Kozhukatta

Ingredients:-

Wheat flour
Water
Salt
Mustard seeds
Oil
Urad dal( black gram)
Curry leaves
Green chillies-4 chopped
Onion-1chopped
Ginger- 2 tablespoon chopped
Coconut -1 cup
Red chilly powder-1tspn

Make a soft dough and make very small balls of the wheat flour and boil in water for20 minutes.
Cook well.

In a frying pan,

Splutter mustard seeds in hot oil n add urad dal( black gram).
Sauté rest of the ingredients except coconut and cook well.

Add coconut and heat well . Then add the cooked kozhukatta balls.
Sauté well. Done. Add salt to taste.

BON APPETITE:)

Bread uthappam

Ingredients:-

Bread-2

Onion-1/2 chopped
tomato -1/2 chopped
Green chilli-1 chopped
Semolina-2 tspn
Yogurt-3 tblspn
Chilli pwdr- 1/2 tspn
Asafetida- one pinch
Oil -1 tspn
Salt to taste

Directions:-

• Mix all the second set of ingredients into a smooth mixture.
• Spread it on the bread on one side.
• Heat a pan and brush it with some oil.
• Keep the bread's spread portion down  and cook for 3 min at medium flame.
• Meanwhile spread the upper side of the same bread .
• Flip it over after 3 min for another 3 min.
• DONE.

BON APPETITE:)

Kurumulaku ittu vaticha meen curry / Kerala style

Ingredients:-

Fish(any)- I used King fish

Pepper-2 tspn

Chilli powder- 1 tspn

Turmeric-1/2tspn

Ginger- 20 gms-sliced and crushed

Garlic- 20 gms or one pod full- crushed

Shallots-10 sliced

Curry leaves- 2 sprig

Tomato-2

Malabar Tamarind(KodamPuli)-2

oil-2 tblspn

Salt to taste

Directions:-

• Heat oil in a pan and sauté curry leaves, sliced shallots, crushed garlic and crushed ginger until they are cooked and shallots turn slight brown.
• Add turmeric powder, chili powder, pepper powder  at this stage and saute for 30 sec till u see them black at medium flame.
• Now add the chopped tomatoes, malabar tamarind and cook for 2 min.
• Add some water, salt  and let it boil.
• Add the fish to this boiled mixture and boil them for 12 min or more till the fish is really cooked.
• Now Savor your favorite malabar pepper fish curry with Tapioca, rice etc.

BON APPETITE:)

Orange fruit Salad/ Orange Trifle

Ingredients:-
Milk- 1 cup
egg-2
Vanilla essence- 1 tspn
Sugar-1/2 cup
Cream cheese- one 8oz pack
Pound cake to form a  base
Canned / uncanned oranges-30 slices
Orange jelly enough to garnish

Directions:-

Heat milk is a sauce pan until small bubbles appear on the edge where the milk meet the pan.
Beat egg, sugar and vanilla essence until sugar dissolves.
Pour the hot milk into this egg mixture . Keep stirring.
Now pour back this milk mixture into the sauce pan and simmer it for 10 minutes until the  milk thicken to a custard.
Now add creamcheese when the mixture cool down and mix well.
Add the oranges .
Base the serving dish with pound cake slices. Pour the orange fruit salad and garnish it with orange jelly.
Serve the fruit salad cold.

Indo Chinese Fried rice

From Potpourri of my favorite recipes

Ingredients:-

Butter or vegetable oil- 2 tblspn
Garlic- 6 large pods finely chopped
Ginger- 2 inch long cut into tiny bits
Onion- 1 chopped\
Green chilli- 6 finely chopped
Mixed vegetables- corn, fresh peas, green beans(chopped), carrot( chopped), lima beans- each 1 tblspn
Shrimp- 60 count large
Soya sauce- 3 tblspn
Chilli Garlic Sauce- 2 tblspn
Coriander leaves- half cup
Salt to taste
Water- 2 and1/2 cups
Rice-1 cup
Pepper- 1 tspn
Paneer- 15 cubes marinated in chilly pwdr, pepper, and salt
Egg (2) scrambled with pepper and salt in oil

Directions:-

Heat oil a large pan and saute ginger garlic paste in oil.
Saute Onions and Green chillies.
Add the soya sauce and chilli garlic sauce.
Saute mixed vegetables and shrimp until half cooked.
Pour water and salt to taste. WHen the water boils ads rice .
Once the rice is cooked add pepper, fried paneer and scrambled eggs.
DONE:)

BON APPETITE:)