Monday 30 July 2018

Thenga Paal Ozhicha Mutton Curry | Naadan Mutton Curry | Aattirachi Curry

How to prepare Thenga Paal Ozhicha Mutton Curry | Naadan Mutton Curry | Aattirachi Curry?

Thenga Paal Ozhicha Mutton Curry | Naadan Mutton Curry | Aattirachi Curry



Ingredients:-
  • Mutton Small Pieces– 500 Gram
  • Onion Sliced– 2 Medium Size
  • Tomato Sliced – 2 Medium
  • Ginger Sliced– 2 Table Spoon
  • Garlic Sliced – 8 Pods
  • Green Chilli sliced – 4
  • Turmeric Powder – 1 Tea Spoon
  • Crushed Dried Red Chilli – 1 Tea Spoon
  • Coriander Powder – 2 Tea Spoon
  • Pepper Powder – ½ Tea Spoon
  • Garam masala – ½ Tea Spoon
  • Coconut Milk – 1 Cup
  • Cut Coconut – 2 Tbsp
  • Coconut oil as required
  • Curry leave as required
  • Salt as required

 
Preparation:-
  • Take a cooker and pour required oil into it. Once it become hot add cut coconut and sauté well
  • Add sliced onion and a little salt into the cooker and sauté well
  • Add ginger, garlic, curry leaves, green chilli into it and continue sautéing
  • Add crushed dried red chilli, turmeric Powder, coriander powder and sauté well
  • Add sliced tomato and continue sautéing
  • Now transfer the mutton into the cooker and mix it well with masala
  • Add few curry leaves on top of the mutton and close the lid and cook the mutton for 4 to 5 whistle
  • Add Pepper powder, Garam masala and balance curry leaves into the mutton curry and mix it well
  • Pour coconut milk into the cooker and allow it to boil
  • Finally pour a little coconut oil on top of the mutton curry and switch off the stove
  • Tasty “Mutton Curry” is ready to serve



Cheers!!!
Minu

Saturday 28 July 2018

Aval Upma / Variety uppumavu Kerala Style / Poha Upma

How to Prepare Aval Upma / Variety Uppumavu Kerala Style / Poha Upma?


Aval Upma / Variety uppumavu Kerala Style / Poha Upma



Ingredients:-
  • Beaten Rice / Aval – 1 ½ Cup
  • Onion Sliced– 1 Medium Size
  • Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
  • Salted water as needed (around ½ cup)
  • Green Chilli sliced – 2
  • Ghee – 1 Tea Spoon
  • Mustard – 1 Tea Spoon
  • Dried red chilli – 3
  • Curry leave as required
  • Salt as required

 

Preparation:-
  • Take beaten rice into a vessel and sprinkle salted water and mix it well
  • Heat a pan and pour required oil. Splutter the mustard seeds and then add dried green chilli.
  • Add sliced onion, green chilli, curry leaves and sauté well
  • Transfer the beaten rice into the pan and sauté well
  • Add grated coconut into the beaten rice and mix it well
  • Add ghee on top of the Upma
  • Close the vessel using a lid and then Switch off the stove. Keep it aside for 2 to 3 min.
  • Open the lid after 2 min and mix it well
  • Healthy and Tasty “Aval Upma” is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Tuesday 24 July 2018

Kovakka Moru Curry | Kovakka Ozhichu Curry

How to Prepare Kovakka Moru Curry | Kovakka Ozhichu Curry?


