Thursday, 21 June 2012
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Chatti Pathiri....
Ingredients
For Meat Filling
1. Minced meat- 1 bowl
2. Onion - 3
3.Green Chilli- 5
4. Ginger garlic Paste - 1 tspn
5.turmeric Powder - 1/2 tspn
6. Garam Masala - 1 tspn
7. Pepper Powder - 1/2 tspn
8.Salt - as required
9. Corriander leaves - as required
10. Coconut Oil - 3 tbspn
Method
1.Heat Oil in a pan and add chopped onion , green chilli and ginger garlic paste . Saute Well until the colour changes golden yellow .
2. Now add the powders from 5-8 and mix well . Add minced meat ( boil the meat by adding salt ,turmeric powder and little chilli powder .After that grind little) . cook it well and add corriander leaves and Keep Aside.
Now we can make the chappathis for layering .
For pancakes
1.Maida - 2 cups
2.Salt - as required
3.Water as required
4. Egg -1
Method
1. Add maida into the beaten egg placed in a mixing bowl and add enough water to make a batter.
2. Heat a non stick pan and add little batter into it to make thin dosa/ pancakes.just cook on one side . No need to flip and transfer them to a plate . Make around 5 pancakes out of this batter.
Steps for Layering
Ingredients
1. Eggs -2
2. Salt - as required
Method
1. Heat 11/2 tspn of ghee in a cooker. Dip a pancake into the beaten egg mixture and place it inside the cooker . Place little meat fillings above it and again place a pancake dipped in egg mixture. Pour little egg mixture above each pancake . Repeat the steps for all the cooked pancakes. pour the remaining egg mixture above the layers and close the lid and cook it for 8- 10 minutes.
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Homemade Shawarma .......
Hoo .. I took much gap to post the recipe of my homemade shawarma .. Now a days I 'm bit lazy to scribble something on my blog.. Thank u so much to all my frndz n relatives who encouraged me to continue my cooking experiments and liked my posts soon posted it on my FB wall.
I really love to have snacks in the evening , especially when i come back home aftr my work. Now a days, Shawarma is one of the best selling snack.Wherever we go , we can see lot of shawarma corners everywhere. So i can easily come to the point that this is becoz of the demand for this snack .. ryt.. I really like dis snack very much and i try to get one when i come to home. .. Its very easy to prepare this dish @ home. Letz try out my homemade shawarma recipe and plz put ur comments to make dis dish more tasty..
Servings - 10 qnty
Ingredients
Milk- 1/2 cup
Yeast - 1 tspn
Sugar- 1 tspn
Salt- a pinch
Maida- 3 cups
Method
1. Mix milk, yeast and sugar and keep it for 15 -30 minutes.
2. Mix maida and milk mixture and make a dough, make small balls in lemon size and
Keep it for 1hr.
3. Roll it like chappathi and cook it without using oil.
Marinating Chicken
Ingredients
Chicken - 500gm
Pepper powder- 2 tspn
Turmeric powder-1 tspn
Ginger/Garlic Paste - 1 tspn
Curd - 1 tbspn
Lime juice - 1 tspn
Salt - little
Method
Clean and wash the chicken. Marinate it with all the ingredients as mentioned
above and keep it for 3- 4hrs.
Fillings & Rolling Shawarma
Cucumber - 300 gms
Cabbage - 250 gms
Carrots - 2
Tomato (medium ) - 2-3
Mayonnaise Sauce - as required.
Oil - 4- 5 tbspn
Method
1. Cut all the vegetables and keep it in a bowl.
2. Heat oil in a pan and fry the marinated chicken until it is golden yellow in color.
3. Now cut the fried chicken into very small peices and mix it with enough vegetables
and add little mayonnaise Sauce with dis mix. If you like the spicy taste, then add little
white pepper powder and tomato ketchup and mix well.
4. Now apply little mayonnaise sauce in the kubbos and place the filling inside it and roll it in
a butter paper.
I really love to have snacks in the evening , especially when i come back home aftr my work. Now a days, Shawarma is one of the best selling snack.Wherever we go , we can see lot of shawarma corners everywhere. So i can easily come to the point that this is becoz of the demand for this snack .. ryt.. I really like dis snack very much and i try to get one when i come to home. .. Its very easy to prepare this dish @ home. Letz try out my homemade shawarma recipe and plz put ur comments to make dis dish more tasty..
