Kappa puzhungiyathu

Ingredients:-


Tapioca- 1 lb/450gm
Turmeric-1/2 tspn
Water-1cup
Cumin seeds-1/4 tspn
Green chillies-4 chopped
Shallots-7 sliced


Coconut- 1 cup full
Curry leaves- 1 sprig
Oil-1 tblspn
Mustard seeds- 1/2 tspn


Direction:-

• Cook the first set of ingredients in a pressure cooker  till the tapioca is well done.
• Heat oil in a pan to splutter the mustard seeds and curry leaves. Add this dadka to the tapioca, along with the shredded coconut. Give a thorough stir and cook for another 5 min and let the water fully evaporate.
• Mash them and serve hot with some fish curry.

BON APPETTITE:)

Beef finger rolls

Ingredients:-


Beef - 1 lb/450 gms
Salt to taste
Chilly pwdr-2 tspn
Turmeric pwdr-1/2 tspn
Ginger sliced - 1 thumb size
Garlic sliced- 3 big pods


Cumin pwdr-1 tspn
Coriander pwdr-2 tspn
Coriander leaves- 1 handful
Bay leaves small- 2


Egg-1
Bread crumbs
Salt to taste( remember we have enough salt in beef)
Baking pwdr-1/2 tspn
Onion -1 big chopped
Tomato-2 small chopped


Directions:-

• Cut the beef into small chunks. Clean the beef with enough water and a little vinegar which helps in tenderizing the meat. 
• Cook the beef with the first set of ingredients. Cook with the lid on till the beef is well done. Then let the water fully escape.
• Now add the 2nd set of the ingredients and cook for 10 more min.
• Let them cool.
• Using a blender mince the cooked beef mixture .
• Mix the beef mixture with baking pwdr, salt, onion and tomato using hands.
• Make small 2 inch length rolls out of it.(as shown in the image)
• Dip them in egg and then on bread crumbs and lay on a greased aluminium foil  on a baking tray.
• Bake this for 20 min at 300 F.
• Serve hot with sour cream seasoned with minced parsley.
• DONE.

BON APPETITE:)

Rajma curry

Ingredients:-


Rajma-1 cup soaked in water overnight
Salt to taste
Pepper- 1 tspn
Water to cook
Lemon


Directions:-

• Cook the rajma with all the ingredients.
• Take half of the cooked rajma and blend in a mixer to form smooth paste.
• Add this as a gravy to the remaining rajma beans and boil. Add essential water to the gravy but add it on the beginning stage of cooking
• Serve hot with a slice of lemon with rice.
• DONE:)

BON APPETITE:)

Cooker whistle

If you are using your pressure cooker do not wear the whistle as soon as you place them over the stove. Let the vapour start escaping through whistle hole so that that any minute particles can escape and they do not get stuck inside the whistle causing the valve to burst out and not letting the vapour escape..

Soft chappathi

Add boiled water and some oil while kneading the dough and let the dough stand for half an hour atleast in a closed vessel.

Pancake

Requisites:-


All purpose flour- 2 cups
Salt -1/4 tspn or to taste
Sugar- 3 tblspn
Baking pwder-1 tspn
Baking soda- 1/2 tspn
Egg- 2
Butter 2 tblpsn
Milk enough to get the right consistency for batter( a little thin)


Directions:-

• Mix in all the ingredients in a blender to give a thorough mix. Remove all the lumps.
• The batter should be a little thinner so that when you pour it over the pan it will spread a little
• Now take one ladle full of batter and pour on a griddle  or a pan .
• Flip it over to cook the other side.
• Serve hot with pancake syrup  when it is done

Lauki Halwa

Requisites:-


Bottle guard- 1 big cut into small chunks
Ghee-2 tblspn
Cardomom powder from 4 pods or 1/4 tspn
Milk-1 cup
Jaggeri/ brown sugar powdered.-half cup


Directions:-

• Heat ghee in a  pan and  add the cardomaom powder to it. Stir for 30sec.
• Add the lauki chunks and cook untill they are soft and can me mashed.(takes 20min)
• Now boil the milk 
• Meanwhile add the jaggeri to the lauki and let them liquify.
• Add the milk finally to this lauki mixture and saute for another 20 min or more to thicken the halwa and get a beautiful halwa texture.
• This finally appears in a brown shining color.
• DONE.

BON APPETITE:)

Wok Oil

Wok oil is nothing but a 'three in one' flavored oil of ginger , garlic and red chillies. The oil preferred here is peanut oil or any vegetable oil. This is because it has high boiling point. This is a short cut method to have the ginger and garlic flavor infused in the oil when you are ready to cook rather than doing them each time you commence with your cooking.You can even add some sesame seeds(1/4tspn) if it is an ordinary vegetable oil.


