PRAWNS WITH CHINEESE POTATO IN FRIED COCONUT MASALA GRAVY(CHEMMEEN KOORKKA THEEYAL)

                                       CHEMMEEN KOORKA THEEYAL

INGREDIENTS

• Prawns cleaned                    - 1 cup
• Chineese potato(koorka)     - 1/2 cup cleaned and cut into pieces and cook in cooker for 2 whistle
• Green chilly                        - 3 slited
• Turmeric powder               - 1/4 tsp
• Crushed coconut                - 1.5 cup
• Red chilly crushed             - 2 tsp
• Coriander powder              - 3 tsp
• Garam masala                    - 1/2 tsp
• Pepper powder                   - 1/2 tsp
• Fennel seed                        - 1/2 tsp
• Shallots                              - 3
• Garlic                                - 5 cloves
• Ginger                               - a small piece
• Curry leaves
• Gambooge  little soak in water

TO GARNISH

• Oil               2 tsp
• Mustard      1 tsp
• dry chilly    2
• curry leaves 2 sprig

  METHOD

• In a cooking bowl, add chineese potato,prawns,green chillies, ginger, turmeric powder and little water,salt and cook for 15 mins.

• When it gets cooked keep it aside.

• Roast the coconut with shallots, garlic and curry leaves.

• Add coriander powder, garam masala,fennel powder and pepper powder to it.Saute for some time.

• Finally add the crushed chillies to it and saute for some more time till it becomes brown.

                                      

• Grind this is a mixer and add this to the boiled prawns.

                                      

• Add the gambooge juice as required and taste the salt.

• Garnish with the "To Garnish" ingredients.

MUTTON CUTLET

                   MUTTON CUTLET
Mutton or lamb kheema is the most expensive of all meats.Mutton is the meat from Sheep more than 2 years old and Lamb is the meat in its first year.
The most tastier among all cutlets is mutton cutlet itself according to Non Veg lovers...Due to the cost of this meat now Mutton Cutlet is rarely seen only in shops.
Here I have made this cutlet with kheema. So it becomes easier to mix all the ingredients.

            INGREDIENTS

• Mutton Kheema                      - 250 gms
• Potato boiled                          - 150 gms
• Onions                                   - 2 medium , finely chopped
• ginger garlic paste                 - 1 Tbsp
• Green chillies                        - 4 big
• Garam masala                   - 1/2 Tsp(my own masala - I made this with cinnamon, cloves,star anise)
• Fennel seed powder             - 1/2 Tsp
• Mustard seed                        - 1/4 tsp
• Pepper powder                     - 1/4 Tsp
• Mint and coriander leaves  as required
• Salt as required
• Egg                                     - 1 Nos
• Bread crumbs

             METHOD

• Wash the kheema and squeeze the water. Keep aside.

• Heat a heavy bottom pan and add some oil to it.

• Splutter 1/4 tsp mustard seeds

• When all the mustard seeds pop up, add chopped onions to it and saute for a while.

• Add the chopped green chillies to it.

• Add ginger garlic paste to it.

• Add stems of coriander leaves to it and all masalas like - garam masala, fennel powder,pepper powder.Saute for 2 mins.

• Now add the minced meat .

• Add salt now.

• Cook well for 20 mins in low flameWhen the water leaves, Saute for sometime till it becomes dry

• Add the mashed potatoes to it and saute.

• Add coriander leaves and  mint leaves.

• When its done, leave this to another plate and allow it to cool.After cooling mash them together with fingers and make balls.

• Shape like an oval one and keep them aside.

• In the bread crumbs add some dried curry leaves, 1/2 tsp garlic powder,and 1/2 tsp fennel powder to get a nice flavour.Mix well.

• Beat the egg and dip this oval cutlets in egg and then to bread crumbs.

• Shape all the cutlets and keep it ready .

• Deep fry in oil till it turns brown colour.Remember one thing alwayz fry in high flame.This is a cooked meat so no need to worry.

• Serve  it on a plate and enjoy this tasty cutlet....

GHEE BANANA FRY

                       GHEE BANANA FRY  

Banana roast in ghee is a very special and tasty tea snack.It is a very easy and simple dish.Nothing more to explain here....Every one try this tasty recipe.... 

                             INGREDIENTS

• Banana(Nenthra Pazham)   6 Nos
• Ghee                                         As required
• Sugar                                        As required

                                     

• Heat a dosa tawa and add little ghee.

• Slice the banana very thinly and fry both sides of bananas till golden brown

                                      

• If u want, u can roll like this and serve.

SIMPLE AND EASY FRUIT CAKE

        SIMPLE AND EASY FRUIT CAKE(500 gm)

Hi.. Foodie....Christmas and New year is nearing. So I planned to share to you all a very simple and easy method for preparing a Fruit Cake.

 A Christmas cake may be light or dark, crumbly- moist to sticky-wet, spongy to heavy, leavened or unleavened, shaped round, square oblong as whole cakes, cupcake, with marzipan icing , glazing, dusting with icing sugar or plain. If a Christmas cake is covered in icing, it is quite common for it to be decorated- models of houses, of fir trees or Santa Claus....

Fruit cake is a cake made with chopped candied fruit and or fried fruits, nuts and spices and optionally soaked in spirits like rum, brandy or wine. A cake that simply has fruits in it as an ingredient can also be colloquially called a fruit cake. Fruit Cakes are often served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.

Here I m preparing this for the beginners. This year let everyone  try a homemade fruit cake.

                                          INGREDIENTS

• Maida /All purpose flour     100 gms
• Baking powder                   1/2 Tsp
• Baking soda                        less than1/4 Tsp
• Dark cocoa powder              1 Tsp

• Sieve them and keep aside

•  Cashews,Dates,Raisins, chopped and soak in wine or rum(2 Tbsp)- 100 gms

•  Eggs                                   -2 nos
• Butter or margarine       -  100 gms
• Garam Masala powder  -1/4 tsp( a owder of cinnamon, cloves, cardamom ang nutmeg)
• Vanila essence                -1/4 tsp

•  Sugar                      -   100 gms

                                       METHOD

• Powder the sugar in a mixer grinder, then add egg , butter ,garam masala , Vanila esssence and blend well.
• Now add seived maida to it and blend for 1 or 2 minutes more.(Take out 2 or 3 tbsp maida to mix up with fruits)
• The batter should be loose like this as shown in the pic.

•  Transfer this batter to a bowl 
• Add 2-3 Tbsp of maida to the chopped  and soaked fruits.Mix them well with a spatula.

•  Pour the batter into a greesed baking tray.And tap the bowl for 2 to 3 times. This has to be done in order to remove the air holes.

•  Cover it with an aluminium foil.

                                      

• Pre-heat the OTG oven to 200degree celsius for 10 mins.And bake for 20 mins.

•  The simple and easy fruit cake is ready for you guysss...

• After cooling remove from the tray and serve the fluffy and soft fruit cake .