:
  • Pomegranate - 2
  • Lime juice - 1 tbsp
  • Sugar - 1/4 cup
Method:
  • Take seeds from the pomegranate and grind it in the mixer along with sugar,lime juice, and one cup water.
  • Strain the juice and serve fresh.

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Egg,

Muttai Kulambu/ Egg Kulambu

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Ingredients:

  • Eggs - 5
  • Onion - 2
  • Tomato -2
  • Cumin seeds - 1/2 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1/2 tbsp
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Garam masala powder - 1/2 tbsp
  • Chilli powder or sambhar powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
  • Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1
  • Garlic pods - 2
  • Chopped ginger - 1 tbsp
  • Green chillies - 1 or 2
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Hard boil eggs for 8 to 10 minutes, de-shell it, make slits from the top of the eggs without breaking it.
  • In a kadai, add oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, and then onion.
  • Saute onion until it becomes transparent, then add tomatoes until the skin starts peeling.
  • Now add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder, and salt.
  • Prepare a paste with green chillies, one onion, garlic pods, and ginger. Add this paste to the above mixture.
  • When the kulambu starts boiling, add eggs and simmer stove, boil for 2 or 3 minutes. 
  • Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve with boiled rice.

Cooking Time: 30 minutes.

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banana,

Banana Bonda

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Ingredients:

  • Banana - 2
  • Maida or All-purpose flour - 1 cup
  • Rava - 1 tbsp
  • Jaggery syrup - 1/2 cup
  • Cardamom powder - a pinch
  • Oil to fry

Method:

  • Mash banana nicely
  • Mix flour, rava, jaggery syrup, and cardamom powder nicely, then add mashed banana to it.
  • Heat oil in a pan, make small balls from the mixture, dip it in the oil, fry until it turns golden brown.
  • This is the perfect, sweet evening snack, especially during rainy season.

Cooking Time: 15 minutes.

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Chicken,

Chicken Curry

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Ingredients:

  • Chicken - 1/2 kg
  • Onion - 1 or 2
  • Tomato - 1
  • Ginger-garlic paste - 2 tbsp
  • Bay leaves - 1
  • Cardamom - 1
  • Cinnamon - 1
  • Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
  • Red chilli powder - 1 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp
  • Star anise - 1
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Wash chicken and keep it aside
  • Chop onion and tomato finely.
  • In a kadai or pan or skillet, add oil and then add bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, saute it for few minutes.
  • Now add chopped onion, ginger-garlic paste and tomato, saute this for few minutes.
  • Then add coriander powder, turmeric powder, and red chilli powder, saute it for one minute.
  • Now add chicken and salt (no need to add water, if you want add one small tumber of water because chicken itself contain some water).
  • Cook this in medium flame and close the pan with a lid while cooking.
  • Serve this chicken curry with boiled rice      
Cooking Time: 20 to 30 minutes

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butter milk,

Mor Kulambu/ Butter milk Kulambu

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Ingredients:

  • Vegetables                                        - 1 cup
  • (Lady fingers or ash guard or 
  • carrot or Cucumber or Drumstick)
  • Butter milk                                        - 2 cups
  • Toor dal                                            - 1 tbsp
  • Cumin seeds                                      - 1tbsp
  • Green chillies                                     - 2
  • Raw rice                                            - 1/2 tbsp
  • Coriander seeds                                 - 1 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder                               - 1/2 tbsp
  • Grated coconut                                  - 2 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds                                   - 1 tbsp
  • Red chillies                                        - 3
  • Curry leaves                                      - few
  • Salt to taste

Method: 

  • Soak toor dal and raw rice for 10 minutes and grind it along with coriander seeds, grated coconut, green chillies, and cumin seeds into paste
  • Churn buttermilk and keep it aside.
  • Boil chosen vegetable(i chose lady fingers) with little water(one small tumbler of water).
  • Now add the ground paste along with salt and turmeric powder.
  • When the raw smell of the paste disappears, add the churned butter milk and immediately switch off the stove.
  • In a small frying pan, add oil and then add mustard seeds, red chillies, and curry leaves, add this fried items to garnish the mor kulambu.
Cooking time: 20 minutes
This is a simple and yummy recipe.




