Egg biriyani

Egg biriyani a photo by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon on Flickr.

Serves: 4

1.Hard boiled Egg halved– 6
2.Rice – 3 cup
Boiled water – 4 ½ cup
Ghee – 1 tbsp
Salt – ¼ tbsp
Cardamom – 2 crushed
Clove – 2 crushed
Bay leaf – 1
Jeera – ¼ tbsp


3.Onion sliced – 2
Oil – 4tsp
Jeera – ½ tbsp
Curd – 2 tsp
Cashew nuts and Raisins – 3tbsp.
Chilli powder – ½ tbsp.
Coriander powder – ½ tbsp.
Salt – ½ tbsp.
Green chilli – 3 sliced.
Mixed veg – 1 cup.
Crushed ginger and garlic – 1 tbsp.
Boiled water – ¼ cup ( or coconut milk optional I don’t use coconut milk often).

Lemon juice – half a lemon

Preparation :

Rice:

•Heat ghee in a heavy bottom pan then fry cardamom, clove, bay leaf and jeera for one minute.
•Then add basmati rice and fry in low flame for 3- 4 mints.
•The add boiled water and cook in high flame for 3 mints and reduce the flame and put lid and cook in low flame for further 10-12 mints.


Veg and Egg preparation.

•Heat oil in a pan and add cashew and fry for a minute then add raisins and remove this from heat.
•To this same oil add jeera and fry for one minute.
•Then add onion sliced with pinch of salt and fry for 6 mints then add green chillies and crushed ginger and garlic and fry for another 2-3 mints
•Remove this from heat and add powders (we do not want to burn the powders) and stir well and place this back on flame, then add vegetables. Place the eggs carefully with this gravy don’t over stir this
•Cook this in medium flame till the gravy is thick.
•Mix this with curd



Layering:

•In a serving dish make first layer with rice then gravy with 2 egg halves then sprinkle cashew and nuts, the cover this with another layer of rice. Repeat this process.
•Sprinkle lemon juice on top on this dish
•In a preheated oven bake this for 10 mints or microwave for 5 mints.
•Serve warm..:)

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Spicy Mushroom Loaf recipe

Spicy Mushroom Loaf recipe a photo by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon on Flickr.

Spicy mushroom stir fry= 1 cup
All purpose flour=1 1/2 cup
Egg=2
Baking powder=1 tsp
Unsalted butter=90g
Granulated white sugar=1/2 cup
Milk=little less than 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract-1/2tsp
Salt= 1/4 tsp

Method:
1.Preheat over in Gas mark 4 or 350 degreeF.
2.Mix together Flour,salt and baking powder.
3.In a bowl mix sugar and butter to get a soft fluffy mix.
4.Add egg one by one to this mixture and beat well
5.Add vanila extract beat again
6.Now in a low setting add flour 2,three spoons at a time with bit
milk, repeat the process until it is done.
7.Grease the botton of your loaf pan with butter and add bit flour on
this sides(this will prevent the bread from sticking to sides)
8.Pour half portion of the batter to the loaf pan.
9.spread the stir fried mushrooms in the middle and pour remaining
batter on top.
10.Bake for 40 minutes in Gas mark for and 30 minute in Gas mark 2 or
till the loaf is golden.

11. Remove from oven and let it cool. Enjoy the spicy loaf..

P.S I love a crispy outerside so I baked it like this- 40 mnt in Gas
mark 4 and 40 mnt in gas mark 2

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Easy banana cake...Home made- Method 1

Easy banana cake...Home made a photo by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon on Flickr.

Bananacake

Recipe:

Butter= 125gm
Caster sugar=150gm
vanilla extract= 1 tsp
Egg = 2 (or one egg and 50ml milk)
very ripe bananas= 2 (mashed)
Self raising flour= 190gm
Mixed spice powder(cardamom and cinnamon) 1/4 tsp

Optional= Roasted nuts

Method :
1.Preheat oven

2.Blend all the ingredients together other than roasted nuts.

3.Prefered method of blending, butter plus sugar then vanila and egg, then flour spoon by spoon then spice powder then roasted nuts.

4.Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin with butter first then bit flour and sugar this will give you than crunchy golden outer layer.

5.Bake at 150 C fan oven (or 170 C regular, Gas mark 3) for 30 mins, now in Gass mark 2 for further 20mnts or until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool and enjoy!
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Rice noodles /Idiappam mutta curry : Easter special Breakfast

Rice noodles /Idiappam mutta curry : Easter special Breakfast a photo by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon on Flickr.