Kovakka Moru Curry | Kovakka Ozhichu Curry



Ingredients:-
  • Ivy Gourd / Kovakka – 200 gm (Around 15)
  • Chilli Powder – ¼ Tea Spoon
  • Turmeric Powder – ¼ Tea Spoon
  • Grated Coconut – ¼ Cup
  • Curd – ¼ Cup
  • Green Chilli – 2
  • Cumin Seeds – ¼ Tea Spoon
  • Fenugreek Seeds – ¼ Tea Spoon
  • Mustard Seeds – ½ Tea Spoon
  • Pepper Powder – 1 Pinch
  • Curry leave as required
  • Salt as required

 

Preparation:- 
  • Let’s cut the Ivy Gourd/Kovakka into small pieces to make the curry
  • Take a cooker and add Ivy Gourd/Kovakka, Turmeric Powder, Chilli Powder, required salt and pour required water into it and cook well.
  • Take a mixer jar and grind grated coconut, green chilli, and cumin seeds by pouring little curd
  • Transfer the grinded coconut mixture into the cooker and mix it well
  • Add curry leaves, balance curd and a pinch pepper powder into the curry. Switch off the stove once it starts boiling.
  • Heat a pan and pour required oil. Splutter the mustard seeds and then add fenugreek seeds and curry leaves. Transfer the spluttered mustard into the curry
  • Healthy and Tasty Kovakka Moru Curry is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Saturday 21 July 2018

Karkidaka Special Jeeraka Kanji | Jeeraka kanji | Karkidaka Special Diet Food

How to Prepare Karkidaka Special Jeeraka Kanji | Jeeraka kanji | Karkidaka Special Diet Food?

Karkidaka Special Jeeraka Kanji | Jeeraka kanji | Karkidaka Special Diet Food



Ingredients:-
  • Unakkalari – 1 Cup
  • Cumin Seeds – 1/3 Cup
  • Coconut Milk – 1 ¾ Cup
  • Turmeric Powder  - 2 Pinch
  • Salt as needed


Preparation:-
  • Take a cooker and cook unakkaliri by adding required water for two whistle
  • Take a mixer jar and grind cumin seeds by adding little water
  • Transfer the ground cumin seeds and little water into the cooker and mix it well
  • Add Turmeric Powder and salt into the “Kanji” and mix
  • Switch on the stove and allow it to boil
  • Pour coconut milk into the cooker. Switch off the stove once it starts boiling.
  • Healthy and Tasty Jeeraka Kanji is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Wednesday 18 July 2018

Dry Fruits Laddu | Dates and nuts Laddu | Ladoo without Sugar

How to Prepare | Dry Fruits Laddu | Dates and nuts Laddu without sugar?


Dry Fruits Laddu | Dates and nuts Laddu | Laddu without Sugar



Ingredients:-
  • Dates – 1 Cup
  • Peanut – ¼ Cup
  • Pistachio – ¼ Cup
  • Cashew nuts – ¼ Cup
  • Almond - ¼ Cup
  • Walnut   - ¼ Cup
  • Raisins - 1 Table spoon
  • Poppy seeds – 1 Tea Spoon
  • Cardamom powder – ½ Tea Spoon
  • Ghee – As needed

 

Preparation:-
  • Take a mixer jar and grind Peanut, Pistachio, cashew nuts, almond, and walnut
  • Crush dates also using a mixer jar separately
  • Heat a pan by pouring required ghee and sauté crushed dry fruits
  • Transfer the crushed dates into the pan and mix it well
  • Once dates and dry fruits are mixed well, add raisins, poppy seeds and Cardamom powder into the pan and mix it well
  • Switch off the stove when all the ingredients are mixed well
  • Transfer the sautéed dry fruits into a flat surface
  • Once the mixture is warm mix it well using your hand
  • Take a portion of the dry fruits and shape into Laddu
  • Tasty and healthy dry fruit laddu is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!
Minu

Sunday 15 July 2018

Gothambu Vellayappam | Kerala Special Soft Vellayappam | Wheat Vellayappam

How to Prepare Gothambu Vellayappam | Soft Vellayappam | Wheat Vellayappam?


Gothambu Vellayappam | Soft Vellayappam | Wheat Vellayappam?



