Thalassery Special Chemmeen Biriyani | Prawns Biriyani

How to prepare Chemmeen Biriyani | Prawns Biriyani

Chemmeen Biriyani | Prawns Biriyani

Ingredients for preparing Biriyani Rice:-

• Biriyani Rice (Jeera) – 2 Cup
• Fennel Seeds – ¼ Tsp
• Cloves - 4
• Cardamom – 3
• Cinnamon – One small stick
• Mace – 1 strand
• Bay leaf – 2 small
• Star Anise - 2
• Water – 3 Cup
• Oil & Ghee as required
• Salt to taste
• Lemon Juice - from half portion of a lemon

Ingredients for Onion Fry (Bista):-

• Onion - 2 Medium
• Salt to taste
• Sugar – ¼ Teaspoon

Ingredients for Prawns Marination:-

• Prawns – 250 Gram
• Turmeric – ¼ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Salt to taste

Ingredients for Prawns Masala:-

• Onion – 3 Medium
• Ginger (1 Inch) Garlic (12 Pods) and Green Chilli (2) paste
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – ¾ Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – 2 Teaspoon
• Tomato – 2 Medium
• Garam masala– ¼ Teaspoon
• Pepper powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Salt to taste
• Oil as required
• Coriander leaves as needed
• Mint leaves as required

Preparation:-

Biriyani Rice

• Heat 2 Tablespoon ghee in a vessel, add all the spices (Cloves, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Bay Leaves, and Fennel Seeds) into it and sauté well
• Add rice into the vessel and mix it well until rice starts cracking. Add 3 cup water into the rice.
• Add salt into it
• Add lemon juice (squeezed from half portion of the lemon) into the rice
• Once it starts boiling close the vessel with a lid and place a weight on top of the vessel
• Heat oil in a pan and add finely chopped onion and sauté well by adding a little salt

Onion Fry (Bista)

• To make the fried onion crispy add a little sugar into it and continue sautéing

Prawns Marination

• Take prawns in a bowl and add salt to taste, turmeric powder, and chilli powder and mix it well

Prawns Masala

• Heat oil in a pan and add onion into it sauté well by adding a little salt
• Add ginger garlic and green chilli paste into it and continue sautéing
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and coriander powder
• Add tomatoes into the pan
• Add Prawns and mix it well. Pour required water to cook the Prawns and add few coriander leaves
• Cook the prawns by closing the vessel
• Add garam masala and pepper powder and mix it well
• Add fried half portion of fried onion into it
• Once the masala become dry switch off the stove
• Heat a pan and add ghee into it. Fry cashew nuts and raisins and keep it aside
• Layering:-
• ·               Take a big vessel and spread Prawns masala on top of it
• ·               Add cooked Biriyani rice on the top of prawns masala
• ·               Add Coriander leaves
• ·               Add fried cashew nuts and raisins
• ·               Add a little garam masala
• ·               Continue the process
• Heat a dosa pan. Place the cooker on the top of the pan. Keep the flame low for 5 min
• Tast Thalassery special Chemmeen Biriyani is ready to serve

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Minu

Rava Vada | Semolina Vada | Instant Vada

How to prepare Rava Vada | Vada using Semolina | Instant Vada

Rava Vada | Vada using Semolina | Instant Vada

Ingredients:-

• Semolina / Rava – 1 Cup
• Onion Chopped– ½ Cup
• Green Chilli - 2
• Ginger – 1 Teaspoon
• Curd – ¼ Cup
• Salt as required
• Curry leaves as required
• Oil as required
• Water – 1 Cup

Preparation:-

• Take semolina in bowl, add curd into it and mix it well
•  Add salt, onion, green chilli, ginger, curry leaves into it and mix it again
• Pour 1 Cup water little by little and mix it well
• Keep the mixture aside for 10 to 15 min
• Apply oil or water on your hand and take a small portion of dough to make vada shape. Fry both sides until golden brown
• Tasty Rava Vada is ready to serve

