Nadan Chicken Pepper Fry

 Nadan Chicken Pepper Fry

Ingredients

Chicken ( Boneless ) ~ 1/2 kg
Garlic ~ 7-8 garlic cloves (Peeled and crushed )
Ginger ~ 2 medium sized pieces ( Peeled and crushed )
Green chillies ~ 4-5 nos (Chopped )
Shallots / Kochu ulli ~ 15 nos ( Finely chopped )
Tomato ~ 2 nos ( Medium sized , chop and grind it to a paste using a mixer grinder )
Turmeric powder ~ 1/2 tsp
Black pepper powder ~ 3 tsp
Lemon juice ~ 3/4 tbsp
Home - made garam masala ~ 1/2 tsp
Grated coconut ~ 1/2 cup
Coriander powder ~ 2 tsp
Curry leaves ~ 2 stems
Salt to taste
Coconut oil / Regular vegetable oil

Method

First clean the chicken pieces and cut it to medium sized pieces and then drain it nicely. Next marinate the chicken pieces with 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp pepper powder, 3/4 tbsp lemon juice and little salt and refrigerate it for about 30 minutes.

Then heat oil, preferably in a non-stick pan and add mustard seeds and when it pops up, add curry leaves followed by crushed ginger and garlic and fry for 2-3 minutes. Next add finely chopped shallots and green chillies and saute till shallots become transparent and in a very low flame, add 2 tsp coriander powder, 1/4 tsp turmeric powder and fry for less than a minute. Then add ground tomato paste along with 2-3 tbsps of water and cook till the tomatoes are nicely cooked and until almost all water is evaporated.

Next add marinated chicken pieces along with enough salt and mix it nicely and cook covered for around 20 minutes without adding water. Then cook uncovered for another 10-15 minutes and then add 2 1/2 tsp black pepper powder, 1/2 tsp of garam masala, grated coconut and 1 stem of curry leaves and mix it nicely and then keep it in a low flame till the chicken pieces becomes dry and slightly brown in color and at this point you can add 1-2 tbsps of oil. Do stir in between in order to avoid the chicken from sticking to the bottom of the pan.

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Orange Pudding

Orange Pudding

Ingredients

3 oranges
1 1/4 pints milk
1 1/2 oz cornflour
1 oz butter
3 oz sugar
2 eggs
pinch of salt

How to make orange pudding:

Peel the oranges, cut in pieces and place in a buttered dish.
Mix cornflour with a little of the milk.
Boil remainder of milk, add to the cornflour paste and cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add the butter and a pinch of salt.
Sprinkle a little sugar over the oranges.
Mix the rest of the sugar with the yolks of the eggs, and add to the milk and cornflour mixture.
Stir for a minute or two longer over the fire without boiling.
Pour over the oranges and bake for 10 minutes.
Beat the egg whites stiffly, fold in a little castor sugar, pie on top and return to cool oven for abut 10 minutes, to set and tinge a very pale brown.

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Oottada

Oottada

Ingredients

Roasted rice flour or whole wheat flour - 2 cups
Salt - To taste
Grated coconut - 1/2 - 3/4 cup or as required
Water - As required

Method

Place the flour and salt in a large bowl. Make a very thick batter by adding water little by little. Taste-check for salt. Flatten the batter on a rectangular banana leaf using your finger tips or using the back of a thavi/ spoon. Top it with some grated coconut. Fold the banana leaf in half. Repeat until the batter is finished.

Heat a tawa. Roast the prepared banana leaf ottadas, on both sides at medium heat, until the banana leaves are browned as you see in the above picture. Serve immediately.

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Mathi Nellikka Varattiyathu

Mathi Nellikka Varattiyathu (Goosberry Sardine)

Ingredients:

Medium sized sardines- 6nos (1/2 kg) cleaned
Nellikka (gooseberry)- 3nos Big
Pepper powder - 1tbsp
Garlic (veluthulli)- 6cloves
Ginger(inchi)- 1/2 inch piece
Fenugreek(uluva)- 1tsp
Coconut oil- 2tbsp
Curry Leaves- 2spring
Water- 1cup
Salt- to taste

Preparation:

1. Remove the seed from gooseberry.
2. Grind the gooseberry with pepper powder, ginger and garlic to make a paste.
3. Heat the oil in a pan preferably earthenware(currychatti). Add fenugreek and when it turns golden, add the grinded mix and saute until the raw smell disappears in low flame.
4. Add the curry leaves and water and salt to taste and simmer for 5 minutes to boil.
5. Now add the sardines and cook on low flame till the gravy thickens or dries as preferred. Shake the pan occasionally to avoid the fish sticking the bottom.

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Vegetable Fried Rice

Vegetable Fried Rice

Ingredients

1. basmati rice - 2 glasses
2. carrot grated- 1 cup
3. beans sliced thin and long -1cup
4. capsicum sliced thin and long- 1cup
5. celery sliced round - 1 cup
6. spring onion cut round and thin.
7. Soya sauce- 3tsp
8. Salt as required

Method

Soak basmati rice in salt water for 5 minutes and drain. Fry this in ghee for half an hour on low flame (or keep in Micro wave for 20 minutes and fry in ghee for 10 minutes) . Add 4 glasses of boiled water and salt to taste. Boil it on low flame till the water goes off. Close the lid and keep for 15 minutes. After that open the lid and let it cool.

