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Power Point Presentation on Riccia

2020-06-08T06:28:00.000-07:00

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Lichen - Basics

2020-06-08T06:10:00.002-07:00

Karimeen curry

2013-04-30T02:48:00.000-07:00

Items required

Coconut oil - 1 cup
Karimmeen weighing nearly 200 grams
Salt
Red chilly powder
Turmeric powder
Small onion - 100 g
Green chilly - 2 small
Ginger - one and a half inches length

1. Make a thick paste of redchilly, turmeric, salt and ginger paste with water
2. Apply the paste on karimeen and keep it for 3 hours in room temperature and half an hour in fridge.
3. fry it in coconut oil.

4. make a paste of small onion and green chilly in mixer
5. fry it in the oil in which fish is fried first. fry till deep brown colour is attainded.
6. Add little bit of salt, and red chilly powder to the onion fry and fry for 2 min.
7. Add half cup luke warm water to it and allow to boil by stirring.
8. Put the fried fish to it and boil both sides. care should be taken while boiling the fish
9. keep it on low flame till the gravy becomes thick

Vellayappam or Palappam

2012-10-01T22:58:00.002-07:00

“learning doesn't happen from failure itself but rather from analyzing the failure”

After days of trial and error I made it today….

Items required....

Rice - 1 cups

Water - One and a half cup

Coconut(grated) – 1/2 cup

Coconut water – ¼ cup

Cooked rice - 1/2 cup

yeast – 10 granules

Sugar – 3 tea spoon

1. Soak washed raw rice in water for 4 hours.

2. Grind rice with coconut , cooked rice, grated Coconut, Coconut water, yeast, Sugar and water.

3. Keep the batter for 4-5 hours refrigerator and after that keep in room temperature for 5-6 hours.

4. Next day add salt to the fermented batter and mix it lightly.

5. Heat the vellayappm pan or a thick bottomed pan with a lid.

6. Add 1 large round spoon of batter when pan is hot , and swirl around the pan

7. close the lid and cook at lower temperature.

Kappa and Meen / Tapioca and Fish Curry

2011-12-20T07:20:00.000-08:00

Kappa Puzhungiyathu

Tapioca - 1 kg
Green Chilly - 4 no.
Coconut - 2 cup
Turmeric powder - 1 table spoon
Salt

Curry leaves - 5 sprig
Small onions - 10 no.
Mustard seeds - 1 tea spoon
Coconut oil - 3 table spoon

1.Clean tapioca and cut into medium sized pieces
2.Wash thoroughly and boil in water by adding pinch of turmeric powder. Drain off excess water from cooked tapioca.
3. Add salt, ground coconut, green chilly and turmeric.
5.Heat oil and crackle mustard seeds, red chilly, brown small onion/shallot slices and curry leaves

6.Put these over the tapioca and stir well

Fish Curry

fish - 500 g
Turmeric powder - 1 tea spoon
Red chilly powder - 3 tea spoon
Coriander powder - 3 tea spoon
green Chilly - 4 no.
Ginger - 1 small piece
Garlic - 8 Nos.
Shallot/small onion - 8 Nos.
Fenugreek powder - 1/4 tea spoon
salt
Mustard seeds
Garcinia/kudampuli - 5 no.

1. Soak Garcinia i water .
2. Clean the fish and cut into even-sized pieces.
3.Cracle mustard seeds in 3 table spoon of coconut oil
4. Put garlic, ginger, and shallot pieces and fry till light brown

5. Put 1/4tea spoon og turmeric, 3 teaspoon red chilly powder, 3 teaspoon of coriander powder, a pinch of fenugreek powder, 3 green chilly and curry leaves 3 sprig.

6. Add soaked garcinia with little water and boil.
7. Add fish just before boiling and boil for 15 to 30 min till gravy becomes thick

Dry prawn /Unakka chemmeen chammanthi

2011-12-19T17:52:00.000-08:00

Dried Prawns/Unakka Chemmen -3/4 cup

Freshly Grated Coconut -1cup
Dry Red Chilly- 6 to 8
Shallots/Cheriya ulli-4
Curry leaves-2 full leaf
Ginger - small piece
tamarind
Coconut oil-1tsp
Salt

1. Remove head and tail of the dried prawns
2. Wash properly and drain well.
3. Heat a pan and fry the dried prawn in a medium heat .When roasted crisp transfer this to a bowl and fry the dry red chilly and small onion in the same pan to heat
4. Then add all the fried prawns, ginger, grated coconut,dry hot chilly, shallots, curry leaves and salt together in to mixer jar. Do not grind too much.
5. If needed soak tamarind in water and add 1/4 tea spoon sauce to chamnathi and mix well with hand.

UNAKKA CHAMMANTHI PODI

1. Remove head and tail of the dried prawns. Wash properly and drain well.

2. Roast grated coconut, shallot, ginger and curry leaves with frequent stirring. When it turns light brown, add the dry red chillies.

