Kitchen and Home Making

Ingredients : Chicken - 1/2 kg (cut into pieces) Onion - 2 (finely chopped) Ginger Garlic paste - 2 tsp Green Chilly - 6 (cut it lengthwise) Coriander Powder - 1 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp Garam Masala - 2 tsp Cumin Powder - 1 tsp Aniseeds - 1 tsp Bay leaves - few Coriander - few (finely chopped) Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 3 People Cooking Time : 45 minutes Cooking Instructions : Heat oil in a shallow pan and saute it with aniseeds, bay leaves and green chilly. Add onion to it and cook until it turns golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste, coriander leaves, coriander powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder and garam masala to it and stir fry it for awhile in a simmer flame. Add chicken and stir fry until the gravy coat over it. Now add salt and a little water and close the pan. Let it to cook until chicken boils well.

Ingredients : Chicken - 1/2 kg (cut into cubes) Onion - 1/4 kg (finely chopped) Chilly Powder - 1 tsp Garlic Paste - 1 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Vinegar - 1 tbsp Salt -to taste Cooking oil Service For : 3 People Cooking Time : 30 minutes Cooking Instructions : Mix chilly powder, turmeric powder, salt, garlic paste, and vinegar together in a bowl. Marinate the chicken in this mix for 1 hour. Keep the chicken in an idli plate and let it to boil in the idli cooker in the steam itself. Steam it until the chicken is well cooked. Heat oil in a pan and saute the onion until it turns golden brown and keep it aside. Heat oil in a shallow pan and deep fry the chicken until it turns golden brown. Serve the chicken with the fried onions.

Ingredients : Chicken - 1 kg (cut into cubes) Onion - 1 (grind it to paste) Onion - 1 (finely chopped) Pepper Powder - 1 tsp Ginger - 1 piece (finely chopped) Green Chilli - 4 (finely chopped) Corn Flour - 3 tbsp Raising Flour(Plain Flour) - 2 tbsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tbsp Ajinomoto Salt - 1/4 tsp Soya Sauce - 1 cup Vinegar - 1/2 cup Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 4 People Cooking Time : 30 minutes Cooking Instructions : Marinate the chicken with the onion paste, pepper powder, soya sauce, vinegar, ajinomoto, salt, and turmeric powder for about 30 minutes. Semi cook the chicken in a cooker and keep it aside. Mix the corn flour and raising flour with required water to make it paste. Dip the boiled chicken pieces in this paste and deep fry it in oil in a shallow pan. Season it with the chopped onions and green chilly fried in oil.

Ingredients : Boneless Chicken - 1/2 kg (cut into cubes) Onion - (finely chopped) Chilly Powder - 3 tsp Garlic Pods - 8 Soya Sauce - 1 tsp Capsicum - 1 (small size) (finely chopped) Raising Flour - 100 gms Baking Power - 1 tsp Pepper Powder - 1/2 tsp Corn Flour - 50 gms Egg - 1 Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 3 People Cooking time : 40 minutes Cooking Instructions : Mix raising flour, baking powder, corn flour, pepper powder, egg and salt in a bowl with required water. Dip the chicken pieces in this mix and deep fry the pieces in oil. Heat oil in a pan and saute it with onion, chilly powder, soya sauce, capsicum, garlic and salt for a while. Add a tsp of corn flour dissolved in water to the pan and bring it to boil in a simmer flame. Now add the fried chicken pieces in this pan and stir fry it for 4 minutes.

Ingredients : Chicken - 1/2 kg (cut into cubes) Coriander - 2 tbsp Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tbsp Pepper - 1 tbsp Dry Red Chilly - 6 Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tsp Tomato - 2 Onion - 1 Bay Leaf - 2 Cloves - 2 Cardamom - 2 Cinnamon - 2 Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 3 People Cooking Time : 30 minutes Cooking Instructions : Heat a little oil in a pan and stir fry coriander, pepper, cumin, red chilly, turmeric powder. Add bay leaf, cloves, cardamom and cinnamon to it and fry for 2 minutes. Add onions and tomatoes and fry for 3 minutes and switch off the flame. Let it cool and grind it to a fine paste. Add chicken pieces and the fine paste with required water in a pressure cooker with the salt and let it cook for about 20 minutes in a simmer flame or until the chicken is well cooked. Serve it with rice, rotis and naan.

Ingredients: Chicken - 1/2 kg (cut into cubes) Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tsp Red/ Orange Color Powder - a little Chilly Powder - 2 tsp Pepper Powder - 1 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 3 People Cooking Time : 40 minutes Cooking Instructions : Mix Chilly powder, pepper powder, red powder, ginger garlic paste and salt in a bowl with required water to make it a paste. Marinate the chicken in this paste for half an hour. Heat oil in a shallow pan and deep fry the chicken pieces in a simmer flame. Its a best side dish for rice and briyani.

