Indian Food Recipes - Homemade

Parotta

2011-10-20T13:25:00.000-07:00

Virudhunagar is famous for this. Yummy yummy. We are awesome at making this.

Ingredients
1/4 kg Maida
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
1/4 Cup of Milk
5 Teaspoon of Oil

Mix all the Ingredients into a loose dough. Cover with plastic for atleast 6 hours. Then roll the dough out into a sheet and fold it to make parotta shape. Flatten it out before frying in a pan.
Yummy!!

Masala Chicken

2011-10-20T13:24:00.002-07:00

1/2 Kg Chicken
7 Dried Red Chilli
2 Teaspoon Jeera
1/4 Teaspoon Peppercorn
1 and 1/2 inch piece of Ginger
4 Garlicpods
5 small Shallots
1 Teaspoon Casa Casa
1 Teaspoon of Butter
1/4 Teaspoon Turmeric

Use the mixi to make all the ingredients into paste and keep aside for 20 mintues
In a pressure cooker,add the ingredients and fry. Pressure cook for 10 minutes. Simmer til oil separates.

Golabjamu

2011-10-20T13:24:00.001-07:00

Ingredients
3 Cups of Milk Powder
1 Cup of Self Raising Flour
1 Small box of thickened cream
Ghee
Sugar Syrup with cardomen Powder

In a bowl mix milk powder, flour and thickened cream and make into round or oval balls. Fry these in ghee.
In another deep pan make sugar syrup(water and sugar) and mix in cardamon. Add fried ball to sugar mixture.

Chicken 65

2011-10-20T13:24:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

1/4 kg chicken cut into small bits (with bone is better)

Paste
1 small piece Ginger
4 Garlic pods
1 and 1/2 Teaspoon Peppercorn
1 green chilli
2 red chilli
1 TeaspoonYogurt
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/4 Teaspoon red powder

Add the chicken and paste together and marinate for at least 2 hours. Best if you do it overnight.
Fry with ghee, if you are weight conscious then regular oil is fine.

Chicken Vathakkal (dry Chickey fry curry)

2011-10-20T12:55:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
3 Big onion - cut finely
1/2 Kg chicken cut into 1 inch pieces
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Tumeric

Paste
1 Teaspoon Jeera
2 Dried Red chilli

Fry onions in a pressure cooker, until it is golden brown. Add Chicken and fry until golden. Add Paste, Salt and tumeric.Add a little water and pressure cook for 3 whistles and fry until oil separates and there is no liquid.

Lamb and Potato Curry (Mutton)

2011-10-20T12:54:00.004-07:00

Ingredients
1 Big onion - cut finely
1 big potato cut into small cubes
1/2 kg Lamb or Mutton -small cubes
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Teaspoon Ground Jeera
1/2 Teaspoon Tumeric
1/2 Teaspoon Chilli Powder
1 piece cinnamon, star anise

In a pressure cooker, fry onion, star anise and cinnamon stick.when the onions are golden, then fry the lamb.Fry for 4 minutes and then add salt, jeera, tumeric,chilli powder, fry and then pressure cook it with a little water for 5 minutes.
In a pan, fry the potato in oil until slightly brown, then add the mixture from the pressure cooker to the pan. The liquid from the pressure cooker with flavor the potatoes. Fry until all the water is gone from the pan and the oil separates.

Lamb/Mutton Curry (Kari vathakal)

2011-10-20T12:54:00.003-07:00

Ingredients

3 Big onion - cut finely
1/2 kg Lamb or Mutton -small cubes
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Teaspoon Ground Jeera
1/2 Teaspoon Tumeric
3 Dried red Chilli
In a pressure cooker, fry onion ,when the onions are golden, then fry the lamb.Fry for 4 minutes and then add salt, jeera, tumeric,chilli, fry and then pressure cook it with a little water for 7 minutes.
Fry until oil separates.

Mushroom Curry/ Mushroom Kolambu

2011-10-20T12:54:00.002-07:00

Ingredients

1 Big onion - cut finely
1/8 Kg Mushroom (oyster mushroom is the best for this)
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Tumeric
1/2 Teaspoon Chilli Powder
1 Cup coconut milk

Paste

1 Teaspoon Jeera
1 Piece coconut

In a pressure cooker, fry onions until golden Add Karuvadi and fry until its slightly brown. Add coconut milk, Chilli Powder, tumeric and salt. Add paste .Pressure cook it for 1 whistles and simmer til oil slightly separates.

Tomato with Green Chilli chutney

2011-10-20T12:54:00.001-07:00

Ingredients
2 big tomatoes cut into small cubes
2 Green chillies (lengthly cut)
1/4 Teaspoon Mustard seed
1/4 Teaspoon Turmeric seed
1/4 Teaspoon Urdhal
1 small onion finely cut
5 curry leaves

In a pan, fry onion, mustard seed, urdhal, curry leaves. Add Green chillies and tomatoes. Add salt, turmeric. Cook on low heat until the oil separates.

Karuvadu Kolambu/Dried Salt Fish Curry

2011-10-20T12:54:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

1 Big onion - cut finely
Few Pieces of Karuvadu
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Tumeric
1/2 Teaspoon Chilli Powder
1 Cup water

Paste

1 Teaspoon Jeera
1 Piece coconut

In a pan, fry onions until golden Add Karuvadi and fry. Add water, Chilli Powder, tumeric and salt. Add paste . After it boiled and oil slightly separates. Break an egg into the curry. Cover the curry until the egg is cooked and the oil is fully separted.

