Powered by Blogger.
RSS

Beef Dry Fry Recipe Kerala style

IMG_28701
This is one of my favorite recipe for Beef fry,and I think i’ve prepared it more than 3 or 4 times.This can be made with both beef and mutton.Next time i’ll be trying it with Mutton.
Anyway,here goes the recipe…

Ingredients

Mutton/Beef diced into small pieces
Sliced Onion 2
Finely crushed Ginger 1 inch piece
Finely crushed Garlic pods 6-8
Sliced Tomatoes 2
Green chillies slit 3-4
Coriander Powder 2 tsp
Turmeric Powder 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
IMG_28641

For grinding

Fennel seeds 3tsp
Black peppercorns 8-10
Cinnamon 1 inch size piece
Cloves 4
Cardamom 4
Bay Leaves 3
Grind the above together to a fine masala powder .Keep it aside.

For popping

Oil as needed
Ghee 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds 1/2 tsp
Sliced Onion 1
Curry leaves 2 sprig
Thinly sliced Coconut pieces 1 cup
Lemon Juice 1 tsp
IMG_28771

Method

Mix together onion,ginger,garlic,chillies,tomatoes,coriander powder,turmeric powder and salt along with meat and prepared ground masala powder.Cook it in a pressure cooker adding a little water,till the meat is well done.Don’t add too much of water,as the meat pieces will shed some water too.When the pressure is released completely ,open the lid and switch on the heat again,cook it till the meat pieces are almost dry.
Heat oil and ghee in another pan and pop the mustard seeds.Add sliced onion and sauté it until brown.Add curry leaves and coconut slices into it and fry them for a while.Now add cooked meat and lemon juice.Fry it for some more time stirring frequently,until beef turns dark brown in color.It goes very well with rice.

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

Kadai Chicken Curry Recipe-Kerala Style

untitled
Chicken curries have gained a lot of popularity the world over and one such flavorful curry is Kadai Chicken, a North Indian traditional chicken dish which is rich, creamy and spicy gravy cooked in a blended paste of tomatoes, onions, ginger, garlic, green chillis, cashew nut paste and Indian spices.We can prepare this in Kerala style, please try

Ingredients

Chicken 1 kg
Onion 5
Tomato 3
Green Chilly 10
Ginger 1 piece
Garlic 1 bulb
Coriander powder 1 tsp
Chilly powder 1 tsp
Turmeric powder ½ tsp
Salt As required
Oil 1 desert spoon
Coriander leaves for garnishing

Procedure

Heat oil in a kadai
Add chopped onion, green chilly and sauté until golden brown
Add ginger, garlic paste and sauté for 2 minutes.
Add coriander powder, chilly powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, salt and sauté well.
Add tomatoes and sauté until tomatoes are half done and gravy becomes thick.
Add chicken pieces and little water and mix well.
Cook for 15-20 minutes on low flame.
Garnish with Coriander leaves

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

Chicken Fried Pieces

chicken

Ingredients

Chicken one kg ( cut in to 8 Pieces )
Soya sauce one table spoon
Ginger paste one table spoon
Garlic paste one Teaspoon
Green chilli paste one teaspoon
Lemon juice Half lemon
Vinegar one tablespoo

Preparation

Marinade comprising vinegar, Soya sauce, ginger garlic paste, green chilli paste, and lemon juice.
Thoroughly apply the marinade to the chicken pieces, piercing them with a fork to enable the marinade permeate deep inside. Cover and keep for a few minutes to an hour [the more time the better]. You can marinate the chicken in the morning before you go to work and keep in the fridge and you can cook the moment you return.
Now, depending on your taste, you can either directly stir fry the marinated chicken pieces till done in hot oil. Eat it as a meal, by itself, or with chapatti, bread or rice. Pour in the marinade juices while frying if you want it a bit more succulent

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

Chicken Sweet Corn Soup

soup

Ingredients

Sweet corn-cream style* 1 tin
Chicken stock 4 cups
Corn flour 2 tbsp
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Ajinomoto (optional) 1/4 tsp
Egg 1
Cooked diced chicken slightly beaten 1/2 cup

Method

Dissolve the corn flour in 1/2 cup water and keep aside. Empty the contents of the corn tin into a saucepan add the stock and bring to a boil. Add the corn flour solution and let simmer for about 10 minutes. Add the salt and the shredded chicken and keep on simmer. Pour the egg in a thin stream over the simmering soup, stirring slowly all the time. Add the ajino moto and serve hot.
* Alternatively, you can crush some boiled corn, add enough water to make it into a thick, dough like consistency and use.

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

Kerala Sarkkara Ada

of=50,590,393

Ingredients

Rice flour (Unboiled) 2 cups
Shred coconut 1/2
Jaggery (Sarkkara) 200g
Cardamom (made to powder) 2 seeds
Ghee 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Water 4 cups
Banana leaf with out central stip

Procedure

Roast the rice flour for few minutes.
Mix it with 2 cups of warm water. While mixing add ghee, cardamom powder and salt to taste.
Make little large size balls and keep it aside.
Then make ‘Sarkkarapavu’, by boiling 2 cups of water with Jaggery. When it turns to semi liquid, filter and removes the solid particles. Then mix with shred coconut.
The rice balls flatten on the banana leaf with hand and on the top spread coconut mix.
Fold the banana leaf with content and steam cook in an oven.
Serve with warm

