Tamil Samayal - Part 2

Fish Cutlet – New Method

January 18, 2010

Ingredients:
500 Kgs - Fish
1 - Onion
3 - Garlic
2 - Green Chillies
1 - Potato boiled and mashed
1/2 Cup - Peas
1 tsp - Garam masala and Pepper
Salt - To taste
2 eggs - Beaten well
Bread crumbs
Method:
Fry the fish in some oil, till slightly brown, with some salt and garam masala and keep aside. Then add some oil fry the [...]

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Asoka Halwa

December 19, 2009

Ingredients:
1/2 cup - Moong dal
2 cups - Sugar
a pinch - Orange Red Colour Powder
2 nos - Cardamom
50 gms - Cashew nuts
1/2 cup - Ghee
Method:
Cook well the moong dal and mash it. In a heavy bottomed Kadai, heat the ghee and fry cashew nuts. Add cooked moong dal, orange red color mixed in water. Stir well for sometime. Then add [...]

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Capsicum Curry

December 18, 2009

Ingredients:
1/2 Kgs - Capsicum
2 - Onions
3 - Green Chilly
1/4 tsp - Mustard Seeds
1/2 tsp - Turmeric Powder
Salt - To Taste
Curry Leaves
Oil
To Powder:
3 - Red Chilly
3/4 tsp - Urad Dal
3/4 tsp - Channa Dal
1 1/2 tsps - Coriander Seeds
1/4 Cup - Coconut
Method:
Cut Capsicum, Onion, green chilly into small pieces. Dry fry red chilly, urad dal, channa dal, coriander seeds and coconut. Grind them above. Heat the kadai add some oil, splutter mustard seeds, [...]

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Mushroom and Peas Pulao

December 17, 2009

Ingredients:
2 cups - To fry the Rice
4 cups - Water
1/4 Cup - Green peas
1/2 cup - Mushrooms
5 - Cashewnuts
4 - Green Chillies
1/2 tsp – Garam Masala
1 small bundle - Corriander leaves
handful of fresh - Mint leaves
1/2 tsp - Ginger Paste
1/2 tsp - Garlic paste
Salt - To Taste
Onions Chopped - 2
4tsp - Ghee and Oil
Method:
Grind coriander leaves, mint leaves, green chillies, together with a little water. Keep aside. Fry onions till golden brown colour, add garam masala [...]

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Chettinad milagu chicken-pepper chicken

December 15, 2009

Ingredients:
500 Kgs. - Chicken
2 - Onion
2 - Tomato
1/2 tsp - Cumin Seeds
1/2 tsp - Fennel
3 tbs - Ginger-Garlic Paste
pepper - 10-ground alongwith the Ginger, Garlic Paste
1/2 tsp - Turmeric Powder
1 tsp - Garam Masala Powder
4 tbsp - Curd
4 tbsp - Lime Juice
salt - To Taste
Coriander leaves
Curry leaves
Oil
Method:
Add ginger,garlic,peppercorn paste, curd,turmeric,lime juice to the chicken pieces and marinate for half an hour. Heat oil in a kadai fennel with curry leaves, cumin. Now add the [...]

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Peerkangai or Ridgegourd Kootu

December 14, 2009

Ingredients:
250 gms - Peerkangai or Ridgegourd
1 - Onion
1 - Tomato
5 - Green chillies
1 Cup - Boiled Moong Dal
1/2 Cup - coconut
1/1/2 tsp - Cumin seeds
Salt - To Taste
Method:
Wash and cook moong dal with enough water and turmeric. You can either steam cook it or boil it. Next grind coconut and cumin with some water to a fine paste. Meanwhile scrap out the skin off the ridgegourd. Cut [...]

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Fish Chilly Fry

December 13, 2009

Ingredients:
500 gms - Fish
3 tsp - Red chilly Powder
1 tsp - Turmeric Powder
1/4 cup – Grated Coconut
1 tsp - Fennel Seeds
1 - Small Onion
Salt – To Taste
Oil for frying
Method:
Clean the fish pieces well and keep aside. Crush the fennel seeds and keep aside. Grind the coconut, onions in to a fine paste and keep aside. Put the fish pieces in a bowl, add the [...]

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Chettinadu Chicken Kulambu

December 12, 2009

Ingredients:
Masala Powder:
5 nos - Red Chilly
2 tsp - Coriander Seeds
1 tsp - Pepper
1 tsp - Cumin Seeds
1/2 tsp - Fennel Seeds
1 tsp - Poppy Seeds
1 tsp - Raw rice
1/2 Inch - Cinnamon stick
2 nos - Cloves
1 no - Cardamon
1 tsp - Split roasted grams-pottukadalai
1 tsp - Dry coconut
Kulambu:
1 Kgs - Chicken
2 nos - Onions-finely chopped
1 no - Tomato-chopped
1 no - Green chilly
4 clove - Garlic-crushed
1 inch - Ginger-crushed
1/2 tsp - Turmeric powder
1 tsp [...]

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Carrot Pachadi

December 11, 2009

Ingredients:
1 cup - Grated Carrot
1 - Chopped Onion
2 - Chopped Green Chilly
1 tsp - Grated Ginger
1/2 tsp - Mustard Seeds
1/2 tsp - Cumin Seeds
1/4 tsp - Turmeric Powder
1 tbsp - Ghee
salt - To taste
2 tsp - coriander leaves
2 tsp - Coconut
Pinch of Asafoetida
Small curry leaves
Method:
Heat pan ghee in a skillet.Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds,
asafoetida, curry leaves. Now add the chopped green chillis, grated ginger and onions. Fry for [...]