Kappayum Meenum......!!!

This is one of the famous Kerala food.... Mostly seen in southern part of Kerala.... Kappa that is Tapioca and Meen - Fish that can be any variety... I have used sardines here.... This can be used as a snack or even a meal.... Very easy to make and tasty to eat....!!! 

 Ingredients:

(Kappa Puzhuk)
Tapioca	2 medium
Green chilly	2
Turmeric Powder	½ tsp
Shallots	4
Garlic	4 cloves
Mustard seeds	1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds	1/2 tsp
Dried Red chilly	1
Curry Leaves
Salt
Coconut oil
Meen mulakittath (Fish curry)
Sardine	4
Onion	1
Green chilly	2
Ginger garlic paste	½ tbsp
Tomato	1
Tamarind Juice	¼ cup
Turmeric powder	½ tsp
Kashmiri chilly powder	1 tbsp
Fenugreek seeds	a pinch
Curry Leaves
Salt
Oil

Method:

Kappa Puzhuk 

1. Clean tapioca and chop into small pieces,

2. Pour enough water immersing the tapioca, add turmeric powder and salt and cook until soft. Drain off excess water.

3. Heat oil in a pan and splutter the mustard seeds and cumin seeds.

4. Add sliced shallots into it. When they turn light brown, add green chilies, red chilly, curry leaves and saute.

5. Now add the cooked tapioca into it and mix well.... Kappa puzhuk ready :)

Meen Mulakittath

1. Clean the sardines and keep aside.

2. Heat oil in a pan and splutter fenugreek seeds. 

3. Add onion, green chilly, ginger garlic paste and saute well.

4. Once the onion is done add sliced tomato and saute again.

5. Now add redchilly powder, turmeric powder, salt and mix well.

6. Add tamarind juice into this and 1/2 cup of water and boil for 5-10 mins in medium flame.

7. Add sardines to this and cook until the fish is done. Off the flame and curry leaves, Enjoy with the prepared kappa puzhuk :) :)

Chocolate Brownie.....!!!

This is a form of cake but still has a different texture from normal cakes. They r moist and has crumbs and cracks over them and taste heavenly....Its a great treat for chocolate lovers... I have made it a double chocolate brownie by adding chocolate chips... if you want you can omit that part and add some walnuts... This goes really well with vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce... or tastes awesome even served as it is... Now on to the recipe....

Preparation Time : 10 mins

Baking Time : 25-30 mins

Serves : 6

Ingredients:

Cooking Chocolate (Milk)	150 gms
Butter Unsalted	100 gms
Cocoa powder	2 tbsp
Granulated white sugar	¾ cup
Vanilla Essence	1 tsp
Eggs	3
Flour	¾ cup
Salt	¼ tsp
Semi sweet chocolate chips(optional)	½ cup

           

Method:

1. Preheat the oven at 180⁰C for about 10 mins.

2. Take a heat proof bowl and place above simmering water on stove and melt cooking chocolate with butter.

3. Once it is completely melted, remove from heat and add sugar into it. This might be coarse dont panic.

4. Mix this well with a wire whisk. Add cocoa powder and vanilla essence and mix again.

5. Now slowly add eggs one by one and keep mixing.

6. Add the flour and mix until incorporated. We dont need to use any beater as we dont need any air in the batter.

7. Add salt and chocolate chips and mix and our batter is ready.
8. Pour the batter into a pan and keep this in the middle rack of the oven and bake for about 25 - 30 mins until a toothpick inserted comes out with moist crumps.... Enjoy ur brownies :) :)

Rava Kesari.....!!!

Kesari is an Indian dessert popular throughout the country that originated from Karnataka. It is popular during the festive seasons. The word kesari refers to the spice of saffron which is usually used in this dessert which gives the color to it. However, people now a days use artificial colors to get that look. I havent used either of them. I had no saffron in stock so i dint add that and I dont like adding color as well. If you would like to you can add saffron mixing with water. Now on to the recipe....

Preparation Time : 5 mins
Cooking Time : 15 mins
Serves : 4

Ingredients:

Rava/Semolina	¾ cup
Sugar	1 cup
Water	1 ½ cup
Ghee	½ cup
Cardamom powder	a pinch
Cashew nuts	6-8

Method:

1. Heat ghee in a pan and add rava into it and keep on stirring on medium flame until the rava starts to change its color.

