Posted on 19 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients :
- 1/ 2 kgs prawns
- 2 large size onions
- 5-6 green chilies
- 1 teaspoonschili powder
- 1/ 4 teaspoon turmeric
- Coarsely grounded black pepper powder
- Coriander leaves
- Salt to taste
Method :<
- Chop the onions and green chilies in desired size.
- Pour some oil in a pan and fry chopped onions and green chilies until brown.
- Now pour the prawns in the fried onions mixture and cook it for 5 minutes.
- Then, add black pepper powder, turmeric, salt and chili powder.
- Mix everything together and let it cook for 15 to 20 minutes on a medium flame.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice or bread.
Posted on 19 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- 1 pack of whole wheat pita bread
- 1/2 cup scallops
- 1/2 lb. shrimps (peeled and divined)
- Roasted garlic cloves (as per requirement)
- 1/2 red onion sliced
- A bunch of cilantro roughly chopped
- Minced garlic
- 1 tomato thinly sliced
- Alfredo sauce ( i got lazy so mine was store-bought)
- Butter
- Parmesan cheese
- Mozzarella shredded cheese (fresh mozzarella is definitely better)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
- Pre heat oven up to 450 degrees.
- Then put the pizza stone at the lower rack of the oven and leave it to heat (to make the pizza crispier, hotter the better)
- At this moment, also make your sauce pan heated with a dallop of butter and minced garlic and let it get sautéed for few minutes
- Then put in the shrimps and scallops. Sauté until cooked.
- Again place pan back on the stove and then pour butter to sauté red onions until it’s caramelized
- Upon caramelizing, put the pan aside
- After the stones get hot, start prepping the pitas by sprinkling some olive oil on both sides of the pitas so that they wouldn’t stick to the stones.
- Then make a layer with mozzarella cheese, alfredo sauce, onions, tomatoes, shrimps and scallops, cilantro over the pizza and again topping with more mozzarella and parmesean cheese.
- After preparation, put it carefully on the stone and bake it for 6-10 min. or when the cheese start melting and the pitas turn crispy and golden.
- Serve Hot.
Posted on 18 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- 1 lb prawns, shelled and deveined
To Grind
- 1 tbsp chilli powder
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1/4 tsp pepper powder
- 1/8 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tbsp ginger slices
- 1 tbsp garlic slices
- 1/4 cup button onions
- 3 pieces of kudampuli
- a few curry leaves
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp ginger, thinly sliced
For the seasoning
- 1 dsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 2 cups thinly sliced onions
- a few curry leaves
Method:
- Wash and soak the kudampuli in one cup of water
- Coarsely grind all the ingredients in the To Grind section.
- In a pan, mix the prawns, ground ingredients, kudampuli, ginger slices, curry leaves and salt with 1 cup of water.
- Cook covered until the prawns are soft. Uncover and cook on high till the water evaporates.
- In another pan, heat oil and splutter the mustard seeds
- Add the sliced onions and fry till translucent.
- Add the curry leaves and cooked prawns and fry well.
- Serve hot with rice.
Posted on 15 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Prawn – 1 kilo
- Red dried chilli – 125 No.s
- Jeera – 5 Table spoons
- Ginger – 2 inch pieces – 5 nos.
- Garlic – 10 whole pod
- Green chilli – 40
- Gingelly oil – 1-1/4 kilo
- Vinegar – 5 cups
- Salt – 100 gms (add more taste)
- Mustard seed – 2 table spoons
- Curry leaves – 1 Handful
- Turmeric powder – 1 table spoons
Method:
- Heat the oil and keep it in a vessel.Clean the prawns and mix with turmeric powder and salt and keep aside for 15 minutes.
- In frying pan fry the prawn using a little oil (do not deep fry) turn the slices and when it is well cooked and the water is evaporated remove the fish from the fire.
- Remove the skin from the sides of the fried fish, remove all the bones and break the fish into small pieces and keep aside.
- Clean the green chilli, keep only little bit of the stem, slit 1/2 inch, with a sharp knife on the thick part of the chilli, this is to help the chilli marinate and soak.
- Peel the garlic and keep the small flakes whole, if the flakes are too big, cut into two.Peel the ginger and cut into small pieces.
- Grind the red chilli, using vinegar.Keep aside two table spoon peeled garlic, 2 table spoon ginger to put whole along with green chilli.
- Soak them in vinegar.
- Grind ginger and garlic and jeera using vinegar.
- Heat the remaining oil in a thick bottom pan.
- When the oil is hot, add mustard seeds, add curry leaves then add the ground masala, cook till the masala is well cooked and the raw smell goes, then add green chilli, ginger and garlic soaked in vinegar, cook well and when the oil comes up, add the fish pieces and salt and cook till the fish is well cooked and mixed with the gravy.
- Then remove from fire and store in bottles or jars.
Posted on 15 June 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- Prawns – 1/2 kilo
- Onions – 3
- Green chillies – 8
- Ginger – 1 Inch piece
- Garlic – 15 small pods
- Somph – 2 Teaspoon
- Cinnamon – 1/2 Inch piece 2
- Cloves – 6
- Ghee – 200 gms
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 Teaspoon
- Coconut – 1
- Pulao rice – 1/2 kilo
- Cashewnuts – 50 gms (25)
- Pudhina (mint leaves) – 1 Large bunch
- Bay leaves – 2
- Cardamom – 3
- Salt – To taste
Method:
- Wash and clean prawns well. Mix with the turmeric powder and 1 teaspoon salt and boil for 10 minutes till well cooked remove and keep.
- Fry green chilies in 2 teaspoons of ghee.
- Then grind and keep.Crush, ginger, garlic, somph, cinnamon and cloves, using a little water and keep aside.
- Grate the coconut, extract milk to make up 1 litre of coconut milk keep aside.Clean pudhina (mint) take the leaves and keep.
- Heat a heavy bottom vessel, put the ghee, then the cinnamon leaves and cardamom, then put the cashewnuts, fry till golden brown in colour.
- Then add cut onions.
- Fry the onions for a while add ground green chillies, fry and then add the crushed masala. Fry well, add the coconut milk, salt and turmeric powder.
- Cover and let it boil.When the mixture is boiling, add well cleaned pulao rice.
- Cover and cook till rice is half cooked.Then add cooked prawns, cook on low fire and keep the vessel covered with a little hot charcoal on top.Keep stirring slowly from time to time till the pulao is done.
Posted on 16 April 2009 by Sarmila
Ingredients:
- 1/2 Kilo – Prawns
- Cut into small pieces –3 Tomatoes
- Cut into small pieces – 2Onions
- 1/2 a Teaspoon – Turmeric Powder
- 5 Tablespoon – Oil
- To taste – Salt
Grind together
- 20 – Red Chillies
- 1 inch piece 2 – Ginger
- 1/2 Coconut grated – Coconut
- 1 Teaspoon – Jeera
Method:
- Wash and clean prawns well.Heat a vessel with oil, first fry the cut onions till golden brown. Then add cut tomatoes cook well.
- Put in the ground masala and 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder. Fry well for 10 minutes till the raw smell of masala goes.Then add the cleaned prawns.
- Mix well into the masala and let it cook for a few minutes.
- Then add 1 glass of water add salt to taste and let it boil well till the prawn is well cooked.