Servings - 10 qnty
Kubboos
Ingredients
Milk- 1/2 cup
Yeast - 1 tspn
Sugar- 1 tspn
Salt- a pinch
Maida- 3 cups
Method
1. Mix milk, yeast and sugar and keep it for 15 -30 minutes.
2. Mix maida and milk mixture and make a dough, make small balls in lemon size and
Keep it for 1hr.
3. Roll it like chappathi and cook it without using oil.
Marinating Chicken
Chicken - 500gm
Pepper powder- 2 tspn
Turmeric powder-1 tspn
Ginger/Garlic Paste - 1 tspn
Curd - 1 tbspn
Lime juice - 1 tspn
Salt - little
Method
Clean and wash the chicken. Marinate it with all the ingredients as mentioned
above and keep it for 3- 4hrs.
Fillings & Rolling Shawarma
Ingredients
Cucumber - 300 gms
Cabbage - 250 gms
Carrots - 2
Tomato (medium ) - 2-3
Mayonnaise Sauce - as required.
Oil - 4- 5 tbspn
Method
1. Cut all the vegetables and keep it in a bowl.
2. Heat oil in a pan and fry the marinated chicken until it is golden yellow in color.
3. Now cut the fried chicken into very small peices and mix it with enough vegetables
and add little mayonnaise Sauce with dis mix. If you like the spicy taste, then add little
white pepper powder and tomato ketchup and mix well.
4. Now apply little mayonnaise sauce in the kubbos and place the filling inside it and roll it in
a butter paper.
Saturday, 7 April 2012
Marble Cake... Weekend Special,.....
Letz try out my new experiment . It came out well in my
first attempt itself...
Ingredients
Butter - 125 gm
Maida- 2 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Vanila Essence - 1 tspn
Egg - 2
Baking Powder - 3/4 tspn
Milk - 4 tbspn
Cocoa Powder - 2 tbspn
Method
1.Beat butter, egg and sugar together in a mixing bowl.
2.Seive maida and baking powder together and Keep it aside.
3.Add essence ,maida etc into the mixing bowl and beat it again.
4. Mix milk and cocoa powder in another boxl. Divide the cake mix into
two equal parts and mix one part with cocoa powder mix.
5.First pour the plain cake mixture into the greased cake pan and then pour the
cocoa cake mix into the center of the pan.
6.Now use a fork , move it in a spiral shape so that the cocoa mix penetrates
through the cake mix and we get a perfect texture of marble cake , after it is baked .
7. Preheat the oven to 180C and Keep the pan for 30 minutes.
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Homemade Chocolatesss...... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nobody says no to the chocolatesss... becoz evrybdy luv to get it and eat it ... I'm also very much crazy about the chocolates.... Even nw if some chocolates comes to our home , me and my sissy starts fighting to get the tasty chocolates...
Now I am happy that my first attempt to make chocolates turned out gud... And I think I can make the most expensive chocolates which we get in market @ my home.. It was a wonderful experience for me to prepare homemade chocolates ... I am really happy to share the piczz which i tuk while making these chocolatezzzz...
Now I am happy that my first attempt to make chocolates turned out gud... And I think I can make the most expensive chocolates which we get in market @ my home.. It was a wonderful experience for me to prepare homemade chocolates ... I am really happy to share the piczz which i tuk while making these chocolatezzzz...
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Tasty Tomato Soup Recipe......
Letz try this tomato soup recipe cooked in microwave oven. Its very easy to cook and takes only 10-12 minutes of preparation time.
Tomato Soup
Servings- 2 bowl
1. Add 300gm chopped tomatoes in a mcrowave bowl and add little water around 1cup.
2. Cook it in auto cook mode in micorwave oven and allow to stand it for 10 minutes.
3.Then take it out from oven and blend it in a mixer and pour it again into the bowl.
4. Add salt ,sugar (1tspn ) and 1/2 tspn white pepper , grated ginger and 1 tspn vinegar .Add around 200ml of water into the mix.
5. Again keep it in oven in high mode for 3 minutes.
6. Add 1 tspn of cornflour diluted in little water into the mixture.
7. Keep it gain in oven in medium high for another 3minutes. Now the soup is ready .. You can garnish it with cream while serving...
Tomato Soup
Servings- 2 bowl
1. Add 300gm chopped tomatoes in a mcrowave bowl and add little water around 1cup.
2. Cook it in auto cook mode in micorwave oven and allow to stand it for 10 minutes.
3.Then take it out from oven and blend it in a mixer and pour it again into the bowl.
4. Add salt ,sugar (1tspn ) and 1/2 tspn white pepper , grated ginger and 1 tspn vinegar .Add around 200ml of water into the mix.
