Diced Chicken With Cashew Nuts

Ever since we had this dish from Lerk Thai we became a fan of this. Till this time we only had it in restaurants. Then I thought it is high time we try it at home. Mmmm and my hubby took charge of this. And wow... it came really wonderful!!!

Ingredients:
Chicken Breast - 500 gm (Cut in to 1.5 cm cubes)
Button Mushrooms - 5 (Discard stem and cut in to 4)
Carrot - 1 (Cut in to 1 cm cubes)
Onion - 1 (Cut in to 1 cm cubes)
Ginger - 1 inch piece (Slice in to thin long pieces)
Baby Corn - 2-3 (Chop in to 1 cm pieces)
Capsicum - 1 (Chop in to 1.5 cm cubes)
Spring Onion - 5 (Chop in to 1 inch length)
Cashew Nuts - 10-15 Roasted
Light Soy Sauce - 1.5 t spoon
Oyster Sauce - 2 t spoon
Corn Flour - 1 t spoon
Salt - 1.5 t spoon
Coriander Leaves - 1-2 sprig for garnishing
Oil - 3 table spoon

Preparation:

1. Put chicken cubes, corn flour and 1 t spoon salt in a bowl, mix well & set aside for around 30 mins
2. Heat 1 table spoon oil in a wok. Stir-fry mushrooms & carrots for 1 min & dish out
3. To heated wok, add seasoned chicken & stir-fry until cooked. Dish out and wash wok
4. Heat 2 table spoon oil in the wok & fry onion pcs until transparent
5. Return fried chicken, mushrooms & carrots to the wok, then add young corn, ginger, remaining salt & stir-fry for 1 – 2 mins
6. Add green capsicums, spring onions, roasted cashew nuts, soy & oyster sauce and stir well

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot (I ran out of coriander, so used capsicum for garnishing ;))

Thanks Beena for remembering and sharing it with me. Sorry for publishing it too late..

I would like to share these awards with my blogger friends

Kairali sisters

Sushma

Deepa

Sangi

Gayathri

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Parippum Kaayayum Curry (Dal Plantain Curry) & Awards

Nowadays we are quite busy as we have to move to another house. Need to pack up all our items. So I was not in a mood to update the blog. I had a left over plaintain, and I was thinking what to prepare with 1 plaintain and idea sparked from my hubby. Without any thoughts, prepared this and thought of updating my blog.

Ingredients:
Plantain - 1 (Chopped into medium pieces)
Toor dal - 1/2 cup
Shallots - 5 no.s (chopped into half)
Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
Cumin seeds - 1/4 t spoon
Turmeric powder - 1/4 t spoon
Red chilly powder - 1/4 t spoon
Dried Red chillies - 4 no.s
Garlic - 2no.s ( chopped into fine pieces)
Curry Leaves - few
Salt - to taste
Mustard seeds - 1/2 t spoon
Cooking oil - 1 table spoon


Preparation:

1. Soak dal for 30mins.
2. Cook dal & plaintain pieces in a pressure cooker with 1 cup of water,turmeric powder, chilly powder, salt & cook for 1 to 2 whistle.
3. Grind coconut with cumin seeds and make a paste.
4. Add the coconut paste to the cooked dal,3/4 cup water & then cook over low flame for about 3 minutes.
5. Heat a pan and add oil. Splutter Mustard seeds, dried red chillies, garlic, shallots, curry leaves. Transfer these contents to the curry.
6. A good combo with white rice & fish fry.

Here comes the Awards. I apologise to all my blogger friends as i couldn't comment to their recent posts and couldn't publish the awards too. Sorry for the delay friends.
Awards from Beena & Jagruthi

Thank you so much dearies. 

Now, it's not enough just to grab this award, there are conditions and obligations in receiving it:
Requirements:-
I must thank the person who gave me the award and list their blog and link it
I must list 10 honest things about myself
I must put a copy of Honest Scrap logo on my blog
I must select atleast 7 other worthy bloggers and list their links
I must notify the bloggers of the award and hopefully they will follow the above three requirements also.

Here comes the award from Ruchi bedhangal & Deepa

Thank you so much dear. To know more about me please visit here.

I would like to share these 2 awards with
Cicily
Tina
Fathima
Vineetha
Sangi
Rekha
Sushma

Njoy!!!!!!!