2. Off the flame and keep this side.

3. Now in a pan boil the water and add the fried rava in to this and continue stirring and be very careful at this stage not to form lumps.

4. Cover and cook on low flame for about 3-4 mins until the rava is cooked.

5. When rava is cooked you can add the sugar and cardamom powder into it slowly and keep stirring on medium flame.

6. While you add sugar they might form some lumps but there is nothing to worry coz it will slowly melt in and will be fine.

7. Keep stirring until the kesari no-more sticks to the pan.

8. Now add ghee fried cashews into it and mix and off the flame.

9. You may now transfer this to a greased pan and cool it and cut into pieces.

10 Or can even serve it hot. As it tastes the best when served hot :) :)

Fish Biriyani.....!!!

One more addition to the list of biriyani :)... I am not a big fan of fish biriyani but at times it feels good to have them.... I guess this is one of the easiest biriyani since fish takes less time for cooking. So if you adjust the time of cooking rice side by side i think in a maximum of n hour you biriyani will be ready....

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 30 mins (+20mins dum)
Serves : 3

Ingredients:

King Fish	½ kg
Rice (Khaima)	2 cups
Onions	4-5
Ginger	1 medium pc
Garlic	10 cloves
Green chilly	8
Tomato	2 medium
Turmeric powder	1 tsp
Coriander powder	2 tsp
Red chilly powder	1 tsp
Fish masala	1 tsp
Cardamom	6
Cloves	6
Cinnamon stick	2
Bayleaf	2
Nutmeg	1
Lemon	1
Water	3 ½ cup
Coriander leaves
Mint leaves
Raisins
Cashews
Ghee
Oil
Salt

Method:

1. Marinate fish with 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp red chilly powder, 1 tsp coriander powder, 2 tsp lemon juice and salt for about 15 mins.
2. Mean while wash and drain rice and keep aside.
3. In a bottom thick vessel, heat 2 tbsp of ghee and add 3 cardamom,3cloves,1 cinnamon stick, 1 bay leaf and saute.
4. Now add the rice and salt to it and fry well until the whole water has been absorbed.
5. Now add 3 1/2 cups of boiling water to it and close and cook until the rice is almost done. Off the flame and keep aside.
6. Now heat oil in a pan and fry little onions until crisp and golden brown.
7. In the same oil fry the cashews and raisins and keep aside.
8. Now fry the fish in the same oil until almost done.
9. Now drain the excess oil from this and add rest of cardamom,cloves,cinnamon,bay leaf and saute.
10. Add the whole onions into this with salt and saute until completely soft and translucent.
11. Now add the crushed ginger,garlic,green chilly paste into this and saute again.
12. Once this is done add turmeric powder,coriander powder,red chilly powder and fish masala into this and saute until the raw smell goes off.
13. Now add sliced tomatoes into this and saute until soft.
14. Once this is done slowly add the fried fish and slowly mix them up. Be very careful not to break the fish.
15. Add chopped mint leaves and coriander leaves into this and close and cook for 5 mins
16. Now in a bottom thick vessel add 1 tbsp ghee and add little rice.
17. Above the rice add little of masala, some chopped mint and coriander leaves, come fried onions,cashews and raisins and continue to do the same for 3 layers of rice and 2 layers on masala between it. Above the upper layer of rice spread some mint and coriander leaves, fried onions,cashews and raisins.
18. Keep this closed tightly on a low heat for about 20 mins. Enjoy your fish biriyani with mint chutney,curd and pappad :) :) :)

Vanilla Sponge with Vanilla Icing.....!!!

My 50th Post!!!!!! And its a celebration :) :) Sponge cakes are almost everyone's favorite.... and so for my cute lil nephew's birthday I chose to make a vanilla sponge with a caramel filling and vanilla icing.... It tasted really well and the sponge with that caramel is its main attraction.... So here comes the recipe, it is a step by step procedure so be careful that you dont miss any of the steps as each of them are really important..... Try to read the full recipe twice and understand well before you start baking this.....

