Andhra Chepala Pulusu / Fish Curry

One of the most delicious non vegetarian is Fish. Many people think, preparation of fish curry is very difficult compared to other non veg items. But it is very easy and I will tell you the simpliest and tastiest way of preparing it.

Ingredients:

Fish (Korameenu) - 1kg
Onions - 2
Tomato - 1 cut to fine pieces
Green chilli - 4 split to half
Coriander leaves
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Oil - 3 tbsp
Tamarind - 3 lemon sized soak in 3 cups of water
Coriander - 1 tbsp
Cloves - 3
Cinnamon - 1 1/2 inch piece
Dry coconut powder - 1 tbsp
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 1/2 tspn
Fenugreek seeds - 1 tspn
Jeera - 1 tspn
Raw mango - 1/2 cut into large pieces
Salt - as per taste
Red chilli powder - 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 2 tspn

Preparation:

1. Wash fish pieces with lemon juice and some salt.
2. Soak tamarind in 3cups of water for half an hour.
3. For marination, grind 1 and half onion, coriander seeds, cloves, cinnamon, dry coconut, ginger garlic paste to fine paste.
4. Add salt, red chilli powder, turmeric to the ground paste and apply to the fish pieces.
5. Take a wide and heavy bottomed vessel and add oil to it. Once oil get heated, add the left over onion which is cut into long slices, green chilli, tomato, raw mango slices.
6. Now add the marinated fish pieces to the oil and put on the lid for 10 mins on medium heat. By now the fish pieces will be half cooked.
7. Add the tamarind water to the fish pieces and adjust the taste with little water, salt and chilli powder. Do not add more water as the gravy should not be too runny. Instead adjust salt, chilli powder for the sour taste to reduce.
8. Once if the spices are perfect close the lid and cook for 15mins on high flame and reduce the flame to medium for another 15 to 20 mins.
9. Dry roast jeera and fenugreek seeds and grind it to powder.
10. Add coriander leaves, the ground fenugreek and jeera powder (it gives much enhanced taste) and cook for 2 to 3mins and turn off the stove.

Your spicy delicious fish curry is ready. Usually fish curry taste enhances when it is cooled down.

Recipe: Puran Poli/Bobbatu/Poli

Puran poli/Bobbatlu/Poli is a classical Marathi dish, which is a dessert served during auspicious occasions and during important festivals such as Holi, Padwa in Maharashtra.

Ingredients:

1 cup chana dal/bengal gram
1 cup Jaggery (adjust as per your taste)
1 1/2 cups maida/all purpose flour
6 tbsps oil
1/2 tsp cardamom pwd
pinch of salt

Preparation:
1. Mix maida, salt, oil and water to make a soft dough(like chappati dough). Knead well and keep aside for one hour.
2. Soak bengal gram in water for 1 hour and drain the water.
3. Pressure cook bengal gram adding some water till the dal cooks properly. Grind the cooked dal to paste.
4 Heat a vessel, add the grinded dal paste, jaggery and cook till it mix well, without lumps and moisture in it.
5. Add cardamom and salt and combine. Keep aside till it cools.
6. Apply oil to your hand and take small portion of dough and make a small poori.
7. Now take a small portion of the mixture and keep it in the center of the poori and fold from all edges to middle to cover the stuffing.
8. Slowly make the stuffed ball to a poori like the size of the roti.(This is the key thing and you need to be very careful while doing this.)
9. Heat the tawa and roast the roti on both sides by adding oil to it.
10. Before serving apply some ghee on the roti. It tastes delicious.

You can store it in a refrigerator for 2 days.
Hope you like the recipe.

Recipe: Palak Methi Egg Fry

Almost all my recipes will have the background of my daughter. Will think about her in whatever I do. Then came the idea of adding green leaves into her favourite egg fry. If leafy vegetables given separately she will keep them aside. So mixed them in her favourite fry and the idea worked :-) 

 

 

Ingredients:

 

Egg - 1

Palak - 3 to 4 strands

Methi - few

Coriander leaves

Lemon juice- 1/2 tspn

Jeera and Mustard seeds for tadka

Turmeric powder - a pinch

Pepper powder - as required

Salt - as required

Oil - 2 tspn

 

 

Preparation:

 

1. Take oil in a pan and add jeera and mustard seeds.

2. Add tomato, turmeric powder, pepper powder and salt. Cook the tomatoes properly.

3. Break an egg in the pan and fry till it cooks.

3. Add the leafy vegetables (Palak, Methi & Coriander)

4. Let the leaves cook properly until there is no water in the fry

5. Before serving add some lemon juice to it.

 

 

Note: For enhanced taste you can add Chat masala to the fry.

