Kongu nattu chicken curry

Ingredients Chicken - 2 lb Onion - 1 medium size Tomato - 2  medium size Ginger garlic - 1 Tbsp Curry leaves - few Coriander leaves - few Salt 1. To dry roast and grind : Red chilly - 8 Coriander seeds - 2 Tbsp Black Pepper - 1 tsp Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp Poppy seeds - 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp Cloves - 3 Cinnamon - 1 inch 2. To sauté and grind : Shallots - 8 to 10 Cocunut  - 1/2 cup grated Oil - 1 tsp 3. To temper Oil - 1 Tbsp Mustard...

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Masal vadai

Ingredients : Channa dhal  - 1 cup ( makes 10 vadai ) Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp Green chilli -2 to 3 Curry leaves - 6 Coriander leaves - chopped few Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp Salt to taste Oil for deep frying Method : 1. Soak channa dhal for 2 hours. 2. Take a 2 Tbsp of soaked channa dhal and grind the rest to a coarse paste.       Don't add water while grinding. 3. Add the rest channa dhal and grind for a second. 4....

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S'mores cupcake

Happy birthday my dear son Durgesh ! Today April 25 th is my older sons birthday. He is a big fan of S'mores. Kept asking me to make it for a long time. I wouldn't get a better time to make it. So planned to make it for his birthday. Yeah! I made it. Durgesh was super excited  When he saw it. That's what I wanted. He gave me big hug and said " Tons of hugs ". It made my day.  It is ofcourse  time consuming but worth every...

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Ven pongal

Ingredients : Raw rice - 1.5 cup Moong dhal - 1/2 cup Ginger - 1.5 tsp finely chopped Pepper - 1.5 tsp Cumin seeds - 1.5 tsp Cashews - few Green chilli - 2 finely chopped ( optional, I didn't had, so didn't use it here) Ghee - 5 Tbsp ( you can also subtitue half with oil if you are diet conscious ) Method : 1. Cook rice and moong dal and salt together with 6 cups of water in pressure cooker. 2. Fry cashews with ghee in a pan. Also fry ginger,...

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Chocolate cupcake

Ingredients : Butter - 1/2 cup unsalted at room temperature Sugar -  1 cup All purpose flour - 1 and 1/3 cup Unsweetened coco powder - 1/2 cup Egg - 2 at room temperature Baking powder - 2 tsp Boiling water - 1 cup Vanilla extract - 2 tsp Method : 1. Add coco powder in hot water and mix well and let it cool. 2. In a bowl add butter and beat until fluffy. 3. Add sugar and beat well until fluffy and creamy. 4. Add eggs one at a time...

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Cauliflower - Minced mutton thokku

Ingredients : Mutton - 1 lb minced Cauliflower - small whole flower chopped Onion - 1 big Tomatoes - 1.5 big Curry leaves - few Chili powder - 5 tsp Coriander powder - 5 tsp To grind : Onion - 1 medium size Tomatoes - 1 big Ginger - 2 inch Garlic - 10 pods Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp Method : 1. Add 1 onion, 1.5 tomato, mutton, turmeric powder, 3 tsp chili powder, 3 tsp coriander powder,     3 tsp ginger garlic paste, salt and let...

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Carrot Cupcake

Ingredients : ( makes 24 cup cake ) All purpose flour - 2 and 2/3 cup Sugar - 1 and 1/3 cup Canola oil - 1 and 1/3 cup Egg - 4 Carrot - 3 and 1/3 cup grated finely Apple -  2/3 cup grated finely Walnuts - 1 cup Vanilla extract - 1 tsp Baking soda -  2 tsp Salt - 1/2 tsp Method : 1. Slice walnuts and place it cookie tray. 2. Grate carrots and apple. 3. In a large bowl, beat eggs. Then add sugar and beat them well...

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Pineapple kesari

Ingredients : Rava - 1.5 cup Pineapple - 1 cup chopped ( leave the center ring as it is very hard ) Sugar - 1 and 3/4 cup Cashews - 1/2 cup Raisins -  few Ghee - 1/2 cup Yellow food color -  a pinch ( optional ) Water - 4.5 cup Method : 1. Dry fry rava. I feel coarse or anything other than fine rava is easy to handle. 2. Fry cashews and raisins in ghee. 3. Add 4.5 cup of water in a pan and add chopped pineapple and let it boil for...

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Milagu vada / Pepper Fritters

Milagu Vadai : Hanuman jayanthi is in few days, I thot this milagu vadai is apt post to publish. Famous for Hanuman, this vada is made into mallai/garland  and  offered to god Hanuman. I love this vadai. When I was a kid my mom used to pray to God and offer this and I will be madly expecting for this vadai. It is very crispy and can be stored for few days. Ingredients : (Makes 20 ) Urad dhal - 1 cup Pepper - 3/4 tsp crushed salt...

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Lemon rasam

Ingredients : Toor dal - 1/4 cup Ginger - 1/2 inch chopped finely Pepper - 1.5 tsp Cumin seeds  - 1 tsp Lemon - 1 Curry leaves - few Coriander leaves - few crushed Green chili - 2 slit length wise Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Tomato - 1 medium size Water 2 cup Method : 1. Soak tomato in water . Cook toor dhal with turmeric and mash it. 2. Crush tomato with hand. Crush pepper and cumin seeds . Add this to the tomato water. 3. In a pan add oil...

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Rasam powder

Ingredients : Red long chili - 4 Pepper  - 12 tsp Cumin seeds -8 tsp Corainder seeds - 4 tsp Toor dal - 4 tsp Method : 1. Dry roast each ingredients sepearetly in a pan. 2. Let them cool. 3. Grind the red chilli first and grind everything else with it into a fine powder. 4. Rasam powder is ready. This can be stored and used for upto 3 months. Note : I made thrice the quantity of the measurement given as I make it every...

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Rava kitchadi

Ingredients : Rava - 1 cup Ginger - 1 inch finely chopped Green chilli - 3 Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Onion - 1/2 big onion Peas - 1/4 cup Carrot - 1/4 cup Beans - 1/4 cup Cashews - few Curry leaves - few Coriander leaves - few chopped Cloves - 2 Cinnamon - 1 inch Bay leaves - 1 Ghee - 1 Tbsp ( optional ) Oil - 2 Tbsp Method : 1. Dry fry rava until light brown. 2. Fry cashews and keep them aside. 3. In a pan add oil and ghee....

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Chicken curry

Ingredients : Chicken - 1 lb Pearl onion - 25 Tomato - 1 Red chilli - 7 or to taste Coriander seeds - 1 Tbsp Cumin seeds - 1/2 Tbsp Cloves - 2 Cinnamon - 1 inch Curry leaves - few Ginger garlic paste - 1 Tbsp Oil - 2 Tbsp Grated cocunut - 1/4 cup Coriander leaves  - few Method : 1. In a pan dry fry red chilli, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, cloves, cinnamon. 2. Let it cool. Grind it. In the same pan add little oil, and fry curry leaves,...

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Veg Schezwan noodle

Ingredients : Capsicum - 1/2 cup Cabbage - 1 cup Carrot - 1/2 cup Garlic  - 2 pods Ginger - 1 inch Schezwan sauce - 3 Tbsp or to taste. Noodles - 1 pack - 150 gm Green onion - 2 stalk Egg - 1 ( optional ) Sesame oil - 1 tsp Vegetable oil - 2 Tbsp Method : 1. Cook the noodles in boiling water as per instruction in the pack. 2. Drain the water and run cold water so that they don't become sticky. 3. Toss it with little sesame oil. 4....

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