Kitchen and Home Making

Ingredients: Mutton – ½ kg Onion – 1(finely chopped) Medium size Tomatoes – 2 (finely chopped) Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tbsp Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp Chilly Powder – ½ tbsp Pepper Powder – 2 tbsp Cloves – 4 Cardamom – 4 Aniseeds – 1 or 2 tbsp Bay Leaf – 2 Cinnamon - 2 Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Wash and clean the mutton and cut it into cubes and keep it aside. Heat a tbsp of oil in a pan and add onions and tomatoes and sauté it well. Let this mixture cool a while and then grind it to a smooth paste. Heat 5 tbsp of oil in a pressure cooker and sauté it with cloves, cinnamon, aniseeds, bay leaves and cardamom. Add grinded paste and ginger garlic paste to it and stir fry until the raw smell leaves off. Now add turmeric powder, coriander powder, chilli powder and pepper powder and stir fry it well. Now add the mutton pieces to it with required amount of water and salt and close the lid of the cooker. Let it cook until the mutton is well cooked. Open the lid of the co...

Amirdhi / Amirthi Forest lies to the southeast of Vellore, Tamilnadu. The forest is rich with different species of Flora and Fauna. A substantial part of this jungle has been cleared to serve as a tourist resort where as the rest of the forest has been declared a wildlife sanctuary. A trek for a kilometer leads one to a panoramic view of a seasonal waterfall. Amirthi is one of the nice spots for one day picnic. As my hubby was already been there 10 year before, today being the Christmas holiday, we visited the spot again with my son and husband. We went to Old Bus stand in Vellore by bike and waiting for the bus number 11C or 15 which goes to Amirthi forest directly. We were there by 9.45 AM in the morning and the shop owners near the bus stand asked us to wait for some time at the bus stand. We also waited for about 30 minutes, but no bus has come. And there was a response that only one bus is available which plying to amirdhi to vellore and vice versa. So we had a doubt and wanted t...

I don't eat colocasia but use to cook at home for my hubby. when i saw this recipe in sujatha's blog, i really loved it and tried at home and the taste was really good! Ingredients: Colacasia (Seppankilangu) – ¼ kg Onions – 1 (finely chopped) Tomato - 1 (finely chopped) Chilli Powder - 1 tsp or adjust it to ur taste Mustard seeds – 1 tsp Curry leaves - a few Salt- to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Clean the colocasia well in water. Add colocasia and enough amount of water in a pressure cooker and let it to boil just for 2 or 3 whistles in high flame and switch off the flame. Do not let it to overcook at any cost. Immediately release the pressure of the cooker and open the lid and drain the excess water. Peel off the skin and cut them into thin round slices. Heat a little oil in a pan and put few pieces of slices in it and deep fry them until it turns golden brown. Repeat the process for all the remaining slices. Heat a tbsp of oil in a pan and sauté it with mustard se...

Ingredients: Kovakkai- 250gms (cut lengthwise) Onion - 1 (finely chopped) Coriander Powder- 2 tsp Chilli powder – 1 tsp or adjust to your taste Turmeric Powder- ½ tsp Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Curry Leaves - few Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Heat oil in a pan and sauté it with mustard seeds and curry leaves. Add the chopped onion and ginger garlic paste and fry till the onions become soft. Add coriander powder, chilli powder and turmeric powder and fry for a while until the raw smell leaves off the dish. Add water a little if required in this stage. Now add kovakkai pieces to it and fry a while. Add little amount of water (since we are going to prepare dry masala) and let the vegetable to cook well. Once the vegetables is cooked and become soft, switch off the flame and transfer it to the serving bowl. Side Dish: Goes well with hot rice

Ingredients: Raw Banana – 2 Onion - 1 (finely chopped) Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp Broken Black Gram – 1 tsp Dry Red Chilly – 3 Curry Leaves – few Salt- to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Peel off the skin of raw banana and cut it into small cubes. Add the raw banana cubes in a pan with enough amount of salt and 2 glasses of water. Let it to cook in a high flame. It will get cooked within 5 minutes. It should not be overcooked since it spoils the taste of the dish. When the raw banana cubes are cooked, switch off the flame and drain the excess water and keep them aside. Let it to cool for few minutes. Heat oil in a pan and sauté it with mustard seeds, broken black gram dry chilly and curry leaves and onion. Add cooked raw banana and stir fry it for few minutes and switch off the flame. Side Dish: Serve it with hot rice

I am really thankful to all the bloggers who participated in the EFM - Sweets and made it succesful. Round Up of the EFM - Sweets goes HERE . Now its time to announce the theme for this month. Theme for EFM (Event for the Month) for the month of December is "Savouries". Savouries include our traditional Murukku, Sev, Karaboondhi,etc and evening snacks like Cutlet, Pani Puri, Kachori, Samosas and on and on..... Hope Savouries are favorite to all of us and we have lot of varieties to taste. So, come out with all your savouries recipes and am awaiting eagerly for your entries. Rules for Participating in the Event: 1. Prepare any type of Savouries,and post it in your blog in the month of December 2008 to January, 2009 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 during the period of event with the logo and a link back to this page. Only the entries re-posted during the entry will be accepted. 3. Pro...

Presenting you the Round Up for the "EFM - Sweet Series" and I Welcome you all to the Round Up! A surprise awaiting at the end of the post....! My sincere thanks to all you wonderful bloggers, who joined me to celebrate the festival with your sweet recipes and making this one, a successful event. So get ready to bookmark your favorite recipes and try it out in your kitchen. I received totally 95 types of sweets. Can we all see this altogether in one shop? It's impossible, i can say! Thank you one and all for your delicious contributions and making it a very successful event. It’s because of you all lovely bloggers now we have One-Stop-Shop for Various Sweets. I am really very happy and thank you all for your support and encouragement. I have submitted the round up in the order i have received the entries.Here is what you have been looking forward to… If i have missed any of your entries, please contact me to my mail id srikitchen@gmail.com , so that i can update the missi...