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Chicken,

Chinese Chilli Chicken

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Ingredients:

  • Boneless chicken - 250gms
  • Capsicum or green pepper - 1
  • Soya sauce - 2 tbsp
  • Egg - 1
  • Tomato sauce - 1 tbsp
  • Chilli sauce - 1 tbsp
  • Finely chopped garlic - 3
  • Green chillies - 5
  • Corn flour - 2 tbsp
  • Green onions or Onion - 1
  • Sugar - 1/2 tbsp
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Marinate boneless chicken with 1 tbsp corn flour, 1 tbsp soya sauce, and one egg, keep the marinated chicken aside for 15 minutes.
  • After this, deep fry the marinated chicken in oil.
  • Now, in a frying pan, add finely chopped garlic, chopped onion, chopped green chillies, and pieces of capsicum.
  • Saute it for few minutes and then add sugar, chilli sauce, tomato sauce, and remaining soya sauce.
  • Take extra care while adding salt as the soya sauce contains little salt in it.
  • Now add fried chicken and stir it well so that the sauce blend well with it.
  • Serve this chilli chicken hot with boiled rice.



Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Note: Cut capsicum into large pieces

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Channa dal,

PasiParuppu Payasam/ Moong dal Payasam

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Ingredients:

  • Moong dal - 1 cup
  • Jaggery - 1 cup
  • Milk - 1 cup
  • Coconut flakes - 3 tbsp
  • Broken cashews - 3 tbsp
  • Ghee - 3 tbsp
  • Cardamom powder - a pinch

Method:

  • Roast moong dal for few minutes and pressure cook it for one whistle.
  • Make a thick jaggery syrup and add it to the cooked moong dal, cook it for five minutes.
  • Add milk to this payasam and immediately switch off the stove.
  • In a small frying pan, add ghee and fry coconut flakes and broken cashews.
  • Add this fried flakes and cashews in the payasam.
  • Add a pinch of cardamom powder

Cooking Time: 15 to 20 minutes.
Note: Instead of moong dal, you can also use channa dal to prepare payasam.

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Chicken,

Chicken Vindaloo

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Ingredients:

  • Chicken - 1/2 kg
  • Red chillies - 8 or 9
  • Coriander powder - 1 1/2tbsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Black Pepper - 1/2 tbsp
  • Grated coconut - 3 tbsp
  • Shallot Onion - 15
  • Tomato - 1
  • Ginger-garlic paste - 2 tbsp
  • Coriander leaves to garnish
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Wash and keep the chicken aside.
  • Make a paste of red chillies, cumin seeds, black pepper, and two shallot onions.
  • In a flat bottomed pan, add oil and then add chopped onions(chopped here means just slice into half).
  • Saute onions until it becomes transparent and add chopped tomato.
  • Now add the ground paste, ginger-garlic paste, saute it until the raw smell disappears.
  • Now add coriander powder and turmeric powder, finally add chicken with one cup of water and salt to taste.
  • When the chicken is half-cooked, add grated coconut.
  • Serve hot with rice.
Cooking Time: 30 to 40 minutes

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Bitter gourd,

Pavakkai Poriyal

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Ingredients:

  • Midhi Pavakkai ( small varieties of pavakkai) - 500g
  • Onion - 1
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Red chilli - 3
  • Salt to taste
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Curry leaves - few

Method:

  • Pressure cook the midhi pavakkai along with salt (one whistle is enough and add only half tumbler of water for cooking).
  • In a frying pan, add oil, mustard seeds, one red chilli and curry leaves.
  • Then add chopped onions and saute until it becomes transparent. 
  • Now add the cooked pavakkai along with the water.
  • Grind red chilli and cumin seeds, add this mixture to pavakkai.
  • Cook pavakkai until all the water drains off.