Fry all vegetables in ghee in the respective order(from 2 to 5). Add 3 teaspoons of Soya sauce and a little salt.(Since Soya sauce is salty, you have to be careful while adding salt.) Heat up a pan and put a spoon of Ghee, add one portion of rice, one portion of fried vegetables and one portion of spring onion. Fry for 8 minutes. Repeat this till the whole rice and vegetables are done. Mix all well and serve hot with curry.

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Malabar Mutton Curry

Malabar Mutton Curry

Ingredients 
1 lb(500g) of mutton
1 large onion
2 tomatoes
4-5 pods of garlic
1 inch piece of ginger
2-3 green chillies
Coriander leavse/curry leaves as required.
2 tsp red chilli powder
2 tsp turmeric powder
Salt - as required
1/4 Coconut milk(optional)
Gharam Masala as required

To Grind

1/2 cup fresh or roasted coconut
2 tbsp coriander seeds(or 1 tbsp of coriander powder)
2 tsp black pepper seeds
1-2 dried red chillies

Directions
Marinate the mutton pieces with red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt for 30 minutes. Pressure cook the mutton up to 3 whistles with sliced onions and tomatoes. Roast fresh coconut with coriander seeds, dried red chilli and black pepper seeds until it turns golden brown. Let it cool and grind with water to a smooth paste. Add this to the cooked mutton and bring to a boil add crushed garlic, ginger, green chillies and a pinch of Garam Masala. Cook at low temperature for 10-15 minutes. Adjust the hotness and consistency with coconut milk. Garnish with curry leaves and coriander leaves.

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Ilayada

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 1 cup
Salt - to taste
Butter - 1 tbsp
Jaggery - 1/2 cups
Shredded coconut - 1/2 cup

Directions:

Mix rice flour together with salt and butter. Add hot water and make smooth dough. Heat jaggery and coconut together in a pan. Make small balls out of the dough and spread it on the plantain leaf. In it place a spoon of jaggery and coconut mixture and then fold it by sealing the edges. Now steam this ada in an idli cooker.

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Kannur Inji curry

Kannur Inji curry (കണ്ണൂര്‍ ഇഞ്ചി കറി)

Ingredients

1/4 cup ginger pieces
1/2 cup grated fresh coconut
2 small green chillies,chopped
2 tsp mustard seeds
curry leaves
3/4 cup thick buttermilk
1 -2 dry red chillies
2 tsp grated coconut to garnish

Directions

Grind together the ingredients 1 to 4 into a coarse paste adding little water. Pour buttermilk into this ground paste.Splutter mustard, dry red chillies, grated coconuts and curry leaves in oil and garnish, add salt according to your taste.

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Naranga Curry/Sweet And Tangy Lemon Curry

Naranga Curry/Sweet And Tangy Lemon Curry

Ingredients

1 cup chopped lemon
2 tsp sesame oil
1/2 cup tamarind water
1 cup water
asafoetida, a pinch
1/4 tsp fenugreek powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp chilli powder
2 tbs jaggeri
salt, as needed
2 dry red chilli
curry leaves, few
1 tsp coconut oil

Directions

Heat sesame oil in a pan. Add chopped lemon and cook till lemon pieces get soft. Add chilli powder, turmeric powder, fenugreek powder, asafoetida and tamarind water, keep stirring. Add water combine well and cook covered. When it boils add jaggeri powder and mix well. Cook few more minutes till gravy thickens. Turn off the heat. Heat oil in another pan, splutter mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chillies. Pour this into lemon curry . Serve with rice.

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Kozhikkodan Pista Halwa

Kozhikkodan Pista Halwa (കോഴിക്കോടന്‍ പിസ്ത ഹല്‍വ)

Ingredients

1.5 Cup all purpose flour
4 cups of water
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup Coconut oil (Substitute with vegetable oil)
few drops of green food color
1/4 cup Pista, lightly crushed
2-3 cardamom,crushed

Preparation

Mix all purpose flour with water to make a thin batter(Looks like milk,little bit thicker though). Add food color. Heat this mixture in a thick bottomed vessel with continued stirring. 

Add sugar, when the mixture thickens. Continue stirring. When the mixture thickens again, add the cardamom powder, pista and start adding the oil, 1 tbsp at a time,continue stirring until halwa separate from the vessel, add more oil if required. Transfer to a greased pan and cut into pieces after cooling down.

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Kozhikkodan Halwa

Kozhikkodan Halwa (കോഴിക്കോടന്‍ ഹല്‍വ) 

Ingredients

2 cups of all purpose flour
4 cup of sugar
1 cup water
1 tsp cardamom seeds, crushed.
1.5 liter coconut oil(or vegetable oil)
dry coconut slices(optional)

Directions

Mix the flour with 8 cups of water and leave it covered for a day. Remove the water from top and add make up the water again and leave it for one more day. Flour will start to ferment by this time. You may keep it refrigerated on the second day to prevent over fermentation.

Remove the water form top and filter out any lumpy portions from the flour paste. Heat the oil to 350 degrees and keep it aside. Boil the sugar with 1 cup of water and add the flour paste and cardamom seeds. Stir everything together and add the hot oil. Stir continuously on medium/high heat until the halwa separates from oil and starts to sticks together. Continue stirring for two more minutes and transfer to a greased pan and add the coconut slices. Cool down and cut into desired size.

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