Adai

INGREDIENTS

Idly rice – 1 cup

Raw rice  -  ¼ cup

Toor dal – ¼ cup

Channa dal – 1 tblsp

Fennel seeds – 1 tblsp

Whole pepper – 1 tblsp

Red chillies -  2

Salt -  1 tblsp

Mustard seeds – 1 tblsp

Hing - little

Curry leaves – few

Chopped onion – few

PROCEDURE

1.      Soak the idli rice, raw rice, toor dal, channa dal in water for 3 hours

2.      After 3 hours, add the soaked ingredients in mixie or blender. Add fennel seeds, pepper, salt, red chillies, hing to it.

 

 

3.      Now grind all those in a mixie or blender to dosa batter conssistency

6. Now for tempering, heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. Once it splutters, add curry leaves and onions.

 

 

7. once onion turns golden brown, add it to the  adai batter

8. Adjust the batter consistency with water according to your preference

9. now prepare adai in dosa tawa as we do for dosa

10. Crispy adai is ready. Enjoy it along with chutney

THINGS TO KNOW:

1.      Do not add too much water

2.      Batter will not be very smooth as dosa batter

3.      Have it along with jaggery

Vadacurry

PREP TIME: 20 mins

COOK TIME: 15 mins

SERVING SIZE:4 nos

INGREDIENTS:

Channa dal-1 cup

Onions-4(medium sized)

Tomato-2

Cloves-2

Curry leaves-few

Cinnamon stick-a little one

Finely chopped garlic-few

Coriander powder-3 tblsp

Red Chilli powder-1 tblsp

Salt-1 tblsp

Water- 2 cups

Oil-1 tblsp

PROCEDURE:

1.      Soak channa dal in water the previous night.

2.      Now grind the dal along with salt in mixie or blender.( do not grind it into a fine paste)

3.      Now  roll it as vadas and fry it in oil.

    

       

4.      Heat oil in kadai. Add cinnamon stick and cloves to it. Then onions.

5.      Once the onions turns golden brown, add tomatoes ,garlic and curry leaves.

6.      Now pierce the vadas into small pieces and add to it.

7.      Now add the red chilli powder ,coriander powder ,salt and coconut.

                                     

8.      Now mix it well and add water.

9.      Leave it for 10 mins. Once it gets the bubbles it’s done.

                                     

THINGS TO KNOW:

1.      If you don’t want to fry it in oil then you can boil it in your idly pot.

2.      It goes really well with pooris.

3.      Do not add the garlic paste instead of chopped garlic.

Chettinad Mutton Chukka

CHETTINAD MUTTON CHUKKA

  

Preparation Time:10 mins

Cooking Time :1 hour

Servings :3 person.

  

INGREDIENTS:

Mutton(In overseas call it as Goat) -1/2 kg

Onions-4(medium sized)

Salt- a pinch

Turmeric-a pinch

Red chilli powder-1 tblsp

Red chilies-3

Lemon juice – 4 drops

Ginger garlic paste-1 tblsp

Mint leaves-few

Corainder leaves-few

Jeera powder-2 tblsp.

Oil.

PROCEDURE:

1. Wash the mutton and marinate it with salt and turmeric.

2. Now pressure cook the mutton with little amount of water

3. Heat oil in a pan and add red chilies and onions.

4.Once the onion turns golden brown add the pressure cooked mutton and ginger garlic paste.

5. Cover the pan with a cap for 10 mins.

6. Then add red chilli powder, salt

7. Cover it again for 30 mis in LOW(I mean the less fire). In between you can check whether the mutton is not getting sticked to the pan.

8. In meanwhile grind the coriander leaves as well the mint leaves without adding water.

9. Now add the coriander mint mixture,jeera powder as well the lemon juice to the mutton.

10. Cover it again for 10 minutes.

The fantastic CHETTINAD MUTTON CHUKKA is ready.

THINGS TO KNOW:

1.      If mutton gets sticked to the pan add little amount of oil

2.      If you feel the spice is less you can add the crushed black pepper in the end.

3.      Once you are done you can add lots of coriander leaves and curry leaves to it for the awesome aroma.

Paal Paniyaram

Paal paniyaram is one of the most famous authentic chettinad dish. For the first time when I tried it was not that much good but okay. But this time I really got it well and the milk balls were so soft.  The mistake which I have did in the first time is measurement. But this time I have got the correct measurement from my mom and resulted well  J

PREP TIME: 10 mins

COOK TIME: 10 mins

SERVING SIZE: 2 bowl

INGREDIENTS:

Raw rice (Pachai Arisi)

Urad dal

Cocnut – 4 tbsp

Coconut milk

Caradamom /Elachi (optional)

