Tuesday, 9 July 2019

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


Cheers!!!

Minu

Sunday, 30 June 2019

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


Cheers!!!
Minu


Tuesday, 25 June 2019

Cheera Sambar | Red Spinach Sambar

How to prepare Cheera Sambar | Red Spinach Sambar


Cheera Sambar | Red Spinach Sambar



Ingredients:-
  • Toor dhal – ½ Cup Soaked
  • Red spinach – 2 Cup
  • Green chilli – 1
  • Tomato – 1 Medium Size
  • Turmeric Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
  • Chilli powder – 2 Teaspoon
  • Coriander Powder – 2 Teaspoon
  • Sambar powder – 2 Teaspoon
  • Tamarind water – 1 gooseberry size squeezed
  • Asafoetida – A Pinch
  • Fenugreek powder – A Pinch
  • Jaggery a small piece
  • Ghee – ½ Teaspoon
  • Onion – ¼ portion of a medium size
  • Dried red chilli - 2
  • Salt as required
  • Water as required
  • Curry leaves as required

 

Preparation:-
  • Cook toor dal in a cooker by adding required water
  • Take a mud pot and add cooked dal, red spinach, green chilli, tomato, salt to taste, turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, sambar powder, curry leaves and mix it well
  • Add required water and cook well by closing the mud pot
  • Pour tamarind water into the pot
  • Add asafoetida powder, fenugreek powder into the sambar and allow it to boil
  • Add a small piece of jaggery and a ghee into it and then switch off the stove
  • Heat a pan and pour required oil. Splutter the mustard seeds and then add onion, dried red chilli and curry leaves and sauté well. Transfer the spluttered mustard into the sambar.
  • Tasty cheera sambar  is ready to serve


Cheers!!!
Minu

Thursday, 20 June 2019

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


Cheers!!!
Minu

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