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Wheat flour pathiri | Gothambu Podi Kondu Pathiri

How to prepare Gothambu Podi Pathiri | Wheat Flour Pathiri

Gothambu Podi Pathiri | Wheat flour pathiri

Ingredients:-

• Wheat flour – 1 Cup
• Water – 1 Cup
• Salt as required
• Oil as required

Preparation:-

• Boil water in a pan and add salt into it
• Pour little oil while boiling the water
• Keep the flame low and add wheat flour into the boiled water and mix it well
• Switch off the stove and keep it aside to cool down
• Knead the dough well
• Make medium size balls to make the Pathiri
• Now take one of the balls and place it on a flat surface dusted with wheat flour.  Using a rolling pin, roll the ball to a circular shape. Cut it using a sharp rounded vessel to get the exact circle shape
• Heat a dosa tawa and keep one Pathiri at a time and cook both sides
• Tasty Gothambu Pathiri is ready to serve

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Minu

Soya Chunks Biriyani in Cooker | Cooker Soya Chunks Biriyani

How to prepare Soya Chunks Biriyani in Cooker | Cooker Soya Chunks Biriyani

Soya Chunks Biriyani in Cooker | Cooker Soya Chunks Biriyani

Ingredients:-

• Basmati Rice – 2 Cup
• Cloves – 3
• Fennel Seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Cardamom – 3
• Cinnamon Stick – Small piece
• Mace - 1 strand
• Soya Chunks – ½ Cup soaked in hot water
• Onion -3 medium Size sliced
• Tomato – 2 sliced
• Garlic (10 Pods), Chilli (2) and Ginger (1 Inch) paste
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Chilli powder – ¾ Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – 2 Teaspoon
• Garam Masala – ½ Teaspoon
• Lemon Juice – ½ Portion squeezed
• Salt as needed
• Coriander and Mint leaves as required
• Oil and Ghee as needed

Preparation:-

• Keep one cooker to prepare the biriyani in a stove and add oil and ghee. Once it become hot add all the spices (Cloves, Mice, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Fennel Seeds) into it and sauté well.
• Add sliced onion and a little salt and continue sautéing
• Add ginger, garlic and chilli paste into the cooker and mix it well
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and coriander powder into the cooker and sauté well
• Add tomato
• Add coriander and mint leaves and mix it well
• Add soya chunks into the cooker and mix it well and then add garam masala
• Transfer rice into the cooker and mix it well
• Pour 4 cup water (1:2) and mix it well
• Add required salt into the rice and also add lemon juice
• Close the cooker and cook for 1 whistle at high flame and then cook at medium flame for 8 min or for 1 whistle
• Add little more fresh coriander and mint leaves and mix it well
• Tasty Soya Chunks cooker Biriyani is ready to serve

 

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Minu

Kuzhakkatta | Kerala Special Ari Kuzhakkatta

How to prepare Kuzhakkatta | Kerala Special Ari Kuzhakkatta

Kuzhakkatta | Kerala Special Ari Kuzhakkatta

Ingredients:-

• Rice flour – 1 Cup
• Shallot – 20 Pods
• Grated Coconut – ¾ Cup
• Mustard Seeds –½ Teaspoon
• Dry Red Chilli - 4
• Salt as needed
• Curry Leaves as required
• Ghee as needed
• Oil as needed
• Water – 1 Cup

Preparation:-

• Take 1 Cup water in a vessel and add salt into it
• Add rice flour into it and mix it well
• Switch on the stove and keep it in high flame. Stir the mixture continuously.
• Once it become thick switch off the stove and allow it to cool
• Add ghee into the pan and knead it well.
• Take small portion of the dough and make small balls
• Steam rice balls until it cook
• Heat Oil in a pan. Splutter mustard seeds. Add dried red chilli, Curry leaves and shallot and sauté well
• Transfer steamed rice balls into the pan and mix it well
• Finally add grated coconut and then switch off the stove
• Tasty Kozhukkatta/Rice balls is ready to serve

