Fish is an important part of our diet. It is very healthy food with low fatand calories, carbohydrates, vitamins and fatty acids. Even doctors recommend to take fish atleast twice a week. This is a good food for even heart patients. Fish is an important food in many cuisines of Indian. Now i would like to present the fish curry or chaapala pulusu as made in telangana style of cooking.. For this korameenu or any quality of fish can be used..
Ingredients :
Fish peices – 1 kg
Tamarind extract – 1 cup
Onion – 2
Ginger garlic paste -2 tsp
Cumin powder -1 tsp
Fenugreek powder – 1/2 tsp
Coconut powder -3 tbsp
Coriander powder – 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Red chillie powder -1 tsp
Salt -to taste
Curry leaves -2 sprigs
Lemon juice -1 tsp
Oil – 2 tbsp
Clean the fish peices and rub lemon juice on all peices and keep aside. Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan and fry the sliced onions till they are soft. Saute the cumin and fenugreek seeds and grind them powder and use in the recipe or you can use the readily available powders. But the freshly ground spices give a special taste and flavour to any recipe.. Take the tamarind paste or extract and make a liquid adding water. This should not be too thick or too dilute.. We cook the fish along with other spices in this tamarind water.. Grind the onion into fine paste . Add turmeric powder, red chillie powder, coconut powder, coriander powder, cumin and fenugreek powders , salt as required, curry leaves and oil along with the onion paste. Add the fish peices and mix well and cook it on medium heat . Slowly mix the curry frequently not to break the peices. Cook till the fish is cooked and gives out delicious flavour and oil floats on top. Remove from fire and serve.
Actually many say or agree that this fish curry or pulusu tastes great when cool. and in many regions it is eaten on next day along with jowar rotis which is a wonderful combination.. Try to take fish not less than a kg. This is becos they have less bones.. easy to separate..
This is my first entry to Spotlight: fish even organised by indrani.
This is evergreen recipe learnt from my mom. i dont even dare to change any ingredient becos its perfect ..
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Ganapati Bappa Moriya
Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesh .It is an important festival celebrated with joy for ten days. The main dishes or prasadams prepared for Ganesh chaturthi are modaks.. But we prepare some special recipes for this festival..
These are wheat noodles or talikalu handmade at home.. few years back people used to make noodles of thin and thick size with good quality wheat flour at home only. There is a special machine to make this wheat noodles at home.. They used to make in a large quantity during summer. Dry them thoroughly in sun and store for whole year.. But now semya or vermicelli is easily available in market.. Still we prefer to make these wheat noodles at home. If there is no pressing machine, we would make with hands only. Sometimes we prepare two or three days before and dry them, or make it on the festival day and continue with cooking.
Ingredients :
Wheat noodles /talikalu – 200 gms
Jaggery – 250 gms
Milk - 250 ml
Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
Ghee – 5 tbsp
Dry fruits – 6 each
Wash the wheat noodles and take three times the quantity of water in a pressure cooker. Add a spoon of ghee and cook it till done.. Add milk, grated jaggery and cook well. The noodles should be fully cooked and soft. Add cardamom powder and remaining ghee and mix well. Garnish with sliced dry fruits and offer to Lord Ganesh ..
I wish all the readers a Happy Ganesh Chaturthi..
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This is my entry to Purvi’s Festival Food Event.
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Fruit salad is a mixture of all fruits mixed and served in many ways.. Many dont like to eat a single fruit especially children. We can make this colorful presentation and serve as dessert .. This is also a good appetizer.. Fruit salad or Fruit Cocktail can be prepared in many ways using syrups, custard etc.. This is a good food supplement during fasting season like Ramadan or any other festival. I am presenting a simple fruit salad to make in a jiffy ..
Ingredients:
You can take any combination of fruits available with you ..As now I have used these fruits to serve four persons.
