100th post- Egg Spinach Thoran

Simple and healthy egg with spinach thoran, ppl who doesn’t love to have spinach alone, can try this one with eggs, its really tasty, when I made it for first time, even we were in doubt, but hubby was truly happy.

Ingredients:

1. Spinach- 200 gms, cleaned well and chopped very fine
2. Egg- 3
3. Onion- 1 small, thinly chopped
4. Green chillies- 2 slit
5. Grated coconut- 2 tablespoon
6. Mustard seeds- 1/2 teaspoon
7. Red chilly powder- 1 teaspoon
8. Turmeric powder- 1/2 teaspoon
9. Pepper powder- 1/4 teaspoon
10. Salt- 1-2 teaspoon
11. Oil- 1 tablespoon
12. Curry leaves- 8-10

Method:

1. Heat oil in a pan ,splutter mustard seeds
2. Add onions, green chillies, saute till soft.
3. Add curry leaves, turmeric powder,red chilly powder and saute for a min.
4. Add the cut spinach ,salt and 1/4 cup water and cook.
5. Meanwhile coarse grind the grated coconut.
6. Add the grated coconut to the cooked spinach, mix well
7. Break in the eggs and mix well, so that egg is spread all over.
8. Test for the salt requirements and add more if required.
9. Sprinkle pepper powder and remove from fire
10. Serve hot.

Enjoy the egg spinach thoran as a side dish with rice. It seriously good. Happy cooking!

Simple Vanilla Milk Shake

Refreshing vanilla milk shake made in a very short time, no fuss at all, with easily available items at home!


Ingredients:

1. Chilled milk- 1 cup
2. Milk powder- 1/2 cup
3. Heavy cream- 2 teaspoon
4. Sugar- 1/2 cup
5. Vanilla essence- 1 1/2 teaspoon
6. Crushed ice- 1 tablespoon

Method:

1. Blend together all the ingredients in a mixer till smooth.
2. Add more ice if required.
3. Serve chilled!

Very refreshing and too demanding at home! Can add more milk powder if you require it to be more thicker, but for us this was very fine.

Tomato Rasam

Very healthy and vitamins and iron rich dish. Can have it as a curry with rice, can have it as a health drink/soup. A must dish with all Kerala sadya. A pretty good medicine for cough and cold!

Ingredients:

1. Toor dal- I tablespoon
2. Tomato- 1 medium,diced
3. Garlic- 4 pods, crushed
4. Turmeric powder- 1/4 teaspoon
5. Red Chilly powder-1 teaspoon
6. Pepper powder- 1 teaspoon, or more
7. Salt- 1 1/2 teaspoon, or more
8. Coriander leaves- 6-10
9. Water- 2 cups
10. Thick Tamarind paste- 1 teaspoon or more,as required
11. Ghee-1/2 teaspoon
12. Mustard seeds-1/2 teaspoon
13. Dried red chilly- 2
14. Asafoetida powder- A pinch

To Grind:

1. Pepper whole- 6
2. Dried red chilly- 3
3. Coriander seeds-5-6

Method:

1. Grind the grinding ingredients to a fine powder.
2. Pressure cook the toor dal, mash well and keep aside.
3. Meanwhile boil water in a vessel , add the ground powder,red chilly powder,turmeric powder,pepper powder to it.
4. When the water boils, add the crushed garlic, tomatoes, cover and cook.
5. When the tomatoes blend well with water, add tamarind paste, mashed toor dal, salt, sprinkle coriander leaves, cover and cook for 10-15 mins on low flame.
6. Heat the ghee in another pan, splutter mustard seeds, dried red chillies and season the rasam along with asafoetida powder.

Serve hot! More pepper can be added when having it during cough or cold. Its an excellent medicine.Tamarind taste can also be altered on requirements. Enjoy Rasam!!!

Lemon Flavoured Chicken Pasta

Too simple dish, can be served as morning breakfast as well as evening snack. Healthy too, No cheese, no mayonnaise!

Ingredients:

1. Macaroni- 1 cup
2. Boneless chicken breasts- 1/2 cup, cut into small pieces
3. Onion-1/2 , thinly sliced
4. Lime juice- 2 teaspoon
5. Black pepper powder- 1 1/2 teaspoon
6. Salt-1 teaspoon
7. Water- to boil macaroni
8. Oil- 2 teaspoon

Method:

1. Marinate the chicken pieces with 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper and keep aside.
2. Meanwhile boil the macaroni according to instructions on pack and keep aside
3. Heat oil in a pan and saute onions till soft.
4. Add the chicken pieces and saute till colour changes to whitish.
5. Pour in the boiled macaroni , add remaining salt,pepper and mix well.
6. Add the lime juice and mix thoroughly.
7. Saute till all water content evaporates and pasta becomes dry.
8. Add more salt or pepper if required, I love pepper flavour and added another 1/2 teaspoon of them
9. Serve hot

Very simple and easy to prepare dish. Kids would love it a lot. Any oil can be used, can be substituted with butter too. Happy eating!