 

It is a very easy recipe and you never regret doing this. Even if I prepared this to my daughter, I personally liked it alot.

 

Recipe: Carrot Cake

My daughter likes carrot alot. Recently i started adding carrot in everything and anything for her. So why not add carrot in a cake :-) and so the recipe is out.

Ingredients:
 
Maida-1 cup
Eggs-2
Baking Powder - 1 tbsp
Baking Soda - 1 tspn
Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tbsp
vanila essence - 1 tspn
Carrot - 3/4cup
Salt - 1/2 tspn
Sugar Powder - 1 cup
Oil - 1/2 cup

Preparation:

1. Take a bowl and beat eggs properly for 2 to 3 mins.
2. Add oil to it and beat for another 2mins.
3. In an other bowl add maida, cinnamon powder, Baking soda, Baking Powder, Salt, Sugar powder and mix well.
4. Slowly add the maida mixture to the beaten eggs and stir continuously for 3mins without lumps.
5. Add grated carrot to it and stir properly.
6. Apply some ghee and maida to a bowl and pour the batter into it.
7. Pre heat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit
8. Bake in preheated oven until the top springs back when pressed.
9. Once the pan becomes cool upside down the pan.

Cut the cake and server yummy, fluffy, soft delicious cake.
Note: For enhanced taste you can add dates, tutty fruity to the batter.

Recipe: Chicken Frankie

Another chicken snacker from my kitchen is ready for you... Chicken Frankie.

The delicious roti with mouth watering chicken is an awesome combination. From a very long time I was thinking of preparing this Frankie but the thought was kept aside for no reason. The other day when Frankie stall is opened in our office I put forth my oldest thought of preparing a frankie.
Here goes..

Ingredients:

Egg-1
Butter-2tbsp
Onion-1 big
Green chilli-3
Vinegar-1tbsp
Cheese

For Roti dough:Maida- 2 cups
Oil-1 tspn
Salt - as required
Water-to prepare dough

For chicken stuffing:
Boneless Chicken -150g (cut to bite sized pieces)
curd-1tbsp
Orange color- pinch
Tomato-1 big
Onion-1 big
Ginger Garlic paste-1 tspn
Garam Masala - 1 tspn
Kasuri Methi-pinch
Oil-1tbsp
Coriander leaves-few strands
Salt-as required
Turmeric Powder-1/2 tspn
Red Chilli powder-1 tspn


Preparation:

1. Mix maida, oil, salt and add water to it to prepare like chappati dough. Keep it aside
2. Cut the green chilli into small pieces and add Vinegar to it.
3. In a pan take chicken, curd, a pinch of turmeric powder, salt, orange color and boil till chicken is cooked properly without any water left in it. If required add some water to it.
4. For preparation of chicken stuffing, grind tomato, onion separately.
5. Heat oil in a pan and add onion paste first.
6. Once onion paste is cooked properly add the ginger garlic paste and fry for 2mins.
7. Now add Tomato paste, turmeric powder, salt, red chilli powder.
8. Cook for 5mins and add the boiled chicken, kasuri methi to it.
9. Cook for another 10mins and add garam masala and cook for another. Still if water is there in the gravy increase the flame and cook till water evaporates in the gravy.
10. Add coriander leaves and switch off the stove. The stuffing is ready.
11. Break an egg in a bowl.
12. Prepare roti and place it on tawa. Apply butter or ghee on both sides of the roti and heat it.
13. Apply egg on one side of the roti. Toast it till cooked and both the sides of roti had brown spots.
14. Take the roti on a plate and add onions, green chilli soaked in vinegar and chicken curry in the middle of the roti.
15. Fold the roti inwards from below first and then on both sides. Wrap it with a tissue.

Chicken Frankie is ready....

Hope you like it.

Recipe: Chicken 65

Today I will be giving you the very first non-veg recipe in my blog especially for those chicken lovers out there (don't miss me).

Chicken 65 : a spicy, deep fried chicken dish originated from our own Hyderabad.

