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Fried chicken kebab(kabab) recipe

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fried chicken kebab recipe

Learn how to make Chicken fried kebab .Chicken kabab is a non veg dish which is very tasteful with any dish.Here you can see the step by step method to cook..

Ingredients for Chicken Kebab :-

  • Chicken – 8 pieces (size according to your wish)
  • Oil as needed
  • Maida – 2 tablespoon
  • Egg – 1
  • Ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp
  • Chilli powder – 1 tablespoon
  • Garam masala – 1 tsp
  • coriander powder – 1 tsp
  • Green chilli – chopped (3 nos)
  • Onion – chopped (medium size )
  • pepper powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • if you need you can add colour (1/4 tsp) . I didnt used it.

 

How to make fried chicken kebab recipe:-

1.   Wash the chicken pieces neatly and nicely… keep it aside…

2.   Break the egg in a container and stir it properly with spoon..

3.   Then add to it maida, chilli powder, coriander powder, ginger    garlic paste, garam masala, pepper powder. Mix it well…

4.   If paste is too thick add water and mix… dont make it too thick and too loose.. and add needed salt. Mix well..

5.   Add chicken pieces to it and mix well until the paste is properly coated on the chicken pieces.. keep it aside for minimum 1 hr.

6.   Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan and then deep fry the pieces until it gets the colour in the picture..

7.   After that keep it aside in a paper or tissue paper to drain the oil.. after that place it in the plate and sprinkle cutted green chilli

and onions over it… fried chicken kebab is ready… 🙂

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Maida Dosa Recipe , How to Make Maida Dosa Recipe | Dosa Recipes

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Learn how to make Delicious Maida Dosa Recipe | Dosa Recipes. Just spend your 10mins to cook the tasty indian special maida dosa with step by step photos and ingredients.Its a very simple dish which you can make for evening tea.. Easy to cook and it is delicious…

Maida Dosa
Maida Dosa

 

Ingredients for maida dosa recipe

* Maida – 2 cup
* Onion – nicely chopped 1
* Green chilli – nicely chopped 4
* Curry leaves – few
* Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
* chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
* Salt to taste
* Water – 3/4 cup

How to make  :-

Maida Dosa
Maida Dosa

1) Make a batter of maida using water. It should not be too thick and not too loose. Add onions, green chilli, curry leaves, turmeric powder, chilli powder to the batter and mix well… Add needed salt by tasting it..

2) Heat a pan. Then take a cotton cloth or paper then dip it in oil and rub the surface of the pan.. Then take the batter pour little then twist the pan… cook both sides… serve hot…
you can eat this along with sugar, chutney, sauce anything…

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CAULIFLOWER FRY

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                                  Its a tasty dish and easy to make… It makes us feel slight like non veg dishes…

cauliflower fry

Ingredients for cauliflower fry

  • Cauliflower – 1 (medium sized)
  • Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
  • Maida – 1/2 cup
  • Chilli powder – 2 tsp
  • Pepper powder – 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil
cauliflower fry

How to make cauliflower fry

1.   Cut the cauliflower into small pieces and cook it in water along with salt and turmeric.. when water boils         you can switch off it… keep it for 10 to 15mins covered and then drain the water….
 
2.   Take this cooked cauliflower in a wide bottomed vessel and mix well with maida, chilli powder, pepper          powder and salt if needed…. and keep this mixture for minimum 15 min…
 
3.   Heat oil in a pan and fry this in medium flame until it becomes golden brown in colour…
      Now dish is ready…. 🙂
 

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CHAKKA PAYASAM

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                                          Chakka payasam is also called chakka pradaman in kerala… Its a traditional and very popular dish… For every festivals like onam, vishu etc we usually make this… Its quite easy to make…
Chakka payasam is made by using chakka varattiyath…

CHAKKA PAYASAM

Ingredients for Chakka Payasam

  • Chakka varattiyathu – 4 tbsp
  • Jaggery –  4
  • Coconut milk – 1/2 cup
  • Coconut – 1/2 cup (chopped)
  • Ghee – 2tbsp
  • Water – 1 cup
CHAKKA PAYASAM

Method

   1.   Put jaggery in a saucepan and add 1/4 cup of water and allow it to melt… filter it and keep                            aside…
 
   2.   Fry the chopped coconut pieces and keep aside… also fry the raisins and keep aside.. (don’t put both            together)
 
   3.   Mix chakka varattiyathu, coconut milk, and 3/4 cup of water well  in a beaker..(if you need you can              use your hands or blender)
 
   4.   Heat the jaggery paste that we keep aside in a wide bottomed pan… boil it until it become a thick                  paste… stir well…
 
   5.   Then add the mixture of chakka varattiyathu, coconut milk and water to the pan… mix it well and allow           to boil… stir continuously… ( determine the consistency you need and add water according to that…)
 
   6.   When it boil keep it in stove for 3 min in low flame… 
          Then add the fried coconut pieces and raisins to it and mix well….   
          Stir well and serve once it is cool….
 

