House Of Spice

Ingredients:

1 cup paneer ( cubed )
1 onion (sliced)
1 tomato ( sliced )
1 tsp ginger- garlic paste

1 tbsp coriander seeds ( crushed)
2 red chillies ( crushed)
1 tsp red chilly powder
1/2 tsp jeera
2 cloves
1 inch cinnamon stick
1 bay leaf
few sprigs coriander leaves
salt to taste
oil

Method:

Heat oil in a kadai, add jeera, cloves, cinamon stick, bay leaf , crushed red chillies and crushed coriander seeds, saute for few minutes.
Now add onion and ginger -garlic paste and saute until golden brown, add red chilly powder.
Add in the tomatoes and cooked until soft, add the paneer pieces, salt to taste and cook until done.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with roti or naan.

Recipe source : Sanjeer Kapoor

Hi all......its been a weeks i posted anything on my blog and i feel that i was away from you all for long. We had to leave for Santa Barbara for a few days, as R had to be there. A small lovely city that i fell in love a lot, enjoyed a lot and now back home.

Ingredients:
1 lb Boneless chicken ( cut in strips)
1 onions ( cut in strips )
1 Bell peppers/ capsicum ( cut in strips)
3 garlic pods ( chopped)
spring onions for garnishing( chopped)

Marinating sauce:
1 tsp green chilly sauce
1 tsp tomato sauce
1/2 tsp soya sauce
1 tsp pepper powder
1/2 tsp crushed red chilly
1/2 tsp ginger- garlic paste
1/2 tsp lime juice
1 tsp oil
salt


Method:
Clean and cut chicken into 1 inch strips.
In a bowl add chicken, green chilly sauce, tomato sauce, soya sauce, pepper powder, crush red chilly,ginger-garlic paste, lime juice salt, oil and mix well.
Let it marinate for about 2 hrs or at least over night.
In a kadai, heat oil, add garlic and the chicken pieces, and dry saute it until cooked on medium to high heat.
Once done remove the chicken pieces from the kadai.
Heat oil in the same kadai adding onions and the bell peppers, and saute for a few min. ( the onions and the peppers should still be crunchy)
Add the cooked chicken to the onions and the peppers and mix well.
Garnish with green onions and serve hot.

Note: Please adjust everything according to your own taste buds :)

Thenga archa Sambar / Pacha thenga aracha Sambar/ Sambar with coconut paste. Its the same method of cubing the vegetables, cooking dal and mixing it with the vegetables, but the masala added is grated coconut, chilly powder , jeera and a few shallots, and tastes totally different from the usual sambar, and in which coriander seeds and coriander powder is totally avoided.

Ingredients:
3 cups Vegetables( 1 big potato, 1/2 cucumber, 1 carrot, 4-5 beans, 2 brinjal, 4-5 okra, 1 drumcticks, 1/2 snake gourd, few pumpkin pieces, 3-4 green chillies)
1 cup toor dal
1 cup shallots halfed / big onion cubed
1 1/2 tbsp tamarind juice ( from a lime sized tamarind pulp)
2 pinch of asafoetida/ hing
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
salt to taste
oil

For Grinding:
1 cup grated coconut
1 tbsp red chilly powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp jeera
3 shallots

For Tempering:
1/2 tsp mustard
3-4 red chillies
few curry leaves

Method:
Pressure cook the dal adding hing, turmeric powder and 2 shallots. ( adding shallots adds on extra flavour, its optional ).
Soak the tamarind pulp and extract the juice and keep it aside.
Cut all the vegetables into cube size , boil it adding very little salt.
Add the cooked dal to the vegetables also adding the tamarind extract.
Grind the ingredients for the masala to a fine paste, add it to the dal - vegetable mix and cook.
Heat oil in a tempering pan add mustard, red chillies and curry leaves, when the mustard starts spluttering transfer it to the cooked sambar.
Serve hot with rice, pappad and pickle.

