Mutton Masala Dosa

Well, this is my 100 th post :) , feels very happy to post it, that too within a year. Thanks all for your support. 

I got this recipe from a cooking show. The taste was too good. You can try this once in a while when you feel to taste something different with dosa. It needs mutton curry and dosa batter. You have to stuff mutton curry inside the dosa. Hope you will like it.

Cooking time:30 minutes                                     Serves:10 dosa

Ingredients:

Muton(boneless preferred)	1/2 kg( chop into small pieces)
Dosa batter	as needed
Egg	as needed
Ginger	1 inch piece
Garlic	5 cloves
Big onion	1(chopped,medium)
Tomato	1(chopped,medium)
Red chilly powder	1/2 tspoon
Coriander powder	1 tspoon
Turmeric powder	1/2 tspoon
Garam masala	3/4 tspoon
Pepper powder	1/4 tspoon
Green chilly	4(medium,chooped)
Salt	to taste
Oil	1 tbl spoon

Preparation of mutton masala:

(1) Wash and clean the mutton. Boneless pieces are more preferable. Cut into tiny pieces. Mix with salt and turmeric powder. Take it in a pressure cooker and cook for 4 whistles without adding water. Once it is cooked there will be some water oozed out from mutton.. Keep it as it is.

(2) Mean while heat oil in a pan. Add ginger and garlic. Saute well till raw smell goes off. To this add onion pieces. Saute till color changes light brown. After that add green chilly. Saute and add tomato pieces. Saute till it turns juicy.

(3) Now add chilly powder, coriander powder, garam masala, pepper powder and salt. Now masala is ready. To this add cooked mutton along with the water in it. Mix well and make a taste test here. Close with a lid and cook for another 5 minutes in low flame. Your mutton masala is ready.

Click here for the preparation of dosa. Of course you need dosa batter for this recipe :)

Preparation of mutton masala dosa:

(1) In a bowl take 2 tbl spoon of mutton masala. To this add a egg and beat well. Keep this mutton-egg gravy aside.

(2) Heat a tawa and spread spread oil. Now pour dosa batter and spread it. Above that spread mutton-egg gravy as shown in the below picture( If you want more spiciness you can spread some pepper powder above the gravy )

(3) Once it is ready to turn over make 3 folds(to 3 sides) with the dosa as shown in the below picture. After that inverse it. In low flame let that side cook and flavor sets well. Your mutton masala dosa is ready. Repeat the same step for each dosa.

Try this dish and surprise your guests:)

Tips:

• You can also stuff any other mutton gravy. But mutton pieces should be small.

Idi Chammanthi/Dry Chutney Powder

This is one of my favorite side dish. Even though it will take some time to prepare it, the taste will be awesome. I tried the same from stores too, but couldn't get the exact taste. So i starts the preparation by myself. I follow the same recipe which my mom and grandma used to do. Those recipe is here for you all.

Ingredients:

Coconut	4 cup
Curry leaves	2 sprig
Urad dal	3/4 cup
Toor dal	1/4 cup
Garlic	12 cloves
Red chilly powder	3 to 4 tspoon
Coriander powder	2 tspoon
Asafoetida powder	1/2 tspoon
Salt	to taste
Tamarind	1 lemon size

Preparation:

(1) Heat a pan and add coconut. Saute it. When it starts to change color add curry leaves and continue stirring till color of coconut change brownish( Take care not to burn them). Remove the ingredients from the pan. Let it cool.

(2) In the same pan add urad dal, toor dal and garlic. Better to add garlic towards the end. Saute till the color changes golden brown. Now reduce the flame to low and add chilly powder, coriander powder. Saute for some seconds so that the raw smell goes off. Now remove the ingredients from the pan. Let it cool.

(3) In the same pan add tamarind and saute it for some seconds until it get warm (you can do it in microwave oven too). Now switch off the flame. Let it cool.

(4) Now you have to grind all the cooled ingredients separately that is, grind the coconut mixture in a mixer and make a coarse powder. Keep it aside.

(5) Also grind the urad dal mixture in a mixer and make a fine powder. Keep it aside.

(6) Take the stirred tamarind in a mixer. Add salt to it. Grind it and make a fine powder.

(7) Now you have to mix all the ground mixtures. For that take the ground coconut mixture in a bowl. Add urad dal mixture little by little to it and mix well( you can do this in a mixer too, but if at any point you found the proportion of coconut mixture to urad dal mixture is correct, you can use the remaining urad dal mixture separately as dosa/idly podi. If urad dal mixture dominate coconut mixture the taste of chutney powder differs).

