Monday 8 January 2018

Pineapple Banana Smoothie /Easy And Healthy Smoothie



Pineapple Banana Smoothie /Easy And Healthy Smoothie :


Ingredients:-
Pineapple sliced – 1 Cup
Banana - 1
Curd – ½ Cup
Milk -1 Cup
Cashew Nuts - 8
Cardamom - 2
Ice Cubes - 6
Honey – 4 Tbsp


Preparation:-

    • Take a mixer and blend the pineapple, Banana, Cashew, Cardamom, Curd, Honey, Milk, and Ice Cubes
    • Pour the juice into a serving glass

    Cheers!!!

    Minu

    Sunday 7 January 2018

    Varuthu Aracha Chemmeen/Prawns Curry



    Varuthu Aracha Chemmeen/Prawns Curry


    Ingredients:-
    • Prawns – 250 gm
    • Small Onion/Shallot - 8
    • Ginger – ½ Tsp
    • Garlic – 8 Pods
    • Green Chilli - 1
    • Curry leaves – as required
    • Tomato – 1 Medium
    • Turmeric Powder – 1 Tsp
    • Chilli Powder – 1 Tbsp
    • Salt as required
    • Coriander Powder – 1 Tbsp
    • Tamarind Water – ½ Cup

     Ingredients for frying coconut:-
    • Coconut – ½ Cup
    • Small Onion/Shallot - 2
    • Garlic – 3 pods
    • Curry Leaves as required
    • Pepper – ½ Tsp


     Preparation:-
    • Cut and clean the Prawns and take that into a clay pot.
    • Add Salt, Turmeric powder, Chilli Powder, Coriander Powder and mix well and Keep it aside for 5 min
    • After 5 Min, add Garlic, Ginger, Small Onion/Shallot, Green chilli, Tomato and tamarind water into the marinated prawns and mix well. Keep it aside for another 5 min
    • To fry the coconut, take a pan, add a little coconut oil and grated coconut into it and stir well
    • Once coconut become hot add Small Onion/Shallot, Garlic, Pepper and curry leaves into it and stir continuously until coconut colour changes to brown.
    • Transfer the fried coconut mixture into a mixer and grind the mixture by adding ½ cup water and keep it aside.
    • Add ¼ cup water into it and cook the prawns. Once it start boiling keep the flame low
    • Pour the blended coconut into the Prawns and mix well
    • Add Curry leaves and also add water if you require more curry
    • Switch off the stove once it reaches the required consistency
    • Take a pan and add a little oil and splutter the mustard seeds
    • Add small Onion/Shallot and curry leaves and sauté well until it become brown color
    • Transfer the mustard and onion mixture into the prawns curry
    • Serve it hot with rice, Chapati, Appam!!


    Cheers!!!

    Minu

    Friday 5 January 2018

    Kappa Vazha Pindi Puzhukku / Kerala Style Naadan Puzhukku




    Kappa Vazha Pindi Puzhukku / Kerala Style Naadan Puzhukku



    Ingredients:-

    Please refer preparations for ingredients.


    Preparation:-
    • Take Tapioca - 300 gm and Banana stem - 2 cup
    • Cut and clean both Banana stem and Tapioca
    • After cutting the Banana stem put it into the water mixed with 1 Tbsp curd to avoid the colour change
    • Cut Tapioca into small pieces
    • Take a cooker and add Tapioca/Kappa into it, add water to boil the tapioca/Kappa. Drain the water once it is boiled
    • Put Banana stem/Vazha pindi into the cooker
    • Add salt - as required, turmeric powder - ¾ Tsp, Chilli Powder - ½ Tsp, Water - 1 Cup and cook
    • Take a jar and crush grated coconut – ¾ Cup along with small onion/Shallot – 6, garlic – 3 pods, bird’s eye chilli – 5 and curry leaves
    • Smash few Tapioca/Kappa
    • Add crushed coconut mix into the cooked Tapioca/Kappa and mix well
    • Add a little water and stir well to have thick gravy
    • Add curry leaves into it
    • Switch off the stove and add coconut oil
    • Serve it hot with rice, Chapati!


