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Sweet and Spicy Garlic chicken Drumsticks

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Sweetandspicychicken-13It is a great addition to our Halloween table or even for a game day. It’s loaded with garlic, sweet and heat. Spicy, crispy, sweet with ginger and garlic flavor.

Tomorrow is Halloween day and I wanted to do something dark, bloody and scary. I can imagine that you already started to plan menu for the party. But wait a minute, I can do it 😉 but I don’t think I will eat them. So I wanted to do something nice and change the name of it rather than the boring name! For instance devilishly hot chicken, bloody bad chicken, spooky spicy chicken, toasted witch skin 😉 and so on!

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This taste loads better than it looks. This one is so easy to prepare and you can prepare in bunches and they are so inexpensive to buy. There are so many recipes with chicken drumsticks. You can make sticky lime chicken drumsticks, orange chicken drumsticks, tandoori chicken and so on…Na na! Not on a Halloween day. So, I planned to do this.

The secret to super moist and tasty tender chicken is to brine the meat first with buttermilk and I have heard even whey is a very good option.  I did not brine this time, and still it is good.  Truly finger licking chicken, and also one of those dishes that don’t require too much standing nor spending time in the kitchen.

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Sweet and Spicy Garlic chicken Drumsticks
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Recipe type: Appetizer
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Serves: 4 drumsticks
 
Ingredients
  • Chicken Drumsticks – 4
  • Buttermilk – ½ cup
  • Breadcrumbs – ½ cup
  • Cornmeal – 2 tsp
  • Olive oil – 2 tsp
  • Flour – ¼ cup
  • Dried oregano – 1 tbsp
  • Salt – 1tbsp
  • Black pepper – 1 tsp
  • Paprika – 1 tsp
    Sauce:
  • Garlic cloves – 2, crushed
  • Ginger – 1 inch, crushed
  • Soy sauce – ½ cup
  • Lemon juice – 2 tbsp
  • Lemon zest – 1 tsp
  • Brown sugar – 1 tbsp
  • Honey – 2 tbsp
  • salt - 1 tsp
  • Chilli sauce – 2 tbsp
  • Chilli flakes - 2 tsp
  • Coriander leaves to garnish
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil and place a metal cooling rack on top if you have one, it can work without, too.
  2. Take a drumstick and make few deep cuts in each drumstick.Keep buttermilk in one bowl. Soak the chicken in the buttermilk.
  3. Take another bowl and mix the breadcrumbs, cornmeal, olive oil, paprika, oregano, salt and pepper. Remove the chicken one piece at a time, let the buttermilk drip off and gently press into this breadcrumb mixture.
  4. Place the chicken on the baking sheet and bake for ten minutes. After ten minutes, flip it to the other side and bake for 10 minutes.
  5. Meanwhile when the chicken bakes, mix all the ingredients nicely. Put the sauce in a skillet over medium low heat and let it simmer for a while.
  6. When the chicken is done, dip each piece in the sauce and return to the baking sheet. And bake for 5 minutes.
  7. Finally re-dip in that sauce and rest for two minutes and serve straight away with the garnish.
Notes
If you do not have buttermilk, you can use milk with spoonful of vinegar
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Saag Aloo Capsicum / Spinach Potato Pepper

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Indian spiced potatoes with spinach and capsicum — a perfect side dish.

There are many ways of making aloo palak or potato spinach recipe and here is my favourite version from my kitchen. This is a dry version and this curry ought not be too soupy, as you want the potatoes to absorb all the flavors in the dish. The potatoes should be juicy from the spinach flavors but not mushy. Saag means spinach and aloo means potato. Saag is a term also used to describe other greens, such as mustard leaves. Capsicum is optional here and I just wanted to add it for more flavors.