 

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Minu

Padavalam Pachadi | Kerala Sadya Special Pachadi

How to prepare Padavalam Pachadi | Kerala Sadya Special Pachadi

Padavalam Pachadi | Kerala Sadya Special Pachadi

Ingredients:-

• Snake Gourd – ½ Portion of a medium Size
• Green Chilli - 2
• Curry Leaves as needed
• Grated Coconut – ¾ Cup
• Curd - ¾ Cup
• Mustard Seeds – ¼ + ½ Teaspoon
• Dry Red Chilli -2
• Salt as needed
• Oil as needed

Preparation:-

• Peel the snake gourd and cut it into small pieces
• Transfer the snake gourd into a mud pot
• Add green chilli, curry leaves and salt
• Add required amount of water and cook
• Grind coconut curd and mustard seeds
• Heat coconut oil in a pan and add mustard seeds
• When mustard seeds splutter add dry chilli and curry leaves and add it into the pachadi
• Tasty Padavalam/Snake Gourd Pachadi is ready to serve

 

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Sweet Corn Soup | Healthy Sweet Corn Soup

How to prepare Sweet Corn Soup | Healthy Sweet Corn Soup

Sweet Corn Soup | Healthy Sweet Corn Soup

Ingredients:-

• Sweet Corn to Grind– ½ Cup
• Sweet Corn Whole – ¼ Cup
• Carrot – ¼ Cup
• Beans – ¼ Cup
• Spring Onion - !/4 Cup
• Garlic – 4 Pods (¾ to 1 tablespoon)
• Pepper Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Corn Flour – 1 Tablespoon
• Lemon Juice – ¼ Teaspoon
• Sugar – ¼ Teaspoon
• Salt as required
• Butter as required

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and grind sweet corn and make thick paste by adding a little water
• Take corn flour in a bowl and mix it with ¼ cup water
• Heat butter in a pan and add carrot, beans, sweet corn, garlic into it and sauté well
• Add spring onion and continue sautéing
• Transfer ground sweet corn into the pan and mix it well
• Add two cup water and cook for 5 min by closing the pan
•  Transfer corn flour into the pan and mix it well
• Add required salt, sugar, pepper powder into the soup and mix it again
• Finally add few spring onion and lemon juice and then switch off the stove
• Tasty Sweet Corn soup is ready to serve

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Rava Idiyappam | Rava Noolputtu | Kerala Breakfast

How to prepare Rava Idiyappam | Rava Noolputtu

Rava Idiyappam | Rava Noolputtu

Ingredients:-

• Semolina/Rava – 2 Cup
• Grated Coconut as required
• Salt as required
• Oil – 1 Teaspoon
• Water - 4 Cup (Double quantity of Rava)

 

Preparation:-

• Boil 4 cup water, add salt as required and 1 teaspoon oil
• Transfer semolina into the boiled water and mix it continuously at high flame
• Switch off the stove once semolina absorbs entire water and close the pan using a lid.
• Open the lid and mix it well. Allow the mixture to cool down
• Fill the dough into the idiyappam mould
• Take idli making vessel and add grated coconut first and then squeeze rava idiyappam mixture
• Keep the filled vessel inside the cooker and cook for 3 min
• Tasty Rava idiyappam is ready to serve

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Baby Corn Manchurian | Restaurant Style Baby Corn Manchurian

How to prepare Baby Corn Manchurian | Restaurant Style Manchurian

Baby Corn Manchurian | Restaurant Style Manchurian

Ingredients:-

• Baby Corn - 10
• All-purpose flour/Maida - ½ Cup
• Cornflour – 2 Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – 1 Teaspoon
• Cloves – 3
• Onion – 1 Medium
• Capsicum – ½ Portion
• Garlic – 4 Pods
• Ginger – ½ Teaspoon
• Spring Onion – 4 to 5 stem
• Red Chilli Sauce – 1 Tablespoon
• Tomato Sauce – ½ Cup
• Soya sauce – 2 Tablespoon
• Pepper Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Water - ¼ Cup
• Salt as required
• Oil as required