Ginger Chicken And Awards

Ingredients:
Chicken : 250 gm boneless, chopped into small pieces.
Light Soy Sauce : 1 1/2 t spoon
Vinegar : 1 t spoon
Corn Flour : 1 t spoon
Cooking Oil : 1 1/2 table spoon
Onion : 1 medium
Green Chilly : 2 nos
Coriander Leaves : 4 sprigs (Cut off the stem portion)
Curry Leaves : 1 sprig
Ginger Garlic Paste : 1 t spoon
Ginger : 1 1/2 inch (Finely sliced length wise (3/4 inch))
Black Pepper Powder : 1 t spoon
Salt : To taste

Preparation:

1. Marinate the chopped chicken pieces with vinegar, soy sauce, corn flour and a little salt and keep it for 20 minutes.
2. Grind chopped onions, coriander leaves, curry leaves and green chillies and make a paste and keep it aside.
3. Heat a pan with oil and shallow fry both sides of the marinated chicken pieces till it becomes firm and dry.
4. Add the ginger garlic paste and mix it.
5. Add the chopped ginger and stir well.
6. Add the grinded paste and mix well and heat for around 8 minutes. Stir occasionally.
7. Sprinkle salt if required.
8. Sprinkle the black pepper powder and mix well.

Delicious ginger chicken is ready to serve for 2 person. You can garnish it with coriander leaves.
Courtesy: Sanjay Thumma

Awards
Last week had been so exciting because lots of my friends remembered me!!!

Thanks a lot to Jisha, Sarah and Devi for sharing me the below award.

Thanks a lot to Sarah for sharing me the below award.

Thanks a lot to Devi and Sara's Corner for sharing me the below award.
Wow... 200 posts. What a great achievement. Congrats Sara.

I would like to share the above 3 awards with Sara's Corner, Nithya, Faiza Ali, Priya, Remya, Cicily, Fathima, LadyChef, Priya and Neetz. Please collect it and post it in your blog. Keep blogging. Njoy!!!

Thanks a lot to Neetz for sharing the below 3 awards with me.

I would like to share the above 3 awards with all my blogger friends. Please feel free to accept this and post it in your blogs. Keep rocking!!!!!!!

Kudampuliyitta Ney Meen Curry (Seer Fish Curry With Gambooge/Fish Tamarind) And Awards

Fish is one of the most consumed food in Kerala. If you ask most of the Keralites about their favorite fish dishes, I am sure a good % will include Kudampuliyitta Ney Meen Curry in their list and I am not an exception. I love this with kuthari choru (Kerala red rice/Paalakkadan matta rice). mmmm!!!!

Ingredients:
Seer Fish (Ney Meen) : 8 pieces (Cut one round piece into 4 equal sized pieces)
Shallots : 5-6 nos (Chopped finely)
Ginger : 1 inch (Chopped finely)
Garlic : 2 cloves (Chopped finely)
Green Chilly : 2 nos (Splitted length wise)
Tomato : 1 medium (Sliced length wise)
Fish Tamarind/Gambooge (Kudampuli) : 3 pieces
Red Chilly Powder : 2 1/2 t spoon
Coriander Powder : 1 tspoon
Black Pepper Powder : 1/2 t spoon
Turmeric Powder : 1/2 t spoon
Salt : To taste
Cooking Oil (Preferably coconut oil) : 2 1/2 t spoon
Curry Leaves : 1 sprig

Preparation:

1. Make a thick paste with turmeric powder and a little salt mixing it with very little water.
2. Apply it on fish pieces and keep it aside.
3. Wash the fish tamarinds and dip it in a bowl with water.
4. Boil 1 1/2 table spoon oil in a man chatti (Earthen pot)
5. Saute the chopped shallots till it is brownish and soft.
6. Add curry leaves, ginger, garlic and green chillies and saute well.
7. Add the red chilly powder, coriander powder, black pepper powder and mix well for 2-3 minutes.
8. Add chopped tomatoes and mix for 10-20 seconds and then add 1 1/4 cup water and bring to boil.
9. Add the soaked fish tamarind and fish pieces, lower the flame and heat it with lids open till fish is cooked.
10. Don't stir using spoon after adding the fish because it may cause the pieces to break. For stirring, instead the chatti should be swirled.
11. Spread 1 table spoon oil over the curry and swirl the chatti to make it spread on top of the gravy.

Delicious meen curry is ready. It is a great combination with kuthari choru.

Tips:
The curry taste great after 7-8 hrs. I normally keep a portion for the next day. :)
The fish tamarind keeps on add sour taste when it stands. If you find the curry too sour remove the fish tamarind from it.

