Egg Curry/Motta kuttan

Easy and requires less time for preparation....

Ingredients:
1. Boiled eggs – 4 (depending on the requirement)
2. Onions – 2
3. Tomato – 2
4. 1 tbsp – mustard seeds
5. 1 tbsp- cooking oil
6. green chilly – 1-2 slitted
7. 1 pinch of turmeric powder
8. ½ tbsp of garam masala powder
9. ginger garlic paste

Method of preparation:

Boil eggs separately.

In a kadai, pour some cooking oil and splutter some mustard seeds, kadala paruppu, jeerakham, urud dhal seeds. When it becomes golden brown, add ginger garlic paste and sauté it till its raw smell is gone. Add chopped onions, slitted green chillies and stir fry it till it becomes light brown. To this, add the finely chopped tomatoes and cook it till it becomes soggy. Add turmeric powder, salt, garam masala and pour little water if you want it in gravy form. Allow it to cook till it boils. To this add the boiled egg cut into halves. Pour the gravy on top of the eggs.

(Sorry for the poor picture, actually the gravy was red in color..it looks dull in here..there was no proper lighting i believe ..)

Enjoy this yummy sidedish with chappathi/plain

Egg burji/Egg podimas

Any recipe which can be prepared in a minute or two is one and only egg burji.

Mix 2-3 egg, finely chopped onions, salt to taste, curry leaves, 2 pinch of turmeric powder (optional), 1-2 chopped green chilli and 1 tbsp pepper powder in a big bowl very well.

In a heated tawa, pour the above mix and stir it with a spatula continuously till the egg is done.

Tandoori Chicken - Microwave cooking

I was lamenting about the microwave that we got very recently. yep..I went for couple of microwave cooking class and the trainer showed me this dish.

I tried as soon as i got back home. It came out well.

Ingredients:

Chicken - 1/2 kg
1 tbsp cooking oil
1/2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp chilli powder
1 tbsp garam masala powder
1 tbsp turmeric powder
2 tbsp curd
1 tbsp pepper
Little soyasauce
Food color (optional)
Maida for binding
1 tbsp salt

Method of preparation:

Mix all the ingredients mentioned above and marinate for 1-2 hours.

Smear some oil on top of the pieces and in convention mode, preheat the oven to 180 degree C for 20 mintues and then when the beep sound comes, load the oven with chicken and cook for another 20 mintues. After 10 mintues, turn over the chicken piece.


It came out nice and crispy…I garnished with capsicum.

My daughter said that it will tastes better if you have squeezed some lemon juice on top of it..yeah..i forgot...She is a definitely a critic...i have to watchout.

Kappa puzhunghiyathu/ boiled tapioca

Simple and easy to make.

Chop off the skin of tapioca. Wash it thoroughly with water. Cut it into small pieces and boil it with little salt.


You may have it plain

Meen Kuttan/Fish curry

How to make fish curry:


Ingredients:

1. Cleaned fish pieces
2. Tumeric powder - 1 tbsp
3. Chilly powder - 2 tbsp
4. Coriander powder - 3 tbsp
5. Koda puli - 3-4 pieces nicely soaked in water for 10- 15 minutes /Tamarind - 1/2 lemon sized
6. curry leaves
7. chopped ginger pieces, chopped onions
8. Tomatoes - 1 (optional)
9. Cocunut milk - 1 cup (keep seperately the first milk, the second milk)
10. Finely chopped small onions ( 1 handful)

Method of preparation:

1. Mix all the ingredients mentioned above except the finely chopped small onions in a heavy bottom kadai/mudpot with required water and also the second milk so that the fish remains inside the gravy. Fish curry tastes authentic when cooked in mudpot..and tastes divine after 1 day...


2. Bring the whole content to boil. Reduce the burner and cook for another 5-7 mintues. Ensure that the fish is cooked. Check can be done by removing a part of the fish and tasting it...By the time, the fish is done, pls don't exhaust the fish pieces in the pretext of testing..LOL..When it is almost done, add the first cocunut milk and simmer it for a minute or two.



