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Thursday, 22 August 2013

Potato Curry
Tomorrow is Friday so this recipe is an easy yet spicy and flavorful baby potato roast cooked with aromatic spices. This goes well with rice like sambar or rasam. I served this yummy potato roast with hot parippu rasam and rice - a wonderful combination. For aromatic masala:  split urad dal, channa dal, dry red chilies and black pepper. Fry this masala items without out oil until nice aroma comes and grind to a powder. Let’s start yummy potato roast.

 Ingredients:
  • Baby potato - 12 to 15
  • Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoons
  • Curry leaves - 1 sprig
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoons
  • Asafetida - a pinch
  • Oil - 2 teaspoon
  • Salt - to taste

Method:

a) Boil the potatoes and peel them and keep aside. (Do not over boiled)

b) Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds. When it pops, add asafetida, turmeric powder, curry leaves and salt. Fry for 20 seconds.

c) Then add the potatoes and fry without masala for 2-3 minutes making sure it gets coated well in the oil.

d) Then add the powdered masala and mix well ensuring masala is well coated on all potatoes. 

e) Add remaining 1 teaspoon oil and roast in medium flame till potato gets a light golden color.

     And now serve them with Drumstick Sambar or Limon Rasam
Muttai Thokku

Today we are going to prepare Muttai Thokku (Egg Masala) which is easy and tasty dish, we can serve this dish for chapatti, dosa and rice.

Ingrediant:

    Ingrediant
  • Egg : 3 boile
  • Oil : 5 teaspoon
  • Onion: 3 nicely chopped
  • Tomato: 4 nicely chopped
  • Garlic paste: 2 teaspoons 
  •  Curry Leaves: few
  • Coriander Leaves: few
  • Ginger paste: 2 teaspoons
  • Green Chilies: 2
  • Chili powder: 4 teaspoons (for spiciness)
  • Coriander powder: 2 teaspoons
  • Turmeric powder: ½ teaspoons
  • Salt: for taste

Method:

So first take a kadai put some oil wait till it’s get hot, when it is ready put onion which is nicely chopped, fry till its gets brown, after that add curry leaves, green chilies, garlic and ginger paste, fry it for 3 mins, after that add tomato to this mixture. After frying for 10 mins add salt and turmeric powder, now fry it for 2 mins, and then add chili powder, coriander powder and glass of water for cooking. Make the flame in medium mode and close the kadai for 15 mins.

Now open the kadai now you can see the water has been ¾% drained and the ingredient is well cooked and converted like Thokku.

This is the last stage take that 3 boiled egg cut into small pieces and add it. Now keep the flame in slim mode and close the kadai for 1 mins, after a mins switchover the flame and finally add coriander leaves now the dish is ready. Serve this dish with love and passion.

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Spicy Idly
When we have over fermented or left over idly batter, normally we make Dosa, Oothappam etc. Instead, we can season the batter and do this spicy idly.
Serve with coconut chutney, paruppu chutney and tomato pachadi.
 

Ingredient:
  • Idly batter – 1kg
  • Oil - 2 teaspoons
  • Onion – 3 pieces nicely chopped (optional) (rate is doubled today)
  • Mustard - 1 teaspoon
  • Bengal gram dhal - 5 teaspoon
  • Urad dhal - 5 teaspoon
  • Asafotida Powder - a pinch
  • Cashew Nuts – few (optional for kids)
  • Ground Nut - a handful
  • Green chilies - 5 to 10 (nicely chopped)
  • Fresh ginger - a small piece
  • Garlic Pearls – 10 pieces (chopped)
  • Curry Leaves – few
  • Mustard leaves - few
Method:
Chop onion, ginger, garlic, green chilies, curry leaves and mustard leaves finely.

In a kadai take some oil and when it is got hot add curry leaves and mustard. When it pops up, add the dhals and nuts, asafotida powder and fry till the all items turn into light brown. Then add chopped ginger, garlic, chilies. Fry for few more seconds. Add this mixture to the batter. While adding these mixtures add mustard leaves without frying. Mix well and make idles.

This is my favorite Steel Glass Idly (Remembering my MOM).
Same method. Use steel glass instead of idly stands.

Steel Glass Idly
Glass Idly
Idly Stand 
Hyderabad BiryaniBiryani
Egg Biryani
Your message “biryani” comes in the Persian word “birian” so this means “fried before food preparation. ” One could conclude that this biryani originated within Iran (modern day Persia). Another interesting tale traces the origins in the dish to Mumtaz Mahal(1593-1631), Shah Jahan’s full who inspired the Taj Mahal. It is said that she the moment visited army barracks and found the internet marketer personnel under-nourished. She asked the chef to arrange a special plate which provided well-balanced nutrition, and thus the biryani was developed.


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