Ingredients:

1/2 kg – ladies finger

oil – for frying

salt – as required

pound coarsely:

1 big (chopped) – onion

4 or 5 – greenchillies

Method: Cut ladies finger into 11/2 inch pieces. Heat oil in a pan and fry the pieces till half cooked. Add pound mixture and fry till ladies finger become dark in colour. Sprinkle salt at the end, mix well and remove from fire.

Ingredients:?
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? kg.? Chicken
1 tsp Turmeric powder
3/4 Inch ginger
1 tsp Ground coriander
6 Curry leaves
2 Onions
2 Garlic pods
2 teaspoon pepperpowder
2 tbsp oil
3/4 Cup chopped tomatoes
Salt to taste
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Method:
Chop the chicken into pieces.?
Fry chopped onions, ginger and garlic in the vegetable oil.?
Add remaining spices and fry for a few minutes.?
Add tomato pieces and salt. Fry for another 5 minutes.?
Add chicken pieces and mix well to coat them with the gravy.?
Put the lid and simmer the contents for about half an hour.?
The mixture would turn almost dry. Occasionally add a little water if required.?
Chettinad chicken roast is ready to serve.

Ingredients
4 Eggs
1 Onion
1 Tomato (small)
6 Garlic flakes
1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
2 tsp Coriander powder
1 tsp Red chilli powder
1/4 Cup coconut paste
1/4 tsp Fennel seeds
1/2 tsp Fenugreek seeds
2 tbsp Tamarind paste
?Cup water
Oil for cooking
Salt to taste

method:
Chop the onion, , tomato and garlic.?
Heat the oil.?Add fennel seeds and fenugreek seeds.?
Add the , onion? garlic.and tomato?
Saute till they turn brown
Cook till it turns tender.?
Mix turmeric powder, red chilli, coriander powder and salt.?
Fry the mixture for few minutes.?
Add coconut, tamarind paste and water. Bring it to boil.?
boil the eggs in the water and peel the shell and drop it in the above kuzhambu. .?
Cook it covered over medium flame for 10 minutes.?
Once the eggs are cooked properly, adorn the gravy with coriander leaves.?
Serve it with steamed rice.

Ingredients:

150 gms bengal gram dhal
2 nos onions Chopped

For the gravy:
4 nos onions Chopped
2 nos garlic flakes
4 nos tomatoes Chopped
Boil in hot water and remove the skin

Grind together:
1 no onion Chopped
1 inch ginger
4 flakes garlic Chopped
5 nos red chillies
5 – green chillies Chopped
1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
2 nos cardamoms
1 inch cinnamon piece
2 nos cloves
1 Tbsp roasted chutney gram dhal
To make vadai:
Soak dhal for 2 hours, drain and grind coarsely
Add required salt.
Mix finely chopped onions.
Heat oil in a pan, make the dough into small vadai shape and deep fry.
Keep aside. [Do not deep fry till brown].

To make gravy:
Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a pan and fry garlic and onions.
Add the ground mixture, fry till oil separates.
Mix tomato paste and fry till done.
Pour 500 ml water with turmeric powder and salt.
When it starts boiling add the fried vadas in it and let it boil.
If the water is not enough add little more, otherwise the koftas will absorb the water and the gravy will become very thick.
When the gravy is thick remove from fire and garnish with cut coriander leaves.
This goes well with appam dosai and idlis.

Ingredients:

wheat flour – 2 cups (heaped)
salt – 3/4 tsp
ghee – 1tsp
water – for kneading the dough
oil – enough for frying

Method:

Mix salt and ghee with the flour in a mixing bowl.
Gradually add water and knead to a soft pliable dough.
Keep closed for 1 5 minutes.
Make small balls and roll out into discs.
Deep fry in hot oil till golden brown on both sides.

