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Healthy CurryLeaf Chutney

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Ingredients :  Curry Leaves - 1 cup Bengal Gram / Kadala Parupu - 1 Tbspn Coconut - 1 cup Dry Red Chilly - 3 (or as per your Taste) Salt. Method : 1. Heat pan with 1 tbspn of oil. 2. Drop Bengal gram and fry until it turn light brown. 3. Add curry leaves , coconut and red chilly  4. Cook for 2 mins. 5. Grind this with salt as per your taste. Note : Coconut helps to decrease the bitterness of Curry Leaves. Curry Leaves chutney can be served with  hot rice and ghee / Curd rice / Rasam Rice.

Dry Chicken

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Ingredients : Chicken Pieces Finely Chopped Tomato : 2 Finely Chopped Onion : 2 Ginger garlic Paste : 2 Tbsp Curd : 1 cup Green chillies : 3 Curry Leaves : few Garam Masala : 1 1/2 tsp Chicken Masala : 1 Tbsp Chilly Powder : 1 Tbspn Turmeric Powder : 1/2 tsp Salt and Oil - As per our need Method : 1.Clean Chicken. 2.Soak Chicken with Curd and Ginger Garlic paste for 30 mins minimum. 3.Heat Pan with Oil. Drop -  Mustard  Curry Leaves  Green Chillies  Onion  Tomato 4. Fry for few mins until onion and tomato gets cooked enough. 5. Drop Soaked chicken into pan and add half cup of water. 6. Add all masalas now.. Garam,Chicken masala,chilly powder,Turmeric,dhaniya/corriander Powder (opt) and Salt. 7.Mix well and keep it in medium flame. 8.Cook the chicken until the gravy gets dry. Note : When Gravy gets dry.. Dry chicken is Ready.. But you know what, Dry Chicken consumes lots of time which in turn consumes lots of fue...

Quicky Chilly Idly

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Ingredients :  Idly - 5 Tomato Big -1 Dry Red Chilly -1 Onion Medium - 1 Capsicum - 1/2 Curry Leaves and Coriander Leaves - Few Chilly Powder - 1 Tbspn Salt & Oil. Method :  1. Heat Oil in a pan and drop mustard,Bengal gram (kadala paruppu) and curry leaves. 2. Fry for 1 min and add Chopped Onion and chopped casicum. 3. Fry onion till it turn light brown. 4. Grind tomato with one red chilly. 5. Add this tomato paste to the pan in stove with fried onion. 6. Add Chilli powder and salt.Let it cook for few mins. 7. Drop chopped Idlies and mix well so that the gravy gets into idly. 8. Cook for 1 min and Off the stove. 9. Decorate with Corriander Leaves.  Note : you can even add green peas , garam masala... Its your food .. Do explore ... make mistakes and Learn with fun.. After all 5 idlies ;) :P :D

Tandoori Chicken Using Electric Tandoor

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Ingredients : Chicken Leg pieces : 5 Chicken Tandoori masala / Chicken masala : 1 tbspn Garam masala : 1spoon Turmeric Powder : 1/2 spoon Dhaniya Powder / Coriander Powder : 1/2 tbspn Jeera powder :1/2 tspn Chilly Powder : 1/2 tbspn Ginger garlic paste : 1 tbspn. Corn flour : 1 1/2 tbspn Oil : 5 Tbspns  Salt as per your taste Food Color (Orange) Db's Tandoori Chicken Method :  1. Clean Chicken 2. Have a Deep Cut in Chicken so that our masala can get into it. 3. Heat pan with 4 cups of water. Drop chicken into it + 1 spn of Salt  and let it cook for 5-7 mins. 4. Remove chicken from water and let chicken dry for 2 mins. 5. Take a Bowl, * Drop Chicken Pieces * Drop Chicken masala, garam , turmeric , chilly powder , jeera powder , coriander powder  Ginger garlic paste and salt as per your taste. * Mix well so that chicken pieces get masala into it. * Add Food color Powder & mix . * Add 2 Tbspn of oil over chicke...

Pepper Rice for Cough/Cold

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Ingredients : Black Pepper - 1 and half tspns (or more as per your taste ) Cumin seeds - 1 and half tspn Curry leaves - few Papad - 4 Asafoetida - 1/8 tspn Salt as per taste Ghee / Oil - 1Tbspn Cooked Rice Method : 1. Fry Papads , crush it and keep it aside. 2. Crush Black Pepper and cumin Seeds separately in a mixer /pestle . Cover this spice and keep it aside. 3. Heat Pan with oil / ghee. 4. Drop Crushed cumin seeds and then crushed black pepper. 5. Add asafoetida and curry leaves. 6. Add Salt. 7. Add cooked rice to this and mix well. Check salt. 8. Drop Crushed Papad over Pepper rice and mix lightly once. 9. Serve hot :) NOTE : Serve it as soon as you prepare .. Cos Papad may lose its crunchiness. Have a Hot Crunchy Lunchy Time :)  

5 mins Mango Rice Ready

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Ingredients - Grated Tangy Mango : 2 cups for 4 ppl Rice Curry Leaves : few Ground nuts / Pea nuts : few (optional) Dried Red Chilli : 2-3  Urad dal : 1 spoon Bengal gram / Channa Dal : 1 Spoon Turmeric Powder : 1/4 tsp Salt as per taste Method - 1. Heat Pan with 2 spn of oil , drop mustard seeds , bengal gram , urad dal , red chilli ,curry leaves and turmeric powder one by one.. 2. First fry all the above and then add Peanuts. 3. Now drop grated mango and mix well. you dont really need to cook mangoes. 4. Add salt and off stove. 5. Mix this with Cooked Rice and add salt if needed. 6. Tangy Mango Rice is ready to serve with your Big Smile :)

Mango Sambar

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Ingredients - Mango : 2 mango / as per your taste. Chopped Onion : 2 medium Chopped Tomato : 2 medium Sambar Dal / Tuvar Dal : 1 cup  Sambar powder : 2 tsp Curry leaves : few Chilly Powder : 1 & half tbsp Turmeric Powder : 1/2 tsp Asafoetida : 1/4 tsp Garlic : 4 pieces Red chilly : 2 (just for seasoning at last) Tamarind : Lemon Size ( extract juice in 1 cup of water) Salt as per taste. Db's Mango Sambar Method : 1. Pressure Cook Dal in 2 cups of water with garlic pieces , turmeric powder and asafoetida . 2. Once Cooked, mash it with some water & keep aside 3. Heat Pan with 2 tbsp of oil , Drop onion and fry it till onion turns light brown. 4. Drop Tomato and cook it for 2 mins. 5. Now pour our cooked dal into pan. 6. Mix it well and after one min add Tamarind water. 7. Add Salt, Chilli Powder, Sambar powder 8. Let it cook for few mins. 9.Add mango pieces 7-10 mins before you off the stove else over cooked m...