Vendakka Pulincurry | Vendakka Mulakitta Curry | Lady's Finger Curry

How to prepare Vendakka Pulincurry | Vendakka Mulakitta Curry

Vendakka Pulincurry | Vendakka Mulakitta Curry

Ingredients:-

• Lady's finger/Okra - 10
• Mustard seeds - ½ Teaspoon
• Dried red chilli – 2
• Shallot/Small onion – 20 to 25 pods
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – 2 Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – 2 Teaspoon
• Green chilli – 2
• Tomato – 1 Medium size
• Tamarind water – gooseberry size squeezed
• Fenugreek – less than ¼ teaspoon
• Asafoetida Powder  - A Pinch
• Salt as required
• Water as required
• Curry leaves as required

Preparation:-

• Take a pan and splutter mustard seeds. Add dried red chilli and sauté well
• Add shallot into the pan and continue sautéing
• Add ladies finger into the pan along with salt and sauté again
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and coriander powder and mix it well
• Add green chilli and mix it again
• Add tomato and curry leaves into the pan and sauté
• Pour tamarind water and water required for gravi into the pan and allow it to boil by closing the pan
• Add fenugreek powder and Asafoetida and mix it well
• Tasty Vendakka Pulincurry  is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Vazhuthananga Mezhukkupuratti | Brinjal Stir Fry

How to prepare Vazhuthananga Mezhukkupuratti | Brinjal Stir Fry

Vazhuthananga Mezhukkupuratti | Brinjal Stir Fry

Ingredients:-

• Brinjal – 2 Big
• Onion- 1 medium
• Green Chilli – 2
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Curry leaves as required
• Salt as required
• Water as required

Preparation:-

• Heat oil in a pan, add onion, brinjal, green chilli, turmeric powder, salt as required, curry leaves into the pan and sauté well  
• Add required water and cook the vegetables by closing the vessel using a lid
• Switch off the stove and mix it well to make it dry
• Tasty Brinjal stir Fry / Vazhuthananga Mezhukkupuratti is ready to serve

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Manga Chertha Mathi Curry | Sardine Curry with Mango

How to prepare Manga Chertha Mathi Curry | Sardine Curry with Mango?

Manga Chertha Mathi Curry | Sardine Curry with Mango?

Ingredients:-

• Sardine – 250 Gram
• Raw mango – ½ portion of a big mango
• Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
• Chilli Powder- 2 Teaspoon
• Turmeric Powder- ½ Teaspoon
• Shallot – 20 Pods sliced
• Ginger – 1 Inch sliced
• Garlic – 6 to 7 pods
• Cumin seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Mustard seeds – ½ Teaspoon
• Fenugreek seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Salt as required
• Curry leaves as required
• Oil as required
• Water as required

Preparation:-

• Grind Coconut, chili powder, turmeric powder by adding required water and make fine paste
• Heat coconut in a clay pot and splutter mustard seeds and then add Fenugreek seeds.
• Add shallot, ginger, garlic into the clay pot and sauté well
• Transfer coconut paste, salt to taste, required water and allow it to boil
• Transfer cleaned sardine into the pot along with few curry leaves and cook well
• Tasty mathi Curry is ready to serve

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Minu

Payaru kanji | Cherupayar kanji

How to prepare Payaru kanji | Cherupayar kanji?

Payaru kanji | Cherupayar kanji

Ingredients:-

• Rice – ¾ cup
• Green gram – ½ Cup
• Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
• Shallot – 2 Pods
• Cumin seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Salt as required
• Water as required

Preparation:-

• Add rice, green gram, salt and required water in a cooker and cook well
• Crush Coconut, shallot, cumin seeds using a mixer
• Add crushed coconut, shallot mixture and pour required water and boil
• Add salt if required
• Once it start boiling switch off the stove
• Tasty Payaru Kanji is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Vendakka Pachadi | Lady’s Finger Pachadi | Okra Pachadi

