Wednesday, March 7, 2012

How to make coconut rice

Coconut Rice

Ingredients
  1. Rice: 1 cup
  2. Coconut: 1/2 cup grated
  3. Green chilli: 2
  4. Mustard seeds: 1/4 tsp
  5. Bengal Gram: 1/4 tsp
  6. Urad dal: 1/4 tsp
  7. Curry Leaves: few
  8. oil: As needed
  9. Salt: As needed

Coconut rice



Preparation Method 
  • Cook basmathi rice in a cookware and keep aside.
  • Take a pan and add oil to it, and season with mustard seeds, urad dal, bengal gram , green chilli and curry leaves .
  • To this add the grated coconut and saute with low flame.
  • When it starts turning brown remove the pan from fire and add rice to it and mix well with added salt.
  • Serve hot .

How to make Wheat Pasta Indian Recipe- A vegetarian break fast

Wheat Pasta Indian Recipe- A vegetarian break fast


Ingredients
  1. Pasta :1 cup
  2. Onion 1/2 chopped/sliced
  3. Tomato: 1
  4. Carrot: 1
  5. Pesto Sauce:1tsp
  6. Alfredo Sauce:2 tsp
  7. Pepper: 1/2 tsp powdered
  8. Bracolli: A little
  9. Oil: As needed
  10. Salt: As needed
Preparation Method 
  • Take a pan and add oil and saute onion and tomato then add the vegetables one by one and saute by added few salt and let it get cooked.
  • Meanwhile cook pasta with water and a little salt. Time varies for each type of paste. But approximately it takes 15 to 20 mins.
  • Drain the water in pasta and keep aside.
  • To the  vegetables add the pasta and stir well.
  • To this mixture ass pesto and alfredo sauce and mix well.
  • Remove from the fire and serve hot.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Kadala (channa dal) Curry with Potato

Kadala (channa dal) Curry with Potato


Ingredients
  1. Channa Dal Black:1/2 cup
  2. Tomato: 1
  3. Green Chilli: 2
  4. Mustard: 1/4 tsp
  5. Curry Leaves: few
  6. Onion: 1 Sliced
  7. Coconut: 1/4 cup grated
  8. Fennel Seeds: 1/4 tsp
  9. Cashew nuts: 5
  10. Red Chilli Powder: 2 tsp
  11. Coriander powder: 3 tsp
  12. Turmeric Powder: 1/4 tsp
  13. Potato: 1 small
  14. Red chilli: 3
  15. Curry Leaves: few
  16. Salt: As Required
  17. Oil : As required
Preparation Method 
  •  Take a pan and add the chilli powder, coriander powder and heat without oil. This mixture is to be added to coconut, fennel seeds, cashew nuts , curry leaves, Pepper, and grind well.
  • Take oil in a pan and add onion and let it saute, then add tomato and saute till oil oozes out.
  •  Now add the paste to this mixture and saute again till the oil oozes out.
  • Meanwhile pressure cook the channa dal with potato and salt.
  • Add the channa dal and potato to the mixture , add water and cook for a while with turmeric powder and salt.
  • Finally season with mustard, red chilli and curry leaves.
  • Serve with white rice or idli, dosa, chappati, parrota or puttu.

Kathirikkai(Brinjal) baajji

Kathirikkai(brinjal) baajji


Ingredients
  1. Brinjal: 4
  2. Tomato: 1
  3. Green Chilli: 2
  4. Mustard: 1/4 tsp
  5. Curry Leaves: few
  6. Salt: As Required
  7. Oil : As required
Preparation Method 
  • Cut brinjal and tomatoes and keep aside.
  • Take a cooker and season with chilli,curry leaves and mustard .
  • Add brinjal and tomato , add little water to cook. Close the lid of cooker and let it cook . Remove after 3 whistles.
  • Now smash the contents together to get a tasty brinjal baajji.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Wheat Puri

Wheat Puri


Ingredients
  1. Wheat flour:2 cup
  2. Salt: As Required
  3. Oil : As required
  4. Ghee: 1 tsp
Preparation Method 
  • Take wheat flour, salt, ghee and mix with little water keep aside for 15 to 20 mins.
  • Now smash the mixture well.
  • Make small balls out of it. These will depend on how big a fryer you have. We intended to make puri of small-med  (probably about 6 inch in diameter).
  • Roll it out into small circles with thin-medium thickness
  • Heat oil for deep Fry
  • Drop flattened ones into oil to make puri.
  • Serve with potato masala, chicken curry, etc.

Nandu(crab) Masala

Nandu(crab) masala


Ingredients
  1. Nandu(Crab):1/2 kg
  2. Chilli Powder:1 tsp
  3. Coriander Powder: 2 tsp
  4. Powdered pepper: 1/2 tsp
  5. Coconut:1/2 
  6. Ginger garlic paste 2 tsp
  7. Fennel: 1/2 tsp
  8. Salt: As Required
  9. Oil : 2 tsp 
  10. Turmeric powder: 1/4 tsp
  11. Onion:2 chopped  
  12. Tomato :2 Chopped
  13. Cashew: 2 tsp.
  14. Poppy seeds: 1/2 tsp
Preparation Method 
  • Wash  crab and keep aside.
  • Make paste out of coconut, fennel, cashews,poppy seeds.
  • Take oil in a big pan and saute, onion, fennel, tomato for few mins and then add crab to his mixture.
  • Close with lid and cook for few mins and hen add chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and add little water.
  • Add coconut paste and close the lid to get cooked well.
  • Remove and serve hot.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Kerala Recipe Mutton Gravy

Kerala Recipe Mutton Gravy

Ingredients
  • Cloves: 1/2 tsp
  • Cinnamon:1/2 tsp
  • Ginger: Chopped 2 tsp
  • Garlic: 2 tsp
  • Green Chilli :3
  • Red Chilli powder: 1/2 tsp
  • Coriander : 1 tsp
  • Mutton: 1/2 kg
  • Onion: 2
  • Tomato :2
  • Cilantro: few
  • Mint leaves: few
  • Oil: As reqd
  • Salt : As Reqd
  • Lemon Juice: 1tsp
  • Turmeric Powder: 1tsp
  • Pepper: 1/2 tsp
  • Coconut: 1/2 grated
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Preparation Method
  1. Grind all the above said masalas, Green chilli, pepper, turmeric into a fine paste.
  2. Take oil in a pan and saute onion and add the paste to this. Saute well and add the tomatoes.
  3. Pressure cook mutton with some salt.
  4. Add cooked mutton to the mixture and saute , after 5 mins add some water and salt and cook in low flame for 15 mins.
  5. Fry coconut grated in another pan and grind  it to a fine paste.
  6. Add the coconut paste to the mixture and lower the flame and let it cook till the oil oozes out.