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1 Apam 1
2 Appa 1
3 Beaten Rice (Povva) Chuda 1
4 Biscuit Roti 2
5 Booster Oatmeal Dosa 2
6 Bread Bajiya 3
7 Bread Dahi Vada 3
8 Chana Dhal Vada 3
9 Chana Dal Rava Dosa 4
10 Coconut Dosa 4
11 Coconut-less Appam (Low Fat) 5
12 Cucumber Dosa 5
13 Cucumber Pudding (Manddas) 5
14 Goli Bajey 6
15 Grape Leaf Dolmas 6
16 Instant Rava Dosa 6
17 Jackfruit Muffins 7
18 Jackfruit Patolies 7
19 Lemon Pie 8
20 Mangalore Buns 8
21 Methi Dosa 8
22 Mixed Vegetable Ambadde 9
23 Multi Vitamin Pan Cake (Neer dosa) 9
24 Muttlim 10
25 Neer Dosa 10
26 Pav Bhaji 10
27 Peas with Povva 11
28 Portha Polle (Pancakes) 11
29 Potato Tikkis 12
30 Pova Cutlet 12
31 Pova Papad 13
32 Povva 13
33 Puran Polli (Holige) 14
34 Rava Delight 14
35 Rava Dosa 15
36 Rava Dumplings (Muttlim) 15
37 Rava Idli with Beans and Carrots 15
38 Rava Pizzas 16
39 Rava Uttappa 16
40 Rice Shevio 16
41 Rice Tikkis 17
42 Sanna (Idli) 17
43 Savoury Beaten Rice (Pov Usli) 17
44 Stuffed Rice Rolls in Saffron Leaves (Patholi) 18
45 Sweet Rice Pancakes 18
46 Urad Dhal Vada 18
47 Vada Pav 19
48 Winter Cup Pudding 19
Beef
1 Beef Cabbage Rolls 20
2 BEEF CHILI FRY 20
3 BEEF CHILLI FRY - 2 21
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4 BEEF CURRY 21
5 BEEF CUTLETS 22
6 Beef in Oyster Sauce 23
7 Beef Jeera Pepper (Beef Jeera Miri) 24
8 Beef Mince with Rice 24
9 Beef Mixed Fry 25
10 Beef Roast 25
11 BEEF ROAST 26
12 BEEF STROGANOFF WITH MUSHROOMS 27
13 Beef Sukka 27
14 Beef with Bacon 28
15 Beef with Beetroot 29
16 BEEF WITH PEPPERS 29
17 MINCED BEEF 30
18 Minced Beef Patties 30
19 Pepper Beef 31
20 Spicy Beef 32
Chicken
1 Apple Chicken 33
2 Butter Chicken 33
3 Chicken Cafreal 34
4 Chicken Chaat 34
5 Chicken Dry 35
6 Chicken Ghee Roast 36
7 Chicken Green Masala Curry with Radish 36
8 CHICKEN IN TOMATO SAUCE 37
9 Chicken Lollypops 37
10 Chicken Mughalai 38
11 Chicken Neelgiri 38
12 Chicken Roast with Masala 39
13 Chicken Sausage Pepper 39
14 CHICKEN STEW 40
15 Chicken Sukka 41
16 CHRISTMAS TURKEY 41
17 Crispy Chatpati Chicken Starter 42
18 Drums of Heaven 43
19 DRY CHICKEN WITH COCONUT 44
20 GINGER CHICKEN 44
21 Green Chilly Chicken 45
22 Jeera Chilly Chicken 45
23 Kadai Chicken 46
24 Malai Chicken 46
25 Mangalorean Chicken Curry with coconut milk (roce) 47
26 Mixed Vegetables Stuffed Chicken 47
27 Palak Chicken 48
28 Pepper Chicken 49
29 Pudina Murg Pulav 49
30 Quick Chicken Curry 50
31 Quick Chicken Sukka 51
32 Red Masala Chicken Curry 51
33 Sausages (Chicken Franks) with Yogurt 52
34 SPECIAL X'MAS CHICKEN ROAST 52
35 Spicy Chicken Fry 53
36 Tandoori Chicken 54
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Deserts
1 Bottle Gourd (Boblem) Kheer 55
2 Coffee Pudding 55
3 Vorn 55
4 Honey & Raisin Yoghurt Dessert 56
5 Mango / Strawberry Souffle 56
6 Shahi Tukra 57
7 Walnut and Chocolate Fudge 57
Egg
1 CHEESY SCOTCH EGGS 58
2 EGG BALLS 58
3 Egg Coated Rice 58
4 EGG CRISPIES 59
5 Egg Curry 59
6 EGG CUTLET 60
7 EGG DELIGHT 61
8 EGG FLORENTINE 61
9 EGG MAHARANI 61
10 Egg Raita 62
11 Egg-Sausage Omlette 62
12 STUFFED EGG CURRY 63
13 Thai Egg Curry 63
Fish
1 A SPICY CRAB PREPARATION WITH AROMATIC SPICES AND ROASTED COCONUT 64
2 Batter Fried Prawns 64
3 Black Pomfret -Green Masala Curry 65
4 Cat/Shark Fish Curry 66
5 Crab Pepper 66
6 Crab Salad 66
7 CRISPY NOODLES AND PRAWNS 67
8 FISH BIRYANI 67
9 Fish Caldeen 68
10 Fish Curry – Mangalorean Type 69
11 Fish Curry with Yoghurt 69
12 FISH CUTLET 70
13 Fish Cutlets (Tuna) 71
14 FISH FILLETS 71
15 Fish Masala Fry 72
16 Goan Prawn/Shrimp Curry 72
17 Hamour/Pomfret/Shetkam Curry 73
18 HOT MACKEREL CURRY 73
19 KANE KADI (LADY FISH CURRY) 74
20 Kanne Nivoll (Lady Fish Curry) 75
21 King Fish (Surmai) Masala 76
22 King Fish Manchurian Gravy 76
23 KUBAE SUKKE (SHELL-FISH CURRY –DRY) 77
24 KUBE ANI BAKRIYO (SHELLFISH AND ROTI) 78
25 Mackerel Fry 79
26 Mackerels Special 79
27 MACREAL CURRY - US STYLE 80
28 Pomfret Curry 80
29 Pomfret Curry (Mangalorean Style) 81
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MUTTON
1 DRY PEPPER MUTTON 94
2 Ghee Rice & Mutton Kurma 94
3 GREEN MUTTON CURRY 95
4 Hyderabadi Biryani 96
5 MUTTOM STEW 97
6 MUTTON BIRYANI 98
7 MUTTON CURRY (M'LOREAN STYLE) 99
8 MUTTON DRUMS STICK CURRY 100
9 MUTTON ROAST 100
PORK
1 MANGALOREAN SORPOTEL 101
2 Methi Pork 101
3 Pork Bafat 102
4 Pork Chilli 102
5 PORK CHOPS 103
6 Pork Grill 103
7 PORK INDAAD 103
8 Pork Manchuri 104
9 PORK RIBS STIR FRY 104
10 PORK ROAST 105
11 Pork Rolls in Spicy Gravy 105
12 Pork Salad 106
13 Pork Sorpothel 107
14 Spare Ribs 107
15 Spicy Pork 108
16 SPICY PORK MASALA 108
108
Kuswar
1 Badam Burfi 109
2 Besan (Chickpeas) laddoos 110
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RICE
1 METHI PULAO 121
2 MIXED FRIED RICE 121
3 PRAWN PULAO 122
4 Quick Tomato Rice 122
5 RICE KHEER 123
6 VEGETABLE PULAO 123
SOUP
1 ASPARAGUS & CRAB MEAT SOUP 124
2 CREAMED CHICKEN NOODLES SOUP 124
3 DAL & VEGETABLE SOUP 125
4 GREEN GRAM (MOONG) SOUP 126
5 HOT & SOUR VEGETABLE SOUP 126
6 MORROCON HARIRA SOUP 127
7 TOMATO SAR 127
8 Toor Dal ( Sar ) 128
VEGETABLES
1 Allu Dentto Curry 129
2 Channa Sukka 130
3 Karathem Sukka (Bitter Gourd) 130
4 Sprouted Green Gram Sukka (Moog Suko) 131
5 Aloo Paratha 131
6 Ash Pumpkin (Kuvallo) Bafat 132
7 Baingan Bhurta 133
8 BATATA POHA 133
9 Beans –Whole Masoor Curry 134
10 Beet Root Dry 135
11 Bhindi Dry (Lady Finger) 135
12 BITTER GOURD CURRY 136
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PICKLES
1 Lemon Pickle 171
2 Mixed Vegetable Pickle 171
3 Prawn Pickle 172
4 Surmai Pickle (King Fish) 172
Chutney
1 Brinjal Chutney 178
2 Coconut Chutney 179
3 Coconut with Curry leaves Chutney 179
4 Dates Chutney 179
5 Dried Fish (Kollakuru) Chutney 180
6 Dry Fish Chutney 180
7 Green Chilly Chutney 180
8 Mango Chutney 181
9 Mint & Green Coriander Chutney 181
10 Onion Chutney 182
11 Peanut Chutney 182
12 Raw Mango Chutney 183
13 Spinach Chutney 183
Salad
1 All Season Fruit Salad 184
2 Beetroot & Ash Gourd (kuvallo) Salad 184
3 Bhoondi Raitha with fruits and Yogurt 184
4 Bitter Gourd Salad 185
5 Cauliflower Curd Salad 185
6 Nutritious Salad 186
7 Pork Salad 186
8 Potato Salad 187
9 Red Bean Salad with Feta Cheese 187
10 Roasted Eggplant Raita 187
11 Toasted Noodle Salad 188
12 Yogurt with Fresh Fruits 188
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Jam
1 Mango Jam 189
2 Papaya & Mango Jam 189
3 Tomato Ginger Jam 189
Bread
1 Bread and Butter Pudding 190
2 Bread and Cheese Pakodas 190
3 Bread Masala 191
4 Bread Patties 191
5 Bread Pudding 192
6 Bread/Chicken Bake 192
7 Pasta/Macaroni with Prawns 193
8 Prawn Pakodas 193
9 South Indian Style Noodles 194
10 Vegetable Pasta 194
11 Bread Cutlet 195
1. Apam
Ingredients:
2 cups dosa rice
½ cup cooked rice (basmati)
7 tbsp. coconut milk powder
¾ tsp yeast
3 cups of water
Sugar and salt to taste.
Method:
Wash and soak the rice for at least 6 hrs. Then grind it along with cooked rice, coconut, milk powder,
water and yeast. Add sugar and salt. Mix well and keep it to ferment. Once the dough rises fry the
apam in a apam pan to get lacy and soft apam.
2.Appa
Ingredients
2 cups raw rice
½ cup beaten rice (Povva)
½ grated coconut
Pinch of sodium bi-carbonate
½ cup fermented coconut water
Method
Soak rice for 2 hours. Grind along with grated coconut and povva to a fine paste. Add salt and soda
bi-carbonate. Add the fermented coconut powder. Mix well. Keep overnight. Spread 2-3 tbsp. of
batter squickly on a ghee-smeared tava. Roast one side only. Serve hot with chutney or curry.
NOTE: To make fermented coconut water, take ½ cup of coconut water and add a teaspoon of sugar
and a pinch of cooking soda. Keep for 6 hours.
Ingredients
½ Kg nylon beaten rice (Povva)
¼ Kg powdered sugar
100gms groundnuts
100gms channa dal (roasted)
10-15 green chillies
1 bunch coriander leaves (Finely Chopped)
Little curry leaves
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Little mustard seeds
2 tbsp. coriander powder
1 tbsp. jeera powder
1tbsp turmeric powder
Little oil
Salt to taste
Method
Heat little oil in a big vessel, add mustard seeds, curry leaves, groundnuts, green chillies, coriander
leaves and add the fried channa dal. Fry well, then add the coriander and jeera powders and little salt
and fry for few minutes. Now keep the pan down and add the beaten rice, powdered sugar and mix
well.
4. Biscuit Roti
Ingredients:
2 cups maida
2 tbsp semolina
½ coconut grated
3 tsp. oil
½ tsp. mustard seeds
4 green chillies
Small piece of ginger
2 sprigs of curry leaves
Pinch of asafetida
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Method:
To maida, add in salt, ghee and knead it with water into a thick dough (Chapatti dough). Dry roast
semolina on a tawa and let it cool. Chop curry leaves, green chilies, ginger and mix it with grated
coconut, add in asafetida. Heat oil in a pan, when hot add in, mustard seeds, when they splutter, add
in red chilies and curry leaves and add in the coconut mixture. Cool it and then add in rawa, mix well
and keep aside. Roll the maida into small puries and stuff the puri with the coconut mixture and roll it
again into small puries and deep fry them in hot oil till golden in colour and crispy.
Ingredients:
1 cup oats
2 tbsp. wheat flour
2 tbsp grated coconut
1 finely chopped onion
1 chopped green chilly
Few chopped coriander leaves
Few chopped curry leaves
2 tbsp. curds
Salt as per taste
Method:
Mix all the above ingredients adding water keeping the consistency like dosa batter. Fry dosas in a
non stick pan till brown adding little oil on both the sides. Serve hot with chutney of your choice.
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6. Bread Bajiya
Ingredients:
4 slices bread
1 egg
½ Kg. chana powder
1 onion sliced
1 tbs. haldi powder
½ tsp. chilli powder (optional)
Salt to taste
Oil to fry
Method: (Cooking Time 15 Minutes) Break the bread in to small pieces in to a bowl. Add chana
powder ,egg, masala, salt, onion and mix well. Put oil in a deep fry pan , when oil is heated put drops
of the batter and fry till brown. Bread bajiya is delicious with ketchup.
Ingredients:
6 slices bread
2 cups curd
2 green chillies - chopped
small piece ginger - chopped
3-4 curry leaves
1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
salt to taste
Oil for frying
Method:
Soak the bread slices in water, squeeze immediately and knead well adding little salt. Form into
vadas and deep fry till golden brown. Keep aside. Add little salt to the curd and mix well. Heat a little
oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. When they crackle, add chopped green chillies, ginger and curry
leaves. Stir for a minute and add to the curd. Mix well. Put bread vadas into the curd. Let them soak
in the curd for 30 minutes. Add chopped coriander leaves just before serving.
Ingredients:
1 cup chana dhal
½ cup toovar dhal
½ cup urad dhal
½” ginger chopped
1 pinch asafoetida powder
3-4 green chillies chopped
1 sprig curry leaves, chopped
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Method:
Wash and soak the dhals for about 2 hours. Then grind the dhals together to a very rough paste.
Remove and mix together with the other ingredients. Take a little of the mixture and flatten into
rounds and deep fry in oil until brown. Serve with chutney.
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9. Channa Dal Rava Dosa
Ingredients:
Method:
Soak the channa dal for about an hour. Wash, drain and grind dal along with chilles, chopped
cucumber, curry leaves, coriander leaves and asafetida. Mix this batter and rava in a bowl adding salt
and water. Set this aside for about 10 minutes.
Fry dosas in a non stick pan by smearing oil or ghee. Serve hot with apple chuney.
Ingredients:
Method:
Soak rice for 2-3 hours. Grind the soaked rice along with coconut and beaten rice adding little water.
Mix yeast in warm water adding sugar and set aside for 5 mts. Add this yeast mixture to the rice
batter and mix well. The batter consistency should be medium thick like idli batter. Keep this
overnight or for about 6 -7 hours till it ferments. The fermenting time depends on the type of yeast
used and the room temperature.
Heat a non stick pan, grease it with oil or ghee. Add salt to the batter and stir gently. Spread 1 to 1 ½
spoon of batter on the pan. Fry dosas covering the pan.
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11. Coconut-less Appam (Low Fat)
Ingredients:
1 cup dosa rice
¼ cup semolina
½ tsp. dry yeast
1 tsp. sugar
Salt to taste.
Method:
Wash & soak the rice for 2-3 hours. Mix semolina in 1½ cups of water in a very thick-bottomed pan.
Stir well to ensure that no lumps are formed. Cook the semolina-water mixture for 5 minutes on slow
fire until the semolina is soft. Allow this to cool. Grind the soaked rice along with the cooked semolina
mixture in a mixer. Add water if needed. Grind this mixture until it resembles the consistency of dosa
batter. Add the dry yeast & grind it again. Allow the batter to ferment overnight. Add salt & sugar, the
following morning & mix well. Heat a non-stick apam pan on medium flame. Pour a large spoonful of
the prepared batter & rotate the tava so that you have a thin layer of batter spread out all around &
just a little more in the center. Cover with tight-fitting lid. Allow appam to cook for few minutes on low
flame. When done, the appam will have a soft raised area in the middle with a lacy area all around.
Likewise repeat with the remaining batter. Serve with Mangalorean fish curry, chicken curry, chutney,
or sambar.
Ingredients:
2 cups rice Powder
3 medium cucumbers
¾ cup grated coconut
3 - 4 tsp. finely cut coriander leaves
2 green chillies
Salt to taste
1 tsp. sugar
1-2 cups water
Method:
Wash and finely grate cucumbers. Mix together grated cucumbers, coconut, green chillies,coriander
leaves, sugar and salt . Add water and rice powder and mix well. Make the consistency as of a dosa
mixture. Heat pan. Apply oil, and spread the mixture and make round dosa and fry covered. Serve hot
with chutney.
Ingredients:
1 cup raw rice
1 cup boiled rice
1 cup fresh coconut
2 cups cucumber (peeled and scraped)
1 cup jaggery or according to your taste
1 tsp. cardamom powder
Little salt
Method:
Soak the rice for 5-6 hours. Grind the rice along with cucumber, coconut and jaggery, Grind only till
well blended, add cardamom powder and salt. For the baking pan apply ghee and pour the mixture
into it, Cover with foil and bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees for 45 minutes and then remove
the foil and bake for another 10 minutes. Cool and cut into pieces. Note: You can also steam this
pudding.
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14. Goli Bajey
Ingredients:
2 cups maida
½ cup curd
A pinch edible soda
2 green chillies chopped
Small piece finely chopped ginger
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Method:
Mix maida and curds to form a thick batter, which can be dropped to oil with hand. Add salt, green
chilli and ginger. Heat oil in a pan, and drop little balls of batter into it. Fry on low fire. Serve it with
chutney.
Ingredients:
Method:
Wash the rice & soak it for 1/2 an hour then drain it.Cut onion, tomatoes,coriander leaves into very
small pieces.Cut the potatoes little thick in a round shape.Mix the tomato paste & tamarind water
together and make it 5 glasses qty. Heat the oil & fry the onions till they turn light brown then add
turmeric powder, minced meat & salt. Mix it nicely and keep on medium fire for 5 minutes. When it
cools, add tomatoes, coriander leaves, olive oil and rice. Mix it nicely. Take a grape leaf and put 1
tablespoon full of this mixture in the leaf and roll it (in a cylindrical form). Do the same for all the
leaves.
Take a big vessel and put the potato pieces at the bottom of the vessel and set all the dolmas up of
that. Pour the above 5 glases of water on the dolmas. Close the vessel tightly and keep it on fast fire
for 2-3 minutes and 1 hour on slow fire. Serve medium hot!
Ingredients:
1 roasted semolina (rawa)
1 cup flour (maida)
¼ cup curds
1 sprig curry leaves
2 chopped green chillies
1 tsp cumin seeds
Pinch of asafoetida
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Salt to taste
Method:
Mix all the ingredients to a medium consistency batter. Set aside for 15 minutes. Heat a pan, smear
with little oil. Spoon out the batter into a thin layer. Fry on both sides till crisp and brown. Serve hot
with chutney or sambhar.
Ingredient:
1 tin (500g) jackfruit (or drained 200 grams)
2 cups plain (wheat) flour (or use 1 cup rice flour and 1 cup wheat flour)
3 tsp. baking powder
5 cardamoms
¼ tsp. salt
5 tbsp. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup thin coconut milk
¼ cup butter - melted
Method:
Discard the water from the jackfruit tin - and puree (coarse) the fruit. Powder the cardamoms. Mix
together flour, cardamom powder, baking powder and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, mix together
jackfruit puree, brown sugar, eggs, coconut milk and melted butter. Mix the contents of the two bowls
together gently. Spray/apply oil onto the muffin tins (sanna cups can be used) and pour the batter
(about half full) into the tins Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees centigrade for about 10 minutes.
Reduce the heat to 190 degrees and place the muffin tins and cook them for about 15 minutes.
Ingredients:
2 cups of jackfruit (Ghare, discard the seed)
2 cups Parboiled rice (soaked)
Jaggery
Salt to taste
1 ½ cup scraped coconut
½ cup coconut cut into tiny pieces
6-7 peppercorns
Saghoni Leaves or you can use Badam leaves (if both not available you can use plantain leaves)
Method:
Grind the ghare, soaked rice, black peppercorns, jaggery, salt, and the scraped coconut. It should not
be fine. Do not make it watery. Mix the mixture with the coconut pieces and keep if for half an hour.
Steam in a steamer , place the leaf at the bottom and pour the mixture on the leaves, the layer should
be thick. Steam till done. Insert a toothpick and check if done. Cut into pieces. Best to steam at night
and have in the morning.
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19. Lemon Pie
Ingredients:
Digestive Biscuits: 1 packet (small)
Condensed milk: 1 Tin
Lemon juice: 1/3 glass
Icing sugar: ¾ cup
Butter : 2 oz (melted)
Eggs: 4
Vanilla essence: 1 cap
Method:
Crush digestive biscuits. Mix in the melted butter and put in a cheese cake tray as a base. Separate
the eggs. Mix the egg yolks and the condensed milk with a spoon , then add the lemon juice. In
another dish beat the egg whites till stiff so that peaks form and add icing sugar and vanilla essence.
Put the condensed milk mixture in the baking tray over the biscuit base and the egg white mixture
over this. Bake in a previously heated oven for approximately 20-25 minutes. Allow to cool slightly
before turning out.
Ingredients:
¼ kg flour
2 plantians (soft variety)
2 tbsp curds
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
¼ tsp soda bicarb
1 tbsp ghee
Oil for deep frying
Method:
Take ½ cup water in vessel and add salt, sugar, soda bicarb, ghee, plantians and curds to it. Mix
well. Add flour and knead well. Keep it aside for 8 hours or overnight. Make small balls and roll
thick. Deep fry – It can be kept for 4-5 days.
Ingredients:
Method:
Wash and soak rice and dhal together for 1 hour. Grind rice Dal, Methi (only Leaves) Sugar & Yeast
together to a fine paste. Mix well the prepared batter and keep aside for fermentation for 2 -5 hours (to
check the fermentation put one onion inside the batter, when its ready the onion will go down).
Grease the frying pan with little Ghee. Fry Dosas in different sizes. Serve with Sambar & Coriander
Chutney or Tomato Ketchup.
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22. Mixed Vegetable Ambadde
Ingredients:
¼ kg Bengal Gram Powder
1 tsp Chilli Powder
1 ½ tsp Cummin seed powder
1 pinch asafoetida
2 onions diced
2 green chillies
Small bunch coriander leaves (chopped)
1 tsp garam masala
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Method:
Mix together gram powder, cumin seed powder, chilli powder, asafoetida and salt and keep aside. Cut
all the vegetables into small pieces (carrot, peas, potato, cauliflower, beans, cabbage). In a pan, heat
one tbsp of oil, add onions. When onions turn brown add vegetables, salt and water. When the
vegetables boil, add ½ tsp of cumin seed powder, green chillies, crushed garlic, chilli powder,
coriander leaves and garam masala powder and salt. Mix well and make small balls. Dip in the above
batter and deep fry.
Ingredients:
Method:
Soak rice with methi, dal, and wheat for about 2 hours. Grind all the soaked ingredients along with
egg and ragi powder into a fine paste adding little water. Add enough water to the batter to have thin
consistency. Add salt as per taste.
Heat, grease a non stick pan with oil or ghee and fry crispy dosas.
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24. Muttlim
Ingredients:
1 cup rice rava
Half Coconut Scraped
2 tsps. sugar
Salt to taste
2 cups water
Method:
Boil the water in a saucepan, add salt, sugar and scraped coconut and bring to boil. When boiling
starts lower the heat and add to it the rice rava. Mix well until a thick batter is formed. Remove from
heat. Take a steaming vessel (thondor), add water and place the steaming tray. When the batter is
hot, take a tablespoon of the batter and make a ball and with the thumb make a dent into it. Place
these muttlim in the steam pot and steam for about 20 minutes. To check whether it‟s done prick a
knife and if it comes out clear the muttlim are done.
Ingredients:
2 Cups Rice
Salt To Taste
Oil For Frying
Method:
Wash and soak the rice for 1 ½ hours. Then grind it to a very fine paste. Remove and add salt and
water and make a very thin consistency. This dosa batter should not be kept for fermenting, but
prepared immediately. Heat the dosa tawa, apply a little oil and pour one ladleful of batter so that it
spreads in a thin even layer. Cover and keep it for a second. Then remove it carefully. Serve with
chicken curry.
Ingredients:
Pav or sliced bread
500 gms. mixed vegetables (Potatoes, Green Peas, Capsicum, Cauliflower, Carrots)
2 medium onions chopped
2 medium tomatoes chopped
2 tsp. ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp. pav bhaji masala powder (readily available in the market)
1 tsp. chilly powder
Juice of half lime
¼ bunch chopped coriander leaves
2 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. oil
Method:
Boil or steam the vegetables and mash them (not very fine). Heat oil and fry onions till pink in colour.
Add the ginger garlic paste and fry for about 2 or 3 mins. Add chopped tomatoes and fry till the oil
separates. Add pav bhaji masala powder, chilly powder and salt. Fry for sometime and then add the
mashed vegetables and cook for 2 to 3 mins. Lastly add lime juice and a dollop of butter. Garnish with
coriander leaves. Serve hot with pav or bread slices fried lightly in butter. This dish is also served with
a salad of finely chopped cucumber, tomatoes, onions, coriander leaves.
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27. Peas with Povva
Ingredients
2 cups povva
3 tbsps. Clarified Butter
½ tsp. cumin seeds
½ tsp. Garam masala powder
½ tsp. Turmeric powder
2 tbsp. Ginger finely chopped
2 Green chillies finely chopped
1 cup boiled peas
8 Raisins
10 Cashew nuts
1 tsp. Coriander powder
2 tbsps. Coriander leaves
Salt to taste
Method
Wash povva quickly and keep aside for half an hour. (Choose povva that is of medium body. Very
light varieties are not good for this recipe). Heat butter in a pan and add cumin seeds. Turn the heat
to medium and add ginger, chilli along with coriander, turmeric powders. Fry for a few seconds. Add
peas and stir about 4-5 minutes. Reduce heat. Add povva, salt and garam masala and mix well, keep
about 5 minutes on low heat. Add coriander leaves and remove from heat. Garnish with fried
cashews and raisins.
Ingredients:
(For pancakes):
2 cups boiled rice
2 cups raw rice
Salt to taste
For filling:
1 fresh coconut grated
250 gms. jaggery
Little cardamom powder
Method:
Soak both the rice for 3 hours then grind to a fine paste. Add salt and keep the batter to a running
consistency. Heat a non-stick pan and apply little oil with a cut onion. Pour a big spoonful batter to
the pan and tilt the pan so that the batter spreads evenly all around. Cover and cook for approx. 1
minute or till the pancake is done. Remove and keep warm. Finish with the remaining batter.
Meanwhile grate the coconut and pound the jaggery and mix both. Add cardamom powder. You may
add fried cashew nuts and raisins to the jaggery mixture. Take out each pancake and put a spoonful
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of the jaggery mixture in the center lengthwise and fold carefully like a spring roll. Serve warm.
Note: The pancakes can also be eaten either plain or with coconut chutney without the jaggery filling.
Ingredients:
Filling:
Method:
Heat 1 tbsp. oil. Splutter jeera. Add soaked dal along with other ingredients of the filling. Cook till the
dal is soft with very little water if required. Set this aside. Mix the mashed potato with cornflour & salt.
Knead well and sprinkle cornflour if required to remove the moisture. Make balls of the potato mixture.
Now make a cup shape in each ball and stuff the filling in the center and close the ball. Flatten the ball
to from a tikki .
Heat oil in a non stick pan and shallow fry the tikkis on both sides till crisp. Serve hot with choice of
your sauce or chutney.
Ingredients:
½ cup pova(soak for 20 minutes)
½ cup smashed boiled potato
1 medium onion
1 tsp. ginger
2 tsp. coriander leaves
Salt to taste
½ tsp. lemon juice
Oil for frying
Method:
Mix all the above ingredients and make into balls and flatten it (If you want, apply the bread crumbs on
both the sides). Take a pan, pour ½ cup oil and leave the balls. Shallow fry on both the sides till it is
golden brown. Serve hot with tomato ketchup.
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31.Recipe -- Pova Papad
Ingredients:
3 cups thin pova
Buttermilk as required
Salt to taste
½ tsp. asafoetida
Rice flour for dusting
2 tsps. cumin seeds
7-8 green chillies
Method:
To make crispy pova spread pova under the sun or bake in pre-heated oven about 150 degrees for
15-20 minutes or keep an eye till it gets crispy. Let it cool. Dry grind pova until pova powdered finely.
Now pova flour is ready. Crush cumin seeds and green chillies. Mix salt, asafoetida, crushed chilli
and cumin to pova flour. Add buttermilk to pova flour and knead soft dough, because later dough
becomes semi-hard dough. Cover it with a damp cloth for about 45 minutes. Spread little rice flour
on the surface. Taking a little dough at a time (about the size of a lemon), dip into rice flour and roll
into papads as thin as possible. Follow the procedure till dough is finished. Dry rolled out papads
under shade for 1-2 days. You can spread papads on paper or cloth inside the house. Store papads
in an airtight container for at least one year. Occasionally put them out in an airy place so that they
are preserved better. Whenever you need, deep fry papad and serve as an appetizer for lunch/dinner
or as a snack.
Note: Papads may look small, but after frying they puff up a bit and becomes big. It can be
microwaved, but will not increase in size if you do so.
32. Povva
Ingredients
250 gms Povva ( Beaten rice)
2 potatoes (cut into fine cubes)
2 onions
4 green chillies
2 tbsp. coriander leaves - chopped
8 curry leaves
1 tsp. mustard seeds
1 tsp. turmeric powder
4 tbsp fresh coconut, grated
Salt to taste.
Method
Wash the povva 20 minutes before cooking. Wash it well. Pressure cook the potatoes and cut them
into small cubes. Chop onions fine. Heat oil in a pan and temper mustard seeds, coriander powder,
curry leaves and fine pieces of green chilles. Add onions abd fry for 2 minutes and then add the
cooked potatoes. Fry for another minute. Add povva along with salt. Let it cook for a while. Garnish
with coriander leaves and grated coconut and serve hot.
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33. Puran Polli (Holige)
Ingredients:
Method:
Wash and boil the Bengal gram dhal with 3 glasses of water. When it is cooked, drain the water. Add
sugar and cardamom and cook on slow fire till sugar dissolves. Remove from fire and cool. Mix well to
a soft paste.
Knead together maida and enough water to make a smooth dough. Keep on adding oil little by little till
you get a soft dough. Keep aside for 5 to 6 hrs.
Smear the palm of the left hand with little ghee, and flatten on it one portion of the dough in the shape
of the puri. Place a lime size ball of dhal paste in the centre. Gather up the edges of the puri, enclose
the dhal paste completely and pinch the seams well together. Dust this ball with maida, and carefully
roll out like a chapati. Fry this on a medium fire on a tava, turning once or twice carefully. Serve with
ghee.
Ingredients
3 glass milk
¼ glass rava (coarse)
2 eggs
vanilla essence 2 caps full
sugar - 5 tbsps.
1 tin nestle cream
nuts to garnish
Method:
In a 'handi' add milk, rava, 3 tbsps. sugar and mix well. Beat the eggs very well separately and also
add to the above mixture. Then keep it on a slow flame and keep stirring continously. When the
mixture comes to a boil remove from gas and pour it in a serving pyrex tray. Let it cool. 1 hour before
serving empty the nestle cream in a small bowl, add 2 tbsp. sugar and beat well till the sugar melts in
the cream then spread the nestle cream over the milk rava in the tray. Refrigerate it. Spread nuts just
before serving.
(Note: Spread the cream and keep in the fridge, so that when you sprinkle the nuts they do not sink in
the cream)
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35. Rava Dosa
Ingredients:
½ Cup Rice Flour
½ cup plain Flour (maida)
½ cup semolina (rava)
3 to 4 green chillies finely chopped
1 tbsp cashew nuts roughly chopped
½ cup sour curds
Salt to taste
2 tbsp curry leaves chopped
Water
Oil for frying
Method:
Combine rice flour, Plain flour, Semolina, green chillies, cashew, sour curds, salt and the curry leaves.
Mix well. Add little water to make a very thick batter. Set aside for 2 1/2 hours. Make Dosa and serve
hot with coconut chutney.
Ingredients:
½ cup rava
2 cups cooked boiled rice (basmati can be used too)
½ cup grated fresh coconut
1 tbsp. sugar (optional)
Salt to taste
Method:
Crush the boiled rice well by hand (do not use the mixie). Add the rava and mix well. Add coconut,
sugar, salt, mix well and make small dumplings. Steam for five minutes in a cooker or a tondor. Serve
plain or with coconut chutney.
Ingredients:
Rava : 2 cups
Urad dal : 1 cup
French Beans : a handful
Carrot : 1 (medium)
Coriander Leaves : 1 bunch
Salt : to taste
Sugar : to taste
Method:
Soak urad dal in water for at least 3 hours and then grind into a thick paste with salt & sugar. Steam
the Semolina (Rava) in a thondor by placing the rava in a piece of cloth for 10 minutes. Remove the
rava from the thondor and mix it with urad dal mixture. Let the batter be as thick enough to make the
idlis. Check for salt & sugar. Keep it overnight. Next day morning grate the carrot, cut the beans(very
thin) & coriander leaves & mix all this to the batter. Pour them to the idli cups & steam them for half an
hour. Serve with sambar or chuttney.
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38. Rava Pizzas
Ingredients:
3 tbsp. Rava
2 tbsp. Yoghurt
¼ tsp. Eno
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Grated carrot, chopped onion, coriander leaves and grated cheese for topping.
Method :
Mix rava, yoghurt and salt. Add Eno ,batter should be in thick pouring consistency. In a pan put little
oil, pour little batter{like small pizzas}. Top of the batter put carrot, onions, coriander leaves and
grated cheese and cover with lid. Fry for 2 to 3 minutes on a low flame. Serve with ketchup.
Ingredients:
Method:
Soak urid dal for 1 hour, grind into a paste, mix the rava to the urid dal mixture, add enough water
and salt, keep it overnight. Next day add chopped onion, green chillies, and coriander leaves to the
batter. In a medium size pan apply ghee, pour this mixture fry the dosa's both the sides. Serve hot
with green chutney and ketchup.
Ingredients:
2 cups boiled rice
½ cup grated coconut
Salt to taste
Method:
Wash and soak the rice for 4 to 5 hours. Grind to a fine paste with coconut. Add enough water to
make a dosa batter consistency. Remove the paste, add a little water and salt. Cook this mixture
over a medium flame stirring continuously till solid enough to be rolled into balls. Remove from fire
and with moistened fingers, prepare balls of equal size; steam cook for 15 to 20 minutes. Press each
ball through a mould.
Note: Serve with coconut milk sweetened with jaggery and elaichi.
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41. Rice Tikkis
Ingredients:
1 cup leftover cooked rice (Basmati)
1 Chopped green chilli
2 tsp. ginger & garlic paste
1 ½ tsp. chopped curry leaves
1tbsp. chopped coriander leaves
2 tsp. all purpose flour or gram flour
1 small grated carrot
Salt as per taste
Oil for frying
Method:
Crush the rice with fingers like semolina (rawa). In a bowl mix all the ingredients along with rice and
make it as thick dough. Mix well. Make small oval or round shaped tikkis . Heat oil in a pan and
shallow fry the tikkis till crispy golden brown. Drain on a kitchen towel and serve warm with tomato/
green chutney.