Ingredients : Chicken - 1/4 kg (cut into cubes) Pepper Powder - 2 tsp Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp Chilly Powder - 1/2 tsp Curry Masala - 1/2 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 2 People Cooking Time : 20 minutes Cooking Instructions : Heat oil in a pressure cooker and fry the pepper powder, chilly powder, cumin powder and curry masala and ginger garlic paste for a while until the raw smell leaves off. Add the chicken pieces to it with required water and salt and close the lid. Let it to cook in a simmer flame until the chicken is well cooked. Open the lid and cook until the gravy becomes little dry. It can be served with rotis, naan and rice and briyani.

Ingredients : Chicken - 1 kg (cut into pieces) Pepper Powder - 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tsp Aniseeds - 1 tsp Cloves - 2 Cardamom - 2 Small Onion - 100 gms Tomato - 2 (grind it to fine paste) Ghee - 50 gms Red Chilly Powder - 1 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 4 People Cooking Time : 30 minutes Cooking Instructions : Heat ghee in a cooker and saute it with aniseeds, cloves and cardamom. Add onions, tomato paste and ginger garlic paste to it. Add pepper powder, chilly powder and chicken to it and stir fry it. Add salt and required water and close the lid and let it to cook until the chicken is well cooked. Open the lid and let it to boil in a simmer flame and let it to cook until it attains gravy consistency. This can be served hot with rice, rotis and ghee rice.

Ingredients : Chicken - 1 kg (cut into cubes) Coconut - 1/2 ( grate it) Onion - 1 (finely chopped) Dry Chilli - 10 Pepper - 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds - 3 tsp Coriander - 2 tsp Cashews - 10 Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 5 People Cooking Time : 40 minutes Cooking Instructions : Grind dry chilli, coriander, cumin, pepper, turmeric power and cashews to a fine powder. Grind the grated coconut with required water to take coconut milk. Heat oil in a cooker and saute it with onions until it turns golden brown. Add chicken pieces, coconut milk, grinded powder and salt with requied water in the cooker and close the lid. Let it to cook until the chicken is wll boiled. This dish can be served hot with rice.

Ingredients : Bengal Gram (channa dal) – 6 tbsp Tomatoes – 2 Dry Red Chilly – 6 Curry Leaves – 1 tbsp Asafoetodia – 1 tsp Salt – to taste Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Cooking Oil Cooking Time : 10 minutes Cooking Instructions : Heat oil in a pan and sauté with Bengal gram and wait till it turns golden brown. Add tomatoes, dry chilly, asafoetodia, curry leaves and salt. Stir fry it in a simmer flame for 5 minutes. Now grind it to a fine paste with required water. Heat oil in a pan and season it with mustard seeds and add the chutney. Simmer the flame and let it cook till it comes to boiling state. This chutney can be served with idli and dosa.

Ingredients : Sesame Seeds - 50 gms Grated Coconut - 3 tsp Dry Red Chilly - 6 Tamarind - small size Curry Leaves - few Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Time : 10 minutes Cooking Instructions : Stir fry sesame seeds in a pan till it smells good without oil. Heat oil in a pan and fry red chilly, tamarind, curry leaves and grated coconut in a simmer flame for about 5 minutes. Grind it with sesame seeds with required water. This chutney taste good with idli.

Ingredients: Tomato - 6 (chop it) Onion - 1 (finely chop it) Green Chilly - 4 (lengthwise chopped) Kolambu Podi(check out Ready Mix Powder/ Podi recipes) - 4 tbsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Ghee - 1 tbsp Cooking Time : 15 minutes Cooking Instructions : Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a shallow pan. Stir fry onions till it turns golden brown. Add green chilly, tomatoes and salt to it. Let it to cook until oil separates from it. Add 1/2 litre water and kolambu podi to it and mix it well so that no lumps found. Let it to boil in a simmer flame for 10 minutes. This tomato kolambu will taste delicious with idli and dosa.

Ingredients : Roasted Gram - 50 grams Tomato - 2 Dry Red Chilly - 4 Curry Leaves - few Salt - to taste Asafoetodia - 1/4 tsp Cooking Oil Cooking Time : 5 minutes Cooking Instructions : Grind roasted gram, red chilly, and curry leaves to a fine powder. Now add tomato, asafoetodia and salt to it and grind well with required water. Heat oil in a pan and season it with mustard seeds and add the chutney and bring it to boil. This chutney can be served with idli and dosa.

