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