Desserts/Snacks,

Chick Peas Sundal

6:26 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

10:42 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

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

10:48 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments


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

11:52 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

10:22 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

1:41 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

12:30 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

12:55 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

12:34 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

7:28 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

8:18 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

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

12:25 AM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

10:17 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

9:58 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

9:42 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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

8:21 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments



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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