Green Peas Curry :

                          Green peas have lot of health benefits in it .It has excellent source of protein and fibre , it reduces bad cholesterol ,it prevents heart disease , it has excellent source of iron and etc...

                            

                          This dish is so simple and easy to cook , and it tastes so yummy , so try this recipe and enjoy it ... ☺  

Ingredients :

                1. Green peas  - 1/2 kg  

                2. Shallots       - 100 g

                3. Ginger Garlic paste - 1 spoon

                4. Coconut pieces ( 1/4 cup )

                5. Green Chilly - 7

                6. Salt - to taste

                7. Fennel seeds - 1 spoon 

                8.  Cinnamon - 1 ( small piece )

                9. Poppy seeds - 1 spoon 

               10.Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
               11. Curry leaves - 10 leaves
               12. Oil         - 3 - 5 spoon   
            
How to do it ?

                Take a pan and boil the green peas with some salt , meanwhile , in a mixie jar put the coconut pieces , fennel seeds , cinnamon , poppy seeds , shallots , green chillies and  grind it to a fine paste and then when the green peas becomes half boiled add this finely grinded mixture to it and let it boil for some time and add some salt , after the green peas becomes completely boiled take another pan , pour some oil and add mustard seeds after the oil gets heated and add curry leaves and finely chopped shallots and fry it , then after it turns in to golden brown colour mix it with the green peas curry . 

                    Serve it hot with Chapathi , or  Rice ...

" You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just Good food from Fresh Ingredients ." - Julia Child .

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     Chinese Potato / Siru kizhangu Curry :

I learnt this dish from my ammuma , i love❤ her cooking and whenever i go to my ammuma's house in munnar , she will cook different dishes for me . I wonder how she cooks so yummy ! and this is one among them . 

Ingredients :

                1.Chinese Potato    - 1/4 kg

                     2. Mustard Seeds      - 1 tsp    

                     3.Shallots                  -  10

                    4.Dry red chilly        - 7

                    5.Cumin seeds           - 1.5 spoon

                    6.Turmeric powder    -  1/2 spoon

                    7.Coconut Pieces      -  1/2 cup ( small cup )

How to do it ?

                       (✌ There are some easy methods followed by the people,  to remove the skin of this potato when the amount of potato is more ; ie-  put the potatoes in a cloth and just hit it on the floor , the skin will get removed and you can remove the left over skin using knives easily.)

   

                Firstly remove the skin of the chinese potato  (which is otherwise called as siru kizhangu and koorka)and  then cut it in to pieces , then boil it with some salt . Meanwhile grind the red chilly , coconut pieces along with the cumin seeds and 6-7 shallots until it turns in to a fine paste / masala . Then after the koorka gets boiled , take a pan , pour some oil then add mustard seeds , and the remaining shallots ( finely chopped )and now add the boiled koorka and then add the grinded masala to it . Add turmeric powder and salt , then let it boil for some more time until the gravy becomes thicker and the oil comes up to the surface .

            Hope you will enjoy this recipe .

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 "My Experience on Blogging "

                                     Hello ! Everyone ,  I started my cooking blog on 20/12/2016 , actually i started blogging because it was my assignment and the subject is " New Media for Social Change " which is taken by Vrushaa ma'am. She gave us  an assignment and that is blogging ! i was really shocked on hearing this because ,  at that time i had no idea about what blogging is all about and i was really sad  and i thought i'm going to loose my marks  i regretted so much . Though i'm interested in cooking i was little worried about posting it in my blog because i never had this idea to blog . 
                      
                        But , when i started posting my first dish on my blog , some how i started liking it , and i really enjoyed it , it was so interesting . The whole christmas leave i spent time thinking  , on what dish can i prepare for my next post and etc...

                       Whenever , i got time  i was like " okay ! let me blog ." To tell the truth, i spent my time usefully during this christmas leave , so i should thank Vrushaa ma'am who gave us this assignment and made us to spend our holidays usefully . This assignment greatly helped me , i visited so many blogs , especially my classmates and my friends blogs and came to know how talented they are all . We all kept on commenting each other's blog and all those comments were so encouraging .

