Broccoli with Potato Curry

Broccoli with Potato Curry Recipe

Preparation Time : 20 min
Cooking Time : 30 min
Yield :3-4 People
Ingredients:
Broccoli  – 3 cups
Potatoes – 3 medium
Tomatoes – 2 medium
Onions – 2 medium 
Garlic crushed - 1tspn
Green chillies – 4 slit lengthwise
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp.
Red Chilli powder – 1tsp.
Coriander powder – 1tsp
Oil – 2 tbsp.
Cumin Seeds – 1 tspn.
Mustard seeds -1 tspn
Curry leaves -4
Coriander leaves - for garnish
Salt - to taste
Direction :
Wash and peel the potatoes and cut them it into cubes.Chop the onion and tomato and keep a side.Cut the broccoli into small florets,wash and blanch them by putting them in boiling water and letting them remain in the water for a few minutes,then drain the water completely.Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds,cumin seeds.Once the splutter,add crushed garlic,chopped onions and green chillis. Add turmeric powder,chilli powder,curry leaves and chopped tomatoes and cook until they are fully cooked.Then add chopped potato pieces and put the lid.Cook them for about 5 min. and add broccoli florets.Add salt and mix very well. Cook them for about 10 min. and add some coriander powder and mix it.Done. Garnish with coriander leaves.Enjoy with rice or roti. 

Mushrooms stuffed with fish

Preparation Time : 10 min

Cooking Time :20 min

Yield :4 people

Ingredients
Mushrooms - 18 or 1 and half lbs
Fish pieces - 100 gms
Onion - 1 small chopped
Cream cheese - 8 oz  at Room temperature
Chiili sauce or hot sauce - 1 tblspn
Black pepper - 1 tspn
Salt - To taste
Butter - 1 tblspn
Monterey jack cheese - 3/4 cup grated
Bread grams - for garnish
Directions:
First clean the mushrooms and remove the stems.Don't throw the mushroom stems away,chop them finely and put them a side.Heat butter in a pan and add chopped onions and chopped mushroom stems.Fry them for about 5 -6 min.
Heat oil in a pan and add fish and cook it for about 5 minutes and add salt and pepper.Then, add  onions and mix it well. Add chilli sauce and cream cheese and give it a good mix.Mash the cooked fish with spoon.It should be like a dip.Add salt if you need more. Stuff the mushrooms with the cheese and fish dip and put it in the baking tray.Finally take the shredded cheese and put it on top of each stuffed mushroom and sprinkle with bread grams.Now spray it with some olive oil and bake them at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about 12 to 15 min.Enjoy!!  
Note:For the mushrooms I used portabella mushrooms.You can use any kind of mushrooms.You can prepare this with shrimp or crab too.For shredded cheese I used montery jack cheese but,you can use any kind of cheese.For vegetarians skip fish and use the paneer but,the process is same.Don't over cook the stuffed mushroom.It will take time process,but it is worth it.

Apollo Fish Fry

Preparation Time : 10 min

Cooking Time :20 min

Yield :4 people

Ingredients
Fish Fillets - 1lb (boneless and skin less) 
Green chillis -3 chopped
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tspn
Egg - 1
All purpose flour- 1 tblspn
Corn flour -2 tblspn
Curd -1 tspn
Soy sauce - 1 tspn
Turmeric powder
chilli flakes - 1tspn
Chilli powder - 1 tspn
Coriander powder - 1 tspn
Salt - to taste
Oil -for deep fry
Lemon juice - 1tspn
Directions:
Take bowl add fish pieces and wash with vinegar and water then add salt, ginger garlic paste, chilly powder, turmeric powder, mix it well, add egg, corn starch, all purpose flour,mix this well and deep fry them, keep it aside.Heat oil in a pan add ginger garlic paste, green chilies, curry leaves, coriander powder,salt, soy sauce, curd, chilli flakes, chopped coriander leaves,cook this some time and add fried fish toss it and add lime juice.Enjoy!!
Note:I used tilapia fillets.You can use any kind of fish.Recipe is adapted from Vahrehvah.com.

