Onion and peas rice

Ingredients:- 2 cups Basmati or long grain rice washed 2 tbspn cooking oil 3-4 cloves 1 cardamom pounded 1/2 tspn whole black pepper 1 tspn cumin seeds 3 large onions sliced 1 cup frozen green peas (you can use more or less, as you prefer) 3-4 cloves garlic crushed 1 1/2" piece ginger crushed 2 stock cubes (any flavor) salt to taste Method Cook the rice the regular way and set aside. Heat the oil in a large flat-bottomed pan and add the cinnamon, cloves and cardomom. After a minutes add the cumin seeds. As soon as they stop spluttering, add...

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Those (Dosa) recipe

Ingredients:- 2 cups urad (Uludhu) flour (If using Urad dhal, soak 2 cups dhal overmight and grind well) 1 cup rice flour 2 tbsn yeast 1 onion thinly sliced salt to taste curry leaves Method To make the yeast mixer, get some warm water add 2 tbsn yeast and a little sugar and stir well keep it aside for a while. Now in a large bowl mix the two flours together and add the yeast mixture and mix well. Add a little water if needed and let the mixture rise for few hours. When it's time to make them heat a pan with a little oil and brown the sliced...

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Cabbage stir-fry

Ingredients:- 1 Cabbage 2 or 3 carrots 3 green chillies chopped ginger crushed dried red chillies 1/2 tspn turmeric powder cooking oil salt to taste vinegar Method Wash the cabbage well. Shredd the cabbage or cut it very thinly and set aside. Peel and grate the carrots. Heat a large pan and some oil. When it's hot add the cabbage and stir-fry well. When it's done add the carrots, chopped ginger, chopped green chillies, turmeric powder, salt, vinegar stir well. Now add crushed red chillies, stir and remove from fi...

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Malay Pickle

Ingredients:- Banana peppers (malu miris) 250g small red onions 250g carrorts 100g dates 250g sugar 100g vinegar grinded mustard powder chopped garlic ginger red chillie powder 60g 2 pickled lime 1/2 cup cubed pineapple salt to taste Method Cut the carrorts into thin stipes. Banana peppers into regular size pieces, Onions into two (if they are big), pickled and dates into thin stripes and set aside. Now add vinegar, grinded mutard powder, chopped garlic and ginger, red chillie powder into a pan and cook for a while. Add sugar and stir well....

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Eggplant and green banana curry

Ingredients:- 1 egg plant 1 green banana 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1/4 teaspoon turmeric 1 cup oil 1 large onion sliced fine 4 cloves garlic peeled 1 green chilli sliced in the middle 1 sprig curry leaves 1/4 teaspoon mustard seeds 1/4 teaspoon fenugreek seeds 1/4 teaspoon chilli powder 1/4 cup water 1/3 cup milk Method:- 1. Slice eggplant into 2 inch length pieces. Wash the eggplant and mix with 1 teaspoon  of salt and turmeric and marinate for half an hour. do the same with the green banana. 2. Heat oil in a pan on high heat and when the...

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Spicy fish koftas

 Ingredients:- 1 tin Tuna 3 medium size potaotes (boiled) 1 large onion chopped fine 2 green chillies chopped fine 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons ground pepper 2 springs of mint leaves chopped fine 1 sprig curry leaves chopped fine 1 egg yolk Oil for frying 2 egg beaten Breadcrumbs for coating Method 1. Drain fish very thoroughly and get rid of any skin and flake the fish. Remove skin from potatoes and mash it well. 2. In a bowl mix together, the fish, potatoes, chopped onions, chopped green chillies, salt, ground pepper, chopped mint leaves...

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okra Curry

Ingredients * 500g Okra *4-5 tblsspns oil *2 tbspns mustard * I tblsp unroasted curry powder * I tblsp turmeric *I onion *I green pepper *pinch cinnamon *salt to to taste *I tblsp sugar *I tblspn lime Method 1 Dice onions green pepper. 2 Thaw okra and dry with paper towels 3 add oil to a pan on medium heat 4 fry the okra until golden brown. 5 Then add mustard.turmeric.curry powder,onion,green pepper,cinnamon,salt and sugar and cook for 3 minutes 6 Remove from heat and add lime juice....

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