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Appam (Kerala recipe)

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Ingredients Fine Rice flour--1 1/2 cups Yeast- 1/2 tsp dry yeast Coconut milk- 2-21/2 cups. salt-2 pinches Sugar-2 tbsp Cooked rice-2 tbsp Grated Coconut -2 tbsp Method of preparation 1. Take  2 tbsp Luke warm water,add sugar and dry yeast.Keep aside for 5 minutes .When it becomes frothy,add this to a blender along with rice flour,salt and 2 tbsp sugar.Add enough coconut milk and blend well.Add cooked rice and coconut into this and grind in to a fine batter.Consistency should be thinner than dosa batter,not too watery.Keep aside for 5-6 hours or until it gets fermented. Now,heat *Appam griddle.Keep it in simmer and add 1 big ladleful of batter.Swirl it and cook appam closing the lid.After swirling the griddle ,keep it on medium flame. Serve Appam with egg roast/Chicken Mappas/Veg Stew. ENJOY! * Appam griddle--for those who are not familiar with this,pls check it out here.

Chicken Cafreal

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Chicken cafreal is a Goan recipe. This dish is greenish brown in color.Here I have not followed the exact recipe,innovated to get more taste.Please try out and comment. Ingredients Chicken -1 full chicken cut into medium sized pieces. Onion- 2big cut into rings Salt and sugar. Oil- 1 tbsp for grilling Marinade Garlic-ginger paste-1 tbsp Coriander-1/2 bunch Tamarind paste-or Vinegar-2 tbsp Green Chillies-4 no Pepper corns- 1 tbsp Coriander powder- 1 tbsp (Optional-not in the original recipe) Garam Masala-1 -2 tsp Method of preparation 1. Make a cafreal marinade and marinate the chicken for 4 hours. for the marinade  Grind all the ingredients under marinade. This will give you a green color paste.Use chicken stock if needed.Coat the chicken with marinade and salt.Keep refrigerated for 4 hours. Grilling In the original recipe,they cook the chicken by pouring hot oil on to it,periodically.But I used just 1 tbsp oil in a grill pan.First add chicken to t

Vegetable hakka noodles

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Hakka noodles is my favorite food.Recipe is solely my innovation.Please try this and enjoy,it's so simple and extremely delicious. I use a grill pan for assorting veggies and noodles so that I get a fried texture even with very less oil. I have used dark soy sauce hence the color. Ingredients Noodles-3 packs Veggies-Carrots,Peas,Bell peppers,Sprouts and spring onion Oil-1 -2 tsp Soy sauce-1-2 tsp Worcester sauce-1 tsp Vinegar- 2 tsp Salt- 1 tsp Green chilles-2 nos Garlic-2 cloves Ginger -Cut longitudinally Red chillies(dry)-1 no Method of preparation Cook noodles according to packet instructions. Heat oil in a grill pan and saute crushed garlic and dry red chilly. Saute veggies in this  oil. Add ginger and green chillies. Now add the noodles along with 1 cup water in which it was cooked. When everything get cooked and dried,add the sauces and allow it to fry for 3-4 minutes. Garnish with spring onions. ENJOY!