Jackfruit cooked / Chakka vevichathu / Chakka puzhukku

Jack fruit cooked

Preparation time- 5 mins
Cooking time-  7 mins  
Total time- 12 mins

Ingredients : 

1. Jack fruit -1/2 kg
2. Curry leaves -20 no.
3. Coconut-1/2 cup
4. Onion -5no.
5. Green chilly - 3 no.
6. Garlic - 3 no.
7. Turmeric powder -1/2 tsp
8. Salt - as needed

Methods:

Step 1: Crush the coconut, onion, green chilly, garlic and turmeric powder into a moderate paste. If you are using mixer grinder, crush it in pulse mode 2-3 times.                     

Step 2: Take a pan with jackfruit, curry leaves. Add crushed mixture and one glass of water. Add salt as needed.                         

Step 3: Cook it on moderate flame for 5-7 minutes.                            

Step 4: With the wooden stick or spoon, mix the cooked jack fruit well.                                   

Step 5: Serve it with fish, mutton, chicken, beef or egg curry.                                                  

Tips: Cover the pan with lid, only after the water gets boiled.

          Adding garlic helps to prevent gaseous problems in the stomach.

                          Now, warm chakka vevichathu is ready

Ada pradhaman

Ada Pradhaman

Ada Pradhaman

Preparation time- 5 mins
Cooking time-  20 mins  
Total time- 25 mins

Ingredients : 

1. Palada - 250 gm  
2. Jaggary -200gm
3. Water- 1 glass
4. Ghee -100 gm
5. Raisins -25 gm
6. Cashew nuts -25gm
7. Thick coconut milk -1 glass
8. Moderate coconut milk- 1 glass
9. Dried ginger (chukku) -1 piece 

Methods:
Step 1: Wash ada and keep it dry.

Step 2: Add powdered jaggary in one glass of boiling water, stir it well for five minutes, strain it and keep it aside.

Step 3: Take a pan, add ghee on a moderate flame. Roast the ada till it becomes brown color.

Step 4: Add moderate thick coconut milk on a moderate flame, stir it well in a same direction continuously.

Step 5: After seven minutes, add jaggary solution and crushed chukku (dried ginger) and stir it well in a same direction continuously.

Step 6: After seven minutes, add thick coconut milk, stir it continuously in a same direction.

Step 7: When the payasam becomes thick, you can stop the flame.

Step 8: Take another pan, roast the raisins and cashew nuts in ghee separately, then add to the payasam.

Step 9: You can serve it with pappad and banana.

         Now, tasty ada pradhaman is ready

Prawn Mango Curry

Prawn mango curry
(Prepared by my sister Mrs. Josmy Byiju.,R.N.,R.M.,United Arab Emirates)

Prawn Mango Curry

Preparation time- 10 mins
Cooking time-  10 mins 
Total time- 20 mins

Ingredients :

1. Prawns -200 gm
2. Mango pieces- 200 gm
3. Coconut oil- 6 tsp
4. Mustard - 1 tsp
5. Cumin Seeds- 1/2 tsp
6. Asafoetida- 1/2 tsp
7. Onion sliced- i no.
8. Green chilly-3 no.
9. Red chilly powder- 1 tsp
10. Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
11. Coriander powder-1/2 tsp
12. Thick coconut milk- 200 ml
13. Medium thick coconut milk- 200 ml
14. Curry leaves- 15 no.
15. Red chilies- 3 no.
16. Coriander leaves- if needed
17. Salt -as needed

Method:

Step 1: Take a pan, heat it on medium flame. Pour 3 tsp oil. Add cumin seeds, green chilies and onion and saute it well.

Step 2: Add red chilly powder, turmeric powder and coriander powder and saute it for 30 seconds. Add mango pieces and again saute it for 1 minute. 

Step 3: Add medium thick coconut milk and allow it cook for five minutes. Then add prawns, salt and asafoetida and cover it with a lid for five minutes.

Step 4: Add thick coconut milk and warm it for 30 seconds. Switch of the flame.

Step 5: Take another pan, add coconut oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves,shallots and red chilies, saute well till it becomes golden brown color. Add this mixture to mango prawn curry.

     Now, tasty prawn mango curry is ready

Beef Steak Sizzler

Beef Steak Sizzler
Preparation time- 10 mins
Cooking time-  10 mins 
Total time- 20 mins
Ingredients

1. Beef- 1 steak
2. Turmeric powder- ½ tsp
3. Chilly powder-1 tsp
4. Pepper powder-1/2 tsp
5. Salt
6. Lemon juice-1 tsp
7. Vegetables- as needed
8. Corn- as needed
9. Butter-2 tsp
10. Cheese- 1 slice
11. Fresh cream- as needed
12. Egg-1

For Sauce

1. Wickenburg sauce- 3 tsp
2. Red wine- 1 tsp
3. Oil -2 tsp
4. Chopped Onion – 1
5. Pepper- 1 tsp

Method:

Step 1: Prepare the grilled beef.( Visit Grilled Chili Beef Steak ).