Awards
Thanks a lot to Fathima of Thattukada for sharing with me the below 3 awards. I am so excited to get 3 in a bundle!!!

I would like to share it with my following friends.
Sarah
Tina
Sangeetha
Nithu
Faiza
Beena
Jisha

Thanks a lot to Beena of My Kitchen for sharing with me the below award.

To know more about me please click here. I love to share with all my blogger friends. Please feel free to accept it and post it in your blogs.

Ghee Rice with Grilled Chicken Legs (Ney Chor & Kozhikkalu Porichathu) And Awards

Ghee Rice (Ney Chor)

Last week I was in great mood to make something special. Suddenly thought of Ghee Rice and Egg Masala. And my hubby volunteered to make some nice Grilled Chicken Legs which he is always so fond of. He was insisting "Not too much ghee in ghee rice and egg masala should not be too spicy.". He really don't like too much oily and spicy. So I made the ghee rice less oily and the egg masala a bit spciy!!! But my hubby made the grilled chicken super spicy!!! :)

Ingredients:
Basmati Rice - 2 cups (Washed and drained)
Ghee (Ney) - 3 1/2 table spoon
Onion - 1 medium (sliced lengthwise)

Fennel Seeds - 1/4 t spoon

Cashew Nuts - 5 nos
Raisins - 5 nos
Cardamom - 3 nos
Cloves - 5 nos
Cinnamon Stick - 1 inch (Break into pieces)
Aniseed (Flower) - 1 no
Water - 3 cups (boiled)
Salt - To taste

Preparation:

1. Heat a deep sauce pan and add 1 1/2 table spoon of ghee. Add cloves, cinnamon, cashew nuts, raisins aniseed and fennel seeds and heat till fragrant. Transfer to a bowl and keep it aside.
2. Add sliced onions to the same pan and saute well till golden brown. Transfer this also to the bowl.
3. Add remaining 2 table spoon ghee to the pan and add the drained rice and fry it till it becomes firm and start breaking.
4. Add 3 cups boiled water and salt to taste and cover it with the lid and cook over low flame.
5. When water is almost over you will see bubbles and holes appearing in rice. At that moment turn off the flame, but don't open the lid and keep it aside for 15 minutes, until the rice is completely cooked.
6. Transfer it to a serving bowl and garnish with the fried onion and spices.
7. Delicious neychor is ready to serve with Chicken, mutton, egg or any other varutharacha curries and also with fried items.

My combination with ghee rice was Egg masala and Grilled chicken legs (Given below).

Grilled Chicken Legs

Ingredients:
Chicken Legs : 4 nos
Chilli Powder : 2 t spoon
Turmeric Powder : 1/4 t spoon
Black Pepper Powder : 1 t spoon
Salt - To taste

Preparation:

1. Slit the chicken legs with knife so that it will absorb the masala well.
2. Mix all the above ingredients with very little water and apply uniquely over the chicken legs and keep it aside for 10-15 minutes.
3. Preheat the oven in fan assisted mode for about 5 minutes at 220 C.
4. Keep the oven rack in 3rd level from below and place the chicken at the center and grill for 35-40 minutes in fan assisted grill mode.

Awards

Many thanks to Cicily Antony, Nithu Bala and Sowmya for presenting me these awards. I feel so excited.

I would like to share these with my following friends.
Priya (Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes)
Rachana (Veggi Fare)
Supriya (My Kook Book)
Nithya (Fourth Sense Samayal!)
Sushma (Authentic Food Delights)
Siddhi (Cooked Dil Se...!!!)
Viki (Viki's Kitchen)

Pacha Kaaya Thoran (Raw Plantain Fry) And Award

Ingredients:
Pacha Kaaya (Raw Plantain) - 2 nos medium (Chop it into small pieces)
Shallots - 5 nos
Onion - 1 medium (Chopped finely)
Green Chilly - 3 nos (Split into half)
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 t spoon
Coarse Pepper Powder - 1 t spoon
Mustard Seeds - 1 t spoon
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 t spoon
Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
Curry Leaves - 1 sprig
Salt - To taste
Oil - 1 1/2 table spoon

Preparation:

1. Grind shallots and coconut either using mortar and pestle or using mixer. If you are using mixer make sure that it doesn't form a paste. Add cumin seeds to it and mix well with a spoon. Then keep it aside.
2. Heat a pan and add cooking oil.
3. Splutter mustard seeds and add curry leaves.
4. Add sliced onions, green chillies and saute well.
5. Add salt, turmeric powder and mix well.
6. Add the prepared paste in step 1 and saute it for 1 minute.
7. Add chopped plantains and mix it.
8. Add 1/4 cup of water and cover the pan with a lid and allow it to boil.
9. In between open the lid and stir it to make sure that it doesn't stick to the bottom.
10. Once cooked well (around 5-8 minutes) transfer to a bowl.