    Cheers!!!

    Minu

    Tuesday 2 January 2018

    Kerala Style Chicken Dum Biriyani


    Kerala Style Chicken Dum Biriyani



    Ingredients for Chicken Marination:-
    Chicken – 500 gm
    Salt – as required
    Turmeric Powder – ½ Tsp
    Chilli Powder – ½ Tsp
    Coriander powder – 1 Tsp
    Pepper Powder – ½ Tsp
    Ingredients for preparing Biriyani Rice:-

    Biriyani Rice – 2 Cup/Glass (Around 230 ml)
    Oil – 1 Tsp
    Ghee – 1 Tsp
    Cloves - 8
    Star Anise - 1
    Cinnamon – one Stick
    Cardamom - 5
    Dry pepper - 10
    Fennel Seeds – ¼ Tsp
    Water – 3 ½ Cup (1 ½ Cup water for 1 Cup rice and ½ cup extra)


    Preparation:-
    • Cut and clean the Chicken and take that into a vessel for marination
    • Add Salt, Turmeric powder, Chilli powder, Coriander powder, Pepper powder and mix well and keep it aside for some time
    • Take 2 cup (230 ml) biriyani rice and wash it well, make sure to drain the rice well
    • 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 3 ½ cup water into the rice. Keep the flame high
    • Add salt into it
    • Add lemon juice (squeezed from half portion of the lemon) into the water
    • Add 1/2 Tsp ghee into the water
    • Once it starts boil closed with a lid and place a weight on the top of the vessel
    • Keep the flame into high for 1 to 1 ½ min
    • After one min reduce the flame to medium for 5 min
    • Open the lid, reduce the flame to low and mix the rice well
    • Again close the lid, place a weight and keep the flame into, medium for one min
    • After one min switch off the stove and keep the vessel aside
    • Take a cooker and add oil -1 ½ tbsp into it. Add cut onion (5 Medium size) into it. Add a little salt into it and stir well until it become transparent
    • Add 4 ½ Tsp ginger garlic paste prepared by using Garlic – 20 pods, Green Chilli- 4, Ginger medium size) and sauté well
    • Add Turmeric powder - ½ Tsp, Chilli powder - ¼ Tsp, Coriander powder - 1 ½ Tsp, Pepper powder - ¼ Tsp, Chicken masala – ½ Tsp and sauté well
    • Add Tomato 3 medium size into the mixture
    • Add marinated chicken into the cooker and mix well. Add 2 Tbsp water and close the lid. Cook the chicken for 1 whistle and then switch off the stove
    •  Heat a pan and add ghee into it. Fry cashew nuts and raisins and keep it aside
    • Open the cooker and check whether the chicken is cooked.
    • Switch on the stove and cook till the gravy become thicken
    • Add garam masala and coriander leaves into the chicken. Switch off the stove
    • Keep 3 or 4 pieces and gravy into the cooker and transfer remaining chicken pieces into another vessel
    • Mix the cooked biriyani rice from the vessel

    Layering:-
    ·         Add cooked biriyani rice on the top of chicken gravy and pieces
    ·         Add a little turmeric into milk and sprinkle that turmeric milk into the rice
    ·         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 into medium for 10 min
    • Biriyani is ready to serve
    Cheers!!!
    Minu

    Saturday 30 December 2017

    Ayala Mulakittathu / Malabar fish (Ayala) Curry




    Ayala Mulakittathu / Malabar fish (Ayala) Curry


    Ingredients:-

    Mackerel/Ayala - 250 gm
    Tomato – 1
    Small Onion/Shallot – 2
    Green Chilli -1
    Garlic – 6 Pods
    Ginger – 1 Tsp
    Turmeric Powder – 1 Tsp
    Chilli Powder – 2 ½ Tsp
    Salt - As Required
    Curry Leaves – As required
    Coconut Oil – as required
    Tamarind water – ½ Cup