Ingredients:
3 Cups Boiled Rice
1 Cup Basmati Rice
½ Cup Urad Dhal
1 tsp yeast
2 tsp sugar
Salt to taste
Oil for greasing
Method:
Wash and soak rice and dhal separately for 5 – 6 hrs. Grind dhal to fine paste. Remove and keep
aside. Grind rice to a fine paste. Remove and mix well with the dhal paste. Keep the batter
aside. Soak yeast in 2 tbsp of luke warm water for half and hour. Mix it well with the prepared batter.
Add sugar and salt to the batter. Cover and keep aside for fermentation for 4 –5 hours. Grease the
katoris or idli cooker with little oil. Pour the batter in individual katoris and steam for 15 to 20 minutes.
Ingredients:
2 cups beaten rice flakes - thick variety
2 tbsp. oil
1 tsp. mustard seeds
1 sprig curry leaves
1 medium onion chopped
2 green chillies chopped
¼ tsp turmeric powder
2 tbsp. roasted peanuts
2-3 tbsp. grated coconut
Sugar, salt to taste
Method:
Wash the beaten rice in water thoroughly. Drain and keep aside. Heat the oil in a pan. Toss in the
mustard seeds. Fry till the mustard seeds splutter fully. Drop in the curry leaves. Fry briefly. Add the
onions, green chilli(es) and turmeric powder. Stir fry on medium / low level for about 2 minute(s). Mix
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in the coconut, roasted peanuts, beaten rice and mix well. Mix in the sugar and salt to taste. Mix in a
few tablespoons of water into the mixture. Cover and cook on low level for about 2 minutes or till the
beaten rice absorbs the water, softening it and the flavors are well blended. Do not overcook the
beaten rice, as it tends to harden. Keep covered for a few minutes before serving. Serve hot
garnished with chopped coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
1 kg - Boiled Rice
2 Coconuts
400 gm - Jaggery
2 tsp - Cardamom Powder
Salt to Taste
Method:
Wash and soak rice overnight. Grind it fine to a thick and dry dough adding salt. Mix together finely
scraped coconut, powdered jaggery and cardamom and keep aside for filling. Spread a little dough on
the inner side of each leaf in a thin and even layer. Then place a little of the filling along the centre,
fold the leaf over and press edges firmly. Steam till done and serve with leaves on.
Ingredients:
2 cups rice
150 gms. jaggery
1/4 cup curds
1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
1/4 cup beaten rice
1/4 tsp. cumin seeds
1/4 tsp. methi seeds
Salt as per taste
Method:
Clean, wash and soak rice with cumin and methi seeds for 5 to 6 hours. Wash the beaten rice and
drain all the water. Grind the soaked rice ,cumin, methi seeds adding curds, beaten rice and little
water into a fine paste. Keep this batter overnight. Soak jaggery in water overnight. Next day morning
mix the softened jaggery and salt into the pancake mixture. Mix well. The consistency should be a
little thicker than the normal dosa mixture. Heat a pan, grease it with oil /ghee and fry pancakes. Fry
both sides.
Ingredinets:
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Wash and grind the urad dhal to a thick paste. While grinding, add 2 red chillies, ginger and 2 green
chillies. Remove , mix salt, 1 chopped green chilli and curry leaves.
Keep enough oil in the pan to deep fry the vadas. When oil is very hot, take small lumps of paste and
form into small balls, drop into the oil and cook on medium flame until all sides are brown. Drain and
remove. Serve with chutney or sambhar.
Ingredients:
½ kg potatoes
1 ½ cup besan
2-3 green chillies
4-5 flakes garlic
¼ tsp. mustard seeds
Few curry leaves
¼ tsp. haldi
A pinch of soda-bi-carb
½ tsp. red chilli powder
Salt
Oil for deep frying
Lime
Corriander leaves
Method:
Boil, peel and mash the potatoes well. Heat 1 tbsp oil. When heated, add mustard seeds. When they
crackle and it stops crackling, add curry leaves, smashed garlic. Fry for a minute, add finely chopped
curry leaves, haldi, and then add the smashed potatoes. Mix well. Add salt as per taste. Keep for 5
minutes on slow flame. Keep aside. When cool, add finely cut coriander leaves and squeeze a lime.
Knead well. Make small round balls and keep aside. Take the besan, add soda-bi-carb, red chilli
powder, haldi, salt and sufficient water to make a paste of pouring consistency. Heat oil in a kadai.
When it starts to smoke, dip the round balls of potato mixture in the besan paste and deep fry till
done. 3-4 balls can be fried at a time. Serve hot with pav and chutney, or can be plainly eaten with
sauce.
Ingredients:
8 Bread slices (Trimmed at edges)
1 cup milk
2 tbspn butter
2 eggs beaten
2 drops vanilla essence
6 paper cups
1 tin condensed milk of 90gms
Optional for decoration:
Dessicated coconut
6-10 smarties
Chocolate flakes
Method: Mix the condensed milk, eggs, butter, vanilla essence. Beat these contents by hand mixer
for 5 minutes and then add the bread slices. Grease the baking tins lightly with butter and pour the
above contents. Bake in oven for 30 minutes at 160 degrees Centigrade. Insert toothpick in one of the
cups if it comes out clean. The winter cup pudding is ready. Optional - Decorate with dessicated
coconut, smarties and chocolate flakes.
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Beef
Ingredients:
Method:
Cook mince with little water for about 10-15 minutes adding salt. Set this aside to cool. Heat ghee / oil
in a pan and fry chopped onions till pink. Add ginger garlic paste, chopped green chillies,chopped
coriander leaves and saute for another two minutes. Mix 2 beaten eggs, vinegar, garam masala
powder & pepper powder to the cooked mince. Add this mince mixture to the pan and fry for 5
minutes. Take the cabage leaves wash them and then dip them in salted boiling water. Spread 2
tbsp.of mince mixture in each cabbage leaf and fold the leaf. Steam these rolls for 5-6 minutes. Serve
hot with mint chuttney or chillie tomato sauce.
INGREDIENTS:
METHOD:
Cut beef in to 2" stripes size, wash and pressure cook with 2 green chilies, 1 chopped onion, 1
chopped tomato, chopped ginger and garlic. In the frying pan, add 1 tbsp. of oil and fry the cooked
beef add a pinch of chili powder, turmeric powder, pepper powder and salt and fry until the meat turns
brown. Place the fried meat in a dish. Repeat the same procedure with onion, bell pepper and
potatoes. If you want you can deep fry the potatoes like French fries. Finally mix all the fried
ingredients well and sprinkle chopped coriander.
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3. BEEF CHILLI FRY
Ingredient:
Method:
Heat oil in a vessel put whole garam masala, add chopped onions, fry till transparent then put turmeric
powder fry for a minute, put ginger, garlic, green chillies and tomatoes and fry for 5 minutes then put
beef and pour sufficient water to cook .Cook on a medium fire until the meat becomes soft and dry.
Finally add vinegar and coriander leaves.
4. BEEF CURRY
Ingredients
[A]
2 sprigs mint leaves
½ tsp. Cloves and two bits cinnamon
1 large tomatoe
Salt to taste
[B]
Green Masala:
¼ bunch mint leaves
1 bunch corriander leaves
4-5 green chillies [including one or two ripe ones]
1 inch ginger
6 cloves garlics
2 large onions
2-3 pods tamarind
Salt to taste
[C]
Dry roast
2 tbsp. Coconut
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1 tsp.mustard
2 tsp.jeera
7-8 Pepper
2 tsp.corrainder
2-3 red chillies
¼ tsp. Turmeric
Few cloves and a few bits of cinnamon
1tsp.kuskus[optional].
[D]
Ghee as required
1 onion
Vinegar, as required
1 tsp. sugar
Method:
Boil, meat with [A], till well cooked. Add potatoes and cook further till they are half cooked.In the
meantime, grind to paste masalas as mentioned under [B] &[C] together. Heat ghee and fry the
chopped onion till crisp. Add the ground masala and fry well. Add the cooked meat, vinegar, sugar
and salt. Boil through for 15 minutes, on moderate fire. Adjust seasoning.
5. BEEF CUTLETS
INGREDIENTS:
1 large potato
2 slices bread
2 onions
4 green chillies
1"pc ginger
1 tsp vineger
1 egg beaten
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bread crumbs
METHOD:
4. Cut finely: Onion, ginger, green chilly, coriander & mint leaves
5. Now add all the other ingredients except the egg & breadcrumbs and knead thoroughly.
6. Prepare cutlets
Ingredients:
250gms. lean beef
3 garlic cloves, crushed
3 slices fresh root ginger cut into slivers.
350 gms. mixed vegetables, sliced
Method:
Cut the beef into thin slices. To prepare the marinade, act the following way: Mix the soda, corn flour;
soya sauce; 1 tsp. oil; sugar and 85ml. water in a shallow dish. Stir in the beef, cover and leave to
marinate for thirty minutes. Mix the corn flour, sugar and salt and then stir in the wine, stock and
oyster sauce. Heat the remaining oil in a wok. Add beef and stir, fry over high heat for 20 seconds.
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Remove from the pan and keep it aside. Now add garlic, ginger and vegetables and stir-fry until
tender but still crisp. Return the beef to the pan. Pour in the sauce and cook while stirring all the time.
Serve at once.
Ingredients:
1 Kg Beef
Wash beef and cut it into small pieces and half cook it with some water, ginger piece, salt, 1onion,
mint leaves, coriander leaves, 1 tomato and keep aside.
To Chop:
4 big Onions
½ inch Ginger
1 small pod of Garlic
5 green Chillies.
Method:
In a pan put ghee or butter and put the above paste and fry a little. Then add the chopped onions,
ginger, garlic and greeen chillies and and fry a little. Add the half cooked meat and mix well. Add
water if necessary and some pepper powder and salt. Beef jeera pepper is ready.
Ingredients:
1 Kg Mince (Washed and drained)
3 cups basmati rice parboiled in salted water
½ cup green peas
4 tbsp oil
4 onions sliced
3 cloves
2 cardamoms
1" cinnamon
2 bay leaves
4 tomatoes chopped
Salt to taste
Grind to a paste:
6 Kashmir chillies
10 peppercorns
2 tsp coriander seeds
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1 tsp cumin seeds
4 cloves
1" piece cinnamon
10 flakes garlic
1" pc ginger
½ tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp vinegar
Few sprigs of coriander leaves
Few sprigs of mint leaves
Method:
Heat oil, add whole garam masala and fry onions till nice and brown. Add minced meat and fry very
well with the onions, then add tomatoes and ground masala and fry well Add green peas.Add salt to
taste Add half/1 cup water to get a nice gravy. Cook till mince is done. Grease a dekchi, then make
layers of rice and mince. Keep a tava on the gast. Place the dekchi covered on this tava and let it
cook on slow fire till rice is done.
Ingredients:
½ Kg boneless beef
200 gms. each carrots, capsicum and french beans
Pepper, salt, and 2 lemons
2 big onions- cut in strips
8 flakes garlic-cut in strips
4 green chillies-slit into two
¼ kg tomatoes-cut into slices
200 gms. tomato ketchup
Method:
Cut beef into strips of 1”. Marinate overnight with pepper, salt and lemon juice. Cook on slow fire
until tender. In little oil, fry strips of vegetables separately and keep aside. Fry cooked meat in same
oil, until the meat turns nearly black. In a separate pan, heat 2 spoons oil. Fry onions till transparent,
add tomatoes, garlic and green chillies and stir well until oil separates. Add meat, vegetables, and
tomato ketchup. Mix well, cook for 5 minutes and serve.
Ingredients:
1 Kg Beef, cleaned, washed
1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
1 tbsp garam masala powder made with (peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon, and cumin)
2 tbsp vinegar
Turmeric (optional)
2 onion finely sliced
1 tbsp ghee or oil
Salt to taste
Method:
Prick the beef all over with a fork and apply salt and vinegar all over and keep aside for 10-15
minutes. Marinate the beef, preferably overnight with powdered garam masala and ginger garlic
paste. Adjust seasoning. Heat oil in a dekchi. Add the onions and fry until browned. Now add the
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marinated beef and stir fry the beef until all water evaporates. Add a cup of water and pressure cook
for about 10 minutes depending on the use of your pressure cooker. Remove the chunk of beef and
cut into slices and return back into the cooker to enable the sliced beef to absorb water by re-cooking
until the water is dry. Now fry the slices of beef in little ghee or oil until brown. Serve with broiled
potatoes, carrots and snow peas.
Ingredients:
A chunk of boneless beef - 1 Kg.
Crushed garlic - 6-7 flakes
Crushed ginger - 2"
Soya sauce - 2 tsp.
Maggi cube 1 - 1 ½
Grind to powder:
2" piece cinnamon stick
6 cloves
8 pepper corns
6-7 rosemary (optional)
2 Madras chilies
For frying
Oil or Ghee - 2-3 tbsp.
1 Big sliced onion
2 tomatoes sliced ( peel and deseed the tomatoes)
4 Kashmiri chilies
Garnishing
Fried potato fingers
Lettuce leaves - 6
1 Big lemon - cut into round slices
2 Big onions - cut into round slices
3-4 coriander stalks
Method
Clean and wash the beef chunk. Pierce it with a table fork gently all over. Drain all the water. Mix the
ground spice powder with the soya sauce, maggi cubes, crushed ginger and garlic. Rub this paste on
the beef chunk thoroughly and keep it overnight.
Pressure cook the marinated whole beef chunk without water on a very slow fire for 10 - 15 minutes. It
will leave out water. Close the fire and let it cool. When it is cold remove the whole piece and slice it
according to your choice. Slicing should be done neatly.
Take ghee/oil in a non-stick or any vessel compatible to you. Now put the Kashmiri chilies and let it
change the color then put onions and fry them till they are brown. Now put tomatoes fry for five
minutes. Arrange the sliced beef pieces in the same vessel and pour the water from the pressure
cooker, cover the vessel with a lid and let it cook on a very slow fire. Make sure it does not get burnt.
Take an oval (optional) shape tray. Arrange the base with lettuce leaves. Organize all the beef roast
pieces neatly on the leaves, decorate them with onion rings, lemon slices, potato fingers and
coriander leaves and serve it hot.
Note: You can even fry these beef slices coating them with egg and breadcrumbs.
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12. BEEF STROGANOFF WITH MUSHROOMS
INGREDIENTS:
METHOD:
1. Marinate beef in Worcestershire sauce, soya sauce, salt and pepper for about 2 hours.
2. Heat 2 tbsp. oil in a large skillet over high heat. Add onions and mushrooms, reduce heat and
stir fry until they are soft. Remove to bowl.
3. Add remaining oil to the skillet, increase heat to high. Add the meat and saute until golden
brown.
4. Transfer the meat to the mushrooms.
5. Melt 2 tbsp. of butter in another skillet and stir in flour.
6. Mix in stock and heat, stir until thickened.
7. Add beef and mushrooms; sugar, salt and pepper.
8. Stir in sour cream, do not boil. (Can be served over noodles or pasta or with bread)
Ingredients:
For Masala:
5 cloves
2 sticks cinnamon
8 pepper corns
1 tsp cummin seeds
1 tsp mustard seeds
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1 tbsp coriander seeds
5 kashmiri red chillies
½ tsp termeric powder
A small ball of tamarind
1 onion slices
3 garlic flakes
1 tbsp oil
Method:
In a cooker heat oil add whole garam masala, then add onions fry till transperent, add chopped ginger
,garlic, green chillies and tomatoes. Fry for 3minutes, then add beef and fry for 2 minutes. Pressure
cook the beef without adding water. Roast the masala with oil grind it with little water. For the boiled
beef, add grind masala. Cook for 5 minutes, then add vinegar, salt and fresh coconut. Cook till the
water evaporates.
Step 1
First make beef roast
1 Kg Beef (Boneless)
Marinate the meat for an hour in:
2 tbsp ginger paste
2 tbsp garlic paste
1 tsp freshly ground pepper
1 tbsp vinegar
Juice of 1 lime
Salt to taste
Method:
Heat oil in pressure cooker, put 4 cloves, 4 peppercorns, 1" piece cinnamon. When peppercorns start
popping, add meat chunks and fry well. Add a little water if you like and close pressure cooker. After
one whistle, lower the flame and cook for 20 minutes till meat is tender (cooking time depends on the
meat.)
Step2
Ingredients:
1 kg roast beef, cut into cubes (as cooked above)
½ kg bacon, cut into pieces
2 Big onions cubed
3 green chillies
1 tsp red chilli powder
¼ tsp turmeric powder
2 tomatoes cubed
¼ tsp garam masala powder
Method:
Heat oil in a dekchi (or u may use the same pressure cooker in which you had made beef roast). Fry
the onions till light brown, then add the green chillies, chilli powder, turmeric powder, and tomatoes,
add cut bacon and fry well. Then add the meat pieces and fry well together. Season with garam
masala. Salt to taste and 2 tomatoes.
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15. Beef with Beetroot
Ingredients:
1 Kg fresh beef
½ Kg Beetroot
3 medium onions
2 tomatoes
3 cloves of garlic
1 piece ginger
Roast the above ingredients in little oil and grind into fine paste.
Method:
Cut meat into small bits and boil with little vinegar, salt and water. Pressure cook beetroots in little
water and salt and cut into small pieces. Mince onions, ginger, garlic and tomatoes. Fry minced
onions, then add ginger and garlic, and then tomatoes. Add the ground masala and fry a while. Add
the boiled meat along with soup and beetroot pieces and keep on slow fire till thickens. Serve hot with
paratas.
INGREDIENTS:
2 chillis, sliced
3 tsp. cornflour
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4 tsp. oil
METHOD:
Mix the soy sauce, wine and cornflour with 1 tsp. oil and tsp. water in a shallow dish. Stir in the beef.
Cover and leave to marinate for 1 hour.
Heat the oil in a wok or frying pan. Add the beef and stir-fry over high heat for 15 seconds. Remove
from the pan and reserve.
Now add ginger, onion and chillis and stir-fry for a few seconds. Add the peppers and stir-fry for 2
minutes.
Return the beef to the pan, add the salt and sugar and stir-fry for a few minutes more until the meat is
tender and well cooked.
Ingredients:
1 kg finely minced beef
2 onions (finely chopped)
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1 tsp. Garlic paste
1 tsp. Ginger paste
½ cup yogurt
1 tsp. Garam masala powder
1 tsp. Red chilli powder
Salt to taste
1 tbsp. Oil
For filling:
4 boiled eggs (chopped finely)
1 bunch coriander leaves(chopped finely)
¼ bunch mint leaves (chopped finely)
2 green chillies (chopped finely)
For frying:
2 eggs beaten
Breadcrumbs
Oil or ghee as required
Method:
Heat oil in a pan, add onions and fry until light brown. Add yogurt, garlic paste, ginger paste, red chilli
powder, garam masala powder and fry for 3-4 minutes. Add minced beef and fry for another 4-5
minutes. Add ½ cup of water and salt to taste and cook over low heat until meat is soft and all the
liquid has been absorbed. Knead this mixture very well or until the mixture is completely smooth.
ForFilling:
In a bowl mix together chopped boiled eggs, chopped coriander leaves, chopped mint leaves and
chopped green chillies. Take some amount of minced beef mixture and flatten it in your palm. Place 1
tsp. boiled eggs filling on it. Close the meat mixture around it, pinching edges together. Flatten gently
to form round patties. First dip the patties in the egg and then roll in breadcrumbs. Shallow fry by
using oil or ghee.
Ingredients:
1 Kg. Beef
2 Onions
10-12 flakes garlic
2 ”ginger
5 green chillies
1 tbsp. pepper
1 tbsp. jeera
½ tsp. mustard
½ tsp. turmeric powder
Juice of lime sized ball of tamarind
Salt as per taste.
1 small potato (optional)
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2 tbsp. Chopped coriander leaves
Method:
Clean the beef and cut into medium size pieces. Pressure cook the beef with chopped onion ,garlic,
ginger, green chillies and salt. Dry roast pepper, jeera and mustard. Powder the roasted ingredients
adding turmeric powder. Mix this to the cooked meat along with tamarind juice and finely chopped
potato. (optional) Cook for about 5- 10 minutes until the gravy gets thick. Garnish with coriander
leaves. Serve hot with rice or roti.
Ingredients:
1 kg. beef
3- 4 tbsp. bafat powder
1 tsp. garam masala powder
1 tbsp. ginger garlic paste
2 big onions (sliced)
4 tbsp. tomato sauce
2 tbsp lime juice
2 tbsp. oil
Salt as per taste
Oil for shallow frying
Boiled vegetables (carrots, potatoes, asparagus etc) - optional
Method:
Wash, drain & thinly slice beef into 2” pieces. Mix bafat powder, garam masala, ginger garlic paste,
lemon juice and salt. Add slices of beef and mix well and set aside for an hour.
In a pressure cooker add 2 tbsp. of oil and fry onions till light brown and close the fire. Add tomato
sauce, stir well and set the cooker aside.
Shallow fry the marinated beef slices in a non stick pan with very little oil for 5 mts. Cover the pan
while frying. Flip the pieces and fry for another 5 mts. without covering. Now transfer the slices to the
cooker and mix well. Add the gravy from the pan measuring 1 – 1 ½ cup to the cooker. If not adjust
by adding water. Cover the cooker and keep on fire. Close the fire before the 1st whistle blows.
Leave it closed for 15 mts to allow the pressure to settle down. Later open, stir well and serve hot with
boiled vegetables.
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Chicken
1. Apple Chicken
Ingredients:
1 kg. Chicken
2 onions
2 tomatoes
4 green chillies
5 flakes garlic -crushed
1"ginger- crushed
2 red apples
1/2 tsp.white pepper
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp. chilly powder
1 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. olive oil
1 tin nestle cream
Salt as per taste
Method:
Clean and cut chicken into medium pieces. Skin and cut the apples finely. Slice the onions and slit
the green chillies. Blend the tomatoes. Heat a heavy bottomed vessel, add olive oil and butter. Fry
onions, chillies till light pink. Add chicken, fry for two minutes adding crushed ginger and garlic. Cook
on low heat for two minutes. Add finely cut apple and mix well. When aplle is melted and mixed well
add blended tomatoe, white pepper, chilly powder, turmeric powder and salt as per taste. Keep
covered on slow heat for about 15 minutes. Lastly blend the cream and add to the chicken. Mix
well. Keep on slow flame till the oil seperates and chicken is tender. Serve hot with roti or steamed
rice.
2. Butter Chicken
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken cut into pieces
Puree of 2 tomatoes (without skin)
2 onions chopped
1 tbsp. ginger-garlic paste
Paste of 15 cashew nuts
1½ tbsp. butter
3 tbsp. cream
1 tsp. chilly powder
2 –3 tbsp. oil
For Marinating;
1 tbsp. tandoori masala
½ tbsp. garam masala (cloves, cinnamon and cardamom powdered)
2 tbsp. lime juice
½ tsp. cumin powder (jeera)
5 tbsp. yoghurt
Salt according to taste
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Method:
Heat oil in a non-stick pan and fry the chicken for 10 minutes. Remove the chicken and keep aside. In
the remaining oil fry the chopped onions till golden, then add the ginger-garlic paste and fry sprinkling
little water now and then till oil separates. Add the cashew paste, chilly powder, tomato puree and
cook for 10 minutes. Lastly, add the butter and the cream and the chicken. Mix well and cook till done.
3. Chicken Cafreal
Ingredients:
1 kg. chicken
2 onions (finely sliced)
3 tbsp. oil
1 tbsp. vinegar
Salt as per taste
To Grind:
Method:
Cut chicken into 8 to 10 pieces. Make deep cuts on the pieces with a sharp knife. Dry roast coriander,
cumin, cloves, cinnamon, cardamoms & pepper corns. Grind the dry roasted ingredients along with
chilles, ginger, garlic adding very little water. Add salt to this paste and apply it to the chicken pieces
and set aside for 3-4 hours.
In a non stick pan heat oil, add sliced onions and fry till pink. Add marinated chicken pieces and stir fry
for few minutes. Cook on slow flame till done. You may add little water if required. When chicken is
cooked and tender add vinegar and mix well.
4. Chicken Chaat
Ingredients:
½ kg. chicken, cooked and shredded (without bones)
2 onions finely cut
2 green chillies, slit
A small piece ginger minced
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Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
1 tsp. amchur powder (mango powder)
1 tsp. lemon juice
1 tomato thinly sliced
Coriander leaves (finely cut)
French fries for garnishing
Oil
Method:
Heat oil in a frying pan, when hot put in the onion pieces and fry till pink. Now add shredded chicken,
fry till light brown. Add lemon juice, salt, pepper, amchur. When cooked, add tomato pieces and
coriander leaves. Garnish with hot french fries and serve.
5. Chicken Dry
Ingredients:
3 tsp. butter
5-6 green chillies (slit)
Few curry leaves
1/4 kg. boneless chicken (cut into small cubes)
2 tsp. lime juice
To Marinate:
Method:
Marinate the chicken in above ingredients for about an hour. Heat the butter and add curry leaves &
green chillies. Fry for 2 minutes. Now add marinated chicken. Fry it for about 10 minutes keeping
closed. Keep stirring in between. Fry it till it gets dried. Add lime juice and serve hot.
Ingredients:
500 gms. boneless chicken
3 tsp. soya sauce
5 tsp. tomato sauce
2 tsp. red chilly powder
3 tsp. corn flour
2 tsp. milk
½ cup spring onions
4 green chillies
2 tsp. oil
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying
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Method:
Mix soya sauce, tomato sauce, red chilly powder, corn flour, milk and salt to a smooth paste. Mix
chicken in this paste and marinate for 15 to 20 minutes. Deep fry the chicken and keep it aside. Now
heat 2 tsp of oil in a pan, add spring onion, green chillies and fry well. Add the fried chicken to it.
Ingredients:
1 Kg Chicken (cut into pieces)
To be Ground:
1/4 cup Lime Juice
1 tbsp Jeera
1" Cinnamon
4 Cloves
15 red long Chilles
Little water
Salt to taste
Ghee for frying
Method:
Marinate the chicken in the above paste for 2 hrs. Then in a pan put some pure ghee and put this
marinated chicken and cook till the gravy becomes thick. See that it does not get fully dry.
Ingredients:
1 kg. Chicken (cut into pieces & cleaned)
½ kg. radish (cut into long strips)
1 bunch coriander leaves (chopped)
½ bunch mint leaves (chopped)
5-6 green chillies (chopped)
6 cloves of garlic (chopped)
1 inch piece of ginger (chopped)
3-4 black pepper seeds
1 small piece of cinnamon
3-4 cloves
1 cup coconut gratings
1 tsp. cumin seeds
1 cup curds
Salt to taste
2 tbsp. oil
Method:
Dry roast black pepper seeds, cinnamon and cloves and keep aside. Grind mint leaves, coriander
leaves, green chillies, garlic, ginger along with above dry roasted items and coconut gratings with
water, to make a smooth paste. Wash, clean and cut chicken into small pieces. Heat oil in a vessel
and sauté the cumin seeds till they start to brown. Add the ground masala and curds and cook till the
gravy leaves the oil. Add a cup of water and allow to boil. Now add the chicken pieces and radish
pieces and salt. Cook till done. Garnish with slit green chillies.
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8. CHICKEN IN TOMATO SAUCE
Ingredients:
1 kg chicken
(For Masala)
10 long red chillies
8 cloves garlic
2" inches ginger
3 tbsp. vinegar
2 tsp. sugar
2 large onions
Half cup of tomato ketchup
Method:
Grind the masala, cut two large onions and fry till light brown, add the masala and fry well, add half
cup of tomato ketchup and fry, add the chicken pieces and half cup of water add salt to taste and boil
till done.
9. Chicken Lollypops
Ingredients:
10 chicken wings
1 tsp. ginger garlic paste
Red Chilly powder according to taste
2 tbsp cornflour
2 tbsp all purpose flour
1 tsp soya sauce
1 tsp vinegar
Pinch of red colour
Few slices of spring onion finely cut
Thin slices of cabbage
1 egg
Salt to taste
Oil to deep fry
Method:
Break each chicken wing into two parts at the joint. Take each part and pull back the meat from one
end of the bone to the other carefully, making sure that you do not pull the meat completely out. Put
all the chicken lollipops in a bowl. Make a thick batter of ginger garlic paste, red chilly powder, soya
sauce, vinegar, all purpose flour and cornflour, red colour, salt and then beat the egg and coat the
lollypops in this mixture evenly. A little water can be added if needed. Marinate for about one hour in
the refrigerator. Deep fry the chicken lollipops in the hot oil by holding the tip of the bone and placing
the meat section of the lollipop in the oil. Drain on clean kitchen paper napkins. Garnish with spring
onion and sliced cabbage. Serve hot with schezwan sauce
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10. Chicken Mughalai
Ingredients:
1 kg chicken
2 medium onions
1 medium tomato
5 cashew nuts
1 tsp. jeera
1/2 tsp, Kasoori methi (dried methi leaves)
3 kashmiri chillies
11/2" ginger piece
5-6 flakes of garlic
2 tablespoon (MDH or Everest) paneer masala powder
2 tbsp. tomato puree
3 tbsp.Ghee
Salt as per taste.
Method:
Heat one tbsp. of ghee in a pan. Add onions and fry till pink. Now add cashew nuts, jeera, kasoori
methi,chillie, ginger , garlic and fry till slightly brown . Then grind all the fried ingredients with tomato
and paneer mutter masala powder. Take a non-stick pan add two tbsp. of ghee and fry the chicken
pieces on high fire for 5 min. Then add tomato puree and keep on slow fire for another 5 minutes.
Then add ground masala and add salt as per taste. Let it cook till chicken is done. Serve hot.
Please note kasoori methi is a must to get good aroma and taste.
Ingredients:
1 kg. Chicken
1 tsp. gingerly seeds
3-4 tbsp. oil
Salt as per taste
2 tbsp. chopped coriander leaves
3 big onions
10 garlic flakes
½" ginger
3 medium tomatoes
2 tbsp. coriander
½ tsp. cumin
1- 2 tsp. chilly powder
1 tsp. badisaunf
1” cinnamon
4 cloves
2 cardamoms
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Method:
Cut chicken into medium pieces. Peel onions, cut them into halves and boil in 2 cups of water for
about 2 mts. Strain the water and set the onions aside to cool. Later grind the onions into a smooth
paste. Prepare smooth paste of ginger and garlic. Grind the masala ingredients into a smooth paste
adding little water.
Heat oil in a pan, fry the gingerly seeds till brown. Add onion paste and fry for about 5 mts. on medium
flame. Add ginger-garlic paste, sauté for another 2 mts., add the masala paste, fry on low flame till oil
leaves the sides. Add chicken, cook on low flame for 15 to 20 mts. Add salt as per taste. Add a cup of
boiled water and cook till the chicken is tender. Garnish with coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
1 kg chicken
½ cup curds
2 chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp chilli powder
2 tbsp coriander powder (Freshly ground)
3 medium sliced onions
Few curry leaves
¼ cup Oil
To be Ground:
1 ½” ginger pieces
5-6 flakes of garlic
5-6 cloves
2 sticks cinnamon
2 tsp. aniseeds
1 tsp. turmeric powder
Method:
Clean the chicken and cut them into pieces. Grind the above masala. Cook the chicken pieces in salt,
curds, tomatoes and the ground paste. Heat oil in a deep non-stick pan, add onions and curry leaves.
Fry them until onions turn golden brown; add coriander powder and chilli powder fry on medium heat
for 3-4 minutes. Add cooked chicken and fry for sometime. Serve hot with parathas or plain rice.
Ingredients:
2 packets of chicken sausages
3 big onions finely sliced
3 big tomatoes finely sliced
2 capsicums diced
2 tbsp pepper powder ( or as per taste)
1 chicken stock
2 tsp soyasauce
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves
Salt as per taste
Method:
Heat oil. Fry the onions till golden brown. Add the pepper powder to it and fry for few minutes. Add the
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tomatoes and saute. Then add the chicken stock, soya sauce, ginger garlic paste and saute. Then
add the sausages and capsicums and boil for 15 mins with little water. Finally garnish with coriander
leaves and serve.
Ingredients:
1.5 Kg Chicken
To Grind
6 Onions
5 Mint Leaves
8 Green Chillies
Ginger 1"
Garlic Flakes 5
Cinnamon Stick 2
Cloves 6
1 Tsp. Kuskus
Pepper Corns 6
To Boil: 3 Medium Size Potatoes (Peel the skin and cut into halves)
Method : Clean and cut the chicken into pieces add salt and keep aside. Grind the masala to a fine
paste. Fry onions in ghee till golden brown. Add capsicum and fry for another 1 minute. Add
tomatoes and fry well until oil separates. Add the ground masala and fry till the masala leaves oil in
the sides. Add chicken pieces, add water and salt according to your taste and cook till done. Lastly
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add potatoes.
Ingredients:
1 kg chicken cut into small pieces
4 large onions sliced
2 large tomatoes sliced
1" ginger (crushed)
4-5 flakes garlic (crushed)
1-11/2 cup fresh coconut
1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
3 tbsp. oil
2 tbsp. chopped coriander
2 tsp. lemon juice
4 cloves
2" cinnamon
Method:
Heat oil in a kadhai, add cloves and cinnamon . When it crackles add the onions, sauté till light brown
and then add sliced tomatoes. Add the chicken, salt and cook on high heat for few minutes. Now add
crushed ginger, garlic and turmeric powder. Add chicken sukka powdered masala, when chicken is
half done. Mix well and cook till chicken is tender. Finally add grated coconut and sauté it for 2
minutes. Add lemon juice and garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
5 - Kg Turkey
4 - tbsp Ghee
To marinate
½ cup - soy sauce
2 tbsp - ginger/garlic paste
2 tsp - pepper powder
½ tsp - ajinamoto ( optional)
For Stuffing:
6 medium slices of white bread (cubed)
2 med size potatoes boiled and cut into small pieces
6 chicken franks cooked and cut into small pieces
½ kg - chicken gizzards including the turkey gizzard (if available)
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½ cup green peas - cooked
2 large onions - chopped and shredded
2" pc ginger - minced
4 green chilies - minced
Half bunch mint & ½ bunch coriander leaves - finely chopped
1 tsp. pepper powder
1 tsp. all spice powder
2 tbsp - raisins
1 tbsp - sugar
1 tbsp vinegar
salt to taste
Method:
Turkey - keep out to thaw for atleast 8-10 hrs. Wash well and pat dry inside and out. With a fork poke
the turkey well. Marinate with above mentioned ingredients and leave in the refrigerator for 8-10 hrs or
overnight.
In a frying pan add 2 tbsp ghee and fry the bread cubes to light brown, remove and keep aside. Add 2
tbsp ghee and fry the onions, when just soft add green chilies and ginger, sauté for 2-3 minutes, keep
down and add all of the remaining stuffing ingredients including the ground paste.
Take out the marinated turkey . Empty any accumulated water in the stomach. Stuff the turkey with
the above stuffing in the stomach and stitch both the ends. Fold and tie the wings & legs. Take a big
aluminum foil, pat some ghee and wrap the turkey well. You may also lay some rashes of bacon on
turkey breast for better flavour and taste. Keep in a baking tray. Pre heat the oven and bake in the hot
oven (gas mark 5) for 3 hrs. Every half an hour open the foil and baste it with the accumulated ghee.
After 3 hrs remove the foil completely, reduce the heat to gas mark 3 and leave it to brown for about
½ an hour. Remove from the oven and cover it with foil and keep warm till you are ready for X'mas
meal.
Serving suggestions: Remove from the foil and keep the cooked turkey in the center of a big serving
tray surrounded with boiled vegetables such as baby carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, baby potatoes,
baby corn, Brussels sprouts (like tiny cabbage) with a dash of salt, pepper and butter.
In a separate bowl keep some cranberry sauce (ready made) or homemade gravy by using the
remaining liquid while baking the turkey, which should be strained, and boiled and thickened by using
a spoon of plain flour or corn flour, mixed with water and seasonings or with the mustard sauce.
