Sambal Udang / Sambal Prawns

Sambal Udang / Sambal Prawns, Malasian sambal prawns. Its spicy and aromatic dish goes well with rice. Sambal is a spice paste, in this dish we are adding that paste and stirring with prawns. I have added sambal chicken recipe earlier. Here is recipe for you all to try. 

Mutton Varutharachathu ( Mutton In Roasted Coconut Gravy)

Mutton Varutharachathu, thick and spicy gravy with roasted coconut and spices. When you cook this, the aroma of all spices stays whole day in the kitchen. All spicy food lovers will love this. And for a change I tired a new combination kappa(tapioca) with this mutton curry, its an awesome combination, we liked it. So here is recipe for you all to try.

Chicken Potjieoks With Spices and Coconut Milk

Chicken Potjieoks With spices and Coconut Milk, potjieoks is uniquely South African and traditionally made around an open fire preferably in the company of good friends or with a family members. So its a delightful and memorable meal. The best meat to use for potjiekos is what is known as stewing beef, sinewy and gelatinous cuts of beef which become deliciously tender when simmered for a long time, developing a strong meaty flavour. Other meat such as venison, mutton, chicken and even fish make ideal potjies. 

Last friday I got a chance to make this Potijeoks. It was my husbands year end office party and had Potijeoks competition. We decided to make Chicken potjieoks with our Kerala stew touch. It became flavorful and delicious , we got first place in that competition😊. 

Potjiekos (literally meaning pot food) has been part of South Africa’s culture for many centuries – since the days of the first settlement at the Cape when food was cooked in a black cast-iron potjie pot hanging from a chain over the kitchen fire. Later the black pot accompanied the pioneers who moved into the country. As the Victorian era unfolded, so the delights of the bubbling black potjie pot made way for magnificent oven roasts, and later still the traditional braaivleis in the 1950’s and 60’s. The re-emergence of potjie in the late 1970’s coincided with the increase in meat prices at the time, and it was then that food magazines and books started publishing articles on potjiekos cooking and potjie recipes.

It is believed that the potjie came from the Dutch ancestors of the South Africans, who brought with them heavy iron cooking pots which hung from hooks over the open hearth. These cast-iron pots retained heat well and could be kept simmering over a few embers. Rounded, potbellied pots were used for cooking tender roasts and stews as they allowed steam to circulate instead of escape through the lid. The flat-bottomed iron pans heated more quickly and were used to bake crusty loaves of bread in Dutch ovens. 

What sets potjiekos apart from these traditional cooking methods, is the fact that it is cooked outside. When the pot was moved from the kitchen hearth to a fire in the open bush, it became a potjie and part of the South African cooking heritage. The most common potjie is the rounded, potbellied, three-legged cast iron pot.

The fire is an important part of creating a culinary potjie masterpiece. Unlike a braai, the choice of wood or charcoal does not make much difference, as long as you can regulate the heat. That is done by adding or removing coals once the potjie is heated up. Timing is also very important, apart from the time the potjie needs to become cooked you have to factor in the time it takes for the wood or charcoal to become coals, so in most cases you will have to start long before serving. 

Here is my version of Chicken Potjies recipe for you all to try. 

Chicken Drumsticks In Cherry Tomato Gravy

Chicken Drumsticks In Cherry Tomato Gravy, its a nice and medium gravy dish with chicken drumsticks and cherry tomatoes. We have some cherry tomatoes in the garden. Used in salads and in pastas and still had few, its still coming also. Birds also started having that, thought let it be they also has a wright to have that. Then also some were there, so decided to make a chicken gravy with this. So used our regular spices and made this flavorful dish. So here is recipe for you all to try.

Chicken Pickle

Chicken Pickle, its delicious and spicy. Its the best way to preserve chicken with spices and its a good side dish with steamed rice or roti. One of my friend told me about this chicken pickle then I tried at home. I'm sure chicken lovres will love this pickle. My husband liked it very much😊. Here is recipe for you all to try. 

Quinoa In Italian Style

Quinoa in Italian style, healthy and delicious one pot meal. This is another best way to eat quinoa with Italian spices. If you don't want to add sausages can add some vegetables like carrots, zucchini etc. Here is recipe for you all to try.

I have posted quinoa recipe earlier in deferent style here is the link ' Quinoa Fried Style' .

Tuscan Creamy Chicken With Garlic

Tuscan Creamy Chicken With Garlic, delicious creamy garlic sauce with chicken, spinach and sun-dried tomatoes. Italian cuisine is one of my favorite cuisine. We have been to Italy few months back and got a chance to explore deferent dishes out there. Italian cooking is very regional. Tuscany is a region in Central Italy and the food of Tuscany is very different from that prepared in the rest of Italy. 

