Kheema Curry

This time I tried cooking it with some ground ingredients and it really turned out very well. My husband loved this dish. 

Ingredients:

• Minced beef – 250g (washed and drained)
• Tomato – 2 nos
• Onion – 2 nos (chopped)
• Potatoes (cut into small pieces) – 1/2 cup
• Green chillies (cut into thin rounds) – 2 nos
• Coconut (grated) – 4 tbsp
• Curry leaves – Few
• Ghee – 2 tbsp
• Coriander leaves – 1/4 cup

To be ground:

• Cummin seeds – 1/2 tsp
• Chilly powder – 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
•  Ginger – one inch piece
•  Garlic – 4 cloves
•  Onion – 1 no
•  Pepper powder – 1/2 tsp
•  Garam masala – 1/2 tsp

Preparation:

1.  Grind the grated coconut in a mixer to a fine paste and keep aside.
2.  Grind the items to be ground: cumin seeds, chilly powder, turmeric powder, ginger, garlic, onion,  pepper powder and garam masala to a fine paste.
3. Meanwhile boil the whole tomatoes in sufficient water for some time in medium heat. Remove the outer skin and blend in a liquidizer.
4. Take a flat bottomed pan and pour ghee. Heat the ghee and add chopped onions, green chillies and curry leaves. Saute for sometime until the onions become golden in color.
5.  Add the ground masala mixture and keep sauting until oil accumulates on top.
6.  Add minced meat and fry for sometime until it becomes dry.
7.  Add tomato puree, salt and one cup of hot water. Allow to boil and then cook covered in low heat until the gravy acquires a thick consistency and meat is done.
8. Stir in chopped coriander leaves and add the ground coconut. Simmer for a few minutes and remove from fire.

Note: Can use green peas instead of potato.

         Can use oil instead of ghee if you do not want to use ghee.

Chicken Gravy - Andhra Style

I tried this recipe today and it was really good. Very tasty.
It is a bit spicy though. If you cannot take too much of spice then you can also add potatoes to it while boiling. This makes the dish even more tasty. I added potatoes and it came out well.

Ingredients 

• Chicken - 1/2 kg
• Onions - 2 nos(sliced long)
• Green chillies(slit) - 1 no
• Ripe tomatoes - 2 nos(diced)
• Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
• Chopped coriander leaves - A handful
• Cloves - 3 nos
• Cinnamon stick - an inch piece
• Cardamom - 2
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - As required
• Sugar - 1 small tsp
• juice of half a lemon
• Oil for frying

Grind the following into a coarse form:

• Onion - 1 no
• Green chilly - 1 no
• Ginger-garlic paste - 2 tsp
• Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
• Poppy seeds (cous cous) - 2 tsp
• Chilly powder - 2 to 3 tsp
• Turmeric powder - A pinch

Preparation:

1. Clean and wash the chicken and cut into medium pieces.Mix with turmeric and lime juice and keep aside.
2. Heat 2 tbsp oil add clove, cardamom and cinnamon sticks.
3. Add thinly sliced onions, curry leaves and green chilles.
4. Once the onions turn brown add the ground paste salt and turmeric. Stir until the masala is fried well.
5. Add the diced tomatoes and cook till tomatoes get pulpy.
6. Add chicken pieces and add enough water and cook the chicken. Check for spice, salt and add the sugar. Adding sugar enhances the taste of the dish.
7. Add chopped coriander leaves and serve with rice, idli, dosa or chapathi's.

Chicken Momos with red chilli sauce

I had eaten this dish called Momos when I had been to Darjeeling. I liked it so much that I was trying to fetch this recipe from almost everywhere. I did get some but they were not up to the expectations of the ones that I had eaten. Just some time back I got this recipe from a person who is a Nepali and I tired it. Wow!! this was the perfect recipe that I was looking for from such a long time and finally I got it. I prepared these so many times its a wonderful snack that anyone will love to eat. My husband took it to his office one day and his colleagues ate them all leaving him with none :( got calls asking for the recipe too. Do try preparing them and let me know your views.

Ingredients:

For Filling:

• Chicken mince - 1 cup
• onion - 1 large finely chopped
• garlic - 2 to 3 finely chopped
• ginger  - 1 inch finely chopped
• coriander leaves - 1 cup finely chopped
• green chillies - 2 to 3 finely chopped
• soya sauce - 1 tsp
• salt as per taste
• oil - 1 tsp
  

 For Dough:

•  Maida - 4 cups
•  Warm water as per need
• oil - 1 tsp

 For chilli sauce:

• 25 gms garlic peeled
• 6 gms whole red chillies
• 3 tbsp vinegar
• 1 tbsp oil
• salt to taste
• sugar to taste
  

 Preparation:

1. For chilli sauce: cut red chillies and soak in water for about 2 hours. Remove from water and cut them into small pieces and add vinegar and soak for 1 to 2 hours. Add all the remaining ingredients to it and blend to a smooth paste.
2. Chop all ingredients mentioned under filling and mix it in a bowl. Add the chicken mince, oil, soya sauce and salt. Mix all well. 
3. Knead the maida with warm water. Add little oil at the finishing of the dough. Make small round balls and flatten as done for puri.
4. Place the filling in it and press the edges. 
5. Once ready place in a steamer and steam for 20 mins.
6. Serve Momos with chilli sauce.