Ingredients : Bread Slices - 4 Gram Flour - 2 cups Rice Flour - 1/2 cup Chilly Powder - 2 tsp Orange/Red Color - a pinch Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 3 People Cooking Time : 10 minutes Cooking Instructions : Mix all the ingredients except bread together with required water to dosa flour consistency. A bread can be cut into four triangle pieces. Cut all the four breads like that. Dip each piece of bread in the flour and deep fry it in the oil.

Ingredients : Bread Slices - 5 Boiled Potatoes - 3 (peel off the skin) Green Peas - 1 tbsp Onion - 1 (finely chopped) Green Chilly - 2 Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Curry Leaves - few Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp Service for : 3 People Cooking Time : 20 minutes Cooking Instructions : Heat oil in a pan and saute it with mustard seeds and stir fry finely chopped onions and green chilly for a while. Add fresh green peas to it and turmeric powder, salt and curry leaves and cook for a while. Add mashed potatoes to it and stir fry it for a while.Potato masala is now ready. Dip each piece of bread in water and drain the excess water and stuff it with a little of potato masala and deep fry it in the oil.

Ingredients : Bread Slices - 6 Gram Flour - 1 cup Finely Chopped Onions, carrot, capsicum - 1/2 cup Chilly Powder - 1 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 2 People Cooking Time : 10 minutes Cooking Instructions : Mix all the ingredients together except bread with required water to dosa flour consistency. Heat oil in a tawa and toast one side of the bread and on the top of the bread apply 1 tbsp of flour mix and let it cook for few seconds. Turn the bread now upside down and let the flour mix cook well. Repeat this procedure for all bread slices.

Ingredients: Bread Slices - 6 Egg - 4 Boiled Milk - 200ml(lukewarm) Sugar - 6 tbsp cooking oil Service for : 1 people Cooking Time : 5 minutes Cooking Instructions: Beat all the eggs with milk and sugar. Dip the breads one by one in this mixture and toast it in a tawa with a little oil. Toast the bread on both sides. Sweet bread toast is now ready to eat.

Ingredients: Eggs - 4 Bread Slices - 6 Chilly Powder -1/2tsp Salt - 1/4 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste - 1/2 tsp onion -1(finely chopped) Service for : 2 people Cooking Time : 10 minutes Cooking Instructions: Beat all the eggs with salt, chilly powder, onion and ginger garlic paste. Dip the breads one by one in this egg mixture and toast it in tawa. Tasty spicy bread toast is ready to eat.

Ingredients : Dosa batter - 1/2 cup Egg – 3 Salt – to taste Service for : 1 People Cooking Time : 10 minutes Cooking Instructions : Spread dosa batter thinly with a ladle on a tawa/flat pan. Beat an egg in a bowl with a pinch of salt and spread it on the dosa. Flip the dosa if one side turns to little brown. Let it to cook for a minute and serve it.

Ingredients : Boiled Eggs - 2 Gram Flour – ½ cup Rice Flour – 8 to 10 tsp Chilly Powder - 2 tsp Sodium bicarbonate – ¼ tsp Salt to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 1 People Cooking Time : 5 minutes Cooking Instructions : Mix the gram flour, rice flour, chilli powder, sodium bicarbonate, and salt with water in a bowl. The flour should be of coating consistency. Cut the eggs lengthwise into two halves. Heat Oil in a shallow pan. Dip each piece of egg into the batter and fry it in pan. Stir fry it until the batter coated on the egg turns to golden brown. Delicious egg bonda is ready.

Ingredients : Egg - 4 Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Pepper Powder – 1 tsp Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 2 People Cooking Time : 5 minutes Cooking Instructions : Beat all the eggs with salt, pepper powder, turmeric powder and onions in a bowl. Heat 1 tsp of oil in a flat pan/tawa. Pour half of the egg mixture in the pan. Slowly shake the pan so that the mixture spread evenly on the pan. When one side is cooked well, flip the omlette to the other side. When both sides are cooked well remove it from pan. Repeat the same procedure for the other portion of the egg mixture. Omlette is now ready to serve.

Ingredients : Finely Chopped Carrots - 2 cups Milk - 1/2 cup Ice Cubes - 2 cups Grated Ginger - 2 tsp Preparation Method : Beat all the ingredients in a mixie jar/juicer and strain it in a bowl. Serve it cool in glass tumblers.

Ingredients : Kiwi/ Sapota Fruits - 2 cups Ice Cubes - 2 cups Sugar - to taste Preparation Method : Peel off the skin of sapotas and deseed it. Beat all the ingredients and strain it and serve it in juice glasses.

