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Thursday, 25 August 2016

Chilli Paneer cheese grilled sandwich

All mothers definitely confuse for one thing. What can prepare for snacks box for their kids. Hear is the simple and healthy recipe for snacks box.

Today I prepare a delicious sandwich with cheese and chilly Paneer. Normally I prefer wheat bread for making sandwiches. So that it will be very healthy and tasty. Every kid would like cheese. So all the kids will surely love it and all mothers would be very happy. Come let us make a wonderful chilly Paneer cheese sandwich.

Basic information:
Preparation time : 15 Mins
Cooking time : 3 Mins
Serve for : 2 Persons
Ingredients:
For green chutney :
Mint leaves : 1/4 Cup
Coriander leaves : 1/4 Cup
Ginger : 1 Tsp
Garlic : 4 Pcs
Green chilly : 2 Nos
Salt : As needed
For Sandwich :
Bread : 4 Slices
Cheese : 2 Cubes
Paneer : 50 Grm
Turmeric powder : 1 Pinch
Chilly powder : 1 Pinch
Salt : 1 Pinch
Chat masala : 1 Pinch
Capsicum : 2 Round
Onion : 2 Round
Oil or Butter          : For Brushing
Method:
For green chutney grind mint leaves, coriander leaves, garlic, ginger nicely as paste with adding salt.
Cut the Paneer into small cubes and add it in the warm water for 2 minutes for soften. After 2 minutes, drain the water and add turmeric powder, chilly powder and mix it well.
Place 4 bread slices in a plate.
Spread green chutney nicely.
Add greated cheese.
Add chilly mixed Paneer in only two slices. Add round capsicum, onion.
Sprinkle 1 pinch of chat masala powder, close the bread and cut it into triangle shape.
Brush oil or butter on the top and grill. We can also toast the sandwich instead of grill.
Wow! ... yummy... sandwich is ready for box and eat.

Try for your kids, get appreciate from them and please post your valuable comments.

Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Veg lollypop

Lollypop, drumstick these names are normally we are hearing for non-veg only. For a change, I tried in vegetables. This is a healthy vegetarian lollypop. In this wonderful snack, I used all the vegetables like beans, carrots, capsicum, potatos and masala powders. We can use cabbage, green peas also.
It is a very good snack item which can be serve as tea time snacks or side dish for sambar rice, rasam rice. I usually prepare this snack for my daughter after school in evening time. She liked very much and it consists all veggies and it is very healthy and tasty.
Health benefits :
Carrots : Rich in Vitamin A, Good for eye sight.
Beans : Rich in Vitamin A, Good for kidney.
Capsicum : Rich in Carbohydrate. 
Potato : Rich in protein.
Paneer : Rich in Calcium.
Basic information :
Preparation time : 15 mins
cooking time : 15 mins
serve for : 4 persons
Ingredients :
Potato : 3 Nos
Paneer : 50 Grms
Beans : 100 Grms
Carrots : 50 Grms
Capsicum : 1/2 No
Coriander leaves : 2 Tsp
Mint leaves : 1 Tsp
Curry leaves : 10 Nos
Turmeric powder : 1/4 Tsp
Cumin powder : 1/2 Tsp
Fennel powder : 1/2 Tsp
Garam masala  : 1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder : 1/2 Tsp
Salt  : As needed
Corn flour : 1 Tsp
Rice flour : 1/2 Tsp
Oil : For fry
Onion : 1 No
Garlic : 6 Pcs
Ice sticks : 10 Nos
Musturd seeds : 1/2 Tsp
Method :
Boil potatoes, peel off and smash it. Smash Paneer with smashed potato.
Fine chop all the vegetables.
Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. After the seeds pop, add chopped onion, garlic, curry leaves and saute well till onion turns transparent.
Add chopped vegetables and saute till the vegetables become half cooked.
Mix the half cooked vegetables in potato Paneer mix. Add all the masala powders, chopped mint leaves, coriander leaves, salt and mix together nicely.
Add corn flour, rice flour and mix well. Make lemon size balls and stick with ice cream sticks.
Add little water with corn flour and mix. Dip the lollypop in that paste.
Dip in bread crumbs.
Heat oil in a frying pan fry the lollypops  in low flame. Fry till it comes golden brown.
In another pan, heat 2 teaspoon of oil, add chopped garlic. Add tomato sauce, soya sauce little water and allow it to boil for 1 minute. Switch off flame. Dip the fried lollypop in the sauce mixer.
Ya.... it's ready to serve with tomato ketchup or green chutney. Try this delicious snack and please feel free to post your comments.

Monday, 22 August 2016

Tomato thokku

When I'm thinking, what side dish can accompany with all tiffin items like idly, does, chappathy, poori and also rice. Today I made tomato thokku. It is very simple and amazing, it goes with all the tiffin items. It is very easy to prepare and nice recipe.
For making this dish, I used fried gram dhal for grinding with coconut. It gives thickness to the gravy and we can get more gravy. If guests come to my house, I usually I will prepare this tomato thokku as gravy for vegetarians and chettinadu chicken curry for non-veg.

Basic information :
Preparation time : 10 Mins
Cooking time : 15 Mins
Serve for : 4 Persons
Ingredients:
For grind:
Coconut pieces:1/2 Cup
Fried gram dhal:2 Tsp
Cinnamon:2 Nos
Cloves:3 Nos
Garlic:6 Pcs
For curry:
Oil:2 Tsp
Fennel seeds:2 Tsp
Onion:1 No
Tomato:1/2 Kg
Curry leaves:10 Nos
Coriander leaves:2 Tsp
Turmeric powder:1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder:1 Tsp
Coriander powder:2 Tsp
Salt:As needed
Method:
Grind coconut, fried gram dhal, cloves, cinnamon as fine paste.
Grind washed tomatoes as puree.
Heat Oil in a pan add fennel seeds. After the seeds pop, add chopped onion, curry leaves and saute till onion becomes transparent.
Add tomato puree and well cook it.
After the tomato puree cooked well, add masala powders, salt and ground coconut paste.
Add needed water and allow it to boil for 5-10 minutes.
After the raw smell goes, switch off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves.
Yummy Tomato thokku is ready to serve...Enjoy the great taste and please share your valuable comments.

