Lemon chicken

Ingredients:
Chicken - 1/4kg
Juice of half of a lemon
Chilli powder - 1 1/2tsp
Coriander powder - 1 1/2tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4tsp
Garlic pods - 4 (small one)
Ginger - a small piece
Baby onon - 3
Aniseed - a pinch
Green chillies - 3
Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
Salt to taste
Oil
Method:

• Make a paste of garlic, ginger, baby onion, anseed
• Rub the chicken pieces with the above paste, chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, lemon juice, curry leaves, green chillies and salt and keep it aside for atleast 1 hr.
• Deep fry the marinated chicken pieces with curry leaves and green chillies
  

Pepper Chicken fry

Ingredients:
Chicken - 1
garlic pods - 10
Baby onion - 10
Pepper - 1tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Salt to taste

Method:

1)Clean the chicken well and cut into small pieces.
2)Grind well all the ingredients.
5)Add salt to the mixture.
3)Marinate the chicken pieces with this mixture and keep it aside for atleast half an hour.
4)Heat a non-stick pan and cook the chicken.
5)Add water.
7)Cook it well until it becomes dry.
6)When the chicken is cooked heat oil in a kadai.
7)Add curry leaves and chopped onion
8)Saute until the onion becomes golden brown
and pour it over the cooked chicken
9)Add chopped coriander leaves and serve hot

Chemmeen vattichadu

Ingredients:
Prawns - 1/2kg
Chopped onion - 2
Chopped tomato - 1
Garlic cloves - 4
Green chillies - 2
Ginger paste - 2tsp
Red chilli powder - 2tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4tsp
Curry leaves - 2sprig
Chopped coriander leaves
Olive oil - 2tbsp
Salt to taste

Method:

• Heat oil in a kadai
• Add chopped onion, garlic paste, ginger paste, green chillies and saute
• Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and saute
• Add prawns, salt and mix well
• Cover with a lid and cook for 15mins
• Add curry leaves and chopped coriander leaves
• Cook till the gravy becomes thick

Enjoy with rice, appam or pathiri

Vegetable stew

Ingredients:
Potato (cut into medium size chunks) - 1
Carrot (cut into small cubes) - 1cup
Peas - 1/2 cup
Beans (cut into 1 inch piece) - 1/2cup
Cauliflower - 4 florets
Ginger (cut into juliens) - small piece
Onion (sliced)- 2
Tomato(sliced) - 1
Garam masala - 1tsp
Pepper powder - 1tsp
Peppercorn - 3 to 4
Green chillies - 2
Curry leaves - 2sprig
Coriander leaves(chopped)








Method:

• Pressure cook the vegetables(potato, carrot, cauliflower, peas, beans, half of the sliced onion, half of the ginger juliens,tomato, green chillies) with salt
• Add garam masala and pepper powder to the cooked vegetables
• Add coconut milk to it and boil
  
• Heat oil in a kadai
  
• Add peppercorn and saute for 1 min
• Add onion, ginger, curry leaves and saute
• Add this to the cooked vegetables and stir
• Add chopped coriander leaves

Vegetable stew is ready to serve

Ethapazham pachadi

Ingredients

Ethapazham - 2
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Coconut grated - 1cup
Red chilli - 2
Curd - 1/2cup
Green chilli - 2
Turmeric powder - 1/4tsp
Curry leaves - 1sprig
Mustard seeds - 1tsp
Salt to taste

Method:

• Peel and cut the banana into small pieces
• Cook it with 1/4tsp salt adding enough water
• Make a paste of cumin seeds, coconut, red chillies, turmeric powder, green chillies, mustard seeds and salt
• Add the paste to the cooked banana
• Heat oil in a kadai and splutter mustard seeds
• Now add curry leaves and pour into the pachadi

Ethapazham pachadi is ready to serve

Aila pollichadu

Ingredients:
Mackerel - 2
Shallots - 10
Green chillies - 4
Ginger - 1 inch piece
curry leaves - 1sprig
salt to taste
Oil for frying

Method:

• Make a paste of shallots, green chillies, ginger, curry leaves and salt
• Slit the mackerel and stuff the paste
• Rub the remaining paste on the fish and keep it aside for half an hour
• Heat oil in a pan and shallow fry the marinated fish

Serve it hot with rice

Marble cake

I got the recipe from a cookery show and I thought of trying it in microwave. It came out really good. But i could not take the picture coz it got finished before that :-)

Here goes the ingredients
maida - 3/4cup
Sugar - 3/4cup
Butter - 3/4cup
Milk - 1/4cup
Egg - 2
Vanila essence - 1/2tsp
pineapple jam - 1tbsp
Baking powder - 1tsp
cocoa powder - 2tbsp

Method:

• Beat egg well
• Add vanila esence and sugar to it and beat well
  
• Add butter and beat again
  
• Add sieved maida and baking powder and mix
• Add milk and mix
• Add cocoa powder to half of the mixture
• Add pineapple jam to the other half and mix
  
• Grease a microwave safe bowl
  
• Pour the chocolate cake mixture
• Pour the vanila cake mixture above the chocolate cake mixture
• Stir with a spatula inorder to give a marble effect
• Microwave at 100%power for 5mins
• Marble cake is ready

Tip:Insert a toothpick or a fork and make sure that the cake had come out really good, if not microwave for another 2min at 75% power