 

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl, add All-purpose flour/Maida, corn flour, chilli powder, salt and then mix it well.
• Pour water little by little and make thick batter.
• Add baby corn into the batter to coat it properly and keep it aside for 10 min
• Fry coated baby corn both sides
• Heat oil in a pan, add cloves, onion, capsicum, garlic, ginger, salt as required and sauté well
• Add chopped spring onion
• Add red chilli sauce, soya sauce and tomato sauce into the pan and mix it well
• Transfer fried baby corn into the pan and mix it well
• Add ¼ Cup water and then pepper powder into the pan and mix it well
• Once the gravy become thick switch off the stove
• Tasty Baby Corn Manchurian is ready to serve

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Steamed Vegetable Omelette | Steamed Omelette

How to prepare Steamed Vegetable Omelette | Steamed Omelette

Steamed Vegetable Omelette | Steamed Omelette

Ingredients:-

• Egg – 4
• Onion- 1 medium
• Pepper Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Turmeric Powder – A Pinch
• Chilli Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Garam Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Salt as required

Preparation:-

• Beat 4 eggs in a vessel by adding salt, pepper powder, turmeric powder, chilli powder and garam masala
• Add onion, beans, carrot, coriander leaves and mix it well.
• Keep idli making vessel in a stove and pour Omelette in each mould
• Steam for 3 to 5 min, tasty vegetable omelette is ready to serve

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Minu

Chicken Bamboo Biriyani | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Biriyani

How to prepare Chicken Bamboo Biriyani | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Biriyani

Chicken Bamboo Biriyani | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Biriyani

Ingredients for Biriyani Rice:-

• Jeera Rice – 3 Cup
• Water – 4 ½ Cup
• Ghee – 1 ½ Tablespoon
• Oil - 1 Table spoon
• Cardamom - 4
• Cloves - 5
• Cinnamon – small piece
• Mace – 1 strand
• Fennel Seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Star Anise – 1
• Lemon Juice – ½ Portion squeezed
• Salt as needed
• Fried Onion – 2 medium size, finely chopped
• Cashew nuts as needed
• Raisins as needed

Ingredients for Chicken:-

• Chicken (Small pieces) – 500 Gram
• Onion – 4 Medium size
• Tomato – 2 Medium Size
• Green Chilli – 4
• Ginger – 1 ½ Inch
• Garlic – 15 Pods
• Thalassery Biriyani Masala – 1 ½ Table spoon
• Turmeric a pinch
• Pepper Powder – 2 ½ Teaspoon
• Curd – 1 ½ Tablespoon
• Salt as needed
• Curry leaves, Coriander Leaves and Mint leaves as required

Preparation:-

• Keep one big vessel to prepare the biriyani in a stove and add oil and ghee. Once it become hot add all the spices (Cloves, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Dry pepper, Fennel Seeds) into it and sauté well
• Add rice into this and stir well until the rice starts cracking. Keep the flame in medium
• Add water (4 ½ Cup [1 ½ Cup water for 1 Cup rice] into it. Add salt to taste into the rice and stir well.
• Add lemon juice (squeezed from half portion of the lemon) into the water
• Once it starts boiling close the vessel with a lid and keep a weight on top of the vessel. Keep the flame medium.
• Open the lid after 5 min and mix it well. Cook for another 5 min and then switch of the stove.
• Add Bista (Fried onion), cashew nuts and raisin into the rice and mix it well
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• Take a cooker and add oil -1 ½ tablespoon into it. Add chopped onion (4 Medium size) into it. Add a little salt into it and sauté well until it become transparent
• Add ginger garlic & chilli paste prepared by using Garlic – 15 pods, Green Chilli- 4, Ginger 1 ½ Inch) and sauté well
• Add 1 ½ Table spoon Thalassery Biriyani masala
• Add a pinch turmeric powder and mix it again
• Add Tomato 2 medium size into the masala
• Add marinated chicken using 2 1/2 Teaspoon Pepper Powder and required salt into the cooker and mix well.
• Cook chicken for 1 whistle and then switch off the stove
• Add 1 ½ Tablespoon curd into chicken and mix it well
• Add Curry leaves, coriander leaves and mint leaves into the chicken. Switch off the stove
• Take a bamboo puttu making vessel. Fill rice first then chicken and on top of the chicken fill rice again and steam it for 5 to 7 min
• Tasty bamboo chicken Biriyani is ready to serve

