Rice Ladu - Ariunda

'Ariyunda' in malayalam language means a sweet boll made of brown rice. A great evening snack for kids.
My son and myself love this. Its my mothers special one. I love you amma..:)

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Prawn Masala

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Prawn Fry

What You Need: 
Prawns                        : Two cups
Onion                          :  2 big ones
Green Chili                  :  3 , cut into two or three
Black pepper powder  : 1/2 tea spoon.
Kashmiri chili powder  : Two tea spoon
Ginger Paste                 : One table spoon
Oil                               : Two table spoon.
(Any chili powder with more red color and less hot..)
Optional for those who don't use.
Turmeric powder         : 1/2 tea spoon.
Curry leaves                 : 8-10

Preparation:
Heat Oil in a pan. Add Onion, green chili and ginger paste . Saute it for a minute. Add a pinch of salt into it. When onion starts changing its color add pepper powder, turmeric powder, chili powder and curry leaves. Saute it for few seconds and add a table spoon of water. Let it boil for a minute . Add prawns & salt into it and keep it in low heat with lid on. Prawns take only a little time to cook.After three minutes cook in high heat with lid off.  Easy prawn fry is ready to go with rice !Hurray!!

Try @ home and Let me know your comments. Njoy. :).

Rava Dosa

I learned it from my Tamil friends..Plenty of version are there for Rava Dosa. Here it is a simple yummy recipe. Before starting let me warn you what you need most: Patience!!Not the patience to cook. But the patience to leave the batter on pan and leave for some time untouched. ;-).

What you Need:

Rice : 1 cup

Semolina (Rava) : 2 cups.

All purpose flour (Maida) : 1/2  cup.

ButterMilk : 4 - 5 cups.

salt: as needed.

Seasoning:

Mustard Seeds : Half tea spoon.

Curry leaves : 8 - 10

Green chili : 3 cut into small pieces

Cumin seeds: a pinch if you like 

shallots : 3 pieces. Or one small onion finely chopped.

salt: as needed.

Oil : One table spoon.

Asafoetida : 2 pinches.

Preparation:

Mix in all flours and water with salt. The batter consistency is of butter milk. It is very loose batter. A bit thicker than butter milk actually. And keep the batter aside for 10 minutes. 

In a small pan add oil and add mustard seeds when the oil is hot.Let it break in oil. Then add cumin seeds , green chili , onion/shallots ,curry leaves and salt. When the onion changes its color to golden brown add Asafoetida and turn off the heat. Add this seasoning into the batter and mix well. Heat a frying pan or tawa and keep it on medium flame. Take the batter in a table spoon and pour it by making a outer circle first and fill inside leaving holes. 

Now the toughest part. Leave it for some good time. 4-5 minutes. Depends. It will cook its own and take it into plate when  the bottom turns golden brown. 

Your Rava Dosa is ready!!

Cook it and let me know your comments!! Njoy :).

Chemba Puttu

What you Need:
Rice flour                 : 4 cups
Water                      : 3 cups
Salt                          : 1/2 tea spoon
Grated Coconut        : 1 Cup.

Brown 'Chemba' Rice flour is the one I have used here. You can choose any rice flour yielding different tastes and appearance.

Preparation:

Take the flour in a large bowl. Mix water with salt.  Add 2 cups of water into it, slowly. Keep stirring the mixture in between. You can see flour turning its texture into something like bread crumbs. Leave the mixture for a minute. It would have absorbed all water and started to dry out.  (The water - flour ratio changes with the type of flour. So just be careful while adding water.)

If you have already pour more water and the flour is wet still,you can add one table spoon flour also.
If it is dry start adding water little by little and rub the flour with your hands.
The consistency we are looking here is like of bread crumbs and not wet and not dry.

Once you feel it is ready, add half cup of coconut and mix well with the flour. Now you need to steam this until cooked. It doesn't require more than 10 minutes to cook.

I use "Puttu Kudam"(A utensil used to steam puttu. ). Add some coconut into it then fill half of it add some coconut again then fill completely. Add a tea spoon coconut on top of it and steam it.

'Puttu' is ready! You can have it with any banana ,milk and sugar,if you like it sweet.  Or you can have it with chicken curry, Dal fry and Channa masala.

Cook it & let me know your thoughts !!
Njoy !! :)

Kerala Simple Fish Curry

 Kerala Simple Fish Curry : What I have is a common fish available in Kerala.  Clean it as you see in the picture.    
Ingredients:       
Fish Cleaned     : 5 pieces
Red Kashmir Chili Powder :   One table Spoon   Turmeric Powder : One tea spoon
Curry leaves   : 8
Ginger finely chopped : half tea spoon
Green Chili : 2 -3
Fenugreek seeds  : 5 - 8                                                  
Shallots chopped : 8- 10 pieces                      
White Vinegar : One tea spoon                                    
Coconut Oil   : Two table spoon
Water : One Cup. Or 2/3 Cup
Salt : As required (half tea spoon approx. )

Preparation:                                                               I use clay-pot for fish curry. Place the pot on fire add coconut oil. If you don't like the taste of coconut oil you can go for vegetable oil. One the oil is hot add fenugreek seeds ; After 5 seconds add ginger; Once ginger turns a bit different in color add      chopped shallots and green chilies. Saute it for a minute and add the chili powder and turmeric powder and saute again. A minute later add   water and salt . Let it boil and add fish pieces into it and cook it in low heat. Add Vinegar and the Kerala simple fish curry is ready .   N'JOY! :)

I am from  Kochi, Kerala. People from other parts of Kerala may not be familiar with this sort of recipe. They may be wondering how can you call this a fish curry. I know your thoughts as I have friends from all parts of kerala. :). With fresh fish this is the best recipe to enjoy the taste of fish rather than the taste of spices/or/tamarind.