Chicken Fry

Ingredients

• Chicken - 1/2 kg
• Curd - 1/2 cup
• Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
• Chilli powder - 2 tsp
• Lemon - 1
• Ginger Garlic paste - 1/2 sp
• Corn flour - 1 sp
• Salt
• Food color Red - 1 pinch (optional)
• Oil

Method

wash and clean chicken. Make slits if the pieces are bigger.

In a bowl marinate, Chicken with lime juice, curd, turmeric powder, chilli powder, ginger garlic paste, salt and a pinch of food color(Optional)

Leave it for 4 hours. sprinkle corn flour and mix just before frying. (Again corn flour is optional)Fry it in oil. you can also shallow fry in thava with few spoons of oil or brushing oil.

The more it is soaked more the taste.

Thengai sadham

Ingredients:

• Raw Rice - 1 cup
• coconut - 1 cup
• Salt - to taste
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Green chillies - 3
• Curry leaves - 3 strings
• Mustard - 1 tsp
• Bengal gram dhal (Kadalai Paruppu) - 2 tsp
• Cashew Nuts - 6 to 10
• Red chillies - 2
• Ghee - 1 sp

Method:

Cook rice with little salt, drain and spread in a plate. add a dash of oil so that the rice do not stick.

In a kadai heat oil and season with mustard, Bengal gram dhal, curry leaves, chopped green chillies, red chillies sauté for a minute.

Then add the grated coconut and toss it will. add the salt.

Put this mixture to the rice and toss well.

Fry cashew in ghee and add to it.

Note: you can also add 1/2 spoon of very finely chopped ginger. since coconut is heavy ginger will help in digestion how ever many may not like chewing ginger.

keppai puttu

Ingredients:

• Ragi flour (Keppai mavu) - 1 cup
• Coconut grated - 1/2
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Ghee - 2 sp
• Cardamom powder

 Method:

Sprinkle water in the keppai mavu (Ragi flour) with a pinch of salt. and sieve it to avoid lumps. spread it on the idly maker and steam cook it. To know if it is cooked the color will change from light pinckish brown to a darker shade also taste a little so when cooked you wont feel the raw flour taste.

Once cooked add the grated coconut, sugar, ghee and cardamom powder and mix well.

This is a healthy snacks for kids as Keppai is good for health !

Inippu pidi Kozhukattai

Ingredients:

• Rice flour - 1 cup
• Coconut - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 3/4 cup
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Salt - 1 pinch

Method:

In a bowl mix the flour, grated coconut, sugar and a pinch of salt. Sprinkle water and make it a dough. Make
Kozhukattais with hand (with the impression of four fingers on one side of the kozhukattai). Apply ghee in the tray and arrange the kozhukattai and bake till done.

Karuppatti Kozhukattai

Ingredients:

• Rice flour - 1 cup
• Sesame seeds - 1 tbsp
• Karupatti - 1/4 cup
• ghee - 1 tbsp

Method:

Take the rice flour in a bowl.

With two spoons of water melt the karupatti over stove. Dry roast the sesame seed. Crush it between palms and add it to the flour. Filter and pour the karupatti pagu to the flour. Sprinkle water. Rub it along. Make kozhukattai. And bake in idly baking vessel. (apply ghee in the idly making tray so that it do not stick to the tray).

Note: too much of Karupatti pagu will make the kozhukattais hard and it will have a texture like that of raw uncooked flour.