Monday, December 20, 2010

BREADFRUIT CUTLET

Herez coming the next unique recipe which is a real lip smacking one nothing but breadfruit cutlets. I kept few pieces of breadfruit after making breadfruit fritters. Its my first trial and was a super duper hit one. Its simple, easy and effortless at the same time acts as a best appetizers during gettogethers or parties. People can never make out that its made of breadfruit. The process of preparing this cutlets are same just as we prepare for normal veg cultets. Instead of adding boiled veggies I added breadfruit. Rest the same :) . Do try this awesome delight.


INGREDIENTS.

1 Cup Breadfruit pieces.

1/2 Cup Boiled Potatoes.

1 Medium Sized Onion.

1 Green chilli.

1 tsp Red chilli pd.

1/2 tsp Turmeric pd.

2 tsp Garam Masala.

1 tsp Ginger- Garlic Paste.

2 Beaten Eggs.

Breadcrumbs.

Salt to Taste.

Oil for shallow fry.



METHOD.

Pressure cook breadfruit pieces adding salt and little water. ( I took 2 whistle and then Sim for 15 min) Allow them to cool. Then mash them with boiled potatoes and keep aside.

Heat some oil in a pan. Add onions, chilli, ginger garlic paste with some salt. Saute till the onions turns translucent. Then add red chilli pd, turmeric pd and garam masala and give them a nice stir. Finally add the mashed potatoes- breadfruit mixture and saute well. Allow the mixture to cool.

Meanwhile beat the eggs in a bowl and keep it aside. In another plate, spread breadcrumbs.

Heat oil in a pan for shallow fry the cutlets. Now make a flat round patties then dip them in the beaten eggs and on the breadcrumbs and shallow fry them in oil till golden brown. Place them on tissue and serve hot with tomato sause.




Enjoy!!

Saturday, December 4, 2010

BREADFRUIT FRITTERS

Hey friends, Hope all of ur are fit and fine. Finally am back with happy and hectic shifting to my new house. Currently enjoying my stay to my fullest also tiring to have a close touch to my new kitchen ;) Hope half of u all must have viewed my new home snaps :) Was so happy to c all ur sweet comments. Thanks buddies. Now coming back to recipes, I prepared breadfruit fritters which is somthing different from normal dialy used potato or capsicum or cauliflower fritters. The procedure for making besan batter is the same just as u prepared for the rest of the fritters. The tastes is just superb when u have them with a sip of coffee. Let me tell u one more thing is its a bit mushy type when u bit as its precooked before deep frying. People say that method is done to cook the breadfruit. I love them so much and hope u would also love it. Do try this awesome recipe guys.


INGREDIENTS.


15 Pieces of Breadfruit.


1 Cup of Besan.


1 tbsp Chilli pd.


Pinch of Hing.


Pinch of Soda.


Salt to taste.


Water as per required.


Oil for deep frying.

METHOD.


Cut the breadfruit into medium thick size as shown in the pic. In boiling water, soak them for 5 min and drain. Arrange them on plates and season with salt and chilli pd.
In a bowl mix in besan, chilli pd, soda, hing, salt with required amount of water to form a paste. The consistency must not be so thick nor thin.
Now heat oil in kadai. Take the marinated breadfruit and dip them into the besan batter and carfully drop them into oil. Deep fry until its done.
Serve hot with ur fav dipping.



Enjoy!!

Monday, November 1, 2010

TAKING A BREAK :)

Hai to all my blogger friends out there. Hope all are doing good. First of all sorry guys for not posting my recipes regularly as I am very busy these days with my completion of my new home. Due to this, I am not able to concentrate on writing blog nor am I able to visit every one's blog :( Hope all could know my excitement how it would be for me :)


I am so thrilled and very much involved in home decor, interiors, buying new things, shifting from here to there. Hmmm you all know, that's a real real hectic job phewww. On other side, its indeed a great feeling to have all my family members around specially my parents, my uncle, my sisterinlaw, relatives, and most specially my brother and bhabhi who are coming from 'Netherlands' to attend my 'Gharpravesh' ( house warming ) Yuppeee....


