Mrs.Mano's Tamilnadu Delicacies

Hi all, I am visiting this forum after a long time. Just thought I should share my recent experiment with cranberries.

Fresh Cranberries - 1 pkt
Sugar - 2 tsp
Chilli powder - 3 tsp
Jeera powder - 1 tsp
Salt - as required
Gingelly Oil - 4-5 tbsp
Vendayam (Fenugreek powder) - 1/4 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp

Wash Cranberries. Drain and keep aside. Heat Gingelly oil in a non-stick pan. Pop mustard seeds. Add Cranberries and close the pan. Cook on sim until cranberries are soft and mushy. Add salt, sugar, chilli powder and jeera powder. Let it cook (open) on sim until the raw smell of the chilli powder goes away. Keep stirring once in a while. You could add a little water to get the cranberries cooked fully if you don't want to use a lot of oil. Towards the end, add powdered fenugreek. Cool and store in an airtight container. This is a good accompaniment for rotis, bread (use as a spread) or just mix with rice and eat.

Hope you like this.

Thanks
D

hi mano

i am looking for the briyani recipe of hotel anganan in coimbatore. but so far not successful. i saw in this thread, u have told madurai is famous for its briyani. can you give that recipe, plsss....

thxs in advance
gayathri

Dear Mano
YOur recipes are fabulous. that too, the meen puttu is tasting fantastic.
I would love to receive the attachment of your recipes. Please do send it to me.you can send the attachment to my email.
my eamil id is gayu_mickey@hotmail.com

thanks in advance
expecting your email and the attachment.
gayathri

Dear Mrs.Mano,

Thanks a lot for your Dosa tip. I am planning to visit my parents in Mumbai next month. Please suggest while buying iron tawa for making dosas what should I look for, I mean tawa thickness/quality/ etc.

Thank you,
Mira

Hello foodlover,

I think u might have chosen broiler instead of bake in ur toster oven. When u bake...the coil heated will be in the bottom but when u broil the coil heated will be on the top. So be careful in the next time.

Hi Mrs mano,

I would like to have the first and the second part of ur recipe's collection.Can u please send it to this id gkalsu@hotmail.com thanks in advance.

from
kals

Hello Kavitha,

Thanks a lot for ur tip on toaster oven...really useful tip...I used to wonder how to bake cake in the toaster oven...now i can try using ur tip...

Hello Thattai!
Here is a recipe for fish fingers. But I haven’t any knowledge of crab fingers. You can experiment with crab meat with a little potato mash and a little spice. You can store them in a storage box in the freezer for 15 days.
FISH FINGERS:
Ingredients:
To marinate:
Boneless fish- 250 gms
Lime juice- 1 tbsp
Garlic paste- 1 tsp
Ginger paste- 1 tsp
Black pepper powder- ½ tsp
Soya sauce- 1 tsp
Chilli sauce- 1 tsp
Kashmiri Chilli powder- 1 tsp
Ajinamoto- ¼ tsp
Corn flour- 1tsp
Plain flour-1 tsp
Salt to taste
For the dip:
Bread crumbs- 1 cup
Corn flour- 1 cup mixed with ½ tsp of chilli powder
Beaten egg- 1
A pinch of salt
Procedure:
Cut the fish into finger shaped pieces and marinate in the above mixture for half an hour. Then heat a kadai and pour enough oil to fry. Dip the pieces in the beaten egg, roll first in the corn flour and then again roll in the bread crumbs. Fry the pieces to a golden colour. You can use coarsely crushed cornflakes instead of bread crumbs.

Dear Pr!
Aappa soda, samaiyal soda, soda uppu and baking soda all is the same ingredient. This is especially used to ferment the batters in our cookery besides various purposes. Some people use it to cook even lentils. Baking powder is used mainly in baking cakes and in chappathis, roti varieties. Here is the recipe of Gulab jamun for you!
GULAB JAMUN:
Simmer 1 liter of thick milk until it comes to the thickness of soild khoya[kova]. Place 1 tsp of ghee, 2 tsp of water and ½ tsp of baking soda in a bowl and beat them with an egg beater or with the palm of yr hand. Add the khoya to this and mix well. Then add 50gms of plain flour and knead lightly. Do not knead with force. Make balls and fry them in oil. They should be fried in slow fire. As usual make one thread syrup with enough sugar and add the hot balls in the syrup.

Hello Gayathri!
I have already posted a few types of briyani in this same thread. But I have no knowledge of Hotel Anganan Briyani. Could you please tell me the location of that hotel in Coimbatore? I would like to taste it when I go there.
And thank you very much for the feed back on meen puttu.
I have just sent the attachment of my recipes for you!