Kappa curry

Kappa is one of the famous and favorite in Kerala. In Kerala, they used to have this curry as breakfast. This is very healthy and it will be heavy food. we can have this as side dish for chapathy or rice. Very tasty and healthy full meal for growing children as well as old people. We can just bake the Kappa and have with fish curry. But this curry is easy to prepare and all people can have this. If we purchase fresh kappa, need not to cook long time. Within 2 whistles, it will cook. Otherwise, we need to cook by leaving 4-5 whistles. Let us see how to prepare the tasty and healthy Kappa curry.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	5 Mins
Cooking time	:	15 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Kappa	:	1/2 Kg
For grind	:
Small onion	:	1/2 Cup
Red chilly	:	4 Nos
For tempering	:
Coconut oil	:	2 Tsp
Mustard seeds	:	1/4 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few

Turmeric powder:  1/4 Tsp
Method :

Peel off the Kappa, rinse well the mud and cut in medium pieces. Pressure cook the kappa pieces with adding salt and little water. 

Crush sambar onion and red chilly.

Heat coconut oil in a pan, add tempering ingredients. Add cooked kappa and mix well. If it need salt, we can add. 

After mixed well, transfer to the serving platter and serve hot... as starter or breakfast..

Try this wonderful healthy curry and please post your valuable comments...

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Curd Pakoda / Dhahi pakoda

Pakoda is the famous tea time snack in both South India as well as North side. Dhahi or curd pakoda is the very famous Panjabi snack. We used to have onion pakoda with tea. Pakoda with curd will be very easy and it gives different taste. When i prepare this, my mother-in-law and my daughter likes very much. It prepared with onion pakoda with curd mixed with some interesting ingredients. Let us see how to prepare the easy and tasty Curd / Dhahi pakoda.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

For pakoda	:
Onion	:	2 Nos
Curry leaves	:	Few
Basan	:	3 Tsp
Rice flour	:	1 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Baking soda	:	1 Pinch
Salt	:	To taste
Oil	:	For fry
For curd	:
Curd	:	1/2 Cup
Ginger garlic paste	:	1/2 Tsp
Cumin powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
For tempering	:
Mustard seeds	:	1/4 Tsp
Red chilly	:	3 Nos

Method :
Cut onion as slices. Mix all the pakoda ingredients well with curry leaves.

Heat oil in a pan, deep fry the marinated onions well.

Mix curd with ginger garlic paste, cumin powder and salt.

Mix the fried onion pakodas in the masala curd.

Heat 1 teaspoon of oil, add mustard seeds. After the seeds pops, add red chilly. Add the tempering in the curd pakoda.

Try this quick tasty snack and please post your valuable comments..

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Kerala Chicken Kabab

Chicken kabab is the favorite dish for my daughter. This chicken kabab is little different from normal chicken fry. This is very famous in Kerala. I am using home made masala powder for this kabab fry. It is very tasty and easy to prepare. In one weekend, i prepared this kabab as starter. For other weekend, i prepared as a side dish for rasam rice. It is very tasty for both combinations. We can have as evening snack also.  Let us prepare the tasty Kerala chicken kabab.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	5 Mins
Soaking time	:	20 Mins
Cooking time	:	5 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Chicken	:	1/2 Kg
Turmeic powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Garam masala	:	1/2 Tsp
Ginger gaslic paste	:	1/2 Tsp
Egg	:	1 No
Corn flour	:	1 Tsp
Rice flour	:	1 Tsp
Basan	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Oil	:	For fry
Onion	:	To garnish

Method :

Wash the chicken pieces well and marinate with Salt, Turmeric powder, chilly powder, ginger garlic paste, garam masala (roasted fry with cardamom, cloves, cinnamon) , 1 egg and mix well with corn flour, rice flour, basan. Soak the marinated chicken for 20-30 minutes.

Heat oil n a pan, deep fry the marinated chicken well.

After the chicken fried well, transfer to the serving plate and garnish with onion rings..

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Baby potto fry ( Andhra style)

Potato is the favorite for most of the people. This baby potato fry is Andhra style and it is very tasty. The preparation time also very less. I have seen this fry at one of my favorite cooking show. In that, the chef prepare one honey dip for this fry. That was very nice to see itself. But i didn't prepare that dip. I prepared this fry for side dish for lunch. We can have as starter or snack item with the dip. I will post the dip menu in this post also. Let us see how to prepare the tasty baby potato fry.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	20 Mins
Cooking time	:	5 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Baby potato	:	1/2 Kg
Ginger garlic paste	:	1/2 Tsp
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Cumin  powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Rice flour	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste
Oil	:	For fry

Method :
Peel off the baby potatoes, rinse and boil it with adding turmeric powder and salt.

After the potatoes are boiled, drain the water, and marinate with all the ingredients. Keep the marinated potatoes for at least 10 minutes.

Heat oil for fry, deep fry the soaked potatoes well. Potatoes are already boiled. So we need to fry till the masala fried.

After fried well, transfer to serving plate and serve with fried onions or as it is... Fry the curry leaves to garnish the potato.

We can make honey dip for this. Dry fry the peanut and make as coerce powder. Mix honey, pepper powder with the peanut powder. The dip is ready to serve.
Try this wonderful fry and enjoy the good taste...

