Thursday 31 October 2013

Cheera Thoran/amaranth(amaranthus) fry

cheera fry

Ingredients
red/green cheera chopped-250 gram
1 teaspoon ghee or oil
cumin seed-1/2 teaspoon
coconut grated-100 gram
salt 1 teaspoon
 a pinch of turmeric powder
Method

red and green cheera
Take washed and chopped red cheera in a pan and cook with 1 teaspoon ghee in medium heat for 5 minutes with a lid.No need of adding any water.You can use oil instead of ghee.But remember ghee adds more taste.Add salt.
chopped cheera

Meanwhile it is cooking,take grated coconut and into it add 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds.Grind it.
grated coconut and cumin seeds
Add the grinded mixer into the cooking cheera and stir for 2 minutes.The tasty dish is ready :)You can have this with cooked rice.
cheera fry

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Healthy bread sandwich (mayonnaise recipe)


Ingredients
4 wheat bread
2 egg
50 gram cabbage chopped
2 green chilli chopped
1 tomato chopped (optional)
3 curry leaves
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon mayonnaise(you can get this from any grocery shop)
Method
Mayonnaise is salty in taste.
 
Cook the finely chopped vegetables in 1 teaspoon oil in a pan,add 1/2 teaspoon salt to it while cooking.Then into the cooked vegetable,add 2 egg.
 Add 1/2 teaspoon of salt and mix well all the ingredients and make a big egg omelet in a non stick pan. Cook one side for 5 minutes and on top of omelet while cooking add 2 tablespoon of mayonnaise and spread evenly with a spoon.




Cut the omelet into small pieces and place in between two wheat bread and have it.Its so tasty and healthy too :)

Tasty Rice Flakes Ladoo/Aval ladoo/Poha Ladoo

rice flakes/aval/poha ladoo
Ingredients
  1. 100 gram rice flakes
  2. 3 teaspoon ghee
  3. 5 tablespoon sugar
  4. 5 cashew-nut
  5. 5 raisin
Method
  • Wash rice flakes with water.
  • Roast rice flakes in 2 teaspoon of ghee for 5 minutes in medium heat.
  • Grind the rice flakes in mixer well.Then add 5 tablespoon of sugar and grind it well with rice flakes.
  • Roast the cashew-nuts and raisins separately  in 1 teaspoon of ghee for 1 minute in medium heat.
  • Add the roasted cashew-nuts and raisins into the grind-ed mixer and mix well with hand.Make it into small balls.Tasty ladoo is ready :)


Saturday 26 October 2013

Healthy and Tasty Ivy Gourd(Tindora/Kovaka)

IVY GOURD
Normalize blood sugar level-Because of an essential liver enzyme contained in this particular food which standardizes the sugar metabolism within your body, by improving the glucose production. Therefore additionally it is of excellent assistance to the diabetic patients and is also strongly suggested for them.
 Healing certain diseases-Since times immemorial, the ivy gourd has been utilized like a cure for asthma, leprosy, bronchitis and jaundice. The plant of the veggie is additionally utilized for offering relief to the bowel problems. This particular veggie is additionally verified to be healthy in healing particular blood diseases and is particularly confirmed to reduce higher fever.
 Ivy Gourd as Health Food-It is promoted like a health food in several parts of India due to its high-content of Vitamins. Each one of these vitamins is essential for the body of a human, and helps reinforce the defense mechanisms. It is abundant with Vitamin C, which will help in conditioning the bones.
Cooked Ivy gourd

Ingredients
6 piece of Ivy gourd
1/2 teaspoon fenugreek powder
2 teaspoon of chilli,turmeric,salt, and coriander powder
Method
Cut Ivy gourd into small round pieces.
Ingredients for cooking Ivy gourd

Marinate with chilli,turmeric,salt,coriander and fenugreek powder and keep it aside for 1/2 an hour.
Cook it in a pan by adding 1 glass of water with closed lid for 10 minutes in medium heat on stove.When water disappears add 2 teaspoon of oil and cook for 5 minutes in medium heat and stir in between.Ivy gourd dish is ready.You can serve it with rice.:)

Fish Fry with Yogurt



Ingredients
2 teaspoon yogurt
2 teaspoon chilli,turmeric powder
salt 1 teaspoon
Method
Marinate fish with 2 teaspoon chilli,turmeric powder and salt(I prefer 1 teaspoon) as per taste.Keep it aside for 1/2 an hour.
Just before frying add 2 teaspoon yogurt in marinated fish pieces and mix well with hand.
Fry it in hot oil in medium heat in a pan.
Fry both sides for 5 minutes.
Remember to fry in a non-stick pan,so that the fish would not broke.


Friday 25 October 2013

Yummy Fish Curry With Tomato



Ingredients
1/2 kg fish
10 garlic cloves chopped
100 gram ginger chopped
2 medium sized onion chopped
3 green chilli chopped
3 medium sized tomato 
2 teaspoon each salt,chilli,turmeric,coriander powder
                                   
Marinate fish with salt,chilli,turmeric powder.Keep aside the marinated fish for 1/2 an hour.

