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  • Butter Chicken

    Butter Chicken

    Butter chicken is basically a North Indian dish, popular type of chicken curry sauce, which is seen in almost all Indian restaurant menus. Chicken cooked in creamy rich sauce made with cashews, almonds, tomatoes and butter, also known as Chicken Makhani.

  • UPMA

    In a khadai, season mustard, urad dhal, channa dhal, curry leaves and ginger. Cut onions and green chillies saute them.  For one cup of rava, you will need two cups of  water. Pour the reqd. amount water, add salt and let it boil. Sift the rava into the water and keep stiring.  Keep stiring  until…

  • ICE CREAM

    ICE CREAM2 glasses of milk, 1/2 a cup of fresh cream, 4 – 5 tablespoons of sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence. Add sugar to milk and boil milk until it thickens slightly. Run cream in the mixie till creamy. Add to the milk after removing from fire. Add the essence and mix well and…

  • FISH FRY

    Fishes like Sankara and Vanjiram are good for this receipe. Cut and clean the fish. Marinate it with chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt and ground ginger and garlic and some cumin seeds(all ground with very less water) soak for a half hour and fry them on a pan one by one. If you prefer, may…

  • VEGETABLE KOOTU

      Cook the dhal in a cooker with turmeric powder and oil. May use thur dhal, channa dhal, or pasi dhal. Best with channa dhal or pasi dhal. Wash  and cut veg. Can use vegs. like chow chow, vazhakkai, or a combination of carrot, ladysfinger and potatoes. Boil the veg  in a vessel with salt. Close and…

  • RASAM (THE SIMPLEST, BASIC RECIPE OF SOUTH INDIA)

    side dishes can be appalam,potato or any side dishes …. its good for digestion RASAM Take some dhal that was cooked for sambar, 2 tbl spoons and some dhal water. To it add tamarind juice, tomatoes, coriander leaves, crushed garlic and ground pepper, cumin seeds, coriander seeds and 1 red chilli. Mix them well adding salt. In…

  • PAYASAM

    PAYASAM Payasam can be made with vermicelli,cooked rice and beaten rice (aval) Vermicelli and beaten rice as the case may be should be  dry roasted . Then pour milk on top of it until the subject immerses, 3/4 milk and 1/4 water. let it boil but keep stirring it constantly. When the content inside is cooked,…

  • IDLI UPMA (LEFT OVER IDLI DON’T WASTE IT!)

    IDDLI UPPMAWhen some iddlis remain after breakfast, instead of eating them the way they are, you can mash them and in a pan/pot, season mustard, urad dhal, channa dhal, curry leaves, ginger pieces, onions and green chillies.Fry them for a while and then add the mashed idli and fry a little longer and remove and…

  • ALOO BONDA (POTATO BONDA SNACK)

    ALOO BONDAMake potato curry like you make for Poori masala, but dry. (Cook potatoes and mash them. Then season with cumin seeds, ginger pieces, green chillies, curry leaves and add the potatoes and put turmeric powder and salt and fry until it becomes dry – for poori masala you need to add onions and make…

  • CUTLET (SNACK)

    CUTLETSCook 4- 5 large potatoes  in a cooker and peel and mash them. Cook vegs. like peas, carrots and beans cut into small pieces with salt . Add this to the potatoes. Add small cut green chillies and mix them well together. Then form round shaped balls  and then flatten them to get the cutlet…