Avacado Dessert

A simple and easy dipping - Good to eat with chips and tortillas if you like. I love it just like that.

Ingredients:

• Avacado - 1 peeled and smashed
• milk - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - as per your taste
• Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp

Preparation: 

1. Peel and mash the avacado and blend it with milk, sugar and vanilla essence until smooth. 
2. Chill for 20 minutes and serve.

Chettinad Chicken Fry

I have tried this dish many times. My husband likes it a lot.

Ingredients:

• Chicken- 250 g
• Small onion- 4
• Cinnamon- 1 stick
• Cloves-2
• Fennel seeds- a pinch
• Cumin seeds- a pinch
• Curry leaves- few
• Garlic- 2
• Tomato- 1
• Chili powder- 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
• Coriander powder- 2 tsp
• Pepper- 1/2 tsp
• Oil and Salt- as required.

To grind:

• Small onion- 7
• Garlic- 3
• Fennel seeds- 1/2 tsp
• Cumin seeds- 1/2tsp

Preparation:

1. Grind Small onion, Garlic, Fennel seeds and Cumin seeds without using water.
2. Marinate the Chicken in ground items for 1/2 an hour.
3.  Heat Oil in a pan. Add Cinnamon, Cloves, Fennel seeds, Cumin seeds, remaining Small onion, Curry leaves, Garlic and fry till Onion turns into light brown in color.
4.  Add Tomato and fry till it becomes soft.
5.  Then add Chili powder, Turmeric powder, Coriander powder and fry till the raw smell goes out.
6.  Add marinated chicken, a cup of Water and cover the pan with lid.
7.  Cook till the Chicken pieces are cooked.
8.  Finally add Pepper and Salt, cook for another 2 minutes.
9.  Serve hot.

Tindora/Tendli/Tondekaya Curry

Ingredients:
• 3 cups tindora/tendli/tondakaya, cut into thin rounds
• 4-5 curry leaves
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• 4 tsp vegetable oil
• Salt to taste

Ingredients for grinding:
• 2 tbsp sesame seeds
• 3-4 cashew nuts
• 1/2 cup coconut, freshly grated (or dry)
• 4-5 red chillies (adjust to taste
• 1/4 tsp tamarind paste

Preparation:


1. Boil the tindora with little water and salt until cooked Or microwave it with a sprinkle of water and salt for about 5 minutes or until almost cooked.

2. For the masala, roast the sesame seeds for a couple of minutes until aromatic and set aside to cool. Roast the red chillies. Grind the sesame, coconut, chilies, and cashew with a little water into a coarse paste and set aside.

3. Heat the oil in a medium skillet. Add the curry leaves and turmeric powder, and then the cooked tindora, and saute for a minute.

4. Add the ground masala paste and stir. Check the salt and add more if needed. Cover and cook on medium heat for 3-5 minutes until all the flavors are combined.

5. If you want a gravy, add water as needed and let cook for a minute.

6. Serve the tindora masala with roti or rice.

King Fish (Surmai) Masala - you'll love it !!!

I have prepared this dish so many times. Its yummy. I loved it. I am sure you too will like it. Its mouth watering....

Ingredients:
½ Kg. king fish
4 big onions
½ ” ginger
2 flakes garlic
3 green chillies
3 tomatoes
½ tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp. coriander powder
1 tsp. pepper powder
5 grains of fenugreek (methi seeds)
½ tsp garam masala powder
½ tsp turmeric powder
2 sprigs curry leaves
2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
Cherry sized ball of tamarind
Salt to taste
Oil as required

Preparation:

1. Marinate the fish with a pinch of salt, turmeric powder and chilli powder for 15 minutes. Later shallow fry the fish slightly on both the sides in a pan with very little oil and set aside.

2. Heat 1 tbsp. of oil in a non stick pan and add 1 sliced onion, ginger, garlic and green chillies and sauté till they turn brown. Remove this and set aside.

3. In the same pan add red chilly powder, coriander powder, pepper powder, fenugreek, garam masala and turmeric powder and fry on slow flame till good aroma comes. Later, grind both the sauted mixtures together into a smooth paste.

4. Heat 1 –2 tbsp. of oil in a pan, add curry leaves and 3 sliced onions and sauté till they turn brown. Add the ground masala and mix well for a minute. Add finely chopped tomatoes and salt to taste and mix till everything becomes a paste. Add the tamarind pulp and fish. Cover the pan and let it simmer for 5- 10 minutes.

5. Serve hot, garnished with coriander leaves.

Crunchy Chicken

Ingredients:
• 1/2 kg chicken
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 3 tbsp flour
• cornflakes crushed
• 1 tbsp soya sauce
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 tsp garlic paste

FOR THE DIP:
• 1 egg
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 1/4 tsp salt

Preparation:

1. Marinate the chicken with all the above ingredients including garlic and keep aside for half an hour then steam it or boil it in the same marinate for sometime. Let it cool.

2. Beat the egg with salt and pepper and dip the chicken pieces in flour then in the egg dip and then in crushed cornflakes and then fry the chicken pieces.

3. Serve hot.

Introduction

Hi, friends,

I always wanted to post recipes on some site where people could easily access them and share some of the wonderful recipes that I have tried out with everyone. Of late I came across this blogger site which is a good platform to fulfill my wish. From now on I will keep posting a lot of recipes on this blog for you all.
Hoping that you will try them out too and enjoy it. Good luck!!!