Cooking Time: 15 minutes

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Poriyal/Curries,

Potato Podimas

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Ingredients:

  • Potato: 500gms
  • Onion - 1
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Grated coconut - 2 tbsp
  • Green chillies - 1 or 2
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Boil potatoes and peel its skin and then chop it.
  • Chop onion nicely, in a frying pan, add oil, mustard seeds and curry leaves.
  • Now add chopped onions, saute until it becomes transparent.
  • Now grind grated coconut, green chillies and cumin seeds, add this paste to the above mixture and add salt along with little water.
  • When the masala starts boiling and water is reduced to half, add chopped potatoes.
  • Mix Potatoes nicely with the masala and finally garnish it with coriander leaves.

Cooking Time: 15 minutes

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Plantain,

Valakkai Podimas/ Plantain Podimas

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Ingredients:

  • Vazhakkai/Plantain - 1
  • Onion - 1
  • Green chillies - 1
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Grated Coconut - 1 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Urud dal - 1 tbsp
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Cut plantain into cubes and chop onion and green chillies.
  • Grind cumin seeds and coconut into paste.
  • In a frying pan, add oil, mustard seeds, urud dal, and curry leaves.
  • Now add chopped onions and green chillies, saute this for few minutes.
  • Then add the cubed plantain along with the salt.
  • Add little water along with ground paste and cover the pan with lid to cook.
  • Switch off the stove once it is cooked.

Cooking time: 20 minutes
This goes very well with rasam.

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Boiled Rice,

Thengai Sadham/ Coconut Sadham

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Ingredients:

  • Cooked rice - 1 cup
  • Grated coconut - 1 cup
  • Red chillies - 2
  • Channa dal - 1 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Green chilli - 1
  • Curry leaves - few

Method:

  • In a flat bottomed pan, add oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, red chillies, channa dal, and chopped green chilli.
  • Saute this for few minutes, now add grated coconut and saute until the raw smell disappears (cook this in medium or low flame)
  • Now add cooked rice( i usually cook rice with salt, if you don't please add required salt).
  • Now mix everything nicely, cook for one or two minutes and remove from heat.

Cooking Time: 15 to 20 minutes.

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Carrot,

Carrot Poriyal

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Ingredients:

  • Carrot - 1/2 kg
  • Onion - 1
  • Channa dal or urud dal- 1 tbsp
  • Chopped green chillies - 2
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Grate carrots and keep it aside.
  • In a pan, add oil, mustard seeds, channa dal and curry leaves.
  • Now add onion and saute until it becomes transparent.
  • Then add green chillies and grated carrot along with salt.
  • Add very little water to cook ( 1/2 tumbler of water is enough).
  • Cover the pan and cook it.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

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Desserts/Snacks,

Javvarisi Pakoda

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Ingredients:

  • Javvarisi - 1/2 cup
  • Left out dosa or idli batter - 1 1/2 cups
  • Chopped Onions - 1/2 cup
  • Chopped chilli - 2

Method:

  • Mix javvarisi or sago in the left-out batter and keep it aside for four hours in the refrigerator.
  • After four hours, take the mixture and add little water as the mixture would become very thick.
  • Add chopped onions and green chillies.
  • Taste this mixture to test salt, because the batter will already have salt. If the salt is not enough add little more.
  • Mix everything nicely.
  • Take a pan and add enough oil for frying, now take small balls from the mixture and add this to the hot oil.
  • Fry the balls until it becomes golden brown.

Cooking Time: 15 minutes.

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Fish,

Meen Kulambu

7:11 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



Ingredients:



  • Fish - 1/2 kg
  • Pepper - 1 tbsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Onion - 1
  • Tomato - 1
  • Red chilli powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
  • Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp
  • Green chilli - 1 
  • Tamarind juice - 1 cup
  • Salt to taste

PASTE:
Grind the following:

  • Onion - 1
  • Garlic pods - 4
  • cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Grated coconut - 1 tbsp (optional)

Method:



  • Wash and cut fish into pieces. 
  • In a pan, add oil, mustard seeds and curry leaves.
  • Now add crushed pepper and cumin seeds and saute for few seconds and then add chopped onions.
  • Saute onions for few minutes and add chopped tomatoes along with chopped green chilli.
  • Saute this for few minutes and add red chilli powder, coriander powder, salt and turmeric powder.
  • Now add cut fish pieces and tamarind juice.
  • Add one cup of water to this mixture and let it boil.
  • When the fish kulambu is almost cooked, add the ground paste.
  • Let the kulambu boil for few more minutes and switch off the stove.

