Kalathappam(Rice flour Cake)

Kalathappam is a famous snack from malabar area.My mom is an expert in cooking kalathappam.In olden days people make it with the help of coal.But now a day its easy to cook,we can cook with the help of pressure cooker.Its one of my hubbies fav,my mom always prepare for him while we are back to kannur.Its very easy to make.Main thing is that we have to concentrate in it on each and every step.

Ingedients:
Rice -2cups
Jaggry 2 blocks or as per your taste
Small onions 5
Coconut grated 1 cup
Coconut oil and gee
Salt to taste
Cardamom 4 powdered
Raisins
Cashew nuts
Baking Powder 2 pinch


Method:
1.Grind rice to a fine paste.Now add baking powder and keep aside for half an hour.
2.Melt jaggery in little water and remove all the impurities.
3.Now mix jassery with rice batter and add 1/4 tsp salt.
4.Heat a pressure cooker and add coconut oil and gee in equal preposition.
5.Fry chopped onions and coconut,when its colour change to brown colour add raisins and cashew nuts.
6.Off the stove.Now take half portion of coconut mix and mix it with rice batter.
7.Place the batter on the fire,and heat the batter for 5 minutes.Stair continuesily without taking hand.
8.Now on the cooker and pour this to cooker.Now close the cooker lid without putting the weight.
9.Now pressure cook for 2 -3 minutes on a high flame,then lower it,cook for another 15 minutes.
10Keep the lid closed and allow to cool and remove from the cooker and cut to any shape.

Kumbalanga(Ashgourd) Pulisseri

Ingredients
Kumbalanga/Ash gourd - 250g chopped into small cubes
Green chillies-1 or 2(depending on the chillyness)
Tomato-1 small
Small onions-1
Turmeric Powder- 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste

Grind to a smooth paste
Grated coconut - 1/2 of one coconut(medium)
Jeera/Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
Thick curds - 1/2 cup

For seasoning
Coconut oil - 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Dry chillies-3
Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Method
*Cook ash gourd in 1/4 cup of water with turmeric,green chillies,tomato,onion.
*When it is cooked,add salt to taste.
*Add the coconut paste at this stage.
*Simmer for 3 minutes till everything gets mixed.
*Switch off the flame.
*Prepare seasoning in a pan and add all the ingredients one by one.
*Add it to the pulisheri.
*Serve hot with rice!!

Cucumber Grape Raita

Ingredients;
2 cucumber sliced into small pieces
6 Green grape sliced into half
Salt to taste
1/2 cup of yogurt
1green chillies
2tsp of chopped coriander


Method:
Take a bowel and mix all together and add salt to taste.Now garnish with coriander leaves.

Cherupayar (Green Gram) Curry

Cherupayar or Green Gram curry is usually curry made for chappathi or puttu.Its a nice compination with puttu…

Ingredients
Cherupayar or Green Gram - 1 cup
Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
Curry leaves - one strand
Chopped onion – 1
Green chillies -3
Ginger paste - 1 tsp (optional)
Turmeric and Red Chilly powder
Jeera or Cummin powder
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Salt - to taste

Method:

1.Pressure cook Green Gram by adding Chopped onion ,Green chillies ,Ginger paste ,Turmeric and Red Chilly powder.

2.Now graind the coconut by adding Cummin powder.

3.Add this to cooked green gram,and let it boil for 10 minutes.Add salt to taste.

4.Heat a pan with oil and splutter mustard seeds and curry leaves,add this to cooked green gram.

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Bun Chemeen Nirachathu(Stuffed Shrimp bun)

Ingredients

1/2 cup shrimp
3 chopped onions
Ghee for frying
3 green chilis chopped
Chopped1/2 inch ginger
4 chopped garlic
1/2 tsp termeric powder
Garam masala 1/4tsp
2 tsp of maida
Egg 2
salt to taste
5 tbsp butter
Fresh coriander leaves chopped
6 pao or buns

Method

*Heat ghee in a pan. Add chopped onions and fry till light brown. Add green chillis, ginger,garlic and saute over medium heat for 2-3 minutes. Reduce heat, then add the termeric powder,now add shrimp add salt.when its cooked.

*Increase the heat and stir well.
*Sprinkle garam masala, coriander leaves,remove from heat.

*Now make a small holl in the back side of bun by making a sqaure shape and keep aside this sqaure portion aside,and remove some portion of the bun from inside,be care full while removeing.