Ingredients:-
  • Wheat flour - 1 Cup
  • Beaten Rice / Aval - ½ Cup
  • Water - 1 ½ Cup
  • Sugar - 1 Tea Spoon
  • Yeast - 2 Pinch
  • Salt as needed

 

Preparation:-
  • First soak the beaten rice for 5 minutes, it may vary depends on the type of beaten rice.
  • Take a mixer jar and grind wheat, Beaten Rice, Yeast, sugar by adding water
  • Transfer the batter into a vessel and add salt over the batter and keep it over night (6 to 8 hours) for fermentation
  • After 8 hours take out the batter and stir it well
  • Heat a pan suitable to make appam (Appam Chatti) and pour a spoon full batter and spread it over. Close the vessel using lid for 2 to 3 min.
  • After 2 to 3 min take out the appam.
  • Tasty Gothambu/Wheat Vellayappam is ready to serve




Cheers!!!
Minu

Friday 13 July 2018

Uluva Kanji | Karkidaka Kanji | Marunnu Kanji

How to Prepare Uluva Kanji | Karkidaka Kanji | Marunnu Kanji?


Uluva Kanji | Karkidaka Kanji | Marunnu Kanji


Ingredients:- 
  • Soaked Fenugreek seeds – ¼ cup
  • Unakkalari – 1 Cup
  • Jaggery syrup – 250 Gram melted
  • Coconut Milk – 1 ¼ Cup
  • Salt - 1 pinch


Preparation:-

  • Take a cooker and cook Soaked Fenugreek seeds by adding required water for one whistle
  • Open the lid after one whistle and unakkaliri into it. Pour required water and cook for two more whistle.
  • Pour jaggery syrup into the cooker and mix it well. Make sure you stir continuously. 
  • Pour coconut milk and again mix it well
  • Add salt into the “Kanji” and allow it to boil
  • Once it starts boiling switch off the stove
  • Tasty Ulava Kanji / Karkkidaka Kanji is ready to serve

Cheers!!!
Minu

Tuesday 10 July 2018

Pavakka Chutney | Bitter gourd Chutney | Kaypakka Chammanthi

How to Prepare Pavakka Chutney | Bitter gourd Chutney | Kaypakka Chammanthi?


Pavakka Chutney | Bitter gourd Chutney | Kaypakka Chammanthi



Ingredients:- 
  • Bitter gourd – 1 Medium size
  • Coconut grated – ½ Cup
  • Curd – ¼ Ltr
  • Turmeric Powder – ¼ Tea Spoon
  • Chilli Powder – 1 Tea Spoon
  • Dried red chilli - 2
  • Mustard seeds – ½ Tea Spoon
  • Salt as needed
  • Curry leaves as needed
  • Oil as needed


Preparation:-
  • Take a pan add chopped bitter gourd and sauté well.
  • Once water evaporates pour 1 to 1 ½ Table spoon oil into the pan and continue sautéing
  • Once it become fry add salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, curry leaves and sauté until it’s raw smell goes off
  • Take a mixer jar and grind grated coconut by adding 2 table spoon curd 
  • Pour grinded coconut into the fried bitter gourd and mix it well
  • Once it become hot add balance curd also into the pan and mix
  • Add additional curd or water depends on the consistency you like to have it for Chutney
  • Check salt and add if required. Switch off the stove once it is about to boil.
  • Heat a pan and pour required oil. Splutter the mustard seeds and then add dried red chilli and curry leaves. Transfer the spluttered mustard into the chutney
  • Tasty and healthy “Bitter Gourd Chutney” is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Saturday 7 July 2018

Kerala Special Avalose Podi | Egg and Sugar Mixed Avalose Podi

How to Prepare Kerala Special Avalose Podi | Egg and Sugar mixed Avalose Podi?


