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...

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.

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

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

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\

leaves etc and cover it and cook it for 5 minutes .Then Keep it aside.       

 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....