Kugan's Kitchen Part 2

[kugan98]

I am sure you make mutton curry.
This will be a bit different I believe.


MUTTON CURRY

Ingredients:
Mutton - 1/2 kg, washed and cut into medium size pieces
Potatoes - 3 medium size, peeled and cubed
Onions - 2 medium size, finely chopped
Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
Garlic - 4 pips
Red chilli powder - 2 teaspoon
Coriander powder - 1 tbs
Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Salt - 1-1/2 teaspoons
Coriander leaves - a small bunch, finely chopped
Coconut - 1 cup, grated
Khus-khus - 2 teaspoons
Ghee - 1 tablespoon
Cinnamon - 1 inch long stick
Cloves - 3
Warm water - 5 cups

Method: Grind the coconut and khus-khus together to a smooth paste and keep aside. Grind the ginger and the garlic to a smooth paste and keep aside.

Heat a flat-bottomed vessel and pour the ghee. When smoking hot, add the cloves and cinnamon stick together and follow with half of the chopped onions. When the edges of the onions turn brown here and there, add the mutton pieces. Stir from bottom once. When the juice from the mutton pieces evaporates, add the, salt, turmeric powder, ginger, and garlic paste. Also the chillie and coriander powder.
Fry well for 5 minutes. Now add 3 cups of warm water to cover the mutton completely, and also the remaining chopped onions. Cover with a lid and allow to boil over moderate heat for the first 30 minutes and then simmer over reduced heat till the mutton is tender.
Add potato pieces to the tender mutton at this stage. If needed, add 2 cups of warm water with potato. When the potatoes are cooked , add the coconut and the khus-khus paste diluting it with a cup of water. Let the sauce simmer gently till you get the required consistency you like . Add the chopped coriander leaves to the sauce a minute before removing from the fire.

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[dev]

Here is an eggless banana cake(whole wheat_ oats) which I tried yesterday. healthier than the usual cake coz I din't add maida,

Preheat the oven to 180 C
whole wheat flour- 1 cup
oats- 1/2 cup
sugar 3/4th -to 1 cup or even lesser(I used brown sug+white sug- 50:50)
Cardamom pwd-1/2 tsp
baking soda- a lil less than 3/4th tsp
Put all the above in a bowl & mix well

In another bowl take=
oil or ghee or both mixed- around 5 tbsp
milk 1/4 cup(warm)
mix both well.
Add in 5 tbsp curd(slightly sour but not too sour)
Add in 3 medium sized bananas mashed well.
mix everything well.

Now add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients lil by litle & fold. don't mix vigorously & don't overmix. Add water if the batter is too thick.

Pour the batter into a greased,dusted cake pan. sprinkle some broken cashewnuts on top. U can add nuts to the batter if u like. Bake for 30-35 mins or until a skewer poked in the middle of the cake comes out clean. Let it rest outside the oven for 5 mins.loosen the sides & then turn the pan over a wire rack & tap. let it cool completely & then slice. Better had the next day.

Note: U can add vannila essence or banana essence instead of cardamom pwd.

This cake will be very soft but dense.

K, this cake din't stick to the teeth. maybe coz of the oats in it.

[Selviem]

kugan,

thanks for chicken and mutton receipes. i will try this when i have guests at home.
selvi

[Selviem]

dev,

ur eggless banana cake is very interesting, coz of eggless and fat also. i want to try. but my kids dont like the banana taste. can i make without banana.

[Selviem]

dev,

i made vendai,brinjal,drumstick,mochai puli patchadi. for that i used KMP powder. very liked the dish and smell is too good.

[kugan98]

Thanks Dev for the nice eggless recipe.
Surely I will try it, and post the picture.
Dev, take care. Kugan98

[dev]

Selvi, u can soak dates(maybe around 20) in milk & then grind & use it instead of banana... if it's soft dates, no need of soaking... else u can soak dried figs & chop then & use... flavour u can change accordingly...vanilla goes well with all... I don't use any flavour for fig & dates cake...

[kugan98]

Selviem, what is the dish that you made?
Is it a patchadi using all the veges?
Please kindly post the recipe. Thanks.

I wanted to sing a song for dev, as her kongu powder
is very famous.

Kongu naatu sengkarumbeh tanga sillaiyeh,
Dev, neenga engga thanga sillaiyeh


Thanks. Kugan98

[dev]

Selvi, can u pls post the recipe for the mixed veg puli patchadi... We make vendakkai /brinjal puli kulambu using the KMP... I just want to know if the recipe u tried is diff from tht...

[kugan98]

ONION UTHAPPAM

2 cups of dosa batter
1 tsp minced ginger
1 fresh red chillie finely chopped
1 onion chopped
2 tbs coriander leaves finely chopped
2 tbs grated carrots

Method:
Heat a dosa kal or non stick pan.
Pour a ladle ful of batter and spread to make thick dosai.
Sprinkle little of the ingredients on the dosai.
Drizzle gingelly oil over and along the dosai.
Lower the flame and cover the dosai.
Let it cook for a minute, flip to cook the other side.
Serve hot with chutney or sambar.

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