Mutton Pepper Fry

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Maria John
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Mutton pepper fry is one of the popular dishes and a spicy one too. This is a dry side dish and I would say a very good starter dish or the best side dish.

So, the recipe is here…

Ingredients:

1/2 Kg Mutton, 2 tsp Pepper Powder, 1/2 tsp Chilli Powder, 1 Onion, 1 Tomato, 1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste, 2 tbsp Oil, 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder, Salt to Taste

Mutton Pepper

How to Prepare:

Clean and wash mutton pieces. Boil mutton along with little salt and water in pressure cooker (3 – 4 Whistles) or till tender.

Heat oil in a kadai, fry sliced onions till golden brown. Add the ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell leaves. Now, add the turmeric powder, pepper powder, cooked mutton pieces, tomato and mix well. Keep stirring occasionally and wait till the mutton is coated well with the masala. Remove from flame and now mutton pepper fry is ready to serve.

Note: In case you want little gravy add the mutton cooker stock or water as required. Here, I have not added water or mutton stock.

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Murukku / Chakali

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Maria John
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Murukku

This is a traditional Indian savory snack prepared with rice flour as the main ingredient. This crispy savory snack is usually prepared during festivals. My Mom usually prepares this during Christmas season. It was so simple that even I tried to prepare this crispy spiral and tasted very good.

Try this and I’m sure you will also like it.

Here goes the recipe..

Ingredients:

500 gms Rice Flour, 2 tbsp Urad Dal(roasted & powdered), 2 tbsp Roasted Gram Flour/ Pottu Kadala Maavu, 2 tbsp Sesame Seeds , 1 tsp Ajwain/Carom, 1 Pinch Asafoetida, 50 gms Butter, 8-9 Dry Red Chilli(optional), Salt to Taste, Oil for deep frying

How to Prepare:

Dry roast dry red chillies and give it a whirl in the mixer.

Sieve together rice flour, urad dal powder and roasted gram flour. Now, add asafoetida, ajwain, sesame seeds, chilli flakes, salt and mix well. Now, add butter to this dry mixture and start to knead with your finger tips.

Add water little by little and mix till everything comes together and knead into soft dough. Prepare the murukku press/mould by greasing the insides with little oil. I used the single star nozzle and triple star nozzle. You can use any nozzle of your choice.

Put a large lump into the mould and start pressing the dough to give it round shape or any shape and set aside.

When the oil is hot, put one by one carefully in the oil and fry till golden brown. Put them on a kitchen towel to remove excess oil. Now, allow them to cool down and store in an air tight container.

This goes for Let’s cook #11 ~ Rice event hosted by Radhika of Tickling Palates

 

 

 

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Bread Kheer / Bread Pudding

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Maria John
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Bread Kheer

Wishing You All A Very Happy & Successful New Year 2012!!!

It’s New Year’s Eve and it’s time to have fun with family and friends. 2011 was very memorable year for me as I started this food blog.

I hope all of us have wonderful year ahead.

This is the first post for the New Year 2012 and I thought of starting  with a sweet dish.

Kheer is a must on any special occasion or on a festival day. Kheer either prepared with rice or semiya. So, thought of preparing a little different sweet dish to make the day more special. I prepared this sweet dish for the first time and this turned out to be very tasty.

My hubby is not very interested in any kind of sweet dishes but this time surprisingly I received all good compliments from him. I was really happy to hear those compliments and what else is required after all this hard work.

So, here’s the recipe…

Ingredients:

8 Bread Slices, 3 Doodhpeda, 3/4 Ltr Milk, Sugar, 1 tbsp Dry Fruits (Pista, Almond, Cashews), 1tsp Ghee

How to Prepare:

Remove the brown edges of the bread slices and use only the white ones. Mash the bread slices by hand and set aside.

Pour ghee in a pan and fry the dry fruits and keep aside.

