Month: May 2018

Poached Eggs in Tomato Sauce – മുട്ട തേലപ്പിച്ചത് – Shakshouka

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Chop – 2 Onions – 2 Cloves garlic  – 8 Juicy tomatoes – Handful Coriender leaves.

Saute – Wide Pan – 1 tbsp. Olive oil – chopped Onions – Garlic –2 mnts –  1 tsp. Chilli Powder – 1tsp. turmeric Powder -Salt to taste –  1 mnt –  Chopped  tomatoes  –  3 mnts  – 2 cups water – Bring to Boil

Poach :  Lower flame  – Gentle Simmer – Break Eggs(4) –   1 at a time –  carefully  in simmering Sauce – 3 mnts – turn over  eggs – cook other side – 3 mnts – Turn off  Stove.

Garnish – Chopped Coriender leaves.

Note : Substitute Parsley for Coriender, Paprika Powder for Chilli Powder.   Poach longer if thicker Sauce preferred.

Delicious and Easy.  If egg breaks a bit while turning no worries. The sauce just gets a bit tastier.   Enjoy.

This recipe brings back memories of  മുട്ട തേലപ്പിച്ചത്  from carefree childhood .

Childhood version had more chilli and less tomatoes made with coconut oil and curry leaves. An easy curry when the mothers were running out of time to cook.

Opps!! I Overate again……

 

Erissery – Brown Beans Banana Curry

Easy Vegetarian Kerala Recipe

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Chop –  1/4 kg Yam – 1 Raw Plaintain – Scrape outer sink only – Chop in Chunks

Grind – 1 cup Fresh Grated coconut  – Rough paste.

Fry – 1 tbsp Coconut Oil – 1/2 tsp. Mustard – 1 tsp. cumin seeds – 2 dry  red chilli – handful Curry Leaves – 1/2 cup dry coconut – till  Golden Brown.  Fried Coconut Garnish.

Cook –  Soak overnight – Cook  – 1 cup Dried Brown Beans (cow peas) – until soft

Add –  to above – Chopped items – 1 tsp. turmeric – 1 tsp. Pepper –  water as needed – Salt to taste – few mnts.  till veg well cooked.

Mix –  Coconut paste to cooked items – Bring to Boil – Turn off Stove

Garnish  –  With  Fried Coconut Garnish.  Mix.

Enjoy delicious Erissery !! mmm…. Mouth watering!!   Eat with Rice. Or with Rice and Aviyal or Eat just Erissery.

Note : Use Pumkin instead of  Yam. Dried Green Beans instead of Brown beans.

Tony Achan’s visit to Leuven has inspired this recipe.    When he was studying in Leuven he was an experimental cook.   He re-introduced this dish in the Leuven community. He is a Bishop in Kerala now.  He was a big part of  Sarah and Tina’s childhood.

This dish was made by my mom about twice a year for Onam and  Good Friday.   I loved it so much that I ate it for Lunch, Dinner and Breakfast the next day.

Thank you Shain and Preeti for arranging get-together with so many people.   Was happy to see Litty after so long.  Harshada your Dokla was delicious.

Shared Memories keeps friendships alive.  Tony Achan we wish you all the best in your Spiritual Journey.

 

 

 

 

 

Delicious Diamond Doughnut

 

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Chop –  50 g Cold Butter

Mix  – +/-  2 cups all-purpose flour – 1 tbsp Baking Powder – Pinch Salt – 1 tsp. Cinnamon  

Warm  – 1 cup Butter Milk – – 1 tbsp. honey. – Luke warm

Combine – Buttermilk  – Honey  – Chopped Butter  – Flour Mix   –  Form  Soft  Dough

Roll – Divide Dough 4 parts –  Shape parts in square – Roll till  1/2 cm thick

Cut – Diamond Shape with butter knife – Slit middle  with knife – expand a bit to Form Hole.

Fry – Heat Oil in Pan – lower flame –  Fry doughnut in Batches

Toppings – Glaze with Chocolate Spread  or Jam or Drizzle Honey  or Dust  with Powdered Sugar.  Or Just eat Plain.

Delicious Diamond Doughnuts read!! Easy to make delicious to eat!!  Perfect Snack for a Break.   

Note :  Substitute Honey with Sugar.   Cinnamon with Vanilla.

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My mom use to make  similar Snack when we were kids.  I wish I had watched more carefully when you made it Amachi.  No worries, we have a new version now.