Ingredients:

200 gms – noodles
2 – carrots
2 – capsicums
100 gms – cabbage
100 gms – spring onions
100 gms – onion stem
3/4 tsp – Aji-no-moto
5 Tbl.sps – oil
1 tsp – soya sauce
11/2 Tsp.sp – tomato ketchup
11/2 tsp – worchestershire sauce
11/2 tsp – salt
1/2 tsp – white pepper powder

Grind together:
1/2 inch piece – ginger
5 flakes – garlic
5 – green chillies

Method:
Chop all the vegetables into thin strips (1 inch length).
Heat water in a broad vessel.
When it starts boiling add broken noodles with little oil and salt.
Cook for 2 to 3 minutes till noodles become just soft to touch. (Do not over cook).
Drain excess water in a colander and pour more cold water on top. (This prevents the
noodles from sticking to each other).
Heat oil in a ‘kadai’.
Add ground paste, fry well, and add chopped onions and carrots.
Fry for 2 minutes and then mix capsicums and cabbage.
Continue frying in high flame with Aji-no-moto.
When the vegetables are tender add onion stem with other sauces, salt and pepper.
Gently stir in cooked noodles and fry till noodles become steaming hot.

Ingredients

Eggs – 6 (boiled and shell removed)

1. Coconut – 1/2 (Grated)
2. Khus Khus – 1/2 Teaspoon
3. Garlic – 1 Full pod
4. Ginger – 2 Inch Piece
5. Somph – 1/2 Teaspoon
6. Pottu Kadalai – 1 tablespoon
7. Red Chillies – 10
8. Dhania powder – 1 Tablespoon
9. Chilli Powder – 2 tablespoon

Big onion – 200 Gms (4)
Green chilli – 5
Curry leaves – A few
Coriander leaves – A small bunch
Salt – To taste
Cinnamon Powder – A small pinch
Cloves – 4
Bay leaf – 1
Turmeric powder – 1 Teaspoon

Method

Heat a frying pan with a little oil. Fry items 1-9 till the raw smell goes.
Grind it in a mixie to a fine powder.
Heat the vessel with ghee or oil, add somph and curry leaves, bay leaf, cinnamon and cloves.
The add split green chilli, and cut onions. When the onions are slightly browned add tomatoes.
When tomatoes are cooked, add turmeric powder and ground masala, cook well till masala gets cooked and is mixed with onion and tomatoes, add salt to taste.
Now add 600 ml (3 Glasses) of water and when the curry boils well, add and shelled eggs slightly cut one side just for the masala to go in.
Remove from fire, add juice of one lime add cut coriander leaves.

Variations:

You can make the same curry. Keep it in a flat dish on the fire, when the curry boils break eggs one by one to form bulls’ eye. Slowly keep moving the bulls – eyes to the side and add next egg. Remove from fire. Add cut coriander leaves lemon juice of 1 lime.

In the same curry you can add egg omelette cut into diamond shaped pieces boil for a few minutes and remove.

Ingredients

Eggs – 6
Onions – 4
Tomatoes – 4
Dhania Powder – 2 Teaspoon
Chilli Powder – 2 teaspoon
Somph – 2 teaspoon
Jeera – 1 teaspoon
Pepper – 1 Teaspoon
Garlic – 6 Pieces
Cloves – 2
Cinnamon – 2 small pieces
Cardamom – 4
Bay Leaf – 1
Oil – 4 Tablespoon
Salt – To taste
Coriander Leaves – A small Bunch
Ginger – 1 Small Pieces
Curry Leaves – A few

Method

Boil eggs, and cut into half, lengthwise. Place cut side on the top and arrange on a plate.
Grind somph, jheera, pepper, garlic, ginger and chilli and dhaniya powder, mix well.
Heat a kadai with oil. And add spices and curry leaf, then cut onions. When onions are slightly browned, add cut tomatoes. When tomatoes are cooked, add ground masala, turmeric powder, salt.
Mix well. When masala is well cooked remove, place on top of the eggs arranged on a plate. Deco rate it with cut coriander leaves.