                    Especially i should thank a person and that is my bestie  Indhumathi , ( for me ❤   indu ) she helped me a lot , i kept on pestering her about blogging through mobile , whats app and through all social networks , but she explained me all about blogging without getting irritated , and she also gave me lot of ideas as to how to present it . She is my inspiration in lot many things ,Not only in this assignment ,  she has helped me in lot of things . Thank  you indu ! 

         
                  As i have mentioned already in my first blog that , i love cooking so much , i hope i will continue blogging and i will continue posting many yummy and delicious recipes .  Most of all thank you so much for all who visited and commented on my blog.

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capsicum gravy✌

                        When i say capsicum gravy , some might wonder , " what ! capsicum gravy " but if you taste it once , i'm damn sure you would love❤ it. One day , as usually i asked my mother " Amma what's the breakfast today " and my mom said , Dal rice with capsicum , and i was really shocked , because i've never heard about capsicum gravy before , but when i tasted it , i was like " OMG , i've missed tasting capsicum all these years , it's so yummy. "

                                I tried this dish for the first time , and it came out well. So i want you all to taste and enjoy this dish , "Don't Miss Capsicum." This will make a better combination with chapati and  dal rice ... 

                               There are yellow and red colour capsicums too  , but i could buy only green capsicums . If you are a person who loves to eat spicy foods like me , you will enjoy it ,  at the same time  if you are a person who will start to run on  hearing the word " spicy " (like , how one of my friend jenny☺always does ) may be you can reduce the amount of chilly or chilly powder. But capsicums are not that spicy !

           

INGREDIENTS :

                           1. Capsicum -  1
                           2. Mustard seeds  - 1/2 tsp

                           3. Onion        - 1 ( finely chopped )

                           4. Tomato      - 1 ( finely chopped )

                           5. Green Chilly - 4  

                           6. Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp

                           7. Chilly powder       - 1/2 tsp

                           8. Asafoetida Powder   -  1 pinch       

                           9. Salt             - ( to your taste )
                          10. Tamarind water - 2 spoons 

                          

HOW TO DO IT ?

                           Heat a pan , pour some oil , then add some  mustard seeds and let it crackle , then add  finely chopped onion , then chilly , and saute it until it becomes golden brown . Secondly add finely chopped tomato , then saute it for another 2 min . Now add the chopped capsicum and add  turmeric and chilly powder , fry it for 4- 5 min , now add salt ( to your taste ) followed by asafoetida powder. Then , pour 100 ml of water and let it boil until  the oil  rises up to the surface , then take the pan off from the stove and transfer it to a bowl and garnish it with coriander leaves.

                     Capsicum has the power to cure cancer , peptic ulcer ,menopausal problems ,cardiovascular disease and diabetes ...especially fat burning ☝ and so on...so do try capsicum and be healthy ☺

        " It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day . That's what human life is all about "
                                                             - Julia Child .   

                            

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Chicken cutlet ☝

    Chicken would be the favourite dish for all of us ( non -vegetarians )✌ ,  who will hate chicken fry , gravy , and etc.. even i was once a pure vegetarian , but when i tasted this chicken cutlet , i became so much in love with this dish . Yes , of course fish is the best of all non- veg food and it is so healthy , but then there is no wrong in tasting chicken once in  awhile ,  because you are doing it in home by yourself in a healthy way . 

             When you buy chicken cutlets or fries in shop it might be unhealthy , but when you do that in home by yourself you will be so careful in doing that and it will be healthy.

             Actually my Aunty ( mom's sister ) is the one who taught me how to do this chicken cutlet . Since i am trying this dish for the first time , my mom helped me so much in preparing this dish  , and my brother ( Jainesh ) helped me a lot in making the video, actually he is the one who gave me the idea of uploading the video , so actually i should thank them . So try this recipe  in your home ... and you will enjoy eating this yummy recipe.

