Palak rice

Palak rice

May 11, 2013



Ingredients:


Palak leaves            : a bunch
Garlic paste             : 1 tsp
Onion                      : 1 chopped
Basmathi rice          : 2 cups
Salt to taste
Green chillies         : 2 nos
Lime juice              : 1 tsp
Cumin seeds           : 1/2 tsp
Broken cashews     : 1 tbsp
Ghee                       : 2 tbsp



Method:


Wash and blanch the palak leaves. Grind it with green chillies to a paste and keep aside.
Cook the rice adding three and a half cups of water and salt in a rice cooker and keep aside.
Heat ghee in a kadai and fry the cashews and remove it from the kadai . In the same kadai fry cumin seeds, add garlic paste and saute for a few seconds. Add the chopped onion and saute it well and then add the palak puree. Saute it well until the it leaves from the sides of the pan.
Add the cooked rice and mix well.




Add the lime juice  and mix. Garnish with fried cashews. Serve it potato chips or pappad and pickle.




Non veg. Pepper chicken

Pepper chicken

May 11, 2013






Ingredients:


Chicken                        : 250 gms
Pepper corns                : 1 tbsp
Coriander pdr               : 1 tbsp
Cumin seeds                 : a pinch 
Turmeric pdr                : a pinch
Ginger garlic paste       : 1tsp
Garam masala               : 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Shallots                        : 5 nos
Onion                           : 1 cut into cubes
Capsicum                     : 1 cut into cubes
Coconut oil                  : 2 tbsp
Coriander leaves          : 1 tbsp




Method:

Roast pepper corns, cumin and coriander pdr. Grind it with shallots.
Wash and  cut chicken into small pieces.



Heat 1 tbsp oil in a kadai,  add ginger garlic paste & saute it, add the ground masala, turmeric pdr and chicken  pieces and salt. Add half glass of water to this and close it and cook till the chicken become soft and the water got absorbed.  Remove from fire. Take a kadai heat the remaining coconut oil, add the onion and the capsicum and saute for a while. Add this to the chicken and mix well. If you want it more spicy add some crushed pepper over this and serve hot!!



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