Chicken Vindaloo

Another recipe from sailus food blog.

Vindaloo is derived from the Portuguese,which is a dish of meat, with wine and garlic.It is modified in India by the substitution of vinegar for the wine and  addition of chillies.
This dish (from Goa )was prepared in our home for the first time.We all liked the delecable thick gravy.

Ingredients:
1 kg chicken, washed and cut into bite size pieces
3 onions, sliced, sauteed in a tbsp of oil till caramalized, cool and make paste
2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tbsp coriander powder
1/4 tsp turmeric pwd
4 tbsps vinegar
salt to taste
2 tbsps oil
Make a paste: add a few tbsps of water
3/4 tsp roasted methi seeds/fenugreek seeds/menthulu
1 tsp roasted cumin seeds/jeera
2 tsp pepper corns
6-7 dry red chillis, lightly roasted
1 1/2″ cinnamon/dalchini
3-4 elaichi/cardamom
Method:
1. Heat oil in a cooking vessel, add mustard seeds and as they sizzle, add ginger garlic paste and fry for 2 mts.
2. Add coriander pwd, turmeric pwd and salt. Combine. Add the chicken pieces and fry till they are slightly browned approx 8-9 mts. Remove the chicken pieces and keep aside.
3. In the same vessel, drizzle some more oil, if required, add the browned onion paste and ground masala paste and saute for 2 mts. Add the vinegar and combine.
4. Add 1 1/2 cups of water and the browned chicken pieces and cook till the chicken turns soft and it forms a thick gravy.
5. Serve hot with rice or rotis.

Chicken 65

Here comes one more recipe from Deepthi Pagadala.
This recipe makes a perfect appetizer when you are having guests.
Tried for the first time and its going to be a part of our routine lunch.
Ingredients :

1/2 kg of boneless chicken,cut into small pieces
6 tsp of all purpose flour\maida
6 tsp cornflour
1/2 tsp ajinomato
1 tsp chillie powder
eggs - 2
salt as required
2 tsp ginger garlic paste
pinch of food color
12 long slit chillies
some curry leaves
2 cups of curd
1/2 tsp garammasala
coriander leaves

Method:
1. Take a deep vessel and add cornflour,maida,ajinomato,gingergarlic ,chillie powder,salt,eggs and chicken.
Mix well and marinate them for 30 min.
2. Heat oil in a pan for deep fry.When oil is sufficiently hot,take small amounts of the marinated chicken and deep fry them like pakoras.
3. Once done,add curd,garam masala,salt,color in another bowl and keep aside.
4. Heat 2-3 tsp of oil in a pan and add chillies,curry leaves to it.Fry for few seconds.
5. Finally add the curd mixture to the pan ,mix well and add the fried chicken pieces.
Cook for 3 min in low flame.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve them.

This time too shall pass...

One after the other,we are infected with cold and cough.
Almost a week,I have been hearing sneezes,coughs,snores...
Medicines,syrups,inhalers are crossing my way here and there.
Neither preparing any recipes nor enjoying my time.
Hope this too shall pass.

Rice Tikki

We had some leftover rice.Instead of finding place in the trash,it is placed as a tea snack with slight modifications.
Add salt,amchur powder and curry powder to 2 cups of leftover rice.
Then add chopped coriander,1 chopped chilli, pinch of pepper and 2 boiled,mashed potatoes.Mix well with the fingers.
Take a small portion and press it in between the palms until it forms a tikki shape.
Take a pan and sprinkle some oil and place the tikkis and shallow fry them till brown.

Serve with ketchup or green chutney.

Bread Pizza

Felt lazy in the morning to prepare breakfast.I just took some left over curry(prepared mushroom stir fry yesterday) and bake it with the bread.(Basic idea from sailusfood site)

Ingredients :
4 brown/white Bread slices
left over mushroom curry(any veggie curry or boiled 1/2 cup of corn,carrot,peas)
unsalted butter to spread over the slices
2 tsp tomato ketchup
parmesan cheese

Method:
Apply unsalted butter over the slices and then spread tomato ketchup.Spread the curry or the boiled vegetables,sprinkle some pepper(and salt ,if using boiled veggies).
Finally sprinkle some parmesan cheese or fat free cheese products.

Pre-heat oven and bake at 350 F/180 C or till the cheese melts.

For the First Time...

I saw a turkey roaming around our backyard.Tried to capture a snap but it ran away into the woods.I ran behind it.but came to know that a turkey is a fast runner...lol..:)

Spring is in the air,in the weeds, in the shrubs,trees..everywhere.
Posting some pictures  that were captured while running for the  turkey.


You can see some of weeds posts.One of them caught my attention while having a little walk.

These one bloomed with white pearl like flowers.

 You can see the sprouts coming out of the stems for the shrub that resides near our balcony.Haven't notices till today.
I thought this shrub was not going to survive for it withered away completely.
But look at them!!!
It turned green with life and also blooming out with leaves..

Another kind of weed flowers.I got tired running behind the turkey and was looking if I could get some interesting things to blip.Then suddenly I found them underneath.
These pretty flowers looked very humbled.Aren't they??



Can you see the squirrel eating the sprouts from the huge tree?Its a very tall one.But my camera managed to get it through :)





And finally the turkey :)
How lovely...I stared at him and got it finally.Hoping to meet him tomorrow again

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Methi Murg

It was again Groceries week.Bought methi leaves along with veggies.Tried methi murg for the first time and it came out really tasty.My husband has been admiring a lot for making dish which tasted different.I couldn't capture real good photos of this dish as my husband was eager to have it without leaving some time for me ;)
Again this dish was followed from sailusfood with a little bit of alteration.