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KURUKKU KALAN

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                                         This dish is an important part of sadya/ feast. No kerala feast is complete without kalan. Its also called katti kalan. Its a thick gravy dish… Its a delicious dish.. try this..

KURUKKU KALAN

Ingredients for Kurukku kalan

  • Raw banana – 1
  • Chena / elephant foot yam – Sliced 1/2 cup
  • Curd – 1/2 L (beaten, do not add water , must be sour)
  • Turmeric powder – 1 1/2 tsp
  • Pepper powder – 1 1/2 tsp
  • Roasted fenugreek seeds (powdered) – 1/2 tsp
  • Grated coconut – 1 cup
  • Green chilli – 4
  • Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
  • Mustard seeds – few
  • Red chilli – 2
  • Curry leaves – few
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil



KURUKKU KALAN

Method

  1.   Remove the skin and cut the vegetables into thick cube pieces…
 
   2.   Make a thick paste of grated coconut, cumin seeds and green chillies and keep aside…
 
   3.   Cook the vegetables along with turmeric powder, little pepper powder and water.. Do not over                   cook the vegetables..
 
   4.   Allow it to dry and then add curd and salt and mix well in low flame by stirring it continuously and                  allow it to dry…. Make sure not to add salt to vegetables until they are completely cooked…
         When it cools it thickens further so decide the consistency….
 
   5.   Add the thick paste we already made to it and mix well.. if you need you can add little more curd                 according to the sour taste you need ,then add the pepper powder and salt and mix well and cook it for         5 mins…. Switch of the flame.. Add the fenugreek powder and mix well….
 
   6.   Heat oil in a pan and splutter the mustard seeds and fry the red chillies and curry leaves along with it              and add to kalan… Mix well…
         Dish is ready… Serve hot….

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South indian AVIYAL

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                                      Aviyal is a mixed vegetable dish common in south india…  This dish contains most of all the vegetables, so a nutrient food too… It is also an unavoidable dish in sadya or feast.. it is generally eaten with rice..

south indian aviyal

Ingredients for south indian aviyal

 

  • Drumsticks / Moringa – 3
  • Carrot – 3
  • Beans – 8
  • Elephant yam / Chena – 100 gm
  • Raw plantain – 1
  • Lobia / payar – 8
  • Turmeric powder – 1tsp
  • Grated fresh coconut  – 1½ cup
  • Green chillies – 5 sliced
  • Curds – 1 cup (lightly sour)
  • Salt to taste
  • Curry leaves – few
  • Oil

 

south indian aviyal

 

How to make Aviyal-step by step instruction

   1.   Wash the vegetables and slice it lengthwise in to small pieces (as the length of our little finger)…
 
   2.   In a wide bottomed pan cook the vegetables with 1 and 1/2 cup of water, enough salt and turmeric                powder…
 
   3.   Make a paste of grated coconut and greenchilli..
 
   4.   Add this paste to the cooked vegetables and stir well… boil it… 
 
   5.   When most of the water evaporated add the curd and warm it ( donot allow to boil ) continue stirring..
         Then switch off the flame… add coconut oil and curry leaves and mix well…
         Serve hot….   
 
     Notes:
 
               If you need you can add bitter guard too… add you can also use mango or tamarind instead of                      curd….
         

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RAVA UPMA

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                                  There are different types of upma, among them the most common one is rava upma with semolina which is usually called rava or suji in India… Its a usual breakfast of south India.. Its very easy to make and also very tasty…..

RAVA UPMA

Ingredients

  • Rava – 1 cup
  • Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
  • Ginger – 1 tsp
  • Green chilli – 2 nos sliced
  • Onion – 1 sliced (if you are using shallots then take 6 nos)
  • Curry leaves – few
  • Grated coconut – 1/2 cup
  • Oil
  • Salt to taste
RAVA UPMA

Method

   1.   Heat oil in a pan and put the rava and stir well… roast it until it becomes golden brown in colour…
         Keep aside….
 
   2.   In a wide bottomed pan heat oil and splutter the mustard seeds then add curry leaves, ginger sliced,              onion sliced, green chilli sliced and slaute for 2 min….
 
