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Coffee Banana Smoothie
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Banana 1 nos
Cocoa powder 1 tablespoon
Honey 1 Tablespoon
Coffee 1 glass
Milk 100 ml
Preparation
Make coffee adding 1 glass water and any of the instant coffee powders of your likening such as brooke bond or the like.
Place the coffee in the freezer for one to two hours. Use a plastic glass or container for the freezer. Glass containers may break in the freezer as the coffee turns ice.
Now add all the ingredients to a mixer grinder and mix them to a fine smoothie.
Serve cold.
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Mutton Stew
AdvertisementsMutton Stew
Mutton (cut into pieces) 500 gram
Onion Sliced 2 nos
Ginger minced 2 tablespoons
Green chillies chopped 5 nos
Oil 50 ml
Coconut milk 250 ml
Salt to taste
Potato cut into pieces 2 nos
Curry leaves 2 sprigs
Cinnamon 2 inch piece
Cloves 5 nos
Nutmeg Mace 1 nos
Pepper 1 teaspoon
Star anise 1 nos
Cardamon 4 pods
Crush all together to a fine powder.
Preparation
Mix mutton, salt, masala and potato.
Add some water and cook in a pressure cooker.
Heat oil in a pan, saute ginger, green chilli, curry leaves and onions.
Add the cooked mutton to it, mix well, cook for five minutes.
Add coconut milk, bring to a boil and take off from heat.
Serve with appam, sliced bread etc.
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Zucchini Yogurt Curry
AdvertisementsZucchini Yogurt Curry
Ingredients
Zucchini Peeled and sliced into 2 inch pieces 500 gram
Yogurt 500 ml
Onion chopped 1 nos
Green chillies sliced 4 nos
Ginger chopped 1 tablespoons
Turmeric powder 1 teaspoon
Chilli powder 1/2 teaspoon
Oil 2 tablespoons
Mustard seeds 1/2 teaspoon
Salt 3/4 teaspoon
Preparation
Peel and cut the zucchinis into 2 inch long pieces and slice each into small pieces.
Slit the green chillies lengthwise
Peel and slice the onion
Heat oil in a pan add the mustard seeds and allow them to splutter.
Add the chopped ginger and sliced onions and saute till golden brown
Add the salt, chilli powder and turmeric powder and mix well.
Add the zucchini slices, mix well together and cook tender adding 2 tablespoons of water.
When cooked add the yogurt, mix well together and remove from heat.
Important : After adding yogurt don`t allow the curry to boil. Otherwise it will lose its texture and taste.
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Pan Fried Brussels Sprouts
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Brussels Sprouts 500 grams
Honey 1 tablespoon
Lemon juice 1 tablespoon
Sesam 1 tablespoons
Vegetable Bullion powder 2 teaspoon
Preparation
Wash and dry the brussels sprouts thoroughly and cut them each into halves.
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a thick bottomed pan and add the mixed brussels sprouts to the pan.
Stir the ingredients in the pan and mix with the oil.
Add 4 tablespoons of water, mix well and cook on medium heat covering the pan with a lid for 5-8 minutes till the sprouts become tender.
Remove the lid, stirr the brussels sprouts in the pan thoroughly and allow the excess water to evaporate.
Remove from the heat and serve with suitable side dishes such as a yoghurt chutney or some rice and sweet sour sauce.
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Beef Curry with Mushroom Sauce
AdvertisementsBeef Curry with Mushroom Sauce
500 large mushrooms fresh
500 gram Beef cut into medium sized pieces
Shallots 100 grams finely sliced
1 tbsp wheat flour
20 g clarified butter
100 ml white wine, dry or vegetable stock
150 g crème fraîche
Salt to taste
Pepper powder as per taste
Wash and cut the beef into medium sized pieces.
Season the beef pieces with salt and pepper.
Then heat clarified butter in a pan and sauté the the beef for about 20 minutes till the outer side of the beef pieces change colour and cooked.
Remove from the pan and keep warm covered.
For the sauce, clean the mushrooms by rub drying using a kitchen paper and cut into fine slices.
Then sauté the shallots for about 1 minute.
Add the sliced mushrooms and sauté for 2-3 minutes and add wheat flour.
Then add the white wine and deglaze with the crème fraiche.
Cover and simmer over low heat for about 5 minutes.
When the sauce is ready, put the schnitzel back in and leave to stand for another 3 minutes.
