Prawns Masala Recipe

Ingredients:



Prawns   - 500 gm
Onion   - 1
Ginger   - 1 piece
Garlic   - 5
Tomato   - 2
Red Chili Powder - 2 tsp
Turmeric Powder - ½ tsp
Oil, Curry Leaves - As required
Salt   - As required



Method:

Clean the prawns and keep aside.

In a pan heat oil, add sliced onion, ginger garlic paste and sauté well. Add red chili powder, turmeric powder, sliced tomato and sauté.  To this add prawns with required salt and water.  Close the pan and allow it to cook.  When cooked add curry leaves and remove from fire.

Kerala Duck Curry

Ingredients:

Duck - 1 kg
Tomato - 1
Onion - 3
Chilly powder - 2 tbsp
Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
Ginger - 1 piece 
Green chilly - 5
Garlic - 3 cloves
Turmeric powder - ½ tsp
Garam masala - 1 tbsp
Coconut oil - 1 desertspoon
Mustard - ½ tsp
Curry leaves - 2 stem
Salt - As required
Coriander leaves for garnishing


Method:

Clean Duck and cut into pieces.

Slice Onion, Ginger, Green chilly and Garlic.

Make a paste of Chilly powder, Coriander powder and Tomato. 
Heat oil in a kadai, splutter mustard and the sliced items, sauté well.

Add Curry leaves, tomato paste and stir.

Add duck pieces, salt and water.

When the Duck starts cooking add Garam masala.

Keep in low flame till the Gravy becomes thick.
 
Garnish with Coriander leaves.

Fish Molee, Fish Moly

 Fish Molee is a famous kerala fish curry made with fried fish cooked in coconut milk. The word molee itself literally means "stew". It is a mild stew suitable for those who like mildly spiced food. Those who like more spice can increase the number of green chillies. The fish curry can be had with white rice, puttu,  vellaiappam   

                               

Ingredients 

For Marinade

Fish Fillets - 4

Salt - 1 tsp

Chilly powder - 1 tsp

Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp

For Gravy (Stew)

Green Chillies - 2
Onion (medium sized) - 1 (sliced diagonally)
Ginger - 1 " (sliced)
Garlic - 2-3 pods (sliced)

Pepper powder - 1 tsp
Coconut Milk - 2 cups (Tastes best with fresh coconut milk)
Curry Leaves - 1 string
Oil - 3 tblsp
Lemon Juice (or vineger) - 1 tblsp
Salt - to taste

Method 

1. Wash the fish fillets thoroughly and then marinate with turmeric powder, chilly powder and salt. Keep it aside.
2. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the fish fillets.
3. After a few minutes, or when fillets turn light golden brown in color, remove the pieces.
4. In the same oil, fry onions, curry leaves, garlic and ginger till they get cooked.
5. Add sliced green chilies and fry for a minute.
6. Add water, lemon juice, pepper powder and salt to the above.
7. Boil the mixture and then lower the flame.
8. Add coconut milk and simmer the gravy for 3 to 4 minutes until it becomes thick. Do not let it come to a full boil. Just let it simmer.
9. Now add the fried fish fillets to the above and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
10. Fish Molee is ready. Serve it with white rice, puttu, vellaiappam, appam, idiyappam etc.

Palak Soup

Ingredients:


1 medium bunch spinach leaves
2 tsp butter
2 cloves
2 cardamoms
1/2 tsp ginger paste
A bit of cinnamon
1 tsp cumin seeds
Salt as per taste
Pepper powder
2 tsp corn flour

Method:

Sprinkle some water over spinach and cook for five minutes. Cool and grind it to a fine paste.

Heat butter and add cloves, ginger, cinnamon, cumin and cardamom and some water. Allow it to boil for five minutes and then strain the water. Mix this water, palak paste and cornflour paste and cook for 2 minutes. Add salt and pepper as per taste and serve hot with toasted bread pieces.

Healthy Palak  soup ready to serve

Chicken Roll

Ingredients:

Chicken/ Turkey breast - 1
Spinach - 1/2 cup
Green chillie - 1
Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Corriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam masala - a pinch

Turmeric powder - a pinch
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - to taste
Lemon juice - 2tsp
Yogurt - 2 tblsp

Method:

1. Wash the chicken/turkey breast and sclice it into thin layers about 1 inch thick.
2. Mix all the spices (garam masala, chilly powder, ginger garlic paste, corriander
powder, cumin powder, turmeric powder and salt) with yogurt and add the lemon juice to it.
3. Apply the marinade on the chicken/turkey layers and let it rest in the refrigerator for atleast half and hour. Overnight marination would be excellent.
4. While the chicken/turkey rests, heat some oil in a pan. Temper some cumin seeds.
5. Add the green chillies and spinach with little salt. Let it cook for few minutes until the spinach wilts.Switch off and let it cool.
6. Once it is cool enough, grind it into a coarse paste.
7. Spread this spinach chutney on the chicken/turkey layers.
8. Roll the chicken/turkey as shown in the picture. Use toothpicks to hold the chicken in place.
9. Fry the rolls in oil or bake it in an oven preheated to 300 degrees for 20 minutes or until done.
10. Remove the toothpicks and serve. Few drops of lemon juice can be added at the end

Udipi sambar

Ingredients:

1 cup cooked redgram dal
Few curry leaves
2 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp blackgram dal
Bit of asafoetida
1/2 cup cooked mixed vegetables
Lemon sized tamarind soaked in water
Salt to taste
1 onion sliced
Bit of jaggery
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
2 green chillies slit

Sambar onions-few

For masala paste-
2 tsp blackgram dal
1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
2 tsp coriander seeds
3-4 red chillies
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/4 coconut-grated

Method:

Roast the masala ingredients in a drop of oil, cool and grind to smooth paste.

Heat the rest of the oil, add mustard seeds and blackgram dal. When it splutters, add curry leaves, onions, green chillies and asafoetida. Fry for a minute and add tamarind juice, turmeric powder, and mixed vegetables. Allow it to boil for 4-5 minutes and add salt, jaggery, mashed redgram dal. Mix well and finally add the masala paste. Add more water as required to make thick sambar and allow it to boil.

Serve with South Indian tiffin varieties and rice.

Paruppu Kuzhambu

Ingredients:


1 cup cooked red gram dal
2 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/4 tsp fenugreek seeds
A bit of asafoetida
Few curry leaves
A medium lemon sized tamarind soaked in water
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp sambar powder
Vegetable of your choice like potatoes, colacassia, raddish, sweet potato, pumpkin, capsicum, drumstick
1 medium tomato chopped


Method:

Heat oil, add mustard and fenugreek seeds. When it splutters add asafoetida and curry leaves. Add the tomato and vegetables and cook for 2 minutes. Add tamarind juice, turmeric and cook covered till the vegetable gets soft. Add salt, sambar powder and finally the cooked dal and mix well. You should have a thick sambar, else you can add a paste of rice flour and water to it and allow it to boil. That will make the sambar thick.

Serve with rice or breakfast.