Tuscan tradition tends not to combine onions and garlic in the same dish. Butter is mostly used as a condiment at the table, rather than in cooking. Pasta plays a small role in the diet, but certainly not as big a role as it does in other parts of Italy. Tuscans, however, tend to eat more salads than other Italians, and a good deal of beans, particularly broad beans. In Tuscany they bake bread without salt. The downside about bread is that without the salt, it doesn't stay fresh as long, so Tuscan breads are often only good the day of their baking. So here I served this dish with bread slices and everyone liked it. 

I bought few food stuff from Italy and started using it now. Tried this dish at home and liked it, so here is recipe for you all to try. Enjoy!

Beef and Spinach Stir-Fry

Beef and Spinach Stir Fry, Its an easy and delicious dish. Stir frying is a Chinese cooking technique in which ingredients are fried in a small amount of very hot oil while being stirred in a wok. Here I used beef strips as main ingredient, and accompanied by onion and spinach. You can serve this tender beef stir fry as it is as a starter or with steam rice. Here is recipe for you all to try. 

Baked Aduku Pathiri / Layered Meat Loaf

Baked Aduku Pathiri, Aduku Pathiri is a North Malabar delicasy, its a famous snack during festive time there. So here I used the adukupathiri concept and baked with spring roll sheet and minced beef masala filling. Normally they make aduku pathiri on the gas stove in a sauce pan. This tastes similar and easy version of that, because I baked this in the oven. Here is recipe for you all to try. Enjoy cooking.. 

Chicken Avocado Kabab

Chicken Avocado Kabab, its very easy and tasty pan fried kabab. Its Chef Kunal Kapur recipe which have seen in TV and tried at home. I liked this dish very much, especially the combination with Avocado, Chicken and Cheese. This also goes well as party starter. So here is recipe for you al to try.

Murg Malai Kebab

Murg Malai Kabab, one of the most popular chicken kababs from mughlayi cuisine. Its delicious and tender kababs which serve most of the Indian Restaurants as starters. Its a great party dish all your guests will enjoy this dish. Here is recipe for you all to try.

Chicken Shami Kabab

Chicken Shami Kabab, delicious and spicy kababs. Shami kababs are generally made with ground meat in India. Here I used chicken instead of mutton or beef. This kababs are good to serve as snacks or with warm rice as side dish, can serve with roti also. Best to serve with mint chutney or with any spicy sauce. Here is recipe for you all to try.

Rava Fish Biriyani / Semolina Biriyani with Fish

Rava Fish Biriyani, its just a twist with our normal rice biriyani. Very quick, easy and delicious one pot meal. If you want to make this little more rich then add some fried nuts and fried onions etc. And the good thing is that you don't need any side dish with this. So do try and enjoy this special meal. Here is recipe or you all to try.

Prawns Vada / Prawns Cutlet

Prawns vada, simple and easy snack item. Its spicy and flavorful. Good to serve for an evening party as an appetiser. You can call this as prawns cutlet. We liked it, I am sure you all will like this. So here is recipe for you all to try.

Stuffed Spring Chicken Malabar Style / Whole Roast Chicken

Stuffed Chicken is very popular dish in malabar muslim families, they usually serve this during festive season. Its flavorful, mild and tender chicken dish; can serve as it is or with pathiri, appam or roti. As like other malabar muslim dishes I got this recipe from my school buddies. Im so glad that I could try all these traditional dishes with the help of them, thanks dears for wonderful recipes. Here is recipe for you all to try.

Freid Egg Molly

Fried Egg Molly, normally we make little spicy fish molly. Tried fried egg molly. Its simple and flavourful gravy with coconut milk. Generally we make egg stew with boiled eggs, its just a twist from that. Good to serve with our traditional kerala breakfasts like puttu, appam and idiappam. So here is recipe for you all to try.

Layered Rice Cake With Prawns / Atti pathiri

Atti Pathiri, another malabar delicacy. I heard about this dish from my friends and they have given the recipe and tried. We liked it. So here is recipe for you all to try.

Pocket Shawarma

Shawarma chicken is a middle eastern fast food. This pocket shawarma is not like the original type, its an easy version that we can make quickly at home. I have used all purpose and wheat flour for this recipe thats why the color is little more brown and crispy outside. If you want can use only all purpose flour for this. Here is an easy and quick meal recipe for you all to try.

Tawa Chicken

Tawa Chicken, simple and easy way to make chicken. Delicious dish using marinated chicken coated with spices and its very flavorful dish. Here is recipe for you all to try. 

Salmon Fish Cakes With Oats

Salmon Fish Cakes, its simple and protein rich fish cakes. Its very easy to make and delicious, the taste everyone will like it. Actually I had salmon fish cake from one restaurant here in SA and liked it so thought of trying at home. In restaurant they served bigger size of fish cakes but here i made mini fish cakes so that it cookes fast. So here is recipe for you all to try.