How to prepare Kadala Masala | Brown Chickpea Roast?

How to prepare Kadala Masala | Brown Chickpea Roast?

Kadala Masala | Brown Chickpea Roast?

Ingredients:-

• Brown Chickpea – ½ Cup Soaked
• Onion – 1 Medium size
• Ginger - 1 Inch crushed
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – 1 Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – 3 Teaspoon
• Tomato – 1 big size
• Chicken Masala – 1 Teaspoon
• Pepper Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Garam Masala – ¼ Teaspoon
• Raw coconut oil as needed
• Curry leaves as needed
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed

Preparation:-

• Take a cooker and cook brown chickpea
• Heat a pan and pour 1 to 2 tablespoon coconut oil.
• Sauté onion by adding a little salt
• Add crushed ginger and curry leaves and continue sautéing
• Add ½ Teaspoon Turmeric powder, 1 Teaspoon chilli powder, 2 Teaspoon coriander powder and sauté well
• Add sliced tomato and sauté
• Transfer cooked brown chickpea into the pan and mix it well
• Add 1 Teaspoon chicken Masala, 1 Teaspoon Coriander Powder, ½ Teaspoon pepper powder and sauté well
• Taste salt and add if required
• Add garam masala and curry leaves into the pan and continue sautéing
• Pour raw coconut oil and switch off the stove

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Ragi flour Vellayappam | Ragi Podi vellayappam

How to prepare Vellayappam using Ragi flour | Ragi Podi vellayappam?

Ragi Flour Vellayappam | Ragi Podi vellayappam

Ingredients:-

• Ragi Flour – 2 Cup
• Beaten Rice – 1 Cup
• Yeast – 1 Teaspoon
• Sugar – 2 Teaspoon
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and grind Ragi Flour, Beaten Rice, Yeast, Sugar by adding required 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 Ragi flour / arippodi Vellayappam is ready to serve

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Red Velvet Cake| Homemade Soft red velvet cake

How to prepare Red Velvet Cake| Homemade Soft red velvet cake

Red Velvet Cake| Homemade Soft red velvet cake

Ingredients:-

• Maida/All-purpose flour – 2 ½ Cup
• Sugar Powder – 1 ½ Cup
• Butter (Room Temperature) – 175 Gram
• Cocoa Powder – 1 Tablespoon
• Vanilla essence – 1 ½ Teaspoon
• Baking Powder - 1 ½ Teaspoon
• Baking Soda - ½ Teaspoon
• Butter milk – 1 Cup
• Egg - 2
• Oil - 1 Tablespoon
• Salt to taste
• Red food colour as needed

 

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and mix Maida/All-purpose flour Baking Powder, Baking Soda, Cocoa powder, Salt and sieve the mix multiple times
• Take another big bowl and add butter into it. Beat the butter till it become soft
• Add powdered sugar little by little and beat continuously
• Add Egg one by one into it and beat well 
• Add vanilla essence and vegetable oil in to the bowl and beat the mixture
• Add red colour according to the colour you would like to have
• Add Maida/All-purpose flour, cocoa powder mix and butter milk alternatively little by little and mix it well using cut and fold method
• Take a baking vessel and cover it with butter. Pour cake mixture till half of the vessel and tap it hard to remove the air bubbles
• Preheat the oven 180 degree for 10 min
• Keep the cake tin inside the over for 30 min at 180 Degree
• To make whipping cream, take 100 ml milk and mix 50 gram whipping cream powder and beat well for 3 to 4 min
• Take 100 gram cream cheese and add 1 table spoon powdered sugar and beat well at high speed for 3 min
• Take out the cake after 30 min and keep it aside for cooling
• Once it is cool down transfer the cake into a plate.
• Decorate the cake as you like using whipping cream and cream cheese frosting.