How to prepare Vendakka Pachadi | Lady’s Finger Pachadi | Okra Pachadi

Vendakka Pachadi | Lady’s Finger Pachadi | Okra Pachadi

Ingredients:-

• Lady’s Finger – 150 Gram
• Curd- 250 ml
• Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
• Green Chilli – 2 Sliced
• Mustard Seeds – 1 Teaspoon
• Dried Red Chilli – 2
• Curry Leaves as required
• Salt as needed
• Oil as needed

 

Preparation:-

• Heat required oil in a pan and fry Lady’s finger
• Take a mixer jar and half grind grated coconut, half portion of green chilli, curd
• Add half portion mustard seeds and grind again
• Add green chilli and curry leaves into the pan and sauté well
• Transfer the fried Lady’s finger into an another bowl and then pour ground coconut mixture and mix it well
• Taste the salt and add if required and mix it well
• 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 Pachadi
• Vendakka Pachadi is ready to serve with Sadya or meals

Cheers!!!

Minu

Beetroot Rice | Kids Lunch Box Menu

How to prepare Beetroot Rice | Kids Lunch Box Menu?

Beetroot Rice | Kids Lunch Box Menu

Ingredients:-

• Basmati Rice – 2 Cup
• Beetroot Grated – 1 Cup
• Garlic sliced – 1 Tablespoon
• Ginger Crushed - 1 Tablespoon
• Cloves - 2
• Cinnamon – Small Piece
• Cardamom - 2
• Cumin Seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Lemon Juice – 1 Tablespoon
• Green Chilli - 1
• Curry leaves and coriander leaves as needed
• Ghee - 1 Tablespoon
• Salt as needed

 

Preparation:-

• Heat a cooker and pour ghee into it. Add cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, Cumin seeds into it and sauté well
• Add garlic, ginger and continue sautéing
• Add beetroot, green chilli and a little curry leaves into the cooker and sauté
• Add salt to taste, turmeric powder and sauté well
• Add rice into the cooker and mix it well
• Pour 4 glasses of water (1:2) and keep the flame high until it starts boiling
• Pour lemon juice and allow it to boil.
• Keep the flame high for one whistle and then keep the flame between sim to medium until second whistle and then switch off the stove
• Tasty beetroot rice is ready to serve

 

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Minu

Padavalam Parippu Thoran | Snake Gourd Dhal Stir Fry

How to prepare Padavalam Parippu Thoran | Snake Gourd Dhal Stir Fry

Padavalam Parippu Thoran | Snake Gourd Dhal Stir Fry

Ingredients:-

• Toor Dhal – ¼ Cup soaked for 2 hours
• Snake gourd (Padavalam) – 1 Medium size cut into small pieces
• Grated Coconut – 4 Tablespoon
• Small Onion/Shallot – 2 Pods
• Green chilli – 2
• Garlic – 2 Pods
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Mustard Seeds – ½ Teaspoon
• Curry leaves as needed
• Oil as needed
• Salt to taste

Preparation:-

• Take a cooker and add soaked dhal, snake gourd and required water and cook well
• Crush grated coconut, Small onion, garlic, green chilli
• Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds and then add curry leaves.
• Transfer cooked Dhal and Snake Gourd, salt as required, turmeric powder, crushed coconut and mix it well
• Close the pan and cook for 2 min
• Mix it well and switch off the stove
• Tasty Padavalam parippu thoran is ready to serve

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Minu

Pacha Thenga Aracha Mini Sambar | Carrot Ladies finger Sambar

How to prepare Pacha Thenga Aracha Mini Sambar | Carrot Ladies finger Sambar

Pacha Thenga Aracha Mini Sambar | Carrot Ladies finger Sambar

Ingredients:-

• Dhal – ¼ Cup Soaked
• Carrot – 1 medium sliced
• Onion – 1 Small sliced
• Tomato – 1 Medium sliced
• Ladies finger - 5
• Ginger – 1 Inch
• Garlic – 2 Pods
• Green chilli – 1
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Chilli Powder – 1 Teaspoon
• Coriander Powder – 2 ½ Teaspoon
• Grated coconut – ½ Cup
• Cumin seeds – ¼ Teaspoon
• Turmeric Water – lemon size squeezed
• Asafoetida - ¼ Teaspoon
• Sambar Powder – 1 ¼ Tablespoon
• Mustard seeds – ½ Teaspoon
• Fenugreek – ¼ Teaspoon
• Shallot- 3 sliced
• Dried red chilli – 2
• Water as needed
• Curry leaves as needed
• Salt as needed