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

Dry Ckicken curry Kerala style



Ingredients

01 Chicken 1  Kg
02 Coconut,greated 2  Tsp
03 Coriander seeds 2  Tsp
04 Cinnamon 4
05 Cloves 6  Nos
06 Onion (Big) 3  Nos
07 Garlic 12  Flakes
08 Ginger 1  Inch Piece
09 Red Chillies 10 Nos
10 Coriander Leaves A Handful
11 Onions,cut finely 2  Nos
12 Tomatoes,Chopped 2-3  Nos
13 Ghee (for Frying) As required
14 Salt To taste

Procedure

1.Fry the grated coconut till brown in color in a little ghee.
2.Grind together fried grated coconut,Coriander seeds, cinnamon, cloves, onions, garlic, ginger, red chillies, coriander leaves to a fine paste without water.
3.Remove the masala,pass water in the mixer jar and keep water aside.
4.In a vessel heat 2 tsps ghee and fry onions till brown.
5.Then add the chicken pieces, chopped tomatoes, salt and stir on low fire for 10 minutes.
6.Then add the ground masala and masala water.
7.Cook the chicken curry until quite dry

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

Onam Recipe Avial

avial
This is a semi-dry preparation which is a mixture of all sorts of vegetables.
Serves 10

Ingredients

Yam sliced thinly into 11/2" length pieces 1cup
Cucumber sliced lengthy into 1 1/2" thick pieces 1cup
Snake gourd sliced into 1 1/2" length pieces 1cup
Carrot sliced into into 1 1/2" length pieces 1/4cup
Long runner-beans sliced into 1 1/2" length pieces 1/2cup
Drumstick cut into 2" length pieces 2nos
Raw bananas sliced into 1 1/2" length pieces 1no
Turmeric powder two table spoon
Curd two table spoon
Small onion 5 nos
Salt to taste
Grated coconut I full coconut
Green chillies 5nos
Cumin seeds 1/2tsp
Curry leaves 2sprigs
Coconut oil 3tbs

Method of Preparation

Coarsely grind the coconut, green chillies , cumin seeds and onion. Keep it aside.Clean the vegetables. Heat 2tbs coconut oil in a thick bottom vessel. Add the vegetables and cook in a low flame. Do not add water. When it is done, add turmeric powder, salt and mix it well. Remove the vegetables from the middle and put sliced bananas and cover it with the other vegetables. When steam comes out, add the coconut paste and curd and stir well. Remove from fire. Mix the remaining coconut oil and curry leaves in the avial.

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

Kerala Style Nadan Beef Fry

 

1

Ingredients for Nadan Beef Fry Recipe

Beef 1 kg
Button onions(Kunju ulli,Cheriya ulli) 1/2 cup
Bay leaves 2 nos
Garlic 1 full pod / 10 nos cloves
Ginger A thumb size piece
Fresh coconut slices 1/2 cup
Red chilly powder 1 1/2 tbsp
Coriander powder 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
Garam masala(Kerala style)* 1 tbsp
Curry leaves 4 sprigs
Salt As required
Coconut oil 2 tbsp

*Heat and powder 4 cloves, 3 cardamoms, 1 long cinnamon stick, 2 tbsp fennel seeds, 8 black pepper corns, 4 fenugreek seeds, 2 red chilly

Preparation Method of Nadan Beef Fry Recipe

1)Cut beef into small pieces and wash it well.
2)Chop onions into 2 pieces.
3)Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan.
4)Add ginger, garlic and 3/4th of the chopped onion.
5)Stir it well until it’s a completely sautى , slightly golden in colour.
6)Make a paste of Garam masala, chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt.
7)Add this paste to the onion ginger, garlic mixture and sautى on slow fire till and the oil separates from the masala.
8)At this point, add the beef and saute again on slow flame till the water comes out of the beef.
9)Once the water is fully out of the beef, add the curry leaves and coconut pieces.
10)Cover and cook, adding ╒ cup more hot water to cook again on medium flame.

Tips/Suggestions:-
Once the beef starts to cook and you find on an open vessel it takes time, you can use pressure cooker and wait for 3 to 4 whistles and it should be cooked properly. You can add 2 tbsp of vinegar too to the beef to cook it properly.

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS

Theeyal Kerala Style

 

thiyal

Ingredients


Large onions 2(sliced fine)
Grated coconut 1 cup
Shallots 1 cup
Fenugreek seeds 1 tsp
Garlic cloves 2
Chili powder 1 tbsp
Jackfruit seed 100 gm(cut into 4)
Tuvar dal 1/3cup
Coriander seeds 1 tsp
Green Chilly(slit) 3
Salt to taste
Oil 4 tsp
Tamarind extract 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder 1 tsp
Curry leaves a few

Method of preparation

Heat two tsp of the oil in a frying pan and add ½ cup of the chopped onions. Saute the onions well till brown, add the curry leaves, coriander seeds and fenugreek seeds. Stir for a few more minutes and remove and keep aside. On a low heat, dry roast the coconut till it becomes brown. Blend the coconut with the onion mixture adding half a cup of water. In the meanwhile, cook the dal and jackfruit seed in pressure cooker with water. Heat the remaining oil in a saucepan and add the mustard seeds. When they splutter, add the curry leaves and remaining onions and shallots and fry till brown. Add the tamarind extract and ½ cup water and salt. When it starts to boil, add the blended paste and dal and cook on a low flame for 15 minutes.

  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • RSS