Ingredients:
1 kg chicken, washed and cut into medium sized pieces
1 cup packed fresh methi leaves, add little salt+sugar+water, keep aside for 15 mts and squeeze out water
3 large onions, sliced, saute in a tbsp of oil till brown and cool
1 tsp green chilli paste (2-3 green chillis)
11/2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
2 tomatoes, pureed
1/4 cup yogurt
large pinch turmeric pwd
2 tsp red chilli pwd
1 tsp coriander pwd
1/2 tsp cumin pwd
pinch of garam masala pwd (2 cloves, 1″ cinnamon, 1 elaichi)
salt to taste
7-8 cashewnuts, soak in warm water and make paste
2+2 tbsps oil

Method:
- Make a paste of browned onions and curd. Keep aside.
- Heat 2 tsps oil in a cooking vessel, add the methi leaves and saute for 7-8 mts or till they turn crisp. Remove and keep aside.
- Heat the remaining oil in the same vessel, add ginger garlic paste and green chilli paste and saute for 3-4 mts. Add turmeric pwd, red chilli pwd, cumin pwd and coriander pwd and combine.
- Add the tomato puree and cook for 3 mts. Add the onion-curd paste and cook for another 3 mts.
- Add the chicken pieces ,add salt and combine well. Cook on medium high flame for 3-4 mts. Reduce flame, place lid and let the chicken cook till three fourth done.
- Add the cashewnut paste, garam masala pwd and sauteed methi leaves and combine well. Add few tbsps of water if necessary at this point of time. Cook till the chicken turns soft and you get the gravy consistency of your choice. It should be a thick creamy gravy.
- Turn off heat and serve hot with white rice or rotis.

After a long time...

.....I am adding a post.Before updating things..My heart is for all in Japan.We are with you all!
So!Finally I felt sun shining on me after lot of pouring.Captured some pics for the blip when it is raining.

Captured in rain

Feeling better!!

Dove @ balcony with a msg abt sunshine...lol:)

Idli Fry

As my idlis were not fluffy enough, more idlis were left over ;)

As I was thinking a plan for those left over ones, I recalled a recipe that my friends used to prepare a upma kind of dish from them as we cant have directly..lol!!

Changed ingredients according to my taste, and it came out as a good snack at chai time.

Ingredients:

7 idlis, crumble or cut into cubes as per the idea got from gayatrivantillu.com

1 chopped Onion 

Few Curry Leaves

1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder 

Pinch of hing /Asafoetida

Salt to Taste

2 long slit chillies, remove the seeds

1 1/2 tsp Urad dal

1 1/2 tsp chana dal

1/2 tsp mustard

1 tsp cashews

1 tsp kobbari kaaram

2 tsp oil

Method:

1. Bring oil to heat in a pan. Add the chana dal, urad dal and fry till it starts changing color to golden brown. Then add the mustard seeds and then cashews and fry till the seeds splutter. 

2. Add hing. Then add curry leaves. Fry for a minute and add the chopped onions. Sauté till transparent. 

3. Add the chillies, turmeric powder and salt. Mix well and add the cubed Idlis. Add the Kobbari kaaram and Mix well and cook covered for a minute or two in low flame.

Once you feel the idli got the taste of salt and spices, transfer the contents into a serving bowl.

If not then, sprinkle little bit of water and cook covered for another one minute.

Capsicum and Onion Masala

Today's recipe comes from one of my friends, Deepti Pagadala.

I never used capsicum as a curry dish.But finally gave it a try and it was simply a HIT!

Ingredients :
2 medium size capsicum,chopped in small pieces( Used red and green bell peppers)
2 tsp vegetable oil
salt , according to your taste
1 1/2 tsp turmeric
Grind the below ingredients :
1 onion
5 chillies
6 garlic cloves
1 tsp coriander
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp poppy
1/2 cup roasted ground nuts


Method :
1. Grind onion,chillies,garlic,coriander,cummin,poppy and make a fine pasted.
2. Heat oil in a pan and add the paste.Cook for few minutes in low flame until the paste thickens.
3. Add salt & turmeric.Cover it and cook for few minutes.
4. Add capsicum pieces and adjust some salt if needed and sprinkle some water over the pieces.
Cover and cook for some more time in low flame until the capsicum is cooked properly.Stir the curry in between.
5. Finally garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice and a dollop of ghee.

A day to count

A Merry journey from Feb to March.


Today is a day to count.

Firstly,  would like to wish my friends Tasneem and Madhuri,a very happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday Both of You!!

The former is my friend from my college days,we stayed together during job trials and worked almost from the same place,enjoyed a lot,shared a lot,trusted each other a lot.Thanks to you Dear friend for being with me in all my times..good & bad.I wish you a Happy Birthday and God Bless you!

The latter is the one whom I met here after my marriage.She made me  feel home with her hospitality when I was trying to fit here in US.She always took care of me in my loneliness and illness .I take this oppurtunity thanking her and wishing her a very beautiful life ahead!!

Btw,we had party bash at a mexican restaurant having tomtilla chicken and Jalepeno grilled salmon

tomtilla chicken

salmon

Secondly, I got a successful story to blog.Story about making idlis ;)

For the first time,the batter rose when kept undisturbed the whole night.Ofcourse the outcome of the idlis are good but not fluffy as my mom prepares.

Thirdly,its been a merry journey from Feb(month I started blog and blip) to March.Was nervous in the beginning if I could finish up writing at least one blog per day.But now I feel more confident and realize that I enjoy what I am doing.

You can take a look at http://www.blipfoto.com/malini ,where I blip photos daily and feel like that am making good use of camera.Thanks to my dear husband who has been helping me a lot in these things!!

Thanks a lot to my family who has been encouraging me in my endeavors.