Kerala Sambar

 Ingredients  :

• All indian Vegetables equally proportion - 1 kg
• Onion – 1
• Tomato – 1
• Tamarind pulp – 1 cup
• Garlic – 4 cloves
• Chilly powder – ½ tspn
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ tspn
• Red Daal – ¼ cup
• Salt to taste
• Water – 1 cup

          # Boil the above ingredients in a cooking deep pan for about 15 minutes.

    Ingredients for Gravy:

• Mustard seeds – ¼ tspn
• Fenugreek seeds – ¼ tspn
• Small Onion – 4
• Oil – 2 tbspn
• Garlic – 2 cloves
• Curry leaves – 1 trunk
• Red Chilly – 1
• Cumin – ¼ tspn
• Asafoetida – 1 pinch
• Chilly powder – 2 tspn
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ tspn
• Water – 1 cup

Steps to Prepare:

1. In a separate pan add Oil.
2. When its heated up crackle the mustard and then add fenugreek  & Cumin seeds.
3. Add garlic cloves, red chilly, curry leaves and onions and stir until brown.
4. Add chilly powder and turmeric powder and sort for few seconds till a chilly flavour smells out. Turn off the flame.
5. Cool it and blend it by adding 1 cup of water.
6. Pour the Gravy into the cooked vegetables and flame until it boils.
7.  Tamper the sambar by heating some oil in a separate pan and crackle the mustard. Add some curry leaves and red chilly to garnish.

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Fish Tomato Puri

Ingredients for Marination :

• Fish – ½ kg
• Chilly Powder – 1 tbspn
• Turmeric Powder – ¼ tspn
• Salt – 1 tspn

  #  Marinate the fish for about 15 minutes with the above 

           ingredients.

    Ingredients for Gravy:

• Tomato – 2
• Green Chilly - 1 
• Garlic paste – 1 tspn
• Oil – 2 tbspn
• Fenugreek seeds – ¼ tspn
• Coriander Powder – ½  tspn
• Turmeric Powder – ¼  tspn
• Chilly powder – 2 tspn
• Curry leaves – 2 trunks
• Salt to taste 

Steps to Prepare:

1. Shallow Fry the marinated fish with oil and curry leaves.
2.  Blend the tomatoes with green chilly.
3. In the same pan, pour little oil and add fenugreek seeds and garlic paste. Sort and add tomato puree and wait for few minutes to boil.
4. Add rest of the spices and cover for about 10 minutes.
5. Add the fried fish and simmer for 5 minutes.
6. Garnish with curry leaves.

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Paneer Tikka Masala

Ingredients:

•   Paneer – 300 gms ( Chopped into rectangle shape
•  Oil – 1 tbspn
•  Red Chilly Powder – ½ tspn
•   Coriander Powder – ½ tspn
•   Ginger – 1 tbspn
•   Yougurt – 1 tbspn
•   Salt to taste

Method:

            1.       Mix all the ingedients above and quote well on Paneer pieces and marinate for an hour in refrigerator

    2.      After an hour oil a flat hot pan and shallow fry the Paneer turning both the sides until 

              brown and keep aside. 

Ingredients for Gravy:

•   Tomato – 4 Blended
•   Green Chilly – 1
•   Oil – 1 tbspn
•   Cumin Seed – ½ tspn
•   Asafoetida – 1 small pinch
•   By leaves – 2
•   Coriander  powder – 1 tspn
•   Chilly powder – ¼ tspn
•   Corn Starch – 1 tspn
•   Sugar – ½ tspn
•   Garam masal – ¼ tspn
•   Corander leaves 2 tbspn

Method:

          1.       Oil the heat pan, crackle the cumin seeds, asapateta and add bay leaves.

          2.       Immediately add tomato paste that is grinded with green chilly.  

          3.       On to that add chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder,  sugar & salt and stir well.

          4.       Cover the lid for 10 minutes and cook well in a low flame.

          5.       After its boiled add corn starch stirred in little cold water & sort for few minutes.

          6.       According to your presence, if the gravy is thick you can add water more or cornstarch vice versa.

          7.       Finally add paneer and mix well. For more flavor add garam masala and coriander leaves.

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Tomato Chutney:

           Ingredients :

• Tomato – 2 Cup
• Green Chilly – 8
• Garlic – 1 tspn
• Oil – 2 tspn
• Hing – 1 Pinch
• Cumin Seeds – 1 tspn
• Mustard seeds – 1 tspn
• Turmeric Powder – ½ tspn
• Paprika/ Chilly powder – ½ tspn
• Bay Leaves – 2
• Curry Leaves - 1 trunk 
• Red Chilly - 1
• Corn Starch – 1 tspn
• Salt to taste 
•  Sugar – 2 tspn

Steps to Prepare:

1.  Blend the tomatoes with  green chilly.
2. Oil the pan and add bay leaves and all the seeds one after the other such as hing, mustard seeds,cumin seeds and garlic chopped.
3.  Add tomato puree and wait for few minutes to boil.
4. Add rest of the spices and cover for about 10 minutes.
5. Pour corn starch stirred in water.
6. Finally add salt and sugar and stir well.
7. Garnish with curry leaves and Red chilly.

    

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