Apple – 1
Pomegranate -1
Orange -1
Bananas – 2
Dates – 4
Milk -1 cup
Sugar – 3 tbsp
Honey -3 tbsp
Cardamom powder – 1/2 tsp
Wash and peel the fruits and make them into small cubes. We have to add apple and banana peices before serving because they will turn black. To avoid this we can add a spoon of lemon juice to apple and banana peices and mix well. This will prevent them from becoming black.. Cut the dates into small peices. Mix all fruits and add sugar, milk , cardamom powder and honey. You can add little more honey instead of sugar.. Serve chilled with wafers… For a special taste, sprinkle chat masala on the fruit salad before serving..
This is my third entry to The Hyderabadi Ramadan Food Festival
hosted by Mona of Zaiqa ..
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Wheat is second staple food of India after rice.. It is a nutritious food containing proteins, carbohydrates, iron and fibre too. Wheat flour is widely used through out the country for making rotis. Wheat ravva is also used in different forms. This contains less sugar and fat so best adviced for diabetes patients.. Wheat ravva is available in three forms. dalia , medium and fine ravva.. We can use any ravva..Normally the upma with ravva is cooked with simple and few ingredients.. To make it more tasty I made it little spicy..
Ingredients :
Wheat Ravva – 1 cup
Onion – 1
Green chillies – 2
Turmeric – pinch
Red chillie powder -1/4 tsp
Salt – to taste
Ginger garlic paste – 1/4 tsp
Garam masala powder – 1/4tsp
Oil – 1 tbsp
Ghee – 1 tsp
Mustard seeds -1/4tsp
Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp
Urad dal – 1 tsp
Curry leaves -1 sprig
Heat ghee in a pan and saute the wheat ravva to remove the raw smell. Saute on medium fire till it gives out nice aroma.. Keep it aside. Heat oil and add mustard and cumin seeds. When they splutter add curry leaves , finely chopped onions,green chillies . Fry for two minutes more. Add turmeric, red chillie powder, ginger garlic paste,garam masala and fry for a while. Add 3 cups of water along with required salt and bring it to boil. Add fried ravva to the boiling water . Keep stirring to avoid the formation of lumps. Let it cook on medium heat. When the ravva is cooked competely add a spoon of ghee and cover to simmer for two minutes more.. Serve hot with pickle.. As we have added minimum spices to the upma we dont need any curry for side dish. The spicy upma can be served with pickle and curd.. You can add ur favourite vegetable along with onions.. or even tomato can be added .. as per ur wish.. Healthy and nutritious breakfast recipe especially for kids and elders..
This is my entry to the WYF: Breakfast Event
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Dahi wada is common snack in India. It is compulsory added in any chaat session in any party.. This is also traditional hyderabadi recipe made specially for ramadan days.. it gives a immense pleasure to your mouth and stimulates your appetite . Curd is also good for health. . It can be served as a great starter or a cold appetizer. Children will also like this because its less spicy..
Ingredients :
Urad dal – 2 cups
Green chillies – 2
Ginger – 1″ peice
Curd -4 cups
Salt -as required
Curry leaves – 1 sprig
Coriander leaves -1 sprig
Mustard seeds – 1/4 tsp
Cumin seeds -1/4 tsp
Red chillies – 2
Ghee -2 tsp
Oil – to fry
Wash and soak urad dal for two hours. Grind it along with green chillies, and ginger . The dal should not be too soft. It should be little coarse. This will make vada s soft after soaking in curd.. Add salt as required and mix well. Beat the curd along with required salt.. Heat ghee in a pan and add red chillies, curry leaves,mustard and cumin seeds . When they splutter add it to beaten curd. Heat oil for deep frying. Make small balls with ground dal and fry till light golden colour. Be careful not to fry till brown colour. Immediately add them to a bowl of water. Let them soak for ten minutes.. Sqeeze the water from wadas and spread them in serving bowl. Add the seasoned curd. Garnish with red chillie powder, blackpepper powder and coriander leaves.. Serve this chilled. Soaking vadas in water makes them softer and will absorb less curd later..
This is my second entry to Ramadan Food Festival hosted by Mona of Zaiqa.
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Tags: snacks
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