Indian Recipes – Soft Idli

Ingredients

Idli rice 2 cups (Ponni rice if possible)
Urud dal 1 cup
cooked rice 1/2 cup
Fenugreek seeds(Methi) 1/4 tsp
Salt as per taste

Method:

• Soak Idly rice and Methi together in water for about 5-6 hours.
• Soak urud dal in water for 3 1/2 hours.
• Drain the water from urud dal and grind it in mixie with little water.
• Fine grind it until the mixture is frothy. Keep aside
• Now drain water from soaked rice and methi.
• Grind these along with cooked rice and little water in mixie.
• Now mix the ground items and add salt.
• Allow it to ferment for 16 – 18 hours. Then make idlys in the idly steamer. Steam the idlys on high for 10 minutes

Malabar Chicken Curry Recipe from Best Indian spices

Ingredients:

Chicken – 1 kg
(cut into medium sized pieces)
Onion – 3 nos
(grind without water)
Tomato – 2 nos
(grind without water)
Ginger paste – 1 tsp
Garlic paste – 1 tsp
Thick coconut milk – 1/2 cup
Thin coconut milk – 1 cup
Chilly powder – 1 tsp
Coriander powder – 2 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
Garam masala powder – 1 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 stalk
Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
Cloves(Grambu) – 3 nos
Salt – As reqd
Oil for frying

Preperation:

1)Heat oil in a pan.

2)Splutter mustard seeds.

3)Add cloves and curry leaves.

4)Add onion and tomato and saute for a few mins.

5)When the color changes, add ginger and garlic paste and saute, till the raw smell goes away.

6)Add the chicken pieces along with coriander, chilly, turmeric and garam masala powders.

7)Mix well and stir for few mins.

8)Add thin coconut milk.

9)Add water as required and salt to taste.

10)When chicken is fully cooked, add thick coconut milk and allow it to simmer for a few mins.

Serve hot with chappathi, porotta, idiyappam!

Best Indian Recipes – Pav Bhaji

Ingredients
8 pavs (squarish soft buns about 4″ x 5″ size)
butter to shallow fry.

For Bhaji
1 capsicum chopped fine
2 onions chopped fine
2 tomatoes chopped fine
2 1/2 cups chopped mixed vegetables (beans, carrots, cauliflower, potota, beans, bottle gourds, etc.) 1/2 cup shelled
peas
2 tbsp. butter
2 tsp. pavbhaji masala
1 1/2 tsp. chilli powder
1/4 tsp. turmeric powder
1/2 tsp. sugar
salt to taste
1 cup water (in which vegetables were boiled)
1/2 tsp. each ginger grated, garlic crushed
juice of 1/2 lemon.

To Garnish
1 tbsp. coriander chopped
1 onion chopped
small pieces of lemon

Method
Pressure cook mixed vegetables and peas till well done.
Mash them coarsely after draining.