Kitchen and Home Making

Join with us in EFM - BREAKFAST SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Last Date to send in your entries is July 15 . Ingredients: Red Gram Dhal – one handful Raw Mango - 1 small number (wash and remove the seed in it and cut into small cubes) Tomato – 2 (finely chopped) Onion – 1 (lengthwise chopped) Sambhar Powder – 2 tsp Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tsp Asafoetida – 1/4 tsp Green Chilly – 2(chop into small pieces) Curry Leaves – few Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Pressure cook red gram with enough amount of water. Heat oil in a pan and sauté it with mustard seeds. Add onions, tomatoes, chillies and curry leaves to it and fry a while until the onion and tomatoes are mashed well. Add sambhar powder, turmeric powder and asafoetida to it and fry until the raw smell leaves off. Add cooked dhal, salt and mango chunks to it and add enough amount of water and stir it well and cook it covered until the man...

Join with us in EFM - BREAKFAST SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Chicken - 1/2 kg (Wash and cut into cubes) Onion - 1 big number (finely chopped) Tomato - 3 (finely chopped) Cashews - 50 gms Coriander Powder - 3 tsp Pepper Powder - 2 tsp Chilli Powder - 1 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp Green Chilli - 2 Aniseed - 1 tsp Curry Leaves - few Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Heat oil in a pan and saute it with aniseed and curry leaves. Add Cashews and onion to it and fry until the cashews turn golden brown in color. Add tomato, ginger garlic paste and green chilli to it at this stage and fry until the tomatoes are mashed well. Add chicken to it followed by coriander powder, chilly powder, turmeric powder, pepper powder and salt. Stir fry until all the dry powders coat on the chicken well and the raw smell leaves off. Add enough water to it and cook it covered until the chicken is d...

Join with us in EFM - BREAKFAST SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Boneless Chicken - 1/2 kg (wash and cut into small cubes and drain the excess water completely) Butter - 100 gms Fresh Cream - 100 ml Onion - 1 (finely chopped) Ripe Tomato - 3 (finely chopped) Tomato Sauce - 2 tsp Coriander Powder - 2 and 1/2 tsp Chilli Powder - 1 and 1/2 tsp Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp Green Chilli - 2 Cashews - 5 pieces Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tsp Aniseed - 1 tsp Sugar - 1/4 tsp Red Food Color - 2 pinches (diluted in water) Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: In a bowl, take chicken and add 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste, 1/2 tsp of chilli powder, 1/2 tsp of coriander powder and 1/4 tsp of salt to the pan and mix well so that all the masalas coat on the chicken well. Heat oil in deep pan to shallow fry the chicken. Add chicken pieces to it now and Keep frying it until the chicken turns little brown in color. When it starts to t...

Join with us in EFM - BREAKFAST SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Raw Rice - 2 cups (Wash it thoroughly just before cooking) Mint Leaves - 1 cup Coconut Milk - 1 cup Water - 1 Cup Onion - 1 (finely Chopped) Green Chilly - 3 (slit lengthwise) Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp Aniseed - 1 tsp Cinnamon - 2 Cloves - 2 Bay Leaf - few (broken into pieces) Cooking Oil Salt - to taste Cooking Instructions: Grind mint leaves and chillies to a fine paste without adding water. Heat oil in a pressure cooker and saute it with aniseeds, cloves, cinnamon and bay leaf. Add onion and ginger garlic paste to it and fry until the onion becomes soft. Add grinded paste to it and fry until the raw smell leaves off. Now add rice to it and fry a while and add the coconut milk, water, lemon juice and required amount of salt and stir it well. when the water starts to boil well, simmer the flame and close the lid. Let it cook for 1...

Join with us in EFM - BREAKFAST SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Shallots / Small Onions - 1/2 cup (Peel off the skin and cut into halves) Garlic - 1/2 cup (Peel off the skin and slit it lengthwise) Coriander Powder - 1 tbsp Chilly Powder - 1 tbsp (can use Aachi brand Kulmbu milagai thool for Chettinad flavor) Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Tamarind - a small lemon size ball (soak it in a cup of warm water and extract the juice) Dried Sundakkai or Manathakkali Vatral(optional)- A tbsp Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp Fenugreek Seeds - 1/2 tsp Curry Leaves - few Salt - to taste Gingelly Oil - 5 tbsp Cooking Instructions: Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan and saute it with mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, dried sundakai and curry leaves and keep it aside. Heat 4 tbsp of oil in a pan and saute it with garlic and onions until they turn golden yellow color and soft. Now add coriander powder, chilly powder and turmeric powder and fry it until the...

