Dum Aloo

Ingredients:


15 baby potatoes
2 Chopped onions
1 chopped tomato
1 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste
Cumin Seeds
Peppercorns
Corriander seeds
Dalchini
Bay leaf
Red chili
Cashews powder (optional)

Oil
Salt to taste

Method:

1. Boil baby potatoes half way adding little salt to the water. After cooling peel them and make tiny holes in them.

2. Fry the baby potatoes and keep them on absorbent paper to remove excess oil.

3. Put oil in a pan and give seasoning of cumin seeds, then put onion and fry for some time. Add ginger garlic paste and fry for some time. Put coriander seeds, peppercorns, Red chilli, Dalchini [mixture 1].

4. Grind the mixture 1 into paste.

5. Boil the tomato and grind it into paste.

6. Put oil in a vessel and put the grinded mixture 1 paste and fry for sometime till the oils separates.

7. Then put Tomato paste and fry for sometime.

8. Put some water to make the gravy thin as per your liking.

9. Add salt and cashew powder. Mix well.

10. Add the fried baby potatoes in. Mix well.

11. Serve with chapati or plain rice.

Mushroom Chettinad

Ingredients:
12-14 Mushrooms, roughly chopped
Salt to taste

For Spice Powder:
1 tbsp Channa Dal (Split Yellow Peas)
3-4 Dry Red Chillies, halved (Adjust acc to taste)
1 tsp Black Pepper Corns (Adjust acc to taste)

For Tempering:
1 tsp Mustard Seeds
Few Curry Leaves
1 tsp Oil

Method:

Wash, pat dry and chop mushrooms into bite sized pieces and keep them aside.
Dry roast channa dal, dry red chillies and peppercorns in a skillet on a low-medium flame till dal turns golden brown (Approx 2 mins). Cool and grind them to smooth powder and keep aside.

Meanwhile, heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. When they start to pop and splutter, add curry leaves and sauté for few seconds.
Now mix in chopped mushrooms and sauté on medium heat. When they start to sweat add salt to taste, ground spice powder and mix well. Sauté gently on a medium flame for 1-2 minutes making sure that spice mixture doesn’t stick to bottom of the pan and sprinkle little water if necessary and mix well. Cook for another minute or so on medium flame sautéing in between.
Serve hot.

Original recipe at
http://www.monsoonspice.com/2008/04/some-like-it-hot-mushroom-chettinad.html

Cheese Bread Pakoda

Ingredients:

Bread Slices
Cheese Slices
Turmeric
Red Chilli Powder
Jeera Powder
Corriander Powder
Besan powder
Water as required
Salt to taste
Oil

Method:

1. Take Besan powder in a bowl and add turmeric, red chilli powder, jeera powder, corriander poweder, salt and water to make a batter.

2. Cut Bread slices into half.

3. Cut Cheese Slices into half.

4. Take one bread slice and put one cheese slice onto it.. then put remaining bread slice to cover it.

5. Coat the Bread-Cheese-Bread with Besan batter properly [pakoda].

6. Pan-fry the pakoda.

7. Serve Hot with tomato sauce or eat simply cheese bread pakoda.

Tondli / Tendli / Ivy Gourds... Spicy Fry

I was searching for tendli recipe on the net. I visited Aayi's recipes and read two three varities of the same veggie. All the recipes were infront of me but my mind was going in circles as to what should I make which would love by my dear husband tastebuds. Finally I decided I will go to the kitchen and start making the veggie by taking parts from each recipe. So here goes my version..

Ingredients:
Tendli (cut in round shape)
Coconut
Garlic (chopped fined)
Red chilli powder
Turmeric
Curry leaves
Mustard Seeds
Oil
Salt

Method:
1. Wash and cut the tendli in round shape.
2. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and let them crackle. Add curry leaves.
3. Add chopped garlic and fry till golden brown.
4. Add tendli, mix well and fry for 1 min.
5. Add salt, red chilli powder, turmeric and mix well and cover the pan. Keep checking in between and stirring.
6. Fry till half done and then add coconut. Mix well and cover the pan, stir occassionally and cook till done.
7. Serve with chapati / steamed rice.

Stuffed Fish

This recipe is my own creation... :P

My mami used to do Stuffed Fish but entirely in a different way than me.. from that I got the idea of stuffing the fish. The ingredients I took here are because I like green masala which is made of palak, corriander and green chilly... and me being lazy just took them and grind them and stuffed inside the fish. This is my personal favourite recipe hope you like it.



Ingredients:
Fish (take Whole Fish and do Not cut into pieces)
1 bunch Corriander
Palak (same as Corriander)
Green Chilly (as per taste)
Pudina (optional but tastes good)
1 tsp Jeera Seeds
1 Onion small
1 Tomato small
1-2 Cloves
Dalchini (Cinnamon)
Meeri (Pepper Balls)
Corriander Seeds
Red Chilli Powder
Turmeric
Corriander Powder
Jeera Powder
Season to taste



Method:
Wash Fish and make 3 horizontal incisions on one side and on the other side make an incision like closing bracket i.e. ")"









Wash Corriander and Green Chilly.
Wash and Boil Palak.
Fry Jeera Seeds, Onion, small Tomato, Clove, Dalchini, Meeri (Pepper Balls), Corriander Seeds.
Grind Corriander, Green Chilly, Palak and fried items + salt. [green paste]

Wash the fish again and marrinate inside the incision as well as on the fish with Red Chilli, Turmeric, Corriander Powder, Jeera Powder, above grinded Green paste, Salt.

After application of all the masalas (dry and paste), keep inside the freeze for sometime, so that it sticks to the fish.

Take out from freeze and apply little oil to the fish and to the grill stand of the microwave.Keep the fish on the grill stand and keep it inside the microwave and MICROGRILL it for 10 mins. Serve Hot.

Dudhi (Lauki) Veggie

This recipe taught to me by my dear husband..

Dudhi (Lauki) Veggie

Ingredients:
Dudhi (Lauki)
1 Potato
1 Onion
1 tsp Jeera (Cummin) seeds
1 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
1/2 tsp Turmeric
Red Chilli Powder (as per taste)
1/2 cup Milk
Oil
Season to taste

Method:
1. Cut Dudhi into cubes (or if you are press for time cut into small pieces so that it cooks faster). Keep them in water.
2. Cut Potato into cubes. Keep them in water.
3. Cut onion into small pieces.
4. Put a vessel or pan on the gas and put oil.
5. After the oil has heated, add jeera seeds and let it crackle.
6. Add onion, fry till it turn golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste. Stir fry for one min.
7. Add turmeric, red chilli powder and fry for one min.
8. Add Dudhi and Potato. Add salt and mix everything nicely. Add little water and cover the vessel and let it steam for 10 mins. Check occassionally in between so that it doesnt burn.
9. Add milk and cook till done.
10. Serve with hot pulkas or steamed rice.