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This will take some time but you don’t have any job in the kitchen, just simmer the spinach to the point where there is moisture left in the pan for the consistency that you find is signature to this dish. The thought of cooking curry from scratch probably scares many of us, but it’s really easy when you know the flavor combinations of the different spices. For instance, spinach goes really well with potato. And potato goes great with bell pepper. Saag aloo isn’t tricky to make at the best of times. You just need one pan and one spoon to make this and you may as well have cooked the whole meal on your one stovetop. This recipe is for those days where you literally want to dump everything on the pot and return to your dent in the sofa.

vegan Note: replace Milk with coconut milk.

4.7 from 3 reviews
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Saag Aloo Capsicum / Spinach Potato Pepper
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • Potato – 3
  • Cumin seeds (jeera) – 2 tsp
  • Garlic – 3, chopped finely
  • Onion – 1, chopped finely
  • Green chilli – 1, chopped finely
  • Capsicum/ Pepper – 1 chopped into cubes
  • Spinach – 1 cup, chopped or whole
  • Chilli powder – 1 tbsp
  • Coriander powder – 1 tbsp
  • Cumin powder – 1 tbsp
  • Milk – 2 tbsp
  • Oil – 2 tbsp
  • Salt – as needed
  • Lime- for garnishing
  • Corainder leaves – For garnish
Instructions
  1. Remove the skin from the potatoes and cut into small wedges,
  2. Heat oil in a large heavy bottomed non-stick skillet over medium heat, add jeera, garlic and add the onions and chillies and fry until they are golden brown.
  3. Now add the potatoes, capsicum. Salt and turmeric and fry until golden brown.
  4. Now add the chilli powder, coriander powder and cumin powder. Add 2 tbsp of water and simmer it for few minutes.
  5. Now stir in the chopped spinach to this, and add two tbsp. of milk and close it.
  6. Stir in the mixture a few handfuls at a time, until each potato is coated with the spinach.
  7. The potatoes should be little roasted and coated with spinach and have the flavors of capsicum in it.
  8. Garnish with coriander leaves and squeeze in some lime.
Notes
1. Don’t add more water, it may make the potatoes mushy.
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Perfect side dish for with rasam and rice or roti or plain rice.

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Matar Paneer/ Paneer Peas Masala

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Pan fried paneer with peas and spices in rich cashewnut gravy.

This healthy and delicious vegetarian curry can be on your plate in less than half an hour. Popular recipe amongst the north Indian recipes prepared with paneer and peas. Anything with paneer is a definite win. The texture of paneer is similar to greek feta which is prepared in a similar manner. I used the frozen peas instead of boiling some. I have seen that it’s a part of most restaurants menu. Goes well with steamed rice, Pulao, naan or roti. Paneer can be replaced with tofu also. Don’t add lots of cashews to make it rich, it will spoil the originality of the taste. I cut my paneer in this manner, but you can always cut in the way you fancy.

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I am getting busy these days at work, so when I am back home, I am so tired that I just cook something quick and I could not click any pictures. And also I have to tell you, its getting dark so I don’t feel like clicking pictures without natural light. So, this whole week it was more like quick cooking after diwali. I just made simple very comforting home food.

Yesterday the weekend started and I finally got some chance to click pictures with natural light. So, here it is. I made matar paneer and butter naan. I will post the recipe of butter naan soon. I have similar paneer recipes like malai methi paneer and paneer makhanwala.

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Matar Paneer/ Paneer Peas Masala
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
Cook time: 
Total time: 
Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • For the gravy:
  • Onion – 1 cup, Chopped
  • Tomato – 1 cup, Chopped
  • Green Chilli – 1 , chopped finely
  • Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tbsp
  • Cashews - 7 whole
  • Turmeric – 1 tsp
  • Oil – 1tbsp
  • Salt - As needed
    [other]
  • Unsalted Butter - 2 Tbsp
  • Paneer - 250gms
  • Chilli Powder - 1 Tbsp
  • Coriander powder – 1 tbsp
  • Cumin Powder – 1 tbsp
  • Kasturi Methi - 1 tbsp
  • Sugar - ½ tsp
  • Water – ½ cup
  • Cream - 2 Tbsp