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One of the snacks that kids always love to have. We always loved cutlets and mom made lovely ones. this is my mom's recipe and i hope you all would love it too :)

Ingredients:
500 gram chicken
1/2 tsp pepper powder
1/2 tsp garam masala
1 smashed green chilly
1 small piece smashed ginger
salt to taste

1 big onion ( chopped )
2 potatoes ( boiled and peeled )
1 inch ginger ( chopped)
3-4 green chillies
1/4 tsp garam masala
1/4 tsp pepper powder
1 cup bread crumbs
1 egg
few curry leaves ( chopped)
salt to taste
oil

Method:
Boil the chicken with garam masala , pepper powder, ginger, green chilly and salt.
Debone and cut the chicken into small pieces.
Boil the potatoes and smash it.
Heat oil in a kadai and saute onions, green chillies, ginger, curry leaves, pepper powder, garam masala, and mix well until the onions turn translucent.
Add the chopped chicken pieces and mix well,now add the potatoes and add salt if needed, and mix, let it cool.
Once cooled , roll into balls and flat it or any of your choice.
Beat the egg, dip the cutlet first in the egg and then coat with bread crumbs.
Deep fry it in oil, until golden in colour.
Serve hot with any sauce of your choice.

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Well,as i got to know recently this is a famous recipe in Tamilnadu, and very well known as "Yenna Kathirikka".

Ingredients:
5 medium sized bringals ( baby bringal are perfect )
1 big onion thinly sliced
1/2 tbsp red chilly powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tbsp tamarind juice
2 sprigs coriander leaves
1/2 cup water ( adjust accordingly)
salt to taste
oil

For grinding:

1/2 tbsp grated coconut
5 shallots
3 garlic pods
3 red chillies ( adjust according to taste)
4 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp jeera
1/2 tsp pepper
1 pinch turmeric powder

For tempering:

1/2 tsp mustard
1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
2 red chillies
curry leaves
oil

Method:

Wash and slit open the bringals and marinate with red chilly powder, turmeric powder and salt with very little water for a few mins.
Heat 2tbsp oil in a pan and saute the bringals until half done and all the sides turn a dark colour, and keep it aside.
In the same kadai saute onions till translucent.
Add the fried bringals, ground paste, tamarind juice, salt and mix well.
Add 1/2 a cup of water and let the bringal get cooked.
Add coriander leaves.
Now for the tempering, heat oil in a pan add mustard, fenugreek seeds, red chillies and curry leaves, once the mustard starts spluttering, transfer it to the dish.
Serve hot with rice.

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2. Ur hair: Black
3. Ur mother: sweet
4. Ur father: loving
5. Ur favorite food: appam and stew
6. Ur dream last night: i was fast asleep
7. Ur favorite drink: Cold Coffee
8. Ur dream/goal: be what i want to
9. What room r u in: living room
10. Ur hobby: painting ,music,i just don't stick on one
11. Ur fear: insects
12. Where do u want to be in 6 years: visiting India
13. Where were u last night: @ home
14. Something u aren’t: hmm....
15. Muffins: none
16. Wish list item: amma's lovely dishes
17. Where did u grow up: trivandrum
18. Last thing u did: cleaned our room
19. What are u wearing: nite suit
20. Ur TV: its off
21. Ur pets: no way
22. Ur friends: very few
23. Ur life: enjoying to the core
24. Ur mood: calm
25. Missing someone: parents and bro
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29. Ur favorite color: Dark green
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Ingredients:
1 cup button mushroom
1 cup onion ( diced)
1/2 cup bell peppers / capsicum ( diced)
3- 4 green chillies ( chopped)
4-5 cloves of garlic ( chopped )
1 inch garlic ( chopped )
4 tbsp tomato sauce
2 tbsp chilly sauce / sweet and chilly sauce
3 tsp soya sauce
1 tsp corn flour
spring onions / coriander leaves
salt to taste

For the batter:
1/4 cup maida
3 tsp cornflour
1 tsp red chilly powder
1/2 tsp pepper powder
1/4 tsp soya sauce
1 tsp ginger- garlic paste
salt to taste

Method:

Mix all the ingredients for the batter into a thick consistency like dosa batter, adding water as needed, and add the diced mushrooms.
Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry the mushroom till crisp and golden colour.
Heat oil in a kadai,add chopped ginger and garlic,green chillies, onions and bell pepper, saute for couple of mins.
Add the sauces and mix well.
Mix 1 tsp corn flour with 1/4 cup of water and add it to the vegetables, also add salt if needed.
Boil it to a thick sauce consistency and add the fried mushrooms mix well until all the mushrooms are coated with the sauce.
Garnish with spring onions and serve hot.