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Potato Omelet

Ingredients Egg : 4 Pepper powder : 1/2 tsp Potato : 1 cup grated Oil : 1 tbsp Salt : to taste Method Beat the egg well with pepper powder and salt. Heat a pan and add oil. Pour the egg mixture to the pan and rotate it in the shape of omlet. Upon to this omelet, pour the grated potato. Keep the stove in low flame and cover the pan with a lid and cook it till the bottom portion of omelet get brown colour. Approximately 10 minute. Take the pan away from the stove, cover the pan with a plate and tilt the pan towards the plate. Now we kept the omelet safe in the plate and keep the pan in the stove. From the plate, take the omelet and place the other side of omelet in the pan and cook the  for 5 - 10 more minutes and serve hot.

Egg bhurji!!!

A simple delicious lunch box recipe!!! Ingredients Egg : 4 Onion : 2 finely minced Tomato :1 finely minced Green chilly : 1 Ginger : 1/2 tsp finely minced Chilly powder : 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder : 1/4 tsp Black pepper powder : 1/4 tsp Mustard :1/2 tsp Oil : 1 tbsp Salt : to taste Coriander leaf/Curry leaf : few Method Heat a pan, add oil and splutter the mustard.  Add onion, green chilly, ginger and salt and saute it till it turns golden brown. Add chilly powder and turmeric powder to this and saute it well and add tomato to this mixture. Add the beaten egg to this and mix it well without the egg get struck to the pan.  Mince the egg pieces well using a laddle / spoon. When it is fully cooked, pour the pepper powder above the burji and garnish with curry leaves. Hope u all enjoyed this! :)

Cheeni (Tapioca) vevichathu

Cheeni and Fish mulaku curry is my ever time favourite dish. Mostly in south kerala, tapioca is very famous. Whenever I am going my native, my kunjammachi (mom's sister) used to prepare this dish for me. I learned this recipe from my kunjammachi... Very happy to share this recipe with you all! :) Ingredients  Tapioca : 1 Kg Turmeric powder : 1 tsp Jeera : 1/2 tsp Green Chilly : 1 Garlic : 2-3 pods Coconut : 1/4 cup Curry leaf : Few Salt : to taste Method Cut the tapioca in to small pieces like how we cut mango for mango pickle. Wash it well in running water 4-5 times, so that only the soil runs off in the water Pressure cook the tapioca and salt for 2 whistles. Mean time, grind the coconut, turmeric powder, jeera, green chilly, garlic and curry leaf coarsely. Once the pressure releases, drain the water and keep the tapioca in a heavy bottomed vessel. Add the grounded mixture to the tapioca and again cook it for 10 minutes in less water. Once it coo...

Verum Puli

Its a very simple recipe. I often make this, since my sister likes this very much. Let's learn how to make verum puli. Ingredients Shallots : 1 Cup Dry Chilly : 7 no Fenugreek powder : 1 tsp Turmeric powder : 1/2 tsp Tamarind : 1 lemon sized ball Curry leaves : Few Asafoetida : 2 tsp Mustard : 1 tsp Salt Oil Method Heat a pan and add oil and splutter mustard. Add shallots and dry chilly to this fry it well and finally add little turmeric powder and curry leaves. Once it done extract the tamarind pulp in little water and add to this mixture and keep the balance tamarind aside. Allow it to cool. Once it set cool, beat the mixture using a jar, if u are comfortable using your hands to mash the dry chilly and onion, its no problem, mash it using your hand.Once it mashed well, again extract the tamarind water and add with this mixture.  Cook this mixture for 5-6 minutes, don't over boil it, and finally before switching off the stove add little fenugreek powde...

Netholi Curry (Kozhuva Curry)

Usually we will be making netholi peera pattichathu and netholi fry. I have tried a different version of netholi curry. This is a yummy netholi curry using Coconut, Kudampuli and Tomatoes. Hope you will enjoy!!! Ingredients Netholi : 1/2 kg Coconut : 1 Cup Onion : 1 Cup Kudampuli : 4-5 Chopped Ginger : 1 tbsp Chopped Garlic : 1 tbsp Green Chilly : 3 Sliced Tomato : 1 big sized Chilly Powder : 2 tsp Coriander Powder : 2 tsp (its optional) Uluva podi (Fenugreek powder) : 1/2 tsp Oil : For seasoning Salt : To taste Method  Clean the fish netholi and rub and wash it cleanly using raw salt.  Soak the Kudampuli in warm water.  Grate the coconut and grind it by adding chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, fenugreek powder, 1tbsp Onion and 1 green chilly. The ground paste thickness should be in between coarse paste - fine paste  Grind it and pour the paste to the earthen pot and add beated ginger garlic and onion....

PRAWNS BIRIYANI

Preparation Time : 30 Min Cooking Time : 1 Hr Ingredients For Marinating: Prawns : 1/2 kg Red Chilly Powder : 1 tsp Garam Masala : 1/4 tsp Aniseed Powder : 1/2 tsp Poppy Paste : 1 tsp Turmeric Powder : 1/4 tsp Lemon Juice : 1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste : 1 1/2 tsp Salt : 1 tbsp Rice Preparation Basmati Rice : 3 Cups Cardamom : 2-3 ( individual wish) Cinnamon : 1 big piece Bay leaf : 1-2 Cloves : 4 Oil : 1 tbsp Salt : 1 tsp For Masala Onion : 4 Sliced Ginger Garlic Paste : 2 tbsp Tomato : 2 finely chopped Red Chilly Powder : 1/2 tsp Black Pepper Powder : 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder : 1/4 tsp Green Chillies : 3 finely chopped Mint Leaves : 1/4 Cup Coriander Leaves : 1/4 Cup Lemon Juice : 1 tsp Biriyani Masala : 1 tsp Oil : As Required (3 tbsp) Ghee : 2 tbsp Layering Onions :  2 cups sliced Cashews : 2-3 tbsp Raisins : 2-3 tbsp Mint Leaves : 1/2 cup Coriander leaves : 1/4 cup Garam Masala : 1/4 tsp Ghee : 2 tbsp Method Wash and soak the r...

AVIYAL!!!

Aviyal my ever time favorite dish. It is a mixed veggies combination. Lets learn how aviyal is prepared! Ingredients : Varieties of Vegetables Potato : 2 Elephant foot yam : 1 cup Drumstick : 1 Beans : 6 Carrot : 1 Raw Plantain : 1 Snake guard : 1 cup Green chilly : 2 Curry leaves : Few Grinding Coconut : 1 cup (grated) Garlic : 2 pods Turmeric : 1/2 tsp Jeerakam (Cumin Seeds) : 1/2 tsp Method: Wash and peel all the vegetables and cut everything in 1 and 1/2 inch length. Cook the vegetables with salt. Either cook in open pan or can cook in pressure cooker. If you are pressure cooking the vegetables, keep it for 1 Whistle, so that vegetables never mash. TIP ( Use less water ) otherwise u have to cook much to get the thickness for the gravy, meantime the veggies will get over cooked. Simultaneously grind coconut, garlic, turmeric and jeerakam coarsely using less water. Don't grind the same as fine paste. When the veggies got cooked, add this coconut past...