Wednesday, February 12, 2014
by Unknown
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| Soya Chunks Curry |
Ingredients
Soya chunks/ Meal maker- 20 nos
Onion medium finely chopped- 1 no
Tomato medium finely chopped- 1 no
Ginger and Garlic paste- 1 tbsp
Curry leaves- few
Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
Pepper powder- 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil- 4 tbsp
Cinnamon- 1"
Cloves- 4 nos
Green cardamom- 2 nos
Red Chilli-2 nos
Masala to grind
Coconut shredded- 1/4 cup
Poppy seeds /Kuskus- 1 tsp
Fennel seeds- 2 tsp
Jeera- 1 tsp
Pepper corns- 8
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| Meal Maker Kurma Recipe |
Method
Grind the masala ingredients to smooth and fine paste adding little water.
Cook soy chunks as per box carton instructions, squeeze excess water from soy chunks and set aside. Heat oil in a pan when hot add cinnamon, cardamom and cloves and fry till aroma rises. Add chopped onions and ginger- garlic paste, fry for few mins until raw smell of paste leaves and onions are browned. Add curry leaves and tomatoes and cook till tomatoes are mashed. Add turmeric powder, pepper powder, ground masala paste and salt. Fry paste until oil separates on the sides. Add required water to the frying masala paste to get required gravy consistency. Add soy chunks and cook for another 5 mins. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with idli, Appam, Idiyappam and Chapati.
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Monday, January 27, 2014
by Unknown
Any curry with chicken drumsticks (Ill call them, Kodi Kallu- Murgi legs just for fun! ) are my hubbys favorite. Chicken is a good source of protein, we can make it even more healthy by trimming fat and skin from the meat we cook. One day while watching TED videos (For them who do not know about these videos, they are like the research or survey presentations done by the individual people. The bottom line is, it is a platform where the people present their inventions and discoveries) one Indian teenage girl found out that chicken marinated with lemon juice at least for one hour reduced the amount of carcinogens(Cancer causing agents) in it. So, friends let us marinate the chicken and have it.
Ingredients for marination:
Chicken legs---7
salt to taste
chili powder---1ts
coriander powder--1ts
Lemon juice---4ts
Ginger garlic paste-2ts
Salt to taste
For curry:
Onions chopped half cup
Chopped Ginger and garlic-1ts each
tomatoes chopped-1cup
Curd/Yogurt--1cup
Masala preparation:
Roast Whole garam masala (Cloves 4 + Cinnamon stick 1big + cardamom 3) in a fry pan
Take This roasted garam masala in a grinder jar along with 2ts of coriander powder +3ts of til/sesame/nuvvulu + Coconut powder 1ts , cashewnuts 1/4cup and grind the mixture to a fine powder.
Directions:
- Clean and wash the chicken drumsticks and make 3-4 deep cuts on each side of the drumstick so that they get perfectly marinated.
- Now prepare the marination mixture with the above stated ingredients and drop the chicken pieces in the marination and allow them to marinate for 2-3hrs in a refrigerator.
- Remove them from the refrigerator, and let them come down to room temperature.
- Now take a skillet and heat 3-4 ts of butter/ ghee/ olive oil/ vegetable oil and add the marinated chicken pieces to the oil and cook them by closing the lid.
- Cook by turning the pieces like this for about 15-20 min, until the chicken is half cooked.
- Now add onions and cook them until they turn transparent, after the onions are done add tomatoes and cook until they become mushy.
- Add curd/yogurt and mix well. Beat curd before adding it into curry. After few minutes add red chili powder and salt to taste.
- Cook for few more minutes under simmer by closing the lid.
- Now finally garnish with cilantro and the curry is ready to serve.
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