RECIPE OF DELICIOUS CHICKEN FRY

Ingredients :
1. 6 chicken drumsticks
2. 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
3. ½ teaspoon green chilly past
4. ½ teaspoon red chilly powder
5. 1 teaspoon coriander powder
6. ½ teaspoon garam masala( hot spice mix)
7. 1 teaspoon lemon juice
8. 1 pinch turmeric
9. oil for deep frying
10. salt and pepper to taste.

METHOD:

1. Take the chicken pieces and make slits in them on all sides. Put the chicken in a big bowl and add the ginger garlic paste, green chilly paste, red chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric, salt, pepper and sprinkle a little water.

2.Now mix it up well and let it marinate for 2 hours. Now take a frying pan and pour oil for deep frying. Fry three pieces at a time after the oil is nice and hot. Keep turning the chicken over so that all the sides get cooked evenly.

3. When it’s nice and brown remove from the stove and n the oil with some paper towels. Sprinkle the lemon juice and serve it hot.

Recipe for chicken Tikka

Ingredients :
1. 500 grams boneless chicken
2. ½ cup curd(yoghurt)
3. 1 teaspoon red chilly paste
4. 1 tablespoon lemon juice
5. 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
6. 1 teaspoon cumin powder
7. 1 teaspoon red chilly powder
8. 1 teaspoon garam masala( hot spice mix)
9. 1 tablespoon oil
10. 1 tablespoon butter and salt to taste.

METHOD:

1. Cut the boneless chicken into 1 inch pieces. Now make slits in them. Now put the pieces in a bowl. Add the red chilly powder, ½ of the lemon juice and salt to taste. Mix it all up and let it marinate for an hour.

2. Then add the curd, ginger garlic paste, red chilly paste, cumin powder, garam masala, oil and mix it up. Then let this marinate for another four hours.

3. Then roast it in a preheated oven for 15 minutes. Apply the butter and roast for another minute. Garnish with lemon juice and coriander and serve with some garlic chutney.

How to make chicken kuruma?

Ingredients:

400 grams chicken boneless
1 cup sour curd(yoghurt)
¼ cup cashew nut paste
2 cloves,
1 cardamom
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon garam masala(hot spice mix)
1 teaspoon coriander powder
1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
½ tablespoon green chilly paste
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 tablespoon ghee(clarified butter) and salt to taste.

METHOD:

1.Take a thick bottomed pan and heat the ghee. When the ghee melts and begins to boil add the cloves, crush the cardamom and put that in too.

2. Sauté briefly and add the cumin seeds. Cook till it turns golden brown and add the turmeric, gara m masala, coriander powder and sauté till the masala blends well.

3.Now put in the ginger garlic paste and green chilly paste. Sauté till the raw smell leaves and pour in the curd. Simmer and cook fro five minutes and keep stirring.

4. Now add the chicken and very little water and mix it all up. The water should be just enough to move the chicken freely. Cover the pan with a lid and cook till its half cooked. Open the lid and check by poking the chicken with a fork.

5.Add the cashew nut paste and salt to taste. The gravy mustn’t be too liquid and so don’t add water unless the gravy is too thick. Stir well and cover with a lid again. Cook for about 15 minutes. Check if the chicken is tender and then remove from flame. Garnish with fried onions and fresh cream in the centre and serve.

Making of Cream Of Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

• 4 cups milk
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons canola oil
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 2 cups finely chopped, cooked chicken meat
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Method:

1. Make a white sauce of milk or cream, flour, and oil. Add chicken. Add sugar, salt, pepper, and garlic powder (may use more or less as desired). Mix well and simmer for 20 minutes over low heat.
2. If soup is not as thick as desired, mix a small amount of cornstarch with a small amount of water and add to soup. Simmer for 10 minutes.

Simple Homemade chicken soup

Ingredients:

• 1 (3 pound) whole chicken
• 4 carrots, halved
• 4 stalks celery, halved
• 1 large onion, halved
• water to cover
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon granules (optional)

Method:

1. Put the chicken, carrots, celery and onion in a large soup pot and cover with cold water. Heat and simmer, uncovered, until the chicken meat falls off of the bones (skim off foam every so often).
2. Take everything out of the pot. Strain the broth. Pick the meat off of the bones and chop the carrots, celery and onion. Season the broth with salt, pepper and chicken bouillon to taste, if desired. Return the chicken, carrots, celery and onion to the pot, stir together, and serve.

The tasty prepration of vegetable idli

Ingredients
1. Idly rice - 1/2 kg
2. Black gram - 200 gm
3. Salt - As required
4. Carrot - One (Medium)
5. Beans - Four
6. Cauli flower - 25 gm
7. Capsicum - Half
8. Ginger - One (Small)
9. Coriander leaves - 5 gm
10. Oil - 5 gm
11. Pepper - a small spoonful

Preparation:

01. After washing rice and black gram well soak it for four hours.
02. Drain the rice and black gram, grind rice and black gram separately adding required amount of water.
03. Mix rice and black gram adding required amount of salt. Leave it to ferment.
04. Cut washed vegetables into small pieces.
05. Mix them with the batter. A a tea spoon of pepper powder.
06. Smear oil in the idli moulds and pour the batter into the mould. Cook it in steam and serve it hot.

