A food-a-holics Diary !

Paste 1 Shallots - 20 Garlic - 10 Ginger 1.5inch Green chilly 4 Paste 2 Sombu 1tbsp Kal pasi 1.5 tsp Clove 3 Cardamom 2 Star anise 1/2 Mase 2 snall Bay leaf 1 Pepper 1tsp Other ingredients Seeraga samba rice 2cups ( Soaked 20min) Mutton 500gms Pudina 2handful Corriander 2handful Curd 1/3 cup Juice of lemon 1 Onion 2 medium Tomato 2 Ghee Oil Salt Chilly powder 1tsp (according to taste) Pressure cook mutton with salt for 5whistles and keep it aside Add oil+ ghee to pan, add onions, salute until brown Add masala paste 1, saute until raw smell goes Add tomatoes and cook until mushy Add the paste/powder 2 and saute until raw smeel goes Add cooked mutton pieces, only pieces Saute well, add pudina and corriander, curd and lemon Measure and add mutton stock  And allow to boil for 20min in a closed container  Now add soaked rice and the remaining water as hot water  1cup rice = 2cups water Allow to cook for 10min Then put on dum and cook for 10min

Potato - 6 small ones ( washed and cooked for 1 whistle) Paste Handful corriander leaves 2 cloves .5 inch cinnamon 1 cardamon 1tbspoon bengal gram 1tsp fennel 1tsp kas kas 4 cashew 1/4th coconut G.chilly 2  Grind to a fine paste For curry Fennel .5 tsp Kal pasi 1 t.sp Cinnamon .5inch 1 clove and cardamon 1bay leaf Onion - 2 ( chopped very small pieces ) curry leaves - few G.chilly 3 Gin gar paste 2.5 t.spoons Tomato - 2 copped small Pudina and corriander - one handful chopped small Turmeric powder 1tsp Kashmiri chilly powder - .5tsp Chicken masala 1tsp Drumstick 1 Frozen peas - handful Method In a cooker, add oil ( little extra). Add fennel and spices. Once it releases aroma, add onion and saute till translucent. Add curry leaves and chillies. Add gin garlic paste and saute till raw smell goes Add pudina and corriander, saute for a min Add tomatoes, salt and allow it ro get mushy Add masalas Add chopped drumstick and cook for 5min Add boiled potatoes and pea and cook for 5min till ...

Onion 200gms / 3 Tomato 200gms /3 Garlic and ginger 25gms each paste G.chilly 2 Corianderand pudin3 2handful (my hand) 1tbspoon red chilly powder 1tb spoon salt 1/2kg chicken  1/2kg rice 100gms oil 2cloves 2 elaichi 1inch cardamom  Curd 100ml In a cookers, add onion, oil and spices and switch on flame. Once onion brown, add coriander saute for a min Add pudina, saute for a min. Add ginger garlic paste. Once oil separates, add red chilly powder and salt. Then add tomato and curd. Saute until oil separates.  Add chicken and saute well. Add water 1:1.5 Once water boils, add rice Allow rice to boil for 2min. Add 1/2 lemon Then check seasoning and close for one whistle

Mutton 500gms Masala Corriander seeds 25gms Jeera and fennel seeds - 10gms each Pepper - 10gmz Red chilly  - 10nos 3cloves 1inch cinnamon  1 elachi Curry leaves 1 bunch Saute all the above in medium flame with little oil, add 1tb spoon poppy seeds and Grind to a nice powder  Onion - 250gms Ginger 1 inch Garlic 15 cloves Coconut - 25gms Saute in oil and low flame, add Coconut at last and saute fir 2 more minutes Add this to the powder and Grind to a smooth paste Add oil in cooker, 1 onion chopped, add Mutton. Saute until all water comes out. Add Turmeric powder, salt and ground masala, water. And cook for 6-7 whistles. Saute unt