Preparation Time : 20 mins
Baking Time : 22 mins for each cakes
Serves : 10 

Ingredients:

Cake:
Eggs	7
Flour	1 cup
Vanilla Essence	1 tsp
Baking powder	½ tsp
Salt	¼ tsp
Granulated white sugar	1 cup
Water	2 tbsp
Lemon zest	a pinch
Caramel:
Brown Sugar	3 tbsp
Cooking cream	¼ cup
Icing:
Whipping powder	3 sachet
Cold milk	1 - 1 ½ cup
Blue color	few drops
Sugar Balls

 Method:
Cake:
1. Preheat the oven for 10 mins at 180⁰C.
2. Separate the egg whites and yolks in separate bowls and cover and bring them to room temperature. (it might take around 30 mins)
3. Meanwhile, sift the flour with baking powder,salt and keep aside.
4. Once the eggs reaches to the room temperature, place the egg yolks with 135gms of sugar and beat in an electric mixer or hand mixer until they are thick, fluffy and pale yellow in color.(when you raise the batter, it will fall in slow ribbons, this is the consistency)
5. At this point, add vanilla essence, water and lemon zest and beat again and beat until fully incorporated and keep this aside.
6. Now in another clean bowl, with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites until foamy.
7. Now add 65 gms of sugar and beat until smooth, shiny and stiff peaks appears.
8. Next step is to mix the flour to the egg yolk mixture. Add the flour mixture into the egg yolk mixture slowly that is one third of the flour first and mix it with a spatula in large strokes(DONOT OVERDO). YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL HERE. Now add slowly rest of the flour and mix just by big stroke and completely mixed.
9. Now slowly add the beaten egg whites in the similar way step by step and donot over do. Just large strokes and mix thats it.
10. Keep your pan lined with baking sheet and pour half of the batter and bake for about 20-22 mins or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
11. Bake the second cake as well.
12. Let the cake cool for about 30 mins and take out from the pan. The upper portion might be sticky, but doesnt matter this is the way it will be.

Caramel and Icing:

1. Heat a pan and add 3 tbsp of brown sugar into it. Add 1/4 cup of cooking cream and mix well.

2. Boil this until it reaches the consistency of a caramel. Keep aside.

3. Now in a electrical mixer or hand mixer with a whisk attachment, add 3 sachets of whipping powder and 1 1/2 cup of milk and beat until stiff.

4. Now, keep the first cake layer on the tray and pour and spread half of the caramel over it.

5. Now spread some whipped cream over it.

6. Place the next layer of cake above it and pour rest of the caramel above it.

7. Spread the whipped cream over and cover the whole cake with it.

8. Now you can decorate your cake the way you like to. Add the color to the prepared whipped cream to create designs. :):)

Oats Soup with Garlic Bread.....!!!

Here is a healthy,tasty soup... This is my dad's recipe :)Its really healthy coz its made of oats and its tasty as well :) Along with that there is garlic bread recipe too.....

Preparation Time : 5 mins

Cooking Time : 15 mins

Serve : 2

Ingredients:

Soup

Water	3 cup
Oats	4 tbsp
Frozen sweet corn	½ cup
Carrot grated	½ cup
Egg white	1
Dried Parsley	1 tsp
Chicken stock	1 pack
Lemon	1
Pepper powder	1 tsp
Garlic Bread
Baguette	1 medium
Butter	50 gm
Garlic	3 cloves
Parsley	1 tsp

Method:

1. Boil 3 cups of water and add 3 tbsp of oats and boil again until it reaches the soup consistency.

2. Now add corn and grated carrot.

3. When this is cooked, add chicken stock and mix well.

4. Once this is done, add egg white above this while boiling.

5. Add dried parsley and lemon juice.

6. Add pepper powder above this and serve hot with garlic bread :):)

Garlic Bread

1. Slice the baguette and keep aside.

2. Melt little butter in a pan and saute ½ tsp grated garlic(don't need to brown), add dried parsley into this.

3. Now take out a slice and place above this and keep for 5 - 7 seconds and do the same with other side as well.

4. Continue to do the same with rest of the slices.

5. Enjoy your garlic bread :):)

Chicken Chukka....!!!