CoookingTime: 30 to 40 minutes
Note: Do not change kulambu to any other utensils after cooking because fish will break after cooking.





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mushroom,

Mushroom Fry

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Ingredients:

  • Button Mushroom - 500g
  • Onion - 1
  • Tomato - 1
  • Chilli Powder - 1 tbsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Mustard seeds - 1/2 tbsp
  • Curry leaves

Method:



  • Wash and cut mushroom in to big pieces, chop onion and tomato nicely.
  • In a frying pan, add oil, then mustard seeds and curry leaves.
  • Now add onion, let it fry for few minutes until it becomes transparent.
  • Add tomato to the above mixture and saute it until the tomatoes skin start peeling off.
  • Now add chilli powder and salt, saute it for one minute, and add pieces of mushroom.
  • Don't add water, cook this in medium flame and close the pan with a lid while cooking.



Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Very easy to prepare, take care not to burn this recipe while cooking.

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Sambar/Kulambu,

Rasam

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Ingredients: 

  • Tamarind - Golf ball size
  • Garlic- 3 pods
  • Red chilli - 1
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Black Pepper - 1 tbsp
  • Tomato - 1 
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tbsp
  • Asafoetida - a pinch
  • Curry leaves
  • Coriander leaves for garnishing
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Soak tamarind for 30 minutes in water, extract the juice of tamarind for about 1 cup.
  • In a pan, add oil and then add mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, and curry leaves.
  • Now add the tamarind juice and 1/4 cup of water.
  • Grind cumin seeds, garlic, pepper, and red chilli into paste, add this ground mixture to the tamarind.
  • Add chopped tomatoes to the above mixture along with asafoetida, salt, and turmeric powder.
  • When this mixture starts boiling, add the chopped coriander leaves and remove rasam from heat.

Cooking time: 15 minutes
Rasam along with potato curry is the wonderful lunch one could ever have.



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Breakfast,

Adai Dosa

12:41 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



Ingredients:

  • Channa dal - 1/2 cup
  • Toor dal - 1/2 cup
  • Idli rice - 1 cup
  • Urud dal - 1/2 cup
  • Asafoetida - a pinch
  • Onion - 1
  • Red chillies - 3 
  • Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Soak idli rice, channa dal, toor dal, and urud dal for 2 hours.
  • Grind the soaked items along with red chilllies, asafoetida, and salt to a smooth batter
  • Now to the ground mixture, add chopped onions, grated coconut, and curry leaves.
  • Heat the dosa tava and pour ladleful of this batter and spread it in the form of circle( similar to dosa, but thicker than that).
  • Add oil on its sides, flip the dosa and cook it on both sides.
  • Serve with coconut chutney or avial.

Cooking time: 2 or 3 minutes.
Very healthy recipe.

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Fish,

Chettinad Meen Varuval/ Chettinad Fish Fry

12:29 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments


Ingredients: 
  • Fish - 1/2 kg
  • Chilli powder - 1 tbsp
  • Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
  • Garlic- 8 pods
  • Shallot onions - 8
  • Pepper - 1/2 tbsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Fennel seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Curry leaves for garnishing
  • Oil for frying

Method:
  • Grind chilli powder, coriander powder, garlic, onions, pepper, cumin seeds, and fennel seeds with little water and make it as a paste.
  • Wash fish properly and marinate it with the above paste.
  • Set aside the fish for 1 hour.
  • In a flat bottomed tawa, add three tbsp of oil, and add fish for frying.
  • Add excess oil if required, fry fish on both sides.
Cooking time: 15 minutes( excluding the marination part).
Very tasty recipe, my son loves this very much.

