Saturday, August 23, 2014

Chicken Varutharachadu





Ingredients
Chicken – 1 kg
Onion- 2 Big
Ginger- 1 table spoon
Garlic- 1 table spoon
Turmeric powder-3/4 tbl spoon
Coriander powder- 2 ½ tbl spoon
Chilly powder- 2 ¾ tbl spoon
Pepper powder- 1 tbl spoon
Grated coconut- 1 cup
Mustard seed- 1 tea spoon
Coconut oil
Curry leaf

Preparation
Cut chicken into small pieces and marinate it with salt, ½  tbl spoon turmeric powder & 1 tbl spoon chill powder and keep it aside for 1 hour. In a pan fry  grated coconut until it turn golden brown color and then add ¼ tbl spoon turmeric powder, 2 ½  tbl spoon  coriander powder & 1¾  tbl spoon chilly powder, salt and sauté well in low flame. Keep it aside for cooling and then grind it to make a thick paste.

Heat oil in a pan splutter mustard seeds, add curry leaf and then ginger and sauté well. Add then chopped onion , add some salt and sauté well until it turns translucent. Add chopped garlic to it and sauté well for 1min more. Add pepper powder to it and then add marinated chicken and grinded coconut paste. Mix all together and add some water to the mixture and cook well until done. Suitable for eating with chappathi / porotta or with rice.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Dates Pickle

DATES PICKLE 






Ingredients
Fresh dates as shown in picture- 30 Nos.
Lemon small- 10 Nos
Garlic- 1 big full.
Ginger- 1 inch big piece
Chili powder- 3 and 1/2 table spoon
Turmeric powder- 1/2 tea spoon
Fenugreek powder- 1/2 tea spoon
Mustard seeds
Vinegar- 3 table spoon
Gingerly Oil- 3-4 table spoon
Salt

 


Fresh Dates



Preparation
Remove seed from dates and slice one date in long direction to 4 pieces. Marinate the dates with salt and keep aside for 4 hours.
Steam lemon in a vessel for 3 minutes. Make sure that lemon didn't get broken. Take it out of vessel, keep for cooling and then clean the surface of lemon with a white cotton cloth. Cut this cleaned  lemon into 6 pieces and keep it aside.
Heat oil in a pan splutter  mustard seeds. Add chopped ginger and sliced garlic to it and saute well. Lower the flame to the least and then add turmeric, chili and fenugreek powder to it and mix well. Add salt for taste.
Add vinegar to this masala and mix well. Add dates and lemon to this masala and mix all together.
Switch off the flame and keep it aside for cooling. Pickle is ready now. Transfer the pickle to a dry container, close lip properly and keep for one week before using.

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