*Now mix the inside portion of the bun mix with shrimps. *Now take a spoon full of shrimp masala and fill inside the bun.Now close the lid with the bun portion which is already cut in the beginning stage.


*Make a thick paste with maida and cover the side portion of the square with maida.
*Now dip the bun with egg.
*place a pan on the stove and add some butter and fry the bun until golden brown on both sides

Sausage Potato Sticks And Award

Ingredients:
Sausage -5
Potato -1
Tomato Chili Sauce -1tsp
soya sauce -1/2tsp
pepper powder -1/2tsp
Cucumber for garnishing -2
Bread crumbs
Egg -1
Salt to taste
Oil frying
Bamboo sticks

Method:
1.Cook Sausage and Potato.
2.Take a bowel and mix Tomato Chili Sauce, soya sauce, pepper powder, Salt.Make a paste of it.
3.Now mix this with Sausage and Potato.And keep it aside for half an hour.
4. Thread one piece of Sausage and Potato onto sticks.
5. First dip this into the egg and then roll it in the bread crumbs.
6. .Deep fry it in oil. Take it out of the oil when it is of a golden brown colour.
7. Garnish with Cucumber.

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1.I love gardening and cooking.
2.I hate waking up earyily morning.
3.My hubby is my good friend,he used to fulfill all my needs.
4. I love gardening and cooking.
5.Feels so sad because my amma and achan is alone there in kannur.
6.I love sitting simpily and chit chatting.
7. Love to cook for the ones I love and love to please them with good, comforting food.
8. I love cooking for my husband.Every day I cook according to hubbies choice.
9.I love my Parassinikadavu Muthappan.Muthappan full fill all my needs.
10.I love to travel.

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Neeriya Dosa(Soft rice pancakes)

INGREDIENTS
1 cup rice (raw)
1\4 cup grated coconut
1\4 cup cooked rice
salt to taste
oil for roasting

METHOD
1. Wash and soak the rice for 3 - 4 hours.
2. Then grind it along with the coconut and cooked rice to a fine paste.
3. Add salt and water to make a thin batter.
4. Grease the pan and heat it.
5. Spread the batter thinly by tilting the pan gently.
6. Roast on one side only.
7. Serve with chutney, a stew or any non veg dish

Tomato Onion Chutney

Ingredients:

2 chopped tomatoes
1 onions chopped
4 dry red chillies
1 tablespoon oil

2 curry leaves

Coriander leaves

Salt to taste

Method

1.Heat oil in a pan; add all the ingredients together and sauté until soft and tender. Sauté until the tomatoes are soft and almost all the water has evaporated.
2.Allow the mixture to cool and grind.Donot grind to a smooth paste.Its should be halfily crushed 3.Garnish with coriander leaves.

Banana Egg Balls

Ingredients :

Big Bananas (not fully ripe) -3no's
Egg-3 no's
Sugar -3 tbs
Powdered Cardamom-3 no's
Sliced Cashew nuts-6 no's
Ghee-1 tsp
Oil-for frying

Method of Preparation :

1.Steam the bananas well. Peel the skin and grind it in a mixer.
2.Mix the eggs with cardamom powder, cashew nuts and half the quantity of sugar. Heat ghee in a pan and fry the egg mixture. Add the remaining sugar to it.
3.Make small balls of the banana mixture. Apply some oil in the hands and spread the banana balls with the fingers. Place one spoon of the fried egg mixture in it. Seal the edges and make oval shapes. Deep fry in oil.

Vella Kadala Curry(Channa Curry)

Ingredients :
Chickpeas(Vella kadala) - 1 cup(soaked for 2-4 hour)
Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
Ginger(crushed) - 1/4 tsp
Onion(chopped) - 2 no
Oil - 3 tbsp
Green chillies(slit) - 3 nos
Curry leaves - 4 - 5 nos
Corindar leaves
Red chilly powder – 1/4 tsp
Cumin seeds(Jeerakam) – 1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
Dry red chillies -5

Preparation
1)Cook channa in 1 1/2 cups of water or more as reqd by adding all the powders and ginger,onion,green chillies.
2)Graind coconut by adding Cumin seeds to a fine paste.
3)Add this to cooked channa.
4)Cook for 10 minutes, till the gravy thickens.
5) Heat oil in a pan, Splutter mustard seeds sauté curry leaves and dry red chillies.And add to curry and mix well.
6)Garnish Kadala Curry with Corindar leaves.
:- Serve Kadala Curry hot with chappathis or puttu.

