Paal paniyaram / Milk paddu

Paal paniyaram is the famous traditional sweet dish which is prepared mostly in Chettinad. It is very tasty and delicious sweet dish. This paal paniyaram is made with rice and urad dal batter with coconut milk. I am adding jaggery for sweet. We can add sugar instead of jaggery. If we add jaggery, the taste will be excellent. I am not adding badam or cashews to decorate this dish. If we want, we can add. For making paniyarams, the batter should be thick like idly or methu vada batte consistency. We can make it with our hand. I am using coconut shell to make paniyaram. Because of using coconut shells, the paniyaram will be equal shapes and it will be looking nice...

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	20 Mins
Cooking time	:	6 Mins
Serve for	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Raw rice	:	1 Cup
Urad dal	:	1 Cup
Coconut	:	1/2 No
Jaggery	:	100 Gm
Cardamom powder	:	1/2 Tsp
oil	:	To fry
Salt	:	1 Tsp

Method :

Grate the coconut, grind and take coconut milk. In coconut milk, add cardamom powder and jaggery and mix it well.

Take equal quantity of rice and dal, rinse and soak for minimum 20 minutes.

After 20-30 minutes, grind it with adding less water as idly batter.

Heat oil in pan, make paniyaram, using hand or coconut shell.  Fry the paniyaram in low flame. It comes fluffy and soft balls.

After the paniyarams fried, take out from the oil and add it in the water. We can boil the water.

Take out the fried and soaked paniyaram from water and add it in the sweet coconut milk.

Transfer to the serving dish and serve it, have it and cheer up with the wonderful sweet dish paal paniyaram..

Read More

Shahi tukda / Bread basandhi

I love to prepare sweet dishes as my husband loves a lot. This time, i tried shahi tukda made with fried bread pieces and sweet milk. It is one the traditional dish. Mostly, all of us will add saffron, dry fruits to decorate this dish. But being a traditional  dish, i am not using saffron and dry fruits. I am using only cardamom powder. It is very delicious sweet dish which will be like all the people. The preparation time also very less and very easy to prepare. Try this wonderful and delicious sweet recipe and enjoy your day..

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Bread	:	4 Pieces
Milk	:	1/2 Lr
Sugar	:	100 Gm
Cardamom	:	4 Nos
Oil	:	For fry

Method :
Cut the edges of the bread slices and cut it in triangle shape. I made small triangles.

Heat oil in a pan, deep fry the bread slices till golden brown comes.

Boil milk in a pan. We need to boil the milk till its thickening. Stir vocationally, because it will burnt. Add 4 teaspoon of sugar and add cardamom powder. It is called rabadi. The rabadi must be thick.

For sugar syrup, heat 1/2 a glass of water and add 2 teaspoon of sugar and boil it till it comes string consistency.

Make arrangement of fried bread slices and add  sugar syrup.

Over the sugar syrup add thick rabadi and serve it.

Delicious shahi tukda sweet is ready to taste.. Wow!... What a taste.....
Please try this simple sweet recipe and enjoy...

Read More

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...

Read More

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..

Read More

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..

Read More

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...

Read More

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.

Read More

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..

Read More