Sunday, 21 August 2016

Ambur Mutton Biriyani

Ambur is a famous city in Tamil Nadu Nellore. We used to see Ambur special biriyani shops in many areas, many cities. Everybody used to say it is very tasty. I was thinking, why can't we try this recipe. Then i saw this recipe in one of my favorite cookery show. I tried and it came very well. I wish to share with you all this wonderful biriyani recipe. 
This is commonly prepare with basmathy rice and it is dhum biriyani. But i tried this biriyani in jeera rice(jeerahasamba). I tried in cooker. We can make this as dhum also. For this recipe we don't want any masala powders. It is less spicy and less masala which everybody likes. My mother-in-law will make this biriyani very well. I tried this with mutton. We can make using chicken also. Everybody try this yummy recipe and enjoy the real taste of Ambur special biriyani.
Note : For Biriyani, we need mutton and rice in 1:1 ratio. So that biriyani will be tasty and smells  yummy.
Basic information :
Preparation time : 15 Mins
Cooking time : 30 Mins
Serve for : 5 Persons
Ingredients :
Oil or Ghee : 4 Tsp
Jeera rice : 1 Kg
Motton : 1 Kg
Cinnamon : 3 Nos
Cloves : 3 Nos
Bay leave : 2 Nos
Cardamon : 2 Nos
Onion : 3 Nos
Ginger paste : 2 Tsp
Garlic paste : 2 Tsp
Tomato : 2 Nos
Red chilly : 4 Nos
Curd : 1 Cup
Curry leaves : 10 Nos
Coriander leaves : 1/2 Cup
Mint leaves : 1/2 Cup
Lemon : 1 No
Salt : As Needed


Method :
Wash the mutton pieces and cook in pressure cooker adding turmeric powder and salt.
Grind red chilies as paste.
In a large pressure cooker, Add oil or ghee. Add cinnamon, cardamon, bay leaf, star anas, cloves.
After cloves break, add chopped onion, curry leaves and fry till golden brown comes. Add ginger garlic paste.
Add chopped tomatoes and saute well.
Add chilly paste and beaten curd.
Add chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves, saute well.
Add cooked mutton pieces with mutton stock.
After 2-3 minutes of boiling, add washed rice and mix it with mutton. Squeeze 1 lemon juice.  Add water in 1:1 and 1/2 ratio. Normally we use to add water in 1:2 ratio. But now we added mutton stock. So we need 1 and 1/2 ratio is enough.
Add salt and close the cooker lid in high flame. When the pressure comes, put cooker weight and make simmer flame. Wait for 20 minutes and switch off the flame. Wait for pressure release, open the lid slightly mix the biriyani. Wow! yummy delicious Ambur biriyani is ready to serve hot with chicken gravy and raitha.
Rich Aroma, medium spicy,and less masala...
If you try this recipe, you will defiantly like this and you will never ever try other methods. Try and please post your valuable comments...



Saturday, 20 August 2016

Chettinadu Chicken gravy / Chicken masala

We are preparing many dishes using Chicken. This time, i tried a delicious spicy chicken gravy in Chettinadu style. When guests come to my house, I prepare this gravy as side dish for Biriyani and also tiffin items like idly, dosa, chappathy, poori.. Everybody liked this gravy and my husband says to prepare every time. I normally prepare chicken curry with only masala powders. In this style, we have to saute some ingredients to grind and also add masala powders. If we want ore gravy, we can add coconut paste or coconut milk. 
For making this style gravy, i used tempering in final stage. It is very tasty and very simple to prepare. I used sambar onion to ground masala. Sambar onion gives the gravy nice aroma and wonderful taste. Try this simple gravy recipe and get rich taste of Chettinadu chicken.
Basic information :
Preparation time : 15 Mins
Cooking time : 15 Mins
Serve for : 3 Persons
Ingredients :
For Grind:
Sambar onion:1/4 Kg
Ginger:2 Tsp
Garlic:2 Tsp
Fennel:1 Tsp
Pepper:1 Tsp
Cumin seeds:1 Tsp
Curry leaves:1 Tsp
For gravy:
Chicken:1/2 Kg
Turmeric powder:1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder:1 Tsp
Coriander powder:2 Tsp
Salt:As needed
For tempering :
Oil:2 Tsp
Cinnamon:2 Nos
Cloves:2 Nos
Curry leaves:1 Tsp
Method :
Heat oil in a pan Add cumin seeds, fennel seeds, pepper. After the seeds pop, add chopped sambar onion, curry leaves and saute till onion becomes golden brown,
After that add chopped ginger, garlic and switch off the flame. No need to fry more ginger and garlic. In that heat itself it will fry.
Grind the saute ingredients after getting cool.
Wash the chicken pieces, add ground masala, all the masala powders and salt.
 Add little water and allow it to cook. No need to add more water. 
After the chicken cooked and raw smell goes, we can make tempering. Heat oil in a pan, add cinnamon, cloves, curry leaves and add it to the gravy.
Hmmm,... Delicious Chittinadu style chicken gravy is ready to serve with rich  aroma.
Have a try this yummy gravy recipe and please share your priceless comments...