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Homemade Chicken Nuggets | KFC Mcdonald Style Chicken Nuggets

How to prepare Homemade Chicken Nuggets | KFC Mcdonald Style Chicken Nuggets

Homemade Chicken Nuggets | KFC Mcdonald Style Chicken Nuggets

Ingredients:-

• Born less chicken – 330 gram
• Garlic – 6 Pods
• Ginger – ¾ Inch
• Pepper Powder – 1 Teaspoon
• Soya Sauce – 1 Teaspoon
• Lemon Juice – ½ portion squeezed
• Corn Flour - As needed
• Beaten Egg - 2
• Bread Crumbs – As needed
• Salt to taste

Preparation:-

• Grind chicken by adding required salt, garlic, ginger, pepper powder, soya sauce and lemon juice.
• Transfer grinded chicken into a bowl and then mix corn flour to make it thick
• Cover the vessel and keep it in the fridge for 30 to 45 min
• After 30 min take out the chicken from the refrigerator and make nuggets shape and coat it with corn flour
• Dip cornflour coated chicken nuggets into beaten egg and then coat with bread crumbs
• Heat oil in a pan and fry chicken nuggets both sides until dark Brown
• Tasty Chicken Nuggets are ready to serve

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Peanut Butter | Homemade Peanut Butter

How to prepare Peanut Butter | Homemade Peanut Butter

Peanut Butter | Homemade Peanut Butter

Ingredients:-

• Peanut – 1 Cup
• Honey – 1 Tablespoon
• Salt to taste

Preparation:-

• Heat a pan and roast peanut
• Take a mixer jar and add roasted peanut, salt, Honey and grind it well
• Using a spoon keep the peanut in the middle and keep grinding until it become paste.
• Tasty peanut butter is ready to serve

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Ari Kadukka | Kallumakkaya Nirachathu

How to prepare Ari Kadukka | Kallumakkaya Nirachathu?

Ari Kadukka | Kallumakkaya Nirachathu

Ingredients:-

• Raw rice – 1 Cup (Soaked 2 hours in water)
• Grated Coconut – 1 Cup
• Fennel Seeds – 2 Teaspoon
• Onion – ½ Portion
• Mussels / Kallumakkaya - 15
• Turmeric Powder – 1 Tablespoon
• Chilli Powder – 4 Tablespoon
• Salt as required

 

Preparation:-

• First let’s clean mussels/Kallumakkaya.
• Take a mixer jar and grind, soaked raw rice, onion, grated coconut, salt, fennel seeds by adding a very little water.
• Transfer grinded batter into a vessel.
• Make a thick paste for the filling by adding rice flour
• Take each mussels and fill thick batter inside the shell and keep it aside
• Heat a steamer and place all the filled mussels on top of it and steam it for 20 min
• Open the lid and let it cool down. After that remove the mussels out of the shell
• Take a small bowl and mix turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt by adding little water
• Heat a pan and pour required oil.
• Dip the mussels one by one into the batter and fry it on both sides. Drain on paper towels.
• Tasty Ari Kadukka / Kallumakkaya nirachathu is ready to serve

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Vellayappam using Rice Flour | Arippodi Kondu Vellayappam

How to prepare Vellayappam using Rice Flour | Arippodi Kondu Vellayappam

Vellayappam using Rice Flour | Arippodi Kondu Vellayappam

Ingredients:-

• Rice flour -1 ½ Cup
• Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
• Beaten Rice - ½ Cup
• Yeast – ½ Teaspoon
• Sugar - 1 ½ Teaspoon
• Salt as needed
• Water as needed

 

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and grind Rice Flour, Beaten Rice, grated coconut, Yeast, sugar by adding required 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 rice flour / arippodi Vellayappam is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

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Thalassery Fish Dum Biriyani | Thalassery Special Meen Biriyani

How to prepare Thalassery Fish Dum Biriyani | Authentic Thalassery Special Meen Biriyani?