Join with us in EFM - BREAKFAST SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Marie Biscuit - 1Packet Condensed Milk - 1/2 cup Cocoa Powder - 3 tbsp Butter at room temperature -4 tbsp Milk - 1 tbsp 9if required) Desiccated Coconut - ½ Cup Cadbury’s Gems- 1 Packet Preparation Instructions: Grind the whole pack of biscuit to a fine powder. Sieve the grinded powder and set aside. Add biscuit powder, butter, condensed milk and cocoa powder in a bowl and make it as a smooth dough. Make small balls out of the dough and roll it in the desiccated coconut and flatten it slightly and fix gems in the center of each flattened ball. Refrigerate these balls for an hour and serve it! Kids will surely love it! I tried out this recipe from here and thanks Jaishree mam for your kid friendly recipe! Like this article? Subscribe to the RSS feed!

Join with us in EFM - BREAKFAST SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Mushroom - 200gms ( clean and wash in water) Onion - 1 (Finely Chopped) Tomatoes - 2 (Finely Chopped) Coriander Powder - 2 tsp Pepper Powder - 1 tsp Turmeric Powder - a pinch Curry Leaves - few Garlic - 5 pods (Finely Chopped) Ginger - 1/2 inch size (Finely Chopped) Green Chilli - 1 (Finely Chopped) Mustard Seeds- 1/2 tsp Aniseed - 1/4 tsp Dry Red Chilli - 2 Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Heat oil in a pan and saute it with mustard seeds, aniseed and dry red chilly. Add finely minced ginger, garlic and green chillies and fry a while. Add chopped onions and curry leaves to it and fry until it becomes transparent. Now add tomatoes to it and fry until tomatoes are mashed well. Add coriander powder, pepper powder, turmeric powder and required amount of salt to it and fry well until the raw smell leaves off. Add mushroom pieces to it then and fry unti...

Ingredients: Fish - 1/2 kg Shallots - 10 Ginger - 1 inch [finely chopped] Garlic - 8 pods [finely chopped] Coriander Powder - 1 tsp Chilly Powder - 2 tbsp Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Tamarind - a lemon size (soak it in water and extract the pulp) Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp Curry Leaves - few Red Chilly - 3 Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Wash and clean the fish and drain the excess water. Grind onion, ginger and garlic to a fine paste. Heat oil in a pan and saute it with mustard seeds, red chilly and curry leaves. Now add grinded paste to it and fry until the raw smell leaves off. Add coriander powder, chilly powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder and fry till the raw smell leaves off. Add tamarind pulp to it and bring it to boil and let the gravy to thicken a little. At last add fish pieces to it and wait until it is cooked well. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve it! Side Dish: Goes well with hot rice Like this article? Subscribe to the RSS fe...

I am really thankful to all the blogger who participated in the EFM - Cookies Series and made it successful! Now its time to announce the theme for this month. Theme for EFM (Event for the Month) for the month of June is "BREAKFAST RECIPES" and "VARIETY RICE RECIPES" . So, come out with all your breakfast and variety rice recipes and am awaiting eagerly for your entries. Remenber that you can also send VARIETY RICE RECIPES too for breakfast Series! Rules for Participating in the Event: 1. Prepare any type of breakfast recipes,and post it in your blog in the month of June 1st,2009 to July 15th,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. Provide a link back to this announcement page and use the logo without fail. 4. Interested people can Subsc...

Presenting you the Round Up for the "EFM - Cookies Series" and I Welcome you all to the Round Up of cookies Series! A surprise awaiting for u all at the end of the Round Up....! My sincere thanks to all you wonderful bloggers, who joined me to celebrate the Cookies Series and making this one, a successful event. So get ready to bookmark your favorite recipes and try it out in your kitchen. sorry in your microwave oven. I received totally 31 types of cookies. Since i was in a long break,i was unable to post the round up in time and am very sorry for that my dear bloggers! 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 cookies recipes. 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...