Chapatti and chicken curry

All time favourite dish. The combination of chicken curry and chapatti.

Prepare whole chicken curry as usual with onion, garlic, ginger, green chilli, tomato, curry leaves, cilantro, salt to taste and chicken masala. I prefer more pepper powder in my chicken curry.

Prepare chapatti and serve with hot chicken curry.

It’s so delicious.

Soya chunk Biriyani

Delicious biriyani with Soya chunk. 

Masala preparation 

Ingredients 

Soya chunk 3 cups, soak and wash, then soak for 2-4 hours, squeeze it and marinate with ginger garlic paste and biriyani masala 2 tsp., with salt to taste. Keep aside for 2-3 hours if you have time. Otherwise directly shallow fry and keep aside.

In the balance oil, saute thinly sliced onion, 4 cloves garlic, 1 inch piece ginger and 7 silted green chilli, when it turned tender and cooked, add 1 tsp. biriyani masala and 1/2 tsp. garam masala, add the fried soya chunk, combine well. Masala is ready.

Preparation of rice 

Basmati rice 2 cups, washed and strained.

In a pressure cooker, dry fry whole spices such as, cinnamon stick, cloves, pepper corns, nutmeg mace and fennel seeds. When it gets fried and turns light brown, add the rice and stir to vaporise the moisture, add salt to taste and 5 cups of water. Cook for a whistle. Allow to cool down, and transfer the rice into a shallow pan, run with a fork to get the cooked rice separated from each other. 

Mixing of the biriyani 

Heat a tablespoon of ghee, add the cooked masala and rice, combine with care. Garnish with chopped cilantro and spring onion. Tasty biriyani ready.

Here I was not having cilantro and spring onion.

I garnished with green chilli slices.

Delicious biriyani  

Dried prawns fried coconut chutney

The ingredients are shown below. Add cleaned, washed and drained dried prawns 1/4 cup to the ingredients. Then dry fry till dark brown. 

Allow the fried mix to cool down. Then grind it in the small mixie jar into little coarse mix. Chutney is ready. Serve with rice, chapatti or roti . Can take the chutney in travel program.

Tasty chutney powder with dried prawns. 

Ingredients 

Coconut 1, grated,

Red chilli 20, coriander 2 tsp., tamarind 1 gooseberry size, shallots 6, garlic cloves 3,ginger 1inch piece, all 3 finely chopped, curry leaf a sprig, fennel seeds 1 tsp., pepper corns 12, salt to taste.

Dry fry all the ingredients in medium flame. When it turns brown, turn the flame to low. Fry till all the ingredients it turns 

Onam Sadya 2020

Happy Onam 2020.

We were blessed to have our neighbor couple to enjoy sadya with us. So made it with happiness and love.

Onam sadya is vegetarian.

Avial, thoran, Koottukari, pachadi, kichadi, mezhukkupuratti, maranta, manga, inchi, banana chips, sarkarapuratti, papadum and banana go on the top portion of the banana leaf from left to the right.

Then red rice is served. First parippu curry with ghee and papadum, followed by sambar. Then come the sweet kheers. Today’s special are parippu pradhaman and semiya payasam. Then again rice with kurukku kalan followed by rasam and moru. 

Even the Covid 19 protocol prevails and made us stay safe at home we had a great day on Thiruvonam.

Thank you Alka and Mathew ❤️❤️

 

Raw Banana dish as a main meal

If you are having a ripen Banana bunch from your homestead. Then lot of options are there. Here this bunch of banana is a two tier one. Nature’s gift. The bunch as usual emerged. Then it finished. After a break of a week further the inflorescence starts blooming out with small bananas. Thus came the two tier.

The side dishes with raw banana are common in our cusine such as avial, thoran, parippu curry, mezhukkupuratti etc. 

This time I did main dishes out of raw banana. One just peeled, quartered, pressure cooked and sautéed. Already posted in this blog.   

Today prepared with grated coconut and had it for dinner with pickles. Avoid the main carbs, rice and wheat from the main meal.

Easy to prepare. Peeled the banana, put its in water to get rid off the stain in the raw banana. You need to apply coconut oil in your palms before peeling the raw banana. Wash it well in 3-4 waters and pressure cook adding turmeric and salt. Allow to cool down. Heat a tbsp. of coconut oil in a shallow pan, drop in finely chopped onion and garlic, sauté till tender, add green chilli slits, grated coconut, cumin and chilli powder, mix well and add cooked banana and 2 sprigs of curry leaves. Combine well, adjust salt. Dish is done. 

Sunflower design platter of chicken and veggies

Presentation is equally important in cooking.

Chicken pieces 10, marinate with ginger garlic paste, salt 🧂 and chicken masala for about 4 hours.,

Shallow fry the pieces and keep aside,

Carrots 2, okra 12, cut it in slants, sauté it in coconut oil adding salt to taste separately,

Onion 1, garlic cloves 7, ginger 2 inch piece, finely sliced, sauté it in coconut oil, adding pepper and salt to taste, add two silted green chilli at the end of sautéing. Take a plate and arrange carrots first followed by okra, chicken in the centre, bordered by onion mix, topped up with sautéed green chilli and cilantro. 

A great lunch idea with your favourite sauce to dip. For me I will say no dippers are needed. The colour of the carrots, okra, fried chicken and sautéed onion are a great combination to see.

Delicious, nutritious, then why not to try❤️

Cooked and sautéed raw banana

Serve the dish with your favourite chutney. Combine the cooked banana in the coconut oil chilli flakes mix before serving and serve hot.

Healthy meal idea.

Super healthy and delicious with chilli flakes and salt.

So simple to prepare.

I love to try variety dishes. When the banana bunch is cut down to ripen is the perfect time to cook the banana. Take a few bananas, peel the outer skin. Cook it. If pressure cooked we can save time. Care should be taken not to over cook. Add turmeric and salt to taste while cooking.

Strain out the excess water. Heat a tbsp. of coconut oil, lower the flame, drop in 2 tsp. chilli flakes and add the cooked