Rice - 1.5cups Chicken- 500gms Onion - 2 sliced big Tomato - 2 sliced big Ginger garlic paste - 1.5tbspoon G.chilly - 6 Turmeric powder- .5tspoon  Red chilly powder kashmiri - 1t.spoon  Corriander powder- 1.5 t.spoon  Jeera powder - .5tspoon  Garam masala - .5tspoon Chicken masala- 1t.spoon  Palak - 1big bunch cleaned and chopped. Pudina - 15leaves chopped Corriander - a handful chopped. Add oil and ghee, add spices - 1inch cinnamon,  2 cloves,  1 elaichi,  1 big elaichi,  .5star anise. 1.tspoon whole jeera. Add onions and fru till brown. Add chilly and Ginger garlic paste. Fry for a minute, add tomatoes. Fry till musy. Add salt. Add all the greens. Saute till they make a thokku consistency.  Add all the masala powders. Fry for a minute. Add chicken and saute for 2min. Close lid and cook for 5minutes.  Now add water and biring to boil. Adjust salt and spice Add rice. 1:2 ratio Cook on high for 3monutes and low for 10minutes.  S...

Soak .75 cup of rice for 30min and add salt and cook it for a whistle. Water to rice ratio - 1:1. After pressure is released, put it on a large open plate and let it cool Prawn / any meat Take 500 gms of prawn and marinate it with 1t.sp soy sauce. 1.sp salt, 1t.sp chilly flakes and 3/4 th tb.sp cornflour for 30min.  Heat kadai, add little butter to grease pan and cook prawns on high heat. Exactly for 4-5min. The cornflour will stick to pan, remove the sticky particles too and add on the prawns and keep aside. In the same pan, add oil. Beat 3 eggs with little Salt and pepper. Add egg into pan and leave it for 2min and then scramble and keep aside Sauce mix - 1tsp of green chilly, red chilly, soy, vinegar and chilly flakes. 1/2 tsp sugar. Mix and keep aside Take a wok or a large kadai, add oil and 1tbspoon butter. Add 1tbspoon chopped garlic, 1 small size big onion chopped and saute well. Add salt. Now add veggies - 1/2 carrot and 1/2 capsicum chopped. Once veggies are saute, add pra...

1/2 kg chicken thighs boneless Marinate the chicken in the below masala - 1/2tb corriander powder - 1/4 tb cumin powder - 1/2 tea spoon ground cardamon -  2tsp paprika powder - Salt - 1/2 tspoon black pepper - 1t.spoon onion powder - 1.tspoon garlic powder - 1 garlic minced - 1/2 t.spoon Chilly powder - 1.5 tb spoon olive oil For a minimum of 3 hours Yoghurt sauce 1. 1/2 cup Greek yogurt 2. Salt and little pepper 3. 1/2 t.spoon cumin powder. 4. 1 small garlic Grated 5. 1/2 t spoon lime juice Mix well and keepnaside Salad Cucumber,  carrot, purple cabbage, onions. Mix with salt, Pepper and lemon juice. Keep it aside. Mayo 1 egg  .5tspoon mustard sauce  little Salt and pepper .5t.sppom apple cider vinegar 1/3th cup refined oil. Blend using a hand blender Heat a tawa, grease it with oil and seer the chicken. Once cooked, shred it into pieces. Mix with Mayo Take any bread, add the yoghurt sauce, salad, mayo chicken, roll it and eat.

Lemon grass - chooped 1tbsp Cuminpowder - 1/2tsp Pepper - 1tsp Corriander powder- 1/2 top 10 cloves garlic 3bydagi chilly + 4guntur soaked in warm water  5 shallots 1tbsp Corriander stem 1tbsp galangal chopped Skin of kaffir lime 1/2 Turmeric powder 1/2tsp Jaggery 1/2tsp Grind all to a fine paste Heat oil, add the paste , salt and 1/2tsp soy sauce and cook till oil separates.  Cook in medium heat