5. Again keep it in oven in high mode for 3 minutes.
6. Add 1 tspn of cornflour diluted in little water into the mixture.
7. Keep it gain in oven in medium high for another 3minutes. Now the soup is ready .. You can garnish it with cream while serving...
Sunday, 5 February 2012
A recipe with Prawnss
Chemmeen Puttu....
Everybody likes to have dishes with prawns..We usually prepare Samoosa , spring roll, meen pathiri, biriyani, kakkarotti etc using prawns in it.. Even if we substitute anyother fishes instead of prawns , it wont taste well.. thats the magic of prawns flavour.. So Letz try a new recipe with prawns.. This is very tasty and easy to make..
Ingredients
1. Rice Powder - 2cups
2. Prawns - 1/2 cup (After it is cleaned)
3. Grinded Cocunut - 1 cup
4. Onion -3 Large ,Chopped
5. Green Chilly- 6 , chopped
6. Perumjeerakam powder- 1/2 tspn
7. Turmeric Powder- 1/4 tspn
8. Garlic Paste - 1 tspn
9. Curry Leaves - as required
10.Mustard - As required ( I added 1/2 tspn)
11.Coconut Oil - 1 tbsn
12.Salt - as required
1. Mix rice powder with salt and add water little by little to make a dough.
2.Take a Large bowl and mix 2- 8 ingredients and Keep it Aside.
3. Now Heat oil in a pan , and splutter mustard seeds and add curry leaves and saute it.
4.Then add the prawns mixture. and saute it well . Then add 1/2 cup of water.Cover and cook it until it turns into a dry masala.Keep it aside.
5. Now make balls with the dough and fill it with the prawns masala and roll the balls on the grinded coconut so that the coconut sticks into outer area .Then steam it for 10 minutes.
Everybody likes to have dishes with prawns..We usually prepare Samoosa , spring roll, meen pathiri, biriyani, kakkarotti etc using prawns in it.. Even if we substitute anyother fishes instead of prawns , it wont taste well.. thats the magic of prawns flavour.. So Letz try a new recipe with prawns.. This is very tasty and easy to make..
Ingredients
1. Rice Powder - 2cups
2. Prawns - 1/2 cup (After it is cleaned)
3. Grinded Cocunut - 1 cup
4. Onion -3 Large ,Chopped
5. Green Chilly- 6 , chopped
6. Perumjeerakam powder- 1/2 tspn
7. Turmeric Powder- 1/4 tspn
8. Garlic Paste - 1 tspn
9. Curry Leaves - as required
10.Mustard - As required ( I added 1/2 tspn)
11.Coconut Oil - 1 tbsn
12.Salt - as required
1. Mix rice powder with salt and add water little by little to make a dough.
2.Take a Large bowl and mix 2- 8 ingredients and Keep it Aside.
3. Now Heat oil in a pan , and splutter mustard seeds and add curry leaves and saute it.
4.Then add the prawns mixture. and saute it well . Then add 1/2 cup of water.Cover and cook it until it turns into a dry masala.Keep it aside.
5. Now make balls with the dough and fill it with the prawns masala and roll the balls on the grinded coconut so that the coconut sticks into outer area .Then steam it for 10 minutes.
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Malabar Prawns Biriyani Recipe
Malabar Prawns Biriyani...
Malabar Prawns biriyani is one of my favourite among the malabar dishes. I love to have this biriyani with cocunut chutney(using coconut ,corriander leaves,lemon juice,etc) , cucumber salad and dates pulingary and some pickle Wow.. its so tasty ....
I tried this dish many times earlier and sometimes it turned out really superb , But I never noted the exact recipe . Last thursday , I tried this malabar prawns biriyani by myself and it was so yummy , and this time I noticed the recipe too, so that I can share it with u all...
Ingredients
Now we can prepare the ghee rice .....
1. Wash the rice and strain the excess water in it .
2.Boil the water in a vessel.
3. Heat oil in a large pan .When it gets hot , add sliced onion , when its colour changes to golden colour , add the cashews and kismis and take it from the oil and keep it aside.
4. Add the spices like cardamom, cloves etc and saute it for sometime , then add the rice into this oil and saute it for 5 minutes then add the boiled water , salt,lime juice etc and boil it until rice gets cooked .Mix little rose water with yellow food colour and add it into the cooked rice . Then Keep it aside.
5. Now we can layer the rice and masala alternatively,garnish the top layer with fried onions ,cashews , and corriander leaves and Heat a bottom thick pan , and keep the rice pan on it and place some weight above the covering of the large pan and keep it for 5 minutes. Deliciuos dum malabar prawns biriyani is ready....
