Velan's Cuisine Extraordinaire

[mappi]

[Its me who got to be sorry, to ask such questions. Please accept my appologies.]

My mom has already told me that its complicated, thus I do not have the recipe on me, but now I would like to prepare it with coconut shell.

Risk & Rusk are my first & last name (ithula Punch dialogue vera). Lets do Jangiri ... soon.

[NOV]

Sunday special: chicken dalcha, chicken sambal, deep fried squid, cauliflower and pachadi.
Recipes coming soon.

[NOV]

Throw in some dhall with some chicken bones in a pressure cooker.
Add some turmeric, ginger-garlic paste and little oil and let it cook 3-4 whistles.

Once cooled, add cut vegetables and cook (I used potato, carrot, brinjal) and boil again.
Once almost cooked, add tomato pieces.

In a separate pan, prepare thaalippu - cinammon, cloves, star anise & cardomon - fry till black.
Add chopped onions, curry leaves, chilly, quartered tomato and salt to taste.

Add this thaippu to dalcha.

Pound some perunjeeragam and add together with a cabbage leaf before switching off flame.

[NOV]

Fry thaalippu till black (cinammon, cloves, star anise & cardomon )
Add chopped onions, curry leaves, and finally ginger-garlic paste.
Once fragrant, add chicken pieces and let it cook in its own juices, covered.

Halfway through, add ground chilly paste (no shortcuts, please soak and grind dried chilly) and stir nicely.
Continue to cook covered.

Then add cut potato, quartered tomato and onion rings. Close lid and continue cooking.

Add salt last and top with coriander leaves.

[NOV]

Clean squid thoroughly and cut into rings.
Marinate with chilly and turmeric powder and season with salt. Leave it in fridge for a couple of hours.

When you are ready to eat, add some sliced raw onions and a dash of rice flour and deep fry immediately.
When it's nearly cooked you can add curry leaves.

Serve hot and crispy.

[NOV]

Try this different style

Mix chopped onion and green chilly with white flour with some water to make thick paste.
Add salt and some oil.
Beat nicely and leave it to rest.

Heat oil and put flat spoon in oil. When spoon and oil are hot, pour some of the batter above, put lots of fresh taugeh (bean sprout), and then coat with more batter.
Add a prawn on top and place in hot oil.

After a few seconds, use another spoon to carefully remove the batter from the earlier spoon.
Continue frying till fritter is golden brown.

Unlike the usual method, this will be very tasty and the taugeh crunchy.

[NOV]

First cook the macaroni - the way I do is to put water and macaroni together and bring to boil.
Add some salt and a little oil. Once nearly cooked, drain and set aside.
Just before making the fried macaroni, loosen the cooled down cooked macaroni.

Soak dried chilly in warm water for an hour or so.
Grind this chilly, together with some small onions, a few pips garlic, 1 large tomato.

In a pan, heat some oil and fry sliced onion.
Then add the chilly paste and let it cook until the raw smell goes off. You can add water if needed.
Add salt.
And then add sliced chicken meat and then prawns.
Add mixed vege and a dash of soy sauce.

Once meat is cooked, add loosened macaroni and stir nicely over low heat.
Keep on stirring occasionally so that the macaroni absorbs all the sauce.
Taste for salt and once dry, remove from pan.

In a separate pan scramble some eggs, and spread over the fried macaroni.
Alternatively you can add the scrambled egg while cooking, just before you switch off the fire.

[mappi]

Prawn Fritters

Chef, whats the sauce (or chutney !) beside the dish ?

[NOV]

That is peanut sauce, usually served with satay.
You can use all kinds of chilly sauce to eat the prawn fritters, too.

[NOV]

Here is ONE way of doing this dish - there are plenty of methods by the way.

Soak rice noodles in normal water for an hour or so.

Deep fry cut potatoes (season with salt and chilly powder) and cut hard tofu and set aside.

Scramble a couple of eggs and set aside.

In some oil, fry sliced onion (lots) and garlic.
When you get the aroma, add chilly paste (ready made ones would do). Let it cook.
Add a dash of chilly sauce, soy sauce and season with salt.

Add sliced chicken and wait for it to be cooked before adding prawns.
Add cut kadugu keerai (sawi) and taugeh (bean sprouts).

Once half cooked, you can add the rice noodles. Stir nicely and let it cook.
At this stage it would be soggy. Allow the rice noodles to cook.

Finally add the potatoes, tofu and egg and give a good stir before switching off the flame.