Maasi Sambal Recipe | Masi Karuvadu | Maldives Fish Sambol

Maasi sambal or masi karuvadu fry is very popular among fish lovers. Masi dry fish is made from Tuna fish. Its delicious taste is very popular among non-vegetarians.

Required ingredients

Masi powder - 3 tbsp

Dry chillies - 4 or 5

Large onion - 1

Grated Coconut - 1 cup

Salt - to taste

For seasoning

Oil - 3 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Urad dal  - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Masi Powder

Recipe

Chop the onion.

Add maasi powder, red chillies and required salt to a mixer jar and make a coarse powder. Add a little salt as there will already be salt in the maasi powder.

With the ground powder, add grated coconut and grind for a minute. Finally, add chopped onion and grind coarsely.

Do not add any water. 

Pour oil into the frying pan and season with mustard, urad dal and curry leaves.

Once the mustard has spluttered, add the ground mixture to it.

Put on medium heat and fry for 5 to 6 minutes till the raw smell goes.

Turn off the heat once the maasi mixture becomes crispy.

Serve with rice.

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Chutney for Idli Dosa

Tasty chutney recipe for idli, dosa, vada and pongal.

Required Ingredients:-

Coconut (grated) - 1 cup

Peanuts without skin - a handful

Green chillies - 3 or 4

Garlic - 1 clove

Ripe tomato - 1

Salt - as needed

For Seasoning...

Oil - 1 tbsp

Shallot - 1

Urad dal - 1/2 tsp

 
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Method

Add the grated coconut, peanuts, green chillies and salt to a
mixer grinder and grind for a minute.

Then add little water and grind well.

Finally, add chopped tomatoes, add a clove of garlic and grind for few seconds.

Season with Urad dal, mustard seeds and curry leaves.

Healthy and tasty coconut tomato chutney is ready.

Serve with idli dosa and enjoy!

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Egg Podimas | Muttai Poriyal | Scrambled Eggs with Potatoes

 South Indian style Muttai Podimas recipe with Potatoes and frozen peas. we can prepare this recipe in less than 20 minutes and we can have this spicy egg preparation with chapathi, bread, or rice.

Ingredients

Eggs - 2

Onion - 1 

Potato - 1

Frozen green peas - 1/4 cup (optional)

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Pepper Powder - 1/4 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Oil - 2 to 3 tbsp

Method 

Chop the onion & potatoes into small pieces.

Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds. 

Once the cumin seeds start to splutter, add onion, green chillies and curry leaves.

Saute for a minute. Add chopped potatoes. 

After the potatoes cooked half, add frozen green peas (optional).

Add turmeric, chilli powder and salt.

When the vegetables cooked well, add the eggs. 

Mix well and cook for 2 to 3 minutes and turn off the stove.

Serve hot with rice or chapathi.

You can find more side dish recipes below...

Spicy Raw Banana Fry

Spicy Potato Fry

Snack Gourd Poriyal

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How to Cook Red Rice in Pressure Cooker | Red Rice Recipe

Eating red rice or brown rice is healthier than taking polished white rice. In this post, we are going to see how to cook Red Rice / Kerala Matta Rice in a pressure cooker. Matta rice/Red Rice contains fiber and minerals like magnesium, iron, calcium and it is very nutritious than white rice.

Cooking this rice is a little time-consuming but the health benefits are great. For cooking this Red rice, we have to soak it beforehand. I have soaked this rice one hour prior to cooking. Now, let's see how to cook.

Ingredients

Red Rice/ Matta rice - 1 cup

Water - 3 Cups

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Sesame Oil - 1/2 tsp

Method

Wash the rice twice and add it to the pressure cooker.

Pour 3 cups of water.

Let it soak for 30 to 45 minutes in the pressure cooker.

After soaking, add salt and sesame oil.

Turn on the flame. Cover and keep the whistle on.

Keep the flame on high and cook for 5 minutes.

After 5 minutes, reduce the flame to medium and cook for 3 whistles.

After 3 whistles, reduce the flame to low and cook for 3 minutes.

Turn off the flame and let it cools down for 10 to 15 minutes and open the cooker. Transfer the rice immediately to a wide pan.

Cooking time and water quantity will be vary depending on the rice quality. If the rice is undercooked, cover and cook for 1 more whistle.

This red matta rice goes very well with Paruppu kuzhambu and Fish Curry.