Posted on 09 August 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Fish – 1/2 lb
- All purpose flour( Maida ) – 2 tsp
- Grated red onion – 4 tsp
- Grated garlic – 2 tsp
- Ginger – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1/2 tsp
- Red chilly powder – 2 pinches
- Pepper – 1/2 tsp
- Oil to fry
Method:
- Clean fish and boil with some water.
- When the fish is half cooked, drain the water.
- Remove bones & mix well with all the ingredients.
- Make small balls like cutlets.
- Fry them.
Posted on 09 August 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients :
- 1 1/2 lb boneless Mutton
- 2 spring onions
- 1 green bell pepper
- 1 tbsp garlic,finely chopped
- Chili sauce
- Soya sauce
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- Pinch of ajinomoto
- Oil for frying
Method :
- Make cubes of the boneless mutton.
- Take corn flour and soy sauce and mix it a bowl with the mutton cubes.
- Fry it in hot oil. Remove the mutton from the pan and sprinkle some corn flour over it and fry them again.
- Take a separate pan with some oil and heat it.
- Add chopped spring onions and capsicum and fry. Add the fried mutton cubes to it and mix well.
- Add chili sauce, soya sauce and a pinch of ajinomoto and mix well. Serve hot .
Posted on 08 August 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Fish(Karimeen/Promphret/Chanad) 1/2 Kg
- Green chillies – 5 nos
- Onion – 1 no
- Tomato – 1 no
- Ginger paste – 1/2 tsp
- Garlic paste – 1/2 tsp
- Curry leaves – A few
- Tamarind(Puli) paste – 2 tsp
- Chilly powder – 1 1/2 tsp
- Coriander powder – 2 tsp
- Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
- Pepper powder – 2 tsp
- Salt – As reqd
- Coconut oil – 3 tsp
Method:
- Heat oil in a pan or a kadai.
- Add green chilly paste followed by grated onion, tomato, ginger paste, garlic paste, curry leaves, tamarind paste, chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and pepper powder.
- Saute well till onion and tomato blends well.
- Add salt and mix well.
- Add 1 1/2 cups of boiled water and allow it to boil.
- Allow it to boil for 2 – 3 mins.
- Add fish and cook for 5 mins.
- Top it with 1 tsp of coconut oil.
- Serve Hot with Rice.
Posted on 07 August 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Crab – 1 kg
- Ginger – 1 big piece Chopped
- Green chillies – 4 nos
- Curry leaves – A few
- Grated coconut – 2 cups
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
- Chilli powder – 2 tsp
- Coriander powder – 1 tsp
- Pepper powder – 1 tsp
- Garam masala – 1 tsp
- Coconut oil – 2 tbsp
- Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
- Curry leaves – A few
- Dry red chillies – 3 nos
- Salt – As reqd
Method:
- Clean the crab by removing the legs and outer shell and remove all the other dirts and wash it well.
- Cut it into two pieces (2 halves).
- Roast turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and pepper powder together in a pan without oil.
- Mix the roasted masala with grated coconut.
- Mix it well with hand for a better results.
- Add ginger, chopped green chillies and curry leaves to this
- coconut mixture and again mix it
- with hand.
- Cook the crab pieces in a pan ( chatti is best) with little water, salt and little turmeric powder.
- When the crab is cooked, add the coconut mixture along with garam masala and mix it well.
- Cover it with a lid and cook until the dish is dry.
- Because it is a `thoran` it should be dry.
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Splutter mustard seeds and saute curry leaves and red chillies and pour it over the dish.
- Serve hot.
Posted on 06 August 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- 2 lbs of fish (any large variety you like)
- 1 tbsp of ginger paste
- 1 tbsp of garlic paste
- Salt/pepper to taste
- 2 tbsp of lemon juice
- 2 tbsp of red chilli powder
- ½ cup of all purpose flour
- 2 tbsp soya sauce
- Oil to deep fry
Method:
- Clean the fish and cut into fingers.
- Marinate the fish fingers in a mixture of ginger-garlic paste, salt,pepper and lemon juice for half an hour.
- Mix red chilli powder,soyasauce ,pepper, salt and all purpose flour.
- Remove the fish fingers from the first marinate and roll them in seasoned red chilli and flour mixture.
- Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry in hot oil till crisp and done.
- Remove onto an absorbent paper to remove excess oil and Serve hot with your favorite chutney.
Posted on 31 July 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Red onion – 1/2 of one or Shallots
- Dried anchovies( Nethili) – 1 cup
- Garlic pod – 1 no
- Shallots – 4 nos
- Dried chillies – 10 nos
- Garam Masala 2 tbsp
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- Sugar – 1 tbsp
Method:
- Rinse the dried anchovies and drain the water.
- Fry the anchovies until they turn light brown and put aside.
- Pound the garam masala together with shallots, garlic, and deseeded dried chilies with a mortar and pestle.
- Slice the red onion into rings.
- Soak the tamarind pulp in water for 15 minutes.
- Squeeze the tamarind constantly to extract the flavor into the water.
- Drain the pulp and save the tamarind juice.
- Heat some oil in a pan and fry the spice paste until fragrant.
- Add in the onion rings.
- Add in the fish and stir well.
- Add tamarind juice, salt, and sugar.
- Simmer on low heat until the gravy thickens.
- Serve hot with rice.