  • [Garnish]
  • Coriander – 1 tbsp, chopped finely
Instructions
  1. Take 1 tbsp of butter in a pan, place the paneer cubes and fry for a minute in each side till they become crispy golden. Keep it aside. (Optional step)
  2. Take 1 tbsp of oil in a pan, add the cashews and fry till it is golden brown. Add the chopped onions and green chillies and sauté till they become transculent. Now add the tomatoes, garlic ginger paste and salt.
  3. Cook for about 10 minutes on a medium flame till everything gets cooked. Allow this to cool.
  4. Then add everything in a blender. Blend them into a smooth paste with not even small pieces of cashews on it.
  5. Heat butter in the same pan. Add the jeera, blended paste and stir well.
  6. Add chilli powder, coriander powder and cumin powder. (If you want rich color, you can add kashmiri chilli powder. I used normal one)
  7. Stir well &sauté the masala on a medium flame till and add the water and mix well. It has to be sauted really well till butter ooze out.
  8. Add washed boiled peas, dry methi leaves, cream,sugar, water and boil for five minutes and switch off.
  9. Garnish with chopped coriander or paneer, ginger or cream.
Notes
1. Frying the paneer is an optional step.
2. Its better to close the vessel with a lid when we add the blended gravy as it may spilt up some outside as it boils
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Mutton Sukka / Goat Curry

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MuttonSukkaRelishthebiteNameIt is a lip smacking mutton recipe with a palatable flavor of fresh peppercorns and garlic in every piece.

I am sure all meat lovers would love this recipe.  It’s been a while since I posted a non-veg recipe. There were a lot of festivals going on, so whenever I go to kitchen, I tend to make some festival snacks or sweets. I finally got some time to make some yesterday. Mutton is rich in fat and carbohydrates and is a great source of protein. I made this with chicken curry and it took me just an hour to make both. It’s that easy to make. You can even serve it as starter or even as sides. Unlike chicken and prawn, mutton or beef must be cooked first and then fried or pan fried. I always like to cook anything with pepper. It makes the whole home with the pepper aroma. It is so good. When I made them and saw it in the plate, I just complimented myself saying “Beautiful”! 😀





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I made this and chicken curry after coming home from work yesterday. It was already late. It just took an hour as I have made this many times. But it is fall here, so it was dark when I thought I can click some pictures. So I just clicked three pictures exactly. And here it is. I am really learning each day on how to click picture and I should say I am very amateur in photography. I should take up a course :D!




4.7 from 3 reviews
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Mutton Sukka / Dry Goat Curry
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Recipe type: Appetizer, Dinner
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 3
 
Ingredients
  • Mutton – 200 gms
  • Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
  • Salt – to taste
    To crush:
  • Garlic – 5 pearls
  • Pepper – 5
  • Fennel seeds – ½ tsp
    To temper
  • Small onion – ¼ cup, chopped roughly
  • Curry leaves - Few
  • Green chilli – 4, slit
  • Chilli powder – 1 tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1 tsp
  • Cumin powder – 1 tsp
  • Salt – little
  • Oil – 2 tsp
  • Lime juice & coriander – to Garnish
Instructions
  1. In a pressure cooker add the mutton pieces with turmeric powder, salt and water to a line below it covers the mutton. More water can make it boil more. Cook for 5 to 6 whistles in medium low flame. You can also boil it without pressure cooker for 20-30 minutes.
  2. Once mutton is cooked, keep it aside with the water.
  3. Meanwhile crush the ingredients under “to crush” using mortar and pestle or a blender. Keep it aside.
  4. In a pan, add the onions, green chillies and curry leaves. Sauté for few seconds. Then the crushed pepper garlic, red chilli powder, coriander powder and cumin powder. Sauté well.
  5. Now add the mutton pieces with water and let it get cooked till it gets dried.
  6. Drizzle some lime juice and garnish with coriander leaves. Serve with onion slices.
Notes
1. If it starts getting thicker, it will stick so stir it well or add little more at this stage.
2. Do not add more water when you boil the mutton. It may spoil the whole dish.
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Serve it as an appetizer or with rice or any kind of bread you fancy!