Ingredients:
1 egg
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2 tbsp. bread crumbs
1 tbsp. ghee
Salt to taste
Oil to fry
Method:
Wash and drain the chicken cubes. Beat the egg and mix salt, corn flour, soya sauce and bread
crumbs. Add the chicken cubes and marinate for an hour. Heat the oil and deep fry the cubes till
crispy and golden brown. In a separate pan heat the ghee and fry the garlic pieces till brown, add the
kashmeeri chilli powder, ginger garlic paste, chilli sauce and stir until dry. Add the fried crispy chicken
pieces and mix well and serve hot as a starter.
Ingredients:
6 chicken wings
Salt to taste
Method:
Take a wing and break the joint backwards at the end. Remove the small bone that appears
completely. Hold the bone attached to the wing; pull the smooth part downwards completely, so that a
ball like shape forms at the end. Cut the end of the wing. Make all the 6 pieces with the same
procedure. Mix maida, corn flour,chilly powder, Soya sauce, ginger-garlic paste and chicken pieces.
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Keep aside for about 1/2 an hour to 1 hour. Deep fry in oil and serve hot.
Ingredients:
1 ½ kg. 1x 16 cut chicken
20 red chilies
1 tbsp. coriander seeds
¼ tsp. cumin seeds
¼ tsp. fenugreek seeds
1 no. sliced onions
2 gms. tamarind
¼ tsp. turmeric powder
3 flakes garlic
2 tbsp. ghee
2 nos. chopped onion
1 no. coconut - Grate and roast
Method:
Roast separately coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds and sliced onion. Grind the chilies
along with the coriander and cumin seeds first. Add the fenugreek seeds and tamarind later on. Add
turmeric powder and sliced and roasted onion. Grind to a paste and add the garlic flakes at the end.
Remove this smooth masala and keep aside. Grind the roasted coconut coarsely in the same blender
and remove. Reserve the water in which the blender has been washed. In a large pan heat ghee and
fry the chopped onions till golden brown, add the chicken pieces and salt and cover for a while on a
slow flame. Add the masala paste and water kept aside. Cook the chicken till done. Now add the
coarsely ground coconut and cook covered till the water evaporates. Add salt to taste. Serve hot with
Panpolle (Neer Dosas).
20.Panpolle
Ingredients:
250 gms. raw rice
Water
Salt
Method:
Soak rice for about two hours and grind to smooth with water. Add salt to taste and enough water to
make a thin batter. Fry a spoonful of batter on a greased non-stick pan to obtain paper thin dosas.
Fold into four and serve hot.
Ingredients:
Chicken : 1 Kg.
Red Chille Paste : 3 tsp.
Onions : 4-5
Green chillies : 4
Ginger : 125 Gms
Garlic : 1 medium pod
Soya Sauce : 1 tbsp.
Salt : Tp taste
Pepper : 1 tsp.
Ajinomoto : A pinch
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Tomato Ketchup : ½ cup
Capsicum diced : 250 gms & Oil
Method:
Cut chicken into 1 ½ inch pieces and marinate in salt, soya sauce, pepper and ajinomoto for atleast
30 minutes ( If you marinate the chicken for over night it is more tastier). Heat oil in a wok and fry
chicken pieces until golden brown. Remove and keep aside. Mince finely: onions, ginger, garlic and
green chillies. Heat a little oil in a wok and add red chilli paste and onions and fry until onions are light
brown. Add minced ginger, garlic, chillies and stir fry for some time. Put fried chicken pieces and
continue frying until chicken pieces are well coated. Add tomato ketchup. Reduce heat. Cover it and
stir occasionally until chicken is well cooked and gravy thickens. Add capsicum just before serving.
Ingredients:
For grinding:
Fried - green chillies (as above)
1 tsp. black pepper
1 tsp. jeera
lime size tamarind
½ tsp turmeric
2 large onions
Method:
Fry the sliced onion in oil, add ground masala, cook on slow fire until oil separates. Add chicken,
slices of tomato and potato. Add salt. When almost done, add finely cut coriander leaves and let it
simmer for further 5 minutes.
Ingredients:
1 Medium size chicken – (1½ kg., with or without skin)
4 large onions
Few curry leaves
A bunch of coriander leaves
Juice of 1 lime
2 tbsp. ginger & garlic paste (freshly ground in white vinegar)
1 tbsp. jeera powder
1 tbsp. coriander powder
½ tsp. methi seeds (fenugreek)
1 tbsp. whole jeera
1 tsp. kashmiri chilly powder
1 tsp. black pepper powder
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½ tsp. turmeric powder
A pinch of hing (asafoetida)
2 tbsp. refined cooking oil
1 tbsp. ghee
2-3 cups water
Salt to taste
3 tbsp. yoghurt
1 tsp. green chilly sauce
Preparation:
Clean, wash & cut the chicken into medium pieces. Add the lemon juice mix well and keep it aside for
10 mts. Then marinate the chicken with yoghurt and 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste, set aside for 10-15
mts. In a medium size kadai / deep vessel, heat oil & ghee. Add jeera, turmeric and ½ pepper
powder, hing powder and fry for 2 minutes. Add the sliced onions and stir-fry till brown, add the curry
leaves, then the remaining ginger garlic paste and fry till you get an aroma. Then add the chicken,
water and mix well. Close the lid for boiling. Now in a small bowl mix the jeera, coriander, chilly, &
pepper (powders) with some water and mix into a smooth paste. Add this paste to the chicken. Now
add the methi seeds, green chilly sauce & salt as per taste. Cook covered till the chicken is soft. You
may pour little water over the lid for steam purpose. When the oil appears on the surface of the kadai,
the chicken is done and ready to serve. Garnish with freshly chopped coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
1 kg. Chicken
4 medium size onions
4-5 green chillies
½ “ ginger
3 tomatoes
1 maggi cube or salt to taste
½ tbs. chilly powder
½ tbs. cumin powder
½ tbs. coriander powder
½ tbs. turmeric powder
2-3 tbs. oil
Method:
Clean & cut the chicken into medium size pieces. Heat oil in a Kadai. Add chopped onions, green
chillies & ginger, fry till onion turns pink. Add tomatoes and fry well till it turns into a paste. Add chilly,
cumin, coriander & turmeric powder along with maggi cube (or salt) and fry well. Add the chicken
pieces, mix well and leave on slow fire until chicken is done. (Do not add any water). Garnish with
chopped coriander leaves and serve hot. Goes very well with Irani Kubus.
Ingredients:
1 kg. Chicken, cut into pieces
2 onions, sliced
2 tomatoes, sliced
1” ginger, sliced
5 garlic cloves sliced
Salt to taste
1 tsp. red chilly powder
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1 tsp. cumin powder
½ tsp. coriander powder
½ cup curds
½ cup cream
Coriander leaves for garnishing
2 3 tbsp. Oil
Method:
Heat oil in a pan. Add onion and fry till brown, mix the ginger and garlic and fry for a few minutes.
Add the tomatoes and mix well. Fry till the tomatoes are mashed well. Now add chilly, cumin &
coriander powder and fry till oil separates. Beat the curds well and add to the mixture and keep on
stirring. Now add the chicken pieces and cook on slow fire. Lastly add the cream and blend well with
the chicken and garnish with coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
1 kg chicken, cleaned and cut
Half a medium sized coconut, grated
4 to 5 short red chillies
2 to 3 long red chillies
4 to 5 pepper corns
2 tbsp. coriander seeds
½ tbsp cumin seeds
1 lemon sized ball of tamarind
2 onions sliced
½ tsp turmeric powder
4 flakes garlic
¼ tbsp methi seeds
1” piece cinnamon
3 to 4 cloves
¾ cup coconut milk
¼ cup ghee
Method:
Roast the grated coconut until it is light brown in colour. Keep aside. Dry roast the coriander seeds,
cumin, methi seeds, cloves, cinnamon, pepper, garlic, red chillies and one sliced onion and grind to a
smooth paste along with roasted coconut, turmeric powder and tamarind to a smooth paste.
In a pan heat ghee and saute onion. Add chicken, salt and little water. cover and cook on a slow
flame. When chicken is half cooked add the ground masala and half of the coconut milk and stir well.
Cook till the chicken is done. Now add remaining coconut milk and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
Ingredients:
For Stuffing:
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3 green chillies (minced)
1-2 tsp. bafat powder
Salt to taste.
To marinate :
Method:
Boil potatoes and mash them and keep aside. Shallow fry rest of the vegetables till tender and add
sping onions, ginger garlic paste, green chillies and fry till the raw aroma vanishes. Now add bafat
powder and salt continue frying for 5 more minutes on slow flame. Add boiled potatoes Remove from
heat and mix well.
Clean the full chicken well and dry it. Marinate the chicken in the above mentioned ingredients from
inside as well outside properly. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
Stuff chicken with the vegetable masala. Using a needle and thread carefully stitch the opening. Place
it in a preheated oven and grill for 30 minutes till chicken turns golden brown in color. . Serve hot with
Sauce and Salad of your choice by cutting into pieces.
( Those who do not have an oven ,may shallow fry Chicken both the sides on slow flame by turning
sides every 15 minutes till chicken is tender)
Ingredients :
1 Kg. chicken
1 bunch palak
Few coriander leaves
1 onion – sliced
1 tomato – sliced
2 medium potatoes quartered (you can add other vegetable like carrot, radish, etc)
2 tbsp. oil
1 tsp. garam masala powder
Salt to taste
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1/2 bunch coriander leaves
Small ball of tamarind
Method:
Grind the above ingredients into a fine paste. Cut chicken into medium pieces. Boil palak in little
water for 2 minutes make puree. Heat oil in a vessel add sliced onion and fry till it turns pink. Add
chicken, tomoto pieces, coriander leaves with salt and mix well. Add potato pieces and palak puree
and cook on medium flame till chicken and potato pieces are half cooked. Add the ground masala and
cook till the chicken is cooked. Add garam masala powder, stir and switch off the flame. Serve hot.
Ingredients:
1 Kg chicken
Juice of 2 limes
1 tbsp. pepper
3/4 tbsp. jeera
1 tsp. shah jeera
2-3 chatriphull (Star Anise)
4-5 pieces cinnamon
7-8 cloves
2 onions
1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1-2 tbsp. oil
Method:
Cut chicken into small pieces and marinate it with lime, turmeric powder and salt for at least 2-3
hours. Dry grind fine pepper, jeera, shahjeera, chatriphul, cloves, cinnamon. In a little oil, fry thinly
sliced onions well. Add dry ground powder to it and stir fry for a minute. Then add the cut marinated
chicken. Mix well. Cover the vessel with lid. Simmer and cook well until dry. No need to add water.
Check salt and serve hot.
Ingredients:
750 gms chicken, cut into 8 pieces
2 cups basmati rice
3 tbsp ghee
5 cups water
3 bay leaves
4 cloves
2 cinnamon sticks
4 green chillies
2” piece ginger
1 tsp. jeera powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1½ tsp. coriander powder
4 black cardamoms
1 tsp. garam masala
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3 onions, finely sliced
1 tomato, finely chopped
¼ bunch coriander leaves, chopped
½ cup mint leaves, chopped
Salt as per taste.
Method:
Wash and soak the rice for 30 minutes. Drain water and put aside. Boil chicken pieces with cinnamon,
cloves, black cardamom, ginger and a little salt in 5-cups of water. Cook until just tender. Remove
from fire, strain and reserve the chicken pieces and stock separately. Discard whole spices along
with ginger piece. Heat ghee in a heavy bottom vessel. Fry sliced onions until golden brown. Add
green chillies, chopped tomato, chopped coriander leaves and mint leaves. Saute until light brown,
add chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala, jeera powder and salt. Add 4 cups of stock and
add strained rice along with chicken and bring to a boil.. Cover and cook over medium flame until the
liquid gets absorbed. Add little stock if the rice is not cooked. Serve along with raita.
Ingredients:
750 gms. chicken (medium pieces)
1 “ cinnamon
1 tsp. Badi saunf (fennel seeds)
10 curry leaves
3 medium onions (sliced)
½ tbsp. ginger paste
½ tbsp. garlic paste
2 tsp. coriander powder
1 tsp. turmeric powder
2 tbsp. red chilly powder
1 cup thin coconut milk
½ cup thick coconut milk
3 medium tomatoes (chopped)
1 tbsp. tamarind pulp
1 ½ tbsp. oil / ghee
1 tbsp. chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste.
Method:
Heat oil in a thick bottom pan. Add cinnamon & badi saunf, fry until you get the good aroma, now add
the curry leaves along with sliced onions and fry until onions are golden brown. Now add ginger &
garlic paste and keep frying for a minute. Add chilly, coriander & turmeric powders. Continue frying
for a minute and then add tomatoes and salt as per taste and fry till it turns pulpy. Add the chicken,
mix well and fry till the oil rises up. Now add the thin coconut milk & cook the chicken till tender on
low heat. Add little water if required. When the chicken is tender add the tamarind pulp along with
thick coconut milk. Cook for another 2 minutes, garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with
steamed rice or bread of your choice.
Option 1: Coarsely grind 2 cups of grated coconut with little water. Transfer this mixture into a
muslin cloth. Squeeze and extract the thick coconut milk. Now add one cup of warm water to the
residue of the coconut and extract the thin coconut milk.
Option 2 : You can use the ready made coconut milk powder available in the market.
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31. Quick Chicken Sukka
Ingredients:
Method:
In a heavy bottomed pan cook chicken with salt, lime juice and coriander leaves. When half cooked
add bafat powder and mix well.
In a non stick pan roast grated coconut till light brown and add this to the cooked chicken. In the
same pan heat 2-3 tbsp. oil, and fry the sliced onions till brown. Now add the curry leaves and fry for
a minute. Transfer this mixture to the cooked chicken and mix well. Serve hot with rice or rotis.
Ingredients:
1 ½ kg chicken
2 sliced onions
2 sliced tomatoes
2 diced potatoes
¼ bunch coriander leaves - chopped
5 -6 tbsp. oil
Salt to taste
To Grind:
1 tbsp. coriander seeds
1 tsp. jeera
8 pepper corns
1 tbsp. khus-khus (Note: Prohibited in the gulf region)
1 piece cinnamon
5 Red chillies hot
3 Kashmiri chillies
½ cup coconut
¼ tsp. turmeric powder
1 small sized ball tamarind
1 medium size onion
3 flakes garlic
Method:
Cut the chicken into small pieces and boil with 1 sliced onion, tomatoes, potatoes and salt. Heat little
oil fry separately chillies, onion and garlic, all the spices and coconut. Grind the masala with
tamarind. Add ground masala to the boiled chicken and allow simmering till gravy thickens. Add
coriander leaves. Heat oil or ghee fry finely cut onions till crisp and golden brown add this to the
chicken gravy. Serve with panpolle or Sannas.
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33. Sausages (Chicken Franks) with Yogurt
Ingredients:
1 pkt chicken franks (cut into 4 pcs) slit them length wise
100 grams Yogurt
2 tbsp limejuice
A little orange/red color
2 tbsp. bafat powder (if you want spicy then, add more 4 tbsp)
Salt to taste
Method:
Mix yogurt, limejuice, orange/red color, and bafat powder, mix well, add the chicken franks. Marinate
and keep for 1 hr. Fry shallow.
1.4 Kg Chicken
3 Flakes garlic
2" Piece Ginger
¼ Tsp pepper
¼ Tsp ground cinnamon
¼ Tsp Turmeric powder
A pinch of ground cloves
25 ml vinegar
50 Gms. butter
Salt to taste
Wash and dry the chicken. Crush garlic, ginger, pepper, mix with salt and combine with cinnamon,
turmeric, cloves, vinegar and butter. Rub the mixture all over the chicken and let it stand for 2 hours.
Place the chicken in a roasting tray together with the marinate and roast in a moderately hot oven for
one and a half hours, basting occasionally. Remove and keep aside. When cool, cut the chicken into
required size pieces. Separate the gravy.
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5. Tbs Tomato sauce
1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce.
Orange coloring (1/4 tsp mixed in a little water)
Heat 2 Tbs oil, cool it, add mixture A, and cook over a moderate heat, while mixing it, for a few
minutes. Add a little water while frying the mixture and when the oil floats on top, pour in the roast
gravy and both the sauces.
Now add the cut roasted chicken pieces one at a time and simmer. Mix and turn over gently till well
coated. Remove pieces and keep in another pan.
Masala potatoes
Tender cabbage with onion hoops
French bean bundles
Carrots & Apple garnish
Masala potatoes
8-10 medium size potatoes
Boil, peel and fry till the outer portion is slightly crisp and a light golden in color. Potatoes can be kept
whole or cut in half. Mix potatoes in the masala gravy after the chicken pieces have been removed.
Cook over low heat. If the gravy becomes too dry, pour in a little water.
Carrots
Scrape baby carrots (about 250 Gms). Lightly fry one onion in butter, add carrots, pepper and salt to
taste.
Apple garnish
Slice apples (two or three) and fry until golden color.
Serving suggestion:
Arrange the roasted chicken pieces in a flat dish and surround them with masala potatoes, tender
cabbage with onion hoops, carrots and apple garnish.
Ingredients:
8 chicken drumsticks
Step 1: To grind
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12-14 Kashmiri Red Chillies
1 inch ginger piece
3 cloves garlic
1 Maggie chicken cube
1 tbsp soya sauce
Salt and lemon to taste
Step 2
2 tbsp ginger finely chopped
2 tbsp garlic finely chopped
Step 3
1 egg
4 tbsp Maida
4 tbsp Corn flour
2 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
Little red colour
Oil for frying
Method:
Grind the Masala and marinate the chicken in the masala for 8 hours adding chopped ginger, and
garlic. Beat egg, add maida, cornflour, colour, coriander leaves and then add marinated chicken to
this. Mix well and deep fry it.
Ingredients:
1 kg chicken
½ cup curds
12 cloves of garlic
2 tsp. coriander seeds
¼ tsp. ginger
1 tsp. cumin seeds
2 tsp. lemon juice
2 tsp. vinegar
8 kashmiri chillies
2 tsp. cooking oil
1 tsp. red color
Ghee for basting
Salt to taste
Method:
Make a paste with coriander seeds, chillies, black cumin seeds, garlic and ginger. Add salt, cooking
oil, vinegar, curds and red color to the paste and mix it well. Clean and dry the chicken. Make slits
over breast and legs. Apply lemon juice and salt all over. Marinate for half an hour. Apply ground
paste over chicken and marinate further for about 2 hours. Roast either on hot electric grill for 30-40
minutes or an open charcoal grill for 15-20 minutes. Keep applying ghee while roasting. When chicken
is cooked, remove from grill. Serve along with finely sliced onion rings and a twist of lemon.
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Desserts
Ingredients:
1 Medium size gourd
2 cups thick coconut milk
2 cups thin coconut milk
150 - 200 gms jaggery
6-7 cardamoms
10-12 cashew nuts
1 tbsp. raisons
1/2 cup dosa rice
1/2 tsp Salt
Method :
Peel and cut gourd into medium pieces. Boil gourd pieces in little water with salt and grind
it coarsely. Soak dosa rice for 1/2 an hour and grind it to a fine paste. Prepare 2 cups each of thick
and thin coconut milk. Powder Cardamom. In a pan boil gourd paste with jaggery, when it boils add
thin milk and stir well. When this comes to a boil add rice flour stirring continuously to avoid
formation of lumps.Add powdered cardamom, cashew nuts and raisons. When this boils add thick
milk, keep stirring. Boil for another two minutes. Serve hot or cold as per your taste.
2. Coffee Pudding
Ingredients:
3 eggs
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp coffee powder
2 tsp gelatine
Optional:
1/2cup cream
2 tbsp chopped nuts
Method:
Dissolve coffee in one cup of hot water. Allow it to cool. Beat egg yolks with sugar and add to the
coffee. Cook this on low heat (you may use double boiler) till thick. Dissolve gelatine in 1/4cup of hot
water and add to egg mixture. Cool this mixture. Beat egg whites till frothy. Fold this gently into the
above mixture. Put into a mould with a hole in the centre and set it in the refrigerator overnight .
Remove from the mould and serve with cream and nuts.
3. Vorn
Ingredients:
¼ kg moong dal
1 small coconut
¼ cup raw rice
¼ kg jaggery
¼ tsp. cardamom powder
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Few cashew nuts, raisins
Pinch of salt
Method:
Grind coconut with little water and extract about one cup of thick coconut juice. Add little more water
to the ground coconut mixture and extract about 2-3 cups of thin coconut juice and keep aside. Grind
raw rice with little water and keep aside. Cook Dal in little water or with little thin coconut juice till soft.
Add jaggery, thin coconut juice and a pinch of salt. Bring this to a boil. Add cashew nuts and raisins.
Then, slowly add raw rice batter and stir continuously so that no lumps form. Bring this to a boil, till
the mixture thickens. Finally add thick coconut juice, keep stirring and close after a boil. Add
cardamom powder.
Ingredients:
150 ml Milkmaid
500 gms Yoghurt
3 tbsp. honey
1 ½ tbsp. gelatin
50 gms raisins (soaked overnight)
½ cup water
Method:
In a bowl combine milkmaid, yoghurt and honey into a smooth mix. Dissolve gelatin in warm water.
Boil the dissolved gelatin in a double boiler on slow flame till it turns into yellow colour. Set it aside to
cool. Mix the gelatin to the yoghurt mixture and allow it to set in the refrigerator. When the dessert is
half set, sprinkle the raisins and return it to the refrigerator. It takes 2- 3 hours to set.
Ingredients:
1 pkt. of Royal Jelly ( mango flavour)
½ tin condensed milk
1 tin cream ( KDD or Nestle cream)
1 sachet dream whip mixed in ½ cup cold milk
1 cup mango pulp
1/2 cup hot water
1/2 cup cold water
Method:
Set jelly before hand using only ½ cup hot water & 1/2 cup cold water. Once well set blend with
Mango pulp. With a beater , mix this mixture with condensed milk, cream, and dream whip. Pour in
a glass bowl and refrigerate. Decorate with fruit slices.
Note: Strawberry, Orange or Pineapple soufflé can be prepared by substituting the jelly and fruit pulp
of strawberry, orange and pineapple.
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6. Shahi Tukra
Ingredients:
Method:
1. Remove the crust and cut each piece of bread in triangular pieces.
2. Deep fry the bread slices till brown and drain the excess oil from the bread. ( You can also toast the
bread if you don't want to fry in the oil).
3. Remove and arrange the bread slices in a serving dish.
4. Boil the milk on slow fire in a heavy bottom pan till it reduces to half its quantity. Ensure the milk
does not get burnt.
5. Add milk powder, sugar, cream, cardamoms, vanilla essence and saffron to the milk and cook it for
5 to 7 minutes till the mixture reaches the pouring consistency.
6. Pour the mixture evenly over the fried breads till the bread slices are fully covered.
7. Garnish it with chopped almonds, cashew nuts and raisins.
8. Chill it before serving.
Ingredients:
4 tbsp butter
100 gms chocolate
400 gms condensed milk
1/2 cup walnuts powdered
1/2 cup koya grated
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
Method:
Heat a pan, add butter,chocolate, condensed milk and keep stiring for 2-3minutes. Now add the
powdered walnuts, grated koya and vanilla essence and mix thoroughly.
Take a greased tray and pour the above mixture. Leave to cool. Later keep in the refrigerator to set.
Once set cut into desired shapes and serve.
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EGG
Ingredients
4-5 eggs boiled
6 potatoes (boiled and mashed)
1 tbsp.Worchestershire sauce
1 tbsp.maida (refined flour)
2 tbsp fresh cream
2 tbsp cheese
1 egg
Bread crumbs
salt to taste
Method
2. EGG BALLS
Ingredients:
4 Eggs (separate egg yolk & white)
1 ½ Ltr.milk
1 cup sugar
Cardamom
Method:
1. Take a non-stick deep casserole or kadai. Boil milk till it reaches ¾ of the quantity. While the milk is
boiling, beat the egg whites till frothy. When the milk has reached to ¾ 3 of the quantity add sugar and
cardamom. Then take a tablespoon of egg white froth and leave it into the boiling milk, go on doing till
the froth is over. Simultaneously keep on turning the froth that has been dropped in the milk. Now
beat the egg yolk slightly and pour the same in the milk (this helps to thicken the milk). Let it cook for
5 more minutes. Then allow it to cool and later refrigerate it. This recipe if cooked properly gives the
taste of Ras Malai.
Ingredients:
1 cup cooked basmati rice
1 egg
1 tbsp. ghee
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Turmeric powder (a pinch)
Chillie powder (a pinch)
Salt to taste
Method:
Mix raw egg in a bowl with turmeric, chilli powder & salt. Beat it well, till foam is formed. In a pan put
ghee & fry cooked rice for 3-4 minutes till it is slightly dry. Add the egg mixture slowly & mix it up with
rice so that rice is well coated. Keep tossing it for 4 –5 minutes . Serve with tomato sauce or green
chutney.
4. EGG CRISPIES
Ingredients:
Method:
Shell the eggs. Cut into half crosswise and take out yolks and mash. Roast ½ tbsp gramflour and mix
the above stuffings to the yolk along with roasted gramflour. Fill the egg whites with the stuffings and
keep aside. Prepare batter by adding water to the other gram flour,making it to a smooth paste.
Season with ground paste, salt and chillie powder. Set aside for ½ an hour. Stir well before use. Heat
oil in a pan, dip the eggs in the batter, deep fry until golden brown. Drain on to a absorbent paper.
Serve hot with tomato sauce
5. Egg Curry
Ingredients:
12 eggs
3 potatoes
To Grind:
4 medium onions
2 flakes garlic
1” ginger
4 red long chilies
3 red short chilies
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¼ tbsp turmeric
½ tbsp cumin
¼ tbsp mustard
Small ball of tamarind
3 cloves
2 pieces cinnamon
8 -10-pepper corns
¾ tbsp khuskus (note: this item is banned in some of the Gulf Countries)
1 big tomato
For Seasoning:
Method:
Boil the eggs and potatoes. Halve the eggs. Cut the potatoes into cubes. Grind all the ingredients
above mentioned into fine paste.
Heat oil in a pan and fry sliced onion till brown. Then add the masala and fry for 3 to 5 minutes. Add
chopped tomato and fry with the masala. Add little masala water. When it starts to boil add salt,
vinegar and sugar. Later put the eggs and potatoes. Allow it to boil.
6. EGG CUTLET
Ingredients
Method
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7. EGG DELIGHT
Ingredients:
6 hard boiled eggs
Pepper and Salt to taste
Mayonnaise
Lettuce
Method:
Slice the eggs vertically into halves. Remove the yolks into a separate bowl. Mash the yolks well with
a fork. Sprinkle pepper and salt according to taste. Add enough mayonnaise to the mixture to make a
paste. Fill the paste into a piping nozzle (you may use the cake piping nozzles) and pipe out the paste
in a decorative style into the hollow of the whites of the egg.
8. EGG FLORENTINE
Ingredients:
2 eggs,
2 cups minced spinach
2 cups milk
2 onions large
2 level tbsp.maida
4 tsp. butter
Sat & pepper to taste
4 tbsp grated cheese
Dash of mustard powder and a dash of lemon juice.
Method:
Heat 2 spoons of butter gently, remove from heat and stir in flour.
Return to heat and cook gently for a few minutes.
Again remove from heat and gradually blend in the cold milk, cheese and egg yolks. Bring it to boil
and cook, stirring well until smooth.
Remove and season with salt, pepper, mustard and lime juice.
In 2 tbsp butter fry onions first, then spinach for 15 minutes.
In a baking dish, mix the spinach, onions and white sauce. Add the egg whites beaten stiff lightly into
the mixture. Bake in a hot oven for 15 mins.
N.B.: Grated carrots or 1 cup of boiled corn can be used instead of spinach.
9. EGG MAHARANI
Ingredients
Eggs 8
Onions 2 ( thinly sliced)
Tomato 2
Ginger paste : ½ tsp.
Garlic paste : 1 tsp.
Cardamom : 2-3
Cinamon - ½ inch
Cloves - 2
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Jeera - ½ tsp.
Chilli powder - 1 sp.
Tomato sauce -2 tsp.
Cashew nuts - ½ handful.
2 tbsp.oil.
Few coriander leaves
Salt to taste
Method: Boil eggs and cut into half. Saute the sliced onions till golden brown. Grind fried onions along
with other ingredients mentioned above. Heat oil in a pan and fry the ground masala on low flame for
10-15 minutes. Add water if needed. Add the eggs and salt and bring to a boil, top with chopped
coriander leaves and remove from heat.
Ingredients:
1 cup fresh curds
4 eggs
1 cup green peas
1 tbsp. lime juice
Salt to taste
½ tsp. chilly powder
¼ tsp. turmeric powder
A pinch of hing
¼ tsp. cumin seeds
2-3 flakes garlic
¼ tsp. fenugreek seeds
Few coriander leaves-chopped finely
2 tbsp. oil
2 green chillies
Method:
Beat curds with salt, chilly powder, turmeric powder, lemon juice and mix it well. Keep aside. Boil
eggs, shell, cut into two. Cook green peas in boiling water till done. Add to curds after draining and
cooling them. Heat the oil, add hing, fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds, slit green chillies, garlic and fry,
and pour over the curds. Mix in the boiled eggs and garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Keep it
aside for at least 15 minutes before serving.
11.Egg-Sausage Omlette
Ingredients:
5-6 chicken sausages
2 eggs
½ tsp. kashmiri chilli powder
1/4 tsp. coriander powder
1/4 tsp. turmeric powder
1/4 tsp. pepper powder
1/4 tsp. garam masala
2 tbsp Oil
Salt as per taste
1/2 capsicum cut into small pieces (optional)
Method:
Cut sausages into round slices and fry in 2 tbsp oil in a non stick pan till light brown and keep aside.
Beat eggs; add all powders, salt and set aside for 2 minutes. In the pan spread sausage slices evenly
and pour the egg mixture filling the entire pan. Sprinkle finely cut capsicum pieces over the egg
mixture. Cover and cook for 2 minutes. Serve hot.
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12. STUFFED EGG CURRY
Ingredients:
8-10 eggs
8 kashmiri chillies dry
1 tsp. cumin seeds
6 pepper corns
¼ tsp. methi seeds
1 tbsp. coriander seeds
¼" turmeric
3 tbsp. urad dhal
2 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
Salt as required
To Fry:
8 -10 medium onions (Cut lengthwise)
¼ bunch coriander leaves (Chopped)
4 tomatoes (Chopped)
1 small capsicum (Chopped)
3 tbsp. oil
Method:
In a pan dry roast together Kashmiri Chillies, Coriander Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Methi Seeds, Pepper
Corns, Urad Dhal, Cloves, Cinnamon Stick and Turmeric. Powder all these ingredients adding salt to
it. Boil Eggs, remove shells, slit eggs with a knife up to ¾ and stuff the powder inside. Heat Oil in a
pan fry Onions, Chopped Coriander Leaves, Chopped Capsicum and Chopped Tomatoes for 3-4
minutes. Add the Stuffed Eggs and rest of the powder on top. Add a little water. Cook till thick and
seasoning absorbs into the eggs.
Ingredients:
100 gms. button mushrooms
4-5 hard boiled eggs
3-4 tbsp. oil
1 cup thick coconut milk
2-3 tbsp. lime juice
Salt to taste
For garnishing:
Coriander leaves
Paste:
6-8 dry long red chillies
A small piece of ginger
3-4 flakes of garlic
Method:
Grind red chillies, ginger and garlic to a smoth paste . Heat the oil in a pan and fry the mushrooms 3-
4 minutes. Mix the spice paste and mix the coconut milk. Mix well. Add half cup of water and bring
the gravy to the boil. Add lime juice and salt. Now add the boiled eggs and allow the gravy to simmer
for 2-3 minutes. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot with steamed rice.
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FISH
INGREDIENTS:
METHOD:
Rinse the crabs in running water. Remove the shells and cut each into two pieces. In a pan, roast
coconut till light brown and keep aside. Roast red chillies, cinnamom, cloves, cardamon, pepper and
coriander seeds lightly, Grind them together with ginger and garlic. Heat oil add onion and green
chillies, curry leaves and saute till brown. . Add the gound paste and cook till the oil separates from
the gravy. Add crabs and stir. Add water, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Adjust salt. Serve hot with
boiled rice.
Ingredients:
1 kg. prawns
1 - 2 tsp. pepper powder
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
Juice of 1 lime
½ cup all purpose flour
½ cup corn flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. sugar
1 egg
2/3 cup ice water
Yellow food colour (0ptional)
Salt as per taste
Oil for deep frying
Method:
Marinate prawns in salt, pepper, ginger garlic paste and lime juice for about an hour. Sift together the
all purpose flour, corn flour, baking powder and baking soda. Beat egg slightly and mix with the cold
water, sugar, salt and a few drops of the food colour (optional) . Add the sifted dry ingredients to the
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egg mixture and mix well and set aside in the refrigerator for an hour.
Heat oil in a pan for deep frying. Dip prawns in the batter and deep fry the prawns until golden brown.
Drain and serve hot with chutney of your choice or tomato ketchup.
Fish Required:
For masala:
2 tbsp. coconut
2 big onions
1 medium tomatoes
10-15 pepper
5-8 Sounp
For seasoning: 1 medium onion spring cut; 1 medium tomato - cut into 6 pcs.
Method:
Cut spring onion and fry in oil, till it gives aroma and becomes brown in color. Then add tomato
pieces. (Don‟t break tomatoes in the oil) Then add masala paste fry for 2-3 minutes, add sufficient
water, salt and vinegar. Leave it to get its mild first boil then add fish (cut into medium size pieces.
You will enjoy with rice or if you make curry little thick you can have with wheat bread
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4. Cat/Shark Fish Curry
Fish Required:
1 big cat fish or shark
Ingredients:
4-5 big onions
2 tbsp. coriander seeds
½ tbsp. cumin seeds
¼ tsp. mustard seeds
10 pepper corns
½ tsp. turmeric powder
3 tbsp. tamarind pulp
10 kashmiri red chillies
4 garlic flakes
Method:
Cut the fish, apply salt and wash after 15 minutes. Grind all the above ingredients to a fine paste and
keep aside. Heat 3 tbsp oil in a pan and sauté 2 medium sliced onions till golden brown. Add 2 sprigs
of fresh curry leaves and stir fry. Add the ground paste and water. Bring it to a boil. Add fish pieces,
salt and let it boil for few minutes. Serve hot with steamed rice.
5. Crab Pepper
Ingredients:
1 kg. Crabs
4 onions
2 medium sized tomatoes
4 tsps. Pepper powder (or more if you want it a bit spicy)
1 chicken soup cube
2 tbsps. lime juice
Method:
Fry onions till light brown, add tomatoes. Then add soup cube and pepper powder and 2 tsps. of lime
juice. Add crabs and boil till cooked with very little water. Salt to be added per taste if soup cube is
not added.
6. Crab Salad
Ingredients:
2 cups cooked cooled crabmeat, flaked
1 cup diced celery
¼ cup chopped green or red bell pepper
1 tsp. Salt or to taste
¼ tsp. Pepper
1 tbsp. Fresh lemon juice
3 tbsp. Mayonnaise
Mixed salad greens
6 avocado wedges, optional
Method:
Mix crabmeat with diced celery, chopped bell pepper, lemon juice, and mayonnaise. Serve over
mixed greens with a slice of avocado, if desired.
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7. CRISPY NOODLES AND PRAWNS
Ingredients:
METHOD
Pull the rice vermicielli into strands. Heat 3 tbsp oil in a wok, fry
vermicelli until puffed and crispy. Drain and keep warm.
Heat remaining 1 tbsp oil in a wok, stir fry shallots, garlic, corn ,
pepper, prawns and bacon and sauce. Heat and keep warm. Before serving
toss with vermicelli.
Beat eggs, make an omelette, sprinkle with sesame seeds and chives,
roll up, slice then serve on top of stir fry.
