Kitchen and Home Making

Ingredients : Tomato – 6 (finely chopped) Onion – 1 medium size(lenghtwise chopped) Tamarind – Small gooseberry Size (optional) Garlic – 6 pieces Dry Red Chilly – 6 Asafoetdia – 1 tsp Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Time : 10 minutes Cooking Instructions : Heat oil in a pan and stir fry the onion till it turns golden brown. Add tomatoes, garlic, tamarind, chilly,asafoetodia and salt and stir fry for 5 minutes in a simmer flame. Now finely grind it with required water. Heat oil in a pan and season it with mustard seeds and add the chutney to it. Let it to cook until it starts to boil. Side Dish: Idli, Dosa

Ingredients: Tomato - 10 Chilli Powder-2 tsp or change it according to your taste Garlic Pods – 8 (peel off the skin and chop fine) Fenugreek Powder – ½ tsp Asafoetodia – a pinch Mustard Seeds– 1 tsp Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Add tomatoes, garlic, chilli powder, asafoetodia, fenugreek powder and enough salt in a mixie or a food processor and grind it to a smooth paste. Heat oil in a deep pan, and sauté it with mustard seeds. Now add the grind paste to it and keep stirring it in regular intervals. Otherwise it will stick to the pan. Cook in a low flame for about 20 minutes until the gravy not stick in the sides of the pan. When the gravy starts to leave the sides of the pan, switch off the flame and let it cool down. Store this in a clean and dry box in refrigerator. We can store this tomato thokku for a long time if we do not use wet hands or wet spoon to take the gravy from the dish. I tried out this recipe from Solaiachi blog. Thank u so much for sharing ur ...

Ingredients: Bitter Gourd – 100gms Dry Green Beans – 50gms (soak in water overnight) Tomato – 2 (finely chopped) Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Kolambu Podi – 4 tbsp Asafoetodia – ½ tsp Garlic pods – 8 (peel off the skin) Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Curry Leaves –few Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Soak dry green beans in water overnight. The other day drain the excess water. Add dry green beans in a pressure cooker with enough amount of water and cook for 3 whistles in high flame. Open the lid and drain excess water. Cut bitter gourd into thin round slices. Heat oil in a pressure cooker and sauté it with mustards seeds. Now add chopped onions, tomatoes, garlic pods and curry leaves, and fry until the oil comes out of the dish and tomato is mashed well. Add asafoetodia and enough salt to it now. Add bitter gourd, boiled dry green beans and kolambu podi to the cooker. Add enough water to it and stir it well so that no lumps are found. Close the lid and let it to cook for 3 wh...

Ingredients: Button Mushrooms – 200 gms Onion – 2 ( finely chopped) Milk – 400ml Butter – 1 tbsp Wheat Flour – 2 tbsp All Purpose Flour / Maida – 1 tbsp Bay Leaf – 2 Cloves - 2 Pepper Corns – 4 Pepper Powder – to taste Salt – to taste Cooking Instructions: Clean the mushrooms with a damp cloth and chop the caps and stems. Take 5 pieces of mushroom and slice it into thin pieces and keep aside. Pour the milk in a pan along with bay leaf, pepper corns, and cloves. When the milk starts to boil well, switch off the flame and strain the milk in a bowl. Now, heat up the butter in a medium pan and add chopped onions to it and cook until they're soft but not browned. Next add the mushrooms to it, and cook over a high heat for 3 minutes whilst stirring constantly. Sprinkle the wheat and all purpose flour over the mushrooms and mix well to combine. Stir in the flour and mix well, making sure all the mushrooms are well coated and stir it until the raw flavor of the flour leaves off the dish. A...

Ingredients: Paneer – 100 gms (cut it into cubes) Fresh Green peas – 50 gms Potatoes – 3 (medium Size) Onion – 1 medium size (finely chopped) Tomato – 2 medium sizes (finely chopped) Curd – 25 gms or a small ladleful Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tbsp Coriander powder – 1 tbsp Cumin Powder – ½ tsp Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp or as you require Turmeric powder – ½ tsp Garam Masala – ½ tbsp Cinnamon – 2 Cloves – 2 Bay Leaf – 1 Cardamom – 2 Sugar – ¼ tsp Salt – to taste Ghee – 1 tsp Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Heat 1 tsp of ghee in a pan and fry paneer cubes in it until it is golden brown and keep it aside. Add green peas and potato (cut it into two halves) in pressure cooker with a cup of water. Close the lid of the cooker and let it to cook for 3 whistles in high flame or cook until it is tender. Open the lid and drain the excess water. Heat oil in a pan and saute it with cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf and cardamom. Add finely chopped onion to it and fry it a while. Add coriander powder, cumi...

Ingredients: Cow Gram / Karamani / Thattai Payaru – 200gms Tomato – 2 (finely chopped) Onion – 1 (finely chopped) Kolambu Podi – 3 tbsp Turmeric Powder – 1 tsp Asafoetodia – ½ tsp Garlic pods – 6 (peel the skin and crush it) Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Curry Leaves –few Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Time: 10 minutes Service For: 3 People Cooking Instructions: Soak Cow Gram in water for 3 hours in hot boiling water. Heat oil in a pressure cooker and add mustards seeds and fry it a while. Now add chopped onions, tomatoes, garlic pods and curry leaves, and fry until the oil comes out of the dish and tomato is mashed well. Add turmeric powder, asafoetodia and enough salt to it now. Add cow gram, and kolambu podi to the cooker. Add enough water to it and stir it well so that no lumps are found. Close the lid and let it to cook for 5 whistles (depends upon the efficiency of the cooker) or until cow gram is cooked well. Open the lid of the cooker after pressure is released and let it to boil...