Thalassery Fish Dum Biriyani | Authentic Thalassery Special Meen Biriyani

Ingredients:-

• Jeera Rice – 3 Cup
• Seer fish/Ayakkoora – 500 Gram
• Onion – 5 finely chopped
• Tomato – 2
• Green chilli (3), Ginger(15), Garlic (2 Inch) crushed
• Turmeric Power – 1 ½ Teaspoon
• Chilli powder – 1 ½ Tablespoon
• Coriander Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Pepper Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Thalassery Biriyani Masala – 1 Teaspoon
• Cardamom - 4
• Cloves - 5
• Cinnamon – small piece
• Mace – 1 strand
• Fennel Seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Lemon Juice – 1
• Coriander and Mint leaves as needed
• Salt as needed
• Ghee as needed
• Cashew nuts & raisins as needed

 

Preparation:-

• Marinate the fish by adding salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder and a little lemon juice.
• Keep one big vessel to prepare the biriyani in a stove and add 1 Tbsp oil and 2 Tbsp ghee
• Add rice into the vessel and stir well until the rice starts breaking.
• 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
• Once the water start boiling add spices and lemon juice
• Once it starts boiling close the vessel with a lid and keep a weight on top of the vessel.
• After 5 min switch off the stove and keep it aside.
• Heat a pan and pour oil into it.
• Transfer fish into the pan and fry on both sides
• Heat oil in a pan and add finely chopped onion and sauté well by adding a little salt
• Add ginger, garlic and green chilli paste into the pan and continue sautéing
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and sauté  
• Add tomato into the onion and sauté
• Add pepper powder into the pan and mix it well
• Add Thalassery special biriyani masala and sauté  
• Add turmeric water, fried cashew nuts and raisins
• Add coriander and mint leaves and also sprinkle thalassery biriyani masala
• Repeat the layering
• Add bista (fried onion) on top of the rice
• Heat a dosa pan, place the cooker on top of the pan, and close the cooker with whistle.  Keep the flame low for 10 min.  Once the cooker lid become warm switch off the stove
• Open the cooker once the cooker lid become warm
• Thalassery Special Fish Biriyani is ready to serve!!!

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Thiruvathira Special Kappa Puzhukku | Kappa Pachakkaya Puzhukku

How to prepare Thiruvathira Special puzhukku | Kappa Pachakkaya puzhukku

Thiruvathira Special Kappa Puzhukku | Kappa Pachakkaya Puzhukku

Ingredients

• Tapioca – 1 kg
• Raw Plantain – 1
• Green Gram (Soaked) – 150 gram
• Grated Coconut – 1 cup
• Shallot (Small Onion) – 8 Pods
• Garlic – 3 Pods
• Green Chilli – 1
• Turmeric Powder– 1 Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – 1 Tablespoon
• Salt as needed
• Mustard – 1 Teaspoon
• Curry Leaves as needed
• Dry Red chilli – 2
• Oil as needed

 

Preparation:-

• Cook tapioca by adding required water in a cooker
• Take another cooker and cook green gram and raw plantain. Add required salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder and water.
• Take a mixer jar and crush grated coconut, shallot, garlic, green chilli
• Smash few tapioca and then add cooked green gram and raw plantain into the cooker and mix it well
• Add crushed coconut and mix it well. Add required water.
• Add curry leaves and allow it to boil
• Switch off the stove once it reaches the required consistency.
• Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds and then add dry red chilli and sauté.
• Transfer the spluttered mustard into the tapioca puzhukku.
• Tasty Tapioca, green gram, raw plantain puzhukku is ready to serve.

