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Andhra Chicken Roast

Sunday, July 05th, 2009 | Author:

Ingredients:

  • Chicken breast pieces 500g
  • curds 1 cup
  • ginger-garlic paste 1 tsp
  • turmeric powder 1 pinch
  • green chili 2
  • big onion 2
  • chili powder 2 tsp
  • clove 2
  • cinnamon 1”
  • salt
  • oil.

Prep:

o Wash and cut chicken into small pieces. Mix curd, ginger-garlic paste and turmeric in a bowl. Add the chicken pieces and marinate for at least 20 m.

o  Cut the onions, add green chilies and make a paste.

  1. Heat oil in a pan, add onion-green chili paste and fry till oil separates. Add the chicken pieces with the marinade and cook for 5-10m
  2. Add chili powder, pepper powder and salt. Mix well and cook with lid for 10 m in low heat till the chicken is tender and golden brown in color
  3. Sprinkle finely cut coriander and serve.

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Honey Glazed Chicken

Sunday, July 05th, 2009 | Author:

Ingredients:

  • Boneless chicken pieces -500g
  • Egg – 1
  • Corn powder 3 tsp
  • flour 1.5 tsp
  • tomato sauce-3 tsp
  • honey-2 tsp
  • red chilies 4 – each broken into two pieces
  • garlic 8 -thinly sliced
  • big onion 2 – cut into small cubes
  • capsicum2 – cut into small cubes
  • salt
  • oil

Procedure:

  1. Prep:
    • Mix egg (1), corn powder (2 tsp), flour, soy sauce (half tsp), and salt to taste in a bowl.
    • Add Boneless chicken pieces (500g) and mix well.
    • Marinate this mix for at least 30 m.
  2. Heat oil in a pan and fry the chicken pieces till they turn golden brown
  3. Pour tomato sauce, 1 tsp soy sauce, 1 tsp corn powder, honey in a bowl. Add 50 ml water and mix well
  4. Heat 3 tsp oil in a pan.
  5. Add broken red chilies, thinly sliced garlic, onion and capsicum cut into small cubes and fry lightly.
  6. Add the fried chicken pieces and the honey mix.
  7. Mix well and remove from heat when they reach required consistency.
  8. Add pepper powder if needed.
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Muslim Briyani

Sunday, July 05th, 2009 | Author:

Ingredients:

  • Basmati rice 4 cup
  • mutton/ chicken  250 grams
  • Big Onion 5 nos – thinly sliced
  • Tomato-5 no – sliced
  • Paste of Garlic 8 no
  • 2” ginger
  • green chilli 4 no
  • pudina 1 cup – finely chopped
  • coriander leaves 3 cups – finely chopped
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • curd 2 cups
  • chili powder 2 tsp
  • cinnamon – 1″  piece
  • cloves – 3 pieces
  • cardamom – 3 pieces

Procedure:

  1. Soak rice for 30 min. In one burner boil water in a container. Add rice and boil for 2 min. Drain the hot water and use it for thum in step 3.
  2. In another burner heat 8 tsp oil in a kadai. When hot fry onion for 1 min, add cinnamon,  cloves and cardamom, green chillies. When onion turns golden brown, add half cooked mutton/chicken. Add salt to taste. Fry for 5 min. Add ginger-garlic paste, chili powder, curd and cook in slow fire,  frequently turning the contents.
  3. Add half-cooked rice to the gravy and mix thoroughly. Cover the container with a plate and place hot water thum over the plate. Cook in very, very slow fire for 10 min.
  4. Remove from fire and add limejuice evenly.
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Chettinadu Milk Paniyaram

Sunday, July 05th, 2009 | Author:

Chettinadu Milk Paniyaram

  • Raw rice (1 cup)
  • Urad (black gram)
  • dhal (1cup)
  • sugar (1cup)
  • coconut milk 3 cups
  • cardamom 2