Ona Sadhya from tasty land

Onasadhya is the most delicious part of the grand festival called Onam. It is considered to be the most elaborate and grand meal prepared by any civilisation or cultures in the world

The Meals

Rice is the essential ingredient of this Nine Course Strictly Vegetarian Meals. All together there are 11 essential dishes which have to prepared for Onasadya. Number of dishes may at times also go upto 13. Onasadya is so elaborate a meal that it is called meals, even though it is consumed in one sitting. Onasadya is consumed with hands, there is no concept of spoon or forks here.

Traditional Onam Sadya meal comprises of different varieties of curries, upperies - thigs fried in oil, pappadams which are round crisp flour paste cakes of peculiar make, uppilittathu - pickles of various kinds, chammanthi - the chutney, payasams and prathamans or puddings of various descriptions. Fruits and digestives are also part of the meal.


More About the Meal
For a better understanding of the Onasadhya meal let us now go through all the dishes in a little more detail. If that temps you too much, take a look at the recipes section and enjoy your Onam whenever you want.

Erissery
Onasadya
This is either prepared from pumpkins/red beans or from yam and raw bananas cubes. The spices used in this include split green chillies, ground coconut, cumin seeds, turmeric and red chillies. Erissery is seasoned with mustard seeds spluttered in oil. This is a main stay for the occasion, though not very popular these days.

Kalan or Pulisseri
This is prepared from buttermilk. Ingredients consist of sliced plantains called nenthra-kaya and yams or chena. These are boiled in water with salt and chillies. It is flavoured with ground coconut and mustard seeds spluttered in oil. Some even add cucumber cubes to Kalan.

Olan
Olan is prepared from sliced cucumber and brinjal. Sometimes pulse is also added. They are boiled in water with salt and no chillies. When properly boiled, some fresh coconut oil is poured. The dish is seasoned with flavour kariveppila (curry leaves).

Aviyal
This is kind of a mixed vegetable as all sorts of available vegetables are added to it. All vegetables are first boiled in water with salt and chillies. Tamarind and well ground pulp are added at proper time. Aviyal is flavoured with coconut oil and Kariveppila.

Thoran
Thoran is prepared by slicing beetroot and several other vegetables into very small pieces. These are then boiled in water witth some salt and chillies till all the water dries up. Water can also be strained away. For seasoning, ground coconut pulp and mustard fried in coconut oil is used.

Mulakoshyam
This resembles olan. It is a special Onam delicacy from the state of Kerala and has been recently added to Onam Sadhya.

Koottukari
This is a curry consisting of a variety of vegetables and some Bengal gram. It differs from Aviyal as it does not contain tamarind.

Sambar
OnasadyaThis is an extremely popular recipe from South India and relished by the whole of India. It consists of dal and a variety of vegetables like brinjal, drum-sticks, pavakkai (bitter gourd), etc. All vegetables are first boiled in water with salt and chilies. Tamarind is also added to enhance the taste. Other spices like coriander, cumin seed etc. are fried in oil and powdered. Sambhar is flavoured with mustard seeds and asafoetida.

Pachchati, Kichchati

These are types of curry consisting chiefly of cucumber, mustard and sour butter milk or curds. In Kichchatim, young and tender cucumber is added

Rasam
This lip smacking recipe is prepared from tomatoes treated with tamarind juice. It is seasoned with bay leaves and mustard seeds spluttered in oil. Some people take rasam with rice. Rasam also helps in digestion.

Payasam
This is an extremely delicious dish and is a sort of pudding. It is prepared from boiled potatoes mixed with molasses and coconut milk. The mixture is flavoured with spices. There is another type of payasam called 'Pal Payasam' in which rice is boiled with milk and sweetened with sugar.

Prathaman
There is a whole variety of Prathamans such as ata, pazham, parippu and palata prathamans.

Beverages
A special drink is prepared for Onam in which water is boiled with a combination of cumin and dried ginger (chukku). This is beneficial from health point of view.

OnasadyaUpperi or Chips
Upperi is prepared from various things like raw bananas (kaaya), yam (chena), jack fruit (chakka), bitter gourd (pavayka) and egg plant fruit (vazhuthanga). Slices of the ingredient are fried in coconut oil to a crisp condition.

Pickles (Achaar)
These are prepared well in advance of Onasadhya. Pickles are chiefly made from mango, lemon, ginger, chillies and curry naranga.

Pappads (Pappadam)
These are prepared from black grams and are fried in oil. Pappadams are usually served in three sizes - small, medium and large.