Ingredients:

 

Boneless chicken - 1/4 kg (cut into small bite sized pieces)

Oil for deep frying

curd - 1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Coriander powder - 1/4 tsp

Lemon juice - 1/2 tbsp

Red chili powder - 1/2 tsp

For Marinating:

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Red Chili powder - 1 tsp

Pepper powder - 1/4 tsp

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Lemon juice - 1/2 tbsp

Salt to taste

For Coating:

Egg - 1

Cornflour - 1 1/2 tbsp

Rice flour - 1/2 tbsp

For tadka:

Oil - 1/2 tbsp

Curry leaves - few

Garlic - 2 cloves

Ginger - 1/2", minced

Green chilies - 6, slit length wise

Vinegar - 1 tsp

Preparation:

• Cut the chicken into bite sized pieces.
• Add all the marinating ingredients to chicken  and keep it a side for around 45mins to 1 hour in refrigerator.
• After 1 hour of marination, add the ingredients under coating to chicken.
• Maximum there will not be any need of water to mix chicken and the coating ingredients.
• Heat oil in a kadai and once the oil is piping hot, add few chicken pieces at a time and fry on medium flame till chicken is cooked.
• Once chicken is properly cooked, increase the flame and fry till the chicken pieces change the color to light brown.
• Take them into a tissue paper. And add the rest of the chicken and do the same process.
• Mix curd and lemon juice in a bowl without any lumps.
• In an other pan, heat 1/2 tbsp oil and add minced, curry leaves, garlic, ginger and green chillies and add the fried chicken pieces to it. Toss it for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add Vinegar, coriander powder to chicken pieces.
• Add the curd mixture to the chicken pieces and cook till all the curd is absorbed by chicken pieces.
• And switch off the stove.
• Take the content into a plate and garnish with some coriander.

Yipee.... Yummy Spicy chicken 65 is ready.
 Hope you like it.

Recipe: Tomato Pappu

Dal is the item which will be used by everyone and in every region. Today I will give the basic recipe with dal- Tomato Pappu.

Ingredients:

Dal - 1/2 cup
Tomatoes chopped-2
Green chilli chopped-2
Onion chopped-1
Turmeric powder-a pinch
Chilli powder-as required
Salt-as per your taste
Garlic-2

For tadka:
Oil-2tbsp
Red chilli-2
Urad dal, Channa dal,Mustard seeds, Jeera, few Curry leaves.

Preparation:

1. Add dal with tomatoes, half of the onions, green chillies, turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt in a pressure cooker and cook it till 3 whistles (I mean to say till dal is cooked).
2. Once cooked mash dal with added ingredients. Adjust salt and chilli powder.
Now add oil in a pan and add all the ingredients for tadka. Once mustard seeds starts to split, add onions and garlic to it.
3. Once onions are cooked add tadka to the mashed dal.

Tomato pappu is ready.

Recipe: Semiya Payasam

Today we will prepare an other sweet which is well known to everyone. That's none other than Semiya Payasam.
I hope there is nothing much to explain about it. But the only tricky part is to make sure, payasam consistency is not thick.

Ingredients:

Milk
Elachi-4
Sugar-1 cup
Semiya-1 cup
water-2 cups
few cashews, kismis
ghee-2tspn

Preparation:

1. Fry cashews, kismis, semiya in ghee and keep it aside.
2. Now boil water in a pan and add semiya, elachi to it.
3. When semiya is half cooked add sugar to this. Adjust sugar as per your taste. In this stage when you taste it, sweetness should be a bit more than you usually eat for payasam.
4. Once semiya is cooked switch off the stove.
5. When you are about to serve heat the milk, take some cooked semiya in a bowl and add milk to it.
6. Garnish with cashews and kismis.

That's it. Your semiya payasam is ready.

Note: If milk is added to semiya while cooking, after sometime milk will be absorbed by semiya and the consistency will be thick.

Thalimpu Rice with Left Over Rice

Everyone will be thinking what to do with the leftovers. We can't throw them off just like that. I will maximum try to utilize it.
Coming to the rice... When leftover there are some many recipes that you can do with it.
You can prepare lemon rice or rice thadka (thalimpu annam)

Thalimpu Annam Recipe:

Ingredients:
1 cup Cooked rice
2tbsp oil
few channa dal, urad dal, mustard seeds, jeera
2 red chilli
curry leaves, coriander leaves
1/2 lemon
few ground nuts
Salt
Turmeric powder
1 onion chopped
2 green chilli splitted

Preparation:
1. Mix salt in rice. Make sure rice should not have any lumps.
2. Take oil in a kadai and add channa dal, urad dal, mustard seeds, jeera, red chilli, curry leaves, groundnuts
3. Once tadka is done add green chilli, onion, turmeric powder and fry it till onion are transulent.
4. Now squeeze half a lemon in the mixture and add rice mixed with salt and let it be there for 5mins.
5. Garnish with some coriander leaves.

That's it your thalimpu annam is ready.
You can eat it with or without any side dish.