mushroom,

Mushroom Fry

12:02 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

12:41 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

12:03 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

1:56 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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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