    Preparation:-

    • Cut and clean the fish and take that into a clay pot
    • Add Salt, Turmeric powder, Chilli Powder and mix well
    • Pour tamarind water into the fish and mix well and keep it aside for 10 min
    • Add Tomato, Green chilli, Small Onion/Shallot, Garlic, Ginger into the marinated fish and mix well
    • Pour ½ cup water into the fish and boil. Keep the flame high until it start boiling.  Once it starts boiling close the lid and then keep it in medium flame
    • Add curry leaves and raw coconut oil into the curry and switch off the stove
    • Serve it with rice, Chapati or paratta

    Cheers!!!
    Minu



    Friday 29 December 2017

    Chilli Coconut Roasted Chicken / Naadan Kerala style Mulakitta Kozhi fry




    Chilli Coconut Roasted Chicken / Naadan Kerala style Mulakitta Kozhi fry



    Ingredients:-

    Chicken - 250 gm
    Chilli Powder - 2 Tsp
    Salt - As Required
    Coconut Pieces – ¼ Cup
    Curry Leaves
    Coconut Oil - 2 Tsp


    Preparation:-

    • Take chicken into a bowl and add salt, chilli powder, coconut pieces, curry leaves and coconut oil and marinate well
    • Heat a pan and add marinated chicken into the pan
    • Add 1/4 cup water into the chicken and mix well
    • Reduce the flame to low and close the lid
    • Stir it occasionally until it cook
    • Once the chicken is cooked open the lid and stir it continuously until it became dry
    • Serve it hot


    Cheers!!!
    Minu

    Wednesday 27 December 2017

    Spring Onion Stir Fry / Ulli Thandu Thoran


    Spring Onion Stir Fry / Ulli Thandu Thoran



    Ingredients:-

    Spring Onion/ Ulli Thandu – 2 ½ Cup
    Turmeric Powder - ½ Tsp
    Coconut – ½ Cup
    Green Chilli – 2
    Small Onion/Shallot – 2 Pods
    Garlic – 2 pods
    Curry leaves as needed
    Salt as needed
    Mustard seeds
    Oil as needed

     
    Preparation:-

    • Take a pan, pour a little oil into it and splutter the mustard seeds
    • Add Spring onion into the pan and mix well
    • Add Salt and turmeric Powder and stir well
    • No need to add water separately.
    • Close the lid and boil the spring onion in low flame till its’ water gets evaporates
    • Take a mixer jar and add coconut, garlic, Small Onion/shallot, green chilli and crush
    • Add crushed coconut into the spring onion and mix well
    • Once again close the lid and boil the spring onion in low flame
    • Add curry leaves
    • Switch off the stove once all the water evaporates
    • Server it hot with Rice or Chapathi!


    Cheers!!!
    Minu


    Tuesday 26 December 2017

    Pazha Pradhaman / Banana Kheer / Nenthrapazha Payasam




    Pazha Pradhaman / Banana Kheer / Nenthrapazha Payasam



    Ingredients:-

    Banana – ½ Kg
    Coconut grated for taking milk– 2 Nos
    ·         First Milk – ½ Cup
    ·         Second Milk – 1 ½ Ltr
    ·         Third Milk – ¾ Cup
    Jaggery – ½ Kg
    Cashew Nuts
    Raisins
    Cut Coconut – 2 Tbsp
    Ghee as required

     
    Preparation:-

    • Boil the banana and remove the black portion inside the banana
    • Squeeze the grated coconut to get ½ cup first milk. Add some water and squeeze it to get second and third milk
    • Grind the banana by adding a little third milk and make thick paste
    • Melt the jaggery by adding third coconut milk
    • Take a cooking vessel, pour jaggery water into the banana paste and mix well. Stir continuously until it became thick.
    • Add ghee into the mixture when it started thickening. It may take approximately 20 min
    • Pour second milk little by little till it gets its proper consistency. You may not require full 1 ½ ltr second milk, here I used 1 litre and 1 glass
    • Add a pinch salt into the payasam
    • Stir continuously for 10 to 15 min
    • To check the consistency, pour a little paysam into a vessel and turn it around. If it stick to the vessel then payasam is ready
    • Switch off the stove and pour the first milk
    • Add cardamom powder into the payasam and stir well
    • Add ghee to a pan, once it is hot add cut coconut and stir well. When coconut gets brown colour add cashew and then raisins
    • Add it into the Payasam and mix well
    • Server it hot!