Step 2: Heat the pan in one stove. Take another pan, sauté the vegetables in butter. Keep it on nearby pan which is on the low flame. 

Step 3: For sauce, pour oil, sauté onions, add pepper and salt, add Wickenburg sauce, red wine and fresh cream. Regulate the taste by adding salt (if needed) or adding a pinch of sugar.

Step 4:Place grilled beef on top of vegetables, pour warm sauce.

 

Step 5: Break the egg on the top of it. Sprinkle cheese and then, fresh cream.Take the pan from the stove. Serve it on the same pan as warm.

 Now, warm beef  steak sizzler is ready

Butter Cookies

Butter Cookies

Preparation time- 10 mins
Cooking time-  10 mins 
Total time- 20 mins

Ingredients :

1. All purpose flour/Maida- 1 cup
2. Baking powder-1 tsp
3. Salt-1/2 tsp
4. Powdered sugar- 1/2 cup
5. Butter- 20 gm

Method:

Step 1: Take maida and salt in a strainer,sift it two times and keep it aside.

Step 2: Take powdered sugar and butter in a bowl, stir it well and double boil it until the sugar dissolves.

Butter and sugar mixture

 Step 3: Add sifted flour into above mentioned mixture and mix it well.

Maida Dough

Step 4: Take a pan, apply butter liberally and dust it with maida and spread butter paper (optional). Take a portion of dough in the hand (lemon size) and press with your hand to get it shaped.

Cookies before baking

Step 5: Pre heat the oven at 180 Degree Celsius and bake the cookies in conventional mode at 180 Degree Celsius for 10 minutes.After 10 minutes, if it does not have golden brown color, go for another 5-10 minutes.

Step 6: Take the pan from oven and allow it to cool.

Now, crispy butter cookies are ready

Dragon Fruit Milkshake

Dragon Fruit Milkshake

Dragon Fruit Milkshake

Preparation time- 5 mins

Total time- 5 mins

Ingredients :

1. Dragon Fruit Pulp-100 gm
2. Milk- 100 ml
3. Sugar- 5 Tablespoon
4. Milkmaid- 2 Tablespoon
5. Ice cubes- 3 no.

Method:

Step 1: Take dragon fruit pulp, milk, sugar and milkmaid in a mixer grinder and blend it for couple of seconds.

Step 2: Pour it in serving glass and add ice cubes.

Step 3: Serve chilled dragon fruit milk shake.

Now, chilled dragon fruit milkshake is ready. 

Vanilla Sponge Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake

Vanilla Sponge Cake

Preparation time- 10 mins
Cooking time-  20 mins 
Total time- 30 mins

Ingredients :

1. Corn flour-2 tsp
2. All purpose flour/Maida- 1 cup
3. Baking powder-1 tsp
4. Salt-1/2 tsp
5. Egg-3 no.
6. Powdered sugar- 1 cup
7. Vanilla essence-1 tsp
8. Butter- 20 gm
9. Milk- 2 tsp

Method:

Steps to prepare sponge cake

Step 1: Take maida, corn flour, baking powder and salt in a strainer, sift it two times and keep it aside.

Step 2: Take three eggs and powdered sugar in a bowl, stir it well and double boil it until the sugar dissolves. Using handheld electric beater, beat it continuously till the mixture turns into thick paste. Then, add vanilla essence and mix it well with the beater (as shown in picture 1).

Step 3: Take butter and milk in a bowl and heat it in microwave mode at 540 F for 2 minutes and allow it to cool.

Step 4: Add sifted flour and melted butter into beaten mixture. Fold it gently with wooden spatula. Take cake pan, apply butter liberally and dust it with maida and spread butter paper (as shown in picture 2). Pour the prepared mixture into the cake pan and tap it on both sides to expel the air bubbles (as shown in picture 3).

Step 5: Pre heat the oven at 180 Degree Celsius and bake the cake in conventional mode at 180 Degree Celsius for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, insert a long stick into the baked cake and withdraw it. If the stick is sticky, you have to bake it for another 5-10 minutes  (as shown in picture 4).

Step 6: Take the pan from oven and allow it to cool.

Vanilla Sponge Cake

This cake is very soft and even if you keep it in refrigerator for 2-3 days, still it will be very soft....really!!

               Now, spongy vanilla cake is ready