Chicken Rice Noodles

Now a days people are health holic. So they are very much cautious about what they eat . But there are always some of our favorites which we eat even though it has health alerts due to its intake . One among that is noodles. The first and foremost issue which health experts find in noodles is that its made of All purpose flour and its intake is not good for our health.
Here I can suggest a Noodles which is very healthy one and you can eat at any ages. Chicken Rice Noodles.

Recipe Inspired from one of my friends photograph and got the idea how to cook from one of friend Meeran who had that food from South Indian Restaurant.

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Ingredients for making Rice Noodles (Idiyappam)
I am sure all the south Indian's will know how to make an Idiyappam ( Rice Noodles ). But this is for people who doesn't know how to make it.

Rice Flour - 3 cups

Water boiled - As much as to make a dough like that which we make to prepare Roti or Poori.

Oil - 1 Tspn

Salt - As per you taste and requirement

Preparation of Rice Noodles (Idiyappam)

Make the dough by mixing all ingredients and you can make noodles in  Idiappam Maker which is avalable in markets. After that cook the Noodles in steam by keeping it inside a Idly Vessel.

Ingredients for Noodles

Chicken Breast - 2 Pieces

Onion - 2 Nos

Capsicum - 1/2 portion if its big

Carrot - 1 No

Beans - 10 No's

Spring Onion - 1 Stem

Celery - 1/2 Stem

Black Pepper Powder - 1 Tspn

Soy Sauce - 1/2 Tbl Spn

Tomato Sauce - 2 Tbl Spn

Chilli Sauce - 1 1/2 Tspn

Ginger Garlic Paste.

Salt

Refined Oil - 3 Tbl Spn

Preparation of Chicken Rice Noodles

Cook the chicken with pepper powder and salt ( Shred it and keep aside)

Cut the veggies into small size .

Initially take a pan and cook beans carrot and onion with salt , but don't over cook that crispness and freshness of veggies should be there.

Take another pan add oil then add ginger garlic paste to it. Then add all the cooked veggies saute well after 5 minutes add the spring onion , celery and capsicum to it. Saute for 5 minutes then add soy sauce and tomato chilly sauce.Saute well and the add the cooked rice noodles into it.Then add the shredded chicken and finally add the pepper powder 1( Tspn). Cover and cook for 5 minutes. Chicken Rice Noodles is done.Add salt according to your taste as already salt is there for rice veggies n soy sauce.

This a complete food for your children and they will definitely like this. Even you don't have to prepare any side dishes for this :)

Thalassery Chicken Dum Biriyani

My earlier post was also regarding biriyani. I already mentioned in the post that I am a biriyani lover. The biriyani which I earlier made was lil spicy.There is always a conflict about biriyani in northern parts of Kerala regarding the best biriyani.Whether Kozhikode biriyani or Thalssery biriyani is the best. But the fact is that both has its own signature taste. This week I am going to make a Thalassery Chicken Dum Biriyani. This is not a very spicy biriyani but its very very tasty.

Ingredients

• Chicken cut into pieces – 1 Kg
• Onions- 4 big ( thinly sliced)
• Green Chilies – 8 to 10 depending on spice level
• Ginger – 1 big piece
• Garlic- 2 1/2 Tbsp crushed
• Tomato – 2 big chopped
• Coriander leaves- 1/4 cup chopped
• Mint Leaves - 1/4 cup chopped
• Garam Masala Powder –  11/2 Tbsp
• Turmeric Powder A pinch
• Lemon juice – juice of 1 lemon
• Ghee  - 2 Tbsp

For Rice

• Jeerakasala Rice –  2 cups( this rice gives the authentic n signature taste to Thalassery Biriyani)
• Water – 3 1/2 cups
• Cinnamon – 1 inch
• Cardamom – 4
• Cloves  - 5
• Pepper Corns -5 Nos
• Star Anise - 4 
• Fennel Seeds - 1/2 tbsp
• Ghee -1 1/2 tbsp
• Salt

Other Ingredients

• Cashew nuts - 100 gram
• Raisins – 100 gram

Preparation of Rice

We can prepare rice first. Cook the rice with the above mentioned qty of water with the spices and ghee added to it.Add salt as needed. Normally we strain water but here the rice is cooked in very adequate amount of water so that we don't have to strain the excess water.Keep the cooked rice aside. Use only the correct amount of water mentioned so that the rice will be properly cooked.