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Minu

Full Jar Soda | Iftar Nombuthura Special Drinks

How to prepare Full Jar Soda | Iftar Nombuthura Special Drinks

Full Jar Soda | Iftar Nombuthura Special Drinks

Ingredients:-

• Green Chilli – 1
• Ginger – ½ Inch
• Lemon Juice – ½ Portion of a lime
• Sugar Syrup as needed
• Mint leaves as required
• Black Khus khus (Soaked in water) as needed
• Salt as needed
• Soda as needed

 

Preparation:-

• Grind Mint leaves, green chilli, and ginger by adding a little sugar syrup
• Take a big glass to pour soda and small glass for masala mix
• Pour mint mixture, lemon juice, sugar syrup, khus khus, salt to taste into the small glass and stir it well
• Pour soda into a big glass and then dip the small glass into it. Form will come out of the glass and make sure to drink along with the form

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Minu

Banana Kabab | Ethapazham Kabab | Iftar snacks

How to prepare Banana Kabab| Iftar Nombuthura Special Banana Kabab

Banana Kabab | Ethapazham Kabab | Iftar snacks

Ingredients:-

• Banana – 2
• All-purpose flour – ½ Cup
• Salt as required
• Turmeric Powder – A Pinch
• Cardamom Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Sugar – 3 Table spoon

Preparation:-

• Steam banana
• Take a bowl and smash steamed banana
• Add all-purpose flour into smashed banana and mix it well
• Add salt to salt, turmeric powder, cardamom powder and sugar into the bowl and mix it again
• Take small portion of a mixture and make a desired shape first and then coat it with bread crumbs.
• Heat oil in a pan and fry banana Kebab both sides until it become golden brown
• Tasty Banana Kebab is ready to serve

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Chicken Sukhiyan | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Modakam

How to prepare Chicken Sukhiyan | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Modakam

Chicken Sukhiyan | Iftar Nombuthura Special Chicken Modakam

Ingredients:-

• Chicken – 250 Gram
• Salt as needed
• Pepper Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Onion – 1 Medium size
• Ginger – ¼ Teaspoon
• Garlic – 5 Pods
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Chicken masala – ¼ Teaspoon
• Pepper Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Garam Masala – ¼ Teaspoon
• Coriander leaves as required
• All-purpose flour (Maida)- 1 Cup
• Water as required

 

Preparation:-

• Take Chicken in a bowl and add salt to taste and pepper power into it and mix it well
• Cook chicken in a cooker without adding water for two whistle
• Separate cooked meat from chicken bone
• Boil two potato in a cooker and smash it
• Heat oil in a pan and sauté chopped onion by adding little salt
• Add ginger, garlic and continue sautéing
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, chicken masala into the pan and continue sautéing
• Add chicken in to the masala and mix it well
• Add Pepper Powder and garam masala into the chicken and mix it again
• Transfer chicken masala into a flat vessel and add smashed potato, coriander leaves into the vessel and mix it well
• Take all-purpose flour in a bowl and add salt and required water to make a thick batter
• Take one ball at a time dip it into all-purpose flour batter and do deep fry
• Tasty Chicken Sukhiyan / Modakam is ready to serve

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Minu

Gothambu Podi Banana Sweet | Iftar Nombuthura Special Wheat flour banana Snack

How to prepare Gothambu Podi Banana Sweet| Iftar Nombuthura Special Wheat flour banana Snack?

