Monday, 17 June 2019

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

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Vanpayar Ularthiyathu | Vanpayar Thoran

How to prepare Vanpayar Ularthiyathu | Vanpayar Thoran


Vanpayar Ularthiyathu | Vanpayar Thoran



Ingredients:-
  • Vanpayar /Cowpea – 1 Cup (Soaked)
  • Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Chilli Powder – 1 Teaspoon
  • Grated coconut – ½ Cup
  • Salt as required
  • Water as required
  • Curry leaves as required
  • Raw coconut oil as required


Preparation:-
  • Take a cooker and add Vanpayar /Cowpea, salt as required, turmeric powder, chilli powder and cook well
  • Add grated coconut and mix it well
  • Add raw coconut oil and curry leaves and mix it again
  • Tasty Vanpayar /Cowpea ularthiyathu is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Monday, 10 June 2019

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



Cheers!!!
Minu

Thursday, 6 June 2019

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


Cheers!!!
Minu 

Wednesday, 5 June 2019

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
  •  
  • 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


Cheers!!!
Minu


Sunday, 2 June 2019

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


Cheers!!!
Minu

Saturday, 1 June 2019

Traditional Paal Vazhakka | Iftar Nombuthura Special Paal Vazhakka

How to prepare Traditional Paal Vazhakka | Iftar Nombuthura Special Paal Vazhakka


Traditional Paal Vazhakka| Iftar Nombuthura Special Paal Vazhakka



Ingredients:-
  • Milk – 500 ml
  • Banana – 2
  • Sago Rice – ½ Cup
  • Sugar – 1/3 Cup
  • Cardamom Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Salt a pinch
  • Ghee as required
  • Cashew nut and Raisins as required

 

Preparation:-
  • Take a pan a boil milk
  • Add Sago rice into the milk and cook well
  • Add cut banana and sugar into the milk and cook well
  • Add cardamom powder and salt into the pan and mix it well and then switch off the stove
  • Take a pan and heat 1 to 1 ½ table spoon ghee. Fry cashew nuts and raisins.
  • Transfer cashew and raisins into the Aval Paal Vaazhakka
  • Tasty authentic paal vazhakka is ready to serve



Cheers!!!
Minu


Thursday, 30 May 2019

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


Cheers!!!
Minu

Monday, 27 May 2019

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


Cheers!!!

Minu

Thursday, 23 May 2019

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


Cheers!!!
Minu