(8) Now take this mixed ingredients in a mixer along with ground tamarind powder,asafoetida powder and grind it till smooth( make salt test while grinding).

Your dry chutney powder is now ready. You can store it in an airtight container and keep in room temperature. It ll long last if u keep in refrigerator.

Have it with your rice.dosa/idly…

Tips:

• Don't add oil or water in this recipe.
• You can use fresh coconut/frozen coconut. Some coconut when grinned will be little watery even after stirring. Don't worry, it will dry off when mixed with urad dal ingredients.

Meen Pollichathu/ Fish Fried In Banana Leaf-Kerala Style

Meen pollichathu is a popular kerala dish. I already added this recipe. This is another version which is more easier than the previous one.

Preparation Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time:50 minutes.

Ingredients:

Fish(i used pearl spot, it also works for king fish, pomfret and tilapia)	2
Shallots/Big onion	25/1(skin peeled,chopped)
Tomato	1(chopped)
Curry leaves	2 sprig
Coconut Oil	2 tspoon+2 tbl spoon

To Marinate:

Chilly powder	3 tspoon
Coriander powder	2 tspoon
Turmeric powder	1 tspoon
Ginger-garlic paste	1 tspoon
Garam Masala	1 tspoon
Lemon Juice	1 tspoon
Salt	to taste
Water	To sprinkle

To Wrap:

Banana Leaf or Foil paper

Preparation:

(1) In a bowl add the ingredients shown under "to marinate" heading. Sprinkle water and mix well. Make a thick paste which should be in spreading consistency

(2) Well, before preparing masala you have to wash and clean the fish. Make horizontal slits over the fish. Now paste more than half of the masala over the fish(Keep the rest of masala aside). Mind to paste the masala inside the slits too. Keep it for marination about half an hour.

(3) Mean while heat oil in a pan. Add shallots/onion slices along with little salt. Stir till the color changes brownish. Add tomato slices and saute till it turns juicy(i didn't used tomato due to out of stock). Now add curry leaves. Saute well and add the rest of masala(add little more water to the remaining masala) which we kept aside. Stir well and allow the added water with masala to boil so that the raw smell of masalas goes off and onion will cook well (take care not to burn). Switch off the flame. Keep it aside. Let it cool.

(4) Now heat oil a pan to fry the fish. Add the marinated fish into it. Fry it till half cooked( say 2 minutes on each side. Don't cook completely). Keep it in a tissue paper.

(5) Now take a banana leaf. Spread some onion masala over it and keep the half cooked fish over it. Again spread more masala over the top. Fish will be now covered by the msaala. Now wrap it carefully.

(6) Heat a pan and keep the wrapped fishes over it(i made a knot with an aluminium foil over the wrap). Sprinkle water over it. Close the vessel with a lid. Let it steam cook. Flip the parcel in between by sprinkilng water. Cook for 15 minutes on each sides. Now you will get a nice smell of banana leaf). Switch off the flame when the color of leaf changes brownish. Your Meen pollichathu is now ready.

Enjoy your fish pollichathu with Kappa Puzhungiyathu, Kappa Puzhukku or rice….

Tips:

• Lightly heat the banana leaf over the flame so that it will not tear during wrapping.
• You can also use aluminium foil paper instead of banana leaf.

Mango Lassi

I'm a big fan of mango, the king of fruits. Mango lassi is a popular indian drink which will ne one of my favorite in Indian restaurants. The difference from mango lassi to milk shake is that, it is prepared by adding yogurt. Enjoy this summer with mango lassi :)

Preparation Time:5 min Serves:2 to 3

Ingredients:

Ripe Mango	1&1/2 cup(skin peeled and chopped into cube shapes)
Yogurt/Curd(thick and sour less)	3/4 cup
Chilled Milk/Water	1/2 cup
Ice cubes	1/2 cup
Sugar	2 tbl spoon(depends on the sweetness of mango)

Preparation:

(1)Take chopped mangoes in a mixer/blender along with yogurt, milk/water and sugar. Grind well. To this add ice cubes and grind it again.

(3) Make a smooth paste. Your mango lassi is ready. The consistency should be more or less thick.

Serve it and enjoy immediately:)

Tips:

• For an additional flavor you can add little ginger juice or cardamom powder while grinding.
• Select mangoes which have less fibre content.