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Milagu Kuzhambu / Pepper Curry

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MilaguKuzhambuRelishthebiteTraditional south Indian kuzhambu – A blend of black pepper corns with other spices and ingredients.

Pepper has lots of medicinal values, its helps us when we have cold and cough. It helps in getting rid of congestion, and also helps in digestion. Curry leaves is also rich in iron. So, this curry is very healthy and tasty. After all the festival snacks and sweets, wanted some healthy and comfort food from home. Easy pepper kuzhambu, traditional spicy and flavorful kuzhambu with just whole pepper corns. It is very good for cold and is comforting to have during winter days. This just took 20 minutes for me to make. It’s good to eat with rice or idli or dosa. I had a bad cold last week, and I got bored having pepper rasam or soup. So, that is when I wanted to try this after a long tiem as it had pepper. Really, it helped me a lot to treat me from cold. I felt lots better. You will feel itt when you start having two spoons. You would feel the nose blocked to release. Great? Right!?

It has a consistency of chutney but when u mix it with rice it taste perfect. Sometimes you get bored of the usual kuzhambu, rasam and sambhar, and then you need to try this! Freshly ground pepper will enhance the flavor the any dishes. My mom used to make this for me. Those days I do not love this much. But now when I made this, I really loved it. Even when it was all finished, I took some rice and added it to the pan, tossed it and had it! Beautiful!

5.0 from 1 reviews
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Milagu Kuzhambu / Pepper Curry
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Recipe type: Dinner
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves – 1 sprig
  • Small onions (shallots) – 10
  • Tomato - ¼ cup (chopped)
  • Garlic cloves - 5
  • Asafetida (hing)_ - 2 pinches
  • Turmeric powder – 1 /2 tsp
  • Jaggery, powdered – ½ tsp
  • Salt – to taste
  • Sesame oil – 3 tbsp
  • Tamarind – 1 small lemon size
    To roast & Grind:
  • Black Whole Pepper Corns (milagu) – 1 tbsp
  • Garlic cloves – 5
  • Urad dal – 1 tsp
  • Coriander seeds – 3 tsp
  • Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
  • Channa dal – 1tsp
  • Whole dry red chillies – 4
  • Curry leaves - 5
Instructions
  1. Soak tamarind in 1 cup of water
  2. Heat a pan and add black pepper corn, dry red chillies, urad dal, coriander seeds, channa dal, cumin seeds and sauté over very low flame to a golden brown color.
  3. Turn off the stove and add curry leaves and mix well. Let it cool completely and transfer the contents to a blender jar and blend it smooth paste.
  4. Heat the same pan with the remaining oil. Add mustard seeds, when they splutter and add asafetida.
  5. Add onions, curry leaves, garlic and Keep sautéing them for two minutes. Then add tomato and turmeric powder and and saute for 2 minutes. Transfer the ground paste and salt. Sauté them for a minute and now add the tamarind water plus extra water, the gravy should be on thicker side, so don’t add more water. Allow to boil.
  6. Once it starts boiling and the raw small leaves, add powdered jaggery and mix well. Garnish with some chopped coriander and switch off the flame.
Notes
1. If you would like have it in watery consistency, add more water.
2. If you would want it more thicker version, let it boil for few more minutes.
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Serve this with rice and papads, carrot stir fry

Or

With idli, dosai , paniyaram

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Kara Sev / Pepper Chickpea Snack

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KarasevRelishthebiteA popular Indian festive snack made with gram flour, rice flour and a slight hint of crushed pepper. It is very easy to prepare and perfect for teatime snack. It is spicy and crunch and made with simple ingredients, just mix all ingredients, press it using murukku press and fry it. Simple, right? If you use more rice flour, Kara sev would be in a lighter side.  So, if you want a lighter shade, you can use more rice flour. Traditionally this kara sev made using kara sev ladle but I used murukku press for making this kara sev with the wide holes achu/plate.