Ingredients: Wheat Flour – 2 cups Salt – ½ tsp Oil – 6 tbsp (to prepare dough) Boiled Milk – 25 ml Cooking Instructions: Add wheat flour, salt, oil and milk and knead the flour gently. Add water to the flour gradually to prepare a firm and soft dough. Knead the dough well for a while so that the dough will become too soft. The dough should not be too hard. Cover the dough with a wet muslin cloth or a plate and set it aside for an hour and it helps to prepare soft chapatis. Divide the dough into equal lemon size balls. Dip each ball in the dry wheat flour and roll it out into round shape {about 5 to 6 inches} with a rolling pin using flour to avoid sticking. Place a tawa on the stove and let it to heat well. Put a rolled chapatti on the tawa, pour a teaspoon of oil around the edges of chapatti and let it to fry well. When u see bubbles forming on the top, turn the chapatti to its other side and let it to cook well. Npw again turn the chapati to the cooked side and let it fry for few se...

Ingredients: Dosa Batter – 2 cups Ragi Flour / Keppai Maavu – ½ cup Cooking Instructions: Mix ragi flour and dosa batter together with little water without forming any lumps. The batter should not be too thick. It should be in the right consistency of dosa batter. Heat dosa tawa / pan or a flat tawa and take a ladleful of batter. Spread the batter in a circular motion from the center of the tawa to the edges of the tawa. Pour 1 tsp of oil on the edges of the dosa. When one side is cooked well (turns little brown), Flip the dosa to the other side and let it cook well. Once it is cooked remove the dosa from the pan and transfer to the plate. Side Dish: Onion chutney One of my good friends and well wisher Sangeeth is Conducting Eat healthy-Fight Diabetes Contest . I like to send the following diabetic recipes for her contest. 1. Ragi Dosa 2. Chapathi 3. Bitter Gourd & Dry Beans Kolambu 4. Apple Milkshake 5. Paruppu Vadai 6. Onion Bhajji 7. Buttermilk 8. Garlic Kolambu 9. Poori 10. ...

I am really thankful to all the bloggers and non-bloggers who participated in the EFM - Chicken. Round Up of the EFM - Chicken goes here . Now its time to announce the theme for this month. Theme for EFM (Event for the Month) for the month of November is "Sweets". Hope Sweets are favorite to all of us and we have lot of varieties to taste. So, come out with all your sweet recipes and am awaiting eagerly for your sweet entries. The most important thing is include any type of sweets except the cake varieties. Rules for Participating in the Event: 1. Prepare any type of Sweet and post it in your blog in the month of November to December, 2008 with the logo and a link back to this page. 2. If you already have appropriate entry archived, please make sure to re post it with the logo and a link back to this page. 3. Provide a link back to this announcement page and use the logo without fail. 4. Subscribe to my blog via E-mail and it is a must to participate in the event. 5. Email yo...

I never thought the response for the Chicken Event would be so immense. I am really very happy and thank you all for your support and encouragement. If i have missed any of your entries, please contact me to my mail id srikitchen@gmail.com, so that i can update the missing entries. Soup 1. Chettinaad Kozhi Rasam from Vanisri of Illatharasi 2. Chicken Soup from Vanisri of Illatharasai 3. Spicy Chili from Aartee of From the Kitchen Gravy 1. Chettinaad Pepper Chicken from Lakshmi Venkatesh of Kitchen Chronicles 2. Nilgiri Chicken Kuruma from Cham of Spice-Club 3. Murg Kalia from Arundati of Gourmet Affair 4. Szechwan Chicken from Pavani of Food Lovers 5. Chicken Gravy from VaniSri of Illatharasi 6. Naatu Kozhi Kolambu from Ramya of Ramya's Kitchen Corner 7. Chicken in Tomato Gravy from Aartee of From the Kitchen 8. Coriander Leaves Chicken Gravy from Priya of Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes Curry 1. Spicy Chicken Curry from Aartee of Nalabagham 2. Chicken Do Pyaza ...

I enjoyed my vacation well to the fullest i can and i missed allmy blogger buddies. I have received number of entries for the chicken event and thanks to everybody for participating in the event. As soon as possible, i will be here again with the round up of the chicken event! Some of my blogger friends has received me back to this blogger world with their awards. Sireesha and Sudeshna has passed me their lovely "Chocoholic Award" and am very happy to receive it from both of them. Ramya has passed me her "Hard Working Bloggers Award" and Thank u so much Ramya! Sudeshna has passed me her cute "Butterfly Award" and thank u so much dear! And I like to pass this award to all my blogger friends who are my great support and backbone to develop this blog to this extent! And one more happiness to be shared with you all! My blog has been once again selected this month too as a to be featured in Sangeeth's blog! I feel very happy to be a "Featured Food Bl...