Bread Sausage Pizza

Ingredients:

• 7 Bread Slices
• 1 Capsicum green (sliced)
• 1 Tomato (sliced)
• 10 Black olives (sliced)
• 4 sausage sliced and fried
• 1 Capsicum red (sliced)
• 4 tbsp Mozzarella Cheese (grated)
• 2 tbsp Pizza Sauce

Preparation

1.Pre heat the ovan in 150 degree.
2.Take a bread slice and spread it with pizza sauce.
3.Spread the vegetable and sausage mixture on the bread and garnish it with mozzarella cheese.
3.Grill the bread in an oven or over tawa for 3-4 minutes, or till the bread is crispy and the cheese melts.
4.Bread Pizza is ready to serve. Serve it with tomato ketchup.

Corn flakes nanachathu

Ingredients
1.Corn flakes -1cup
2. Grated Coconut -1/2 cup
3.Sugar -1 tsp

Preparation:
Mix all the Ingredients together and have it as soon as made.

Beef Roast (Varattiyathu)

Even though I don’t eat any beef I prepare,because my hubby loves it,one day me and my one of the chichi prepared the beef,we both don’t eat beef.As we are not eating we cant taste it also,but when my hubby is back from work he said beef tastes better.And he said u cook all without tasting,he he he he he …

Ingredients

Beef (cubed into bite sized pieces) – 3/4kg
Meat Masala Powder – 1 tbsp (I used Eastern Meat Masala)
Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp
Red chilly powder – 1 tsp
Turmeric Powder – 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper Powder – 1/2 tsp
Ginger Paste – 1 tbsp
Garlic Paste – 1 tbsp
Onion (thinly sliced) – 1 large
Tomatoes (chopped) – 1 large
Slit Green Chillies – 4
Thinily sliced coconut-1/4 cup
Curry Leaves – A sprig
Coriander leaves– A few
Oil – 2 tbsp(I used coconut oil)
Salt – As required


Preparation Method

1.Wash and clean the beef thoroughly and drain out excess water if any.
2.Dry roast powders on low flame till its row smell goes.
3.Marinate the beef pieces with the above roasted masala powders, 1 tbsp ginger paste, 1 tbsp garlic paste and salt. Keep it aside for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Or u can cook as soon as.
4.Pressure cook the marinated beef on low flame for up to 8-10whistles.Add onions, curry leaves, green chillies, tomatoes . You may have to cook it for more or less time, depending on the type of meat.
5.Heat 2 tbsp oil in a non stick pan
6.Add the pressure cooked beef along with its gravy to the above pan and mix everything well.
7.Cook on medium low flame . Uncover the pan and roast the beef masala on medium high flame for around 10 minutes or till the water evaporates completely and the beef is dry and brown in color. Now add Coriander leaves and some curry leaves.Remove from fire.
8.In another pan pour 2tsp oil and fry coconut till golden brown and mix with beef.
9.Serve this spicy beef masala along with rice or rotis.

Crispy Fish Fingers

Ingredients

Boneless Fish – 200g (I used Fresh king fish)
Bread crumbs
Chilli powder-1/2 tsp
Termeric powder-1/4 tsp
Pepper – 1/2 tsp
Salt – to taste
Lemon Juice – 1 tbsp
Oil – 3 tbsp
Preparation Methods

1.Clean the fish fillets. Slice the fish fillets into 2 – 3 ” long pieces and 1/2 ” thick.
2.Make a paste with the ingredients except bread crumbs and oil. Marinate the paste with fish and keep aside for 2 hours.
3.In a plate put some bread crumbs.Dipp the fish fingers in bread crumbs one by one. Repeat this until all fish fingers are dredged in flour.
4.Heat 3 tbsp oil in a non stick pan for shallow frying.
5.Place the fish fingers in the pan and fry each side until golden brown. This will take around 8 minutes for each side. Drain onto paper towels.

Chana Raita

Ingredients:

2 cups yogurt
1 cup boiled chickpeas (boil with some turmeric)
1 green chilli
Coriander leaves
Salt to taste
Preparation:

In a salad bowl, whisk the yogurt well to remove any lumps.
Add all the remaining ingredients add salt. Mix well.
Chill for an hour and serve.