8. FISH BIRYANI
Ingredients
(Green Masala) - 6 to 7 mint leaves , handful of coriander leaves, 2 inch of ginger piece, 6 to 7 flakes
of garlic, 3 green chillies, ½ spoon of jeera, tamarind, (all to be ground)
Method:
1. Wash the fish and apply little vinegar, salt and turmeric powder and keep aside for 15 to 20
minutes then wash the fish and apply little red chilly powder, salt and vinegar and keep it for
20 to 30 minutes, fry the fish slightly and keep the fish aside.
2. Mix the Shan Fish Biryani mix and curds and keep aside.
3. Grind the green masala and keep aside.
4. Also grind the tomatoes separately and keep aside.
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5. Par boil the rice with Garam Masala.(lavang and tikki)
6. In a Handi put oil and add kadipatta, then put the 2 chopped onions and fry well till brown,
then put the fish biryani mix and curds,bay leaves and fry well.
7. Once the above is fried add the green masala and fry well and then add tomatoe paste and
fry well once the masala is fried well add the fried fish to it and shake it slightly so the fish is
covered with the gravy.
8. In another vessel make layer of rice, then add half of the fish gravy then sprinkle it with
coriander and mint leaves and fried onions, repeat the rice layer procedure again.
9. Cover it tightly with foil and lid and keep it on a tawa on very slow
fire for 20 to 25 minutes.
9. Fish Caldeen
Fish Required:
Ingredients :
1 coconut grated
15 Peppercorns
2 onions sliced
2 tbsps. vinegar
4 tbsps. oil
Salt to taste
Method :
Clean and slice the fish. Marinate the fish in a little salt and keep aside. Grind the Coconut, rice,
cumin, coriander, peppercorns and turmeric with two cups of water. Extract thick milk from it and
keep aside. Grind again adding 2 more cups of water and extract thin milk. Heat oil and put in the
curry leaves. Add sliced onions and fry for sometime. Add the tomatoes and slit green chillies and fry
for a minute. Add the sliced fish (wash off the salt from the fish before adding it to the pan) and fry
well for about 3 minutes taking care that the fish does not break. Add the Vinegar, fry for a minute
and then add the thin milk. Let it boil well till the fish is cooked. Finally add the thick milk, wait till it
boils and remove from fire. The curry should be fairly thick. Serve with rice or khaboos.
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10 Fish Curry – Mangalorean Type
Fish Required:
1 kg King Fish (Surmai) White Pomfret or Lady Fish
Ingredients:
4 tbsp. coconut milk powder mixed in little warm water
1 – 2 tbsp. vinegar
Salt to taste
4 tbsp. sun flower oil for seasoning
Cut-ups:
1 medium size onion
1 medium size tomato
¼” ginger
4 cloves garlic
3 green chilies
1 to 2 tbsp. vinegar
Seasoning: 1 medium size onion
For Masala:
6 kashmiri chilies
3 short chilies (round type)
4 long red chilies
6 tbsps. fresh grated coconut
¼ tsp. turmeric
1 ¼ tbsp. coriander seeds
½ tsp. jeera
3 pepper corns
½ tsp. raw rice
1 medium onion
1 small clove garlic
¼” ginger
Small ball of tamarind
Method:
Clean the fish & cut into pieces & keep aside. Grind ingredients of masala into a fine paste & keep
aside. Clean mixer / grinder with little water & keep aside. Cut onion into thick slices. Slit green
chilies lengthwise, cut ginger into small pieces cut each garlic flake into 3 pieces, peal tomato skin by
heating tomato on fire & cut into pieces. Cut the onion for seasoning in to thin slices. Heat oil in a
vessel. Fry onion till brown. Put the masala water, which is kept aside & cut-ups except onion, boil till
green chilly changes colour. Add fish, ground masala and the onion which is cut into thick slices. Add
required quantity of water, vinegar and salt. When the curry starts boiling add coconut milk and put
off the fire. Serve hot with boiled Rice.
Ingredients:
½ kg fish ( King fish/ pomfret )
1 medium onion
5-6 cloves garlic
¼" cinnamon stick
1 clove
½” ginger
1 green chilli
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Salt, according to your taste
2-4 curry leaves
½ tsp. mustard seeds
½ tsp. cumin powder
1 tsp. corriander powder
¼ tsp. turmeric powder
1 tomato (deseeded)
½ - 1 tsp. red chilli powder
1 serving spoon yoghurt (for thicker gravy add 1 more spoon of yoghurt)
¼ cup water
1-2 tbsp. oil
Method:
Clean and cut the fish into desired pieces and keep aside. Now in a pan heat the oil, splutter mustard
seeds. Add curry leaves and fry, later add ginger,garlic,onion,green chilli,clove,cinnamon stick and
fry for 1-2 minutes on medium or low flame. Now add all other powdered spices and fry for a few
seconds. (do not burn). Add the chopped or sliced tomato and mix well, cover for a minute and stir
again. In the mixer whip the yoghurt with salt, add the fried masala and grind to a fine puree, keep
aside in a bowl. Reserve the water used to rinse the mixer in a seperate bowl. Using the same pan,
fry the fish on medium or high flame for few seconds. Pour the yoghurt & masala puree over the fish
and cover. Cook on medium flame for 12 minutes or till the fish is well cooked. Add the masala
water for thin gravy. For thicker gravy no need to add water.
Ingredients
Method
In a frying pan, add 3 tbsp. of oil and fry diced onion, green chilies, garlic and ginger till the onion is
golden brown. Add coriander and mint leaves. Add boiled de-boned fish and continue frying. Add salt
and pepper to taste, remove from heat and cool. Add mashed potatoes, salt and mix into a dough.
Form into cutlets of desired shape [round, long fingers, oval, heart shaped etc. Beat egg with little salt
and pepper. Coat cutlets in egg and roll in breadcrumbs. Heat 4 tbsp. of oil in a frying pan and
shallow fry until golden brown on both sides. Serve hot with onion rings and garnish with coriander
leaves
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13. Fish Cutlets (Tuna)
Ingredients:
Method:
Heat 2 tbsp. oil in a pan and stir fry finely chopped onions, ginger, garlic and green chillies till soft.
Add turmeric, pepper powder, chilly powder (optional). Then add the fish, lime juice , garam masala
powder and coriander leaves along with salt. Fry for two minutes.
Make bread crumbs of 6 slices . Add crumbs of about two slices to the fish mixture. Mix well and
make cutlets of oblong shape. Beat an egg. Dip the cutlets in the beaten egg and roll in bread
crumbs. Deep fry in hot oil. Serve with tomato ketchup.
Note: Fresh king fish can be used instead of tinned fish. Fish without bones should be cooked in little
water with turmeric and salt before adding to the onion mixture.
Ingredients:
1. 120gms x 4 red snapper/hamour fillets
2. 2 eggs
3. 4 tbsp cornflour
4. crushed cornflakes, to coat the fillets
5. Oil for frying
6. 125 ml water
1. Juice of 2 Lemons
2. 1 tbsp turmeric powder
3. 1 tbsp red chilli powder
4. 1 tbsp ginger paste
5. 1 tbsp garlic paste
6. 1 tbsp ajwain (carrom seed) powder
7. 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
8. Salt to taste
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9. 4 tbsp oil
Method
Clean fish and remove bones. Mix all the ingredients for the marinade and marinate the fish in this for
a least two to three hours. Make a light batter with eggs, salt, cornflour and water. Dip the fillets in
batter, drain off excess and coat with cornflakes. Deep fry fish till light golden and crispy. Serve hot
with lemon wedges.
Ingredients:
½ kg fish of your choice ( king fish, lady fish, pomfrets ,mackerels)
2 tsp. bafat powder or ½ tsp. chilly powder
¼ tsp. turmeric
2 tbsp. lime juice
1 onion finely chopped
3 tbsp. oil
Few curry leaves
Salt as per taste
Method:
Cut ,clean fish and set aside. Mix bafat / chilly powder, turmeric, lime juice and little salt into a paste
with little water if required. Apply this paste on the fish and set aside for about 30 minutes. In a non
stick pan heat 1 tbsp. of oil and shallow fry the fish on both the sides till light brown and set aside.
Grind the masala ingredients into a fine paste. Heat 2 tbsp. of oil in a heavy bottomed pan. Fry finely
chopped onion with curry leaves till pink. Add the ground masala and fry till you a get good aroma
and oil separates from masala. Add salt as per your taste. Place the fried fish over the masala in the
pan and coat the fish gently with the fried masala. Cook on slow fire for 5 minutes.
Ingredients:
½ kg. prawns -peeled and de-veined
1 cup coconut finely grated
Tamarind (size of a small lemon)
5-6 whole black pepper
1 tsp. turmeric powder
½ tsp. chilli powder
3-4 green chillies cut into half
1 tsp. coriander powder
1 tsp. cumin powder
2 onions- finely chopped
Salt to taste, Oil & Water
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Method:
Wash prawns and marinate with salt, turmeric powder and chilli powder. Grind grated coconut with
tamarind and black pepper to fine paste. Set aside. In little oil, (1-2 tsp) fry onions till golden brown.
Add coriander,cumin powder and prawns , for a minute. Add 1 cup of water with cut green chillies
.Cover & cook. Once prawns are cooked (to check take a piece out and try to break it - if it easily
does then it's cooked) add coconut paste to it. Let the curry boil, uncovered for 5-10 minutes. Adjust
the consistency by adding water. Add salt if required. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with
plain white rice
Tip: For great taste, cook this curry 2-3 hours before serving.
Fish Required:
1 KG Hamour Fish / Pomfret / Shetkam
Ingredients:
Fresh coconut milk thick and thin separately
1 tbsp. roasted coriander
½ tsp. roasted jeera
¼ tsp. mustard
¼ tsp. omum
4-5 pepper corns
A pinch of roasted methi seeds
5 small red chillies,
6-7 Kashmiri chillies
Little turmeric powder
A small ball of tamarind
Two medium size onions (only one onion need to be used for grinding)
Two flakes of garlic.
Salt to taste
Method:
All the above ingredients have to be ground finely together with onion and garlic in thin coconut milk.
Once the ground masala is ready, in a dekchi heat two spoons of cooking oil and fry a sliced onion
until golden brown. Add the ground masala and fry for about 5-8 minutes. Add water to the masala
and keep it to the required thickness. Bring the curry to a good boil, add the cleaned hamour pieces
and bring to a reasonable boil. Add the thick coconut milk and bring it to a good boil once again and
serve with rice.
INGREDIENTS:
GRIND TOGETHER:
1. 1 medium onion
2. 6 cloves garlic
3. 1 tsp cumin
4. 3 tsp coriander
5. ½ tsp turmeric
6. 10 red chillies
7. ¼ coconut scraped
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8. Small ball of tamarind
SLICE FINE:
1. Small onion
2. 2 green chillies
3. 2.5" ginger
METHOD:
Dry roast ingredients 3-7, grind with the remaining ingredients to a paste. Heat two spoons of oil. Add
a sprig of curry leaves. Add ground masala. Fry well till the raw smell goes. Add sufficient water, salt
and sliced masala. Let the curry come to a boil, then simmer for 10 minutes. The curry should be fairly
thick. Add fish pieces. Remove from the fire when fish is cooked.
INGREDIENTS:
1. 12 Medium sized lady fish, cleaned and cut into 2 pieces each.
4. Salt to taste
FOR MASALA
6. ½ coconut grated
8. 6 flakes garlic
METHOD:
Grind masala ingredients to a fine paste. Mix enough water to the masala to make it into medium
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consistency. Keep coconut oil in a flat vessel and fry onion, until brown. Add the ground masala with
salt to taste. When the masala boils add the cut fish and keep on slow fire until cooked.
Ingredients:
1 fried onion
Oil as required
For Masala:
1 tbsp coriander
1 tsp jeera
10 pepper corns
6 red chillies
3 kashmiri chillies
4 tbsp coconut
1 medium onion
3 flake of garlic
Salt to taste
Method:
Clean the fish put salt and turmeric keep aside for 15 minutes and again clean it. Grind the masala
ingredients to a fine paste. In a vessel put oil, fry the onions till light brown, remove and keep the fried
onion. In the remaining oil put masala and fry for a few minutes, add enough water curry should be
thick, when the curry starts to boil put fish and enough salt, boil for a few minutes, finally add fried
onion.
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21. King Fish (Surmai) Masala
Ingredients:
Method:
Marinate the fish with a pinch of salt, turmeric powder and chilli powder for 15 minutes. Later shallow
fry the fish slightly on both the sides in a pan with very little oil and set aside.
Heat 1 tbsp. of oil in a non stick pan and add 1 sliced onion, ginger, garlic and green chillies and sauté
till they turn brown. Remove this and set aside.
In the same pan add red chilly powder, coriander powder, pepper powder, fenugreek, garam masala
and turmeric powder and fry on slow flame till good aroma comes. Later, grind both the sauted
mixtures together into a smooth paste.
Heat 1 –2 tbsp. of oil in a pan, add curry leaves and 3 sliced onions and sauté till they turn brown. Add
the ground masala and mix well for a minute. Add finely chopped tomatoes and salt to taste and mix till
everything becomes a paste. Add the tamarind pulp and fish. Cover the pan and let it simmer for 5- 10
minutes.
Fish Required:
½ Kg. (cut into 1 ½ inch cubes) King Fish
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Ingredients for the Gravy:
3 Onions
3 green chillies
1 capsicum
¼ tsp. aginomoto
1 tsp. ginger garlic paste
Chilli Sauce, Soya Sauce, Tomato Sauce – according to taste.
Corn Flour mixed in water.
Method:
Marinate the fish cubes with the above mentioned ingredients for 2 hours, deep fry and keep aside.
Fry onion, ginger garlic paste to golden brown, add green chillies and capsicum continue frying, now
add three types of sauce, Ajinomoto, corm flour mixed in water and bring to a boil. As the gravy
thickens add fried fish pieces stirring constantly for 2 minutes. (Salt can be added if necessary).
Garnish with onion rings and coriander leaves, just before serving.
INGREDIENTS:
FOR MASALA
2. ½ coconut scraped
3. 20 red chillies
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15. 1 onion chopped
For seasoning
METHOD:
Wash the kubae (shell fish) before opening to remove mud and sand atleast 3-4 times. Break the
shell fish into two and keep only the part with flesh in it.
Fry the masala ingredients from 3 – 8 in a little coconut oil. Then grind all the ingredients from 3 – 12
to a fine paste. Remove the masala and add to the cleaned shell-fish. Grind coconut with jeera and
garlic flakes to a rough paste. Remove.
Add chopped onion and salt to the shell-fish and cook till done. Add the rough coconut paste and
cook on slow fire till it becomes almost dry.
Keep coconut oil in a vessel and add chopped onion and garlic flakes and fry. Then pour curry over
seasoning. Cover and remove from fire.
Grind:
1. 6 Kashmiri Chillies (if you need spicy put more chillies)
2. 3 tsp coriander seeds
3. 1 tsp cumin seeds
4. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
5. 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
6. 3 cloves garlic
7. 10 tbs descicated coconut
8. 1 big onion
METHOD: In the vessel put 4 tbs oil, when the oil is hot put one sliced onion fry till brown, now put
ground masala fry nicely for 5 minutes add water and make gravy and let it boil, then put cleaned shell
fish when it boils put rotis. After 2-3 minutes put off the gas.
For Rotis
2 cups boiled rice soak overnight. In the morning grind with salt (batter should be medium thick).
Apply oil to the pan and make rotis. Fry on both the sides.
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Ingredients:
5 -6 mackerels
Oil for frying
To Grind:
Method:
Clean and slit the mackerals on either sides of the centre bone. Grind the above mentioned
ingredients in vinegar into a coarse paste. Stuff the masala paste inside the mackerals evenly and
also coat from outside slightly and set aside for sometime. You may loosely tie each mackerel with
thread and deep fry or shallow fry in hot oil. Serve hot with onion rings on a bed of lettuce leaves.
Ingredients:
4– 5 big mackerels
Banana leaf
3 finely chopped onions
2 green chilles chopped
1 “ Ginger piece
5-6 cloves garlic chopped
1 tbsp. oil
To grind:
1 onion
Very Small ball of tamarind
1 tbsp. Jeera
8 pepper corns
1/2 tsp.turmeric
2 cloves
½ “ cinnamon
5-6 long red chilles
2 - 3 tbsp. vinegar
Salt as per taste
Method:
Coarsley grind the above mentioned ingredients with vinegar and very little water. Clean the
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mackerels and put cuts on them. Marinate the mackerels in ground masala for 1 hour. Mix little
masala to the chopped onions, ginger, garlic and green chillies and set aside. Spread the banana leaf
in a heavy bottomed pan. Put oil and spread some onion mixture. Keep the mackerels over this
mixture. Again spread onion mixture. Cover with a deep plate with little water in it. Cook on very slow
flame for about 20 to 30 minutes. If there is more water in the gravy, keep it on high flame for
sometime and dry the excess water. Serve hot.
Ingredients:
Method: Place some oil in a pan and place on a low heat burner. Cut onions, garlic and ginger into
small pieces and fry them until they are little brown. Add the powdered masalas and green peppers.
Fry for few minutes. Mix tomato sauce and sour cream (instead of sour cream, you can also use milk).
Add about half a gallon of water and stir. Add vinegar. Cut three foot long macreals, clean them and
place them in the boiling pan. Add salt according to your taste. Let the fish boil for ten minutes.Serve
fish curry with parboiled rice.
Ingredients:
2-3 (300-350gms each) pomfrets
1 tbsp lemon juice
Salt to taste
1 medium sized onion
¼ cup fresh coriander leaves
3 tbsps oil
For paste:
2-3 cloves garlic
1 onions
½ tsp. peppercorns
2 tsps. coriander seeds
1 tsp. cumin Seeds
1 tsp. turmeric powder
6-8 red chillies whole
1 cup coconut (scraped)
½ cup coconut milk
1 lemon sized ball tamarind
Method:
Clean, wash and cut fish into one and half inch thick slices and pat dry with an absorbent kitchen
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towel. Mix lemon juice with a little salt, apply liberally on the fish slices and keep aside. Peel and finely
chop onion. Clean, wash and chop fresh coriander leaves. Peel garlic. Soak tamarind in one cup of
warm water for half an hour, remove the pulp, strain and keep aside. Dry roast peppercorns, garlic,
red chillies and coriander seeds separately and grind to a paste along with scraped coconut. Heat oil
in a pan, add chopped onion and stir-fry for two minutes or till translucent. Add masala paste and
turmeric powder and sauté for two to three minutes. Add two cups warm water, tamarind pulp and
salt. Bring it to a boil, reduce heat and cook further on medium heat for three to four minutes. Gently
slide in the pomfret slices and cook on medium heat for four to five minutes or till the fish is firm and
cooked. Stir in coconut milk, reduce heat and simmer for a minute. Garnish with chopped coriander
leaves and serve hot accompanied with steamed rice.
TIP: You can replace pomfret with any other fish or seafood in this recipe.
Ingredients:
To Grind:
1/2 grated coconut
1-2 tbsp. coriander
1 tsp. cumin (jeera)
1 pinch mustard
1-2 flakes garlic
Tamarind (lime size)
1 big onion
3 short red chillies
4-5 red long chillies
7-8 pepper corns & 1/2 tsp. turmeric
Seasoning:
2 tbsp. oil
1 big onion (sliced)
1 big tomatoe (finely chopped)
Method:
Clean and cut fish. Grind the masala ingredients with little water into a fine paste. Heat oil in a vessel,
fry half of the sliced onion till pink. Add tomatoe, fry well. Add the ground masala and fry for few
minutes. Mix the masala water and adjust the consistency of the gravy. Add the remaining sliced
onion and bring the gravy to a boil. Add coconut milk and salt. Finally add fish and cook on slow fire
till fish is cooked. Serve hot with boiled rice.
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Ingredients:
1kg. Pomfrets (washed and sliced)
To grind:
5 large onions
1 bunch coriander leaves
1 tsp. cumin seeds
8 green chillies
½ tsp. turmeric powder
3 mint leaves
¾ " ginger
5 garlic flakes
3 cloves
¼ tsp. Methi seeds
6 pepper corns
Small ball of tamarind
To fry:
1 onion
1 tomato
1 tbsp. chopped coriander leaves
1 tbsp. chopped capsicum
Oil as required
To boil:
2 medium sized potatoes (peel the skin and cut into quarters)
Method:
Marinate the fish in salt for 15 minutes. Shallow fry the fish pieces, drain and keep aside. Grind the
masala to a fine paste. Heat oil, fry onion, chopped coriander leaves, chopped capsicum and tomato
for 4-5 minutes. Add the ground masala and fry till the masala leaves oil in the sides. Add water and
salt according to your taste. When the masala boils, add the fried fish pieces and boiled potatoes.
Cook till done.
INGREDIENTS:
1. ¼ kg Prawns
2. ½ kg white pumpkin
3. 1 sliced onion
For Grinding
1. 15 red chillies
2. 1 tsp cummin
3. 1 tsp mustard
4. 3 tsp corainder seeds
5. ¼ tsp turmeric powder
6. Little tamarind
7. 1 small onion
8. 1 coconut
9. 6 flakes of garlic
For tempering
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1. 4 spoons coconut oil
2. 1 onion sliced
METHOD:
Roast each masala seperately on a pan, lastly roast coconut and sliced onion. Grind all masala
ingredients to a fine paste. Clean, wash and devein prawns. Remove the rind of the pumpkin and
wash. Boil the pumpkin with salt in a little water, add prawns, add ground masala and boil well.
Temper with oil and sliced onion.
Ingredients:
600 gms. shelled headless prawns
1” ginger
5-6 flakes garlic
½ tsp.cumin seeds
8 –10 long red chillies
4-5 cloves
1” piece cinnamon
¼ tsp. mustard
4-5 tbsp. vinegar
3 onions
3-4 tomatoes
3-4 tbsp. oil
1 tbs. sugar
Salt to taste
Method:
Clean & wash the prawns and remove excess water. Add salt & keep aside. Grind ginger, garlic,
cumin seeds, red chillies, cloves, cinnamon & mustard along with vinegar into a fine paste. Peel
onions & chop them finely. Wash & chop tomatoes. Heat oil in a wok & sauté the prawns until all the
moisture dries up. Remove the prawns & keep aside. In the same oil, sauté onions until soft & light
brown. Add chopped tomatoes & cook on high heat until it forms a thick pulp & oil separates. Add the
ground masala & stir-fry for 2-3 minutes. Add the prawns , sugar & salt if required. Cook on low heat
for another 5-7 minutes or until oil separates from masala.
Ingredients:
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Salt to taste
Method:
Grind onion and ginger garlic paste along with tamarind and all the dry powders into a fine paste.
Heat oil and fry the ground masala well till you get a good aroma. Add prawns and continue frying.
Add little water if required. When prawns are half cooked add coconut milk and slit green chillies. Add
salt as per taste. Cook covered on slow fire for few minutes till prawns are cooked. Garnish with
coriander leaves.
INGREDIENTS:
METHOD:
Cook the prawns with salt and 2 tbsp masala powder until dry. Keep oil in a pan and fry onions. When
onion are light brown add the ginger-garlic paste. Fry this on slow fire until it is well fried. Then add the
cooked prawns and fry for a while. Add 1 tbsp of the masala powder and fry for few more minutes.
Last add lime juice, stir well, take the pan off the fire. Garnish with few corainder leaves.
Ingredients:
20 KING PRAWNS
3 LARGE ONIONS
1 TOMATO
6 FLAKES GARLIC
1" PC GINGER
1 TBSP. SOY SAUCE
1/4 GRATED COCONUT
2 TBSP. BAFAT POWDER
1 TSP TURMERIC POWDER
2 TBSP OIL
FEW CURRY LEAVES
1 SPRIG CORIANDER LEAVES
SALT TO TASTE
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Method:
Wash well and de-vein the prawns. Mix with little salt and turmeric powder and keep aside.
Slice onions. Finely chop ginger, garlic, tomato. Heat oil in a kadai and add ginger, garlic and curry
leaves. When slightly brown add sliced onions and fry well on medium heat. When onions turn
transparent add tomato and bafat powder, salt to taste, soy sauce and stir well.
Meanwhile wash the prawns once well to remove the salt and turmeric applied. Add them to the
above mixture and stir on high flame. When fried well simmer the flame and let it cook. Lastly add
grated coconut and chopped coriander leaves to garnish.
36.Prawn Toast
Ingredients:
¼ kg. prawns cleaned and de-veined
4 green chillies
1 bunch coriander leaves
1” ginger
2 flakes of garlic
1 tbsp garam masala powder
2 egg whites
Bread ( 6-8 medium slices)
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Method:
Grind the green chillis, coriander leaves, ginger and garlic along with the garam masala powder. Add
the prawns into the ground masala and grind it for few seconds. Remove it from the blender, add salt
to taste and keep it aside. Take slices of bread, damp the slices a little and apply the ground masala
on the bread slices on both the sides. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt & pepper. Dip the
bread slices in beaten egg white and shallow or deep fry them till golden brown. Serve these prawn
toasts along with thai chilli sauce.
37.Prawns Biryani
Ingredients:
20 prawns
1-cup basmati rice
1 ½ cup onion (thinly chopped)
¾ cup tomato (finely chopped)
2” ginger
8 garlic cloves
1 green chilly
¾ tsp. Turmeric powder
1 tsp. Red chilli powder
1 tsp. Coriander seeds
1 tsp. Anise seeds
1 cinnamon stick (small)
3 cloves
Keasari powder, a pinch
¼ tsp. Garam masala powder
¼ cup mint leaves
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4 tbsp. Coriander leaves (finely chopped)
3 tsp. Oil
2 tsp. Ghee or dalda
Salt to taste
Method:
Clean the prawns. Grind the ginger, garlic and anise seeds into a fine paste. Add oil in the pressure
cooker and heat it. Add cinnamon stick, cloves and fry it for a few seconds. Add ginger-garlic paste,
mint leaves, coriander leaves, onion and tomato and fry it well. Add the prawns and fry it for a minute.
Then add turmeric powder, chilli powder, 1 ½ cups of water, salt and rice and stir it well. Close the
cooker with the lid and turn the flame to medium high. Once you get the pressure, put the weight on
the cooker and turn the flame to medium low and keep it for 8 minutes. After 8 minutes, remove the
cooker from the stove and keep it aside. After 10 minutes remove the lid and stir the rice well and
serve it with onion raita.
Ingredients:
1 kg. Prawns
4 big onions (sliced)
1 " ginger (chopped)
4 green chillies (chopped)
½ pod garlic (chopped)
1 tsp. jeera (coarsely powdered)
1 tsp. pepper corns (coarsely powdered)
½ tsp. turmeric powder
2 tbsp. thick tamarind water ( 1 lime size tamarind soaked in water)
2 tbsp. oil
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves
Method:
1. Clean and devein the prawns, without removing the shell and the tail.
2. Heat oil in a pan, add onions and fry till pink
3. Add chopped ginger, garlic and green chillies and fry for few seconds.
4. Add the powdered masalas.
5. Add the prawns, add tamarind water, salt and mix well.
6. Cook on slow fire for 5 - 10 minutes.
7. Garnish with coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
3 tbsp sunflower or corn oil
½ tsp black mustard seeds
½ tsp onion seeds (kalonji)
1 tsp fennel seeds
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1-2 fresh green chillies, seeded and sliced
2 tsp ginger Paste
2 tsp garlic Paste
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1 tbsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground cumin
¼ - ½ tsp chilli powder
½ tsp ground turmeric
200g canned chopped tomatoes with the juice
1 tbsp tamato puree
225 g large open mushrooms, sliced
1 tsp salt or to taste
125 ml warm water
400g shelled fresh or cooked peeled prawns thawed and drained
¼ tsp garam msala
2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander leaves
Method:
When hot, add the mustard seeds and as soon as they pop up add the onion seeds and fennel seeds.
Stir-fry for 15 seconds, then add the onion and fresh chillies.
Stir-fry for 5-6 min, or until the onion is soft and just beginning to colour.
Reduce the heat to low and add the ginger, garlic, ground coriander, cumin, chilli powder and tumeric.
Increase the heat to medium and stir-fry for 3-4 min, or until oil separates from the spice paste.
Add the mushrooms, salt and water. Stir-fry over high heat for 2-3 min and add the prawns.
Add the garam masala and fresh coriander, stir-fry for 2 min and serve.
Serves 4
Ingredients:
1 kg fresh prawns skinned, de-veined, washed and strained
1 ½ cup thick, fresh coconut milk
For Paste:
10 long dry red chillies
1 tbsp jeera (whole)
2 tsp haldi (turmeric) powder
Salt to taste
2 tbsp vinegar
(Grind all this to a fine paste)
For seasoning:
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 pod garlic crushed
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2 springs of curry leaves
2 tbsp oil (coconut oil)
Method:
Marinate the prawns with the paste for 30 minutes (there should not be any water). In a vessel start
cooking the marinated prawns with the thick coconut milk. Let the liquid (coconut milk) reduce
completely (1/4 the quantity). Keep the oil in a pan , when heated (not smoking hot) add the mustard
and let is splutter, now added the crushed garlic and curry leaves, when the garlic is golden, take from
the heat and season on the prawns.
Ingredients:
½ kg. Prawns
3 tbsp. oil
1” ginger ( paste)
4 cloves garlic (paste)
2 medium onions (grated)
2 green chillies (slit)
2 medium tomatoes (grated)
½ cup chopped coriander leaves
A small ball of tamarind
¼ tsp. turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1/2 kg vegetable (anyone of the above)
Method:
Heat oil. Stir fry prawns for 3 minutes with little salt. Add any one of the vegetables of your choice.
Add ginger / garlic paste, green chillies. Then add the grated onion, mix well. After 2 minutes add the
grated tomatoes. Next add the coarsely ground masala with little water. Boil well for 15 minutes.
Garnish with coriander leaves.
Ingredient:
½ Kg. Prawns
¼ Kg. Ladys finger (cut into medium pieces)
To Grind:
1.5 tbsp. Coriander seeds
1 tsp. Jeera
15 peppercorns
½ tsp. Turmeric powder
8 hot red chillies
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1 medium onion
4 flakes garlic
Small ball of tamarind
½ coconut grated
2 tbsp. Oil
Salt
Method:
Grind the masala. De-vein and clean the prawns. Heat oil; fry the ladys fingers for a few minutes.
Add the ground masala and enough water. When the curry starts to boil add prawns and salt.
Simmer till they are cooked.
Ingredients:
500 gms. any fish fillets
1 onion sliced finely
3 cloves garlic sliced
Oil for seasoning
Method:
Marinate the fish in about quarter of the above masala for half an hour. Then shallow fry the fish till
light brown. Keep aside. Now fry the sliced onion in a little oil till brown. Add the remaining ground
masala and fry well till you get a good aroma. Add half cup water. Cook till gravy just begins to boil.
Now add the fried fish carefully and cook for 5 minutes. Add 1 tbsp tomato ketchup and cook for
another 5 minutes turning the fish once gently. Cover and keep aside. Fry the garlic cloves in a little
oil till brown and add them just before serving as a garnish. You can add a few curry leaves/coriander
leaves too, if you desire.
Note: This is a favourite with kids, since the fish is boneless and the gravy is thick and not too spicy!!!
People with a penchant for hot food can definitely add more chillies.
Ingredients:
Marinade:
2 tbsp. soya sauce
½ tbsp. white pepper powder
1 tbsp. white pepper powder
2 tbsp. vinegar
2 tbsp. cornflour
3 tbsp. chopped spring onion leaves
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4 cloves, chopped garlic
1 tbsp. chopped ginger
½ cup chopped spring onions
1 tbsp. crushed black pepper
1 tsp. corn flour dissolved in 4 tbsp. of water
½ tsp. sugar
½ tsp. Ajinomoto (Optional)
Salt to taste
1 tsp. Oil
Method:
Mix ingredients for the marinade in a bowl. Flatten the prawns with the sides of a flat knife/chopper
and marinate in the mixture for 30 minutes. Deep fry the prawns for 2-3 minutes. Heat 1 tbsp. of oil in
a pan and sauté the onion, garlic and ginger for a minute. Add the fried prawns, black pepper, soya
sauce, sugar and Ajinomoto along with a little salt. Toss well. Add corn flour and remove from the heat
after 30 seconds. Garnish with chopped spring onion leaves.
Ingredients:
1 kg. sardines
8 Kashmiri chillies
2 tbsp coriander
1 tsp jeera
7 pepper corns
1/4 tsp. turmeric
1 tsp ajwan
Small ball of tamarind
1 cup coconut
1 onion
2 flakes of garlic
1 tsp. roasted methi seeds
1 tbsp. oil
½ tsp. mustard
Few curry leaves
Method:
Dry roast chillies, coriander, jeera, pepper, ajwan and grind coarsely with tamarind, coconut, onion
and garlic. When half ground add roasted methi. .
Heat oil, splutter mustard add curry leaves and the ground masala. Fry well. Add little water and salt
to taste. Boil well. Then add the sardines and cook till done.
Ingredients:
½ kg shark or cat fish (cleaned, washed and cut into slices)
8 kashmiri chillies
¼ tsp cummin seeds
1 tsp. turmeric powder
½ inch piece ginger
3 peppercorns
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5 cloves garlic
2 cups water
Small ball of tamarind
2 tbsp. olive oil
1 onion sliced
Salt to taste
Method:
Apply salt for the fish and keep aside. Grind chillies, cummin, pepper, tamarind, garlic, ginger,
turmeric powder in 1 cup of water. Fry the onion in olive oil till brown. Add the ground masala and add
the remaining cup of water and boil well. Add the fish. Cook till fish is ready. Add salt to taste and if
necessary add little vinegar.
Ingredients:
½ kg squid (Bandas)
1 cup grated coconut
1½ tbsp. bafat powder
2 big tomatoes chopped finely
1 big onion chopped into lengthy size
2 green chillies
1” ginger - chopped
3-4 cloves garlic – chopped
3- 4 tbsp. oil
Salt
3 tbsp. chopped coriander leaves
4-5 bay leaves
1 cup water
Method:
Clean the Squids nicely & cut into small pieces and drain the water thoroughly. Heat oil and add bay
leaves, chopped onion. Fry till onion turns into brown colour. Then add ginger, garlic and green
chilly. Fry for five minutes and add chopped tomatoes. Once the tomato cooks, add bafat powder and
fry for two minutes. Finally add cut squid pieces, grated coconut, salt and one cup water. Stir it nicely
and cook for 15 minutes on a slow fire. Once the water dries up put-off the flame and sprinkle
chopped coriander leaves over it.
47.Squid Fry
Ingredients:
1 Kg Squids
Chat masala
Kashmir chilly powder
1 Lemon Juice
Chopped coriander leaves
Pinch of Salt
4 tbsp. oil
Method:
Wash squids and cut into 1 cm. thick rings. Marinate with 1 heaped tsp. chat masala, chilli powder
and a pinch of salt. Take oil in a non-stick frying pan and fry the squids on medium fire till the liquid is
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completely dried up. Do not cover the pan. Garnish with lemon juice and chopped coriander leaves.
Serve hot.
48.Squid Rings
Ingredients:
½ kg squids
1 egg (white only-beaten)
½ tsp. pepper powder
1 tbsp. corn flour
2 tbsp. maida
1 tbsp. ginger /garlic paste
1 tbsp. soya sauce
Salt to taste
Method:
Clean squids and cut into rings. Mix all the ingredients for the marinade and marinate the squid rings
for at least 2 hours. Deep fry till golden brown. Serve hot and crisp as a starter with any sauce of your
choice.
Ingredients:
½ kg. Squids (cut and cleaned)
½ grated coconut
10 red chillies (5 long and 5 short)
2 tbsp. coriander seeds
½ tsp. turmeric
1 sprig curry leaves
6 garlic flakes (crushed)
¼ tsp. Jeera (powdered)
2 onions (chopped lengthwise)
Method:
Dry roast the red chillies, coriander seeds, turmeric and onions, till golden brown and grind to a fine
paste. Heat 1 tsp. oil in a kadai, add crushed garlic. Saute for a minute and add the ground masala,
powdered jeera, squid, 2 cups of water, curry leaves and bring to boil on a slow flame for 15 to 20
minutes. Once the squid is done add the grated coconut, cover and simmer for 5 minutes, serve hot.
