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K erala style chicken fry is a perfect side dish along with rice or rotis. This is loved by all in my family and keeps asking for more. When it is fried the house will be filled with the lovely aroma of the curryleaves.As a kid, when my mom used to fry this, with the smell itself I will be attracted to the kitchen and without my mom noticing I would eat a lot. Now my daughter does that… :) This dish requires very little ingredients and is very easy to make and which is very tasty too, just try this out and you will make this often. Ingredients: Chicken Pieces- 250 gms Curry Leaves- few Red Chilli Powder- 2 tbsp Turmeric Powder- 1 tsp Crushed Ginger- 1 tbsp Crushed Garlic- 1 tbsp Salt- as required Pepper Powder- 2 tsp Method: Grind the curry leaves, red chilli powder and turmeric powder. Mix this along with crushed garlic  and crushed ginger along with salt in a bowl. Add the chicken pieces and smear this paste well and keep this aside for 30 min- 1 hour. Heat oil and fry some curry...

T his is a simple and a easy tea time snack which can be mostly seen in every malayali household. A mix of beaten rice flakes, melted jaggery and coconut with a tinge of cardamom powder is a heavenly treat. A good combination along with ripe plantains, but we can have it this way too. Kids will love this after school snack, not only kids but everyone in the family.This is special because today is my dad’s birthday and he loves this  type of Kerala snacks a lot. Even though he is diabetic, he loves to eat everything that is sweet. He will always ask my mom to make this. If not he will buy this from shop. My dad is a good cook. Whatever he made was amazingly delicious. When we were kids, he used to prepare kheer using milkmaid, ice creams, different types of juices, omelet. Among these his omelet was famous, till now whenever we demand he makes it for us. This aval vilayichath is for you dad, just that we are enjoying it here…. :) Ingredients: Poha/ Aval- 2 Cups Grated Jaggery- ¾ Cup...

Jakarta chicken porridge  Jakarta Porridge chicken or called bubur ayam, is very popular dish in most asian countries including indonesia. porridge can be enjoyed on its own or eaten with variety of side dishes. and even though the dish comes in many variation. jakarta chicken porridge made by rice, chicken, salt, bay leaves and other many spices. now we share how to make servering for 6 portion jakarta chicken porridge recipes Jakarta chicken porridge ingredients: 1. 200 grams rice ( wash and clean until 2 - 3X ) 2. 2000 ml broth from bone chicken 3. 1 teaspon salt 4. 1 bay leaves 5. 200 ml coconut milk Jakarta chicken porridge Sauce dressing 1. 2 chicken thighs 2. 1 cm ginger ( bash ) 3. 1 teaspon msg ( can replace with chicken broth ) 4. 1/4 teaspon salt 5. 1000 ml water 6. 2 tablespon Mashed seasoing to sauce dressing 1. 6 red onion / shallot 2. 3 garlic 3. 1/4 teaspon nutmeg powder 4. 2 candlenut ( roasted ) 5. 1/2 teaspon coriander 6. 1/2 teaspon pepper 7. 1 cm tumeric ( roas...

T he way of celebrating valentine's day has changed a lot in modern times. Gifting greeting cards, roses, chocolates, gift cards has become the recent trend of celebrating valentine's day. Everyone has there own way of celebrating this day and so I have made chocolate pops which are dipped in pink candy melts and decorated with Nutella hearts. I made this for the first time and fell in love with these cuties, that can be decorated however we want. These cute little cakes on a stick are really simple and easy to make. Ingredients: Chocolate Cake (crumbled)- 3 Cups Butter (at room temperature)- ¾ Cup Cocoa Powder- 4 tbsp Coffee Powder- 1 tbsp Granulated Sugar- ½ Cup Candy Melts- ½ Cup Method: Cream the butter till it forms fluffy, light and cream in colour. In this add cocoa powder, coffee powder and sugar. Mix well. Add this in the crumbled cake mixture and mix properly with hand and make round balls of desired size. Insert cake pop sticks in each of the cake balls. Keep this re...

W ho doesn't love pizza and that too if it is homemade, then everybody in the house will have more slices without thinking about the calories. I never thought that I would be preparing pizza from scratch. But once I tried making at home, we will never have  one from outside. Assembling the pizza We can have our desired toppings. We can make the sauce before hand and refrigerate and we can use when making pizza or pasta. Ready to get baked.... The process of making pizza looks big and tiring, but once started it will be easy and simple. You can use your own assorted veggies. I made the pizza base using maida, we can also make this using wheat flour, but it will be little dense. We can also use dried or fresh herbs like thyme, dill or rosemary of choice for the sauce,whatever it is, this will taste amazing. Just try this out once and you will find it easy and will try to make often. For veg pizza, add your favorite veggies. Instead of sausages you can also add fried chicken pieces. P...

E gg puffs are my favorite tea time snacks. Not only mine but my family’s favorite snack too. These egg puffs are available in almost all the bakeries in India. I love to prepare them at home, but as you all might know by now that I am a very lazy person and making puff pastry sheets at home was a dream for me and also the ready made pastry sheets were not easily available in the shops. But here in US almost all the shops have these sheets in there frozen section and so I grabbed one and tried these egg puffs, which came out perfectly baked. Ready to go in the oven... In these puffs I have added a spread of homemade schezwan sauce for a twist and it tasted amazing. You can also try it if you have schezwan sauce at home or omit that step. Any ways, this will taste yummy. Ingredients: Puff Pastry Sheets- 10 nos Eggs- 5 nos Onions( sliced)- 2 nos Tomato (sliced)- 1 no Kashmiri Chilli Powder- 1 tbsp Turmeric Powder- 1 tsp Pepper Powder- 1 tsp Garam Masala Powder- 1 tsp Salt- as required ...