Prepare tomato pure with 3 medium sized tomato
Roast ginger,garlic,chilli in oil for 1 minute in medium heat.Then add tomato pure and cook for 5 minutes with closed lid to remove tomato's raw taste.Then add salt,chilli,turmeric and coriander powder and mix well by adding bit water into it.Then add the marinated fish pieces in top and cook each side for 5 minute with closed lid.Remember not to stir the gravy after adding fish because the fish may broke.Lasty add 1 teaspoon of oil at top and serve hot with rice/dosa/chapati/puttu :)

Friday 18 October 2013

Chickpea Curry

Ingredients
chickpea 1 cup
coconut grinded thick paste 1 cup
1 onion chopped
5 garlic cloves chopped
50 gram ginger chopped
coriander powder 2 tablespoon
chilli powder,turmeric powder each 2 teaspoon
salt as per taste
Method
Soak chickpeas for 8 hours.
Then cook in pressure cooker for 5 whistle.For 1 cup of chickpea add 4 cup of water and mix well with salt,turmeric and chilli..After cooked keep it aside.

Now fry ginger,garlic,onion one by one in oil for 5 minutes.

Then add thick coconut paste and 2 tbsp coriander powder.

Stir once and lastly add the cooked chickpeas.
With a lid cook it for 10 minutes.Grnish it with coriander leaves.Curry is ready :)

You can have this with chapati,puttu and appam.Hope you liked it.


Monday 14 October 2013

Soft Chapati


Ingredients
1 cup wheat flour
salt 1 teaspoon
Method
Take flour and sprinkle water and mix well with hand.Add in between water into the flour.So it result like this ball shaped-
Now divide the dough into equal portions in shape of small balls with hand like this-
                                        
Place a small ball at once into the wooden board and roll it with a rolling pin by sprinkling in between flour so that it doesn't stick to surface.
Remember to roll it into round shape like this-
Light the stove in high heat and place the round shaped dough on the pan.Remember to cook each side for 20 minutes.Gently press on top of dough so that it puff up.Chapati is ready.Serve it hot with green peas curry.Its so yummy and tasty :)

Chicken Stew


Ingredients
150 gram chicken
150 gram potato
50 gram ginger
10 garlic cloves
2 green chilli
100 gram coconut
1 teaspoon salt ,turmeric,chilli powder
Method

Add washed chicken pieces and peeled potato cubes into pressure cooker.Then add 1 tsp of turmeric,salt,chilli powder.Pour 1/2 litre of water.
 
 Grind the grated coconut with water and make  2 cups of coconut milk.Keep it aside.
 Saute ginger,garlic,green chilli and onion in oil for 5 minutes in a saucepan.Then add the cooked chicken and potato pieces.Add coconut milk and cook it for 15 minutes.Chicken stew is ready :)

Sunday 13 October 2013

Yummy Dum Biryani


Ingredients
200 grams chicken
5 garlic cloves
50 grams ginger
2 cinnamon
2 cloves
1 elachi
1 teaspoon of chilli powder ,turmeric powder,pepper powder and  chicken masala
salt to taste
4 teaspoon yogurt
basmati rice 1 cup


Method
Firstly wash the chicken and marinate with salt,turmeric,chilli,pepper powder and keep it aside for 20 minutes.
 
In frying pan add 1 teaspoon oil and fry garlic,ginger,cinnamon,cloves,elachi  and grind it in mixy.Take the mixture and add it in a towel.
            In a frying pan light the stove add bit water and dip the towel in hot water for 5 minutes so    that the fragrance add into the water well.Add the water into the marinated chicken and keep it for 10 minutes.
Cook the chicken in pressure cooker for 1 whistle.Cook 1 cup rice in a saucepan with 1/2 cup water and cook for 5 minutes.



Add the cooked chicken into an aluminum vessel and half cooked rice on top of it.
 
 Garnish it with fried onion and coriander leaves.Sprinkle 1/4 litre of milk into rice.Close with lid and cook for 15 minutes in low flame.Then in medium heat cook for 5 minutes.

Dum biryani is ready :)

Saturday 12 October 2013

CABBAGE FRY WITH COCONUT


Ingredients
chopped cabbage 1 cup
grated coconut 1/2 cup
urad dal 2 teaspoon
2 red chilli
4 teaspoon oil
1 teaspoon cumin seed
1 teaspoon chilli powder,turmeric,salt
Method
Firstly chop the cabbage like this-
Add into the frying pan cabbage with salt,turmeric and chilli powder.Cook for 10 minutes with lid.Cabbage produce water to cook,so no need to add water.
Now after cooked keep it aside.Take the urad dal-
Add in another pan 2 teaspoon oil.When oil gets hotter then add urad dal and dry chilli,saute it like it-


The fried urad dal should be crispy.Grind the coconut with cumin seeds and add it into the frying pan.Then lastly add the cooked cabbage.Add 2 teaspoon oil into it.Stir well and cook for 5 minutes.Cabbage is ready :).Serve it with rice.

Friday 11 October 2013

Dal curry(Parippu curry) with Toor dal


Ingredients
  • 1 cup Toor dal
  • 1 cup grated coconut
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • 2 dried red chilli
  • a pinch of mustard seeds to splutter
  • 1 teaspoon of turmeric,chilli powder
  • salt to taste

Method
 Take this dal-


Firstly soak the toor dal for 15 minutes and drain the water and wash it well.Cook it in pressure cooker for 1 whistle.Remember to add salt and turmeric powder while cooking.
Take the grated coconut.Then grind it in mixy with cumin seeds,1/4 teaspoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of chilli powder.
When the grated coconut grind well,like this-
Add the cooked dal into the mixy and grind it well with coconut.So that we get a smooth paste.Keep it aside.So now light the stove,place the pan and when pan gets hot add oil.Then add mustard seeds to splutter and lastly dry chilli.Stir well.
Then add the smooth paste into the pan and cook for 15 minutes.Then the dish is ready :) You can have it with rice,chapati and puttu.