Ingredients:
25 big prawns
2 green mangoes
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1 onion
6 flakes garlic
½ tsp. turmeric powder
½ grated coconut
1 sprig curry leaves
Method:
In 2 tsps oil fry the curry leaves, then add the ground masala mixed well with its water (about 3 cups).
Add salt. Boil for 10 minutes, add prawns and sliced green mangoes. Simmer till cooked.
Ingredients:
Method:
Heat oil in a non-stick vessel and temper with mustard and curry leaves. Next, fry the onions until
slightly brown. Add the turmeric, chilli and garam masala powders and fry well. Add the drained tuna
and mix well in the fried masala. Flake the tuna well. Lastly, add the cooked rice and mix gently.
Check & adjust salt as per taste. Simmer on slow fire for 5 minutes. Garnish with freshly chopped
corriander leaves. Squeeze lime juice over the rice. Serve hot.
MUTTON
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INGREDIENTS:
1. 1Kg Mutton
2. 1 1/2 tbsp ginger,garlic paste
3. 2 tbsp freshly ground pepper powder
4. 2 to 3 limes
5. 2 tbsp soya sauce
6. Whole garam masala (Lavang, Tikki and Pepper) 1/2 tbsp of each, 7. 4 big onions sliced
8. Half cup rasins and chopped cashew nuts.
9. Handful of chopped coriander leaves
10. Salt as necessary.
METHOD :
Cut, wash and marinate the mutton with ginger/garlic paste, pepper
powder, limes, soya sauce, salt and keep it overnight in the
refrigerator.
Next day boil the mutton with one big sliced onion with little water.
(don't overcook the mutton).
Once the mutton is cooked, keep a deckchi with oil, add whole garam
masala, then the remaining sliced onion. When the onion gets brown add cashew nut and rasins fry
for 1 minute, then add the boiled mutton and fry till all the water has dried up. Finally add the
coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
1 kg. Mutton
4 cups Basmati Rice
4 tsp. Oil/Ghee
Salt to taste
Small ball of tamarind
4 onions (sliced)
5 green chillies (chopped)
1 big tomato (cubed)
2 tbsp. chopped coriander leaves
1 cup coconut milk (optional)
3 tbsp.Ghee
8 cups hot water
1 onion (fried till brown)
Few fried cashew nuts & raisins
Masala I :
4 Big Onions
8-9 flakes of garlic
2" ginger
1 tsp.Turmeric
Masala II :
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1 cup Coconut
2 tbsp. KusKus(optional)
3 tbp. badishep
6 cloves
1 cardomom
2"Cinnamon
1 tsp.ground nuts or cashew nuts
Method:
Cut & wash the mutton, marinate with ingredients of masala-I with little salt for atleast 3o minutes.
Then cook mutton till tender. Heat a pan and put two tsp. of oil/ ghee and fry the split green chillies
till you get aroma. (The fried green chillies are less spicy). Add coconut and fry till light brown. Add
the other ingredients mentioned under masala-II and fry for another 2 minutes. Grind this into a
smooth paste along with tamarind and keep aside.
Heat a vessel & add 2 tsps.of Ghee/Oil add the sliced onions,green chillies & fry well. Add the
cooked meat and the masala paste, mix well and cook covered on the medium flame for 10 mins.
Now add the tomato cubes and salt if required. Cook for another 5 minutes.( For more gravy add 1
cup coconut milk-optional). Garnish with coriander leaves.
Wash the rice and keep aside. Heat 3 tbsp.of Ghee and add cardamom, cinnamon, fry for a while.
Add the washed rice and fry it for 2 mins. Add 8 cups of hot water add salt as per taste. Cover it and
keep on the medium flame. Stir the rice gently when required. cook rice till done. Keep the rice
open slightly for excess water to evaporate. Garnish rice with the fried cashewnuts, raisins and
onion.
INGREDIENTS:
1. ½ kg mutton, cut
3. 3 tbsp ghee
4. Salt to taste
5. Juice of ½ lime
FOR MASALA:
2. 1 big onion
3. 5 green chillies
4. 2 red chillies
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5. 1” piece ginger
6. 6 flakes garlic
7. 4 cloves
9. 2 cardamoms
METHOD:
Grind all the masala ingredients together to a fine paste. Keep ghee in a vessel and fry the onion till
brown. Add the masala and fry well. Add the mutton, salt, 1 cup water and cook until done. Add lime
juice and simmer for 5 minutes. Then remove from fire. Serve hot.
4.Hyderabadi Biryani
Ingredients:
For Rice:
2 cups basmati rice
3 ½ cups water
1 ½ tsp. salt
3 tsp. ghee or butter
3 each of cloves, cardamom & cinnamon
1 bay leaf
1 tsp. black cumin seeds
For Mutton:
½ kg mutton
3 green chilies
3 large onions
3 tomatoes
3 each of cloves, cardamom & cinnamon
4 tsp ghee
1 bunch coriander leaves
½ bunch mint leaves
¼ cup yogurt
Masala 1:
1 large pod garlic
1 large piece ginger
(Grind together to a fine paste)
Masala 2:
8-10 red chilies
2 tbsp coriander seeds
2 tsp fennel seeds
2 tsp khus khus (poppy seeds)
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(Grind together to a fine paste)
Masala 3:
½ cup grated coconut
3 tsp chopped cashew nuts
½ cup yogurt
(Grind together to a smooth paste)
To Garnish:
Method:
Rice:
Soak the rice in water for 20 minutes, drain and keep aside. Heat ghee, add the spices, when they
splutter add rice and fry for further 2 to 3 minutes. Add water, salt and cook till the water is absorbed.
Allow rice to cool.
Mutton:
Clean the meat, cut into medium pieces and marinate in the yogurt for 1 hour. Heat ghee, add spices,
chopped green chilies and onions and fry till mixture turns brown. Add masala 1 and 2 and stir well.
Now add the tomatoes and fry for 2 minutes. Then add mutton pieces, coriander and mint leaves and
simmer for 5 minutes. Add 1/2 cup of water (if required) and salt to taste. Cook till mutton is tender.
Add masala 3 and cook till the gravy becomes thick.
Divide rice into 3 parts and mutton into 2 parts. Grease a dish and arrange alternate layers of rice and
meat, beginning and ending with rice. Pour saffron soaked in milk over rice, cover tightly and steam
for 20 to 30 minutes on slow flame. Transfer to a serving dish and garnish with fried onions, cashew
nuts, raisins and hard-boiled eggs.
5. MUTTOM STEW
Ingredients:
Mutton (cubed) - 1 kg
Thick coconut milk - ½ cup
Thin coconut milk - 1 cup
Onions (chopped) - 4 nos
Tomatoes (chopped) - 4 nos.
Green chillies (slit) -8-10 nos
Coriander leaves (chopped) - 2 tbsp ( or small bunch)
Lemon Juice - 1 big lime
Ghee - 2 tbsp
Salt - to taste
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Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp.
Pepper corns - 10 - 20
Cinnamon - 2/3 small pieces
Cloves - 7-8 nos
Poppy seeds (optional) - ¼ tsp.
For Garnishing:
Onion (Chopped) - 1 or 2 nos
Ghee - 3 tbsps.
Method:
Grind all the ingredients for masala together to a fine paste. Add mutton cubes, thin coconut milk,
chopped onions, tomatoes, green chillies , ghee, salt & the ground masala and cook till mutton is
tender.Add chopped coriander leaves, lime juice, thick coconut milk and bring to a boil. Fry the
chopped onions in ghee and season the curry. Serve hot with idli, dosas etc.
6.MUTTON BIRYANI
Ingredients:
1 kg. Rice
1 kg. Mutton
1 kg. Onion
1/2 kg. tomato
Method:
Put oil & 1 spoon ghee in the vessel. Fry the onions till they are
soft. Put the ground paste and tomato and stir. Put the mutton, chopped pudina and coriander leaves.
Cover the vessel till mutton is half boiled. Put chilly powder, Corainder powder, turmeric and salt to
taste, add the ground garam masala powder and tejpatta. Let the mutton cook fully. Put lime juice and
curds and cook till dry.
First boil the water once the water is boiled add the rice, add
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cloves, peppercorns and cook the rice. Drain the water and keep aside.
Put the rice above the mutton. Sprinkle rose water, fried cashew and
kismiss. On the last layer of rice put biryani colour. Keep on slow
fire, keep a tawa below the vessel and let it cook for 15 minutes
Ingredients
For Masala:
For Marination:
For Frying
5 onions cut into thin slices
6 tbsp ghee or oil
1/2 tsp lavanga (cloves)
5-6 elachi
2'' long cinnamon
1 bay leaf
In a Pan heat the oil or ghee, add all whole garam masala's for one minute,then add onions fry until it
turns golden brown, then add marinated mutton fry for 5 min. Add enough thin coconut milk or water,
Cook until tender, add ground masala & potatoes, bring to a boil, add thick milk, cook in low flame for
5 min. Garnish with fresh coriender leaves.
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Ingredients:
1kg. Mutton
6 Drumsticks
Method : In a pan dry roast together red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, methi seeds, pepper
corns, cinnamon stick and cloves. Dry roast together with onion and garlic flakes. Grind all the
ingredients with fresh coconut, turmeric powder and tamarind to a fine paste. Cut the mutton into
medium pieces, wash it and pressure cook with salt. Peel the drumsticks, cut into 3" pieces and boil
the drumsticks in water adding a little salt. Add the boiled drumsticks to the already pressure cooked
mutton. Add the ground masala and bring to a boil. Heat oil in a separate pan, fry the sliced onions
until golden brown and then pour over the curry.
9. MUTTON ROAST
Ingredients:
1 Kg Mutton
1" ginger crushed
2-3 big tomatoes sliced
3-4 red chillies
1 maggie cube
1 tbsp. ghee or oil.
To Marinate: Marinate big pieces of mutton with the following, preferably overnight.
1 tbsp Ginger-Garlic paste, 2 cardamoms, 3 cloves (whole), 1 pc cinnamon, 7-8 peppercorns
1 tbsp stew powder, 2 tbsp vinegar
Method:
In a vessel take 1 tbsp ghee or oil. Break about 3-4 red chillies into it. Then add crushed ginger & fry
for sometime. Then add sliced tomatoes and fry well in the ghee/oil. Add 1 maggie cube for taste.
After the tomatoes are fried, add the marinated meat and cook until tender. Slice the pieces and cook
further until the gravy is dry. Serve with French Fries. (You may also lightly fry the slices before
serving).
PORK
1. MANGALOREAN SORPOTEL
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Ingredients:
2 kgs. Fresh Pork Meat
½ kg. Liver
5 Bay Leaves
2 tbsp. Dry Pork Blood
5 gms. sliced ginger
30 corns sliced garlic
10 nos. slit green chilies
10 nos. sliced onions
Vinegar – to taste
Grind Together:
18 dry red chilies
1 piece ginger
1 tsp. cumin seed
1 tsp. coriander seeds
1 tsp. poppy seeds
1 piece whole turmeric
1 tsp. black peppercorns
2 cinnamon sticks
12 whole cloves
Salt - to taste.
Method:
Wash the Pork meat & liver. Boil the Pork Meat & Liver with Bay leaves, salt and cut into small
pieces. Wash the Dry blood thrice, squeeze and set aside. Soak the tamarind in water and remove
the pulp. Heat oil, Fry the sliced ingredients, add the ground masala. Add the Pork meat & liver, stir,
add vinegar and Cook for 45 minutes. Add the Dry Blood and boil for another 15 minutes. Add Salt to
taste. Remove when done and set aside, This preparation tastes best when eaten the next day. This
can be preserved for about 7 Days.
2. Methi Pork
Ingredients:
1 kg. Pork
2 –3 tsp. chilly powder
1 tsp. turmeric
1 tsp. cumin powder
2 tsp. coriander powder
1 tbsp. vinegar
6 medium onions
3 big tomatoes
½ bunch methi leaves (small ones)
2 tsp. ginger garlic paste
Salt to taste
1 potato (optional)
Method:
Marinate pork in chilly powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, salt, vinegar &
ginger garlic paste for 2-3 hours. Later add 1 cup of water, chopped onions, cubed tomatoes, potato
(optional) and cook on slow flame till pork is ¾ done. Now add finely chopped methi leaves, mix well
and cook till dry. Serve hot.
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3. Pork Bafat
Masala
Mix the above in a Sauce pan and place on a low flame. Once it cooks
for around 10 to 15 minutes and steams well add the ground Masala
which constitutes the following ingredients menitoned below. Add salt
and stir it. Cook it further until the lard (Wob) tasted edible.
If extra sourness is required add vinegar and some salt if necessary.
4. Pork Chilli
Ingredients:
1 kg Pork
1 green capsicum
2- 3 medium onions
6 green chillies
1 inch ginger
6 flakes garlic
1 tsp. bafat powder
1 tsp pepper powder
2 tablespoons soya sauce
1 tablespoon chilli sauce
Salt and vinegar to taste
Method:
Cut pork into chunks (4 large pieces) and wash. Add crushed ginger /garlic, salt and vinegar and boil
for 20 minutes adding very little water. When cool, slice pork into thin slices. Fry these slices till light
brown on both sides. In the same pan (remove excess oil) fry the thinly sliced onions, capsicum and
green chillies for 2 minutes. Add bafat powder, pepper powder and soya sauce and chilli sauce. Mix
well. Add the fried pork to this mixture and let it cook for 5 more minutes.
5. PORK CHOPS
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INGREDIENTS:
1. 1 kg Pork chops
2. 2 tbsp Soya sauce
3. 4 tbsp Ginger-Garlic Paste
4. A Pinch - sugar and salt
5. 1 tbsp Oil
METHOD:
Marinate the chops in soya sauce, ginger garlic paste and a pinch of sugar and salt. Marinate this for
at least 2 hours. Before grilling, add one tablespoon of oil to the meat. Grill for 20 minutes or till done.
Garnish with fried onions and potatoes.
6. Pork Grill
Ingredients:
Method:
Cut pork into big pieces and boil along with above ingredients. (do not overcook). When cooked, take
out the pieces from the soup (gravy); mix it with one tablespoon of Soya sauce and shallow fry a bit
(golden brown) in ghee or dalda. Strain the soup and season it with one small onion. Let the soup be
thick. Pour the hot soup over the fried pork pcs. and serve it with fried potato strips.
7. PORK INDAAD
Main ingredients:
Pork - 1 kg
Turmeric Powder - ½ tsp
Pork fat or oil - required for frying pork slices
Salt - to taste
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Mustard seeds - ½ tbsp
Cinnamon - 4 inch piece
Garlic - one pod
Raw rice - ½ tbsp
Mint leaves - 1 tbsp finely chopped
Tamarind - size of a marble
Vinegar - 1 tbsp
For garnishing
Onions - 2 large
Oil
Preparation method:
Cut meat into slices, apply salt, turmeric powder and marinate for a couple of hours. In a frying pan,
melt the pork fat or oil(as substitute) and lightly fry the marinated pork slices until they turn golden
brown. Make sure not to over fry them, lest they become hard. Broil all spices together and grind to a
fine paste. Add little vinegar. Slice the onions fine and fry them in oil or pork fat on moderate heat to a
golden brown colour. Add fried pork, ground spices and cook till done.Add salt if needed. Add sugar
or jaggery if required. Serve hot.
8. Pork Manchuri
Ingredients:
1 kg pork
30 ml soy sauce
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 cup spring onion
2 onions diced & cubed
1/2 cup finely cut capsicum
1 table spoon ginger garlic paste
5-6 green chillies
4 table spoon tomato sauce
Salt according to taste
Method:
Marinate pork with turmeric powder,salt & half of soy sauce for 1 hour. Fry this until golden brown
without adding oil as pork leaves oil. Remove & keep aside. In the same oil fry onions till light brown.
Add spring onions, capsicum, green chillies & ginger garlic paste for 15 minutes on slow fire. Now add
fried pork, remaining soy sauce & tomato sauce. Adjust the salt & cook for another 10minutes
INGREDIENTS:
1 kg pork ribs
2 tablespoons ginger/garlic paste
1 teaspoons pepper powder
2 teaspoons bafat powder
1 teaspoons of vinegar
2 teaspoons of lime juice
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3 tablespoons soya sauce
2-3 tablespoons tomato sauce
1 tablespoons honey
3 tsp oil
Salt to taste
METHOD:
Marinate pork ribs with all the above ingredients for about 2-3 hours mixing once in half hour. Take oil
in a pan and fry the above marinade adding a little water. Cook till its dry and tender.
Ingredients:
500 gms. pork
250 gms. small onions
1-2 tsps. mustard seeds
10 nos. red chillies
1 tsps. cumin seeds
2 tsps. pepper (whole)
3 tbsp. vinegar
2" ginger
1 tsp. turmeric powder
10 flakes garlic
1 tsp. maida
8 nos.cloves
2" stick cinnamon
Salt to taste
Oil to cook
Method:
Peel and chop onions. Crush red chillies, ginger, garlic, pepper, cinnamon, cloves and cumin seeds
separately. Grind mustard seeds fine with little vinegar. Marinate the pork chunk in ginger, garlic,
turmeric, salt, pepper and vinegar for 2 hours. Heat oil. Fry chopped onions till transparent. Add the
crushed cinnamon and cloves and fry for a little while. Add red chillies and cumin seeds and sauté,
then add the ground mustard and marinated pork. Mix and stir fry till the meat is coated with the
masala . Cook till meat is tender. Remove the meat from the gravy, slice, and shallow fry in oil.
Arrange on a serving dish. Surround with lemon, onions, boiled vegetables like baby potatoes, carrots
and beans.
Fry the maida in a tsp. of oil, and add to the gravy. Simmer till thick. Serve along with the meat.
Ingredients:
1 Kg. Pork
To Marinate:
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. garlic
Spring onion, one small bunch cut into small pieces.
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3 Green chillies cut into small pieces.
1 tsp. pepper powder
Lime and salt to taste.
For Masala:
10 kashmiri chillies
½ tsp. mustard seeds
1 tsp. Jeera
½ tsp. turmeric powder
1-2 tsp. coriander seeds
5 cloves garam Masala
1 Cinamon
1 tbsp. vinegar
(Grind the above to a fine paste).
Cut the fatless and boneless pork into thin big slices and fork them from one side, rub lime and salt
on both sides. Add the marinade into it (forked side) roll it and tie it tightly with thread (like rolls) and
keep aside for 1 hour.
Using little oil fry it from both the sides, till it turns brown.
For Gray:
Add little oil in a pan and shallow fry onion, ginger garlic paste till pink. Add the ground masala and
continue frying for few minutes, now add pork rolls and continue frying for sometime. Add salt to
taste. Add boiled potatoes and little water and simmer it till gravy becomes thick.
Ingredients:
¼ Kg Pork.
Salt to taste
Juice of 1 lemon
¼ tsp pepper powder
2 thinly sliced onions
Pinch of grated ginger
½ green chilli
½ tsp. vinegar
Pinch of sugar
Method:
Cut Pork (more of fat) into thin strips. Add salt, lemon juice, pepper powder and fry crispy. Make a
mixture of sliced onions, grated ginger, green chilli, salt, vinegar and sugar. Squeeze out the water.
Add the crispy fried pork strips to the above mixture and refrigerate for 30 mts.
Editors Note: You may also slightly sauté the cut masala.
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Ingredients:
1 kg pork
Ingredients to be roasted:
10 red chillies
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp cumin seeds
3 tsp coriander
1½ tsp mustard
1 tsp kus kus(poppy seeds)
2 sticks cinnamon
5-6 cloves
2 cardamams
A small piece of nutmeg
½ tsp shahi jeera
A marble size tamarind
One onion
A small piece of turmeric
Roast each item separately and grind to a paste adding little vinegar.
Method:
Clean the pork. Boil adding one cup water and little salt on slow fire. Do not over cook. Just boil it &
cool. Keep the stock aside, cut the boiled meat into small pieces. Take a vessel & fry the finely cut
onions in 2 tablespoons of oil. When onions turn slightly brown add the green chillies, after a few
minutes add the chopped ginger & garlic & keep frying till it is done. Then add to this the ground
masala paste and on slow fire stir & mix it properly. When the masala starts boiling add the stock &
the masala water. In a separate vessel put the cut meat & heat on slow fire, stirring every few
minutes till it is slightly fried in its own fat. Then add this meat in the above masala & mix & cook on
slow fire. Add vinegar & salt to taste. Cook till fat starts floating.
Ingredients:
1 Kg Pork Ribs (tender) separated.
½ cup hot & sour masala
2 tbsp. oil
For Masala:
2 tbsp kashmiri chilli powder
1 tbsp chilli sauce
2 tsp garlic paste
1 onion grated or paste
3 tbsp ketchup
3 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp sugar (level)
1 tsp salt (level)
1/2 tsp garam masala powder (clove/cinnamon/pepper)
Method:
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Mix the masala and apply it to the pork ribs & keep for 2 hours. Cook in cooker with 2 tbsps oil on low
heat for 15-20 mins. (No need of water).
Ingredients
1 kg. Pork
5-7 green chillies
8 to 10 flakes garlic
5 big onions
½ inch piece ginger
1 tspn. turmeric
3 tbsn. Vinegar or Coorgi kachampuli
Salt to taste
1 tspn. chilly powder
Roast and powder finely: 1 tbsn. coriander seeds, ½ tspn. mustard seeds, 2 tspn. cumin seeds, 2
tspn. peppercorns.
Method
1. Cut the pork into medium pieces.
2. Wash and smear with turmeric, chilly powder and salt.
3. Grind the green chilies, onions, ginger and garlic coarsely.
4. Cook the meat in a pan with the ground masala and a cup of hot water.
5. When almost cooked, add the powdered masalas.
6. When cooked well add the vinegar or kachampuli and remove from the
fire. The gravy should be thick.
INGREDIENTS:
1. 1 ½ kg Pork
2. 12 – 15 Kashmiri Chillies
4. 1 tsp Jeera
5. 1 tsp Pepper
6. 1 tsp cloves
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10. 6 Onions medium size
METHOD:
Wash the pork meat and chop into medium pieces. Chop onions, green chillies, ginger and garlic.
Dry roast ingredients 2- 7 and grind to a paste along with turmeric powder, small piece of ginger, few
cloves of garlic and vinegar. Soak tamarind in water, strain the water and keep aside.
In a pan place the meat, add the chopped ingredients, ground masala , bay leaves and salt to taste.
Cook on a slow fire. When almost done add tamarind water. Cook for a few more minutes till done.
Serve with Sanna (Idli).
Kuswar
1. Badam Burfi
Ingredients:
1 cup of almonds
1 cup sugar
2 tbsp. ghee
Cardamom powder
½ cup Nido milk powder
½ cup grated coconut
Method:
Soak almonds in water and peel them. Once pealed grind them to a fine paste. Do not add water, if
required add sugar and grind along with milk powder. Take a non stick pan, pour the mixture in that
and keep on slow fire. Keep stirring. After sometime you will see that the mixture begins to thicken.
Now add ghee and keep stirring well. Add cardamom powder, keep stirring. When you see the
mixture leaving the side of the pan add the grated coconut. Mix well. Grease a tray with ghee and
pour the mixture in it, flatten it with a back of the spoon. Spread it evenly. While still warm, cut with a
cutter in diamond shapes. And keep it overnight to cool.
Recipe -- Bebinca
Ingredients:
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9 egg yolks
150 gms. maida
¼ spoon nutmeg powder
400 gms. sugar
600 ml coconut milk
Butter or ghee for greasing
Method:
Take the coconut milk in a bowl and dissolve sugar in it thoroughly. Now beat the yolks into this
mixture well and then put the flour into this liquid mixture and blend it will. Don‟t let the granules to
form from the flour. Now sprinkle the nutmeg powder. Keep it aside. Pre-heat the oven. Take a round
non-stick baking bowl (cake tray) and grease the base with ghee or butter. Take half cup of batter and
put on this. Bake this batter only for 10 minutes and then put off the fire. Cool it. Grease the cooled
layer with ghee or butter again put another half cup of batter. Now bake this with the grill fire for ten
minutes. Periodically turn the bowl in the oven for browning it evenly. Remove it out cool it and again
follow the same step like before till the batter finishes. After the last layer is over, cool it well and then
turn it upside down and cut it.
Ingredients:
¾ Kg besan
½ kg rawa
¾ kg Castor sugar (powdered sugar)
¾ kg ghee
1 pinch nutmeg powder (jaiphal)
Broken cashews/ or almonds
Methods:
Take a heavy bottom pan. Add the besan and rawa and roast it well. Add the ghee and keep on slow
fire. Fry till you get a rich aroma and golden brown in color. Pour the mixture in a big plate and leave
it to cool overnight. Next day add the castor sugar, nutmeg powder and mix well. Once mixed well
you will be able to make laddoos. Keep a piece of broken cashew or half almond on it, shape it firmly.
See that the almond or cashew is seen on the outside. Cool and store.
Ingredients:
1 egg white
1 cup castor sugar
¼ tsp. baking powder
2 cups finely chopped cashew nuts
Method:
Beat egg white very well with egg beater. Add castor sugar and beat well. Add baking powder and
mix well. Add the cashew nuts and mix well with hand. Make balls smaller than lime size. Place
them in the tray and bake in the oven on slow fire for 15 to 20 minutes.
4. Chaklies
Ingredients:
1-cup moong dal
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5 cups maida flour
2 tbps. Jeera (cumin seeds)
¼ tsp. Turmeric powder
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying.
Method:
Boil moong dal in the cooker with one and a half cup of water and salt to taste for about 5 minutes.
When slightly cooled, mash the dal well. Steam maida flour tied in a piece of cloth for about 20
minutes. In a big vati pour this steamed maida and smash it with a wooden spoon to remove the
lumps. Mix both the above adding jeera, turmeric powder and knead well to form a good consistency
adding a little more water & salt if required. Keep the dough covered with a moist cloth so that it does
not become too dry. Using the chaklie mould make chaklies on a waxed /plain paper and deep fry
them 4-5 at a time till done. Strain oil and store them in airtight containers when cooled.
Ingredients:
1 cup self raising flour
½ cup butter
½ cup curd
2 eggs
2 tbsp. coco powder
1 cup powdered sugar
1 spoon vanila essence
½ tsp. salt
Method:
Mix coco powder in ½ cup of warm water and keep aside. Separate egg yolk and egg white in two
bowls. Blend the butter, sugar and salt in a cake mixer till soft. Add egg yolk, self raised flour, coco
powder, curd, vanila essence and mix well for 2-3 minutes in the same mixer. Whisk the egg white
and add it to the above mixer. Transfer the contents in to the greasy baking vessel and bake for 35 -
40 minutes at 160 deg C.
Pastry:
Mix 2 times of cream, 3 times of butter and 6 times of Icing Sugar to the desired quantity to a thick
cream paste. Mix different colours into the paste and decorate it on the cake. Top with the rose flower.
(Mix the above cream paste and corn flour to a thick consistency and shape in to a rose flower with
green leaves.)
Ingredients:
300 Gms. maida
200 gm Sugar(powder)
180 gm Butter
4 Big eggs
20 gm Coca
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Soda Bicarbonate
1 tsp Vanilla essence
15 gm Garam Masala (cloves,cinnamon, cardamom powder)
250 gm Nuts (cashew, almond chopped, black-currents, raisins, mixed peel)
Wine two cups ( optional )
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¼ tsp. salt
Method:
Sift maida, salt, baking powder, soda bicarbonate and coca. In a pan put 7 tbp. of sugar keep it on a
low fire . When the sugar turns into caramel add ½ cup of water and allow it to cool. Soak the nuts in
the wine 1 day before (optional) or otherwise add 1tbp of maida to the nuts and mix well before
adding nuts to the cake. Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees. Melt butter, add sugar, add well beaten
eggs , caramel , maida and finally nuts along with garam masala and fold gently. Put it in a greased
pan and bake for 50-55 minutes.
7. Coconut Burfi
Ingredients:
3 cups grated coconut
¼ cup rose water
1 pinch Cardamom powder
2 table spoons Nido powder
2 tbsp. ghee
Sugar
Pink Colour
Method:
Grate the coconut; see that you do not scrape till the end. You should not use the brown part only the
white one. Grind it with rose water to a fine paste. Now measure the paste. If two cups then take two
cups of sugar. Take a heavy bottom pan. Pour the mixture with sugar, milk powder and keep on
stirring. Then the mixture leaves the side of the pan. Add ghee and keep mixing. Add cardamom
powder. Add a pinch of pink color. Grease a steel plate with ghee and pour the mixture into it, flatten
it with the back of the spoon evenly, cut into diamond shapes while still warm. Let it cool completely.
Ingredients:
4 small packets marie biscuits
2 tins milk cream
250 gms. salted butter
2 tbsp. cocoa powder
½ cup light brown sugar
Method:
Beat sugar and butter well. Add cream and cocoa powder and mix well. Crumble the biscuits into
small pieces and mix well. Divide the mixture into 4 equal parts and spread each portion on
lengthwise strip of foil and twist the ends. Freeze the logs for minimum 3 hours and keep refrigerated
till it is needed to use. Slice it with the foil and then peel off the foil.
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Ingredients:
225 gms plain flour
225 gms butter
225 gms soft brown sugar (rich dark. If sugar is hard, powder it in the mixer)
4 eggs
15 ml Lyle‟s golden syrup
45 ml dark rum
225 gms currants
225 gms sultanas
225 gms stoned raisins chopped
100 gms candied peel chopped
100 gms glace cherries quartered
50 gms blanched almonds chopped
2.5 ml bicarbonate of soda
5 ml ground nutmeg
10 ml mixed spice
Method:
Mix all the dry fruits in a bowl and soak them in the rum for about 4 to 5 days.
Cream the butter and sugar until light. Add the eggs one at a time along with a spoonful of flour each
time and beat them well. Stir in the syrup with another spoonful of flour. Then fold in remaining flour
sifted with bicarbonate of soda and spices. Stir in soaked fruit mixture. Mix thoroughly.
Grease and line a deep 20 cm cake tin with double greaseproof paper. Pour the mixture into the
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greased tin and bake for 3 ½ hours covering with paper after 2 hours. Bake 1 hour at 325 F and later
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at 275 F.
10. Karakaddi
Ingredients:
500 gms. Gram flour (besan)
1 ½ tbsp. Garlic paste
½ tbsp. Ajwan
½ tsp. Chillie powder
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying
Method:
Mix all the ingredients adding water. Knead well. Heat oil and press the mixture through karakaddi
mould in the hot oil and fry till light brown. Store in airtight container.
Ingredients:
½ kg. maida
coconut juice of 1 coconut
2 eggs
Salt to taste
Sugar to taste (optional)
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Oil for frying
Method:
Knead maida with coconut juice, salt ,eggs and sugar (optional). Make small balls of this dough and
role each ball spreading on a fork or clean comb. Fry in hot oil till golden brown.
12. Kokkisam
Ingredients:
Raw rice ½ kg
Coconut-1
Sugar-100 gms
Eggs -3
Nutmeg-1 pinch
Salt ½ tsp
Ghee or oil for frying.
Method:
Scrape the coconut and extract milk. Wash the rice and grind without soaking with two cups of thick
coconut milk. Add sugar and nutmeg. Beat the eggs. Mix with the ground rice making a thick bater,
adding the remaining coconut milk. In a deep pan heat oil or ghee and dip the kokisam mould in
boiling ghee, then remove and carefully dip it in the batter so that it touches only the bottom and the
brim of the mould. Now dip this in the hot ghee again. The batter will drop into the ghee as it is frying.
Turn and brown the kokisam on both sides. Continue till all the batter is used.
Ingredients:
1 kg Maida
1 fresh coconut milk (or 1 cup of coconut milk powder)
1 cup urad dal
1 egg
2 tbsp til (sesame seeds)
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Method:
Put the maida flour in a clean muslin cloth and steam it for ½ hour in a tondor. After steaming it,
powder it by hand while it is hot. Now sieve the maida flour. Roast the urad dal on a pan, powder it
and add it to the maida. Add coconut juice, til, egg and salt. Knead well using more coconut juice if
needed. When the dough is almost done, add two tbsp of hot oil and knead again. Put in a chakli
mould, make chaklis and fry till brown.
Ingredients:
1 cup rice powder
1 cup chickpeas powder
1 cup urad dal powder
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½ cup moong dal powder
½ cup beaten rice
2 tsp white til
2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
¼ tsp hingh (Asafoetida)
Salt
2 tsp Chilly powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
Oil for frying
Method:
Dry roast, rice flour, chickpeas flour, urad and moong dal flower and beaten rice (pova) till it gives a
rich aroma. If powders are not available you can use the whole one, roast it well and then powder it in
a mixer. Add chilly and turmeric powder, salt, cumin seeds and white til seed, and hingh to the dal
powder mix well till well incorporated. Heat 1 large table spoon of oil and add it to the mixture, add
water and knead the dough. It should not be too hard. Keep covered for sometime. Fill it in chakli
mould and directly make chaklies (broken) in oil.
Ingredients:
1 cup parsley
1 cup chopped carrot
2 cups plain flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup oil
2 eggs
½ tsp. baking powder
Method:
Sieve flour and baking powder. Grind chopped parsley and carrot along with oil. Beat eggs and add
sugar, mix thoroughly. Add the parsley carrot mixture to the beaten eggs. Mix well. Add the flour and
mix gently. Pour this mixture into a greased baking tray. Pre heat the over for 10 minutes and bake
the cake for about 45 to 60 minutes on low heat.
Ingredients:
2 cups maida
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1 tsp. jeera
Salt to taste
Method:
Sieve maida, bundle it in a piece of cloth tying a loose knot. Steam the bundle in a idli vessel
covered for 20 minutes. Take out and untie it when cool. Re-powder the steamed maida and
sieve again. Keep aside. Boil potato in water, peel, smash into a smooth paste, mix salt,
chilli powder, jeera, butter with the smashed potato. Mix maida and knead (add little water if
required). Prepare stiff dough. Knead well. Press portions of the dough through a chakli
mould and prepare chaklis in two /three concentric circles. Heat oil and fry the chaklis.
Ingredients:
2 cups bombay rava
1 cup sugar
½ cup ghee
6 cloves
10 cardamoms
1 piece of cinnamon
½ cup raisins
½ cup cashewnuts chopped
Carnation evaporated milk as required
Method:
Dry roast the rava till golden brown. Powder the sugar along with cloves, cardamom, and
cinnamon. In a pan, mix rava, sugar, and nuts. Heat ghee in a pan on a slow fire. When
the ghee becomes hot add the rava mixture to the ghee and stir for 1 to 2 minutes, then add
evaporated milk as required for the binding. Remove from the fire, make laddus of desired
size.
Ingredients:
1 kg. raw rice
¼ kg. boiled rice
Coconut juice of 1 coconut
200 gms. urad dal
50 – 100 gms. roasted rice powder
Salt to taste
2 tbsp. til
Oil for frying
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Method:
Soak rice for 2 – 3 hours and then grind with coconut juice. Roast urad dal and powder it.
Knead the ground rice with urad dal and roasted rice powder. Add salt and til and mix well.
Put in a chakli mould, make chaklis and fry till brown.
Ingredients:
Boiled rice ½ kg
Jaggery 250 gms or as per taste
Coconut, grated ½
Ghee ¼ cup
Cashewnuts, chopped a handful
Raisins a handful
Cardamom 3-4, powdered
Method:
Wash boiled rice and dry in the sun. Heat a pan and dry roast rice till light brown in colour.
Powder the rice in a mixer. Strain in a sieve to get a fine powder. Keep aside. Grind
jaggery, add grated coconut and grind coarsely. Mix rice powder, coconut-jaggery mixture,
ghee, dry fruits and cardamom powder. Make ladoos of desired size.