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Kerala Special Masala Egg Fry | Masala Mutta Fry

How to prepare Special Masala Egg Fry | Masala Mutta fry

Special Masala Egg Fry | Masala Mutta fry

Ingredients:-

• Boiled Eggs -2
• Shallot/Small Onion –6
• Ginger- ½ Inch
• Garlic -4 Pods
• Dry Red Chilli -2
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – 1 Teaspoon
• Pepper Powder -¼ Teaspoon
• Vinegar -1 Teaspoon
• Sugar -¼ Teaspoon
• Coriander leaves as needed
• Curry leaves as needed
• Salt as needed
• Oil as needed

 

Preparation:-

• Hard boil and slice the eggs
• Grind shallot, ginger, garlic, coriander leaves, salt, turmeric, coriander powder pepper powder and vinegar
• Heat oil in a pan
• Add curry leaves into it
• Add ground paste into the pan and stir well by keeping the flame low
• Add sugar after sometimes and stir well
• Switch off the stove
• Add egg and Coat it with the masala
• Tasty masala egg fry is ready to serve

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Kerala Special Omelette | Special Omelette Muffin | Egg Muffin

How to prepare Kerala Special Omelette | Special Omelette Muffin | Egg Muffin

Kerala Special Omelette | Special Omelette Muffin | Egg Muffin

Ingredients:-

• Egg – 4
• Onion -Small sliced
• Carrot Grated - Small
• Coconut Grates – ¼ Cup
• Coriander Leaves as required
• Pepper Powder – ½ to ¾ Teaspoon
• Salt as required

 

Preparation:-

• Take eggs into a bowl and then add salt, pepper powder and mix it well
• Add onion, carrot, coconut, coriander leaves into the egg and mix it well
• Heat 9 or 12 cavity appam making vessel, apply oil and pour egg mix into each cavity
• Flip it over to cook the other side
• Tasty egg omelette muffin is ready to serve

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Pori Uppumavu | Puffed Rice Upma

How to prepare Pori Uppumavu | Puffed Rice Upma

Pori Uppumavu | Puffed Rice Upma

Ingredients:-

• Puffed Rice/Pori– 200 to 250 Gram
• Onion – 1 Big sliced
• Roasted Gram/Pottukadala – 2 Tablespoon
• Grated Coconut – ¼ Cup
• Green chilli – 1 sliced
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Mustard seed – ¼ Teaspoon
• Urad dal – ¼ Teaspoon
• Curry leaves as needed
• Ghee as needed
• Salt as needed

Preparation:-

• Take a big vessel with enough water to soak puffed rice and then squeeze off the water
• Heat ghee in a pan and splutter mustard. Add Urad and dal and fry it until golden brown
• Add onion into the pan and sauté well by adding salt
• Add turmeric powder, green chilli, curry leaves and continue sautéing
• Transfer puffed rice little by little into the pan and mix it well
• Add powdered roasted gram/Pottukadala into the upma and mix it well
• Add grated coconut into the upma and mix
• Add ghee on top of the upma and close the pan using a lid. Keep it for 1 to 2 min at law flame
• Switch off the stove and then open the lid and mix it well
• Puffed rice upma is ready to serve

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Chutta Thenga Chammanthiyum Madhura Kizhangum | Burnt coconut chutney and Sweet Potato

How to prepare Chuttidicha thenga Chammanthiyum madhura kizhangum | Burnt coconut chutney and Sweet Potato

Chutta Thenga Chammanthiyum Madhura Kizhangum | Burnt coconut chutney and Sweet Potato

Ingredients:-

• Coconut cut pieces– ½ Cup
• Dried red chilli – 15
• Shallot – 4
• Chili Powder – 3 Teaspoon
• Tamarind – Small piece
• Curry leaves - 5
• Coconut oil – 3 to 4 Tablespoon
• Salt as needed
• Sweet Potato as required

Preparation:-

• Take a cooker, add sweet potato and pour required water and cook well
• Take a pan and add coconut pieces and fry
• Add dried red chilli and fry
• Add shallot into the pan and fry
• Take a mixer jar and crush the fried coconut, dried chilli and shallot
• Add salt, chilli powder, curry leaves, tamarind, tamarind, 2 teaspoon coconut oil and crush it again
• Transfer the crushed chutney into a vessel and add balance coconut oil into it and mix it well