Ingredients :

          1. Chicken (  Boneless 1/4 kg )

             2.  Potato   ( 3 )

             3. Shallots  (  Finely choppedi 150 g )

             4. Chilly     (  Finely chopped -10 ) 

             5. Ginger Garlic paste ( 1 spoon)

             6. Mint leaves       ( optional )

             7. Coriander leaves ( optional )

             8. Cinnamon ( 4 )

             9. Cloves ( 2 )

            10. Fennel seeds ( 1 spoon )

            11. Star anise ( 1 ) 

            12. Dry red chilly ( 4/ 5)

            13. Albumen ( 2 eggs )

            14. Bread crumbs ( 1/2 cup )

            15. Oil and Salt

    

How to do it ?
                   Firstly cook the chicken , then mince it ( just one grind ) then cook the potatoes and mash it and keep it aside . Then heat a pan , pour some oil , add chillies and  finely chopped shallots in it  , saute it until it becomes golden brown colour and add  ginger garlic paste , dry red chillies , and then add  the grinded spices ie ( cinnamon , cloves , fennel seeds , star anise ) or just add one and half  spoon of garam masala powder, then take the pan from the stove and let it aside for 2 min , add then mix  the mint and the coriander leaves( finely chopped ) with it and also add the minced chicken and mashed potato and add some salt and mix it well .

              Then make some small balls with the above mentioned  mixture , you can do it any shape you want. Then dip the balls in the albumen and then into breadcrumbs and deep fry in oil. That's all ! 

              This is actually a very easy dish ! I am sure  you will all love it .

              " Food is essential to life ; Therefore make it good "

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Bittergourd fry

Hello Everyone! 

                    Bittergourd is not that BITTER for life, it actually makes our life only BETTER .  personally i love bitter gourd so much , but bitter gourd is  a vegetable which is disliked by most of the people .But we should understand that it has so much of health benefits. 

                 The one thing which i would like to tell you all is , we should not try to remove the bitter taste in it when cooking , because giving bitter taste is its nature and  intake of bitter taste is very essential for us especially diabetic patients , but we can make the taste better by making a fry, so that it enhances the taste and everyone will love to taste it. 

                  Bitter gourd is very good for skin and makes our skin glow if it is eaten frequently , and it also strengthens our immune system and it has so much of good qualities and i can keep on telling about bitter gourd for the whole day ❤ because i love it !

              

INGREDIENTS:

                     1. Bitter gourd (1/2 kg )

                     2. Turmeric powder ( 1 tsp )         

                     3. Chilly powder ( to your taste )

                     4. Ginger garlic paste (1/2 tsp )

                     5. Salt ( to taste )

                     6. Cornflour powder ( 1 spoon )

HOW TO DO IT ?

                      

                     Cut the bitter gourd into rings ( thinly sliced ) , and mix it with turmeric and chilly powder , then add salt ( to your taste )then add ginger garlic paste and cornflour powder ( to make the bitter gourd crispy )and mix it well . keep it aside for about  20 min . And then heat a pan and pour some oil , then after the oil gets heated put this bitter gourd and deep fry it !

              Try this recipe and you will also become bitter gourd lovers like me !✌
  
      "  A Recipe has no soul . You as the cook must bring soul to the Recipe"

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Crispy Cauliflower Fry / Gobi 65

Who will say no to cauliflower!  of course everyone will like it !!! 

                                 It is a very easy dish, and i cannot guess a tasty and healthy snack which is better than a gobi fry. I love when the cauliflower becomes browinsh red colour after it is being deep fried,  because it would look crispy and indeed tastes crispy . This is the first time that i have tried this dish and my mom is the one who taught me how to do it and then i tried, it  came out well, and i was actually happy and surprised!☺when you taste what you have cooked and find out that it tastes superb that's the great feel.❤

 INGREDIENTS:

                            1.  A Medium size cauliflower /

                                     2 cup of cauliflower florets

                            2. Ginger garlic paste      -     1/2 spoon

                            3. Chilly chicken powder -     50 grams

                            4. Salt                                   -     to taste

                            5. cornflour powder          -     1 spoon

                            6. Gram flour                      -      2 spoons

  HOW TO DO IT ?          

                             

                             Firstly, cauliflower has to be immersed in hot water for about 10 minutes , just to clean it . Then take a bowl , place the 50 grams of chilly chicken powder in that bowl and add little amount of salt, (as the chilly chicken powder already consists of some salt content in it). then add ginger garlic paste then cornflour powder and gram flour in it and dip all the cauliflower florets , that you have cleaned in hot water, and leave it for about 20 minutes . Then keep a pan in the stove and boil some oil and after the oil gets heated put this cauliflower in it and deep fry it !

                                 

                             Try out this recipe and enjoy the crispy and crunchy cauliflower!☺

                              

                            "  Cooking is love made edible."

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