Monday, November 29, 2010

Baked Fish fingers



Ingredients

Fish fillet - 1 medium fish
Rice flour - 1/4 cup
Egg -1
Bread crumbs - 1/2 cup
Redchilly powder - 1/4 tsp
Limejuice
Salt
Pepper

Preparation

Clean and cut the fish fillet into small pieces.Marinate the fish with salt,pepper and limejuice and keep it aside for half an hour.
In a plate add the rice flour and redchilly powder and mix.Dust the fish in this flour and dip in egg and coat the fish with breadcrumbs.Place them in a baking tray and bake in a preheated oven at 200 degree centigrade for 20 - 25 minutes.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Chakka Puzhukku




The weather here in London is worse since last week,its very windy and rainy all the time.Cant go out really, yesterday I had to go out for a music session for my little one and the wind nearly blew me away, so today me and my little one stayed inside and I decided to make my time useful by visiting my friends blogs and refreshing my blog too. After my holidays I am still not in a mood to do some serious cooking,So I dont have anything fresh to post today. This chakka puzhukku is my moms special which we had during our holidays..

Here goes the recipe

Ingredients

Raw Jackfruit - 1/2 of the fruit
Grated coconut- 1/4 cup
Shallots - 10
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Garlic crushed - 1 tbs
Redchilly powder - 1 tbs
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt
Mustard seeds
Whole redchilly
Curry eaves
Oil

Preparation

Cook the jackfruit with redchilly powder,turmeric powder and salt by adding water till it is cooked and mushy.
Grind coconut ,shallots,cumin seeds into a coarse paste.Add this paste to the cooked jackfruit along with crushed garlic and cook for 1-2 minutes.Finally in a pan take some oil and sputter mustard seeds followed by whole redchillies and curry leaves and add to the chakka puzhukku.