Gothambu Podi Banana Sweet| Iftar Nombuthura Special Wheat flour banana Snack

Ingredients (Filling):-

• Banana (Nendran) – 1 Sliced
• Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
• Cardamom Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Sugar – 2 Tablespoon

Ingredients:-

• Wheat flour – 1 ½ Cup
• Salt as required
• Water as required

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and add sliced banana, grated coconut, cardamom powder, sugar into it and mix it well
• Take wheat flour in a bowl, add salt and mix it properly. Add water little by little and knead it well
• Now take one of the balls and place it on a flat surface dusted with wheat flour. Using a rolling pin, roll the ball to a circular shape
• Keep one sheet and fill banana mix, keep another on top of it and press all the sides
• Steam the sweet using a cooker for around 10 min
• Tasty Gothambu Banana sweet is ready to serve

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Minu

Chatti Pathiri | Iftar Nombuthura Special Athishaya Pathiri

How to prepare Chatti Pathiri| Iftar Nombuthura Special Athishaya Pathiri

Chatti Pathiri| Iftar Nombuthura Special Athishaya Pathiri

Ingredients for Chicken Preparation:-

• Chicken – 350 Gram
• Pepper – ½ Teaspoon
• Salt to taste

Ingredients for Chicken Masala Preparation:-

• Onion – 1 Big
• Green chilli – 2 sliced
• Ginger – 1 Inch
• Garlic – 10 Pods
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – 1 Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder - – 1 Teaspoon
• Pepper Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Garam Masala – ¼ Teaspoon
• Salt to taste

Ingredients for Dosa

• All-purpose flour – 1 ½ Cup
• Salt to taste
• Pepper powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Egg - 1

Ingredients for Egg batter

• Egg – 4
• Salt to taste
• Pepper Powder- ¼ Teaspoon

Preparation:-

• Take a cooker and cook chicken by adding salt and pepper powder
• Separate cooked meat from chicken bone
• Heat oil in a pan and sauté chopped onion green chilli, ginger, garlic by adding little salt
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, pepper powder into the pan and continue sautéing
• Add chicken in to the pan and mix it well
• Add garam masala and mix it again
• Take a bowl and mix all-purpose flour, salt to taste, pepper powder, egg and mix it well
• Pour required water and make dosa batter
• Heat a tawa and apply oil on top of it. Pour one big spoon batter over the tawa and spread it to make Dosa.
• Take a small bowl and mix 4 eggs, salt to taste and pepper powder
• Take a non-stick pan and keep it over Dosa Tawa. Apply ghee over the non-stick pan.
• Pour a little egg batter first, then keep a dosa on top of it and then again pour egg batter. Add chicken mixture over the batter and then keep dosa on top of it. Continue the same to make multiple layers
• After 10 to 12 min take another pan and flip the chatti pathiri and cook both side.
• Tasty Chatti Pathiri is ready to serve

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Cabbage Bonda | Iftar / Nombuthura Special Cabbage Bonda

How to prepare Cabbage Bonda | Iftar / Nombuthura Special Cabbage Bonda

Cabbage Bonda| Iftar Nombuthura Special Cabbage Bonda

Ingredients:-

• Cabbage – 2 Cup
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – 1 ½ Teaspoon
• Cumin seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Asafoetida - One Pinch
• Besan/Gram powder – ½ Cup
• Salt as required
• Curry leaves as required

 

Preparation:-

• Take cleaned cabbage in a bowl and add salt to taste, turmeric powder, chilli powder, few curry leaves, cumin seeds, and asafoetida and mix it well.
• Add besan/gram flour little by little and mix it well
• Heat require oil in a pan and add cabbage balls one by one and fry both sides until golden brown
• Tasty Cabbage bonda is ready to serve

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Minu