1. Clean 1 cup of raw rice and 1 cup of Urad (black gram) dhal with water and soak in water for 30m. Grind them into thick batter.
2. Heat oil in a pan. Drop small goblets of batter into oil and fry till turn light brown. Remove from oil and drop them into warm water for a while and collect them in a bowl.
3. Add sugar and crushed cardamom to coconut milk. Soak the paniyaram for 5m and serve

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Mullu Muruku

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 | Author:

Ingredients:

  • Rice flour 4 cup
  • Payatham paruppu (Moong dal) 1 cup
  • Butter 2 tsp
  • Salt
  • Omam (carom seeds) 1 tsp
  • Jeera (Cumin) 1 tsp
  • Ellu (Gingelly/Sesame seeds) 1tsp
  • Coconut milk – enough to make the dough

Procedure:

  1. Prep:
    • Roast the moong dal in pan without oil till it turns light brown.
    • Let the moong dal cool and then grind it into a fine powder
  2. Mix the rice flour and the moong dal powder together. Add salt and butter and mix well
  3. Add the omam (carom), jeera (cumin), ellu (gingelly/sesame) to the flour and mix well
  4. Add the coconut milk to the flour to make dough
  5. Squeeze the dough through a muruku press (extruder) to onto a oiled plate and then drop the dough into oil to fry it till its golden brown. Use the star pattern in the muruku press (extruder) so that the muruku has a ridges
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Alavanthipuram Murukku

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 | Author:

Ingredients:

  • Rice flour 6 cup
  • Ural dal 1 cup
  • Fried Gram half cup
  • Butter 2 tsp
  • Salt
  • Omam (carom seeds) 1 tsp
  • Jeera (Cumin) 1 tsp
  • Ellu (Gingelly/Sesame seeds) 1tsp
  • Perungayam (Asafoetida) 2 pinch
  • Baking/cooking soda – 1 pinch

Procedure:

  1. Prep:
    • Roast the urad dhal in a pan without oil (in medium fire) till it turns light brown. Turn off the heat and use the hot pan to warm up the fried gram.
    • Let the urad dhal and fried gram cool and then grind them into a fine powder
  2. Mix the rice flour, urad dhal and fried gram powder together.
  3. Add cooking soda to butter and mix thoroughly to make it smooth. Add to the flour mix and mix well
  4. Add salt, omam (carom), jeera (cumin), ellu (gingelly/sesame) to the flour and mix well
  5. Add perungayam (asafoetida) powder to water and mix with one portion of flour to make dough of required thick consistency
  6. Squeeze the dough through a muruku press (extruder) to onto a oiled plate and then drop the dough into hot oil to fry it till it  turns golden brown. Use plain round pattern in the muruku press (extruder).
  7. Repeat steps 5 & 6 to make tasty and crisp murukku.

Useful Tips:

  • Divide the flour mix into four equal portions. Add water to one portion at a time and fry murukku. Repeat the process for other portions. If you add water to the entire flour and fry murukku over a long period of time, the flour may turn sour and fried murukku will turn hard, more brown and soak in more oil while frying.
  • Fry one murukku to start with, check the taste and, if needed, add more salt or asafoetida
  • Use high heat to start with, reduce to medium heat when half cooked and turn over the murukku. Return to high heat to start again.

 

 

 

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Ennai Kathrikai (Oily Eggplant)

Sunday, November 09th, 2008 | Author:

Ingredients:

  • Tamarind paste 2 tsp
  • Eggplant 5
  • Onion 1 thinly sliced
  • Tomato 1 thinly sliced
  • Green chili 1 thinly sliced
  • Fenugreek 1 tsp
  • Mustard seeds ¼ tsp
  • Sesame seeds 1 tsp
  • Pepper powder 1 tsp
  • Red chili powder 2 tsp
  • Turmeric powder 1 pinch
  • Salt

Procedure:

  1. Mix the tamarind in 4 cups of water
  2. Slice the eggplant from the end till ¾ so that its connected near the stem and soak in water
  3. Roast the sesame seeds, fenugreek seeds, and mustard seeds each separately and grind them to a powder and mix it to the tamarind juice
  4. Add the pepper powder, chili powder, turmeric powder, and salt to the tamarind juice
  5. Heat 6 tsp oil in a pan and fry the onions, tomatoes, and green chilies for 2 minutes
  6. Add the eggplant and and cook them completely
  7. Add the tamarind juice mix and cook till till the gravy thickens
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Fish Kulambu