It is a delicious combination with rice.

Award
It is award time again. Thank you so much Jagruthi for this wonderful encouragement.

To know more about me please click here.

I would like to share this award with my following friends. Please collect this award and post it in your blog.
Preethi
Ganga
Gita
Deepa
Gulmohar
Renuka
Devi

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Sausage Fry (Sausage Fingers) And Awards

Ingredients:
Sausage : 4 no.s
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 t spoon
Turmeric Powder (optional) - 1/4 t spoon
Pepper Powder - 1 t spoon
Salt - to taste
Coarse Pepper - 1/2 t spoon
Curry Leaves - 1 sprig
Spring Onion - to garnish
Red Chilly - 1 no.(non-spicy) Split into half and sliced lengthwise
Cooking Oil - 4 table spoon

Preparation:

1. Split the sausage into half lengthwise.
2. Marinate with ginger garlic paste, turmeric, pepper powder, salt and sprinkle coarse pepper powder on the sausage and leave aside for 10 minutes.
3. Heat a pan & add 4 table spoon oil. Add marinated sausage and shallow fry it (both sides).
4. Add sliced chilly & curry leaves.
5. Garnish with spring onion.
6. Easy & simple fry is ready.

More Awards

Comes again the Kreative Blogger Award from Jisha Dil.(I luv to cal her Jish) (http://jishaskitchen.blogspot.com)
Thank you so much Jish for the luvly encouragement..
I luv to pass this award to all my blogger friends. Friends i request you all to feel free to accept this award & post it in your blog.

Here come again Beautiful blogger Award from Sarah (http://www.vazhayila.com/) & from Nithu
(http://nithubala-recipes.blogspot.com/).
Thank you so much Sarah & Nithu. These awards are an encouragement to me..

Would luv to pass this to
Lady Chef  http://yummychef.blogspot.com
Jisha http://jishaskitchen.blogspot.com/
Rekha  http://indianreceipes-rekha.blogspot.com/
 Priya http://recipes-priya.blogspot.com/
Beena http://mykitchen-been.blogspot.com/
Reshmi,http://reshmisfoodyworld.blogspot.com/
Sowmya http://gururaghav-gururaghav.blogspot.com/

Friends collect the awards and post it in your blog. Keep rocking!!!

My First Award

I am really excited to receive this first award from Lady Chef of Naadan recipes (http://yummychef.blogspot.com/).Thank you so much.

Rules for Accepting this Award

1) Thank the person giving the award
2) Copy the award to your blog
3) Place a link to their blog
4) Name 7 things people don't know about you
5) Nominate 7 bloggers
6) Place a link to those bloggers
7) Leave a comment letting those bloggers know about the award

I   Me   Myself:
I am an easy going gal & always wish to think positively. I luv smiling :) :). very soft spoken at the same time very sensitive.

1. I do............Talk bla bla ,in b/w i say quite often "Atheyyo , hmmm para, ishh ennado, etta..." (Malayalam words)means yes, tell what yaar,hubby, Think which dress i will wear next time going out, dream of my cooper, rav4,& too many..
2. Read newspaper (Main news headings Home,india,world)and chinnu minnu things Entertainment "when is aishwarya bachan getting pregnant??? Shahid kapoor getting married?? in detail...:)..
3. Watch Asianet,Sony, Sun channels.(keep changing channels)
4. Cook,eat yummy delicious foods
5. Google,gmail,yahoo,orkut,facebook,blogs,raaga etc etc
6. I wanna do ........start yoga again.start reading books again.Shower morning.Stop day time sleep.Go for a walk
7. I don't ........ Sing,Smoke,Drink whiskey & vodka,Dance club,Swim

Friends i wish to pass this award
Sangeetha http://kothiyavunu.blogspot.com/
Sarah http://www.vazhayila.com/
Faiza http://faizaali.blogspot.com/
Tina http://kaipunyam.blogspot.com/
Fathima http://thattukada-myblog.blogspot.com/
Shabs http://shabscuisine.blogspot.com/
Nithu bala  http://nithubala-recipes.blogspot.com/

Friends collect the awards and post it in your blog. Keep blogging!!!!!!!!!!