Another Holi week is here again.
Easter for me means yummy food..that starts with very first break fast..on a cold easter Sunday what else we need other than hot idiappam and yummy egg curry in coconut milk?

My most favrt  breakfast combination is Idiappam and egg curry.

What we need?

Raw rice flour = 1 Cup
Warm Water = 1 Cup
Grated coconut = 1/ 2Cup
Ghee = 1 tsp
Salt = 1 tsp.

Method : Add raw rice, ghee and salt together and mix well.
Add warm water little at a time and knead into smooth dough.
Make sure it is not too watery.
Cover the dough with a paper towel and allow it to rest for half an hour.
Make lemon size balls out of this dough.
Add little oil on top of this balls.
Fill this in an idiyappam presser/cooking press and press this into idali molds greased with oil.( You can use a steamer also.)
Sprinkle grated coconut in-between while pressing the dough. Make 3-5 appams like this in one go.

Steam this appam for 10 mnts.

Egg Curry with coconut milk:
Egg (boiled shelled and cut into halves)= 4
Large onion(thin long sliced) = 2
Coconut milk= 1/2 Cup.( make it to two 1/4 cups and add water to one portion and make it one cup)
Tomato ( thin long sliced)= 1
Ginger garlic paste= 1 tablespoon.
Red chili powder= 4/3 tsp.
Green chili =1 sliced.
Coriander powder= 1 tsp.
Pepper powder = 1/4 tsp.
Turmeric powder= 1/4 tsp.
Garam masala = 1 tsp.
Salt = to taste.

To tamper.

Mustard seeds. = 1/4 tsp.
Jeera = 1/4 tsp.
Coconut oil = 2 tsp.
Red chilli = 1
Curry leaves = Few.

Method:

Mix together all the powder in little water and make a fine paste. keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan and add thinly sliced onion. Fry over medium flame for few mnts.
Add ginger, garlic and slit green chillies along with the curry leaves for few more mnts.
Add the powder paste and fry for another mnt.
Add tomottos close it with a lid and fry for another two mnts.
Now add the coconut milk portion with water and keep the flame low and bring it to boil stir well.
Add the thick coconut milk with the eggs keep it in low flame for another mnt. (Dont boil it)
Add salt. Remove from heat.
Heat oil in another pan and add mustartd seeds. When it pop add jeera and fry this for few seconds followed by chilli and curry leaves and fry for a mnt, switch off flame and pour this over the curry. Serve hot with appam.

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Potato cheese omelette...another day of terror for Praveen.

Our Christmas week end, we enjoyed having paracetamol and few other capsules for cold and fever. Praveen tried to prove his excellence in kitchen but as usual ended up in the usual stuff ,rice soup( we call it kanji) and pickle. So for a change i ,decided to go for something simple and different.

So here comes the Potato Cheese omelet..for a change!!!!!!!!
( P.S : Wont recommend this for fever of cold victims ,but if your partner provokes you with their cooking experiments,vouch for sure, you can try this)
Cheese,grated: 50 gm

Potato (medium one)- boiled and mashed or grated.
Big onion half-sliced.
Green chili-one -finely chopped.
Garam masala optional-1/4 tsp.
Butter- 1 tsp.
Egg- 2nos.
Black pepper powder-1/4tsp.
Salt- As required.
Parsley or Curry leaves-  Few.

Method:



Heat pan with butter in medium heat,add sliced onion,green chili and bit salt stir well add garam masala(optional)now add  mashed potato stir for two to three minutes keep it aside.


Beat egg well, with bit salt and pepper.
Heat  your non stick pan(medium heat), add the remaining butter and add your egg mixture. Stir it gently using the edge of an wooden spoon,as egg begins to set, run spatula under edge of omelet, lifting cooked portion and allowing uncooked portion to spread to bottom of pan, tilting pan as necessary.
Now put your potato mixture in the middle of this omelet as a line. Put grated cheese on top of it. now gently turn the sides of your omelet to this middle portion from both sides.
Keep it in that pan for bit more time, just for that cheese to melt. If you are an expert cook ,you can turn the omelet upside down and allow other side to cook. What i do is i heat another non stick pan and put the omelet to that one from the current pan. Simple.
Omelet is ready. You can serve with green salad