Special Egg Puff

Something I was missing for pretty long time.. Egg puffs along with hot evening tea. Though couldn't manage to get puff pastry sheets, I tried making these puffs in pan cakes, and guess what? My husband loved it  a lot..

Ingredients:

1. Boiled eggs-2, cut into half
2. Pepper powder-1/2 teaspoon
3. Salt-1 1/2 teaspoon
4. Turmeric powder- a pinch
5. Chicken masala- 1 teaspoon
6. Ginger garlic paste- 1 teaspoon
7. Onion- 1 medium, thinly sliced
8. Corn flour- 2 tablespoon
9. All purpose flour- 2 tablespoon
10. Egg-1
11. Water
12. Oil- 2 teaspoon
13. Paste of 2 teaspoon All purpose flour in little water

Method:

1. Make a dosa like batter with corn flour,all purpose flour and egg adding 1/2 teaspoon salt.
2. Heat a non stick pan and make 4 pan cakes one by one using the batter.
3. Try to make square shaped pancakes, or else cut the edges once the pan cakes are ready to make a square.
4. Heat oil in a pan add onion,saute.
5. Add all other ingredients (2-6) and mix well till dry.
6. Remove from fire and keep aside,dividing the into 4 equal parts
7. Now take the squared pan cakes and place onion masala at centre and keep halved egg on it. 
8. Fold from all side and stick them to one another using all purpose flour paste as binding agent
9. Repeat the same for rest 3 ..
10. Microwave for a minute or two.

Serve hot! A simple evening snack. Though it doesn't look like the authentic egg puffs with puff pastry, anyone can easily make it at home even at absence of sheets! Please try it out and enjoy!

Lazy Chicken Fry

A very simple chicken dish with minimal ingredients.. So I named it lazy lazy!!! LOL...

Ingredients:

1. Chicken breasts- 1/2 kg,cut into small parts
2. Onion-2 large,thinly sliced
3. Ginger-2 inch piece,cut very fine
4. Chilly powder-1 teaspoon
5. Pepper powder-1 teaspoon
6. Turmeric powder- A pinch
7. Salt-1-2 teaspoon,as required
8. Oil-2 tablespoon

Method:

1. Wash and clean the cut chicken pieces
2. Marinate the chicken pieces with pepper powder,turmeric powder,chilly powder,1 teaspoon salt and keep aside for some 10-15 mins
3. Heat oil in a pan and fry the marinate chicken pieces,till they turn golden brown.
4. To the same pan add the sliced onions,ginger,salt and saute till the onions becomes soft.
5. Remove from fire and move aside to drain the oil.

Serve hot with rice/chapathi/roti... very simple, yet spicy and yummy!

Simple Chicken Cutlet

An easy evening snack . Can be prepared in a very simple way. A best snack to serve evening tea time guests.

Makes- 20 cutlets

Ingredients:

1. Minced chicken-1/4 kg
2. Potato- 3 large
3. Onion-1/2 ,cut into small cubes
4. Green chillies- 2 ,cut into fine parts
5. Ginger- 1 inch piece cut into fine piece
6. Egg white- 1 egg
7. Bread crumbs- 1 cup
8. Salt- 2 teaspoon
9. Pepper powder- 2 teaspoon
10. Chilli powder-1/2 teaspoon
11. Turmeric powder- 1/2 teaspoon
12. water- 1/4 cup
13. Oil-1 cup

Method:

1. Boil chicken and potato with 1/2 teaspoon each salt,pepper,water for 2 whistle.
2. Cool and mash them gently.
3. Meanwhile saute all remaining ingredients in 1/2 teaspoon oil
4. Add the mashed mix and mix well
5. Cool them
6. Make small lemon sized balls and flatten them gently with fingers(be careful not to break them)
7. Beat one egg white till foamy.
8. Dip the flattened cutlet in the egg white and dip them again in bread crumbs evenly.
9. Repeat the same for the remaining balls.
10. Heat remaining oil in a pan.
11. Put the cutlets slowly into the pan for frying.Fry both sides.
12. Drain oil with an oil absorbing paper

Serve hot with tomato sauce. You can bake the cutlets instead of frying. Salt and pepper quantities can be altered according to your taste.

Chicken potato roll

A very easy and interesting snack. So simple to make and yet yummy!!! I guess lazybones will love this dish a lot.

