Banana Milk Shake - Nice drink to quench your thirst

Ingredients :-

Frozen milk – 2 cups
Banana – 1
Sugar – 4 tbl spoon

Method :-

• Blend the frozen milk, banana and sugar slowly until it becomes a drink
• Transfer the milk shake to a glass and serve.

Fish Curry !!!

Ingredients :-

Fish (any kind) - 5 pieces
Grated Coconut - 1 cup
Tamarind juice - 1/4 cup
Small Onion - 4
Green chilli - 5
Tomato chopped - 5 pieces
Ginger crushed - 1 tbl spoon
Chilli powder - 1 tbl spoon
Turmeric powder - 1 tbl spoon
Oil
Salt
Curry leaf

Method :-

•  Marinate the fish with salt, chilli powder and turmeric powder for 1/2 an hr.
• Mix small onion slices, chopped tomato, green chilli, and ginger  with your hand.
• Add this mixture to the fish pieces. Pour the tamarind juice in to the fish.
• Heat the above mixture with a little water. Add salt if necessary.
• Grind coconut and turmeric powder to a fine paste.
• Add the coconut paste in to the curry once the fish is cooked.
• Boil for a minute. Add curry leaves and a little oil.

Brinjal Mezhukkupuratti

Ingredients :-

Green Brinjal - 2
Green chilli - 3
Chilli Powder - a pinch
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tbl spoon
Oil
Salt

Method :-

• Cut brinjal in to small pieces. 
• Heat oil in a pan. Add the brinjal pieces, turmeric powder, green chillies, chilli powder and salt
• Mix well and cook for 5 minutes. 
• Serve as a side dish for rice.

Onion Bajji

Ingredients :-

Sliced onion - 2
Maida / All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
Besan flour - 1/2 cup
Chilli Powder - 1 tbl spoon
Chopped ginger - one small piece
Curry leaves
Oil 
salt

Method :-

• Squeeze the onions well with your hand.
• Make a dough with besan flour, all purpose flour, salt, ginger, chilli powder, curry leaves and a little water. Do not make it a paste form.
• Heat oil in a pan. Take a small piece of the dough and make any shape as u like (flatten it) and fry till it becomes brown color.Turn it and fry the other side as well. Onion bajji is ready 2 eat.

Puli Inji - Ginger n Tamarind Curry

Ingredients:

Ginger - 7 pieces (finely chopped)
Green chillies - 7 nos
Tamarind - one small ball
Fenugreek seeds - a pinch
Oil - 2 table spoon
Mustard seeds - 1 table spoon
Red Dry Chillies - 2 nos
Salt to taste

Method:-

• Soak the tamarind in water for 5 mins.
• Heat oil in a pan and fry the finely chopped ginger, dry red chillies and green chillies as well. Fry this till the ginger becomes brown in colour. 
• Then grind this mixture by adding required salt with a little water. Make sure that the mixture do not become a paste. Keep it aside. 
• Heat the pan again and pour oil. Then splutter the mustard seeds. Add fenugreek seeds in to that. Then put the ground mixture and the tamarind paste to the pan and let it boil for a while. Pour this dish in to a serving bowl and serve with rice.

Chicken Biriyani @ Home

Ingredients:-

Basmati Rice -2 cup
Cinnamon - 3
Cloves - 3
Cardamom - 3
Pepper - 5

Chicken (Big pieces) - 4
Yogurt/Curd -  3 tbl spoon
Turmeric Powder - 1 tbl spoon
Chilli Powder - 1 tbl spoon
Coriander Powder - 2 tbl spoon
Garam Masala. - 4
Ghee - 3 tbl spoon
Cashew nuts
Salt

Onion sliced - 2
Tomato chopped - 1
Ginger chopped - 1 medium piece
Garlic - 5 cloves
Green chilli - 4
Curry leaves/coriander leaves

Method :-

• Marinate the chicken pieces with salt, chilli powder, turmeric powder,some chopped ginger, garlic  and  yogurt for half an hour.
• Cook the basmati rice in water by adding salt, round pepper, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom.
• Heat oil in a pan. Add one set of sliced onion, ginger, garlic, green chilli and curry leaves. Saute well. Add tomatoes, and then the chicken pieces. Add coriander powder, garam masala and a little water to cook the chicken. Cover it and cook till the gravy becomes thick and getting dried. Then turn the fire off.
• Heat oil in a pan and  fry another set of onion till it become brown in color. Keep this aside.
• Fry the cashew nuts in ghee and keep it aside.
• Finally, in a bowl, spread some ghee, cashew nut, some fried onions, then rice and chicken pieces. repeat the step. Garnish with coriander leaves. Chicken Biriyani is ready !!! Serve with raitha.

Pumpkin Curry (Gives a Sweet n Sour flavour)

Ingredients:-


Pumpkin (small pieces) - 1 small bowl
Coconut - 1 cup
Tamarind Juice - 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds - 1 pinch
Turmeric Powder - 1 tbl spoon
Green Chilli - 4
Salt

For Seasoning:-

Coconut Oil - 1 tbl spoon
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tbl spoon
Dry red chilli - 2
Fenugreek seeds (uluva) - 1 pinch
Curry leaf

Method:-


Cook the pumpkin pieces with water, salt, turmeric powder and  green chillies. It may take some 20 mins time. In the meantime, make a paste of coconut, cumin seeds and a little turmeric powder. Keep it aside. Add tamarind juice to the curry and boil. Then add the coconut paste to the cooked pumpkin. Heat it for 2 mins and season it with, coconut oil, mustard, fenugreek seeds, dry red chillies and curry leaf.