Friday, February 18, 2011

Potato, Mushroom Poriyal (Fry)

Ingredients 
Mushroom : 200 gms
Potato : 200 gms
Onion : 1 medium size full
Ginger garlic paste : 1 tsp
Green chili : 4
Coriander powder : 1 tsp
Block pepper : 1 tsp
Oil : 5 tsp
Salt : 1 tsp
Bay leaves, lavangam, pattai : 2
Coriander leaves : 1 hand full

To Make Potato Mushroom Poriyal
  • Heat the oil in pan 
  • Add Bay leaves, Lavangam, pattai 
  • Keep the flame in medium
  • Add Onion, ginger garlic paste
  • Fry it well
  • Add Potato, Mushroom fry it well
  • Add salt, coriander leaves and fry it
  • Add little water and mix it
  • Add coriander powder, Block pepper, Green chili
  • Fry it well
  • Add little water and fry it well until raw smell goes off 
  • And close it with lid for 5 minutes 
  • Switch it off after 5 minutes and garnish it with coriander leaves 
  • And serve it hot with Chapati, Dosa and Curd Rice 


Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Tomato Soup

Ingredients
Tomato : 2 medium size
Block pepper : 3 tsp
Salt : 1 tsp
Cumin powder : 1 tsp
Corn flour : 1 tsp
Water : 2 1/2 cups

To Make Tomato Soup
  • Boil the tomato and remove the skin 
  • Grind it in the mixi and make it as tomato puree
  • Take 5 tsp of water and mix corn flour to it, with out lumps an keep it aside 
  • Boil the 2 1/2 cups of water in flat pan 
  • Add tomato puree in to the water 
  • Add salt, Cumin powder, Block pepper 
  • Add corn flour mix little by little 
  • Mix it well
  • Switch it off after 5 to 10 minutes
  • Serve it hot
  • If spicy required more can add little block pepper extra before serving 

Friday, February 4, 2011

Chili Fish

Ingredients
Boneless fish : 1/2 kg (Cut in to small square or thin length)
Big Onion :1 medium size (chopped)
Red chili : 6 (flakes)broken
Garlic : 3 (chopped)
Capsicum : 1/2
Corn flour powder : 3 tsp
All purpose flour : 6 tsp (Maida)
Rice flour : 2 tsp
Soya sauce : 1 tsp
Sugar :1/2 tsp
Block pepper powder : 1 tsp
Salt : 1 tsp
Spring onion : 1 hand full
Tomato sauce : 1/2 tsp
Oil : to fry fish

To Make Chili Fish
  • In bowl add corn flour, rice flour, all purpose flour, soya sauce, sugar, salt, block pepper 
  • Mix all together an make it as thick paste with little water
  • Add fish in to the flour mixture
  • Fry the fish in oil an keep at aside
  • Heat the oil in pan add garlic, Red chili  and onion fry until becomes golden brown
  • Add  capsicum and fry it well
  • Add fried fish and mix it 
  • Add soya sauce, salt, tomato sauce, sugar, block pepper 
  • Finally add spring onion greens
  • Mix it well with fish and make it as dry
  • Switch it off after 5 minutes 
  • Serve it hot with chapati, Fried rice  

Monday, January 31, 2011

Kulfi Ice

Ingredients
Sweetened Condensed Milk : 200 ml
Milk : 1/2 litre (500 ml)
Sugar : 4 tsp
Corn flour : 3 tsp
Badam : 12
Cashew : 6

To Make Kulfi Ice
  • Grind the Badam, Cashew, Sugar, Cardamom coarsely 
  • Take 5 tsp of milk and mix corn flour to it, with out lumps and keep it aside
  • Mix the Condensed milk to 400 ml of milk pour them on to a wide pan
  • Heat this mixture till it boils 
  • Keep the flame in low
  • Add corn flour mix little by little and mix it well with milk in the pan 
  • Make sure to mix again before adding to the pan, corn flour may settled in the bottom
  • Now add the cordomom, sugar, badam, cashew mix to the pan and stir well
  • The milk in the pan starts to thicken in a minute
  • Let the milk get thicken for 2 minutes 
  • Remove the pan from flame and cool it down
  • Pour the cooled down mixture to the Kulfi moulds 
  • Freeze them over night
  • When you want to serve carefully remove the lid of mould and serve it
If yo don't have a kulfi moulds, can use box an freeze it