Ingredients:
Raw Rice, soaked – ¼ kg
Boiled rice, soaked – ¼ kg
Milk extracted - from ½ coconut
Scraped jaggery – ¼ kg
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Salt one pinch
Ghee or oil for frying
Method:
1. Grind the soaked rice in coconut milk, then add the jaggery and salt to taste.
2. Keep the batter thick (dry). It should be dry enough to roll small marbles ( Gulliyos).
3. If the batter becomes thin, then steam it to get the required consistency.
4. Roll small gulliyos and keep aside.
5. Heat oil or ghee and drop the gulliyos and fry till golden & crisp
6. Drain on paper.
Ingredients:
125 gms Butter
250 gms Sugar
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7 – Egg yolk
3 Egg white
125 gms Semolina
1 tsp mixed spices
2 tsp vanilla essence
3 tbsp honey
Few drops of rose essence
¼ tsp nutmeg
½ cup Rum
125 gms Raisins
125 gms sultanas
125 gms candied peel
50 gms cashewnuts
50 gms currants
50 gms cherries
50 gms pumkin preserve
50 gms ginger preserve
3 tbsp strawberry jam
125gms self raising flour
1/4 cup milk
Method:
Clean and wash and dry fruits. Add nuts, spices and rum and keep for 15-20 days.Cream
butter and sugar, add egg yolks and beat very well. Stir in semolina, self raising flour, milk,
nuts and fruits. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites and mix gently. Heat the oven. On a
greased baking tray pour the mixture and place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
Reduce the temperature and continue baking for 1 hour.
Ingredients:
Maida ½ Kg.
Coconut Milk (½ coconut.)
Eggs 3
Salt and sugar according to taste.
Black Til ( little).
Method:
Mix Maida with coconut milk, sugar, salt and beaten eggs to a thick batter. (Dosa
consistency.) Add Black til and keep aside. ( Water can be added if necessary.)
Heat oil in a thick round bottomed pan and heat the cookies mold for sometimes by dipping it
in oil. Once it gets heated up, dip the mould in the above batter and leave it in oil, wait for
sometime till cookies get separated from the mould. Fry till crispy ( light brown.).
Ingredients:
1 cup white flour
1 cup rice flour
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2 eggs
2 ½ cups coconut milk
Salt and sugar to taste
Method:
Mix the rice flour and coconut milk, until no lumps exist. Gradually add the white flour, and
mix thoroughly after each addition. Beat the eggs and add to the batter. Ensure the batter is
thick and a falling consistency. If too thick add a little coconut milk. Add salt and sugar.Check
the taste, and pour the batter into a open rimmed dish e.g. a deep plate.
Meanwhile heat oil in a large deep Deckhi or Kail. When the oil is hot dip the Rosette Mould
with the desired shape into the oil for 1 min - the first time. Lift the Mould and place onto the
batter CAREFULLY, ensuring the batter does not rise over the edges of the mould for just
about 5 seconds. Lift quickly from the batter and float the mould into the oil, shaking the
handle gradually to get the Rosette slip into the oil. Continue with another Rosette (if
possible), this time heating the mould only for 30 seconds (depending on the temp. of the oil)
while keeping an eye on the one floating in the oil. Turn the Rosette (floating) when slightly
brown, drain and lift when brown on both sides and place on oil absorbent napkins.
Continue with the rest of the batter, either one at a time or two - depending on the size of the
utensil.
Ingredients:
200 Gms bombay sooji
200 Gms sugar
1 Freshly plucked tender coconut (not bondo but adsaar)
4 Eggs
100 Gms almonds, ground
A few whole almonds
¼ Tsp nutmeg powder
¼ Tsp cardamom powder
A few raisins
100 ml rose water
A pinch of salt
½ Tsp baking powder
Method:
Grind coconut and cook it with sugar and a little water for about 15 minutes.Keep on stirring
while cooking and allow it to cool completely. Add sieved sooji to this mixture with well-
beaten yolks of eggs, almond paste, nutmeg and cardamom powders, raisins, rose water,
baking powder and salt and mix thoroughly. Lastly, add the well-beaten egg whites and mix
well.Then pour the mixture in a greased oven-proof dish and top it with halved almonds and
bake in a moderately hot oven for about 50-60 minutes.
Useful Hint:
It is better to grind the coconut and cook it with sugar in the morning and to mix the rest of
the ingredients in the evening and keep it covered, overnight and bake the next morning.
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24.Sweet Puffs (Nevryo)
Ingredients:
1 kg Maida (All purpose flour)
2 tbsp. Cuscus
½ cup Gingelly ( Til )
Cashewnuts
6 tbsp Almonds
6 tbsp Pistas
3 cups coconut (dessicated)
½ tbsp cardamom powder
¼ tsp. nutmeg powder
1 ½ cup sugar (powdered)
3 tbsp. butter
A pinch of salt for taste
(Nuts to be cut very fine)
Method:
Heat the butter in a pan. Fry til and cuscus, raisins and the rest of the nuts till golden
brown. Then keep them aside. Roast the coconut without any oil, keep aside. Mix all the
nuts, coconut, powdered sugar, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and salt and mix well
and keep aside.
For the Chapaties: Mix the flour with a pinch of salt and water, knead it thoroughly to a stiff
dough. Roll out the dough into thin chapaties, cut into equal rounds. Add a tbsp of the filling
in the centre of each chapatti round. Moisten edges with water, fold and press edges over if
you are using the mould. If not, cut with a cutter and deep fry in oil.
Ingredients:
Method:
Fry flour adding ghee little by little until you get the aroma and colour changes to light
brown. Remove from fire. Add sugar and raisins. Make small laddus.
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RICE
1.METHI PULAO
INGREDIENTS:-
For grind:
One full pod garlic, 6-7 green chilies, 1 inch ginger
METHOD:
1. In a Non-stick pan put ghee add cinnamon, cloves, cardamom then add sliced onions, Fry
it for some time.
2. Next add Methi leaves fry it for 1minute, with high flame
3. Then add tomatoes fry it add coriander leaves and ground masala sauté till you gets
aroma
4. Add soaked rice stir for 1-2 minutes, later add boiling water and salt
5. Close the lid cooks it for 5mimutes
6. Serve it hot with raita or papad.
Ingredients:
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Salt to taste
Method:
Marinate chicken, pork and prawns in 1 tbsp. soya sauce and a little salt. Cook rice till ¾
done. Beat eggs in a bowl with a pinch of salt and pepper powder. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan.
Add beaten eggs and scramble. Remove and keep aside. To the same pan add remaining
oil and add spring onion, ginger and garlic and green chillies. Stir fry for 2-3 mts. Add
marinated chicken, prawns and pork. Fry for 5 mts. Put in the chopped vegetables and stir
fry for 2-3 mts. Add pepper powder and salt. Add the cooked rice and soya sauce and mix
well. Lastly add the scrambled eggs. Serve with chilli sauce.
3. PRAWN PULAO
INGREDIENTS:
METHOD:
Put ghee in a thick bottomed vessel and fry chopped onions till golden brown. Then add
washed prawns and a little turmeric powder and salt. Fry well. Add ginger-garlic paste and
fry well. Then add coconut paste, fry for another 5 minutes. Then add tomatoes and all
powdered masalas. Fry till ghee seperates. Then add rice, fry for few minutes, then add
enough water to cook. Keep on slow fire till done.
Ingredients:
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Salt as per taste.
Method:
In a heavy bottomed vessel, boil 2 cups of water. Add mixed vegetables along with chicken
cube and tomato paste. After a boil add rice. After 2 to 3 minutes add 1 tbsp of oil, salt,
coriander and mint leaves. Keep on slow fire. Mix gently and cook covered till the rice is
cooked and dry. Serve hot .
5. RICE KHEER
Ingredients:
Method:
Wash the rice and put it in a vessel. Add half the quantity of milk and one cup water. Add the
garam masala and food colour. Let it all boil together till rice is done to a soft consistency.
Put limited quantity of water for the rice to cook. After the rice is done, add the remaining
milk and the sugar and boil to a thick consistency. Keep it aside. Heat ghee in a seperate
pan, add the dry fruits and fry till slightly brown. Add the cooked rice to this pan and close
the fire. Keep in the fridge to cool before serving. While serving, if you wish to eat in a
thinner consistency add more milk to thin the kheer.
6.VEGETABLE PULAO
INGREDIENTS:
1. ½ kg Basmati Rice
2. 50 gm carrots, cut
3. 50 gm, French beans, cut
4. 50 gm, Cauliflower, cut
5. 50 gm peas
6. 6 tbsp. ghee
7. 4 cloves
8. 4 cardamoms
9. 4 pieces cinnamon
10. 4 onions, sliced
11. ½" piece ginger, crushed
12. 4-6 flakes garlic, crushed
13. ½ tbsp. chili powder
14. ¼ tsp. turmeric powder
15. 2 tbsp. coriander leaves, chopped
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16. 6 green chilies
17. Salt to taste
18. 4 glasses water
METHOD:
In a cooker heat the ghee, and then add the cloves, cardamoms, cinnamon, sliced onions
and fry for some time. Add crushed ginger and garlic. Add the rice and fry for some time.
Then add all the vegetables, chili powder, turmeric powder, coriander leaves, green chilies,
salt and water. Close the cooker and cook for 5 minutes under pressure. Remove from fire
and serve hot.
SOUP
Ingredients:
1 ½ cup cooked crab meat
1 tin asparagus, cut into 3 pieces each
3 beaten eggs
3 cups vegetable stock
2 tbsp arrowroot dissolved to a smooth paste in half cup of the vegetable stock.
Method:
Mix in the arrowroot with the stock, cook and stir till boiling and slightly thick. Now add
crabmeat, asparagus and salt. Bring the whole lot to the boil, while slowly adding eggs, a
little each time and then allowing it to set in before stirring. Serve with soya sauce, chilli
sauce chopped green chillies in vinegar.
Ingredients:
1 medium onion chopped
1 tbsp. butter
250 gms mushroom sliced
1 tbsp. all-purpose flour
¾ cup chicken broth
½ cup evaporated skimmed milk
2 tsps. lemon juice
¼ cup sour cream
100 gms boned and skinned chicken breast sliced
Salt and pepper to taste
100 gms noodles boiled
Method:
In a large non-stick pan, cook the onion in the butter over moderate heat for 5 minutes or
until softened. Add the mushrooms and cook until all of the liquid of the mushrooms is
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evaporated. Sprinkle the flour over the mushrooms and cook the mixture, stirring, for 2
minutes. Add the broth on slow flamed, bring the mixture to a boil, whisking, and simmer it
for 3 minutes. Add the milk, and simmer the mixture for 3 minutes or until it is thickened. Stir
in the lemon juice, sour cream, the chicken, salt and pepper to taste. Cook the mixture over
moderate heat until chicken is cooked. Serve over noodles. Garnish the soup with basil,
croutons and Parmesan Cheese.
Ingredients:
A pinch of Asafoetida
¼ tsp. Cumin Seeds
¼ tsp. Pepper Seeds
¼ tsp. Methi Seeds
2 Garlic Flakes
1 Cinnamon Stick
2 Cloves
¼" Ginger
Method
Pressure cook Dal with 1 ½ cups of water with a pinch of Turmeric. When it cools, mash it
well and keep it aside. Heat butter in a pressure cooker and fry Onions, Curry Leaves,
Coriander Leaves, Capsicum and Tomato and fry for 2-3 minutes. Add vegetables and fry
one by one stirring constantly for a few minutes. Pour just enough water to cover the
vegetables and pressure cook along with the spice bag till one whistle on reduced flame.
cool down, squeeze and discard the spice bag. Mash the Vegetables and strain through a
sieve. Add the Mashed Dhal to the strained Soup. Dilute with water if required. Re-heat the
soup with salt as desired and serve hot.
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4. GREEN GRAM (MOONG) SOUP
Ingredients:
¼ cup Green gram, whole (moong)
2 cups water
¼ tsp. cumin seeds
1 blob butter or ghee
Lime Juice to taste
Pinch asafoetida
Big pinch turmeric
Salt, pepper to taste
Method:
Pressure cook washed gram till very soft. Keep aside one 1 tbsp. boiled gram whole and
blend the rest, after cooling. In a pan, heat butter add cumin seeds. When they splutter add
the asafetida and blended moong soup. Boil for 1 minute. Add salt, turmeric, lime and
pepper. Boil 5 to 7 minutes. Add whole moong kept aside. Now boil till thick enough for soup.
Serve hot with small piece of butter and little lemon juice.
Ingredients:
Method :
1. Peel and finely chop onion, ginger, garlic and carrot. Wash and finely chop the cabbage,
bamboo shoot, celery, spring onion and mushrooms.
2. Wash, de-seed and finely chop the capsicums. Wash, string and finely chop the French
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beans. Dissolve cornstarch in water and keep aside.
3. Heat oil in wok on high heat. Add garlic, onion and ginger and stir-fry briefly. Add the
chopped french beans, carrot, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, celery and stir fry.
4. Add soya sauce, sugar, ajinomoto and mix. Add water or vegetable stock. Mix.
5. Add chilli sauce, cabbage and capsicum and continue to cook.
6. Add the cornstarch mix and let the soup thicken.
7. Add salt to taste, vinegar and pepper powder and take off the heat and serve hot.
Ingredients:
Method:
Marinate beef with salt and keep aside. In a heavy bottom pan, heat 1 tspn butter and saute
the beef. Add chopped onion, garlic and tomato paste and stir continuously for 2 minutes.
Add chic peas, parsley, coriander and chicken stock and boil for 5 minutes. When the soup
is boiling, add the beaten egg. Check for seasoning and add salt accordingly if required.
Serve hot with a wedge of lemon.
7. TOMATO SAR
INGREDIENTS:
3. Salt to taste
FOR SEASONING:
1. 2 tbsp oil
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2. 1 tsp mustard seeds
METHOD:
Cook the tomatoes and onions with 7 – 8 cups of water and salt to taste. When it is cooked,
season with oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, garlic and jeera powder, pepper powder and
chilli powder. Cover and cook for another 5 minutes. Garnish with chopped coriander
leaves.
Ingredients:
For Seasoning:
2 tbsp oil
¼ tsp. mustard
1/4 tsp. jeera
Few curry leaves
¼ tsp chilli or bafat powder.
3 flakes crushed garlic
1 short red chilly
Method:
Clean and wash Dal. Chop onions, tomatoes, potato, garlic , ginger & green chillies. Cook
Dal in 3 to 4 cups of water , when half done add all the cut masala along with potato, cloves,
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cinnamon, cube and salt as per taste. Cook till the dal and potato is soft. Adjust the
consistency according to your requirement. Now add coconut milk and boil on slow fire for 2
minutes and set aside.
Heat 2 tbsp. oil, splutter mustard & jeera, then add crushed garlic,curry leaves, red chilly &
fry till brown. Add chilli/ bafat powder. Fry for half a minute. Pour this over the cooked dal.
Keep covered. Serve hot garnishing with coriander leaves.
VEGETABLES
Ingredients
2 - 3 stems of Allu
2 Dentte ( Stems of green leafy veg.)
½ scraped coconut
8 red chillies (long & short mixed)
3 tbsp coriander
1 tbsp cumin (Jeera)
½ tsp. mustard
1 tsp. turmeric powder
1 onion
5 flakes garlic
2 Ambade (Optional)
Small ball of tamarind ( If Ambade is used, then very little tamarind)
Salt according to taste
1 cup coconut milk ( Optional)
For Seasoning : 2 tbsp.oil, 1 tsp. mustard, 3 flakes crushed garlic, 8 to 10 curry leaves.
Method
1. Clean the Allu & Dente very well by removing the outer skin. Cut allu into small pieces and
Dente into 2" pieces and cook them with salt and little water. May also pressure cook them
for about 2 whistles.
2. In a pan dry roast together the chillies, coriander, cumin (jeera), mustard.
3. Dry roast together onion and garlic flakes.
4. Grind all these roasted ingredients with fresh coconut , tamarind and turmeric powder.
5. Add this ground masala along with crushed ambade to the boiled vegetables and bring to
boil.
6. Adjust salt according to taste.
7. Heat 2 tbsp of oil, add mustard, when they splutter add crushed garlic and curry leaves,
fry till they turn brown and then pour over the curry. And keep it covered.
8. Coconut milk can be added before seasoning if required.
(Note: Allu-Dentto can be substituted with white pumpkin & sprouted green gram
(Moog)).
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2.Channa Sukka
INGREDIENTS:
FOR MASALA
½ Coconut scraped and roasted till dark brown.
6-8 red chilies, roasted
1 tsp. coriander seed, roasted,
1/2 tsp. jeera roasted
1/4 tsp mustard
1/4 tsp pepper corns
3-4 flakes garlic
1 onion chopped
Small piece of Jaggery
Tamarind (size of 1 lime)
Salt to taste
FOR SEASONING
2 tbsp. oil
½ tsp. mustard seeds
1 onion, chopped
Curry leaves
METHOD:
Wash black channa and soak overnight. Next day, drain it and pressure cook along with little
water and salt till done. Grind the ingredients of the masala with little water. Add the scraped
coconut and grind coarsely. Add this masala to the cooked black channa along with the
jaggery and boil for 5 - 10 minutes. Heat 2 tbsp. oil, add mustard seeds. When they splutter
add chopped onions and curry leaves. Fry till brown and add this to the channa. Cook for
sometime till it gets dry.
Ingredients:
½ Kg Karathem (Bitter Gourd)
3-4 Ambadde (crushed)
Little jaggery
1 tbsp. oil
Salt to taste
2 spoons grated coconut
4-5 flakes garlic (crushed)
For Masala:
4 long red chillies
2 small red chillies
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¼ tsp. pepper corns
½ tsp. jeera
½ tsp. mustard
1 onion
Small ball of tamarind
Method:
Cut Karathem into ½” pieces. Add 2 tsp. of salt mix well and keep for 5-6 hours. Later
squeeze the karathem pieces and remove the salt water. Grind the masala ingredients with
little water. Mix karathem, masala, crushed ambadde and cook with masala water till soft.
Add jaggery. Check for salt. If required, add salt. Add grated coconut. Mix well and cook
for 2 minutes. Heat 1 tbsp. oil, fry crushed garlic till brown and pour over cooked karathem.
Note: Ambadde may be substituted with tomatoes.
Ingredients:
Method:
Wash & soak green gram in water for 10 – 12 hours, then strain and tie in a thin cotton
cloth and hang it for another 12 hours, so that the green gram is sprouted.
Cook the sprouted green gram with salt and little water. Dry roast all the ingredients
except coconut. Grind the roasted ingredients with little water. Heat 2 tbsp. of oil in a
pan, add mustard, when they splutter add crushed garlic and then fresh coconut, cashew
nuts and roast till golden brown. Add to this the ground masala and fry for few minutes.
Add this mixture to the cooked green gram, mix well and boil for 2 minutes.
5. Aloo Paratha
Ingredients:
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½ tsp. ginger garlic paste
½ tsp. chilli powder
½ tsp. coriander powder
½ tsp. cumin powder
1 tbsp. chopped coriander leaves
1 tbsp. lemon juice
Ghee for frying
Method:
Knead wheat flour with salt, a tsp of oil and warm water. Keep aside for 1 hour covering with
a clean wet cloth. Mix well the mashed potato with grated onion, ginger-garlic paste , chilli
powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, chopped coriander leaves, lemon juice and salt.
Flatten a ball of kneaded flour in you palm, fill with the potato mixing, make a ball. Very
slowly flatten it into a paratha and roast on both the sides on slow fire. Apply ghee on both
sides, fry again. Enjoy with little yoghurt.
Ingredients:
Seasoning:
2 tbsp oil
1 sliced onion.
Method:
Peel, de-seed and thinly slice the pumpkin. Cut onions into cubes, chop ginger , garlic and
green chillies lenghtwise. Cook sliced pumpkin in little water with chopped onions, ginger,
garlic, green chillies, cloves, cinamon, bay leaves and bafat powder along with salt to taste.
When almost cooked add vinegar and sugar. Stir well and finally add coconut milk. Boil for
two minutes and remove from fire. Heat 2 tbsp. oil, fry one chopped onion till dark brown.
Pour this over the pumpkin curry. Serve hot.
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7.Baingan Bhurta
Ingredients:
1 no. large eggplant
3 nos. spring onions (the stalks as well as the bulbs) chopped
2 garlic flakes (if big) or 3 nos. (if small).
1 tsp. coriander powder
1 tsp. cumin powder
1 tsp. kashmiri red chilli powder
¼ tsp. turmeric powder
A pinch of mixed fenugreek seeds, mustard seeds & cumin seeds
Asafoetida
Salt to taste
1½ tbsp. oil for cooking
Method:
Firstly wash & roast the eggplant on direct flame till fully roasted. Then immerse it in cold
water for ten minutes. Remove the skin with hand, cut off the stem & chop the roasted
eggplant with a knife or beat it with an egg beater. Keep aside. In a vessel add oil & in that
add a pinch of mixed fenugreek, mustard & cummin seeds & a pinch of asafoetida. When it
begins to crackle, add the chopped spring onions & crushed garlic flakes & saute till the
onions become light brown. Add the smashed eggplant & all the masalas. Mix nicely &
cover & cook till it leaves oil on the edges. Serve hot with millet rotis or chapattis. For
garnish add some chopped coriander leaves & immerse the cut stem of the eggplant in the
bhurta.
8.BATATA POHA
INGREDIENTS:
METHOD:
2. Wash Poha in a sieve under running water. Drain and keep aside.
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3. Cut onions and green chillies finely.
4. Heat oil in a wok add mustard seeds after it splutters add onions, green chillies and curry
leaves.
5. When onions turns pink, add turmeric powder, chilli powder, salt and cut potatoes. Cook
till potatoes are tender. Add Poha and mix well and cook for 5 minutes.
6. Sprinkle lime juice and garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot.
Ingredients:
½ Kg beans
¼ Kg whole masoor
1 potato
1 tomato
1 onion
I magie cube ( optional )
Salt to taste
To grind:
½ grated coconut
4- 5 long red chillies
2-3 short red chillies
2 tbsp. coriander
¼ tsp. cumin
¼ tsp. turmeric
¼ tsp. methi seeds
1 onion
2 –3 garlic flakes
Seasoning:
Method:
Clean and soak masoor for about 3 – 4 hours. Cut beans into 1 ‟‟ pieces. Cook masoor and
beans along with cubed tomato, potato and onion with little water and salt and keep aside.
Dry roast the ingredients of masala slightly and grind them coarsely. Add the masala into the
cooked beans and bring to a boil. Add magie cube ( optional ) and adjust salt accordingly.
Boil for about ten minutes and set aside.
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Heat oil, splutter mustard , add crushed garlic and curry leaves. Fry till light brown and then
pour over the beans curry. Keep covered.
Ingredients:
4 medium beet roots
1 large onion
1 tomato
2 green chillies
½ ” ginger
2 flakes garlic
½ cup fresh grated coconut
½ tsp.bafat or chilly powder
¼ tsp turmeric
Salt as per taste
For seasoning:
1 tbsp.oil
½ tsp. mustard
2 flakes crushed garlic
Few curry leaves
¼ tsp. chilly powder
A pinch of turmeric
Method:
Wash and remove the skin of the beet roots. Finely chop the beet roots and cook in little
water along with finely chopped onion, tomato, ginger, green chilly and garlic. When half
cooked add coconut mixed with bafat powder and turmeric. Add salt as per your taste. Cook
till done. If there is excess water cook uncovered on high flame till water dries up.
Seasoning:
Heat oil, add mustard, crushed garlic, curry leaves, chilly powder and turmeric. Fry till brown
and pour this over the cooked beet root.
Ingredients:
½ kg. bhindi
2 onions
2 tbsp veg. oil
½ tsp. chilly powder
Salt as per taste.
Method:
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Wash the bhindi and trim the ends. Pat dry all the bhindis and thinly slice them. Finely chop
the onions. Heat 2 tbsp. of oil in a non stick pan . Add the onions and bhindis and sauté
them on slow fire till tender. Add salt and chilly powder. Mix well and serve hot with rotis of
your choice.
METHOD
13.Brinjal -Hyderabadi
Ingredients:
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To Grind;
2 tbsp. coriander
1 tbsp. cumin
4 cloves
1 " cinnamon stick
1" ginger
1/2 tsp. turmeric
4 long red chillies
5 flakes garlic
Method:
Wash the brinjals and slit them into four pieces from bottom without cutting the stems and
crown. Grind the above mentioned ingredients into a smooth paste. Stuff this paste inide
the brinjals and set aside. Reserve the left over masala. Heat oil in a pan and fry the brinjals
till soft. Add curry leaves, onions, tomatoes, ginger, green chillies along with tamarind water
and salt. Mix well. Add the left over masala along with 1/2 cup of water. Add the garam
masala powder and cook covered om slow flame for 10 to 15 minutes. Garnish with
coriander leaves. Serve hot with chapathis.
14.Brinjal Ennekai
Ingredients:
Method:
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Slit the brinjals into 4 parts without removing the stem. Dry roast coconut, groundnuts and
curry leaves till brown. Also dry roast coriander, sesame, methi, red chillies until good aroma
comes out. Grind the roasted ingredients adding turmeric, tamarind and jaggery along with
little water. Stuff this masala inside the brinjals. Reserve the masala water after rinsing the
blender.
In a heavy bottomed pan, heat oil, splutter mustard & cumin. Add sliced onions, fry well.
Add green chillies, curry leaves and the tomatoes, fry for a while, now add the stuffed
brinjals. Gently toss them so that the seasoning coats them well. Add the masala water to
cover the brinjals and simmer once it starts boiling. Add salt as per your taste. Cook on low
heat till the brinjals are tender. Check salt and jaggery, adjust as per your taste.
Serve hot garnished with chopped coriander leaves with steamed rice or chapathis.
Ingredients:
2 medium brinjals
2 onions (finely chopped)
2 green chillies (finely chopped)
2 flakes of garlic (finely chopped)
½ " ginger ( finely chopped)
1 - 2 tbsp. oil
½ tsp. chilly / bafat powder
1/3 cup coconut milk
1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste
Method
1. Cut brinjals into thin slices, and marinate them with salt & chilly / bafat powder for about
15 minutes.
2. Heat oil in a non stick pan and shallow fry the brinjal slices on both sides till brown.
Remove and keep aside.
3. In the same pan add chopped ginger, garlic and green chilles and fry well.
4. Add chopped onions and slightly fry them.
5. In a serving plate, place a layer of fried brinjal slices and a layer of fried onion
mixture on top. Repeat 2-3 such layers.
6. Before serving pour coconut milk on top and sprinkle chopped coriander leaves
Ingredients:
300 gms. broccoli
150 gms.capsicums
1- big onion
3-4 flakes garlic
1 small tomato
2 tbsp. tomato -chilly sauce
1 tbsp.soya sauce
¼ tsp. pepper powder
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2 tbsp. oil
Salt to taste
Method:
Cut Broccoli into small florets and boil in hot water for 2-3 minutes with little salt. Drain and
set aside. In a pan heat oil, fry chopped garlic. Later add onion and fry until golden brown .
Add tomato fry little and then add chopped capsicum and sauté. Later add boiled broccoli
,tomato chilly sauce, soya sauce , pepper and salt if required. Cook for two minutes until dry.
Serve hot with chapathi.
Ingredients:
3 tbsp. butter
400 gms.paneer
3 medium onions
4 tbsp.tomato paste
1 tbsp. ginger garlic paste
3/4 cup thick curd
1/2 bunch coriander leaves
3 tsp.tandoori masala
1 tsp. garam masala
salt to taste.
Method:
Mix curds, ginger garlic paste, garam masala, tandoori masala and salt into a fine paste.
Marinate paneer in this paste for about 2 hours. Grind onions into a fine paste. Melt butter
in a pan, add onion paste and saute for two minutes. Add tomato paste, keep stirring till oil
seperates. Now add the marinated paneer and cook till gravy thickens. Serve hot garnished
with coriander leaves with Nan or Roti.
Ingredients:
1 medium Cauliflower
50 gms. butter
1/4 tsp. White pepper
Salt to taste
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1 tsp. oregano
Method:
Cut the cauliflower into medium pieces and also some of tender leaves and gently cook
covered with butter for five minutes. Keep aside in a baking tray.
Sauce:
Heat the butter and drop in the flour or corn starch and stir till a smooth paste is formed.
Add the white pepper and oregano. Slowly add milk little at a time, stirring constantly till
sauce thickens. Add grated gouda cheese and cream , keep stirring till cheese is melted.
Pour this mixture over the cooked cauliflower. Sprinkle parmasean cheese and bake for
fifteen / twenty minutes until the top gets golden brown.
Ingredients:
20-25 nos. florets of cauliflower(med)
A pinch of ajinomoto
Oil for deep frying
2 tbsp. Oil
2 tbsp. finely chopped spring onion
1 tbsp. finely chopped garlic
1 tbsp. finely chopped ginger
½ tbsp. finely chopped green chilies
1 big finely chopped onion
¼ tsp. white pepper
3 tbsp. soya sauce
¼ tsp. sugar
¼ cube chicken stock
Cornflower mixed with water-1tbl.sp.mixed with ¼ cup water
1 cup vegetable stock
1 tsp. seasoning
Method:
Wash the cauliflower florets, sprinkle a little salt and ajinomoto and set aside. Combine all
the ingredients mentioned under batter. Beat well and prepare a thick coating batter. Mix the
cauliflower florets and keep for 15 mts. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Deep fry the cauliflower.
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Drain when golden brown . Set aside. Heat 2 tbsp. of oil in a pan. Add the onions, spring
onions, ginger, garlic and green chillies. Fry 1minute. Add the stock, pepper, soya sauce,
seasoning, chicken stock, sugar. Simmer uncovered for 1-2mts. Add the cornflour mixed
with water and stir continuously so that the sauce becomes thick. Add the fried cauliflower
florets just before serving. Garnish with spring onions top.
Ingredients:
1 cup cashew nuts
½ cup channa dal (Bengal gram)
¼ cup vegetable oil
2 medium tomatoes (chopped finely)
1 tsp. ginger paste
1 tsp. garlic paste
1 medium onion (grind coarsely)
1 tsp. red chilly powder
¼ tsp. turmeric
Salt to taste
1 tsp. coriander seeds
3-4 cloves
1” cinnamon stick
1 cardamom
Pinch of nutmeg powder
¼ tsp. saunf
¼ tsp. cumin seeds
Method:
Powder coriander seeds, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, saunf and cumin seeds and
keep aside. Soak cashew nuts in about 1.5 cup warm water for about 30 minutes. Wash
bengal gram, drain, and add to the cashew nuts and cook together until bengal gram is
cooked. In a vessel, heat oil add garlic paste, ginger paste, ground onion, red chilly powder,
turmeric and salt. Fry for five minutes. Now add tomato and fry for 5 more minutes. Add
powdered masala and fry for sometime. Add boiled bengal gram and cashew nut mixture
(including water). Add another 1/2-3/4 cup of water and cook for 10 -15 minutes on low heat.
Ingredients:
2 cups rice
1 to 2 cups milk
2 cups curd (yogurt)
1 tsp. salt
2 each red chilies & green chilies
1 tsp. mustard seeds
1 tsp. oil
¼ tsp. asafoetida
½ tsp. finely chopped ginger
Few curry leaves
Few coriander leaves (for garnishing curd rice)
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Method:
Cook rice until very soft in a pressure cooker. Mash the rice well. Add the milk, salt and mix
well. Heat oil in a kadai. Add the mustard seeds, red chilies, green chilies, then ginger, curry
leaves and asafoetida. Mix the seasoning to the rice. When the rice is cooled add the curd
and mix well without lumps and garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
Grated carrot or finely chopped cucumber can also be added to the rice.
22.Dahi Kaddhi
Ingredients:
3 cups buttermilk or yogurt well beaten mixed with a little water
2 tbsp. Besan (chickpeas flour)
Salt to taste
½ tsp. ginger green chilli paste
2 tsp. ghee
A pinch of hing
1 tsp. jeera
3 no. cloves
1-inch cinnamon
A few curry leaves
Jaggery (optional)
Method:
Mix together buttermilk or beaten yogurt with besan. Keep aside. Take a pan, add ghee, fry
ginger green chillie paste, add hing, jeera, cloves, cinnamon, curry leaves. Now add the
buttermilk/yogurt and besan mixture. Put salt to taste. Mix well and cook on slow flame. Add
jaggery if sweet curry is needed. Garnish with coriander leaves.
INGREDIENTS:
GRIND:
4. 1 tsp Jeera
5. ½ tsp corainder seeds
6. ½ tsp mustard
7. 1 tsp raw rice
8. Small ball of tamarind
9. 8 dry chillies
10. 3 flakes of garlic
11. ½ coconut
12. ½ Onion
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SEASONING:
METHOD:
Slightly roast red chillies, corainder, jeera, mustard and raw rice. Grind with other masala
ingredients to a fine paste. Cook dal with little salt. When ¾ done add gosale and cook. Add
ground masala. When done season with mustard and curry leaves.
INGREDIENTS
2. Salt to taste
3. Jaggery to taste
For Masala
7. 8 peppercorns, roasted
For Seasoning
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14. 2 tbsp coconut oil
METHOD:
Grind together masala ingredients, except coconut to a fine paste. Add the coconut and
grind further to a coarse paste. Remove and keep aside.
Take out thick outer skin of the jackfruit, cut into smal pieces and put it in water. Remove
from water after 10 minutes and cook it with enough water, salt to taste and jaggery. When
it is cooked add the ground masala and cook for another 10-15 minutes.
Season with coconut oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, urad dhal and chopped onions.
Ingredients
1 cup masoor dal
1 tbsp. oil
1 onion ( finely chopped)
2 flakes of garlic (finely chopped)
Small piece ginger (finely chopped)
½ tsp. jeera
¼ tsp. turmeric powder
½ tsp. chilly powder
½ tsp. lime juice
¼ tsp. garam masala powder
Salt to taste
¼ Maggie cube (optional)
1tsp. chopped coriander leaves
Method
1. Boil dal with 2 cups water, along with little salt and turmeric powder. Add maggie
cube (optional ). If cube is added use very little salt.
2. Heat oil in a pan, add jeera and then add finely chopped onion, garlic, ginger. Fry well till
oil separates.
3. Add chilly powder, garam masala powder and fry well.
4. Mix the boiled dal to this mixture and add lime juice, garnish with coridander leaves.
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26. Egg Plant (Brinjal) in Yoghurt
Ingredients:
2 cups yoghurt
Sugar to taste
To Marinate:
1 tbsp. maida
Salt to taste
Method:
Peel the egg plant & cut into ½" cubes. Mix the ingredients mentioned above well and
marinate the egg plant pieces in the paste for about 30 minutes. Take oil in a frying pan and
heat it on a high flame and fry the marinated egg plant pieces until golden brown. Take
yoghurt in a separate bowl and beat well add the fried egg plant pieces and mix well. (Add a
little sugar to taste if required). Refrigerate for 30 minutes and serve.
Ingredients:
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1 tbsp. chopped Onions
2 tsp. chilli powder
½ tsp. turmeric powder
1 tsp. salt to taste oil
1 tsp. jeera
2 medium tomatoes
1 tbsp. coconut powder
2 nos. green chilies
4-5 curry leaves
1 tsp. coriander powder
1 cup water
2 tbsp. yogurt
Method:
Cook the cut eggplants (either in Microwave - 5 minutes). In a pan heat 2 tsp. oil. Add cut
onions and stir it for 1- 2 minutes. Add turmeric powder, Chilli powder & salt to it. Put the cut
eggplants in it. Let it fry together for 10 minutes in low flame. In a saucepan heat 1 tsp. oil.
Fry Jeera in it for 30 seconds. Then add tomatoes, coconut powder, curry leaves, green
chillies and stir for 2-3 minutes. Add 1 cup water. Let tomatoes be well blended and cooked.
Add coriander powder. Add 2 tbsp. yogurt to it. When this gravy is of the required
consistency add the fried eggplants into it.
