Monday, November 7, 2011

Pacha payar dosai (Pesarattu)

Ingredients 
Green gram - 1 cup
Idly rice - 1/4 cup
Onion - 1 medium big
Dry Red chili - 3
Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup
Salt - 1 tsp

To Make Pacha payar dosai
  • Wash and soak the green gram, rice, red chili over night
  • Next day morning grind it in the mixi by adding little water
  • Make it as dosa batter
  • Add Chopped onion, coriander leaves, salt to the batter 
  • Mix it well, Heat the dosa tawa
  • Spread the batter to the dosa tawa to round shape 
  • If one side is cooked turn it to other side 
  • If other side also cooked, remove from tawa 
  • Serve it hot with Kara chutney, coconut chutney
Note : In this measurement can make 12 to 14 dosas  

Friday, November 4, 2011

Ribbon pakoda

Ingredients
Rice flour - 1 cup
Besan gram flour - 1/2 cup
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Butter - 1 tsp
Water - 1/2 cup
Oil - to fry

To make Ribbon pakoda
  • Mix all the ingredients of above mentioned and make it as dough
  • Heat the oil in kadai, take a small portion of dough and place it in murukku mold and close it
  • Squeeze the murukku mold in separate plastic sheet.
  • Once the oil is hot enough, take the squeezed one and add in oil, fry it deeply
  • You can see the bubbles immediately, once these bubbles are almost stopped
  • Remove the ribbon pakodas from oil and drain it in papper towel
  • Let them cool and store it in air tight container

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Chicken Kola urundai

Ingredients
Grounded chicken - 1/2 kg (1 LB)
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Jeera - 1 tsp
Garlic - 3
Ginger - 1 inch
Green chili - 4 or 5
Kasa Kasa (poppy seeds) - 1/2 tsp
Cashew - 5
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Egg - 1
Bread gums - 5 tsp
Oil - for fry

To Make Chicken Kola Urundai
  • Heat the 1 tsp oil in kadai add fennel seeds, cumin seeds, ginger, garlic..
  • Green chili, kasa kasa, cashew fry all these ingredients for 5 minutes
  • Boil the grounded chicken in water with 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder and salt
  • And grind it as powder with 2 tsp of grounded chicken
  • Beat the egg and keep it ready
  • Filter the water and smash the chicken in hand 
  • And  mix the grinded powder with boiled chicken and make it as dough
  • And make small small balls 
  • Dip the balls in egg 
  • And roll over the bread gums 
  • Fry the balls in Oil 
  • Serve it hot with tomato sauce 

Vinayaga chathurthi Kozhukattai(Mothagam)

Ingredients
Raw rice (Pacha arisi) - 1 cup
Powdered Jaggery - 3/4 cup
Water - 2 1/2 cups
Cashew - 5
Cardamom - 1
Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup

To Make Rice
  • Wash the Rice and dry it in Cotton cloth for 4 to 5 hours
  • And grind it in the mixi like Rice upma 
  • Should not make it as powder
To Make Kozhukattai
  • Take the powdered jaggery mix it with 1 cup of water
  • And heat it slightly for 3 to 4 minutes(should not make it as pagu)
  • It should be watery consistency and keep it aside
  • Heat the ghee in kadai 
  • Fry the Cashew 
  • After it came brown color, add the broken rice and fry it for 3 to 4 minutes 
  • Add 1 1/2 cup of water mix it well 
  • Cook it as like upma
  • And add the jaggery water to rice, mix it well 
  • Cook until becomes thick like upma again for 10 minutes
  • Finally add the coconut and cardamom and mix it 
  • Switch it off  and leave it for 10 minutes to cool down
  • After that make it as round balls and boil it in the Idly cooker or rice cooker

Monday, August 29, 2011

Rava Dosai

Ingredients
Fermented Dosa Batter - 1 Cup
Fried Rava - 1/2 cup
Cumin seeds (Jeera) - 1 tsp
Green chili - 1
Fried cashew - 5 chopped
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Curd - 1/4 cup
Coriander leaves - little chopped

To Make Rava Dosa
  • Mix all the ingredients in the dosa batter with 1 to 1 1/2 cup of water
  • Mix it well
  • Batter should be Little watery consistency(not too much)
  • Pre heat the Dosa tawa
  • Take 1 spatula full of batter and pour it in to the dosa tawa
  • Rotate the dosa tawa to make thin dosa
  • Don't use spatula to get thin dosa.
  • Pour oil in the dosa
  • Once it become little brown
  • Turn it in to the other side
  • Once it become crispy and brown color 
  • Remove it from tawa and serve it hot with chutney sambar

Vegetable Aviyal (Malayala Aviyal)

Ingredients
Carrot - 1
Potato - 1 medium size
Beans - 4
Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
Drumstick - 1/2
Curd - 1/4 cup
Green chili - 5
Cumin seeds (jeera) - 1/2 tsp
Chana dal - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp

To Make Aviyal
  • Heat the 2 tsp oil in kadai 
  • Add jeera, chana dal, green chili and fry it 
  • And finally add the grated coconut 
  • Grind it in the mixi and make it as paste 
  • Cut all the vegetables lengthy wise
  • Add little turmeric powder, salt and water with full of vegetables 
  • Cook it as half boiled vegetables
  • Mix this paste in to the vegetables
  • Close it with lid and cook for 5 to 10 minutes 
  • Finally add 2 to 3 tsp of coconut oil, curry leaves and curd
  • Mix it well and close it and cook for 3 minutes
  • Switch it off and serve it hot with Rice.
Note : Raw banana (vazhakai), mango also can use. if we are using mango means reduce the curd quantity in the mixture

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Kathirikai Ketti Kuzhambu

Ingredients
Brinjal - 4 (cut in to half and then slice it half )
Garlic - 5 nos
Tomato - 3
Red chili powder - 2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
kasa kasa - 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds (jeera) - 1 tsp
Block pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Cashew - 5
Tamarind paste - 2 tsp (or lemon size)
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Asafoetida powder (perungayam) - little

To Make Kathirikai Ketti Kuzhambu
  • Take garlic, kasa kasa, fennel seeds, cumin seeds...
  • Cashew, pepper and Coconut gind it as paste
  • Heat the oil in kadai add mustard, urud dal, perungayam, fennel seeds fry it 
  • Add Curry leaves, Onion fry it after becomes little brown
  • Add Brinjal, fry it for 2 minutes and add tomatoes
  • Fry it for 5 to 10 minutes in medium flame
  • Add Red chili powder, coriander powder, Salt, tamarind paste
  • Mix it well
  • And add Grinded paste 
  • Mix it well and close it with lid and cook for 5 minutes 
  • Cook until Oil comes up and thick gravy 
  • Switch it off and serve it hot with Rice, Idly, Dosa