So guys, I am gonna miss all ur recipe and will try to keep on eye once I get settled to my new place. Hey hey don't forget to miss me too huh ;) Till then,


''HAPPY BLOGGING'' AND ''MY ADVANCE HAPPY DIWALI '' to all. Have a safe festival.


Love U all :)


Enjoy!!

Monday, October 18, 2010

GONGURA PICKLE

Hey all. Hope everyone had shuub navarathri. Mee too. Now skipping to the recipe. Gongura pickle is one of the famous pickle in Andra side. I can have it any time. When therez gongura pickle, believe me guys, I don't prefer any gravy with hot steamed rice. What I need is just a spoon of this pickle. Awesome meal I would say. This is one of my fav pickle, prepared by my mom when I visited my place during vocation. And the taste was just unbelievable and obviously it will be na when our mom cooks something special for us adding extra ingredients of love and care. Isn't? So here's the recipe.



INGREDIENTS.


1 Bunch Gongura leaves.


1 tsp Mustard seeds.


1 tbsp Urad dal.


5 Red Chillies.


3 Green Chillies.


1/2 tbsp Methi seeds.


1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder.


1 tbsp Gingelly Oil.


Hing as per taste.


Salt to taste.




METHOD.


Heat oil in a kadai. Add mustard seeds. Wait till it splutters. Then add urad dal and methi seeds and fry them till the colour changes slight brown. Add red and green chilli and finally the leaves. Saute it well till the leaves looses its raw taste. Remove from flame and allow them to cool for a while. Blend them with salt and turmeric powder for about 2 min without adding water.

Serve with rice or chappati etc.



Enjoy!!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

PANEER MASALA DOSA

Paneer masala dosa sounds pretty interesting right? hahaha well it is. U know guys this paneer masala dosa recipe I call it as 2 in 1 because I did the masala the previous night for dinner with chappati and the next day I ended up stuffing them in dosa naming paneer masala dosa :) So its indeed a good idea to cover up all the leftover items into delicious unique yummies. I served this dosa with ''SWEET POTATO UMMAN'' which was a very good combination.

Paneer masala dosa is somthing unique one I tried from normal masala dosa which are very popular breakfast in South India. They have it with chuntney and sambar. Yumm what a comfort breakfast right? So below is the ingredients that I have used for my paneer masala dosa :)


INGREDIENTS.

Dosa Batter.

500 Grams Paneer.

1 Big Chopped Onions.

1 tbs Chopped Ginger and Garlic.

1 tsp Jeera.

1 tsp Red chilli powder.

2 tsp Coriander powder.

2 tsp Garam masala.

1/2 tsp Turmeric powder.

1 tsp Amchur Powder.

1 tsp Oil.

Salt to taste.

Coriander leaves for garnish.

METHOD FOR PANEER MASALA.

Grate the paneer and keep aside. Heat oil in a kadai, add jeera, ginger garlic and onions. Fry them till the onion are translucent.

Now add red chilli pdr, coriander pdr, turmeric pdr, garam masala and amchur powder. Saute it for a while. Add grated paneer and lastly garnish with coriander leaves and keep aside.


METHOD FOR PANEER MASALA DOSA.

Place a non stick tava.

Pour the dosa batter onto the center of the tava and spread in a circular motion. Put oil on the edges to make the dosa crisp.

Soon as u c the dosa turning slight brown, place few spoon of paneer masala on one side and flip the other side dosa over the masala.


Make sure it is fully covered.

Serve with ur fav dipping.



AWARDS TIME:

''SAVITHA from SAVITHARAJ'S SPICE LAND'' had passed me one award named ''BEAUTIFUL BLOGGER AWARD''. I am so happy to receive from u savitha. U just made my day so good. Really flattered. Thanks again for this precious award.


I would like to pass on this award to all my blogger friends because each an everyone's blog is soo beautiful and perfect with yummy recipes that all deserve this award for sure. So come on guys just grab ur awards :)

Enjoy!!