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Today's recipe is a very flavorful,delicious and creamy chicken curry which goes very well with roti and rice.As the name indicates,the fresh methi leaves are used to flavor the curry and the highlight of the recipe is the addition of coconut milk.Coconut milk gives a very nice taste and consistency now on to the recipe.... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Chicken(with bones) 1lb Onion(chopped) 2nos. Fresh Methi leaves/vendhaya keerai 1cup Green chilly(slit) 4nos. Ginger&garlic paste 1tsp Coriander leaves(chopped) 2tbs Curry leaves(chopped) 1 sprigs Thick Coconut milk 1/3cup Lemon juice 1tsp Salt 1/4tsp Oil 2tbs For the marination Ingredient Quantity Red chilly powder 2tsp Coriander powder 1tsp Garam masala powder 1/2tsp Turmeric powder 1/8tsp Ginger&garlic paste 11/2tsp Yogurt/thayir 2tsp Salt 1tsp For tempering Ingredient Quantity Cumin seeds/jeeragam 1/2tsp Fennel seeds/sombhu 1/4tsp Cloves/lavangam 2nos. Cinnamon/pattai 1inch ...

As the weather here is so cold,making me lazy and not in a mood of cooking anything.Unfortunately no quality Indian restaurants around so I have to cook something simple and light.Finally decided to make milagu kulambhu as it doesn't need onion and garlic so no chopping can be finished in less than 30 minutes.My mom makes this kulambhu slightly in a different way which I share it later but this recipe is from my mom's collegue who doesn't eat onion and garlic.I paired up this kulambhu with carrot poriyal(stirfry) using the chopped frozen carrot and home made arisi vathal (fryum),had a healthy meal.Here goes the recipe................................ Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Tamarind/puli small lemon size Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/4tsp Channa dhal/kadala paruppu 11/2tbs Red chilly/varamilagai 3-4nos. Black pepper corns/milagu 1tbs Cumin seeds/jeeragam 11/2tsp Curry leaves/karivepillai 1 sprig Salt to taste Oil 2tbs For the tempering Ingred...

This post has been lying in my drafts since 4 months and finally today I am sharing this healthy powder. Mathathakkali is called as black night shade both the leaves of this plant and berries are used to treat ulcer in natural medicine These dried berries are slightly bitter in taste but it has lots of medicinal value and is used in traditional medicine. This powder is  mixed with rice along with a dash of ghee or sesame oil and given especially in the postpartum period as it has healing property.Here is the recipe........................ Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Manathathakkali Vatral/dried berries 1/4cup Red chilly/varamilagai 3nos. Channa dhal/kadala paruppu 1tbs Urad dhal/uluttham paruppu 1tbs Cumin seeds/jeeragam 1tsp Black pepper/milagu 1tsp Curry leaves/kerivepeillai 1sprig Asafoetida/perungayam a generous pinch Salt to taste Method Dry roast the red chilly,channa dhal,urad dhal,black pepper and cumin seeds in a medium flame in a pa...

This is my mom's recipe which goes very with almost everything such as roti,paratha,rice and pulao.Whenever we have get together or guests this one will be in her menu,if cauliflower is not available she replaces it with either potato or soya chunks.This is a creamy and delicious kurma with coconut base and coconut paste needs to be finely ground to get a creamy texture.Here goes the recipe.............................. Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Cauliflower florets 2cups Chickpeas/channa(cooked) 1cup Onion(thinly sliced) 1no.(medium size) Garlic(thinly sliced) 3 cloves Tomato 2-3nos.( Green Chilly(slit) 3nos. Coriander leaves(chopped) 2tbs Curry leaves(chopped) 1 sprig Mint leaves(optional) 10-15 leaves Chilly Powder/milagai podi 11/4tsp Coriander powder/dhaniya podi 1tsp Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/8tsp Garam masala powder 1/4tsp Lemon juice 1tsp Salt 11/2tsp Oil 1tbs For the seasoning Ingredient Quantity Cloves/lavangam 4-5nos. Cinnamon...

Most of our weekend lunch or dinner is non-veg,depending on the availability of ingredients it will be either a simple Chicken fry and rasam or Chicken Pulao and Chicken Curry . Last week my kiddo was down with flu and cold wanted to give some chicken soup.As we make the chicken soup with boned chicken  got a big pack of chicken drumstick which is more for 3 of us.After making the soup for couple of days wanted to try something  with the remained drumsticks but not in a mood to make biriyani or Tandoori chicken.Suddenly got the idea of making fry with it which I had it in my sister's place last time to pair it with rasam for dinner.It was a so delicious and the chicken was cooked perfectly and made in less than 30 minutes.The only thing is chicken needs to be marinated for atleast 4-5 hours.I marinated the chicken in the morning and made it in the evening,now on to the recipe.................... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Chicken drumstick 5-6nos. Onio...