The process is very simple -

• Heat oil and add the ginger, red chillies and garlic in proportion to the oil according to your personal flavor and boil it for 10 min.at medium low flame. Usually adopted quantities of each are:-

        Ginger sliced-2 tblspn

        Garlic sliced-2 tblspn   

        Red chillies-1 tspn chrushed

        Oil- 1 cup

        

Egg Fried Rice

Fried rice always means to me my native hometown's Calicut tower Hotel's savor. Me and my friends rarely go out ie. like once in 3 to 4 mnths and we eat out from this hotel after a movie. We share one fried rice in our first order. And if we feel necessary will go for the second order. TO be frank i was so stringent in spending money for food. I save them for other needs.The fried rice i had from there always visits my mouth and mind with the eagerness to cook and get the same flavor. And last time when i went there with my friend i knew the chef has changed and the flavor too. But none than the other i am here with my experiment which came out so successful and i want to share it with my friends on the other end reading this and trying it out.


Requisites:-(Serves-4).


Oil-1 tspn
Butter-1tblspn
ginger-garlic paste-1 tspn
Green chillies-6 chopped finely
Onion-half cup
Vegetables chopped finely- carrots, green peas, green beans- half cup each
Salt to fry them - 1/2 tspn
Rice soaked in water- 3cups
Water to cook rice-6 cups
Noodles spice mix-1 packet(of Ramen's noodles)
Soya sauce- 3tspn
Pepper corns-1 tspn
Fresh Cilantro -half a cup(If dried- 1 tspn)

Egg-5 eggs

Butter-1 tblspn

Salt to taste

Directions:-

• Heat oil and butter in a pan and add the ginger garlic paste to saute them till a nice smell is diffused from it.Also add green chillies at this stage.
• Now add the onions and stir fry them for a min.
• Add the vegetables and cook them. It may take another 10 min. Cook them with the lid off else the color of the vegetables turn pale. At this stage add some salt since it helps cooking them faster.
• Add the water and let it boil. Add the soya sauce, noodles spice mix and pepper corns.
• Once the water is boiled add the rice to it after straining the soaked water.
• Now let the rice cook till the water is fully vanished.
• Scramble the eggs in butter with some salt in another pan. Do not let them over cooked.
• Add the scrambled eggs to the rice and give a mix.
• You may serve this hot with soya sauce and chilli sauce bottles on tabletop, so that the consumers can add them according to their taste. You may also serve mashed avocado seasoned with some salt and pepper and lime juice for the sourness.
• DONE:)

BON APPETITE:)

Cabbage Kofta

Back from India after a long break in cooking i sat on my desk thinking what shall i resume with for my blog. Moms cooking and her delicious recipes are still enticing and tickling my taste buds. But what can i do other than missing them after all i am here with my husband transferring her skills to my 'food-making' task. SO i am a little lazy to commence with my cooking and blogging though i cant stop doing it. I am here with cabbage kofta recipe which is somewhat a copy-paste from a famous chef, still very delicious. GO for it.

Requisites:-


Cabbage- 250 gm
Bengal gram-one handful
Oil to fry
Besan/ chickpea flour-2 tblspns
Cumin pwdr- 1 tspn
Salt to taste


Oil - 1 tblspn
Onion-1
Turmeric powder- 1/2 tspn
Green chillies-4 split open
Coriander pwdr-2 tspn
Cumin pwdr-1 1tspn
Curd-1 cup
Cashew paste-of 10 cashews
Salt to taste


Directions:-

• Cook cabbage and grams and strain them for the water left over for further use.
• Mix them with the besan flour and other spices to make small balls and fry them in oil.
• Fry them till they are light brown in color. Koftas are ready
• Next  step is to make the sauce.
• Saute the onion in oil till brown and add the spices- turmeric, green chillies, coriander, cumin and other ingredients. Bring to boil and add salt to taste. DONE. 
• Throw in the koftas

BON APPETITE:)

Chocolate and mixed fruit Trifle( Home made Trifle)

On a Thanksgiving day what else more i will thank god for giving me the best family he could. I dedicate this trifle to my beautiful family which has been through out my good and bad, my ups and downs and many struggling and happy situations of  life.


Requisites:-


Chocolate cake(for the chocolate cake refer the old fashioned chocolate cake from my recipes).
Whipped cream (with mascarponi cheese-optional)
Fruit chunks of your favor- apple, blackberry, blueberry, strawberry etc


Directions:-

• Layer them one over the other to get the trifle. Refrigerate it in the icecream bowl to serve.
• You can opt any other cake or custard for substituting the chocolate cake, to prepare the trifle.