Ingredients:
Tender beans - 100 gms
Garlic - 4 flakes
Spring onion – 1 stem
Red chillies - 4
1 tbsp soy sauce
Onion - ½
1 tbsp. oil
Method:
Boil beans in hot water for 2 min. Remove, drain and keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan and sauté mincred garlic, minced red chillies and minced onions. Add
chopped spring onions and fry for another 2 minutes. Add cooked beans ,soya sauce and
sauté for another 2 minutes. Season with salt and serve hot.
Cut the brinjals into slices and marinate it with little vinegar, salt and turmeric powder. Fry
them till golden brown.
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1 tsp Cummin seeds
2 tsp Mustard seeds
2 tsp Til seeds (white)
2 tsp Dry, grated coconut
Fry 2 onions till golden brown and grind it into paste. Soak lemon-size ball of tamarind.
Method
1) Heat oil and add 1 tsp cumin seeds. Add curry leaves, if available.
2) Add the powdered masala + 1 tsp turmeric powder + 1 tsp chillie powder. Fry for a while.
3) Add 2 tomatoes and fry.
4) Add the onion paste and fry for a while. Add tamarind pulp and allow to boil.
5) Add the fried brinjal pieces and let it absorb the gravy on a very slow flame.
6) Garnish with cut coriander leaves. Goes well with chapattis.
30.Ladyfinger in Yogurt
Ingredients:
400 gms. tender ladyfingers (Bhindi)
3-4 green chillies
1 inch ginger
½ tsp. pepper corns
1 ½ cups yogurt
1 tbsp. bengal gram flour (besan)
2 dry whole red chillies
1 tsp. cumin seeds
1 tbsp. coriander powder
½ tsp. turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1½ tsp. oil
Method:
Wash and wipe small ladyfingers dry with a clean and absorbent kitchen towel. Peel wash
and grind ginger with peppercorns to a fine paste. Whisk yogurt. Dry roast bengal gram
flour (besan) in a non stick pan on low heat, stirring continuously until it gives a roasted
aroma. Keep aside to cool. Heat oil in a non-stick pan, add dried whole red chilies, cumin
seeds and stir-fry briefly. Add green chilies, coriander powder, turmeric powder, besan and
stir well. Add trimmed ladyfingers, salt to taste and cook over medium heat, stirring
frequently for five minutes. Stir in the giner and peppercorn paste. Reduce heat and add the
whisked yogurt, mix well and cook covered for 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally or until
lady fingers are completely cooked.
Ingredients:
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1 cup grated coconut
Salt as per taste.
Seasoning:
Method:
Cut fruits into 1" pieces. Boil mango pieces for 5 minutes with little water. Dry roast the red
chillies and grind coaresly with coconut. Mix the boiled mango with pineapple pieces well
and add the ground masala. Add salt as per taste, mix well. Heat oil, splutter mustard and
pour this seasoning over the fruit mixture.
32.Masala Aloo
Ingredients:
½ kg potatoes, cut vertically into long and thin pieces (like french fries)
2 tbsp oil
1 tbsp coriander powder
Salt to taste
1 tbsp garam masala
½ tbsp chili powder
Method:
Soak the pieces in cold water for 5 minutes. Heat oil in a pan; add coriander powder, chili
powder, garam masala powder and salt. Stir it properly to make a paste. Now add the
potato pieces and mix well in the paste. Transfer and scatter to a greased plate. Place them
in an oven 10-15 minutes. Turn them when you are half way through. Serve them as a side
dish by inserting to tooth-picks with tomato ketchup.
Vegetables:
100 gms potootes (cut into cubes)
50 gms carrots (cut into cubes)
50 gms green peas
100 gms cauliflower (break the florets)
(Parboil the above vegetables)
100 gms cottage cheese (Paneer)
Ingredients:
1 onion coarsely ground
2 tomatoes sliced
2 chillies slit
½ tsp garlic paste
½ tsp ginger paste
20 Cashewnuts soaked in warm water and ground to a paste
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50 grams butter
1 tablespoon cream
½ tsp chilly powder
½ tsp garam masala powder
½ tsp turmeric powder
2 cups water
Salt to taste
Method:
Heat butter in a kadai and fry cubed cottage cheese till golden brown. Drain and keep
aside. In the same butter saute ginger and garlic paste and ground onion for a couple of
minutes. Add green chillies, tomatoes, turmeric, garam masala, chilli powder and sauté till
the tomatoes are cooked. Add cashew nut paste and water, stir well. Add salt to taste.
When it begins to boil, add the vegetables and cottage cheese. Cook on slow fire for 3 - 5
minutes. Garnish with cream. Serve hot.
Ingredients:
½ tsp mustard
½ tsp jeera
½ tsp methi
1 tsp coriander
8 dry red chilies
¼ onion,
Small ball of tamarind
½ cup coconut
1 flake garlic
½ tsp urad dal
Method:
Fry urad dal with little oil in a frying pan. Then fry mustard, coriander, jeera, methi, chilies,
coconut and onion together. Grind the fried masala finely. Cut the moge in square cubes and
cook it with water , when ¾ done add the ground masala and season with asaofetida (hing),
bay leaves and mustard.
35.Mushroom Curry
Ingredients:
10 Mushrooms, quartered
1 tsp. ginger-garlic paste
2 tbsp. onion paste
1 tsp. tomato puree
¼ tsp. chilli powder
3 tbsp. curds
¼ tsp. garam masala
1 tbsp. oil
Salt to taste
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For garnishing:
2 tbsp. chopped coriander
Method:
Heat the oil in a pan; add the ginger-garlic paste and the onion paste and sauté for some
time. Add the tomato puree and chilli powder and stir for some time. Add the mushrooms
and saute till they are tender. Finally add the curds, garam masala and salt and mix well.
Garnish with coriander and serve hot.
Ingredients:
12 drumsticks
A small piece of jaggery
Salt to taste
½ coconut grated
For Masala:
7 red chillies, roasted (preferably kashmiri)
1 tsp. jeera
2 tbsp. coriander seeds, roasted
1 tsp. urad dhal, roasted
4-5 methi seeds, roasted
2 flakes garlic
¼ tsp. turmeric
Tamarind (size of ¼ lime)
For seasoning:
2 tbsp oil
1 tsp. mustard seeds
1 sprig curry leaves
1 tsp. urad dhal
7-8 flakes garlic crushed with skins
Method:
Remove the top skin of the drumsticks, cut into 3" pieces and soak in water for 5 minutes.
Remove from water and cook the drumsticks in 1 ½ cups of water, salt and jaggery.
Grind together the masala ingredients to a fine paste, then add the coconut and grind
coarsely. Add the masala to the cooked drumsticks. Cook on slow fire for 10-15 minutes.
Season with oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, urad dhal and garlic.
37.Mutter Paneer
Ingredients:
350 gms. mutter (green peas)
200 gms paneer cubes
2 medium onions grated
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2 medium tomatoes finely chopped
1 tbsp. ginger garlic paste
½ tsp. red chilly powder
½ tsp. coriander powder
¼ tsp. cumin powder
A pinch of turmeric powder
¼ tsp. garam masala for garnish
Coriander leaves for garnish.
Method:
Fry paneer lightly in ghee. Remove and keep aside. Heat ghee or oil in a pan. Add the
grated onion and fry till brown. Add the ginger garlic paste and fry for sometime. Add the
tomatoes, chilly, coriander, cumin, turmeric powders and salt. Fry till oil separates. Add
peas and fry for two minutes. Add 1 ½ cup of water and cook till the peas are done. Add the
paneer cubes and simmer for about 2/3 mins. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and
sprinkle the garam masala on top.
P.S. : The health and calorie conscious people can avoid frying the paneer.
38.Palak Paneer
Ingredients:
2 bunches green palak
4 green chillies
5-6 chopped garlic
1” chopped ginger
4 tbsp. full cream
300 gms. diced paneer
1 tbsp. cumin seeds
3 tbsp. lemon juice
Salt to taste
Oil to fry
Water to blanch the paneer
Method:
Clean the palak, cut the stems and wash thoroughly. Boil sufficient water in a big vessel and
when it reaches the boiling point close the fire. Put the cleaned palak (without cutting) in this
water, cover and leave it for 10 minutes. Now drain the hot water and put the palak in chilled
water and drain it again ,this retains the green colour of palak . In a shallow pan with little
oil, fry the paneer slightly.
Now grind the blanched palak and green chilies together to a paste (a little water can be
added while grinding but not necessary). Take oil in a vessel and brown the cumin seeds
and then brown chopped ginger & garlic. Now add palak paste and fry for 10 minutes.
Whisk the full cream well and add it to the palak paste and water if required. Bring this thick
gravy to a boil. Now add fried paneer, lime juice and salt. Mix well and close the fire.
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39.Palak Paneer Pulao
Ingredients:
Method:
Wash and soak rice for half an hour. Grind spinach, coriander leaves, coconut and chillies
into a fine paste. Heat 2 tbsp. of oil and add cumin seeds,chopped onion, tomato & ginger
garlic paste. Saute for a minute. Then add whole spices and stir well. Now Add the masala,
chilly powder,garama masala powder and mix well. Add the beans and cook for a while.
Add the Strained rice and stir gently. Later add the boiling water and cover with the lid and
let the rice cook on medium flame. When rice is half done add paneer. Add Salt as per
taste. Cook the rice till done and garnish with fried onions and serve with vegetable raita.
Ingredients:
Method:
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Soak the soya kheema in hot water for 10 minutes and then squeeze out the water. In a
bowl, mash the cottage cheese and add mashed potato and soya kheema along with corn
flour and knead well. Add the other above mentioned ingredients and mix well. Check the
seasoning. Take lime sized portion of this mixture and shape as desired and refrigerate it for
15-20 minutes. Heat oil in a wok and fry these cutlets till golden brown. Serve hot with green
chuttny and salad.
Ingredients:
½ kg paneer
10-12 baby corns
2 medium onions
2 medium tomatoes
1 inch piece ginger
8-10 garlic flakes
10-12 whole red kashmiri chillies
1 tsp. cumin seeds
7-8 cloves
1 tsp. mustard seeds
1 inch stick cinnamon
Salt to taste
¼ cup vinegar
2 tbsp. oil
¼ cup tomato puree
1 tbsp. sugar
Method:
Wash and cut paneer into diamond shaped pieces and fry them slightly. Keep aside. Wash
baby corns and boil them in water for 2-3 minutes, drain and cut into small pieces. Chop
onions, tomatoes, ginger & garlic. Grind whole red chillies, garlic, ginger, cumin seeds,
cloves, mustard seeds, cinnamon with vinegar to a fine paste. Heat oil in a pan, add onions
and sauté till light brown, add tomatoes and cook for 5 min. stirring well. Add baby corns,
tomato puree and ground masala. Cook for 5-10 minutes add sugar and salt to taste and mix
well. Lastly add paneer pieces and cook for few minutes. Serve hot with naan or rotis.
Ingredients:
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1 tsp. garam masala powder
½ tsp. turmeric powder
2 tbsp. oil
1 tbsp. chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste
Method:
Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry paneer till slightly golden brown . Grind onion and tomato
separately and set aside. Soak cashew nuts for 1 hour and grind to a smooth paste. Grind
ginger and garlic also to a smooth paste. Heat butter in a pan/kadai with little oil. Add ginger-
garlic and onion pastes and saute for some time. Now add tomato puree, salt as per taste,
turmeric powder, red chilly powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder and mix well.
Add fried paneer to it and cook for 2 minutes. Now add fresh cream, stir well. Finally add
cashew nut paste. Mix well and garnish with coriander leaves.
43.Paneer Chilli
Ingredients:
400 gms. paneer (cut into 1” cubes)
Few drops of red colour
Oil for deep-frying
Method:
Gently rub the red colour on the paneer pieces. Deep fry the paneer in hot oil till they turn
golden brown. In a bowl mix all the ingredients for the sauce except the oil, green chillies
and the capsicums. Heat 2 tbsp. oil in a kadai. Add the green chillies and sauté for a
minute. Add the sauce and cook for a minute. Add the fried paneer and capsicum and cook
on a medium flame. Mix gently at regular intervals. Cook till the sauce dries up completely
and coats the paneer pieces. Serve hot.
44.Paneer Fingers
Ingredients:
300 gms. cottage cheese (paneer)
½ cup flour (besan)
½ tsp. cumin powder
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2 tbsp. yoghurt
2 tsp. kashmiri red chilli powder
Salt as per taste
2 tbsp. ginger garlic paste
2 tbsp. lime juice
Oil to fry
½ tsp. chaat masala
Method:
Cut the paneer into finger size pieces. Prepare a thick batter with basin, cumin powder,
yoghurt, red chilli powder, salt, ginger garlic paste & lime juice. Marinate the pieces in the
batter for at least 45 minutes. Heat oil in a kadai & deep fry the paneer pieces till crisp.
Sprinkle chaat masala and serve.
45.Paneer Jalfrezi
Ingredients:
400 gms. paneer
2 capsicums
2 tomatoes
2 onions
2 dry red chillies
2” ginger
1 or 2 green chillies
¼ cup coriander leaves
1 tsp. cumin seeds
1 ½ tsps. red chilly powder
1 tsp. turmeric powder
1 tsp. garam masala powder
1 ½ tbsps. vinegar.
2 tbsp.oil
Salt to taste
Method:
Cut the paneer into finger size pieces. Cut the capsicums and tomatoes into half. Remove
the seeds and cut them into long slices. Cut the onions into thick roundels and separate the
rings. Break the red chillies into two pieces. Chop the ginger and green chillies. Finely chop
the coriander leaves.
Heat oil in a kadai. Add the cumin seeds and when they change colour add the halved red
chillies. Next add the chopped ginger, green chilly and onions rings and sauté for a minute.
Add the red chilly powder and turmeric powder and stir well. Now add the capsicum, stir well
and cook for few minutes. Add the paneer and toss well taking care not to break the paneer
pieces. Lastly add salt, vinegar, tomato, garam masala powder and cook for 3 to 5 mins.
Garnish with coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
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1 tsp. cumin seeds
½ tsp. aniseeds (badishep)
½ tsp. pepper corns
3 cardamoms
2 cinnamons (2 cms. each)
¾ cup cashew nuts broken into pieces
1 “ piece ginger
5 flakes garlic
4 green chillies
2 medium onions (sliced)
1¼ cup water
Salt to taste
2 tbsp. tomato ketchup
½ cup vegetable oil
1 tbsp. chopped coriander leaves
2 bay leaves
Method:
Shallow Fry paneer in 1 to 2 tbsp. oil till lightly golden brown adding little salt and keep aside.
Similarly fry capsicums in oil with little salt.
Fry sliced onions in little oil till lightly golden brown. Dry roast slightly cumin, pepper,
cardamom, aniseeds, cinnamon and the cashew nuts. Grind the brown onion, roasted
spices, cashew nuts, green chillies, garlic, ginger and tomato ketchup adding little water.
Heat oil in a pan, add the bay leaf, ground paste with the fried capsicum and fried paneer
and chopped coriander. Add salt and the remaining water. Mix well stirring occasionally.
Cook for 7 minutes. Serve hot with paratas or rice.
Ingredients:
2 medium onions
1 tsp. coriander
1 tsp. cumin
2 long red chillies
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2 short red chillies
6 cashew nuts
Method:
Peel & cube the onions. Boil the onions in little water for 2 minutes and allow cooling. Dry
roast the coriander, jeera and red chillies separately. Grind the roasted ingredients along
with onions and cashew nuts into a smooth paste.
Heat oil/ghee in a pan. Add cinnamon & cloves. When they splutter add sliced onion and
sauté till pink. Add tomato and sauté for another minute. Later add the masala paste, kasuri
methi, maggie cube( optional) and fry till good aroma comes. Adjust the gravy consistency
by adding little water if required. Now add the sliced mushrooms along with salt as per taste.
Cover and cook on medium flame till mushroom is half done. Now add cashew nuts and
paneer cubes. Mix well and cook covered on slow flame till done. Garnish with chopped
coriander leaves.
48.PATHRADE
Soak 2 cups rice in water the previous day and grind well along with the following:
1 tsp jeera
2 red chillies
salt to taste
Add 1 bunch of Palak to the above and mix well and then bake. Cut in desired sized pieces.
For Grinding:
Mix the ground masala and the baked rice cake pieces and bring to boil for a few minutes.
When ready fry onions till brown in Ghee and pour.
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49.Potato 65
Ingredients:
5 potatoes peeled
3 onions chopped
1 cup yogurt
3 green chillies
Salt to taste
2 tbsp. flour
Method:
Cut potatoes into chunks. Mix with flour, baking powder and salt. Deep fry them in oil & set
aside. Drain water from yogurt & soften the resultant cheese. Heat 2 tsp. of oil in a pan and
fry green chillies, onions and add the yogurt cheese, salt, red chiili powder and garam
masala. Add the potatoes. Cook in low flame stirring frequently till oil separates. Serve hot.
Ingredients:
4 boiled potatoes, mashed
15 to 18 pcs of bread slices (crust removed)
1 large onion
¼ tsp of turmeric power
A pinch of hing
1 tsp. lime juice
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying
2 tbsp corn flour
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4 cloves of garlic
1" piece of ginger
Few sprigs of coriander leaves
Method:
Sauté the finely chopped onion in 2 tbsp of oil, add the ground paste, add turmeric power,
hing, fry for 2 to 3 minutes on medium flame add lime juice & salt to taste - finally add
mashed potatoes & mix well. Make 15 to 18 pcs. oblong shape balls & keep aside. Soak
bread slices in little water, squeeze excess water holding between palms. Keep the potato
stuffing, roll out the bread well in oblong shape sealing the potato mixture & finish up with the
rest. In the meantime - heat oil in a kadai & dust each roll with corn flour & deep fry till
brown. Remove & keep on kitchen tissue to absorb excess oil. Serve hot with ketchup &
enjoy a hearty snack.
51.Potato Chops
Ingredients:
6 medium potatoes
250 grams mince (mutton/beef)
1 egg
2 onions - finely cut
2 tomatoes
2 finely cut green chillies
1 tbsp bafat powder or 1 tsp. each of chilli, turmeric, coriander, jeera powder
½ tsp. garam masala powder
Coriander leaves
1 tsp. oil
Bread crumbs
Salt
Oil for frying
Method:
Boil the potatoes well and mash them. Add egg, salt, a little coriander leaves and finely cut
green chillies. Simultaneously make mince. Wash the mince in a strainer. Fry the finely cut
onions, till they turn pink and then add all the powders, fry for a minute, then add Tomatoes
and salt. Add the washed and strained mince and cook well. You can add a little water.
When done top it with coriander leaves. Now to make the chops, flatten a little mashed
potato on your palm, fill in one tablespoon of mince, take another portion of flattened
mashed potato and place it on top of the mince and seal it well to make a ball. Similarly
make all and shallow fry after rolling in bread crumbs. Fry till brown and crispy. Makes a
delicious side dish.
Ingredients:
6 medium sized potatoes
Salt to taste
1 medium sized onion
4-6 flakes garlic
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Fresh coriander leaves
6-8 cashew nuts
½ tbsp. red chilly powder
½ cup cottage cheese (paneer grated)
Oil – to deep fry
Method:
Wash and boil potatoes, cool and mash them properly. Add salt and knead mashed
potatoes to make smooth dough. Divide into 10-12 equal portions. Peel, wash and finely
chop onions, garlic and fresh coriander leaves. Crush cashew nuts and mix with chopped
onion, garlic and coriander leaves, red chilly powder, and grated paneer. Divide this mixture
into 10-12 portions. Stuff each portion of paneer mixture into a portion of potato mixture.
Roll into a shape you want approx. 2 inches diameter and ½ inch thickness. Heat sufficient
oil in a kadai and deep fry the patties to golden brown. Remove and drain on an absorbent
kitchen towel. Serve hot with tomato ketch up or mint chutney.
Tip: No binding is used in this recipe. However, 2-3 tbsp of corn flour can be used to this
potato mixture or dust the patties with corn flour before frying. You can also shallow fry the
patties.
Ingredients:
250 gms. cooked potatoes
1 cup cooked green peas
1 finely chopped onion
2 medium tomatoes (finely chopped)
1 tsp. ginger garlic paste
1 tsp. red chilly powder
½ tsp. jeera powder
½ tsp. turmeric powder
¼ tsp. pepper powder
1 tsp. coriander powder
½ tsp. garam masala powder
Salt to taste
Oil
Chopped coriander leaves for garnishing
Method:
Boil the potatoes. Remove the skin and cut into cubes. Heat oil in a pan. Add the chopped
onions and fry well. Add ginger garlic paste & saute it. Add tomatoes, saute for a while. Add
red chilly powder, turmeric powder, jeera powder, coriander powder, pepper powder, garam
masala, and salt. Saute well. Then add the cooked peas and boiled potatoes. Add 1 cup of
water. Allow it to cook for some time. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve it with bread or
chapattis.
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54.Raw Jackfruit Curry (Gujje Gasi)
Ingredients:
Small raw jackfruit - 1
Cooking oil - little
For Masala:
1 big coconut (grated coconut 2 cups)
15-16 red chillies, roasted
1 tbsp. coriander seeds, roasted
1 tsp. Jeera
½ tsp. turmeric
Tamarind - size of its seed
1 tsp. urad dhal
For seasoning:
2 tbsp. coconut oil
1 tbsp. mustard seeds
1 sprig curry leaves
1 onion
Salt to taste
Method:
Apply cooking oil to the hands and cut the jackfruit into medium pieces after removing the
outer skin and inner pith. Soak in water for some time. Then wash and cook it with 8 to 10
cups water with salt to taste and jaggery. Grind all the masala ingredients together to a fine
paste. Masala should not be too watery. Remove and add it to the cooked jackfruit. Boil the
curry for 10-15 minutes. Season with coconut oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves and onion.
Ingredients:
6 small ripe mangoes
Small piece jaggery
Salt to taste
To grind:
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2 short red chillies
2 sp. grated coconut
A small ball of tamarind
Seasonong:
1 tbsp. oil
1/2 tsp. mustard
Few curry leaves
Method:
Wash & clean the mangoes thoroughly. Peel the mangoes and keep aside. Soak the skin in
one cup of warm water for 15 minutes and squeeze them to remove the pulp. Discard the
skin and reserve the pulp water. Grind the masala ingredients with little water to a fine
paste. In a vessel mix the ground masala and pulp water to medium thick consistency. Add
water if required. Bring this curry to a boil adding salt. Now add mangoes along with jaggery
and cook them covered till soft. Heat oil, splutter mustard and add curry leaves and fry till
brown. Pour this over the curry. Keep covered and serve hot along with steamed brown rice.
56.Sambar
Ingredients:
1 cup split gram (tur dal)
50 gms. tamarind, soaked in hot water
2 cups chopped vegetables (carrots, beans, tomatoes, cauliflower, pearl onions,
drum sticks brinjal)
4 green chillies, sliced lengthwise
1 onion, sliced lengthwise
3 tbsp oil
Salt to taste
2 tsp chilli powder
2 tsp. sambar powder
1 tsp. mustard seeds
½ cup scraped coconut ( dry roast it and grind to a fine paste)
1 tsp cumin seeds
3-4 small red round chillies
2-3 sprigs curry leaves
1 bunch coriander leaves
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Method:
Wash the tur dhal and pressure cook with 3 cups of water till half done. To this, add green
chillies, onions and chopped vegetables and cook till vegetables are tender. Add salt, chilli
powder, sambar powder and the coconut paste and cook for one minute. Now add tamarind
water and water if required and let it boil on slow fire. Heat oil in a thick-bottomed pan, fry the
mustard and cumin seeds, small red chillies curry leaves until they splutter. Pour the boiled
dhal and vegetable into the pan. Keep on slow fire of 2 minutes. Also add chopped
coriander leaves and cover with a lid. Serve hot with rice or idlis/ dosas.
57.Sambar-2
Ingredients
For Grinding:
½ tsp. urid dal
½ tsp. chana dal
2 tsp. coriander seeds
1 tsp. mustard seeds
1 tsp. cumin seeds
3-4 methi seeds
2 pepper corn
3-4 curry leaves
For seasoning: 3 tsp. oil, urid dal, mustard seeds, curry leaves, ½ tsp hing.
Method:
Cook the tor dal with some water. After boiling add the ingredients with some salt. Let it boil.
Then add the masala. Heat oil, add urid dal, mustard seeds, curry leaves, hing for
seasoning.
Ingredients:
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2 tbsp. curds
2 tbsp. oil
Salt as per taste.
Method:
Scrub & wash the potatoes thoroughly. Quarter each potato without peeling. Heat oil in a
pan and splutter cumin seeds. Now add asafetida, green chillies and potatoes. Stir well. Add
salt and cook the potatoes covered on low heat for 2 mts. Now add turmeric & fry for a
minute. Add palak. Cover & cook till tender. Now add coriander powder, cumin powder &
curds. Mix well. Serve hot garnished with roasted sesame seeds with chapathis or bread.
Ingredients:
2 big onions
1/2 kg small potatoes
1 cup curds
Salt to taste
2 tbsp. oil or ghee
3 cardamoms
¼ tsp. turmeric powder
To Grind (Masala):
1 bunch coriander leaves
5 flakes garlic
4 green chillies
1 onion
1 inch cinnamon
2 cloves
Method:
Cook potatoes in a pressure cooker. Peel the skin and keep aside. Cut onions into fine
pieces. Heat ghee in a frying pan, add cardamom, fry for a minute and add cut onions. When
it becomes translucent, add ground masala, turmeric, salt and fry till ghee separates. Then
add peeled potatoes, curd and fry till done, sprinkling water in between. This curry should
be dry. Serve hot garnished with lime pieces.
INGREDIENTS:
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For Masala
3. ½ coconut, scrapped
6. ½ tsp jeera
8. Salt to taste
For Seasoning
9. 2 tbsp oil
METHOD:
Wash the sprouted green gram and cook it with chopped onion.
Grind all the masala ingredients to a fine paste. Add it to the cooked gram and boil it for 10
– 15 minutes.
Season with oil, chopped onion, curry leaves and mustard seeds.
INGREDIENTS:
3. 1 onion chopped
4. 1 tomato chopped
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6. 2 tbsp oil
METHOD:
Wash and cut string beans into small pieces. Boil it with onion, tomato, green chillies and
salt to taste. Add grated coconut. Season with oil, mustard seeds, crushed garlic and curry
leaves.
For Stuffing:
Capsicum - ½ Kg.
Paneer - 100 gms.
Potato - 100 gms.
Fresh Green peas - 100 gms.
2 Onions (finely chopped)
2-3 green chillies
Ginger Garlic paste - 2 tsp.
Chilli Powder - ½ tsp.
Garam Masala - ½ tsp.
For Gravy :
Onion - 2 ( thinly sliced and fried to Golden brown.)
Tomato - 2
Ginger paste - 1 tsp.
Garlic paste - 2 tsp.
Cardamom - 3
Chilli Powder - 3 tsp. ( Kashmiri)
Jeera - ½ tsp.
Cashew nuts - 1 handful
Tomato sauce - 2 tsp.
Garam Masala - Cinnamon and cloves ( optional.)
Garnish
1 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves
1 tbsp cream
Method:
Wash Capsicums, remove the stem of the capsicum and cut the top portion little, remove
seeds in order to fill the stuffing. For stuffing - Fry Onion, green chilies, ginger garlic paste,
chilli powder garam masala powder, add Paneer fry well for sometime. Then add Boiled and
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mashed potato and green peas, salt. . Mix well and stuff the mixture inside capsicum and
bake them in Oven or Shallow fry till Capsicum is fried and tender.
Grind fried onion, tomato, ginger paste, garlic paste, cardamom, K. Chilli powder, Jeera,
Cashew Nuts, Tomato Sauce, Whole Garam Masala, to a fine paste.
Add Ghee and fry the ground Masala on low fire for 10 minutes till Ghee leaves the side,
then add salt. Add baked Capsicum boil well for 5 minutes top with cream and coriander
leaves
Ingredients:
½ kg surne (yam)
250 gms. tur dhal
5 table spoons coconut
3 red short chillies
2 tsp coriander
½ tbs. jeera
½ tsp turmeric powder
1 big onion
2 cloves of garlic
Little tamarind
1 tsp. mustard
Few curry leaves
Method:
Cut surne into medium size pieces and soak in water. Boil tur dhal along with cut onion.
When half cooked, add surne and salt and keep cooking till surne is soft. Fry coconut, jeera,
coriander, chillies in little oil and grind along with tamarind, garlic and turmeric powder. Add
the ground masala to surne and cook a while. Season it with mustard and curry leaves.
Ingredients:
Method:
Wash, pat dry the bhindis and slit them lengthwise leaving the stem end intact. Do not slit
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them completely. Mix all the dry powders with salt and stuff the bhindis one by one with the
dry masala and set aside.
Heat a non stick pan with 2 tbsp. oil or ghee and place the bhindis carefully. Cover the pan
and cook on slow flame. Turn the bhindis and repeat the same till tender & soft.
Ingredients:
Preparation of Lollypops:
Cut the vegetables into very small pieces. Add cornflour and all the ingredients(except oil
and soup sticks). Mix well and set aside for about 30 minutes. Tread the vegetable mixture
on about 1/4th part of the soup stick in the shape of the lollypops. Heat oil in a kadhai.
Deep fry the lollypops on slow fire till golden-brown colour. Cover the remaining portion
of the soup stick with silver foil paper . Serve hot with schezwan sauce.
Preparation of sauce:
In a separate kadhai ,heat 2 tbsps of oil. Add ginger and garlic,onion, hot chilli sauce, chilli
powder, Ajinomoto and celery leaves. Add salt to taste. Mix well.
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66.Vegetable Mint Curry
Ingredients
250 gms. frozen mixed vegetables
2 medium size onion sliced
3 tomatoes chopped
3 table spoon oil
½ cup fresh mint leaves
½ cup coriander leaves
6 green chillies
1 inch ginger
4 cloves garlic
1 tsp cumin seeds
½ tsp turmeric powder
1 lemon juice for garnishing
1 cup water
Salt to taste
Method:
Heat 2 tsp. oil in a woke and sauté garlic, ginger, green chillies and onions till onions
become soft. Add coriander and mint leaves and toss for a minute. Cool the masala and
grind to a coarse paste. Heat the remaining oil in a woke and splutter cumin seeds. Add the
ground paste, turmeric powder and chopped tomatoes and fry well. Add the frozen mixed
vegetables salt and water. Cook for 5 minutes on slow fire. Garnish with lemon juice. Serve
hot.
67.VEGETABLE STEW
Ingredients:
To Grind:
½ Fresh Coconut
1 Onion
½ Tsp. Cumin Seeds
2 Long Dry Red Chillies
½ Tsp. Turmeric
Garlic Flakes 3
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¼ Tsp. Methi Seeds
Small Ball of tamarind
For Seasoning:
2 Tbsp. Oil
½ Tsp. Mustard Seeds
Few Curry Leaves
A Pinch of Asafoetida
1 Tbsp. Vegetable Powder
Method:
Grind the masala to a fine paste. Take a pan, add Cauliflower Florets, Sprouted Green
Gram, Drumsticks, Green Peas, Chopped Coriander Leaves, Chopped Garlic Flakes,
Chopped Onion, Chopped Capsicum, Chopped Tomatoes, Cubed Potatoes and Salt. Pour
just enough water to cover the vegetables, and cook for 15 minutes on slow fire. Add the
ground masala to the boiled vegetables and cook for another 5 Minutes or until the
vegetables are cooked. Heat oil in a pan, add Mustard Seeds, when they splutter add Curry
Leaves. Remove the Pan from the fire, add Asafoetida and Vegetable Powder and pour over
the curry.
Ingredients:
3 cups water
Salt to taste
For masala:
¾ coconut
1 tsp jeera
For seasoning:
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1 sprig curry leaves
1 red chilli
Method: Keep the pumpkin pieces for boiling with water, green chillies, tamarind and salt.
Boil till cooked. Grind the coconut with jeera to a fine paste. Add it to the cooked pumpkin
and boil for 10- 15 minutes. Add the buttermilk and remove from fire. Season with coconut
oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, red chilli and simmer for 5 minutes.
PICKLES
1.Lemon Pickle
Ingredients:
12 big size lemons
2 tbsp chille powder
1/2 tbsp termeric powder
2.5 tbsp mustard seeds
1.5 tbsp jeera
10-12 flakes of garlic chopped
1 piece ginger chopped
10 green chillies chopped
Few curry leaves
Little asafoetida
3/4 cup of sugar(sweetness as required)
1/2 cup salt water(1/4 cup water+1/4 cup salt)
Oil as you required
Method:
Add salt to the water and boil it. In a vessel take water and boil it when the water starts to
boil put whole Lemons and cook for few minutes,Then cut the lemons as you want remove
the Seeds. Grind mustard seeds and jeera,for this add chille powder and turmeric Powder.
In a pan heat oil add curry leaves, asafoetida, Then chopped ginger, garlic,and green chillies
fry for 1 minute then add masala Just fry it,then add lemon pieces,salt water and sugar,cook
till it becomes Thick. Bottle it when it is completely cool.
Ingredients :
½ kg. Carrot
½ kg. Tendli
½ kg. Raw papaya
For Masala :
Red chillies 100 grms (50 grm bedki + 50 grm kashmiri)
1 tsp. Cumin seeds
2 tsp. Mustard
½ tsp. Turmeric powder
1 tsp. Methi.
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6 nos. Pepper.
For seasoning:
250 grms oil
Mustard seeds
Curry leaves
50 gms garlic cut into small pieces
25 gms ginger cut into small pieces
½ tsp hing
200 gms sugar
Method :
Wash & cut all the vegetables into pieces, apply salt and keep it overnight. After draining
water keep in sun for 2 days. Roast all the ingredients of masala, grind with ½ cup of
vinegar (mixed with hot water) and mix it to vegetables, keep it for one day.
Next day in a frying Pan, heat oil, add mustard, curry leaves, finely chopped garlic, ginger &
hing. Add sugar, stir it well. Let it cool then add mixed vegetables.
3.Prawn Pickle
Ingredients:
½ kg prawns (pealed and cleaned)
20 long red chillies
6 short red chillies
5 green chillies
15 cloves of garlic
3-table spoons grated ginger
2-tea spoons turmeric powder
1-teaspoon cumin seed
1-teaspoon black pepper
½ cup white vinegar
Curry leaves (sufficient qty)
Method:
Grind into paste cumin seed, black pepper, long & short red chillies and One-teaspoon
turmeric powder in vinegar and keep aside. (Dilute vinegar in water And add while grinding.)
Clean and wash prawns and remove water completely. Mix the prawns in 1 Teaspoon of
turmeric powder and salt and keep marinated for 1 hour. Fry the prawns in oil till brown. Cut
green chillies, ginger and garlic into small pieces and fry it in 1-cup Oil. When half fried, add
curry leaves and fry till turns brown. Add ground masala to the above and fry on slow fire till
masala is well Fried. Add salt to taste. Add prawns to the masala and simmer for 5 minutes.
Ingredients:
½ kg king fish (centre pieces)
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp cooking Oil
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8-10 red chillies
1 cup white vinegar
20 pods garlic
5-6 green chillies
2" Ginger
½ tsp turmeric powder
1/2 cup water
Salt for taste
Method:
Marinate the king fish with salt, turmeric powder and olive oil. Keep Aside for 1-2 hrs. Fry
the above pieces on a fry pan, with little oil, till the fish is crispy. Remove from the pan, allow
it to cool, then cut into small cubes, keep aside. In a medium bowl, take white vinegar, mix it
with ½ cup of water and bring to boil, allow it to cool. Take a blender, grind 8-10 red chillies
with the above vinegar. Cut garlic, green chillies (in round), and ginger (cut lengthwise).
Keep a deep pan, put cooking oil, fry garlic, green chillies and ginger for ½ Minute, add chilly
paste fry for 2-3 minutes, add fish and add salt for taste. Allow it to cool.
1.Apple Punch
Ingredients:
½ litre apple juice
4 tbsp lemon juice
2" stick cinnamon
½ ginger cube
3 cloves
1 strip lemon rind
Mint sprigs
Method:
Combine all the ingredients. Chill and serve with ice.