Oil

Salt

PROCEDURE:

1.       This is the measuring tumbler which I used. You can use yours by manipulating with this.

2.         And now  soak  1 cup of rice and ½ cup of urad dal  in a water  for about  3 hours(minimum in a same bowl).

      

 

3.       Now add the coconut to the blender or mixie an d grind it without adding water.

4.       Now grind the mixture in a blender or mixie by using little amount of water and also by adding 1 tlsp of salt.

5.       And now achieve the consistency similar to that of idly batter.( not very thick as vada batter as well as not very watery as dosa batter)

6.       Now heat oil in a pan and small small balls with your hands as shown in the picture.

7.       Simultaneously prepare the coconut milk and add some caradamomi on that . I did not use that because I don’t have it at that time.

8.       Now add the panoyaram to the milk.

9.       Have it after 10 minutes. Im sure you’ll have such a delicious dessert

NOTE:

1.       Do not use the regular milk. It will not give you the exact taste.

2.       Use  the milk you got for the first three times.

3.       Do not freeze it and reheat it

Kadappa

Kadappa is one of the most famous dishes in chettinad.  People in chettinad do have kadappa with idlies as well as poori. Im sure that you’ll like it …..

INGREDIENTS:

Fennel seeds / sombu – 2 tblsp

Grated Cocnut – 1 cup

Garlic – 3 cloves

Ginger – a small piece

Roasted gram – 2 tblsp

Red chilli – 1

Onions – 2

Tomatoes – 2

Cloves / kirambu – 2

Red gram- 1 tblsp

Oil – 1 tblsp

Curry leaves  - few

Water and salt

PROCEDURE:

1.       Add the  coconut, ginger, roasted gram, garlic, fennel seeds in a mixie or blender and grind it by adding little amount of water.

2.       Now add the red chilli to it and grind again. You can use green chilly if you don’t have red chillies.

3.       Now add oil in a kadai and add fennel seeds , curry leaves and also cloves to it . once it splutters add the onions. And once it turns golden brown add the tomatoes. Along with that add red gram.

4.       Once the tomatoes turns mushy add the grinded mixture to it and also salt. Then close it partially with a plate.

5.        And finally kadappa is ready…

Dosa Batter

When we live in abroad we’ll not able to get grinder. So we’ll not able to do idly or dosas. But im sure that we can prepare dosa with a blender or mixie.  JJJ so yummy yummy crispy dosa will be ready

PREP TIME: 10 mins

SERVING SIZE: 25 dosas

INGREDIENTS:

Idly rice - 1 ¼ cup

Urad dal – ¾ cup

Fengrueek seeds – 1 tblsp

Salt – 1 tblsp

Water – little

PROCEDURE:

1.       Soak the rice and urad dal in a water separately. And also add the fengrueek seeds to the rice soaked in water

2.       After 4 hours wash both the urad dal and rice. Now grind the rice and urad dal separately in a blender. And then combine both the batter  evenly.

3.       Now add the salt to it and mix well along with little amount of water.

THINGS TO KNOW:

1.       If you live in abroad fermentation will not happen. So turn on an oven for 5 minutes ( at low heat).  And keep the batter inside the oven before you go to sleep and the next day the batter is ready to use.

2.       Add the water little by little while grinding

3.       If the batter is too thick add some amount of water to it and mix it evenly

Grilled Chicken

PREP TIME: 5 mins

COOK TIME: 20 mins

SERVING SIZE : 3 person

INGREDIENTS:

1 half of chicken breast ( boneless , skinless)

Oil spray

Paprika / red chilli powder

Lemon pepper / lemon juice and pepper

Dry parsley leaves / dry coriander leaves

Dry basil leaves

Whole oregano (optional )

1 little tablespoon of oil

Onion powder

Garlic powder

Italian bread crumbs / normal bread crumbs

  

PROCEDURE:

1.       First  cut the chicken into 3 slices as shown

2.       Now add the ingredients one by one on the top of it as shown

3.       Now spread the bread crumbs in a plate

4.       Now take one slice and dip it in the bread crumbs

5.       Heat oil in a pan as well as oil spray. Then add the slices one by one on the side where the ingredients are applied.

6.       Now add all the ingredients and bread crumbs on the other side of the chicken

7.       Fry the chicken for 8 minutes on both the sides.

8.       Now serve it with a ketchup and fries.

THINGS TO KNOW:

1.       If you do not get a chicken breast you can get a boneless chicken and make it ready

2.       You can either have a side of sweet corn or chips and also a soda

3.       Make sure your chicken is clean and also deep fry it until a chicken gets boiled.