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Neer dosa - Mangalore special dosa

Dosa  is one of the famous tiffin item in South india. Neer dosa is the very famous dosa in mangalore. for normal dosa  , we need to wait for fermentation. but for this  neer dosa, we need not to wait. we can make dosa  as soon as we grind the batter. we can make this dosa very easily and quickly. Morning we can make this within1 hour. for this dosa, we can have tomato chutney.I made garlic curry for this dosa. We should use coconut in correct quantity. Otherwise, the  dosa will not come in correct consistency. come let us see how to prepare the tasty neer dosa.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	40 Mins
Cooking time	:	5 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Raw rice	:	500 Gm
Grated coconut	:	100 Gm
Salt	:	To taste

Method :

Soak the re rice for at least half an hour. After the rice soaked well, grind the rice with adding grated coconut. grind the batter nicely as paint. The batter should be watery.

Heat the dosa thava, spray some oil and pour the batter. Need to pour the batter as we make wheat dosa.

Close the dosa with the lid.

Wait for 3 minutes, open the lid and transfer to the serving plate and serve with tomato chutney or garlic tamrind curry.

Try this wonderful easy tiffin neer dosa and enjoy the morning.

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Shredded chicken fry / Idicha kozhi varuval

I love to try different items using chicken. I tried lemon chicken, pepper chicken and many items. This time, my sister-in-law teach me to prepare shredded chicken fry. In Tamil, it will be saying, Idicha chicken fry. Because, the chicken will boil and it will be shredded by stone before fry. For this fry, we need garam masala powder which will prepared at home. This is very tasty and easy way of preparation. All the chicken lovers will like this fry very much.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Cooking time	:	5 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Chicken	:	1/4 Kg
Oil	:	2 Tsp
Cumin seeds	:	1/2 Tsp
Fennel seeds	:	1/2 Tsp
Onion	:	1 Big No
Curry leaves	:	Few
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Salt	:	To taste
Pepper powder	:	1 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Ginger Grated	:	1/2 Tsp
Chopped garlic	:	1 Tsp
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Garam masala	:
Bay leaf	:	1 No
Cinnamon	:	2 Nos
Cloves	:	2 Nos
Star anas	:	1 No

Method :
Heat the garam masala ingredients and make powder using stone or mixer grinder.

Wash the chicken pieces well and boil it with adding turmeric powder, salt and little water.

After the cooked well, shred the chicken using stone. (That is why it is called idicha chicken).

Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, fennel seeds. Add chopped onion, garlic, grated ginger, curry leaves and saute well.

Add shredded chicken. Add chilly powder, pepper powder and mix it well. Add ground garam masala powder and mix.

Finally, add chopped coriander leaves, transfer to the serving plate and serve hot.

Try this tasty and easy chicken recipe and enjoy the different taste..

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Solanum Nagram Fry / Manathakali keerai (Kaachi soppu) Poriyal

Manathakali keerai is one of the very healthy greens and it is having a lot of health benefits. It is called as chukuti keerai in Tamil Nadu. This is very useful for Ulcer patients. It will helps to cure mouth ulcer also. It is one of the medical plant which helps to cure all type of stomach diseases. It's botanical name is Solanum Nagram. It is having little bit bitter taste. So we have to add grated coconut for more taste. This fry is very tasty and very healthy for kids as well as elder persons.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Kerrai	:	1 Bunch
Onion	:	1 No
Green chilly	:	3 Nos
Grated coconut	:	1/2 Cup
Oil	:	2 Tsp
Mustard seeds	:	1/4 Tsp
Salt	:	To taste

Method :

Wash well the bunch of greens and cut it. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. After the seeds pops, add chopped onions, slit green chilies and saute well.

Add washed and chopped greens and saute. Sprinkle some water and close the pan with the lid after adding salt.

After the greens cooked well, add grated coconut and mix well.

Mix well and transfer to the serving dish and serve hot with rice or chapathy.

Try this healthy greens recipe and be healthy... Enjoy...

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Jalebi - Yummy Delhi sweet Recipe

When we were in Delhi, we used to buy jelabi in daily. Hot jalebi with sweet syrup... Wow! we definitely will do finger licking. It is very tasty and my daughter likes very much. The making of jalebi also different and we can use ketch up bottle or a polythene cone to squeeze the batter. In sweet shops, they are using clean cloth. In this festival season, if we make this type of sweets, all of our family members will like and we will get appreciation also. Try this mouth watering sweet recipe and enjoy your festival..  I made this sweet for first time. The taste is very good, but i cant do the correct shape.

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Basic information :

Fermentation time	:	24 Hrs
Cooking time	:	10 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Maida	:	1 Bowl
Corn flour	:	2 Tsp
Yellow color	:	1/2 Tsp
Baking powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Curd	:	1/2 Cup
Sugar syrup	:
Sugar	:	200 Gm
Water	:	1 Glass
Saffron	:	1 Pinch

Method :

Mix in a wide bowl, maida, corn flour, baking powder, curd with yellow color. Mix well without any lumps. Mix the batter in thick dosa batter consistency. Keep the batter for 24 hours to fermentation.

Mix sugar in water and allow it to boil. After fermentation, mix the batter well and pour it into the ketch up bottle or polythene cone or we can do with clean cloth itself. Heat oil in a pan, squeeze the batter in round as jalebi shape.

Fry the jalebi well and put it in the sugar syrup.

Within 2 minutes, transfer to the serving plate and serve hot. The hot, crispy and sweet jalebi is ready to eat..Have fun..

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