Ani’s Kids Recipe,South Indian samayal & Tips!

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This is simple and mouth watering chicken/Koli kolumbu recipe of TamilNadu (especially coimbatore district).

Ingredients

1. Chicken – 1 pound or ½ kg

2. Onion - 1/2 chopped

3. Green chillies -2 slitted

4. Curry and coriander leaves

5. Oil as need for saurting

6. Ginger –garlic paste – 2 tsp

For grinding

1. Onion -1 (if you have small onions/red shallots/chinna venkayam then take that equalent to big onion/periya venkayam/ballari venkayam)

2. Corriander seeds -3 tsp

3. Jeera – 1/2 tsp

4. Red chillies -4 to 5

5. Tomato small size -1

6. Grated coconut -2 tsp

7. Pattai/Cinamon sticks- 2

8. Cloves/Kirambu-2

9. Sombu- 1/4 tsp

10. Little turmeric powder

11. Whole pepper corns – ½ tsp

12. Oil as needed for frying above ingredients

Preparation

1. Fry well all the ingredients For Grinding and grind that well.

2. Pour oil in Kadai. Add cutted onions , green chillies (optional) and curry leaves when the oil is hot.

3. Add ginger-garlic paste and fry well until raw smell goes away.

4. Add chicken and fry well.

5. Then add the grinded masala , water and salt as needed and cook until chicken is done and oil separates on top.

6. Garnish with coriander leaves.

TIPS

Before putting chicken if you fry (not deep fry) in little oil. The chicken pieces will roll into round shapes which gives beautiful look for your gravy .

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You might have tasted roti (different from chappathi) made of  ragi, wheat etc. You can make such roti with rice flour too. Unless chappathi otherwise called as rotis this is thick and we don’t roll them instead we used to flatten with hands.

Ingredients

1.   Rice flour – 2 cups

2.  Big Onion – 1 (chopped)

3.  Green chillies – 3 (fine chopped)

4.  Coriander leaves,curry leaved (fine chopped)

5.  Salt – As required

6.  Chilly powder – 1/2 tsp

7.  Cumin seeds (Jeerakam) – 1 tsp

8.  Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp

9.  Oil for roasting

Preparation

1. Mix all the ingredients (except oil) in warm water and knead well to make soft dough.  (like chappathi dough)
2. Take butter paper or thick glossy paper. Pour 1 tsp oil on it and spread it with your hand. Take a lemon sized ball of the dough and pat it on the paper with hand like roti. Spread little oil on top of it. 
3. Then carefully place the prepared roti on the tawa(butter paper on the upper side) and immediately remove the butter paper slowly.  If you feel uncomfortable with it, then make thick rotis and take it on your palm and place it on the tawa. 
4. Cook well on both sides till golden brown.

TIPS: 

1. Peanut chutney goes very well with this.

2. Repalce rice flour with Ragi flour to make Ragi Roti

3. Replace rice flour with Wheat to make wheat Roti

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I got this recipe from one of the recipe sites. Before that I am not ware of Milk Mysorepak though I tasted many milk sweets. So I gave it a try. First time I think my sugar syrup was not in good consistency so the shape didn’t came out well but second time it really came out well. So try to be careful in sugar syrup consistency.

 Ingredients: 

1. 200 gms milk powder -2 cups

2. All-purpose flour (maida) – ½ cup

3. Sugar  - 2 cups

4. Butter – 1 stick (or) ghee -500gms

 Preparation: 

1. Mix milk powder, all-purpose flour together with 50 gms of ghee and keep aside.

2. Add sugar, 1/2 litre of water in a pan and boil until the syrup gets string consistency.

3. To the syrup, add milk powder mixture and mix well with no lumps.

4. Now add remaining ghee and stir until the mixture thickens.

5. Grease a plate with ghee and pour the above mixture into the plate. Allow to cool, cut into pieces and serve.

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Fish fry is the simplest dish even bachelors can make with out any risk.  I didn’t mean all bachelors. Some of them are really  good cooks.Fish can be flavored and cooked in many ways and the use of Indian spices makes them even more tasty.

One of my pleasant memories

When ever I make fish fry I always remeber the days before my marriage. In our custom  if the marriage got fixed both families should not take nonveg. If it got fixed before 5 -6 months also we have to follow it. There was 4 more days for my marriage and my brother Shiva came from US for my marriage. He want to eat Fish fry . One of my brother Krish anna is very great cook and my brother wants to eat his cooking so they started cooking outside . Some of my brothers friends also came along with him from chennai for my marriage. Since my brother asked and he has come after two years my dad bought fish for them and told them to cook outside the house and eat in the seperate room we have outside. I can only smell it. For fish fry fish is coated nice and beautifully too with a marinade prepared by him. Things were going cool theirt side. Muruga (my hubby)  gave a surprise that time. My parents were surprised.He was on his way of inviting his friends. One of his friend is in Pollachi which is 40 mins travel from my place.  So he visited us on his way . He wants to meet my brother (ofcourse me too- I can see you smiling ) he wants to give us a surprise so he stepped in. From that time onways he used to tease my brother that he will do the same during his (my brothers) marriage and my brother used to tease him by saying waw !!! how tasty is this? and things like that. Still now everyone remember that inident. I was a pleasant memory for all of us.

Fish Fry

 INGREDIENTS

1.    Fish pieces
2.    Red chilli powder
3.    Turmeric powder
4.    Little red food color
5.    drops of lemon juice
6.    Salt

7.    Oil

PREPARATION

1.  Except Fish pieces mix all the ingredients and make as a paste by adding frops of water.
2. Coat the fish pieces with this masala  and keep it outside for long hours. Minimum of half an hour
3. Fry the pieces in oil

TIPS

 Other Variations

While preparing the marinade along with a ingredients mentioned if you want you an add a little ginger-garlic paste and little corriander powder . Also some people used to substitute puli/Tamarind water for lime juice. I don’t prefer this because my hubby don’t like the smell if i add all this to the above mentioned ingredient. You may like it. Many people (especially  in chennai) are following the variation method.

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Fish puttu is different kind of dish and is usually made out of Shark . It is called sura in Tamil. This fish we get from Sea. So those who are not able to get this fish can try with other type of fishes too but the thing fish should be boneless or we should be able to remove it completely.

Sura Puttu

INGREDIENTS:

1. shark fish – 1/2 kg
2. Turmeric powder – 1/4 teaspoon
3. Salt – as required
4. Chilly powder – 1/2 teaspoon
5. Coriander powder – 1/2 teaspoon
6. Big Onions – 2 finely chopped
7. Green chillies – 3 finely chopped so that it can be eaten together
8. Garlic – 8 pods, medium size, finely sliced
9. Oil – 2 teaspoons
10. Curry and coriander leaves

PREPARATION:

1. Put the washed fish pieces in a vessel covering completely with water. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder to it and boil over moderate heat till tender.
2. Remove from the heat and allow it to cool. Peel off the thick skins and remove the bones and thorns of the fishes.
3. Mash the flesh of fishes into tiny flakes.
4. Heat a frying pan and pour in the oil. Add onions ,green chillies and curry leaves and fry well.
5. Add garlic and fry well until the raw smell of onion and garlic goes away. Then add chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, and salt into it.
6. Finally add the mashed fish flakes and keep stirring/ turning over very frequently and over low heat for 10-15 minutes or till an attractive aroma is given out.
7. Delicious fish puttu is ready.

TIPS

You have to mix in such a way that all things will blend together.