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green peas,

Pachai Pattani Kurma Kulambu/ Green Peas Kurma Kulambu

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Ingredients:

  • Pachai Pattani/Green Peas - 1 cup
  • Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
  • Onion - 1
  • Tomato - 1
  • Cinnamon - 1
  • Cardamom - 1
  • Bay leaf - 1
  • Fennel seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
  • Green chilli - 1
  • Cashew - 5
  • Cumin seeds-  1 tbsp
  • Chilli powder or sambar powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
  • Coriander powder - 1/2 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder - a pinch
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Soak green peas overnight and pressure cook for 3 whistle ( don't overcook).
  • In a frying pan, add oil, then bay leaf, cinnamon, cardamon, fennel seeds, cumin seeds.
  • Then add chopped onion, saute until it becomes transparent, then add ginger garlic paste.
  • Saute this mixture until the raw smell disappears.
  • Now add chopped tomato and chopped green chilli, saute it for few minutes.
  • Grind grated coconut and cashew, add this ground mixture to the above substances.
  • Now add red chilli powder, coriander powder, salt, and turmeric powder, and add water as required.
  • When the mixture starts boiling, add boiled green peas.
  • Boil this kurma for few minutes until the gravy becomes thick

Cooking time: 30 minutes
This goes best with rice and rotis







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Desserts/Snacks,

Palkova - Milk Sweets

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Ingredients:


  • Milk - 2 cups
  • Sugar - 1 cup
  • Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
  • Ghee - 2 tbsp


Method:


  • Boil milk in a thick bottomed pan, when it starts boiling add lemon juice.
  • Lemon juice helps to separate water from milk solids, if you want you can drain little water.
  • Now add ghee and sugar to the above mixture.
  • Stir the milk until it separates into tiny particles.


Cooking time: 30 minutes;
Cook this recipe on low or medium flame. Very tasty recipe.

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Beans,

Sambar

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Ingredients:

  • Potato - 2
  • Carrot - 2
  • Tomato - 1
  • Shallot onions - 10
  • Toor dal - 50 gms
  • Tamarind juice - 1/2 cup
  • Asafoetida - a pinch
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Sambar powder - 1 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1/2 tbsp
  • Cilantro (optional)
  • salt to taste

Method:

  • Pressure cook toor dal along with cumin seeds and asafoetida
  • Add chopped vegetables (onion, tomato, carrot, potato) to the toor dal.
  • Now add tamarind juice, 1/2 cup water, sambar powder, and salt.
  • Cilantro is optional, if you like the smell add it.
  • Now again pressure cook the whole mixture.
  • Then in a small pan, add oil, mustard seeds, and curry leaves, and finally garnish the sambar with this mixture.

Cooking time: 15 to 20 minutes
Very easy and quick method. You can substitute, broad beans or radish for carrot and potato. 





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Beans,

Beans Poriyal

12:54 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



Ingredients:

  • Beans - 1/2 kg
  • Mung dal - 1 1/2 tbsp
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Green chillies - 1 or chilli powder - 1 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds - 1/2 tbsp
  • Salt to taste

Method: 

  • Wash and cut beans into small pieces
  • In a kadai, add oil and mustard seeds, when mustard starts spluttering add curry leaves.
  • Now add beans and mung dal, fry it one minute
  • Add one cup of water and then add green chillies or chilli powder along with salt.
  • Let it cook until water is drained.

Cooking time: 15 minutes
Similarly you can even prepare Indian broad bean poriyal.





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Mixed Rice Varieties

Brinji Rice

12:27 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



Ingredients:

  • Basmati rice - 1 cup
  • Potato - 1
  • Carrot - 1
  • Peas - 1/4 cup
  • Beans - 6 or 7
  • Garlic - 2 (optional)
  • Bay leaves - 1
  • Cinnamon - 1
  • Tomato - 1 (optional)
  • Anise - 1 petal
  • Turmeric powder - a pinch
  • Ghee - 3 tbsp
  • Green chilli- 1 (optional)

Method: 

  • Wash and soak briyani rice for 10 minutes before cooking
  • In the pressure cooker, add ghee and when it melts add bay leaves, cinnamon, and anise.
  • Then add onion, tomato, green chilli and garlic, fry this few minutes until onion becomes transparent.
  • Now add vegetables (carrot, potato, peas, and beans), and fry for few more minutes
  • Add rice and 2 cups of water to the cooker.
  • Pressure cook this rice and let it cook for 2 or 3 whistle.
Cooking time: 20 minutes
This is my son's favorite recipe

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