3. In another small kadai, throw some oil and add the chopped small onions and deep fry it till it becomes dark brown. I also add curry leaves here.

4. Then just pour out the fried onions on top of the meen curry..Emh!!!!!!



You can relish it with hot plain rice

Meen varuthadu thakkali chutneyill/ Fish fry bathed in Tomato chutney!!!

Don't get intimidated by the title...LOL...

I usually apply the regular powders on the fry piece and just end up doing a vanilla fish fry ...My family got fed up with the same taste and same aroma..Hence i thought i will try something different this time with a touch of tomato chutney...Thought let me give it a shot...it came out well too..

Ingredients:
1. Tomato chutney
2. Cleaned Fish pieces
3. chilly powder
4. Salt
5. Corainder powder

Method of preparation:

1. Apply all the ingredients to the cleaned fish pieces and marinate for say 1/2 hour to 1 hour.
2. In a heavy bottom kadai, pour cooking oil and allow it to heat.
3. When it becomes hot, throw the marinated fish pieces. Turn it around after the bottom is done so that it is cooked all over.



Emh!!! My son comes running to the kitchen the moment the smell haunts the whole house..."Amma, give me chicken, chicken,...ummh!!! "..I go "It is not chicken, it is fish"...He comes back.."give me chicken, chicken".."Aiyo, fish"..."Ammey, give me chicken, AMMEY"...Me : "OK, your chicken"...he hardly knows the difference between chicken and fish..anything non-vegetarian is chicken for him..LOL

Dry Chicken/ Chicken ularthiyathu….

Sunday as usual is a non-vegetarian day. I thought I would do it in a different manner..Not the usual chicken curry which, I believe, my family got fed up with the same color, same taste, same aroma..same same…. This time, I thought i will do chicken minus the gravy.


Here is how I did:



1. Cleaned the chicken with lotsa of water. 2-3 rounds. Then one round with 1tbsp of salt and turmeric powder to kill the germs.
2. Then to the cleaned chicken, add 1 tbsp of salt, 1 tbsp of turmeric powder, 1 tbsp of chilli powder, 2 tbsp of coriander seed powder and mix it well and thoroughly and keep it aside.
3. Chop 1-2 onions, 2 ripe tomatoes, ½ inch of ginger piece chopped into small pieces and crushed , 3-5 garlic pieces chopped and crushed. Lotsa of curry leaves.
4. In a Kadai, pour some cooking oil and to it add some sombhu seeds and let it to simmer, then add the crushed garlic and ginger pieces and let it fry till nice aroma covers the whole kitchen, add 1- 2 bay leaves and let it fry too. Add chopped onions and let it fry till light brown, add chopped onions and let it fry too.
5. To the above, add the marinated chicken and stir it well for some time and close with the lid after simming the burner down.
6. Frequently, stir the chicken and just sprinkle some water if it has become dry at the bottom.
7. When it almost done, add 1 tbsp of gram masala/chicken masala powder to it and mix it thoroughly and let it cook for 5 mintues.
8. Garnish with curry leaves/coriander leaves.



One can enjoy this with Chappathi/plain rice/curd rice. Yummy……..

Meen varuthathu/Plain Fish fry

Clean the fish thoroughly with lotsa of water. Then clean with 1 tbsp of salt and 1 tbsp of turmeric powder. Keep it aside for 5 mintues and once again wash the fish thoroughly with water. I use gallons and gallons of water to clean fish till the last dirt is removed.

Fish fry masala:

Mix 1 tbsp of turmeric powder, 2 tbsp of chilly powder, 3 tbsp of coriander seed powder (malli powder) and 1 ½ tbsp of salt. Mix these powder’s well.

How to prepare fish fry:

Apply this powder onto the cleaned fish all over. Keep aside for sometime to marinate.

In a frying pan, pour enough quantity of oil. Put these masala applied fish onto the hot oil. Simmer the burner otherwise the skin get charred and hard. Then after sometime, turn the fish to the other side. Remove once it is done.

It tastes yum with curd rice, plain rice. Enjoy…Meen varuthathu….

I just can't stop clicking these lovely, picturesque fish fries...yummy and delicious