Boil 1/2 ltr milk in a pan and slowly add the doodhpeda, mashed bread into it. Keep stirring so that it doesn’t stick to the pan. Now, check for the taste and add sugar if required. Pour the remaining milk into the pan and mix well. Add the dry fruits and serve hot.

Note: You can also replace doodhpeda with sweetless khoya and increase the sugar measure.

Bread Kheer

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Kulkul (Galgal) – A Christmas Savory

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Maria John
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Christmas, is a day of celebration. This is the time we seldom seek our family & friends to be alone. In my case I’m blessed with all this and I’m sure you too. I was kind of perplexed and thinking what else can make this Christmas special? Then, a stream of notions went through my mind. How will I make this a super wonderful day? Nothing can make a better Christmas than planning, making and presenting in my own thoughts.

So here I bring and share what my Christmas has been like. I wouldn’t say this was my best Christmas but yes,’ A Special One’. I’m very glad and happier than ever to share my wonderous Christmas to you, my friends.

Christmas started for me with wishes, love and hope all around. I wanted to make a difference within me. However, I was successful to pull in my hubby in my plan. With lots of fun & love we made this Christmas Eve everlastingly memorable. This is how we got together (Me & my Hubby) for tremendous and pleasurable savory of all time for a new Christmas.

Let me bring in some detail about what savory we have done for this Christmas? Kulkul’s one of the most special & savory item that one could think of during this season. I had a lot of joint ventures previously in making them. Today, I am the happiest person to share this along with you….!

Ingredients:

750 gms Maida, 100 gms Butter (melted), 300 gms Sugar (powdered), 2 Eggs, 1 pinch Salt, Oil for frying

How to Prepare:

Combine the eggs, salt, butter and powdered sugar in a vessel. Mix well until this is completely blended. Then, add the flour and mix all the ingredients well. Add little water at a time and prepare the dough. Leave the dough covered for an hour.

Preparing Kulkul:

Make tiny balls out of the dough and place it on the backside of the fork. Now, press the ball and roll to join the ends carefully so that they don’t open up while frying.

Medium heat oil in a wok. Slowly put the kulkuls in the wok and fry till light brown. Remove them when fried and spread on a kitchen paper.

Allow them to cool down and store them in an air tight container.

Note: Make sure that the oil is not too hot which results in dark brown outer layers of kulkul and leaving them uncooked inside.

You can also make different shapes like diamond or any creative shapes you like.

 

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Soya Chunks & Potato Cutlet

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Maria John
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Soya is generally referred as a vegetarian meat. This is a very healthy food as this is rich in protein. Soya potato cutlet a snack gives a spicy touch with the spice powders added. I’m sure you will like this dish as an evening snack with a cup of hot tea.

Soya Chunks & Potato Cutlet

Ingredients:

1 Cup Soya Chunks, 2 Medium Potato(cooked & mashed), 1 Large Onion(chopped), 3 Green Chillies(chopped), 1 tsp Chilli Powder, 1/2 tsp Garam Masala, 1/2 tsp Cumin Powder,1/2 tsp Amchur Powder, 1/2 tsp Chaat Masala, Salt to Taste

For Frying:

1 Egg (beaten), Bread Crumbs(optional), Oil

How to Prepare:

Soak the soya chunks in hot water for about 30 minutes and squeeze excess water. Put the soya chunks in a blender and grind coarsely.

Add all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix well. Now, shape a handful of cutlet, like a round cookie 2-3 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick. Dip each cutlet in the beaten egg and roll in bread crumbs to give it a thin coating. Repeat the same process to the remaining mixture.

Drop 2 tbsp of oil on a pan and fry until golden brown. Gently turn them and fry. Remove from pan and serve hot with tomato sauce.

Note: You can use 2 tbsp of maida mixed with little water instead of egg. Dip each cutlet in this batter and continue the same process.

In my recipe I have not used bread crumbs.

Soya-Chunks-Potato-Cutlet

Submitting this recipe to Snack Mela

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