Add the cooked beef to the sauce and allow to simmer for 2-5 minutes and remove from heat.
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Banana Pudding
AdvertisementsBanana Pudding
Ingredients
Banana peeled and sliced 500 gram
Milk 500 ml.
Sugar 100 gram
Butter 2 teaspoon
Eggs 2 nos
Cardamom powder a pinch
Vanilla essence a few drops
Raisins 2 tablespoons.
Preparation
Heat a thick-bottomed pan and caramelise the sugar, remove from heat and allow to cool.
Heat butter in a pan and roast the bananas.
Mix the eggs and milk in a bowl and beat well.
Add the roasted banana, caramelised sugar, raisins, vanilla essence and cardamom powder to the bowl and mix well.
Fold the beaten egg-milk mixture to it.
Pour the mixture into greased moulds and bake for 20 minutes at 180°C preheated oven.
Serve garnishing with almond flakes.
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Oats Cutlet, Tasty, Crispy and Easy
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Rolled oats dry roasted 250 gram
Potatoes boiled and mashed 250 grams
Paneer 100 gram
Carrot grated 2 nos
Green Chilli finely chopped 2 nos
Ginger Garlic paste 1 teaspoon
Garam masala 1 teaspoon
Salt to taste
Oil to fry
Preparation
Boil the potatoes, peel them and mash them finely.
Wash, peel and grate the carrots finely
Dry roast the steel rolled oats for a few minutes and allow to cool.
Mix the mashed potatoes, grates potatoes, roasted oats, salt, chopped chilly, ginger garlic paste, garam masala powder in a bowl.
Take the batter of the size of one tablespoon full and roll them each into a ball and press them a bit flat to cutlet shapes.
Now heat oil in a pan and deep fry the cutlets till crispy.
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Chicken Stew
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Chicken cut into small pioeces 500 gram
Potato peeled and sliced into pieces 1 nos
1. Onion chopped 1
Cashew nuts 50 gram
2. Cinnamon 2-3 pieces of 5 cm
Cardamom 5 nos
Clove 5 nos
Curry leaves 2 sprig$Oil as needed
3. Onion chopped 3 nos
Green chillies sliced 4 nos
Garlic chopped 5-6 cloves
Pepper powder 1 teaspoon
Garam masala 1/2 teaspoon
Coconut milk 200 ml (Milk powder 1 tablespoon in 200 ml water)
Salt to taste
Preparation
Heat oil in a pan, add cashew nuts, onions, and saute till it reaches golden colour and keep aside.
Add cinnamon, clove, green chillies, garlic onions and saute for a while stirring regularly.
When done add curry leaves, chicken and 1/4 of the coconut milk and one cup water and salt and cook for 15 minutes.
Add the potato pieces, garam masala and the rest of the coconut milk and cook for a further 15 minutes on low flame.
Add the sauted cashew-onion mix kept aside to it.
Mix lightly and serve hot with appam, chappathi, bread, palappam, idiyappam, puttu, pathiri and the like.
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Peanut Oats Laddu/Peanut Oats Sweet Balls
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- Fried peanuts 200 grams
- Oats 200 grams
- Dates 200 grams
- Butter 1 tablespoons
- Honey 1-2 tablespoons
- Cardamom powder 1/4 teaspoons
Preparation
Grind the fried peanuts coarsely.
Heat butter in a pan and fry the oats flakes for a few minutes stirring well.
Remove from heat and allow to cool.
Remove the seeds from the dates and grind them into a paste using a mixer grinder. If it is too thick add 1-2 teaspoon honey.
Now add the fried oats to the dates paste in the grinder and grind or blend them together.
Now remove the paste from the grinder, add the cardamom powder and ground peanut and mix all together.
Now form small balls of uniform size. You may decorate the balls using raisins or the like.
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Risotto with Fish and Green Peas
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Risotto rice 11/2 cup (350 gram)
Olive oil 3 tablespoons
White wine 100 ml
Shallots 1 nos
Vegetable bullion 1 litre
Cheese 50 gram
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Frozen green peas 200 gram
Spring onions a handful
Fish 4 pieces.
Preparation
Chop the shallots.
Saute the rice adding a little bit of oil.
Add wine to it.
Add bullion and cook till the rice becomes tender.
Add cottage cheese, salt and pepper.
Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a frying pan, fry the fish turning it on both sides, add green peas and saute for two three minutes.
Serve risotto in plates garnishing with fried fish, green peas and chopped spring onions,
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