Uzhunnu vada

Ingredients:
Urad dal-1 cup
Ginger chopped - 1 piece
Green chillies chopped - 2 to 3 nos
shallots/kunjulli-6-8 nos
Black pepper-7-10
curry leaves -1 spring
salt
oil
water
Method of Preparation:
Wash and soak the urad dal for 3-4 hours
Drain the water and grind (add 2 tsp water if required)
Add ginger, shallots, green chillies, pepper corns, curry leaves and salt to the grounded paste and mix well.
Keep it aside for 30-40 mins
Heat oil in a wok .
Wet your palm in cold water and take the dough and make this in to small ball.. Then flaten it and make a hole using your finger and slip this into the hot oil(keep the stove in medium fire). cook the vada till it turns in to golden brown. serve hot with coconut chutney

Kerala style simple chicken fry

Ingredients:
Chicken
Pepper powder
Chilli powder
turmeric powder
salt
garam masala
garlic pods
green chillies
curry leaves




Method of preparation:

Clean the chicken and mix it with pepper powder, chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt and little bit garam masala and keep it aside for 10 mins. Then deep fry it with whole garlic pods, green chillies and curry leaves.

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Kesari

Ingredients:
semolina(roasted)-100gm
1 1/2-2 cup milk
100gm sugar
2 cups of coconut milk
5tbspn ghee
few raisins and cashewnuts
salt- little

Method of Preparation:
Take a pan and roast the semolina for few mins.
Take another pan and heat some ghee and fry the cashewnuts and raisins for 5 seconds.Add coconut milk, sugar and salt and stir until sugar dissolves.Put in the roasted semolina and continue stirring until the mixture turns in to thicker.Transfer it to a vessel and press and add ghee at the top. Let it be cool
Then cut the kesari as required shape.

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Restaurant style Chicken stew

Ingredients:
1 kg chicken (cut and marinated in turmeric and salt)
2 medium sized potatoes- diced
1tbspn ginger garlic finely chopped
2 medium sized onions, thinly sliced
100 ml thick coconut mil
1 tbspn cashew paste
1/2 stick cinnamon
4 green cardamoms
5 cloves
4-5 green chillies
6-7 curry leaves
Coconut or sesame oil
salt to taste
2tbspn Oyster sauce
1 tbspn garlic minced
1 tsp ground b
lack pepper
1 tbspn salt
40 ml soy sauce
Method of preparation:
Fry the diced potato and keep aside. Crush cardamom, cloves and cinnamon, and crackle in hot oil. Add sliced onion and saute.Add ginger garlic , curry leaves and green chilly to this and cook.
Cook until onions go soft but dont brown. Add chicken pieces, salt and potato. Mix well . Add a little coconut milk and a little water. cover and cook
Pouir in the rest of the thick coconut milk when chicken is almost done. Adjust this accordinng to the desired thickness of gravy. Serve hot with appams.

Strawberry shake

Ingredients:
Fresh strawberries-5-6
Milk 1 1/4 cup
Ice cubes
Sugar to taste


Method of Preparation
Wash the strawberries well and remove the stem.
Blend strawberries with little milk to get a smooth paste.
Add the remaining milk and then add sugar
Blend well and add Icecubes and serve.

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Puttu

Ingredients:
Raw rice-2 cup
Grated coconut-1/2 cup
Water
Salt

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Method of preparation:
soak the rice for 3-4  hours.Leave it to drain.Spread it in a cloth and drain it well.
Grind the drained rice in to powder.
Cook the rice powder for few mins keep on continuous stirring.
You can also skip the above steps by using the puttu powder which you can buy in shops.
Add 1 tsp of coconut , salt and mix well with the rice powder.Sprinkle water to the mixture and make it wet. The mixture should be like bread crumbs.
Put 2tsp of grated coconut in to the puttu maker and transfer the mixed powder in to the puttu maker.
again at the top add few tsp of grated coconut .
If you like coconut mixture u can add in the middle of the puttu also.
Then steam cook for 5 -10 mins..till steam come out of the puttu maker.
Serve hot with kadala curry or banana or payaru pappadam.

Idiyappam

Ingredients:
Raw rice(pachari)-1 cup
Grated coconut-1/2 cup
warm water-1 cup
Ghee-1 tsp
salt-1tsp


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Method of Preparation:
Take a vessel and add raw rice, ghee and salt and mix well by adding little warm water. Knead it well.
The mixture should not be too watery.
cover this dough and allow it for half an hour.
Make this dough in to balls with little oil on top and fill it in the idiyappam presser/maker .
You can use idli cooker ...In the idli  cooker sprinkle some coconut and make idiappam with the pressure in the shape of round(idli shapes).
Then steam cook it for 10-15 mins.
Serve hot with stew or egg curry