2.Avocado Shake
Ingredients:
1 Avocado
3 cups low fat milk (chilled)
2 tbsp. sugar or small piece of Jaggery
3 tbsp. honey.
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Method:
Cut the avocado, discard the seed. Scoop out the flesh. Blend the avocado flesh along with
milk, sugar/ jaggery and honey into a smooth frothy shake. Serve chilled. You may adjust
sugar and honey according to your taste.
Ingredients:
1 no. banana
1 glass milk (chilled)
1 tbsp. honey
1 tsp. sugar
1 drop vanilla
2 nos. ice cubes
Method:
In a blender, add chopped banana, milk, sugar, vanilla and 3/4 tablespoon honey, and ice
cubes. Blend well. Pour into tall glass and pour remaining honey on top. Serve chilled. (For
one person).
Ingredients:
Carrots 2
Rice 4 tsp.
Water 2 glasses
Milk 4 glasses
Sugar ½ glass or according to taste
Almonds 10-15
Cardamom ½ tsp.
Method:
1. Cut the carrots and cook along with rice & water.
2. Grind boiled mixture into a fine paste.
3. Boil milk with sugar,when it is boiling add ground paste,stir till
mixture boils.
4. Pour this mxiture into a bowl and add cardamom and roughly chopped
almonds.(remove skin)
5. Set aside to cool this mixture.
6. Refrigerate and serve it cold.
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5.Fruit Shake
Ingredients:
2 cups skimmed milk, chilled
1 peach
1 banana
2 dates
2 nuts
Method:
Process all the ingredients in a blender & serve as a refreshing breakfast drink. Serves 2.
Ingredients:
One scoop vanilla ice-cream
One scoop strawberry ice cream
2 tsp strawberry jelly pieces
200 ml cold milk
A pinch of nutmeg
Method:
Blend the ice cream and the milk. Add jelly pieces. Lace with nutmeg.
Ingredients:
4 Kiwis Sliced
3 cups mango pulp or diced fresh mango
4 scoops of mango ice-cream
2 tbsp rose syrup
4 cups fresh Milk
Method:
Pre chill the glasses. Place slices of Kiwi at the bottom of each glass. Place ½ cup of mango
pulp over the Kiwi. Place 1 scoop of mango icecream over the diced mango. Pour 1 tbsp of
rose syrup over the mango ice cream. Pour chilled Milk over these layers. Serve
immediateluy with a straw along with stemmed spoon.
Ingredients
1 ltr. chilled Milk
1 tbsp. kuskus (soaked in little water)
50 grams almonds blanched (soak in hot water and remove skin)
200 grams sugar or according to taste
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Few pistachioes, cashew nuts (coarsely powdered)
Pinch of nutmeg
2-3 cardamoms (finely powdered)
Method:
1. Grind kuskus and almonds to fine paste seperately.
2. Add sugar to the chilled milk and mix well.
3. Add the paste of kuskus and almond to the milk and mix well.
4. Add cardamom and nutmeg powder.
5. Add sugar if required
TO SERVE:
Take tall glass fill it with chilled milk mixture, garnish with coarsely powdered nuts.
Ingredients:
4 kiwis sliced
3 cups mango pulp or diced fresh mango
4 scoop of mango ice cream
4 tbsp rose syrup
4 cups milk
Method:
Pre-chill the glasses. Place slices of kiwis at the bottom, add ½ cup of mangoes over the
kiwis. Place 1 scoop of mango ice cream over the diced mangoes. Pour 1 tsp of Rose syrup
over it. Pour chilled milk over these layers. Serve immediately with a straw and long
stemmed spoon.
10.Peach Cooler
Ingredients:
250 gms fresh peaches, peeled, stoned and roughly chopped.
Juice of 1 orange
2 tsp. lime juice
2 tsp. honey
300ml water
Method:
Blend all ingredients except water. Later on add enough water and blend again to dilute
according to your taste. Chill and serve.
Ingredients
1 tin pineapple slices or mango slices
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1 tin condensed milk
1 pkt geletine
1 small tin fruit cocktail
1 packet jelly (lemon, or strawberry)optional
Method:
1. Blend pinapple or mango slices along with condensed milk.
2. Add geletine in warm water , and add this to the blender and mix well.
3. Remove this mixture and pour in a dish. Refrigerate till it gets a little thick.
4. Previous night prepare the jelly and refrigerate it.
5. Take a glass dish, spread the jelly down, put the pinapple or mango mix on top of the jelly.
6. Spread the cocktail fruits on top and keep in fridge once again. Serve cold.
Ingredients:
Method:
Ingredients:
Method:
Blend all the above and enjoy a refreshing smoothie. You may use frozen strawberries for
cold smoothie.
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14.Thanda Coconut Pani
Ingredient:
1 tender coconut
1 tbsp sugar
Dash of lime juice
Method:
Open the tender coconut; pour the water in a vessel. Keep it in the fridge. Now scoop out the
flesh of the tender coconut and also keep it in the fridge, till It is quite cold. Put the flesh
along with the sugar and lime in the mixer and grind to a fine paste. Then add the coconut
water to the mixer and turn for a minute. A refreshing and healthy drink is ready.
Note:
When you buy the tender coconut look out for soft fleshy one with at least 1 to 1½ glasses
of water. Add sugar according to your taste. The lime gives a tangy flavour to the drink.
15.Watermelon Lemonade
Ingredients:
6 cups watermelon, cubed and seeded
¼ cup raspberries
1 cup water
1/3 cup sugar
½ cup lemon juice
Method:
Place watermelon, raspberries and water in container of electric blender; cover and blend
until smooth. Strain through fine mesh strainer into pitcher. Stir in sugar and lemon juice until
sugar dissolves. Refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour. Yield: 4 servings.
P.S.: Watermelon juice frozen in ice cube trays is a great way to cool lemonade or other
beverages.
Chutney
1.Brinjal Chutney
Ingredients:
2 medium sized brinjals
Little oil
½ coconut
8 kashmiri red chillies, roasted
4-5 flakes garlic
1" ginger
Tamarind (size of a lime)
Salt to taste
Method:
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Apply oil to brinjals and roast on gas flame. Remove the skin and make a pulp of brinjal.
Grind all the other ingredients. Add brinjal pulp. Grind once more. Remove.
2.Coconut Chutney
Ingredients:
1 grated coconut
A large bunch of coriander leaves
4-5 green chillies
Salt to taste
1 cup curds
3 tbsp. roasted gram dal
Seasoning:
2 tsp oil
½ tsp. mustard seeds
1 tsp urad dal
2 sprigs curry leaves
Method:
Grind the coconut, coriander leaves, green chilly, gram dal and salt to a smooth paste. Beat
the curds smooth and mix in the ground paste. Heat the oil, add mustard, curry leaves and
urad dal. Fry for few seconds. Pour this over chutney and mix well.
Ingredients:
1 cup grated coconut
2 or 3 green chillies
½ inch ginger
15 curry leaves
1 medium size onion
Salt to taste
Method:
Grind all the ingredients into a paste. Then add water according to the thickness you want
for it. Finally season it with 2 table spoons of oil, 1 teaspoon of mustard seeds and 3 dry
chillies. This chutney can be served with dosas & idlies.
4.Dates Chutney
Ingredients:
15-20 de-seeded ripe dates
¼ tsp. jeera
4 long chillies (preferably less spice)
Little tamarind
Salt and Sugar to taste.
Small piece of garlic (optional)
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Method:
Grind all above to a fine paste and serve with hot ghee rice.
Ingredients:
2 tbsp of oil
1 big onion sliced
1 big tomato chopped
1 ½ cup of dried fish (soaked and cleaned)
1 tsp. chillie powder
Pinch of turmeric powder
1 cup freshly grated coconut
Method: Fry sliced onion in oil till soft. Add the chopped tomato and fry for a few minutes
until it softens. Then add chillie powder and the turmeric powder. Fry for a minute. Add the
dried fish (Kollakuru). Keep sautéing until it is well cooked. Depending on the salt level in
the dried fish – make sure if need to add salt or not). Lastly, add the freshly grated coconut.
Mix it all well and take it off the fire.
You can add more chillie powder if you want it more spicy. Goes well with Congi.
Ingredients:
2 handfuls of Dry prawns (Galmbo)
2 cups grated coconut
4 red chillies
3 flakes peeled garlic
Small ball - tamarind
½ chopped onion
Salt to taste
Little oil
Method:
Roast the chillies on a tava using a little oil. Dry roast the prawns till it becomes crisp. Grind
coconut, red chillies, garlic along with tamarind. Do not add water. To the above mixture add
roasted prawns, chopped onion and salt and mix well.
Ingredients:
20 Green Chillies Chopped
2 Large Tomatoes Chopped
4 Large Onions Chopped
6 Flakes of Garlic Chopped
6 Sprigs Coriander Leaves finely Chopped
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Salt to taste
Oil
Method:
In a pan, add little oil and fry the green chillies till light brown. Keep aside. Add some more
oil and fry the onions till light brown then add garlic to it and fry it for 2 minutes. Now add
tomatoes and fry well. Then add the fried chillies to it and fry well on slow flame. Finally add
salt and the coriander leaves to it. Now keep the pan aside and use a stone to mash the
above into chutney into a paste. Leave it to cool and refrigerate it. Ideal to have it with
roties or rice.
8.Mango Chutney
Ingredients:
Seasoning:
1 tbsp. oil
¼ tsp. mustard
½ tsp urad Dal
Few curry leaves.
Method:
Peel, slice and cut the mango into small pieces and set aside. Grind coconut along with
mustard, chillies, garlic and tamarind into a smooth paste. Combine the mango pieces and
ground chutney adding salt as per your taste in a bowl. If the mango is not sweet enough,
add sugar as per your taste.
Heat oil, splutter mustard and then add urad dal and curry leaves. Fry till brown and pour this
seasoning over the chutney. Serve with steamed rice and dal or sambar of your choice.
Ingredient:
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1 small onion
1 piece of ginger
Method: Grind the above ingredients. Add lemon juice to taste to the ground chutney and
serve with cutlets, french fries, and just about anything. You can even use this on your
sandwiches as a spread.
You could add some beaten yogurt to this chutney to serve with Indian Starters.
10.Onion Chutney
Ingredients:
4 medium sized onions
½ tsp urid dal
A pinch of asafoetida
4-5 red dry chillies (seedless)
Marble sized ball tamarind
2 tbsp. oil
Salt to taste.
Method:
Soak the tamarind in warm water and extract the juice. Take oil in a non stick pan; add urid
dal, asafoetida, chillies and fry for one minute; add the sliced onions and fry till slightly
brown. Add the tamarind extract, salt and cook for five minutes. When cool, grind all the
ingredients to a paste (chutney).
11.Peanut Chutney
Ingredients:
½ cup tomato paste
2 tbsp. desiccated coconut
4 tbsp. peanut butter
2 tbsp. mashed green chillies
1 clove - garlic mashed
¼ ginger- grated
2 tsp, mustard seeds
¼ tsp. turmeric
2 tbsp. onion paste
Salt
Oil
Method:
Heat the oil and put in the mustard seeds. After they sputter, add the garlic, ginger, onion
paste and fry for few seconds. Add the coconut and green chilly paste, salt, turmeric and
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tomato paste. When the paste leaves the side of the pan, add the peanut butter and switch
off the stove. Can be stored in the fridge for days.
Ingredients:
2 raw mangoes
½ coconut grated
6-7 kashmiri chillies, roasted
4-5 garlic flakes
2 tsp. mustard seeds, roasted
Salt to taste
Method:
Boil the mangoes till soft. Grind together coconut, chillies and garlic till quite fine. Add
mustard seeds and grind for 2 minutes more. Finally add the boiled mangoes to the ground
masala and mix it thoroughly for another 2-3 minutes. Remove and serve.
13.Spinach Chutney
Ingredients:
A bunch of fresh spinach
Sesame seeds (Til), 1 handful
100 gms. Groundnuts (can vary according to taste)
2 -3 green chillies (can vary)
Salt to taste
¼ tsp. jeera
¼ tsp. mustard seeds
A few curry leaves
Tamarind paste
1 small onion, cut into small pieces
2 tbsp. of cooking oil
Method:
Cut the spinach into small pieces, wash it properly and boil it. Let it cool. Meanwhile dry
roast the sesame seeds and groundnuts. Add the boiled spinach, dry roasted sesame
seeds & groundnuts, tamarind, green chillies, salt and blend it into a fine paste. Heat some
oil, add jeera, mustard seeds, curry leaves and when the mustard seeds start splattering,
remove from heat and add it to the paste. Now add the cut onion pieces.
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Salad
Ingredients:
1 cup diced apple
½ cup orange sections
½ cup sweet lime sections
½ cup thick banana slices
½ cup pineapple slices
For Dressing:
½ cup mayonnaise
1 tbsp orange squash
1 tsp lemon juice
100g fresh cream
Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
To prepare all season dressing, mix all the dressing ingredients together in a bowl. Mix
gently and evenly to get a smooth consistency. Prepare all fruit pieces and mix dressing as
required. Serve chilled.
Ingredients:
3-4 medium size Beetroots
½ Ash Gourd (Small)
2 medium size onions - Sliced
½” Ginger – coarsely chopped
2 green chilies - chopped
Little Coriander leaves - chopped
2-3 tsp. vinegar
2 tsp. salt
Method:
Remove the rind of Ash Gourd and cut into thin slices, add salt and keep aside for 15
minutes. Boil Beetroots with little salt, when they are cool slice them. Squeeze out the water
from Ash Gourd slices and add to beetroot slices. Add onions green chilies, ginger,
coriander leaves. Add vinegar and mix well.
Ingredients:
500 gms. of full fat yogurt
100 gms. of plain bhoondi, soaked in water for 5 minutes and strained
1 apple peeled cored and cut into bite size piece/green or red apple
¼ cup seedless green grapes
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5 slices of pineapple fresh or tinned cut into bite size
2 tbsp of sugar, or according to your taste
Salt to taste
¼ tsp white pepper powder
½ tsp roasted jeera/cumin powder
2 tsp each finely chopped coriander and mint leaves
Chopped onion, green chillies (Optional)
Method:
Beat the yogurt with the sugar, salt, cumin and the chopped mint and coriander leaves. Now
add all the fruits and the soaked and strained bhoondi. Adjust the seasoning, chill it and it is
ready to serve.
Ingredients:
2 medium size bitter gourds
1 cup curd
1 large onion
2 green chillies
Few coriander leaves
Salt to taste
Method:
Cut bitter gourd into thin slices and soak it in water sprinkled with salt for half an hour.
Squeeze out the water and shallow fry in little oil till turns brown. Cut chillies and onion into
small bits (mince). Add curds to chillies and onion mixture along with fried bitter gourd. Top
with coriander leaves.
Ingredients:
1 medium size cauliflower cut into small size florets
2 onions chopped
2 green chillies chopped
2 cups yoghurt
Few coriander leaves
Little mustard
Little oil
Curry leaves
Method:
Slightly boil or steam the cauliflower florets for few minutes and strain the water. Heat oil in a
vessel add mustard and the curry leaves and then add the cauliflower florets and fry for two
minutes. Switch off the gas. Once cooled, add the chopped onions, green chillies and
yoghurt. Mix it well. Serve with chopped coriander leaves.
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6.Nutritious Salad
Ingredients:
1 cup black eyed beans (gule in Konkani)
6 baby corns
2 cucumbers
Dried fruits & almonds
10-15 small brown raisins
2 dried apricots
Others:
1 tsp. lime juice
Pinch of ground black pepper powder
Salt to taste
Chopped coriander leaves
Method:
Soak the black eyed beans overnight. The next day, boil it with water till it is well done but
not very soft. Then add the baby corns and boil it for 2 more minutes. Slice the baby corns in
round shape and the cucumbers in small pieces. Soak the dried fruits for 5-6 hours except
the dried apricots. Cut these into small pieces. Mix all the above ingredients and then add
the pepper powder, lime juice and salt to taste. Garnish with coriander leaves.
Optional- Moong bean sprouts can be also used instead of black eyed beans.
7.Pork Salad
Ingredients:
¼ Kg Pork.
Salt to taste
Juice of 1 lemon
¼ tsp pepper powder
2 thinly sliced onions
Pinch of grated ginger
½ green chilli
½ tsp. vinegar
Pinch of sugar
Method:
Cut Pork (more of fat) into thin strips. Add salt, lemon juice, pepper powder and fry crispy.
Make a mixture of sliced onions, grated ginger, green chilli, salt, vinegar and sugar. Squeeze
out the water. Add the crispy fried pork strips to the above mixture and refrigerate for 30
mts.
Editors Note: You may also slightly sauté the cut masala.
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8.Potato Salad
Ingredients:
2 Potatoes boiled, peeled and cubed
½ green capsicum deseeded and cut into small cubes
½ red capsicum deseeded and cut into small cubes
½ yellow capsicum deseeded and cut into small cubes
½ orange capsicum deseeded and cut into small cubes
3 tbsp Mayonnaise
Salt and pepper to taste
1tbsp sugar
Method:
Mix mayonnaise, salt, pepper and sugar well. Add the rest and mix well. Refrigerate for 30
minutes. Serve with a sprig of coriander leave on top.
Ingredients:
1 can kidney beans1 red bell pepper, chopped
2 cups chopped cabbage
2 green onions
1 cup crumbled feta cheese
1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
Method:
Rinse kidney beans under cold water. Drain well. In a large salad bowl, combine all the
above ingredients and the Red kidney beans. Cover and refrigerate. It is a cold salad.
Ingredients:
1 no. medium eggplant
1 no. spring onion finely chopped
1 small garlic flake finely crushed
1-2 nos. finely chopped green chillies
2 cups fresh curds
Few finely chopped coriander leaves
Salt & pepper for flavor.
Method:
Firstly wash the eggplant thoroughly & roast it on the gas stove. When done, leave it aside
to cool. In a serving bowl add fresh curds, chopped spring onion, green chiilies, crushed
garlic, coriander leaves, sprinkle little white or black pepper powder & salt to taste. Now peel
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off the skin of the eggplant carefully, cut off the stem & smash it finely & add this to the bowl,
mix all well & serve chilled. This raita can be eaten with arabic roti (khubs).
Ingredients
1 cup instant (maggi) noodles
1 cucumber
1 onion
1 tomato chopped
1 stalk mint leaves finely chopped
1 tbsp. coriander finely chopped
1 small green chilli
1 small flake garlic
¼ tsp. chaat masala
½ tsp. cumin crushed
2 pinches black (rock salt)
½ tsp. sugar powdered
Salt for taste
Method:
Crush noodles to tiny curls. Dry roast them in a heavy pan, till light and semi-white. Stir
continuously while roasting and allow it to cool. Chill cucumber & tomato before chopping
them into medium pieces. Take this in a large bowl, chop the onions and add to it. Crush
together finely, chilli and garlic. Add this to chopped vegetables. Add all other ingredients
except coriander and noodles. Toss with fork till well blended. Add noodles and toss
gently. Garnish with coriander before serving. Serve immediately
Ingredients:
1 bowl yogurt
2 tbsp. honey
Grated peel of ½ orange
2 oranges, peeled, segmented
1 medium apple, unpeeled, sliced
1 medium banana, peeled, cut into chunks
Method:
In a bowl combine yogurt, honey and orange peel. Serve, mixed with oranges, apple and
banana.
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Jam
1. Mango Jam
Ingredients:
6 cups semi-ripe or ripe mango slices
2 cups water
3 cups granulated sugar
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
Method:
Combine the mango slices and water in a saucepan and boil over moderate heat for 15
minutes, until the mangoes are tender.
Press this mixture through a sieve or process in an electric blender or food processor until
smooth. Return to the saucepan and add the sugar and vanilla extract. Boil for 30 to 40
minutes, until thick and the proper consistency for a jam. Pour into hot sterilized jars and
seal.
Ingredients:
3 cups ripe mango flesh cut in 1/2 cubes
3 cups ripe papaya cut in 1/2 cubes
3 cups sugar
3 tbsp fresh lime juice, strained
Method:
Combine all ingredients and bring to a boil over moderate heat, stirring constantly. Reduce
heat to minimum and cook uncovered 30-40 minutes or until visible liquid is evaporated. Stir
frequently. When jam stage is reached remove from heat. Stir and skim 5 minutes. Pour into
hot sterilized jars, seal, and process in boiling water bath for 10 minutes.
Ingredients:
2 kgs. Fresh red tomatoes
1 ½ cups sugar
1 ½ cups lemon juice, fresh
1/3 cup garlic, fresh thinly chopped
1/3 cup ginger fresh, minced
½ tsp. salt
Method:
Peel, seed and dice tomatoes into small pieces. Place in non-stick or stainless steel pan.
(Aluminium pans will react with the acidity in this dish)
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Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium low heat. Add sugar and stir till all sugar is
dissolved, add the salt, ginger and garlic to it, and mix well. When the mixture starts
thickening add the lemon juice. This needs to be cooked for about 1 ½ hours on low fire.
Stir occasionally at first, then more frequently towards the end to prevent scorching on
bottom of pan. When jam is thick and shiny, and volume is about 4 cups, it is done. Let it
cool in a shallow pan. Keep refrigerated. Bring it to room temperature, or warm slightly to
serve.
Tips: To peel tomatoes make a few slits on the surface and put them in hot water for 1-2
minutes. Remove from water and it will be easy to peel the skin.
This jam is great with roast meats, grilled fish or with our Indian „pappadam‟.
Bread
Ingredients:
6 thin slices of bread, buttered and crusts removed
½ cup raisins
2 eggs
3 tbsp sugar
600 ml milk
1 tsp grated lemon rind (optional)
½ tsp nutmeg powder
Method:
Cut bread slices into quarters and layer in a greased pie dish sprinkling raisins in between
each layer. Beat eggs with sugar, warm the milk with the lemon rind and stir into the eggs.
Mix well. Pour into pie dish. Keep aside for 30 minutes. Sprinkle top lightly with nutmeg
powder and bake in a moderate oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until set and top is lightly
browned.
Ingredients:
2 cups gram flour
½ cup sesame seeds, roasted
2 tbsp cheese, grated
4 slices of bread
3-4 green chilies, chopped
½ tsp cumin seeds
1-2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste
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Oil for frying
Method:
Mix gram flour with salt, cumin seeds, sesame seeds, cheese, green chilies and chopped
coriander making dough with little water. Cut off the sides of the bread and soak in water.
Squeeze water by pressing gently between your palms and mix well in dough. Heat oil in a
deep pan; make round shaped pakodas with the dough and deep fry. Serve hot with
tomato sauce.
3.Bread Masala
Ingredients:
6 big bread slices cut fine
1 cup yoghurt beaten well
1 big tomato finely chopped
1 tsp. each of mustard and cumin seeds
½ tsp.(s) each of turmeric powder and chilli powder
4 green chillies finely chopped
6 curry leaves
2 tbsp(s) oil
Salt to taste
Finely chopped coriander leaves to garnish
Method:
Soak the bread pieces in yoghurt for about 10 minutes. Keep aside. Heat the oil in a pan
and toss in the mustard seeds followed by the cumin seeds. Fry till the seeds splutter fully.
Add the curry leaves, chopped green chillies and tomato(es). Stir fry on medium level for
about 3 minutes or till the tomatoes are cooked and soft. Add the bread, salt, turmeric and
chilli powders. Mix well. Cover and keep for some time before serving. Garnish with finely
chopped coriander leaves. Masala bread is ready to serve and it tastes cool with onion
chutney.
4.Bread Patties
Ingredients:
10 slices of bread
For batter:
1½ cup chickpeas flour
Salt
Pinch of soda
Hing
Little jeera
Water for making batter
1 tsp hot oil
Few fresh coriander leaves
For filling:
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1 cup boiled & mashed potatoes
100 gm boiled peas
½ cup of grated paneer
1 tsp ginger/garlic paste
¼ tsp turmeric powder
3-4 green chilies (paste)
½ cup fresh coriander leaves
¼ tsp mustard seed/Jeera
Salt
Oil for frying.
Method:
Mix all ingredients for batter and let it stand for 30 minutes.
In a hot pan put 1 tsp of oil. Add mustard/jeera seed and let it splutter. Now add ginger
garlic & chilly paste and fry well, till you get a good flavour. Add turmeric powder and mix
well. Add salt. Add the boiled and mashed potatoes and peas, and the grated paneer. Mix
well till well incorporated. Add fresh coriander leaves and let is cool.
Now take the slices of bread one at a time. Place one spoon of the filling, place another
slice of bread over it. (If you desire you can apply butter on the slices of bread). Make it like
a sandwich and keep covered until all the sandwiches are ready. Cut the sandwich into
triangles. Dip the bread triangle in the batter and deep fry till golden color. Drain and
arrange on a platter. Serve hot with coconut chutney and tomato sauce.
5.Bread Pudding
Ingredients:
1 Medium Packet Sliced Bread
½ litre milk
4 eggs
6 spoons sugar
Little Nutmeg Powder
20 gms raisins
One tbsp. of Cocoa Powder
Method:
Soak the bread in milk. Beat eggs well with sugar and add to the bread and milk mixture.
Mix well. Add raisins and nutmeg powder. Sprinkle Cocoa powder on the bottom of dish and
pour the mixture. Again sprinkle Cocoa powder on top of mixture and place in microwave
oven for about 10 minutes. When done place in a serving dish. Cut into thin slices - 12
Pcs.
6.Bread/Chicken Bake
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100 gms each finely chopped cabbage, capsicum, green onions, mushrooms, lettuce, boiled
potatoes.
3 tbsp mayonnaise
Pepper powder, Salt (to taste)
Method:
In an ovenproof flat dish, arrange the buttered slices of bread in a layer. Top it with chicken
mixture. Sprinkle grated cheese on top and bake until the cheese melts. Serve hot.
Ingredients:
1 kg prawns shelled cleaned and drained
1 packet pasta of your choice (cooked in boiling water, with salt and oil)
200 gms fresh cream
200 gms or a packet of cheddar cheese
1 pod of garlic finely chopped
1 big onion finely chopped
1 tsp of mixed dry herbs
2 tbsp of olive oil or butter
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Chopped parsely
Method:
Add butter/olive oil in the cooking pot, when heated add the garlic and onion and saute till
transperant, now add the dry herb and pepper,saute. Add the cleaned and drained prawns
and stir fry on high heat till the prawns turn pink, now add the fresh cream and cheese, let it
cook for a few minutes till it is saucy, add the parsely and the cooked pasta. Stir and check
the seasoning. Pasta is ready to serve
8.Prawn Pakodas
Ingredients:
1/2 kg prawns
1 small cup maida
4-5 large onions chopped
3 eggs
1 fig curry leaves
1 pinch of turmeric poder
Salt to taste
Method:
Clean & devien the prawns. Add pinch of turmeric and keep aside for few minutes. Wash it
after a while. This wades of any fishy smell in prawns. Add maida, chopped onions, curry
leaves & salt to the cleaned prawns. Beat the eggs and mix it with prawns & other
ingredients. Add salt to your taste. Heat oil in a Kadai and drop the prawn mixture as small
dumplings. Deep fry them till brown in medium flame.
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Serve with tomato ketchup or plain. Its a tasty starter for your parties. Enjoy the Prawn
Pakodas
Ingredients:
200 gms. noodles
2 carrots
2 capsicums
100 gms. cabbage
100 gms. spring onions
3/4 tsp. ajinamoto
5 tbsp. oil
1 tsp. soya sauce
1 tsp. sugar (optional)
1 1/2 tbsp. tomato ketchup
1 1/2 tsp. worcester sauce
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper powder
Grind together:
1/2 inch ginger
5 flakes garlic
5 green chillies
Method:
Chop all the veggies into thin strips. Heat water in a broad vessel. When it starts boiling
add broken noodles with little oil & salt. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes till noodles become just
soft. Drain excess water in a colander and pour more cold water on top (this prevents
noodles from sticking to each other). Heat oil in a kadai. Add ground paste, fry well and add
chopped onions & carrots. Fry for 2 minutes and then mix capsicums & cabbage. Continue
frying in high flame with ajinamoto and sugar. When the vegtables are tender add the
sauces, salt & pepper. Gently stir in cooked noodles and fry until noodles become steaming
hot.
10.Vegetable Pasta
Ingredients:
1 Packet Pasta (preferably Penne)
1 red capsicum
1 yellow capsicum
1 green capsicum
¼ kg beans
¼ kg carrots
1 packet baby corn
1 tin sliced mushrooms
1 cup sliced spring onions
4 tbsps soya sauce
2 tsps hot chilli sauce
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½ cup tomato sauce
4 tbsps tomato puree
1 tsp pepper powder
1 tsp. cooking herbs
1 tsp. oregano
4 tbsps of olive oil
½ cup grated mozzarella cheese
Method:
Boil the pasta in sufficient quantity of water with a little salt until la dente. Strain it in a
strainer and run through cold water. Chop the capsicums, beans and carrot about the size
of penne into strips. Slit the baby corns into two and keep aside. Take a wide bottomed non-
stick pan and add about 4 tbsps of olive oil. When heated, add the beans, carrot, salt,
pepper, cooking herbs and fry for about 5 minutes. Then add the baby corn, mushrooms,
oregano and spring onions and fry for another 2 to 3 minutes. Finally add the capsicums and
fry until capsicums are cooked but firm and ensure that the salt is just right for the
vegetables.
Add all these vegetables to the cooked pasta, add soya sauce, tomato sauce and tomato
puree and mix well. Add salt if necessary. Finally add the grated cheese and keep it in a
preheated oven until the cheese melts.
Note: If desired in the non- veg form, shredded chicken pieces or minced meat, stir-fried
with a little pepper, salt and soya sauce may be added to the pasta.
11.Bread Cutlet
Ingredients:
7 slices of bread
2 green chillies finely chopped
3 small pod galrlic chopped
1 big size potato boiled
1 cup coriander finely chopped
2 tsp. curd
2 to 3 tsp. lime juice
1 egg
Oil for frying
Method:
Soak bread for 10 to 15 minutes. Squeeze and drain all the water, smash potato very finely.
Add all the above ingredients one by one. Add salt accordingly. Finally add one egg and
mix well. Keep in the refrigerator for 5 to 10 minutes, mould it like cutlet, pat it round and fry
it with little oil. Delicious bread cutlet is ready. Serve it with green chutney.
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Pasta and Noodles
1.Crunchy Salad
Ingredients:
½ cup halloumi cheese, cut in cubes
¼ cup green olives
1 each red and yellow capsicums, cut in cubes
1 small iceberg cut in cubes
Lemon juice, coarsely ground fresh pepper, salt and olive oil to taste
Method:
In a large serving bowl, combine cheese, olives, capsicum, iceberg, lemon juice, salt, pepper
and olive oil. Toss well to mix and serve.
Ingredients:
1 tin kidney beans
1 big onion
1 small tomato
1 green chilly (if needed)
inch of sugar
Salt per taste
1½ tbsp olive oil
Coriander to garnish
Method:
Open the kidney beans tin and let all the water out. In a bowl mix together the beans, finely
chopped onions, finely chopped tomato, green chilly, salt, sugar and olive oil. Garnish with
fresh coriander. Salad is ready to serve.
Ingredients:
1 cucumber
1 carrot
1 onion
Few coriander leaves
½ tsp. lemon juice or 1 chopped tomato
A handful of peanuts boiled
Dressing:
1 tbsp. coconut
4 garlic flakes
2 green chillies
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Salt to taste
Method:
Chop cucumber, carrot, onion and coriander finely. Prepare dressing by grinding all
ingredients in a mixer. Lastly toss all the ingredients together with the dressing to make a
delicious salad. You can add sprouts too, to increase the nutritional benefits.
4.Noodles
Ingredients:
1 packet wheat noodles of your choice
½ pound of shredded chicken
½ pound of diced ham
2 capsicums
2 carrots
Couple of spring onions
Couple of french beans
1 tbsp. soya sauce
2 tbsp. chilly oil
3 eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
Boil water. Cook noodles only for 2 minutes, drain, spread them on a flat surface and toss
them with a teaspoon of oil. Keep it separate. Heat 1 tbsp. of oil in a shallow pan, stir fry the
mixed vegetables until half done, take them out, add one more tbsp. of oil in the same pan
stir fry the chicken and ham mixture, add the noodles, add pepper, salt, soya sauce and the
fried vegetables. While serving garnish with egg. (To cook eggs beat them and make an
omelet and cut it into strips) Serve with green chilies in vinegar and chilly sauce.
Ingredients:
1 cup sprouted moong
4 green chillies
1 cup curd
Salt to taste
Little asafoetida
1 tsp. jeera powder
2 tsp. ghee
Method:
Boil moong with green chillies and salt and keep aside to cool. Once cooled add curd and
mix well. Heat ghee in a seasoning pan, add jeera powder and asafoetida fry well, and add
this to the above salad mixture. Top with coriander leaves and adorn with tomato flower.
Serve chilled with ghee rice or paratas.
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6.Tuna Salad
Ingredients:
A small tin tuna
2 carrots (big ones)
1 capsicum (big one)
1 small onion
Salt as per taste
½ tsp. pepper
Mayonnaise as per requirement (Optional)
Coriander leaves (for garnishing)
Method:
Chop the carrots and capsicum finely. First cut the onion into four and then slice thinly.
Place a kadai over low flame and let it be warm. In the meantime, drain all the oil from the
tuna. Once the kadai is hot, put the tuna in the kadai and sauté for 1-2 minutes to remove
the raw taste and smell. Mix the finely chopped carrots and capsicum, the onion and the
tuna. Mix salt and pepper into the above mixture. Mix the above prepared salad with
mayonnaise. Garnish with coriander leaves.
7.Veg Pasta
Ingredients:
½ cup butter
1 tsp. cumin Seeds
1 tsp. garlic (paste)
Salt to taste
Spring Onion for garnishing
1 tbsp. vegetable oil
3 cups vegetables (onions, peas, broccoli, capsicum, carrot, cabbage)
½ tsp. turmeric powder
1 tsp. green chili paste
1 pack pasta (any shape)
Method:
Boil pasta as per instructions on the packet. Cut all vegetables in long pieces. In a vessel,
put oil and fry all the vegetables on high flame for 2 minutes, add a pinch of salt to taste and
keep aside. In a pan, put butter; add cumin seeds fry for 1 minute. Add green chili and
garlic paste. Fry for 1 minute. Add ½ tsp. turmeric powder for colour. Add pasta and
vegetables. Add salt to taste garnish with finely chopped greens of green onions and serve
hot.
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8.Yummy Pasta
Ingredients:
1 packet Pasta (preferably flat strips)
Water to boil
Salt & black pepper to taste
1 cup Milk
¾ cup cream
6-7 finely chopped Mushrooms
½ finely chopped Onion
1 cup Grated Cheese (parmesan is the traditional choice, else any other cheese)
3 tsp. corn flour
2 tsp. chilly sauce
Oil
Method:
In a large vessel put 5-6 glasses of water and when it is boiling, add the pasta to boil. Boil till
the pasta is cooked. Add little salt and oil while it is boiling. Do not over boil. Take out in a
strainer and pour cold water over the pasta. When slightly cool, add some oil to it and toss
lightly with hands so that the pasta strips are separated.
In a pan, add 2 tsp. oil and sauté the onions. Now add the mushrooms and cook for 2-3
minutes. Add the milk and when it is heated add the cream. Do not let the cream boil and
add the corn flour dissolved in a little milk. Quickly stir the sauce so that consistency is
smooth. Take off the gas and add the salt and black pepper. Add ¼ of the grated cheese
and mix. Add the chilly sauce and mix lightly.
In a baking dish, spread a layer of the sauce at the bottom. Add a layer of the cheese and
then a layer of pasta. Repeat this sequence once more. Then add another layer of sauce at
the top and make the final covering with cheese.
Bake in oven at 250 deg. C for 20-25 minutes till the cheese has melted and the top is
golden.
Serve hot decorated with tomato and capsicum rings on the top. Best served with toasted
bread and vegetable soup.
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