FRIED RICE

Ingredients:
2 cups Rice
3 tbsp Oil
100 gms Beans Finely Chopped
2 Carrot Finely Chopped
1 Onion Sliced
100 gms cauliflower Finely Chopped
Red,Green and Yellow Capsicum (Small Pieces) Finely Chopped
2-3 Green Chilies cut lenghtwise
1 tsp Garlic Finely Chopped
2 tbsp Soya Sauce
Salt & pepper to taste

Pick, wash and soak the rice in enough water for 10-15 minutes and drain.Boil water, add rice and little salt with 1/2 tsp oil.Cook uncovered on low heat till rice is tender.Take care not to overcook the rice. Each grain of rice should be separate.When rice is done, drain and add soom cold water and drain again using a large seive and set aside.Heat oil in a pan and stir fry all the chopped vegetables.Cook for 3-4 minutes.Take care that vegetables are not overdone, they should be crisp.Mix salt and pepper to taste.Add the cooked rice and mix well. Now mix the soya sauce to it.Cook the fried rice for 2-3 minutes and serve hot.

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MASALA PIDI

Masala Pidi - A traditional Trichur Dish!!!!!


Ingredients:

Rice flour - 1 cup
Grated Coconut1/4 cup
Jeera 1/2 tsp

Mix the rice flour,Grated Coconut and Jeera with Boiled Water.When it is cooled and knead it into a soft dough.Make small balls out of this and Keep Aside

For Masala :

Coriander Seeds-2 table spoon
Pepper-1tsp
Red Chilli-3
Jeera -1/2 tsp
Grated Coconut-1/4 Cup

In a pan add Coriander Seed ,Pepper ,Red Chilli and Jeera and saute well till aroma comes.In another pan add Grated Coconut and saute well till  it turns to golden brown .Grind all the ingriedients together and make a paste.Add water to this paste , put the balls into this and cook well in a kadai...

Heat Oil in a pan Splutter Mustard seeds ,red chilly and curry leaves and add this to above cooked Masala Pidi

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PAYAR ILA THORAN ( LONG BEANS LEAVES STIR FRY)

Ingredients:

Tender leaves of long beans – 5 cups
Shallots 1/4 Cup
Coconut – ½ cup
Red chilly – 3
Turmeric power – ¼ tea spoon
Salt – adjust to taste
Mustard seeds – 1 tea spoon
Coconut oil – 2 table spoon

Chop the long beans leaves into tiny pieces. Heat oil in a vessel and add mustard seeds and red chillies into that to splutter. Add grated Coconut with Shallots saute well till it turns light brown. Add chopped leaves of long beans , salt,turmeric powder and stir well.  close the vessel with a lid and heat. When the leaves are cooked stop heating and stir well. 

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MUSHROOM ROAST

Mushroom.... Known as the meat of the vegetable world !!!!.....Mushroom is low in Saturated Fat and Sodium, and very low in Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Protein, Vitamin C, Folate, Iron, Zinc and Manganese, and a very good source of Vitamin D, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Pantothenic Acid, Phosphorus, Potassium, Copper and Selenium (source :http://nutritiondata.self.com)

Ingredients:

Button Mushroom 150 gm

Onion - 2

Mustard seeds

Curry leaves

Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 Tsp

Garam masala 1/2 Tsp

Turmeric powder 1/2 Tsp

Pepper powder 1/2 Tsp

Chilly Powder 2 Tsp

Coconut Milk 3 Table Spoon

Salt

Oil

Step 1:  Cook Mushroom with Turmeric powder, Pepper Powder and chilly powder and keep aside
Step 2:  Heat oil in a pan, splutter the mustard seeds and put the curry leaves
Step 3:  Add sliced onion and  ginger garlic paste saute till it turns to brown
Step 4:  Add Turmeric powder, Chilly powder, garam masala and pepper powder
Step 5:  Stir it for a few minutes and add the cooked mushroom (without water)
Step 6:  Close the pan with a lid and cook in low flame
Step 7:  Add the coconut milk and stir gently for few minutes and make it dry.
Step 8:  Serve and have with chappati /Rice

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ALMOND CHOCOLATE LADDU

Almonds are one of the most nutritious of all nuts !!...Almonds are rich in the vitamins and minerals that help to build a healthy heart, especially vitamin E. So we decided to prepare some laddu using almond...Laddu comes from the Sanskrit word transliterated as ladduka or lattika meaning a small ball. We searched in many blogs and found the recipe in blog of Ms.Sangi....thank you Ms. Sangi...

Ingredients:
 Whole almonds:150gm
Hershey's milk chocolate chips:30gm
Condensed Milk :40gm
Milk:3tsp
Freshly grated coconut:50gm

Toast the almonds for about 3-4minutes until the skins begin to crackle.Cool a bit and then dry grind to a fine powder.
Put the almond flour into a mixing bowl.Add grated coconut and crush well by hand,keep aside.
Combine chocolate chips,condensed milk, and milk in a non stick saucepan.
Place on low flame and stir constantly until the chocolate melts.
Pour the almond mixture into the pan and mix well.
When cool enough to handle, mix again by hand and make lemon sized Laddus.

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WHEAT PAROTTA

Parotta, the favorite, unhealthy, bread of Kerla !!!!


Mainly, Maida and oil make parotta unhealthy.  that's why we used Wheat flour instead of maida to preapre this!!  Of course,  we have to compromise for the taste to a certain extend....but still it is as good as Chapatti.


Ingredients:


2 cup Wheat Flour

1 tspSalt

1/2 cupWater (approx)

2 tspOil (for dough making)
1/4 cupOil (for Kneading)

1/4 cupOil (for shapping)

Mix wheat flour,  salt, 2tsp of oil and water. Knead to make a soft dough, like how we make for chappattis and puris. Put it in a bowl and close it with a plate, let it stay for 30 minutes.Now press the dough and knead it by slowly adding oil (1/4 cup) little by little. Repeat the process until the dough becomes very soft (20 minutes approx). Now make equal portions  and put them under a damp cloth or kitchen towel, this helps it from becoming dry.Take one portion and roll it as much as you can with a rolling pin, the funny part is, you can watch as you stretch, it rolls back!!  and stretch it to paper thin size. It might tear in some areas… thats ok. Stretch using your hands or use the rolling pin, oil makes the work easier.  Keep a pan hot and ready while you do the last stretch. Flame should be on meduim high throughout the frying process. Now take one portion of the shaped dough and slightly roll it lenthwise and widthwise with a rolling pin, just one side only. The other side should be the firm on the bottom do not flip while doing this. Transfer it straight to the pan and let cook for few minutes, now flip on the other side and you will see it becoming fluffy, flip one more time. Repeat the whole process for each parotta and store them back under the damp towel. 

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APPLE JAM

Ingredients:

Apple:3 Nos ,peeled and chopped
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Lemon juice - 2tbsp

Mix sugar and chopped apples in a microwave bowl. microwave it for 5 minutes till apples are softened. Blend this apple mixture in a blender. Microwave this blended mixture at  8 -10 minutes or till its thickened.Stir it every 2 minutes.Add the lemon juice and mix well.Pour this to a glass bottle . Allow it to cool and refrigerate it.

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