Tomorrow is Diwali and I still did not get into the mood of Diwali. It is no fun when you are outside of India. And when people wish me “Happy Diwali”, I will be like…”Where is happiness for Diwali when you get to stay outside India and In India , they get holidays  🙂 and I get to go to work. :(. No excitement! I say”.  True? Right! I tried making it an happening event by making some sweets and snacks, but it could not even stand near to India’s fun! 😀  I am planning to just go to work and later go for Dinner. Sometimes you need some rest from kitchen as well 😉 even though you love to cook 😉

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Kara Sev
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Recipe type: Snacks
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 2-3 cups
 
Ingredients
  • Rice flour – 1 cups
  • Besan (Benjal Gram Flour) – 2 cup
  • Red Chilli Powder - 2tsp
  • Pepper powder – 1 tbsp (coarsely grounded/ crushed)
  • Asafetida – 2 pinches
  • Ajwain – 1 tsp
  • Melted Butter – 2 tbsp
  • Hot oil – 2 tbsp
  • Salt – To taste
  • Oil – For Deep Frying
Instructions
  1. Heat oil for deep-frying in a pan.
  2. In a wide bowl, add all the ingredients. Add water little by little to form soft stiff dough.
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  3. Fix the Kara sev achu (mould) into the murukku press. Add a portion of dough in the murukku press and close it.
  4. When the oil is hot, in medium high heat, make a round layer in hot oil. Do not add more layers to form even cooking.{br]
  5. When it turns into crispy golden brown color on one side and cook till the bubble ceases. Drain it in tissue paper, cool down completely and store in airtight container.
Notes
Make sure you fry them in hot oil. If you make it in low flame, the pakodas will drink up lot of oil.
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Rava Ladoo / Semolina Sweet

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ravaladoo-8nameSimple exotic dessert made with semolina and cashew nuts. Great five-ingredient recipe for last minute preparation.

The entire process of making rava ladoo took me no longer than 20 minutes. These rava ladoos are a traditional sweet that is also made during many festivals like Diwali, ganesh Chaturthi, weddings or small pujas at home. It makes an excellent gift during festival season or a light dessert. It is a delicious soft and sweet balls. This can be prepared without any difficulties. There are various versions followed to prepare this ladoo. Some like to add milk and some like to add ghee/clarified butter. Only thing is if you add milk, it reduces its shell life. Some like to add coconut but I like it with no coconut. Its not that I don’t like coconut, I love coconut 😀 I have two desserts with just coconut. But I mad ethis for Diwali, so we start celebrating Diwali atleast a week before. So, I made them in the weekend and can have till Diwali. 😀 what a plan 😀 To know more about Diwali, you can visit my “Spicy murukku” post.

5.0 from 1 reviews
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Rava Ladoo / Semolina Sweet
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Cook time: 
Total time: 
Serves: 13
 
Ingredients
  • Rava – 1 cup
  • Sugar – ¾ cup
  • Meted ghee – ¼ cup
  • Cashew nuts – 8-9
  • Cardamom powder – a pinch
  • Milk - 1 tbsp
Instructions
  1. In a pan, add 1 tsp of ghee and roast the cashews and keep it aside.
  2. In the same pan, roast the rava in medium flame for 5 to 10 minutes. Do not get it burnt or change it colour. Don’t move away .
  3. My rava was very soft, so I did not grind. But grind them if not after cooling it down.
  4. Take a wide bowl, Add sugar and cardamom powder to the mixture. Add the melted ghee and cashews to rava sugar mixture.[br
  5. Mix well and start making round balls. Sprinkle milk as u make it, if you find it hard to form balls.
Notes
1. Do not roast rava on high flame as it will get burnt easily.