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Instant Oats Dosa | Weight loss Recipe with Oats

How to prepare Instant Oats Dosa | Weight loss Recipe with Oats

Instant Oats Dosa | Weight loss Recipe with Oats

Ingredients:-

• Oats – ¾ Cup
• Rice flour – ½ Cup
• Wheat flour - ¼ Cup
• Onion – 1 Sliced
• Green chilli – 1 big sliced
• Cumin seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Salt as needed
• Water  - 3 Cup

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and add oats, rice flour, wheat flour, 2 cup water and grind it well
• Transfer the grinded flour into a vessel
• Add required salt, onion, green chilli, cumin seeds into the batter and mix it well. Add 1 more cup water to have the required consistency.
• Heat a tawa and apply oil on top of it. Pour one big spoon batter over the tawa and spread it to make Dosa.
• Tasty Oats Dosa is ready to serve

 

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Kerala Special Nilakkadala Chammanthi | Peanut Chutney | Kappalandi Chammanthi

How to prepare Kerala Special Nilakkadala Chammanthi | Peanut Chutney

Kerala Special Nilakkadala Chammanthi | Peanut Chutney

Ingredients:-

• Peanut – 100 Gram
• Grated coconut – ¼ Cup
• Tamarind -1 Table spoon soaked in ¼ Cup water
• Shallot - 5
• Green chilli – 1 big
• Coriander leaves and Curry leaves as required
• Salt as needed

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and add peanut, grated coconut, shallot, green chilli, coriander and curry leaves, salt as required, tamarind water and grind it well
• Tasty peanut chutney is ready to serve

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Kerala Special Kappa Puttu | Tapioca Steam Cake

How to prepare Kerala Special Kappa Puttu | Tapioca Steam cake

Kerala Special Kappa Puttu | Tapioca Steam cake

Ingredients:-

• Tapioca – 3 Medium size
• Grated Coconut as needed
• Salt as needed
• Water as required

Preparation:-

• Grate tapioca using a grater
• Soak the grated tapioca into the water and drain the water completely. Rinse the tapioca multiple times in a stream of water at least 2 to 3 times
• Add salt over the tapioca and mix it well
• Take a puttu making vessel and fill coconut and grated tapioca alternatively
• Keep it over the cooker for steaming
• Tasty Tapioca Puttu is ready to serve
• Transfer the puttu into a plate, soft tapioca puttu is ready to serve

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Chana Masala | Chickpea Masala for Chappathi and Porotta

How to prepare Chana Masala | Chickpea Masala for Chappathi and Porotta

Chana Masala | Chickpea Masala for Chappathi and Porotta

 Ingredients:-

• Chickpea – 1 Cup
• Onion – 3 Medium
• Tomato – 1 Big
• Green chilli – 1 Big
• Ginger – 1 Gooseberry size
• Garlic – 6 pods
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – 1 Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – 2 Teaspoon
• Garam Masala – ¼ Teaspoon
• Cardamom -2
• Cloves - 3
• Cinnamon stick small
• Coriander leaves as needed
• Salt as needed

 

Preparation:-

• Take a cooker and add chickpea, salt as needed, turmeric power and required water into it and cook well for 3 to 4 whistle
• Grind onion, tomato and ginger, garlic and green chilli separately
• Take out 2 to 3 table spoon chickpea in a bowl to grind it well
• Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan and add cardamom, cloves and cinnamon stick into it
• Transfer grinded onion into the pan and sauté well
• Add crushed ginger-garlic-green chilli mixture and continue sautéing
• Add salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder and coriander powder into the pan and sauté
• Transfer grinded tomato and sauté
• Add cooked Chickpea into the pan and mix it well
• Add required water and boil until it become thick.  Make sure to close the pan using a lid
• Transfer grinded Chickpea into the pan and mix it well
• Add garam masala and coriander leaves into the curry and then switch off the stove.
• Tasty Chana masala is ready to serve

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