Fried Rice

2011-10-20T12:53:00.002-07:00

Ingredients
1 small shallot - finely cut
1 Green onion cut int rings
1 small ginger piece cut finely
1/2 of garlic pod cut finely.
1 cup of cooked cold rice.
1 egg
1 teaspoon of soysauce
4 splashes of seasame oil
salt and peppper to taste

In a pan , scramble the egg with oil. Take it out and put it in a bowl. Put oil in the pan and then fry onion, garlic and ginger, fry until a nice aroma is present and the onions are soft. Add cooked rice, seasame oil, soy sauce , green onion and add salt and pepper. mix until the the rice is soft and separates. Add eggs to this and mix for 1 minute.

Lemon Pickle

2011-10-20T12:53:00.001-07:00

Ingredients

4 Lemons
6 Teaspoons Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Turmeric
6 Teaspoons Chilli Powder
1 and 1/2 teaspoons of Asafotida

Boil uncut lemons and keep the water it was boiled in. Cut lemons and in a fry pan add salt, turmeric, chilli powder and asadotida. Add the boiled water, and keep in an airtight jar.

Egg and Onion Curry

2011-10-20T12:53:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
3 Big onion - cut finely
3 or 4 eggs boiled and halfed
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Tumeric1/2 Teaspoon Chilli powder

Paste
1 Teaspoon Jeera
1 Piece coconut

In a pan, fry onion ,when the onions are golden. Add Paste, add salt tumeric, chilli powder ,turmeric and a little water. Fry until oil separates.Add eggs at the end and coat them with the mixture.

Ven Pongal

2011-10-20T12:52:00.003-07:00

Ingredients
1 cup Rice
1/4 Cup Moong Dal
4 Cups of Water
5 Cashewnut
1/2 Teaspoon Jeera
10 Pepper
Small Piece Ginger cut finely
Green chilli, cut in rings.
Ghee
Salt and Pepper powder

In a pressure cooker, add washed rice and moong dhal. Add water and then pressure cook 1 more whistle than plain rice.
In a pan, fry in ghee, cashewnut, jeera, peppercorn,ginger,chilli.Add this to the pressure cooke and then add salt and pepper powder on top of rice, Mix gently and serve.

Coriander Chutney 2

2011-10-20T12:52:00.002-07:00

Ingredients
Large bunch Coriander Leaves
1 Green Chilli
1 Coconut piece
A little tamarind Juice
1/8 Teaspoon mustard seed
3 Curry leaves

In a pan, fry coriander leaves, green chilli,coconut. Put this mixture in the mixi with the tamarind juice. After it cools, then fry the mixture in a little oil with mustard seed and curry leaves.

Coriander Chutney 1

2011-10-20T12:52:00.001-07:00

Ingredients
Large bunch Coriander Leaves
2 Dried Red Chilli
2 Teaspoon Urdhal seed
A little tamarind Juice
1/8 Teaspoon mustard seed

In a pan, fry mustard seed, coriander leaves, red chilli,urdhal. Put this mixture in the mixi with the tamarind juice. After it cools, then fry the mixture in a little oil.

Yel Chutney

2011-10-20T12:52:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
5 Tablespoons White Yel
2 Tablespoon Porrikadalai
1/8 Teaspoon salt
1 Dried Red Chilli
1 Piece of Cococnut
Little Tamarind Juice

Mix everything in the mixie and fry in a little oil with curry leaves.

Spinach side dish

2011-10-20T12:51:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1/4 Kg Spinach
1 small onion - cut finely
1/4 Teaspoon Mustard seed
1/4 Teaspoon Urdhal
1/2 Teaspoon Salt1/2 Teaspoon Tumeric
1 red chilli
Grated coconut
Little rice flour

In a pressure cooker, fry mustard seed, urdhal, onion and red chilli. After onion is golden brown, Add spinach. Close cooker, but do not add the weight. After the water drains add a little rice flour and grated coconut.

Jerk Chicken from Jamaica

2011-10-19T13:45:00.000-07:00

Strawberry Jam

2011-10-19T13:42:00.000-07:00

Pongal

2011-10-19T13:41:00.000-07:00

Curry Puffs (Mutton or Lamb)

2011-10-19T13:39:00.001-07:00

Rasamalai

2011-10-19T13:36:00.000-07:00

Rava Dosai (dosa)

2011-10-14T06:29:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1 cup Rava
1/2 Cup Maida
1 Teaspoon Salt
2 Greenchilli cut finely
1/2 inch giner cut finely
7 Curry leaves cut finely
3 Cashewnut cut finely
2 branches Coriander leaves cut finely
1 and 1/2 cup water

Add everything together and let it rest for 2 hours. Then add it to the pan and swirl the pan around so it looks like a dosai.

Masala Dosai (Dosa)

2011-10-14T06:22:00.001-07:00

Ingredients
2 or 3 Potatoes
5 small onions - cut finely
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1/4 Teaspoon Tumeric
1/4 Teaspoon Mustard Seed
1/4 Teaspoon Urdhal
1/8 Teaspoon Chilli Powder
1/8 Teaspoon Garam Masala Powder
1 branch curry leaves
Chopped coriander leaves

Paste
1 piece of coconut
1/4 Teaspoon Jeera

In a pressure cooker, boil the potatoes in water. Take it out and peal the skin.
Mash the potatoes with salt, turmeric and garam masala and leave aside. In a pressure cooker, in oil fry mustard seed, urad dhal , onion and curry leaves. Add the masala then add chilli powder and a little water so it is thick, cook for 1 whistle.