Milk Fish Curry

Milk Fish Curry Recipe

Preparation Time : 20 min
Cooking Time : 35 min
Yield :3-4 People
Ingredients:
Fresh Milk fish pieces -2 lbs
Onions -2 medium chopped
Tamarind - 1 big lemon size
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tspn size
Chilli powder - 1 tblspn or to taste
Cumin seeds - 1 tblspn
Methi seeds - 1 tspn
Coriander and cumin powder - 1 tspn
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tspn
Salt - to taste
Oil -3 tblspn
Cilantro - for garnish
Directions:
First wash the fish pieces thoroughly.Add some salt and put it a side.Heat 1 tspn oil and fry cumin and methi seeds. Add chopped onion and fry them. switch off the flame and keep a side.When it is completely cool grind them into a fine paste. Heat oil in a pan and add ginger garlic paste and onion paste and fry it. Add turmeric and chilli powder and fish pieces in it.Add tamarind juice,salt and bring it to boil.Add water if you need.Add coriander and cumin powder and cook for until the soup thickens. Garnish with coriander leaves. If the fish pulusu is completely cool it tastes great.Enjoy with Jowar roti (jonna rotte) or rice.

Carrot Fry

Preparation Time : 10 min

Cooking Time :20 min

Yield :4 people

Ingredients
Carrots-4 
Onion - 1 chopped
Chilli powder -1 tspn or to taste
Salt - to taste
Oil - 3 tblspn
Mustard Seeds - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves -4
Coriander powder- 1/2 tspn
Cilantro - To garnish
Directions:
Peel the carrots skin and chop them into small pieces.
Add oil into a pan and when it is hot add Mustard Seeds,and curry leaves and turmeric powder.
Add Onions and wait till onion turns golden brown. 
To this add chopped carrots.Close the lid until carrots are almost cooked, add salt,chilli powder and coriander powder.
Close with lid for about a min and then remove from stove top. Garnish with cilantro. 
Serve with rice and sambar  or eat with roti. Enjoy!

Onion Pakoda

Preparation Time : 15 min

Cooking Time :10 min

Yield :4 people

Ingredients:
Onion - 2 large thinly sliced
Besan / gram flour - 2tblspn
Rice Flour - 1tspn
Red chilli powder - 1tsp
Curry leaves – few
Coriander / cilantro Leaves – few (chopped)
Oil - for deep frying
Salt - to taste
Directions:
First take a big bowl and add sliced onions,besan,rice flour,chilli powder,curry leaves, coriander leaves and salt in it.Mix it very well. No excess water required because when you wash the onions they would have left some water.
Heat the oil in a pan.When the oil is hot, take some mixture in hand and drop them in oil little by little.Deep fry them.
Crispy onion pakoda is ready. Enjoy!! 

Khova / Mawa in a microwave

Preparation Time : 5 min

Cooking Time :5 min

Yield :4 people
Ingredients:

Sweetened condensed milk - 14 oz can
Ghee -1 tspn
Curd / yogurt -2 tspn
Directions:
 Mix all the ingredients together in a microwave safe bowl.Put it in the microwave for 3min.Remove from microwave and mix it then put it again for about 2 min.It will look like bubble up.
Mix it and put it again for another  2min.Remove from microwave and mix it.It's like crumbly. Easy khoya is ready.
It tastes great.You can use it in any kind of sweets.
Note:My Microwave is 750 watts.

Vegetable and cheese Quesadilla

Preparation Time : 10 min

Cooking Time :10 min

Yield :2 people

Ingredients:

Tortilla - 2 (I used store bought)
Olive Oil - 2 tblspn
Garlic - 2 cloves chopped finely
Onion - 1 medium size sliced thinly
Capsicum / Bell Pepper - 1/2 sliced thinly
Mushrooms - 5 chopped 
Black olives -6 chopped
Squash - half chopped
Italian seasoning -1 tsp 
Salt to taste
Red chilli sauce - 1 tblspn
Mozzarella/Colby jack cheese- as needed
Directions:
First Heat oil in a pan.Add garlic and fry them.Add onions and all the above vegetables in it.saute for 2 min.Add chilli sauce,salt and Italian seasoning in it.Cook it till it mixed up very well.The stuffing ready now.

Take one tortilla and filled with vegetable stuffing and top with cheese.

Close with another tortilla.

Heat the pan and put the stuffed tortilla in the pan.Care fully turn both sides and cook with little oil.

Take out from the pan and cut it into 4 pieces.

Enjoy with sour cream!!