    Cheers!!!
    Minu


    Monday 25 December 2017

    Vanilla Chocolate Fusion Cake / Fusion Cake / Cooker Cake / Steam Cake



    Vanilla Chocolate Fusion Cake / Steam Cake / Cooker Cake



     Ingredients:-

    Maida / All-purpose Flour - 1 ½ Cup
    Sugar Powder – 1 ¼ Cup
    Baking Powder - 1 ½ Tsp
    Baking Soda – ¼ Tsp
    Butter – 125 gm
    Egg – 2
    Cocoa Powder – 2 Tbsp
    Milk – 1 Cup
    Vanilla Essence – ½ Tsp


    Preparation:-

    • Take a bowl and mix Maida/All-purpose flour Baking Powder and Baking Soda and sieve the mix
    • Take another big bowl and add butter into it. Beat the butter till it become soft
    • Add Egg into it beat well  
    • Add powdered sugar little by little and beat continuously
    • Add Maida/All-purpose flour little by little and beat continuously. Add milk when you find that the mixture is thick
    • Add Vanilla essence to the batter and beat the mixture
    • Take half of the mixture and pour into another vessel
    • Add Cocoa powder into the remaining mixture and mix it with a spoon
    • Take a baking vessel and cover it with butter. Add little Maida into it and spread it across the vessel
    • Add both vanilla and Cocoa mixed batter according to the style you would like to bake
    • Slightly hit on the sides of the vessel to have a proper shape and to avoid any empty spaces inside the batter
    • Take a cooker and add 1 cup of salt into it. Spread the salt evenly and then keep any vessel which would keep the baking vessel little up above the salt
    • Pre-heat the cooker for 5 minutes by closing the lid at high flame
    • Keep the baking vessel into the cooker and close the lid. Keep it in high flame for 5 min and then change the flame to Medium flame for 30 to 40 min
    • Check whether the cakes is baked by using a fork.
    • When the cake is ready then keep it as it is for 5 min
    • Pour half portion of the cake batter into another vessel which is greased by butter. Instead of salt pour water and steam it. It may take another 30 to 40 min to get it steamed
    • Demould the cake once it is cooled
    • Cut the cake into the desired shape and enjoy!

    Cheers!!!
    Minu


    Sunday 24 December 2017

    Chicken Stew / Chicken Potato Stew





     Ingredients:-

    Chicken – 750 gm
    Onion – 2 Medium size
    Potato – 2 Medium
    Carrot – 1 Medium
    Green Chilli – 3
    Ginger – 1 Tbsp
    Curry leaves as needs
    Cardamom - 3
    Cinnamon – Small stick
    Cloves - 3
    Star anise - 1
    Pepper Powder – 2 ½ Tsp
    Salt as need
    Garam Masala – ½ Tsp
    Coconut milk – ¾ Cup
    Ground Cashew nut – 12 Cashew nuts (1/2 Cup)
    Oil as required


    Preparation:-

    • Marinate the fresh chicken using required salt and by adding 1 Tsp pepper powder and keep it aside for 10 to 15 min
    • Take a cooker and add oil. Once it is heated add Cardamom, Cloves, Cinnamon, Star Anise and sauté
    • Add onion into it, once it is mixed with the oil and half cooked, add green chilli, ginger and curry leaves and sauté well
    • Add potato, carrot and after some time add pepper powder and stir well
    • Add marinated chicken into the cooker and mix well. Add ¼ cup water and close the lid. Cook the chicken for medium to high flame for one whistle
    • Smash few potatoes and mix well
    • Add a little salt and then add coconut milk and boil
    • Add garam Masala and mix
    • Keep it in low flame and pour the cashew mix into it and stir well
    • Add curry leaves and boil
    • Pour a little coconut oil and switch off the stove
    • Server it with rice or chapathi

    Cheers!!!
    Minu