Sunday, November 09th, 2008 | Author:

Ingredients:

  • Fish 500 grams (1 lb)-Preferred fishes: All types except Shark (Sura)
  • Onion 2 cut into thick pieces
  • Tomato 1 thinly sliced
  • Tamarind paste 2 tsp
  • Red chili powder 3 tsp
  • Coriander powder 4 tsp
  • Turmeric powder ½ tsp
  • Coconut ¼ cup
  • Fennel 1 tsp
  • Fenugreek or Karuvadagam 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves
  • Salt

Procedure:

  1. Grind the coconut and fennel into fine paste. For Seer (vanjiram) use coconut milk at the last stage of cooking
  2. Soak the tamarind in water and extract the juice. If you are using tamarind paste just dissolve it in water
  3. Add the coconut/fennel paste, chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, and salt to the tamarind water and add more water if needed to get the desired quantity of kulambu
  4. Heat 4 tsp of oil in pan and fry the fenugreek (or karuvadagam) till it splutters and then add the onion
  5. After frying the onion for a minute add the tomato and fry till golden brown
  6. Add the tamarind water from step 3 and let boil for 7 minutes or till the raw chili powder smell is gone
  7. Add the fish slices, curry leaves and boil for another 3 minutes
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Chicken Gravy-II

Sunday, November 09th, 2008 | Author:

Ingredients:

  • Chicken legs 6
  • Cinnamon 1 inch
  • Cloves 3
  • Cardamoms 2
  • Fennel 1 tsp
  • Cumin 1 tsp
  • Black pepper 1 tsp
  • Onion 3
  • Tomato 3
  • Garlic 10 cloves
  • Ginger 1 inch piece
  • Chili powder 2 tsp
  • Coriander powder 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder ½ tsp
  • Curry leaves
  • Cilantro finely chopped
  • Corn powder 2 tsp
  • Salt

Procedure:

  1. Grind the cinnamon, cloves, cardamons, fennel, cumin, and pepper into a fine powder
  2. Grind the onions, tomato, garlic, and ginger into fine paste
  3. Mix the paste and powder with the chicken paste
  4. Add the chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, salt, and curry leaves to the chicken and marinate for 30 minutes
  5. Add half a cup water to the marinated chicken and pressure cook for five minutes
  6. Heat 2 tsp oil in a non-stick pan and add the cooked chicken with the gravy and cook in low heat till the gravy thickens
  7. Add the cilantro and remove from fire
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Drum Chicken

Sunday, November 09th, 2008 | Author:

Ingredients:

  • Chicken legs 6
  • Cinnamon 1 inch
  • Cloves 3
  • Cardamoms 2
  • Fennel 1 tsp
  • Cumin 1 tsp
  • Black pepper 1 tsp
  • Onion 1
  • Tomato 1
  • Garlic 10 cloves
  • Ginger 1 inch piece
  • Chili powder 2 tsp
  • Coriander powder 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder ½ tsp
  • Curry leaves
  • Cilantro finely chopped
  • Corn powder 2 tsp
  • Salt

Procedure:

  1. Grind the cinnamon, cloves, cardamons, fennel, cumin, and pepper into a fine powder
    • Grind the onions, tomato, garlic, and ginger into fine paste
    • Mix the paste and powder with the chicken paste
    • Add the chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, salt, and curry leaves to the chicken and marinate for 30 minutes
    • Add half a cup water to the marinated chicken and pressure cook for five minutes
    • Heat 2 tsp oil in a non-stick pan and add the cooked chicken with the gravy and cook in low heat till the gravy thickens and starts to stick to the chicken pieces
    • Add the cilantro and remove from fire
    • Sprinkle the corn powder on the chicken pieces and fry in oil for a minute
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