2. If you want to make it with less ghee, ad dhalf of ghe and half of milk.

3. You can fry raisins with cashews and add them
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Store in an airtight container for 4-5 days in room temperature.

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Spicy Curry Leaves Murukku

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MurukkuNameCrispy curry leaves flavoured murukku/chakli – A perfect snack to have while sipping a cup of hot chai.

A crispy, crunchy, mouth melting murukku made with chickpea flour and spices. Of all the murukku recipes that I make, this spicy curry leaves murukku is the most loved by all when I make them for Deepavali. I already have a murukku press, but it was not that good 🙂 and one of my friend gave me new one last week 🙂 I was so eager to make it with that 😀

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I miss India more when I think about diwali or any festival for that matter. I used to enjoy the whole month when I was a kid 🙂 I don’t burst much crackers 😀 I was scared :D, but my mom used to make sweets and snacks the whole month. I used to help her a lot 😀 by eating them. ;). I used to give true comments of what she makes, so she used to give it to me first always 😉 and I always love snacks. 😀 My mom would take me and my sister to shopping J for diwali J. She used to get us special dresses, matching ornaments and we finish the day by going to dinner and coming back home. I loved it! Those days that dresses means a lot to us. Now, I buy my dress whenever I want. It’s no more special even on my birthday. That was the real fun birthdays or any occasions. Diwali night we used to clean home and some renovate homes too. We used to exchange gifts 😉 that’s the best part I say 😀

5.0 from 1 reviews
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Spicy Curry Leaves Murukku
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Recipe type: Snacks
Cuisine: Indian
Prep time: 
Cook time: 
Total time: 
Serves: 25
 
Ingredients
  • Rice flour – 2 cups
  • Besan (Benjal Gram Flour) - 1cup
  • Red Chilli Powder - 2tsp
  • Pepper powder – ½ tsp
  • Asafetida – 2 pinches
  • Sesame seeds – 1 tsp
  • Melted Butter – 2 tbsp
  • Hot oil – 2 tbsp
  • Salt – To taste
  • Oil – For Deep Frying
    To grind:
  • Curry Leaves - 15
  • Red chilli - 4
  • Garlic - 3
  • Ginger - 1 inch
Instructions
  1. Blend everything under to grind. And keep aside.
  2. Heat oil for deep-frying in a pan.
  3. In a wide bowl, add all the ingredients and add the blended mixture. Add water little by little to form soft stiff dough.
  4. Fix the murukku achu (mould) into the murukku press. Add a portion of dough in the murukku press and close it. Press it and make a circular shape. I always grease some laddles and make murukku first in that then drop them in oil. This will help to make nice shaped ones.
  5. When the oil is hot, in medium high heat, drop the shaped murukku. Do not crowd the pan, it will make the oil temperature go down.
  6. When it turns into crispy golden brown color on one side and also when bubbles ceases, flip this carefully using the ladle to other side and cook till the bubble ceases. Drain it in tissue paper, cool down completely and store in airtight container.
Notes
1. Make sure you fry them in hot oil. If you make it in low flame, the murukkus will drink up lot of oil.
2. Always grease some laddles and make murukku first in that then drop them in oil. This will help to make nice shaped ones.
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Ribbon Pakoda (Nada Thenkuzhal)

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Ribbonpakoda-8nameChickpea flour spirals for non-stop munching.

It is an easy, addictive spicy and flavorful snack. Diwali is round the corner and I wanted to start making some snacks and sweets. I had a big list to make. Thought of making the savories on one day and sweets on another. I am not sure how many I am going to post here. But wanted to start posting with this one as I got some request for this. And one of my personal favorite. These are made especially during diwali days. It is also a perfect teatime snack. Many add garlic in this recipe but this time I made it with no garlic 😉 and I like it this way.

