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.

Rava Paniyaram | Instant Rava Appam with Jaggery

Quick teatime snack recipe which we can prepare in 15 to 20 minutes. For this recipe, we are using jaggery powder for sweetness. Instead of jaggery, you can add sugar or palm jaggery also.

You can also try,

 Banana Kuzhi Paniyaram

Sweet Potato Paniyaram

Wheat Flour Paniyaram

Oats Paniyaram recipes from our blog.

Ingredients

Rava / Sooji - 1 cup

Powdered Jaggery - 1/2 cup (approximately)

Ripe banana - 1

Ginger powder - 1/2 tsp 

Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp 

Sesame seeds - 2 tsp 

Baking soda (optional) - 1/4 tsp

Salt - 2 pinch 

Water - 1/4 cup

Oil for frying

Method

Add rava, jaggery & salt to a mixer grinder.

Slice the banana and it to the mixer grinder. 

Add 1/4 cup of water & grind well. 

The batter is ready now. Transfer the batter to a bowl.

Add ginger powder, cardamom powder, baking powder, and sesame seeds.

Mix the ingredients nicely.

Heat oil in a kadai and add a ladleful of batter. Fry in medium flame. 

Cook both sides until golden colour. 

A quick and delicious snack is ready!

You can make this recipe in a kuzhi paniyaram pan also.

 

Weight Loss Breakfast Recipe | Oats Kozhukattai

 This Oats recipe is rich in protein and fiber and keeps you fuller for a long time. This is a simple and wholesome recipe for weight watchers and diabetics. This recipe is suitable for kids as well as adults. Oats is easily available in all shops and online stores now.

 

Ingredients

Oats - 1 cup

Rava( semolina) - 2 tbsp

Moong dal - 1 1/2 tbsp

Onion - 1

Carrot - 1 small

Green chili - 1

Curry leaves - few

Oil - 1 1/2 tsp

Salt to taste

Method

For this recipe first, boil 1 1/2 cup of water. 

Chop the onion, green chili & curry leaves. Grate the carrot.

Dry roast 1 1/2  tbsp of moong dal. Once the dal gets roasted, add a cup of oats and 2 tbsp of rava/semolina. Roast for two minutes. Transfer to a plate and keep aside.

In the same pan, add 1 1/2 tsp of oil and season with urad dal, mustard seeds & asafoetida. Once the mustard splutters add onion, green chilies and curry leaves. 

Once the onions become translucent add the roasted rava mixture, grated carrot & salt. Mix well.

Add grated carrot and enough salt.

Add the boiled water little by little to this mixture and make a thick dough. Cover & rest for five minutes.

Make kozhukattais from the prepared dough. For this quantity, we can make 8 to 9 kozhukattais.

In the meantime, boil 2 cups of water in a steamer or idli cooker. 

Place the Kozhukattais into the idli cooker and steam for 8 to 10 minutes on medium flame.

A healthy and tasty breakfast is ready. This kozhukattais are very soft and smooth. 

We can have this kozhukattai without any side dish or with any chutney or sambar. 

                                      

Kollu Idli Podi for Weight Loss | Horse Gram Chutney Powder

 

In this recipe, we are going to prepare a healthy idli podi/ Chutney powder, with whole black urad dal and horse gram. We can eat this chutney powder or idli karam with rice and idli, dosa.

For this recipe, we are using two types of red chilies. Hot round chilies and few long chilies.

You can also try these,

Traditional Pepper Sambar for Idli, Dosa 

and, 

Simple Tomato Chutney for Idli, Dosa & Adai Dosa.

Ingredients

Black Urad dal - 1 cup

Chana Dal - 2 tbsp

Horse gram/ Kollu - 1 tbsp

Sesame seeds / Ellu - 1 tbsp

Round chilies - 5

Long chilies - 5

Asafoetida - 1 piece

Curry leaves - 1 handful

Garlic - 2 cloves

Sesame/Gingelly oil - 1 tsp

Salt - to taste

Method

Remove the seeds from the long chilies and keep aside.

For this recipe, I'm using sesame oil for roasting.

First, add the asafoetida in oil and roast for a minute and remove it from the oil. If you have asafoetida powder add it in the last.

Add round chilies and roast for few seconds and add the seedless long chilies. Remove from oil and keep aside.

Then add Whole black gram, Chana dal, and Horse gram.

Roast the dals for 6 to 8 minutes till the aroma comes.

Then add the sesame seeds and roast. Once it starts to splutter add the curry leaves and garlic cloves and roast for 30 seconds and switch off the stove.

Allow it cool for 15 to 20 minutes.

Add the roasted ingredients with enough salt and grind coarsely.

Once it is cool down, store it in an airtight jar for up to two months.

For eating with rice add the powder and a teaspoon of ghee and serve with some papad/fryums.

Mix with sesame oil and eat with idli, dosa.

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Bread Omelette Recipe | Easy Breakfast Recipe

Simple and tasty breakfast recipe, which we can prepare in 5 minutes. This is the best breakfast recipe for kids as well as adults. 

Ingredients 

Egg - 1 

Bread slices - 2

Chopped onion - 2 tbsp 

Green chilli - 1 

Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp 

Oil -2 tsp 

Salt to taste

Method 

Beat the egg with onion, green chilli, pepper powder, and salt.

Heat a tawa on medium-low heat and add 2 teaspoons of oil.

Pour the egg mixture and cook for a minute.

Place a bread slice on the egg omelette.

Cook for 30 seconds. Flip the omelette and cook the bread till golden brown. Keep the flame low to medium-low.

Once it's done remove it from the pan.

Toast one more bread slice on the tawa till golden brown with little oil or butter. 

Place it on the omelette and serve.

Delicious breakfast is ready. Serve with a cup of coffee or tea.

 

Try this delicious and kids favourite Potato salad Bread sandwich also.