After another gap am back again :D it was another busy weeks.... Here is a spicy delicious chicken recipe.....

Preparation Time : 30 mins(including Marination)

Cooking Time : 20 mins
Serves : 4

Ingredients:

Chicken	1kg
Onions	3
Ginger	1 pc
Garlic	6 cloves
Green chilly	2
Tomato	1
Capsicum	1
Turmeric Powder	1 tsp
Coriander powder	2 tsp
Red chilly powder	1 tsp
Pepper Powder	1 tsp
Garam masala powder	1 tsp
Ketchup	1 tbsp
Salt
Oil

Method:

1. Cut the chicken into small pieces. Marinate with 1/2 tsp turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chilly powder, pepper powder, garam masala powder,salt and keep refrigerated for 30 mins

2. Heat oil in a pan and fry the marinated chicken until almost done.

3. Drain the excess oil and in the same oil saute onions with salt until transparent, don't overcook those onions since we need it crisp.

4. Add chopped ginger, garlic, green chilies and saute again for a minute.

5. Now add rest of turmeric powder,coriander powder, red chilly powder, pepper powder, garam masala powder and saute until the raw smell goes off.

6. Add tomato into this and saute again we don't need the tomatoes to be overcooked as well it must remain as big pcs.

7. Add the fried chicken and chopped capsicum into this. Add ketchup and mix well.

8. Cover and cook for 3-5 mins.

9. Serve hot with chapattis, khubus, nan... :)

White Sauce Pasta......!!!

Hi all.... I know its been a pretty long time that I updated my blog... I was really doing bad with my health and so had no time to update this... So now am back with the bang!!! N here comes and italian pasta recipe... hope u'll all like it... !

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 20 mins
Serves : 3

Ingredients:

Pasta	2 cups
Sausage	2 franks
Carrot	1
Garlic	3 cloves
Frozen Corn	1 cup
Pepper Powder	1 tbsp
Oregano	1 tsp
Olive Oil
Salt
White Sauce:
Butter	2 tbsp
Cornflour	2 tbsp
Milk	1 ½ cup
Cheese	2-3 tbsp(mozzarella)
Pepper powder	1 tsp
Salt
Dried Basil	1 tsp

Method:
1. Cook the pasta with 2 tbsp of oil and keep aside.
2. Heat oil in a pan and finely chopped garlic into this and saute well.
3. Now add chopped carrots, sausage, corn and mix well.
4. Cover and cook until the vegetables are done. Don't overcook.
5. Now add oregano, salt and pepper powder, mix and off the flame.

Sauce:
1. Melt butter in a pan and heat it on simmer. 
2. Add cornflour into this and keep on stirring and saute until its color changes slightly.
3. Now add 1/2 cup of cold milk to this and whisk continuously to avoid lumps.
4. When it starts thickening, add rest of the milk and stir continuously.
5. Bring to boil. Reduce the flame and add dried basil, salt and pepper powder.
6. Cook this until it thickens.
7. Now mix the pasta, vegetables and sauce together.
8. Serve hot :) :) 

Egg Roast.....!!!

Waiting for a spicy, tangy dinner?? Here you go...!!!

Preparation Time : 10 mins

Cooking Time : 20 mins

Serves : 2

Ingredients:

Eggs	4
Onions	3
Ginger	1
Garlic	4 cloves
Green chilly	2
Tomato	1
Turmeric Powder	½ tsp
Coriander Powder	1 tsp
Red chilly powder	1 tsp
Pepper Powder	1 tsp
Fennel seed	1 tsp
Coriander leaves
Curry Leaves
Salt
Oil

Method:

1. Boil and cook the eggs, peel the shell and keep aside.

2. Heat oil in a pan and add fennel seeds.

3. Add sliced onions and salt and saute until light brown.

4. Now add chopped ginger, garlic and green chilly and saute well.

5. Add turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chilly powder, pepper powder and mix well.

6. Once the spices are done, add tomato and saute until soft.

7. Then add the boiled eggs to this and mix and close and cook for 5 mins.

8. When done, off the flame, add coriander and curry leaves and serve hot with chapattis :)