Daddojanam

Preparation Time : 15 min

Cooking Time :10 min

Yield :4 people

Ingredients:
Rice - 1 cup
Water -3 cups
Curd/ Yogurt - 4 cups
Salt -according to taste
For tempring:
Oil -1/4 tbsp.
Cumin seeds- 1 tsp.
Mustard seeds -1/2 tsp
Urad dal -1 tsp
Curry leaves -5
cilantro 5 sprigs chopped
Green chillies: 2 slit lengthwise
Red chillis -2 pieces
Directions:

Soak the rice in water for 1 hr.Add the water and cook the rice till it is done.Let it cool down.

Add curd and salt to the cooked rice, mix it very well.Heat the oil in a pan.When the oil is hot add the tempering ingredients one by one and fry them.

Let the tempering cool down and mix it to the curd rice

Garnish with cilantro.Enjoy!!

Pala Thalikalu / Thalikala Payasam

Happy Vinayaka Chavithi...May lord Ganapathi bring happiness and peace to all.This sweet is a must have on Vinayaka Chavithi.This is a rich sweet made of  hand made noodles  and sugar.

Preparation Time : 30 min

Cooking Time :40 min

Yield :4-6 people

Ingredients:
Wheat flour-3/4 cup 
Rice flour - 4 tsp
Ghee - 1/2 tbsp
Milk-2 cups
Sugar/jaggery - 2 cups
Cardomam powder- 1/2 tsp
Water -4 cups
Dry fruits -for garnish
Directions:

First take wheat flour and make into a chapathi dough and put aside.Take rice flour and make into a batter.
Now take the dough little by little and roll the dough on your fingers to form noodle shape.Make the noodles out of all the dough.
Next take 4 cups of water in a saucepan and bring them to a boil.Add ghee in the boiling water and add the hand made noodles and boil them for 15 min.Add sugar and boil it for about 3 min. Wait until sugar is dissolved.
Add rice flour batter and mix it slowly,while you are mixing the sauce will be thickened. When the sauce thickened add cardamom powder and hot milk. Cook for another 3 min.
Now switch off the flame.if you want you can add dry fruits. Enjoy!!

Sweet Pongal /Paramannam

Preparation Time : 10 min

Cooking Time :20-30 min

Yield :4 people

Ingredients:
Rice – 1 cup
Moong dal -1 cup
jaggery – 2 cups grated
Ghee – 2 tblspn
Dry fruits -few
Water – 4 cups
Milk -half cup
Cardamom powder -half tspn  
Directions: 
First wash the rice and moong dal. Now take a pressure cooker and add 4 cups of water ,now add the rice and moong dal and close the cooker. Cook till you get 3 whistles.
let it cool down, then open the lid and put on low flame and add 2 cups of grated jaggery and cook till it melts.
Now add milk,cardomam powder and ghee.Mix it very well and cook for about 3 min.Lastly add the fried dry fruits in ghee and switch off the flame. Enjoy!! 

Mango Pulihora

Mamidikaya Pulihora

Preparation Time : 20 min

Cooking Time :10 min

Yield :4 people

Ingredients:
Green mango - 1 big 
Cooked rice - 3 cups
Salt - to taste
For tempering:
Oil - 4tsp
Cashews - 2tsp
Ground nuts - 4t
Channa dal - 2tsp
Mustard - 1tsp
Jeera - 1tsp
Green chillies - 4
Red chillies (dry)  - 3
Turmeric powder - pinch
Curry leaves - few
Black pepper corns-few
Directions:
Peel the mango & grate it.Take the cooked rice in a bowl and add grated mango and salt.Mix gently with your fingers.Make sure the rice should be completely cool.

Now prepare the tempering (Thalimpu)

Heat the oil in a pan on medium flame.Now add all ingredients one by one and fry them.Next switch off the flame and put a side.

When the mixture is cools down mix with rice. 

Mango pulihora is ready.

Green Mango Halwa

Preparation Time : 10 min

Cooking Time :20-30 min

Yield :10-15 pieces

Ingredients:
Green Mango - shredded 1 cup
Sugar -1.5 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Ghee - 1 tblspn
Food color -optional
Dry fruits - for garnish
Directions:
Heat ghee in a pan and fry the shredded green mango for about 5 min.

Add milk and cook until the milk is fully evaporated.Keep stirring in between.

Add color and sugar.Then cook it on medium low.

After a while the mixture become loosen, keep stirring the halwa until it thickened.

Pour the mixture on to a greased tray with ghee and rest for 2 to3 hours.

Cut the mango halwa into pieces.Sweet and tangy halwa is ready.Garnish with nuts.