Ingredients : Mutton - 1/2 kg Onion - 1 Dry Chilly - 5 Cumin Seeds - tbsp Coriander Leaves - 50 gms Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 3 People Cooking Time : 30 minutes Cooking Instructions : Grind red chilly, cumin, coriander to a fine paste. Heat oil in a cooker and saute it with finely chopped onions. Add turmeric powder, mutton, fine paste and required salt and water and close the lid of the cooker. Let it to cook until the mutton boils well. Open the lid and let it to boil until the oil separates from kolambu. It can be served with hot rice and rotis.

Ingredients : Mutton - 1/2 kg Grated Ginger - 2 tsp Garlic Pods - 6 Onion - 2 (finely chopped) Tomatoes - 4 Coconut - 1/2 Coriander Powder - 2 tbsp Red Chilly Powder - 3 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp Garam Masala - 2 tsp Coriander Leaves - few (finely chopped) salt - to taste Cooking Oil Service For : 3 People Cooking Time : 40 minutes Cooking Instructions : Grind ginger, garlic and coconut to a fine paste. Heat oil in a pressure cooker and saute with onions, tomatoes until the water separates from it. Add coriander powder, turmeric powder, chilly powder, garam masala, salt and fine paste to it. Add mutton and required water and salt to it and close the lid of the cooker. Let it cook until mutton is well cooked. Open the cooker and bring it to boil until it gets a thick consistency.

Ingredients : Curry Leaves - 10 gms Dry red Chilly - 8 Bengal Gram (channa Dal) - 1/4 cup Broken Black Gram (urad dal) - 1/4 cup Pepper - 2 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Instructions : Fry the curry leaves in a pan without adding oil till it is crispy and keep it aside. Fry the urad dal and channa dal in a pan until it turns golden brown. Fry the red chilly and pepper in a pan withou oil for a while. Grind all the ingredients with salt to a fine powder. Store this powder in an air tight container. You can mix this powder in hot rice with a tbsp of ghee.

Ingredients : Cardamom - 10 gms Aniseeds - 10 gms Bay Leaf - 10 gms Cinnamon - 10 gms Cloves - 10 gms Cumin Seeds - 10 gms Cooking Instructions : Stir fry all the above ingredients in a pan in a simmer for a while. Grind it to a fine powder and preserve in an air tight container. You can use this powder to the required level in tomato rice, Briyani ,Pulao and Gravies.

Ingredients : Dry Mango Powder - 10 gms Coriander Seeds - 10 gms Dry Red Chilly - 8 Pepper Corns - 5 gms Cumin Seeds - 5 gms Salt - to taste Cooking Instructions : Stir fry all the ingredients to a fine powder. You can use this powder for all chat items.

Ingredients: Coriander Seeds - 50 gms Dry Red Chilly - 50 gms Cinnamon - 25 gms Cloves - 25 gms Turmeric Powder - 25 gms Pepper - 25 gms Salt - to taste Cooking Instructions: Stir fry all the ingredients in a pan without oil. Grind it to a fine powder and preserve it in a container. This masala can be used for all non vegetarian and vegetarian items.

Ingredients : Roasted Gram (Pottukadalai) - 25 gms Bengal Gram (Channa Dal) - 25 gms Red Gram (Tuar Dal) - 50 gms Pepper - 10 gms Dry Red Chilly - 10 gms Salt - to taste Cooking oil/ Ghee - 1 tbsp Cooking Instructions : Heat oil in a pan and add tuar dal, channa dal and let it cook till it turns golden brown. Add Pottukadalai to it and fry for a while. Add pepper, dry chilly and salt and fry for a while. Grind it to a fine powder. This powder can be mixed with hot rice with a tbsp of ghee.

Ingredients : Coriander - 50 gms Aniseeds - 10 gms Cinnamon - 5 gms Cumin Seeds - 10 gms Dry Red Chilly - 20 gms Cardamom - 10 gms Pepper - 10 gms Bengal Gram - 25 gms Cooking Instructions : Stir fry all the ingredients in a pan and grind it to a fine powder. This masala can be used in tomato rice, vegetable briyani, khuska, ghee rice and in non veg briyanis.

Ingredients: Rice - 1 cup Water - 3 cups Peeled Broken Green Gram(Moong Dhal/Paasi Paruppu) - 6 tbsp Cashewnuts - 10 Curry Leaves - few Pepper - 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds - 2 tbsp Asafoetida - 1/2 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking oil Service for : 2 people Cooking Time : 10 minutes Cooking Instructions: Heat oil in a pressure cooker and saute pepper, cumin seeds, asafoetida, cashews and curry leaves.Add moong dhal to it and fry a little.Add measured water and rice in the cooker.Add required salt to it. Close the lid of the cooker and dont reduce the flame and let it whistle for ten times.Open the lid after pressure is completely released. Side Dish : Coconut Chutney, sambar, Eggplant Chutney