Diwali or deepavali is known as festival of lights 🙂 and is usually around autumn every year. The festival preparations usually extend over more than 5 days. And the main diwali night coincides with the darkest new moon light, karthiga. It is believed that on this day Rama returned to his people after 14 years of exile during which he fought and won a battle against the demons and the demon king, Ravana. People celebrate this day by lighting candles for his victory over evil (darkness). Some link it with the celebration of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. The five day festival begins on the day lakhmi was born during the war between the forces of good and forces of evil. That’s a lot of information 😀 lets go to the fun part! Recipe time :)!

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Ribbon Pakoda (Nada Thenkuzhal)
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Recipe type: Snacks
Cuisine: Indian
Prep time: 
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Serves: 2-3 cups
 
Ingredients
  • Rice flour – 2 cups
  • Besan (Benjal Gram Flour) - 1cup
  • Red Chilli Powder - 2tsp
  • Pepper powder – ½ tsp
  • Asafetida – 2 pinches
  • Sesame seeds – 1 tsp
  • Melted Butter – 2 tbsp
  • Hot oil – 2 tbsp
  • Salt – To taste
  • Oil – For Deep Frying
Instructions
  1. Heat oil for deep-frying in a pan.
  2. In a wide bowl, add all the ingredients. Add water little by little to form soft stiff dough.
  3. Fix the ribbon pakoda achu (mould) into the murukku press. Add a portion of dough in the murukku press and close it.

  4. When the oil is hot, in medium high heat, make a round layer in hot oil. Do not add more layers to form even cooking.br]
  5. When it turns into crispy golden brown color on one side and also when bubbles ceases, flip this carefully using the ladle to other side and cook till the bubble ceases. Drain it in tissue paper, cool down completely and store in airtight container.
Notes
Make sure you fry them in hot oil. If you make it in low flame, the pakodas will drink up lot of oil.
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Store in an airtight container and use for two weeks. 

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Malai Pepper Mushroom

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Roasted peppers and mushroom pieces simmered in rich and creamy gravy, with a subdued amount of spice.

I have never had a glimpse of this recipe nor tasted it anywhere. I just made this yesterday in my kitchen with whatever I had but it came out so well that I wanted to share it with you right away. I made this with simple rotis for dinner and I am sure it tastes great with even rice. I always like to experiment with gravies when I am having it with rotis, because I know that I can have anything with rotis 😉 mostly. But rice.. Na na na..NO. Everything does not taste the best with rice. I will have it if I have no choice. Food is always FOOD. I am learning and making sure I don’t waste food. I guess I am growing..Getting my sense.. 😀 Getting matured! 😀 Ok don’t imagine me to be too bad, I don’t havoc loads of food before but once in a while, I get up from the table without finishing the plate. Now NO 🙂 isn’t that a good habit? 😉

Replace the butter with oil

& replace cream& milk with coconut milk to make the recipe vegan!

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 We had a really nice weather yesterday. In October around 29°C in Montreal is just rare, luckily we got one, it’s usually cold around this time. So came from work, I made this 40 minutes. It was quick and easy to make, clicked pictures and went for walk to the beautiful Mount Royal and relaxed myself. And when I entered back home, the whole house had this beautiful aroma from capsicum and I loved it.

Malai Capsicum Mushroom

I usually have a soft spot for spicy foods, actually it’s hard for me to devour if the food is even little bland. But this one is not spicy at all and also tasty. Due to the presence of cream, onions and cashews, it is not spicy. You could see a tint of brown shade because of the onion I used. You can use yellow onion if you have one and also I need to say the different color peppers made the gravy even more appetizing.