Malabar Prawns biriyani is one of my favourite among the malabar dishes. I love to have this biriyani with cocunut chutney(using coconut ,corriander leaves,lemon juice,etc) , cucumber salad and dates pulingary and some pickle Wow.. its so tasty ....
I tried this dish many times earlier and sometimes it turned out really superb , But I never noted the exact recipe . Last thursday , I tried this malabar prawns biriyani by myself and it was so yummy , and this time I noticed the recipe too, so that I can share it with u all...
Ingredients
For Ghee Rice
Rice (Neriyari - Jeerakashala/Kaima ) - 1 kg
Water - 10cups ( 2cup water for 1cup rice)
Salt -as required
Ghee - 7tbspn
Sliced Onion - 1 Large
cashews - 1 handful
Kismis- as required
Cardamom-4
Cloves -6
lime juice - 1/2 tbspn
Garam Masala - to sprinkle in layers
For the Masala
Rice (Neriyari - Jeerakashala/Kaima ) - 1 kg
Water - 10cups ( 2cup water for 1cup rice)
Salt -as required
Ghee - 7tbspn
Sliced Onion - 1 Large
cashews - 1 handful
Kismis- as required
Cardamom-4
Cloves -6
lime juice - 1/2 tbspn
Garam Masala - to sprinkle in layers
For the Masala
Prawns - 500gm
Onion -500gm (8 medium)
Garlic - 3tbs (made into Paste) / 30cloves
Ginger(3'' piece) Paste - 2tbs
Green Chilli (small) - 13
Tomatoes- 2 medium
Pepper powder - 1tspn
Garam Masala - 1tspn
Lime juice - 1tbs
Curd -2tbs
White kaskas - 1tspn
Coconut - 2tbspn
Salt - as required
turmeric powder - 1/4tspn
coconut oil-8tbspn
Now Lets see how to make the prawns masala......
1. Clean and wash the prawns and put it in a vessel to boil it with turmeric powder (1/4 tspn),little water (only 2tspn is enough) and salt as required.When it gets boiled and the water contents goes , add little coconut oil(1tbspn) and keep it aside.
2. Grind the green chillies, garlic ,ginger into a paste. Add the turmeric powder while grinding the mixture.
3. Heat a non stick sauce pan and add the oil .When hot , add the chopped onions along with salt and cook it until the raw smell goes . Then add the grinded mixture and again saute it for 5-8 minutes .
4. Then add the prawns ans saute it again .Then add the chopped tomatoes. Cook until the tomatoes becomes soft .
5. Grind the coconut , white kaskas and curd together into a fine paste. You can omit this step if the ingrediants are not available.But this adds more taste to your masala.
6. Now add the above mixture and mix it well with the masala .Then add lime juice,pepper powder, garam masala .
7. Now you can smell the aroma of our yummy prawns masala. Add the mint leaves , chopped coriander\
Onion -500gm (8 medium)
Garlic - 3tbs (made into Paste) / 30cloves
Ginger(3'' piece) Paste - 2tbs
Green Chilli (small) - 13
Tomatoes- 2 medium
Pepper powder - 1tspn
Garam Masala - 1tspn
Lime juice - 1tbs
Curd -2tbs
White kaskas - 1tspn
Coconut - 2tbspn
Salt - as required
turmeric powder - 1/4tspn
coconut oil-8tbspn
Now Lets see how to make the prawns masala......
1. Clean and wash the prawns and put it in a vessel to boil it with turmeric powder (1/4 tspn),little water (only 2tspn is enough) and salt as required.When it gets boiled and the water contents goes , add little coconut oil(1tbspn) and keep it aside.
2. Grind the green chillies, garlic ,ginger into a paste. Add the turmeric powder while grinding the mixture.
3. Heat a non stick sauce pan and add the oil .When hot , add the chopped onions along with salt and cook it until the raw smell goes . Then add the grinded mixture and again saute it for 5-8 minutes .
4. Then add the prawns ans saute it again .Then add the chopped tomatoes. Cook until the tomatoes becomes soft .
5. Grind the coconut , white kaskas and curd together into a fine paste. You can omit this step if the ingrediants are not available.But this adds more taste to your masala.
6. Now add the above mixture and mix it well with the masala .Then add lime juice,pepper powder, garam masala .
7. Now you can smell the aroma of our yummy prawns masala. Add the mint leaves , chopped coriander\
leaves etc and cover it and cook it for 5 minutes .Then Keep it aside.
