Palak Dosa

Palak Dosa :

A different variety of dosa,made with palakk to make it healthier ,tastier and more beautiful to look.

Required:
1. Palak - 1 bunch
2. Dosa batter ( good if you have a ready made batter)
   Urad dal - 1 glass
   Rice     - 2 glasses
3. Red mirchi - 2-3 ( optional)
4. ginger garlic paste 1 spoon ( optional)

Dosa batter Preparation:
Soak urad dal and rice over night and grind  into a smooth flowing consistency.
Now boil palak for some time ( until its soft) and grind into a smooth paste with red mirchi and ginger garlic paste
and add this palak mixture to our dosa batter,so our greeny greeny dosa batter is ready :)

Finally Dosaa ...
Heat the tawa and and put a drop of oil and rub it with half cut onion ( this gives good flavour to dosa and makes the tawa smooth)
Now put the batter with the help of a laddle and spread as a circle  on tawa.
Turn it to other side also and heat.

This gives you a very healthy green palak dosa !!!

Chicken Chettinad in Andhra Kitchen :)

Everytime the same method of preparing chicken.I got iritated,thought of trying some thing new in my kitchen,
i hope even my kitchen got bored of my regular chicken curry just adding some more coriander or more palakk.
But wanna try some thing in a different way.
So just searched the net and found many recipie sites for chettinad chicken but tamilspice.blogspot.com caught my eye.
hence tried it and it came tooo well.
just sharing the recipie for your information,enjoyyy the taste.Its awesomeee.

Ingredients:

Chicken – 500 gms
Grind:
Garlic – 4 pods
Ginger – 1 inch
Coriander powder – 1tsp
Chilli powder – 1 Tbsp
Pepper – 1 Tbsp
Curd – 1 Tbsp
Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
Salt as required

Frying 1:
Onion - 1 chopped
Tomato – 1 chopped
Ginger-Garlic paste – 1½
oil-tblsp

Frying 2:
Onion – ½ sliced ( vertically sliced)
Curry leaves – 1 twig
Red chillies – 3
Pepper powder – 1 tsp

Preparation:
1.Grind together all the ingredients under grind
2.Marinate the chicken with the grinded paste
3.Now heat oil in a kadai
4. Add onion chopped finely,add ginger garlic paste
5.Add tomatoes once the onions turn transparent and let them cook until they become soft enough oozing out the puree.
6.Now add the marinated chicken and start cooking,stirring in between.
7.add very very less water if required,( if u need more gravy)
8.Once you see the chicken get cooked, heat oil in another kadai
9.add onion.red chillies,curry leaves and let it fry
10.Now add pepper powder,give a stir
11.Add this to the cooking chicken .

Here is your chicken chettinad,enjoyy the spice of tamilnadu in your own kitchen...
the look of the curry itself is stunning !!!

Andhra Chepa vepudu / Andhra Fish Fry

Andhra Chepa vepudu / Andhra Fish Fry :

Required Things :

Fish pieces ( well cleaned) : 6

Oil : 3 tblsp

For Tawa heating:

Oil: 1 tblsp

For masala paste:
Onion -1
ginger garlic paste - 3-4 spoons
green chillies :2
tomato- 1
Coriander - hand full of leaves

For marination:
 curd : 1/2 cup - 1 cup or we can use lemon juice in place of curd
senaga pindi / chana dal : 3 tblsp
salt : according to taste
turmeric - 1 pinch
Chillipowder - according to taste
pepper powder ( optional) - 1 spoon
egg -1 ( optional)

Procedure :

1.Grind the ingredients under masala paste to fine paste.
2.Now take a bowl add masala paste , all marination ingredients and mix well.
3.Finely coat the fish pieces with the marination paste in step 3 ,marinate for 1/2 an hour to one hour.
4.Now heat Oil in a wide skillet
5.Place the fish pieces care fully in the kadai with out breaking the soft pieces.
6.Now rotate the pan to make the oil flow in all aroung the kadai and close the lid
7.Keep turning the fish piece care fully ,to cook it both sides.

Now i will tell you method of my mom,which makes this dish toooo Tasty.

Once the fish piece turns brown in Step 7, heat a tawa and put one spoon of oil ,spread it along the tawa
and  allow it to get hot.
Now place all the pices on the tawa with some distance in between and allow it to cook for 2 mins,
turn it over and allow it to cook
In this way cook,untill all the sides are golden brown and the taste of fish strikes your nose leaving your mouth watery...Humm...we are done !!!!!

You need to try this...so tastyyy.