3. When the coconut turns brown add the tamarind, salt and roasted dry prawns. Stir 3 minutes & switch off.

4. When it cools grind in a mixer till powder.

Payyoli chicken fry

2011-12-17T19:31:00.000-08:00

Kashmiri chilly powder ( boil red chilly for 1hr and grind.)

Ginger paste

Turmeric powder

Salt to taste

Vinegar

Chicken masala

Coconut powder after taking milk (thenga peera)

Curry leaves

Green Chilly

1. Mix chicken with quarter part ginger paste, vinegar, salt and keep aside for 15 min.

2. Make a paste with chilly Kashmiri chilly powder ( boil red chilly for 1hr and grind.), turmeric powder, ginger paste, vinegar, salt and chicken masala and keep aside for 15 min.

3. Cover chicken (1) with the 2nd paste and fried in coconut oil. fry under medium flame until chicken pieces takes up the flavour of chilly and ginger

4. When fry is ready coconut powder mixed with second mixture and green chilly and curry leaves and fry for 2 min.

5. Garnish and serve

Tomato Rice

2011-12-10T20:10:00.001-08:00

Items required
Baumathi rice - 1 cup
Water - one and a half cup
Ghee/coconut oil - 2 table spoon
Tomato -2 No.
Onion - 1 No.
Green Chilly - 2 No.
Garlic - 5 No.
mustard seeds - 1 tea spoon
dal - 1 tea spoon
4-5 cloves
coriander seeds -1 tea spoon

Red chilly - 5 No.

cinnamon, clove
Ginger - a small piece
Red chilly powder - 1 tea spoon
Turmeric - two pinch
Salt - to taske
Coriander leaves, Curry leaves

1. Heat oil and add cloves, cinnamon, dal, coriander seeds, and red chillies, Fry for a min and grind to a powder.
2. Heat oil and add onion, 2 tea spoon and ginger, garlic till onions turn brownish. Add tomato cut into pieces, salt and cook for few minutes.
3. Heat oil and add 1/2 tea spn mustard, 4-5 curry leaves. Add rice and fry for few minutes.
4. Add 1 and 2 and fry for few minutes.
5. Add water and cook till rice is cooked
6. Heat ghee/oil and add remaining mustard seeds, Red chilly and curry leaves. Add to the rice.

Soft chappati

2011-12-08T21:04:00.001-08:00

Items required
Wheat floor - 1 cup
Water - 1/4 cup
Milk - 1/4 cup
Butter - small piece
Salt

1. Take 2 tbl spoon of water, 2 table spoon of milk and add 1/2 tea spn salt, add butter.
2. Then add wheat flour (1 cup).
3 Mix and gradually add water+ milk / flour to make the dough.
4. Keep it aside for around 30 mins to 1hr. Most important thing t is dough should not be very hard
5. Dough is made into a small puri, and folded into triangular shape and then again rolled to make chapathi.
6. Heat the pan to very hot (do not apply oil). Then keep the chapathi. Turn it when you can see it fried from down.
7. Then turn again , each side should be fried twice to make sure it is fried properly.

Nice rice pathiri

2011-12-08T07:50:00.001-08:00

Items required
rice floor - 1 cup
Water -1 cup
Cumin - a pinch
Salt
Coconut oil

1. Boil 1 cup water after adding 1/4 tea spoon of coconut oil, cumin, and salt
2. To this add 1 cup rice floor with stirring. Cut off the flame and cover with a lid and leave it for 5 min.
3. Mash the above mixture while hot for several times till the floor do not stick to hand.
4. Make it into small balls
5. press the balls in chapati press to roll out
6. heat pan and put pathiri on it (do not add oil)
7. cook one side for few 1 min. in low flame and cook the other side for 1 min. Once again turn it and press with hand.

Paneer-peas masala Recipe

2011-12-08T07:36:00.001-08:00

Items required
Green peas: 250 grms
Paneer pieces: 10 No.
Onion: 3 No.
Tomato: 4 No.
green Chilly: 3 No.
Garlic: 5No.
Ginger: 1 small piece
Coriander leaf, Curry leaves, Salary
Coconut oil: half cup
Salt
Chicken masala

Preparation
1. Grind garlic, ginger, Coriander leaf, Curry leaves,Salary and green chilly to paste -- Item 1
2. Cut onion and tomato in small pieces and grind separately
3. add coconut oil to a frying pan and fry paneer till light brown
4. Boil green peas (after 3-4- hrs of soaking in water)
Add 4 table spoon of coconut oil in frying pan and add ground onion and Item tomato paste 1. Fry it till onion turns light brown or greenish. Add tomato paste and fry for 3 min. Add 1 tea spoon of chicken masala and little salt to taste. Add 1 cup water and boil for 15 min till gravy becomes thick. To this add fried paneer, and boiled green pea and boil for 2 min. Garnish with salary and serve..
A very good combination for chapati and pathiri.