Preparation of Masala

Initially we have to fry all the thinly sliced onions in ghee and keep it aside. Take another vessel where we are gonna do the Dum, so it should be a lil big vessel with a lid. Add thinly sliced tomatoes , no need to add oil.After that add the half of the onions which we fried in ghee.Once cooked add the grinded ginger and garlic paste it to it. After some time add the grinded green chilies to it Saut well add some salt .Put the washed chicken pieces into it then add the chopped mint leaves. Add some amount of water just to cook the chicken. Cover the vessel with a lid. Once chicken is half cooked add the coriander leaves , garam masala and a pinch of turmeric powder(optional) .Then cover the vessel again the cook until the chicken is properly cooked. No need of much gravy. Ocne this chicken is done add the rice into it by layering again with raisins , cashew nuts and rest of the onion fried in ghee. For Thalassey Biriyani we won't fry raisins and cashew in ghee as we do for other biriyani. If you need some more smell you can add lil rose water and for color you can add saffron diluted in milk.Saffron was not in my store so I didn't add that.Saffrons are not only for color it add taste to ur biriyani. Once the layering part is over cover it with a wet clean cloth and close the vessel with a lid and keep another vessel filled with water on top of the lid to do the Dum.Basically Dum is to "Cook in Steam" Keep the vessel on low flame for 10-15 minutes. When we open the lid we can find the wet cloth almost dried.

Thalassery Chicken Dum Biriyani is ready. Serve it with Dates pickle and Onion-Vinegar Salad.That is the best and traditional combination of Thalassery Dum Biriyani.

Bread Gulab Jamun

Its as simple as that to prepare a gulab jamun since the Ready mix for Gulab Jamun is available in market. But it is not necessary that we keep it in our store all the time. But here is one simple way to prepare Gulab Jamun in case you have a un expected guest or even suddenly if your kids need something sweet. This is Bread Gulab Jamun.

Ingredients

Bread Slices - 8 nos ( I used Almarai Breads since it is the best I found in super markets)

Almarai Full Fat Milk

Sugar

Cardamom

Oil

Ghee

Water

Salt

Preparation

Cut the brown edges of bread. Then add a pinch of salt some cardamom powder and milk. But don't add too much of milk .Add milk accordingly so that the dough can be made in to small balls.Then make small balls and keep aside.

Take 11/2 Glass water then half glass of sugar. Keep it on flame . Add some cardamoms to it. Stir well till the sugar syrup is ready. You can add more sugar if you need it more sweet.I add lil ghee to the syrup since I am going to fry the jamun in refined oil.

Fry the balls which we made in refined oil or ghee.I fried in refined oil. Fry till the ball turns slight brown as you see in the picture. Then take it out and transfer it to the Sugar syrup which is already made.

Easy Bread Gulab Jamun is ready. You will take hardly 20 Mins to do the complete step.

Egg Biriyani

There is very less people who doesn't like Biriyani. There may be more than hundred varieties of biriyani. It differs from place to place. I being a biriyani lover planned to make biriyani for my weekend. But thought like   y Chicken , Mutton or Beef. Y should not I go for a simple Biriyani which is not that heavy. So I made a simple Egg Biriyani with very less ghee.

Ingredients

Basmati Rice - 2 Cups

Egg - 2 Nos

Onions - 4

Tomato - 1 Big

Green Chilly - 3

Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 Table Spoon

Garam Masala - 1 1/2 Tbl Spn

Turmeric Powder - 1 tspn

Coriander Powder - 1 Tbl Spn

Chilly Powder - 1 Tspn

Mint Leaves - 10 - 15 Nos

Coriander Leaves - 6 Stems

Yogurt

Star Anise -3

Cloves - 4

Cinnamon - 1 stick

Pepper Corn - 5 Nos

Fennel Seeds - 1/2 Tspn

Oil

Ghee 

Raisin - 50 gm

Cashew - 50 gm


Preparation of Rice

First cook rice by adding Star Anise , Cloves , Cinnamon ,Pepper Corns and salt. But don't over cook rice. Strain and keep aside.