Preparation:-

• Take a cooker and add soaked dhal, carrot, onion, tomato, ginger, garlic, green chilli, required salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, required water and cook well
• Heat a pan with a little oil and sauté ladies finger
• Grind ½ cup grated coconut, ¼ Teaspoon cumin seeds by adding required water
• Add sautéed ladies finger, squeezed turmeric water, asafoetida, sambar powder and all it to boil
• Add curry leaves and then transfer the ground coconut paste into the curry and mix it well
• Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds and then add fenugreek, shallot, dried red chilli and sauté well
• Transfer the spluttered mustard into the curry

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Kerala Special Egg Stew | Mutta Stew

How to prepare Kerala Special Egg Stew| Mutta Stew

Kerala Special Egg Stew| Mutta Stew

Ingredients:-

• Boiled egg – 3 sliced
• Potato – 1 Big sliced
• Carrot -1 Medium sliced
• Onion – 1 Sliced
• Ginger Crushed – ½ Teaspoon
• Green chilli - 2
• Pepper powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Garam masala - ¼ Teaspoon
• First Coconut milk extract – 1/3 Cup
• Second Coconut milk extract – ¾ Cup
• Curry leaves
• Salt as needed
• Coconut Oil as needed

Preparation:-

• Take a cooker, add potato, carrot, onion, green chilli, ginger, salt, required water and then cook it well
• Smash few potatoes
• Pour second coconut milk extract and boil
• Transfer boiled and sliced egg into the curry
• Add pepper powder, garam masala and curry leaves into it and allow it to boil
• Pour first coconut milk extract and then switch off the stove
• Finally add raw coconut oil and mix it well
• Tasty egg stew is ready to serve

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Koorka Mezhukkupuratti | Chinese Potato Stir Fry

How to prepare Koorka Mezhukkupuratti | Chinese Potato Stir Fry

Koorka Mezhukkupuratti | Chinese Potato Stir Fry

Ingredients:-

• Chinese Potato (Koorka) – 300 Gram
• Shallot (Small Onion) – 75 Gram
• Garlic – 6 Pods
• Dried Red Chilli Powder – 1 Tablespoon
• Turmeric Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Curry leaves as needed
• Salt as needed
• Coconut Oil as needed

Preparation:-

• Let’s clean Chinese potato first.
• Take Chinese potato/koorka into a cloth bag and by using your hand press and roll it
• Crush both shallot and garlic
• Take a cooker and add, Chinese potato/Koorka, crushed shallot/small onion, garlic, curry leaves, salt as needed, turmeric powder, dried red chilli powder and mix it well
• Pour required water to cook Chinese potato/Koorka
• Allow it to evaporate complete water content
• Switch off the stove and add raw coconut oil and mix it well
• Tasty Chinese potato /Koorka mezhukkupuratti is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

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!!!

Cheers!!!

Minu

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.

Cheers!!!

Minu

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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Minu

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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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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Minu

Flattened Rice with Curd and Fruits | Weight loss recipe with beaten rice and Yogurt

Flattened Rice with Curd and Fruits | Weight loss recipe with Beaten rice and Yogurt

Flattened Rice  - Weight loss recipe | Beaten rice with curd for weight loss

Ingredients:-

• Beaten rice – 2 Cup
• Curd – 1 Cup
• Honey – 4 Table Spoon
• Apple – ½ Apple sliced
• Banana – 2 small sliced
• Pomegranate- ¼ Cup

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and add beaten rice first. Add curd into the rice and mix it well
• Add pomegranate, apple, banana, honey and mix it again.
• Tasty beaten rice, curd and fruit salad is ready to serve.

Cheers!!!

Minu