Ingredients:

1. Long bun- 4
2. Minced chicken-1 cup
3. Potato cut into cubes- 2
4. Onion- 1/2 thinly sliced
5. Mustard seeds- 1 teaspoon
6. Salt-1 teaspoon
7. Pepper powder- 2 teaspoon
8. Water- 1/2 cup
9. Oil- 1 teaspoon

Method:

1. Pressure cook the chicken and potato with 1 teaspoon salt and pepper powder for 1 whistle.
2. Mash well the potato and chicken.
3. Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds.
4. Saute onion in the oil.
5. Add the mashed mix,remaining pepper powder to the pan and mix well.
6. Stuff the split long buns with the mix.
7. Microwave for 1 min.

Serve hot with a cup of coffee. These winter days are seriously making me lazy so as to go for such simple n filling stuffs! A pretty good evening snack and also boxed lunch for kids.

Spicy chicken curry

This simple chicken curry is very easy to make, less time consuming, a perfect match for rotis,ghee rice.

Serves-4


Ingredients:

1. Chicken- 1/2 kg
2. Onion- 3 large
3. Tomato-2
4. Slit green chillies-4
5. Garlic- 5 pods
6. Ginger- 2 inch piece
7. Curry leaves- a handful
8. Salt- 1 teaspoon
9. Turmeric powder- 1 teaspoon
10. Red Chilly powder- 2 teaspoon
11. Pepper powder- 3 teaspoon
12. Oil for cooking
13. water- 1 cup
14. Coriander leaves-handful(optional)

Ingredients for marination:

1. Red chilly powder- 2 teaspoon
2. Pepper powder- 2 teaspoon
3. Turmeric Powder-1 teaspoon
4. Coriander powder- 1 teaspoon
5. Salt-1 teaspoon
6. Ginger garlic paste- 2 teaspoon

Method:

1. Marinate the cut chicken pieces and keep aside for minimum 30 mins.
2. Thinly slice the onions and tomatoes
3. Cut the ginger into fine parts, garlic into half.
4. Heat oil in a pan
5. Saute the onion till golden brown. 
6. Add ginger,garlic,chillies and tomatoes.
7. Add turmeric powder,red chilly powder,pepper powder.
8. Cover and cook for 1 min.
9. Add the chicken pieces , pour water,stir well.
10. Cover and cook in medium flame for about 20 mins, stirring in between
11. Cook till the gravy becomes thick.
12. Add curry leaves,mix well,cook for another 5 mins.
13. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Spicy chicken curry is ready! for spice lovers, more pepper or chilly powder can be added to match their taste. Serve them hot with rotis,ghee rice.

Raita/Salad

Raita!!! a very simple side dish. Can have it any time, any season. Its simply refreshing and healthy!

Ingredients:

1. Tomato- 1 big ripe (thinly sliced)
2. Onion- 1 large (thinly sliced)
3. Green chillies- 2 nos (cut finely)
4. Salt- 1 teaspoon
5. Thick Curd- 1 cup
6. Water- 1/2 cup

Method:

1. Mix the cut onions, tomatoes and green chillies
2. Add salt
3. Mix thoroughly the veggies and salt with hand(to crush the veggies)
4. Add curd and mix evenly
5. Add water and mix thoroughly

Simple and delicious raita is ready. All age groups love this dish equally. Can be served with rice, biriyanis, rotis ,also can be eaten alone

Vanilla sponge cake

The simplest cake!!! loved by one n all!!! I have very recently loved baking and experiments are on ...

Ingredients:

1. All purpose flour-1 Cup
2. Egg-2 no
3. Sugar(powdered)-1 Cup
4. Vanilla essence-1 teaspoon
5. Salt-A pinch
6. Baking powder-2 teaspoon
7. Milk-1/2 cup

Method:

1. Beat the eggs thoroughly with a scrambler till foamy. Hand scrambler as well as mixer can be used.
2. Put in the sugar and stir well. Beat the mixture well. For ease keep it in very low flame and stir till ribbon consistency.
3. Sieve and add the flour.
4. Add the baking powder.
5. Pour in the Vanilla essence.
6. Add milk.
7. Beat the mixture well.The mix should me neither loose nor hard.Should attain fine consistency.
8. Cover the baking mould with paper or grease with butter.
9. Pour in the batter into the 8 inch baking mould
10. Preheat the oven to 180 C or 300 F.
11. Keep the mould at 180 C for 30-40 mins for baking
12. To check if the cake is baked properly, check with a skewer or toothpick. It would come clean if cooked fine.
13. Move onto a wire rack and cool.

Serve the simplest cake!!! Can be had with tea at any time...