Preparation of Masala.

Take a Pan add oil then add ginger garlic paste then add fenugreek seed onions tomato and grinded green chilly. When half done add all other powder , then mint leaves and coriander leaves .When it is almost well cooked add Yogurt. Now masala is ready.

Take another pan add some ghee then add some onions cashew nuts and raisins fry it till it becomes slightly brown. This can be used for garnishing. This is the only part where i used ghee. Rest all was done in refined oil so that biriyani wont be that heavy

Then you can layer the Rice and Masala in another vessel.  Then finally garnish with the fried onions cashew and raisins.

Keep a boiled Egg on top since it is Egg Biriyani.

Serve with Raita 

Uthappam With Tomato Cashew Nut Chutney

There is nothing new with making an Uthappam (Indian Pizza)  lol it is as simple as that. Dosa and it varieties can be considered as a Universal food. I have seen in many of the vegetarian restaurants people from different part of the Globe having Dosa. Coming to Uthappam it is also a variety of Dosa but it supplement more to your diet since it contains some veggies too.  But a Dosa won't be complete if you are served it with nice chutney or sambar. I have done many R&D to find how to prepare a tasty yet different style chutney.At last I experimented one Tomato Chutney but with lil alteration which made it taste even better.

Ingredients for Uthappam

Any veggies can be used. But I used

Grated Carrot - 1

Tomato - 1

Onions - 1

Bell Pepper (Capsicum ) -1

Dosa Batter

Oil

Preparation

Grease the pan with lil oil the pour the dosa batter to it. Make the Dosa lil thick the spread all the veggies on top. Cover the Dosa witha lid. Cook it on low flame. Can add lil oil on top of Dosa Itz very optional.
If you are very particular you can turn the Dosa upside down , If not also it is ok.
Uthappam is ready

Ingredients for Tomato Cashew nut chutney

Tomato - 1

Onions - 3- 4 small

Cashew Nuts - 6 Nos

Asafoetida Powder - 1/2 Tspn

Turmeric Powder - 4 Pinch

Chilly Powder - Less than 1/2 Tspn

Refined Oil 

Curry Leaves - 6 Nos

Salt

Preparation

Just sauté all the above ingredients in a pan .Once itz half cooked. Take the mixture and grind it.
Tasty chutney ready.

Serve e Uthappam with  Tomato Cashew nut chutney.

Peas N Paneer Pulav

After Ramadan I didn't get much time to try something new which I never tried before. So I planned to prepare something different for the dinner. So I choose to prepare a easy but yet another tasty recipe "Peas Paneer Pulav" . This is very less spicy as well as tasty so your kids will love this.

Ingredients

Paneer(Tofu) - 100 gm

Peas - Half a cup ( I bought frozen peas)

Basmati Rice - 1 Glass

Onion - 3 Nos

Carrot -1 No( if itz small)

Ginger Garlic paste - 1 Tbl Spn

Garam Masala - 1 n 1/2 Tbl Spn

Green chilly - 4 No's

Kashmiri Chilly powder - very little( optional)

Cashew Nuts - 50 gm

Raisin - 50 gm

Mint Leaf - 5 - 6 Nos

Coriander Leaf - 6 stems

Cloves - 5 No

Cardamom -2 Nos

Fennel Seeds - 1 tspn

Oil

Salt

Preparation

Fist take a pressure cooker add 1 Tblspn refined oil in to it then add cloves cardamom and fenugreek seeds. Once its slightly fried add ginger garlic paste. Then add onions as well as carrots. Saute it till it become transparent.

To the above ingredients add garam masala powder ,salt , cashew nuts and the raisins.Saute well. By the time wash basmati rice and keep aside. In a pan take 1and1/2 glass of water. Take the same glass where rice is measured.Boil the water. Now add the rice into the above mixture then add the boiled water into it. After that add the mint leaves as well as the coriander leaves. Closed the cooker and put the weights on. On the first whistle itself turn off the flames allow the pressure to go by itself. Once the complete pressure is gone you can open the cooker and  your "Peas Paneer pulav" is ready to serve.You can serve it with Yogurt or a Salad.