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Malai Pepper Mushroom
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Recipe type: Side dish
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • Bell Pepper – 5 small , 2 cups, diced
  • Mushroom – ½ cup, chopped
  • Cream – ¼ cup
  • Milk – ½ cup
  • Garam Masala – ½ tsp
  • Butter – 1 tbsp
  • Kasoori methi (dry methi leaves) – 2 pinches
  • Sugar – 1 tsp
  • Salt – 1tsp


    To sauté & grind:

  • Onion – 1
  • Cashews – 8
  • Green Chilli – 5
  • Ginger – 1 small piece
  • Cardamom – 1
  • Garlic – 4
  • Poppy seeds – 1tsp
Instructions
  1. Soak 1 tsp of poppy seeds in a tablespoon of water. Keep it aside.
  2. In a kadai, heat butter, add cardamom, onion, green chili, ginger and garlic, Fry until onions are transparent. Cool down and add cashews.

  3. Blend it with the soaked poppy seeds (with water) and make a smooth paste. Do not add more water.
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  4. Heat butter in a pan or kadai. Add the diced capsicum, mushroom and dry methi leaves. Keep sautéing for two minutes, till it becomes little soft.
  5. Now add the blended paste to it. Keep frying the masalas for a minute or two till the raw smell goes off without changing color.
  6. Then add 1 cup of milk, salt needed and ½ cup of water. Simmer for 5 minutes till it gets thick.
  7. Add the cream and simmer for some more minutes.
  8. Add 1 tsp of sugar and simmer for a minute and switch off.
  9. Garnish with coriander leaves.
Notes
1. After adding cream or milk, never put the flame to high.
2. Do not skip the cashews, it’s a binding agent.
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Carrot Stir Fry / Carrot Poriyal

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carrot poriyal-2-2NameSteamed carrots is seasoned with mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves and finally garnished with fresh coconut in this classic south Indian stir fry.

Today I wanted to post a comfort food from my home. You can make this in few minutes. This stir fry is healthy and goes well with plain rice or any gravy. I always prefer individual veggies stir fry than the combination of few veggies.  I love carrots and this stir-fry is my favorite, I even like to eat this with plain rice or sometimes add plain rice it and enjoy as carrot rice. You can very well combine with beans and make it as carrot beans stir fry. I do that when I have only few portions of each veggie in the refrigerator. I mix all the veggies like beans, carrot and peas and make a stir fry using everything.

I have been thinking of posting this recipe for a long time, then thought it’s too simple to post. But now I thought it can surely help beginners or bachelors. You can substitute this with any veggie you fancy and make this same stir-fry. You can even use frozen veggies, then you have to just 1 tbsp. of water, add the coconut and switch off. There is no need of boiling and the whole recipe just takes 5 minutes to do. It tastes best with rasam, dal or sambhar. You can also have this with roti or just with plain rice.

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Carrot Stir Fry / Carrot Poriyal
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Recipe type: Side dish
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • Mustard seeds – ½ tsp.
  • Urad dal – 1 tsp
  • Asafetida – ¼ tsp
  • Onions – 1 small / ½ cup, chopped
  • Green chilli – 1, chopped
  • Curry leaves – 1 spring
  • Carrots – 2 cups, chopped
  • Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
  • Sambhar powder – ½ tbsp
  • Salt – to taste
  • Fresh coconut – 1 tbsp
  • Coriander – 1tbsp, chopped
  • Oil - ½ tbsp
  • Coconut oil – 1 tsp
Instructions
  1. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, urad dal and let it splutter. Add curry leaves and fry for a min. Now add chopped onions and green chillies and salt and sauté well till onions gets slightly browned.
  2. Now add the chopped carrots, sauté for a minute. Add the turmeric powder and sambhar powder. Mix it well. Add water till it is almost covered. Close the lid and let it turn soft and raw smell leaves.
  3. Once all the water gets evaporated, add dry coconut and chopped coriander and give a quick stir fry. Finish off by adding 1 tsp of coconut oil and switch off.
Notes
1. You can mix few more veggies to the same recipe and use it.
2. You can substitute this with any veggie you fancy and make this same stir-fry.
3. You can use 1 tsp of coconut oil to garnish. It gives extra flavor.
4. You can use frozen veggies also, then you have to just 1 tbsp of water, add the coconut and switch off.
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