CHICKEN TIKKA RECIPE - Starters Recipes

Ingredients

1 full: Chicken (large)

2 cups: Curd

1 cup: Onions(Grinded)

4-5 cloves: Garlic

1/2"piece: Ginger

2"piece: Raw papaya

1 tsp: Chilli powder

1tsp: Garam masala

2 tbs: Lemon juice

2-3 drops: Red colour

Ghee as required

Salt to taste
Method

Clean the chicken. Remove the bones and slice it into small pieces. Grind onions, garlic, ginger, and papaya into smooth paste. Mix it with curd, chilli powder and garam masala. Blend well to make the marinade. Add a few drops of red colour to the marinade with salt and lemon juice. Smear the chicken pieces with the mixture and let them marinate for 8-10 hours. Heat ghee in a pan and add the marinated chicken pieces, fry for 5-6 minutes, then pour the remaining marinade on it. Cover the pan and cook on a low fire until chicken pieces are tender and dry. Serve hot.

GOBHI MANCHURIAN RECIPE - Easy Receipes

Ingredients (Serves: 6)
1 pcs: Cauliflower (medium, clean and broken into big florettes)
1/4 cup: Plain flour
3 tsp: Cornflour
1 small bunch: Spring onion (finely chopped)
2 tsp: Ginger (finely chopped)
1 tsp: Garlic (finely chopped)
1/4 tsp: Red chilli powder
2 no: Red chillies (dry)
1 tsp: Milk
3 tsp: Oil
1-1/2 cup: Water
Method
Boil the florettes for 3-4 minutes in plenty of water, to which a tsp. of milk has been added. Drain and pat dry on a clean cloth.
Make thin batter out of flour and 2 tsp cornflour, adding 1/4 tsp. each of ginger and garlic and red chilli powder and salt to taste.
Dip the florettes in the batter one by one and deep fry in hot oil. Keep aside.
In the remaining oil, add remaining ginger, garlic and crushed red chilli and fry for a minute. Add the salt and spring onions. Stir fry for a minute. Add 1-1/2 cups water and bring to a boil. Add 1 tsp. cornflour to 1/4 cup water and dissolve well. Gradually add to the gravy and stir continuously till it resumes boiling. Boil till the gravy becomes transparent.
Add florettes and soya sauce. Boil for two more minutes and remove.
Serve hot with noodles or rice.
Variations:
Dry Manchurian can be made by omitting the gravy.
Make florettes as above and instead of adding water as above, add fried florettes, spring onions and soya sauce at this stage.
Sprinkle 1 tsp. cornflour on the florettes and stir fry for 2 minutes.
Serve piping hot with toothpicks or mini forks and chilli-garlic sauce or tomato sauce.
Same procedure for veg. Manchurian (with gravy or dry), but instead of using only cauliflower, use finely chopped minced vegetables and bind with some cornflour or bread crumbs and make small lumps the size of a ping-pong ball. Fry as above and proceed as above.

TAMARIND RICE / PULIYOGAREY RICE / ANDHRA PULIHORA / PULI SADAM RECEIPE - Pongal Recipes

Ingredients:
Tamarind - 1 oz
Rice - 11/2 cups
Dry red chillies - 4
Gingely oil - 1 dsp
Ghee - 2 dsp
Black gram dal - 11/2 tsp
Bengalgram dal- 11/2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Fenugreek - 1/4 tsp
Cashew nuts - 16
Asafoetida powder - a pinch
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste
HOW TO COOK TAMARIND RICE:
Soak the tamarind in one cup of water for 15 minutes and draw the pulp and strain. Cook the rice in boiled water and drain it. Fry and powder, black gram dal and fenugreek and mix them with turmeric powder and asafoetida.
Season mustard, pieces of dry chillies, bengal gram and cashew nuts in gingely oil, add tamarind water, the powdered turmeric and asafoetida and boil till thick. Add enough salt and mix in the rice and the ghee.

DAL PAYASAM RECIPE - Pongal Recipes

Ingredients:
Moong dal (green gram lentil) -1 cup
Powdered jaggery-1/2 cup
Gram dal-1 tsp
Milk-1cup
Method of Preparation:
Cook moong dal and gram dal in plain water in a pressure cooker. Mix jaggery in a little water and bring to boil. Add the cooked dal mixture and let it cook for a while so that the entire ingredients mix well. Then remove from flame and add boiled milk and cardamom powder. Garnish the cooked dal payasam with cashew nuts roasted in ghee and serve hot or cold.

COCONUT RICE RECIPE - Pongal Recipes

Ingredients:
Basmati Rice - 2 cups
Grated coconut - 1
Channa dal -1 tsp full
Urad dal (Black gram)- 1 tsp full
Green or red chilly
Salt to taste
Method of Preparation:
Wash and clean the rice, and cook in 1\4 litre of water till done. Heat the Ghee in a separate pan. Put in mustard seeds, channadal, Urad dal, and chillies. Fry lightly. Mix well with cooked rice. Add the grated coconut with salt to the rice and mix well.