Salt and Spice

Ingredients Chicken – 1/2 kg cut into pieces Mushrooms – 1 cup quartered Onion – 1 chopped Ginger – 1 tbsp chopped Garlic – 1 tbsp chopped Bird’s eye chillies – 3 slit Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Tomatoes – 2 medium chopped Chicken masala – 3 tsp Pepper powder – 1 tsp Turmeric powder [...]

Ingredients Mackerel – 1 kg  cut into pieces Onion – 1 big chopped Ginger – 1 tbsp chopped Garlic – 1 tsp chopped Green chillies – 6 slit Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Tomatoes – 2 chopped Coriander powder – 2 tsp Fish masala – 2 tsp (optional) Chilly powder -3 tsp Turmeric powder -2 [...]

Ingredients Chicken – 1 kg cut into pieces Onions – 2 big chopped Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp Green chillies – 3 slit Curry leaves – 3 sprigs Tomato paste – 4 tbsp Maggi coconut milk powder – 3/4 cup Chicken masala – 2 tsp Coriander powder – 2 tsp Pepper powder – 1/2 [...]

My daughter came home today after three years of study in Singapore.  It was really a joyous occasion for the whole family!  To celebrate the day, I made this delicious Kerala style ‘Chicken Biriyani’.  I made the Biriyani in the simplest way possible since I had very little time after coming back from the airport.  [...]

Ingredients Karimeen / Pearl Spot – 1 kg Chilly powder – 4 tsp Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Pepper powder – 1/2 tsp Vinegar – 2 tsp Salt – to taste Oil – for frying Method Clean the fish and wash it with salt and vinegar.  Make slits on the fish with a knife.  Make [...]

Wish You All A Very Happy Easter! Ingredients Chicken Breast – 850 gm cut into small pieces Onions – 2 diced Green Capsicum – 1 diced Ginger – 2 tbsp finely chopped Garlic – 2 tbsp finely chopped Green chillies – 5 cut slantwise Celery – 2 tbsp chopped Water – 1 cup Corn flour [...]

Ingredients Shark or Ray – 1 kg cut into pieces Onion – 1 sliced Ginger – 1 tbsp chopped Green chillies – 3 slit Curry leaves – 3 sprigs Kudampuli/ Gambooge – 4 pieces Water – 2 cups Salt – to taste Oil – 2 tbsp For Grinding Grated coconut – 3/4 cup Garlic – [...]

Ingredients Chicken – 1 kg cut into small pieces Onions – 2 sliced Ginger – 2″ piece chopped Garlic – 4 chopped Green chillies – 4 slit Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Garam masala – 1 tsp Pepper powder – 2 tsp Vinegar – 2 tbsp Water – 1 cup [...]

Ingredients Small variety Fish – 1/2 kg cut into pieces Shallots – 12 sliced Ginger – 1/2″ piece chopped Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Kudampuli/Gambooge – 2 pieces Water – 1/4 cup Salt – to taste Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp Coconut oil – 1 1/2 tbsp For Grinding Grated coconut – 1 cup Green [...]

Remember the ‘Red-hot Kerala Fish Curry’ Arundhati Roy had described in her Booker Prize winning novel “The God of Small Things”…?  ‘Meen Vattichathu’ is something Kerala Christians, especially those from Central Kerala love to have everyday with hot rice!  This mouth-watering fish curry is usually prepared in an earthen pot or ‘manchatti’ which makes it [...]