Vendhaya Kuzhambu

Ingredients
Big Onion : 1/2 (Small peices) or Pearl Onion : 12
Tomato :1/2
Fenugreek seeds (Vendayam) : 1/2 tsp
Tamarind : 1 lemon size
Red chili powder : 1 tsp
Sesame oil : 3 tsp
Mustard : 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves : 10

To Make Dry Roasted Powder
Chana dal : 3 tsp
Coriander seeds : 2 tsp
Cumin seeds : 1/2 tsp
Dry Red chili : 4
Fenugreek seeds : 1/4 tsp

To Make Vendhaya Kuzhambu
  • Heat the oil in pan and fry the ingredients mentioned for dry roasted powder till they turn golden brown
  • After roasting cool them down an make it as powder
  • Add 2 tsp onion and half tomato with grinded powder and make it as fine paste
  • If required can add little water to bring it to fine paste
  • Heat the sesame oil in pan and add mustard, curry leaves
  • Add onion and fry till they turn translucent 
  • Add grinded paste to the onion and fry them for a minute by stirring
  • Add 1 cup of tamarind water and salt to taste and stir well
  • Add red chili powder and 1 cup of water
  • Let it boil for few minutes 
  • Switch it off after 5 minutes 
  • Serve it hot with Rice, Idly, Dosa

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Baby Aloo Curry

Ingredients 

Baby Aloo's : 7( Boiled, Cut in 2 pieces)
Capsicum : 1/2 (Cut in to square shape)
Big Onion : 1 medium size (Cut in to Square shape)
Tomato : 1 (Cut in to square shape)
Curd : 5 tsp
Red chili powder : 1 tsp
Block pepper : 1 tsp
Cumin Powder : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds (jeera) : 1/2 tsp

To Make Baby Aloo curry
  • Marinate the boiled Aloo's with Curd, red chili powder, cumin powder, block pepper, salt for 1/2hr
  • Heat the oil add jeera and Onion fry it until becomes golden brown
  • Add tomato and capsicum and fry it for 5 minutes
  • Add little cumin powder and little water
  • Mix it well, Add little salt
  • Add marinated Aloo's with this and mix it well
  • Switch it off after raw smell went off (10 minutes)


Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Paani Poori

Ingredients
Poori
To Make Paani
Mint leaves paste : 2 tsp
Coriander leaves paste  : 2tsp
Tamarind paste : 1 tsp
Jaggery powder : 2 tsp
Salt : 1/2 tsp
Garam masala : 1/2 tsp
Red chili powder : 1/4 tsp
Chat masala : 1 tsp
Water : 2 Cups (Cold water)

To Make Potato Masala

Boiled Potato : 2
Carrot : 1/2
Beans : 5
Red chilli powder : 2 tsp
Salt : 1/4 tsp

To Make Paani Poori
  • Mix all the ingredients as i mentioned for Paani  in  cold water an keep it aside
Paani
  • Boil the potato and smash it and keep it aside
  • Heat the oil in kadai add mustard seeds and urud dal, then add onion and fry it
  • After onion turned to golden brown add tomato and fry it.
  • Add carrot and beans and fry it for 5 minutes
  • Add boiled potato to it
  • Add Red chilli powder, salt and mix it well. If required add little water
  • Once everything is ready switch off an keep it aside.  
  • Potato Masala
  • Take one puri, make little hole on the top 
  • Stuff the potato masala 
  • Add 2 to 3 tsp of paani in poori and serve it
  • Can serve this measurement of paani to 15 to 20 poori's