   3.   Add Water and enough salt and let it to boil….
 
   4.   Then add the rava and mix quickly in medium flame… don’t allow to form lumps… also check the salt..
 
   5.   When all the water is absorbed its done… switch off the flame…
          Put the grated coconut and mix well…..
          Serve hot with pappad….
 
         Notes:-
                 1.    If you need you can add chopped vegetables while adding water… 
                        ie  sliced beans, carrot, tomato, capsicum etc….
                 2.    if you need you can add cumin at the time of slightly frying onions, green chillies etc… 1 tsp is                         enough….

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SEMIYA PAYASAM

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                                 Semiya payasam is my favorite.. Its delicious and also easy to make.. try this…

semiya payasam

Ingredients for semiya payasam

  • Semiya / Vermicelli – 1 packet
  • Sugar – 1 cup
  • Milk – 1 L
  • Ghee – 2 tsp
  • Cashew nuts – few
  • Raisins – few 
  • Elakya – few
  • Water – 1 cup
semiya payasam

Method

   1.   Heat ghee in a pan and fry the cashew nuts, raisins until it becomes golden brown in colour…. keep it             aside…
 
   2.   Heat ghee again in pan and fry the semiya / vermicelli until it becomes golden brown slightly….stir it                continuously until done.. Then keep it aside…
 
   3.   Boil the milk along with water in low flame…. then add semiya or vermicelli and stir continuously…
         cook semiya until it becomes soft…..
 
   4.   Powder the elakya and add it along with sugar… stir well continuously for 5 mins….
 
   5.   Add the fried cashew nuts and raisins and switch off the flame and mix it well….
         Semiya payasam is ready….
 
 
        Notes: while cooling , the payasam becomes thicker so add little more than the consistency you need… 

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RAW BANANA FRITTERS

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                                        Raw banana fritters is a common south Indian tea time snack… Its very easy to make…. Try this… Its called kaya bajji, vazhakya bajji etc…

 

Ingredients for Raw-banana-fritters

 

  • Raw banana/ plantain – 2
  • Chickpea flour – 2 cup
  • Chilli powder – 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Water – 3/4 to 1 cup
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil

How to make raw-banana-fritters

   1.   Cut the plantain into long pieces after removing its skin… and dip it in cold water….
 
   2.   Mix chickpea flour, chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt to taste…  by adding water little by                little and stirring , make a thick sticky batter….
 
   3.   Heat oil in a pan and dip each plantain pieces in the batter and fry it…. 
         Fry both sides until it becomes golden brown in colour….
         Serve hot…..
 
         Notes:
              1.   If you need you can add curd , asafoetida powder to this batter….
 
              2. You can also add maida…

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STEAMED JACKFRUIT DUMPLINGS / CHAKKA APPAM

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                                          Chakk appam or chakka varatti appam is making from chakka varattiyathu          ( Jack fruit jam)…. Its a delicious snack.. we can make it for teatime… 

CHAKKA APPAM

Ingredients for chakka appam

  • Ripe jackfruit 
  • Jaggery  (optional)
  • Water – 1 cup
  • Ghee – 1 cup
  • Rice flour – 1 cup (for 2 cup of chakka varattiyathu)
  • Coconut pieces ( small )
  • Salt a pinch
  • Banana leaves few

 

Method

   1.   First of all we have to make chakka varattiyathu.. for that cut the jack fruit and deseed it….
 
   2.   Cook it in less water.. Steam cooking is the better way…
 
   3.   Heat ghee in a wide bottomed pan or uruli.. and transfer the cooked jack fruit to it and stir                            continuously and allow all the water to vapourise…
 
   4.   If you need more sweetness then you can add jaggery to it by melting it…
 
   5.   Add ghee little by little and stir well continuously in medium flame until you get a dark brown thick                  paste…
 
   6.   Switch off the flame and allow it to cool…

CHAKKA APPAM

          Now chakka varattiyathu is ready….. 🙂
 
   7.   After cooling, take 2 cup of  chakka varattiyathu and add rice flour little by little and mix well….
 
   8.   Add a pinch of salt and the coconut pieces and mix well and make a smooth, not too thick not too                 loose dough…
 
   9.   Take the banana leaf , cut it into pieces and hold it over the flame and warm it.. 
 
   10. Then take each pieces of banana leaf and put some paste in it and tie it on both sides as in the image…
 
   11.  Steam cook until its done, approximately 35 to 45 mins….
 

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