1. Wash the rice and strain the excess water in it .
2.Boil the water in a vessel.
3. Heat oil in a large pan .When it gets hot , add sliced onion , when its colour changes to golden colour , add the cashews and kismis and take it from the oil and keep it aside.
4. Add the spices like cardamom, cloves etc and saute it for sometime , then add the rice into this oil and saute it for 5 minutes then add the boiled water , salt,lime juice etc and boil it until rice gets cooked .Mix little rose water with yellow food colour and add it into the cooked rice . Then Keep it aside.
5. Now we can layer the rice and masala alternatively,garnish the top layer with fried onions ,cashews , and corriander leaves and Heat a bottom thick pan , and keep the rice pan on it and place some weight above the covering of the large pan and keep it for 5 minutes. Deliciuos dum malabar prawns biriyani is ready....
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Sunday Special ..........
After a long time, I got a sunday again to spend with my family. I love to make my holidays special by making something delicious..I thought of making some puddings, cookies,snackss,cakes....
Finally I decided to make some cake ...Then that idea came to my mind.. "My all time favourite Cake ... Black Forest .... Lets try out... ".. Yea.. I decided to make that..I went through many recipes in different blogs, recipe books and finally i prepared a recipe of my own. Within one and half hours, I prepared it and turned out good.... I thought it would be difficult to make.. But now i think its very simple, very tasty too..
Here is the recipe i adapted to make this delicious cake....
Finally I decided to make some cake ...Then that idea came to my mind.. "My all time favourite Cake ... Black Forest .... Lets try out... ".. Yea.. I decided to make that..I went through many recipes in different blogs, recipe books and finally i prepared a recipe of my own. Within one and half hours, I prepared it and turned out good.... I thought it would be difficult to make.. But now i think its very simple, very tasty too..
Here is the recipe i adapted to make this delicious cake....
Ingredients
All purpose flour (Maida) - 1cup
Powdered Sugar - 1 cup
Eggs - 3
Baking Powder - 1tspn
Dark Cocoa Powder - 2 tbspn
Vanilla Essence - 1tspn
How to make....
1. Sieve Maida ,Cocoa powder, baking powder together and keep it aside.
2. Beat the eggs till it gets fluffy and light.
3. Add powdered sugar into the beated eggs and beat it again.
4. Add Vanilla Essence and then add the sieved mixture of maida,cocoa powder and baking powder.
5. Beat it gently and pour it into a greased cake pan.
6. Preheat the oven to 180 C and then keep the pan for 30 minutes in 180C.
Now the cake is Ready.....
U can simply garnish the toppings with cream , cherries , cashews and chocolates sprinkles .
For making Cream on the top...
Whipping Cream -2cups
Powdered Sugar - 2 tbspn
Saltless butter - 1 tbspn
Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tspn
Beat this and make the cream.
If you want to make a little more thick cream . You can try this
Saltless Butter -75gm
Powdered Sugar/Icing Sugar - 125 gm
Vanilla Essence- 1/4 tspn
Method is same as above...
Saturday, 7 January 2012
My Cooking Experiments....
I love cooking in my leisure times.. Its really a good feeling to prepare some tasty foods ourselves and say.. "wow.. its yummy.... " My first recipe in this page is a very easy and delicious dessert which i hope u all like it to prepare and taste it..
Carrot Halwa
Ingredients
Carrots - 1/2 kg
Milk - 500ml
Sugar -5 tbsn
MilkMaid- 2 tbsn
Cardamom- as required for flavour
lemon juice - little (3- 4 drops)
Ghee- 1tbsn
How to make
Take a non-stick pan. Boil the milk in it. When it gets boiled , add grated carrots into the pan . Stir it along with milk and boil again. When it starts thickening , add little ghee(1tablespoon) and sugar.
Add 2-3 drops of lemon juice so that milk gets mixed up with carrot. As the mixture start thickened, add little cardamom for taste. Now set it in a tray and decorate the top with nuts and cashews...
U can make this delicious recipe within 15-20 mints. Very easy to prepare.......
Chilli Gobi Fry
recipe will be updated soon ..................
Monday, 2 January 2012
WELCOME to my blog.......
Let me start this blog in the Name of God .. most Gracious and most Merciful... I hope this is going to be a good space where i can share my experiments with my friends.
God ,Almighty has given different potentials to each and every human beings. And these potentials and talents are unique to each and everyone. In this blog , I wish to share my learnings and my interests with my friends.
Your sincere comments and suggestions for my posts are highly appreciated.
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