Kitchen and Home Making

Wish You All A Very Happy Republic Day! Join with us in the EFM - MUTTON SERIES and for more details about the event, click  HERE ! Ingredients :   Mutton - 1/2 kg (clean and cut into cubes) Pepper Powder - 2 tsp Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp Chilly Powder - 1/2 tsp Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil - 5 tbsp Cooking Instructions : Add mutton pieces and enough amount of water in a pressure cooker and cook until the mutton is soft and well done. Do not drain off the excess water (which we call as soup) since you can use it while frying the mutton which gives an added taste. Heat oil in a pan and fry the pepper powder, chilly powder, cumin powder and garam masala and ginger garlic paste for a while until the raw smell leaves off. But do not burn it off and so take care while u fry the dry powders. Add the cooked mutton along with the soup and required amount of salt to it now and cook until the gravy becomes dry. Side Di

Join with us in the EFM - MUTTON SERIES and for more details about the event, click  HERE ! Ingredients: Grated Coconut - 4  tbsp Cumin Seeds - ½ tsp Green Chillies - 3 Curd - 1/4 cup (beat well) Potato - 1 Brinjal - 1 Carrot - 1 Beans - 6 Drumstick - 1 Raw banana - 1/2 Curry Leaves -  few Salt - to taste Coconut Oil- 3 tsp   Cooking Instructions: Grind coconut, chilly and cumin seeds to a smooth paste and keep it aside. Cut all the vegetables lengthwise for about 1 inch. Its not necessary that you should use the vegetables specified here. The choice of vegetable is entirely yours. Add all the vegetables and 1/4 cup of water in a pressure cooker and cook for about 2 whistles in high flame. Now add the grinded paste and salt to it and cook in simmer flame until water in the dish evaporates. Add curd to it now and let it cook for few minutes and switch off the flame. Heat oil in a pan and saute it with curry leaves and add it in the cooked dish. Avial is ready

Join with us in the EFM - MUTTON SERIES and for more details about the event, click  HERE ! Ingredients for Grinding: Baby Onion / Shallots - 1/2 cup Coriander Seeds - 4 tbsp Pepper - 1 tsp Cumin Seed - 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp Dry Red Chillies - 8 Garlic - 8 Curry Leaves - few Gingelly  Oil - 1 tsp Heat gingelly oil in a pan and consecutively add fenugreek seeds, coriander seeds and red chillies and fry in a simmer flame until you get nice smell out of it and switch off the flame. Immediately, add all the other remaining ingredients and fry it in the heat of the pan itself and no need for flame. Let these ingredients cool for a while and grind to a smooth paste by adding a little of water. Other Ingredients: Tamarind - a lemon size ball Mustard Seeds - 1/4 tsp Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp Curry Leaves - few Gingelly Oil - 2 tbsp Salt - to taste Cooking Instructions: Soak tamarind in a cup of water and extract thick pulp from

Join with us in the EFM - MUTTON SERIES and for more details about the event, click  HERE ! Ingredients for Marination: Chicken -1/2 kg Lime Juice - 2 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Salt - 1/4 tsp Marination Instructions: In a large bowl, mix chicken, lime juice, turmeric powder and salt and let it marinate for about 1/2 hour. Ingredients for Grinding: Coriander Seeds - 4 tbsp Dessicated Coconut - 5 tsp Poppy Seeds - 3 tsp Split Roasted Gram / Pottukadalai - 2 tsp Peppercorns - 2 tsp Fennel Seeds - 2 tsp Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp Red Chilli - 5 Cardamom - 3 Cloves - 3 Cinnamon - 2 Mace - 2 Star Anise -2  petals Instructions for Grinding: Dry roast all the ingredients specified above for about 3 minutes until it smells good. Let it cool for few minutes and grind it to a smooth powder without adding water. Ingredients for Frying: Onion (Medium Size) - 2 (finely chopped) Tomato - 2 (finely chopped) Green Chilly - 1 (slit lengthwise) Ginger Garl

Wish You All My Blogger Friends My Belated New Year Wishes!   Wishing You All A Very Happy Pongal!               Happy to see you all back and sorry all my friends for not being regular in blogging and its all my because of my health condition. We celebrated Pongal yesterday happily and performed Pooja and prepared Ghee Rice , Lemon Rice and Sweet Pongal for Neivedyam. Lets see my style of cooking all these three Rice dishes as it is very common recipe in all homes but everyone try in their own style to suit their taste. Sweet Pongal / Sakkarai Pongal Ingredients: Raw Rice - 1 cup Grated Jaggery - 1 cup Split Green Gram / Moong Dhal - 1/2 cup Cashews - 15 Dry Grapes / Raisins - 15 Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp Ghee - little less than 1/4 cup Cooking Instructions: Wash rice and strain the water completely. Pressure cook the rice with 3 cups of water for about 4 whistles in high flame or until it is well cooked and keep it in a separate bowl.  Roast the gree