Kerala Special Avalose Podi | Egg and Sugar mixed Avalose Podi



Ingredients:- 
  • Puttu Podi / Rice flour – ½ KG
  • 1 medium coconut grated
  • Egg -2  
  • Sesame seeds / Ellu – ¼ Cup
  • Black Cumin seeds / Karinjeerakam – 1/6 Cup
  • Turmeric Powder – ¼ Tea Spoon
  • Sugar – 1 Cup
  • Ghee – 2 Table spoon


Preparation:-
  • Take a pan add Sesame seeds / Ellu, Black Cumin seeds / Karinjeerakam and sauté well. Once it starts breaking switch off the stove.
  • Take big vessel and add Puttu Podi/rice flour, grated coconut, turmeric Powder (Optional), sautéed Sesame seeds / Ellu, Black Cumin seeds / Karinjeerakam, egg and mix it well using hand
  • Switch on the stove and heat the mixture. Make sure you keep stirring, it is bit time consuming activity.
  • Once it become hot add 2 table spoon ghee into it and continue stirring until it become light brown. Make sure to keep the flame in medium.
  • When the colour started changing add sugar into the mixture and mix it well, and then Switch off the stove.
  • Take a mixer jar and grind the mixture once it become room temperature
  • Tasty and healthy “Special Avalose podi” is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Wednesday 4 July 2018

Kerala Style Carrot Pachadi | Kerala Sadya special Carrot Pachadi

How to Prepare Kerala Style Carrot Pachadi |Kerala Sadya special Carrot Pachadi?



Kerala Style Carrot Pachadi |Kerala Sadya special Carrot Pachadi?



Ingredients:-

  • Grated Carrot – 2 Medium size
  • Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
  • Curd – ¼ litre
  • Green chilli – 4 sliced
  • Cumin seeds – ¼ Tea spoon
  • Mustard seeds - ¾ Tea Spoon
  • Dried red chilli - 2
  • Curry leaves as needed
  • Salt as needed


Preparation:-
  • Take a pan add grated carrot, green chilli, salt and few curry leaves into it and stir well. 
  • Make sure you stir carrot in between as the water we used is very less.
  • Add ½ table spoon water into the carrot and cook well by closing it using a lid
  • Take a mixer jar add grated coconut, cumin seeds, ½ portion of curd and grind it well
  • Add ½ tea spoon mustard seeds into the mixer jar and grind it again
  • Transfer the cooked carrot into an another vessel
  • Add grinded coconut paste into the carrot and mix it well
  • Now add balance curd also into the carrot and mix
  • Taste the salt and add if required
  • Heat a pan and pour required oil. Splutter the mustard seeds and then add dried green chilli and curry leaves. Transfer the spluttered mustard into the pachadi
  • Tasty “Carrot Pachadi” is ready to serve
 

Cheers!!!
Minu

Sunday 1 July 2018

Chena Mezhukkupuratti | Yam fry | Kerala Style Chena Mezhukkupuratti

How to Prepare Chena Mezhukkupuratti | Yam fry | Kerala Style Chena Mezhukkupuratti?


Chena Mezhukkupuratti | Yam fry | Kerala Style Chena Mezhukkupuratti?



Ingredients:- 
  • Elephant foot Yam (Chena) – 500 gm
  • Kashmiri Chilli Powder – ¾ Table Spoon
  • Turmeric Powder – ¼ Tea Spoon
  • Cumin seeds Powder – ¼ Tea spoon
  • Salt as needed
  • Curry leaves as needed


Preparation:-
  • Take a cooker and add elephant foot Yam (Chena), salt, turmeric Powder, and required water and cook for two whistle. Make sure you don’t overcook Yam/Chena
  • Heat oil in a pan, add chilli powder, curry leaves into it and sauté well in a low flame
  • Transfer the cooked Yam/Chena into the pan and mix it well
  • Add cumin seeds powder and few more curry leaves into the pan and mix
  • Keep the flame in medium and sauté well for 3 to 4 min.
  • Switch off the stove once it become dry
  • Tasty “Chena Mezhukkupuratti” is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!
Minu