KADAI MUSHROOM

KADAI MUSHROOM MASALA

Ingredients:

500 gm mushroom
2 capsicum (one yellow and one green)
3 onion
4 tomato
pepper 10
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 table spoon
2 green chilly
1 tsp salt
1 tsp red chilly powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp spice garam masala
4 tbsp Oil

Cut mushrooms& capsicum into cubes.
Finely chop onions and tomatoes. Grind green chilies.
Heat oil in a pan fry pepper, ginger garlic and chilly  paste and  then fry onions in it until it turns red.
.Now put tomatoes and fry until oil separates.
Put salt, red chilly powder, coriander and turmeric powder.
Now add mushrooms and simmer after adding 1/4 cup water.
Cook until mushrooms softens. Then cook capsicum in it for 2-3 minutes and remove it from the flame.

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CHANA MASALA

Ingriedients:


1 Cup Chana
3 tablespoons oil
Pinch of asafetida
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 tablespoon gram flour
1 large tomato
1 teaspoon ginger paste
1 teaspoon garlic Paste
1 teaspoon chopped green chilies
2 teaspoons coriander powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon red chily powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon garam masala
Capsicum in different colors: 1 Small Piece( to make the dish colorful)

Soak chick peas in water for overnight. Keep the chana in the pressure cooker and cook until its tender
Blend the tomatoes, green chilies and ginger to make a puree.Heat the oil in a saucepan. Add the asafetida and cumin seeds.After the cumin seeds crack, add the gram flour and stir-fry for a minute.Add the tomato puree, coriander powder, turmeric, red chily powder and cook for about 4 minutes on medium heat.
The mixture will start leaving the oil and will reduce to about half in quantity.Add the cooked chana and a half cup of water and let it cook for 7 to 8 minutes on medium heat, covered.Press the chana with a spatula so they soften. Add the garam masala and cilantro. Let it cook for another minute.Garnish with different colour capsicum

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MURUKKU

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Ingredients: 3 cups rice flour 3 tsp. Urad dal flour 2 tsp. melted butter 1/4-1/2 tsp Asafoetida powder Salt to taste

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Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.Adding water little by little, form a stiff dough. use plastic sheet lightly brushed with oil/butter. Take a small amount of dough and place it inside the  murukku maker.Press the dough on the plastic sheet and you will find the dough coming out shaped as per the one star attachment. Slightly rotate the maker round and round until you make a circle.that you would have to remove it from the plastic to your hands and then drop it into the hot oil.Now fry them until done - You can make it red, light brown or golden as per preference.

Courtesy to Chef In you

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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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