Tandoori Chicken Fry | Onion fried chicken | Tawa fried chicked

 This recipe is so simple and an awaiting recipe I wanted to try after years... During my college days I had couple of friends from Kerala,where I spend my time with them to learn Malayalam. Once I went to their room as usual and to my luck I got this simple recipe. They were not having any spice powders in hand other than salt and chilli powder.With the request of a friend they started marinating, slicing onion and frying a long time this recipe and it doesn't spoil up expectation. Its a perfect simple fried chicken on tawa. This recipe can be categorized as Tandoori.

Ingredients : 

Chicken - 250 gms

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Oil - 1 tsp

 Method :

 1. Clean, wash and drain out the water completely. Add red chilli powder and salt.

 2. Allow it to marinate for 1 hour.

 3. Cut the onions into thin slices.

4. Heat oil in a pan, add the sliced onions and fry well.

 5. Cover with a lid and fry in medium flame.

6. Fry until golden brown. It takes about 15-20 minutes for the onion to get fry.

 7. Add in marinated chicken.

 8. Mix well, cover with lid and place the fried onions over the pieces and allow it to cook.

 9. After about 20 minutes the chicken and onions gets blended together and will be fried as shown in the picture.

 10. Transfer to a serving plate and enjoy the platter with onion and lemon.

Fried Chicken

Note : 

• Cover with lid and fry both the chicken and onion.
• Give a fine stir in between and let it cook in medium flame. Its a perfect and simple starter on kadai.
• Serving with onion and lemon would be a better choice. Its quite a simple recipes for bachelors.

Prawn fry | Easy prawn recipes | prawn sauted in chilli powder

 This simple method of preparing prawns sauted with red chilli powder is from my cousin. He had eaten this method of cooked prawns in one of his friends home. Its really really simple and a spicy starter to enjoy.Thanks to my brother for this recipe...

Ingredients :

Prawn - 1/2 kg

Red chilli powder -3-4 tsp

Turmeric powder -2 pinches

Salt -1 tsp

Oil -1 tbsp

Method :

1. Wash and clean the prawns and drain out the water completely.
2. Heat oil in a pan,add the prawns,turmeric powder, red chilli powder, salt and fry well.
3. Cook in medium flame and saute in between.
4. Once the prawns gets swirled completely and cooked put off the flame and serve hot.

Prawn chilli fry

Note :

• Cook in low/medium flame to avoid burnt smell.
• Do not add water or even sprinkle as the washed prawns would leave water while cooking.
• This recipe would be spicy, so check for chilli powder and add if required.
• This serves as starter along with any curries and gravies or just like snack.

Chicken Chinthamani | Erode chinthamani chicken

I tasted this recipe chicken chinthamani in a feast served for wedding couple. This recipe is a traditional recipe of erode and is also called as Erode chicken chinthamani.I was waiting to try this recipe from so long time but I couldn't. Because,our usual menu of non veg has a curry,gravy or in fried form. Chicken chinthamani is an intermediate so waited to try out and find where it suits better. Finally tried this yummy,spicy,chilli fried chicken......

Ingredients :

Chicken -1/2 kg
Dry red chilli -20
Sliced Shallots -1 cup
Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp
Oil -1/2 cup
Salt as required


Method :

 1. Wash and clean the chicken. Drain the water completely.

 2. Heat oil in a thick kadai/pan,fry the shallots and dry red chillies for about 5 minutes.

 3. Add the cleaned chicken,turmeric powder,salt and fry in low flame. Keep sauting in between until the chillies blended with chicken.

4. Cover and cook until soft. Transfer to a serving bowl and serve hot with rice.

Chicken Chinthamani

Note :

• Do not add water as this recipe has to get cooked in oil. But I sprinkled a little water to cook soft.
• Adding grated coconut at the end is optional.
• Cover and cook in medium/low flame with stirring in between.
• I used byadgi chilli variety,which gives the color. You can add 2 varieties of dry chilli (which gives spice and other for color)
• This goes well when mixed with hot rice.

Egg burji | Chilli sauted egg burji

Eggs are the readily available ingredient to satisfy the taste for non-vegetarians. Eggs fall between the category of vegetarians and non-veggies. Simple recipe made of eggs is the burji always.Usually egg burji is prepared just with salt or pepper. Here is a different spice touch with chilli powder. Try sometime this recipe as a side dish with rasam or any curries of your choice.



Ingredients :

Eggs -4
Pepper -2 tsp
Red chilli powder -1 tsp
Salt as required
Oil-1 tbsp

Method :

1. Crack the eggs one by one in a bowl and beat nicely to get mixed.
2. Heat oil in a pan, add the beaten eggs and stir continuously to get small granule forms.
3. when they are half cooked, add the pepper powder and chilli powder and salt and keep mixing until you get the spice mixed evenly with the egg burji.
4. Serve this along with rice,rasam or serve as plain burji.

Egg burji with chilli powder

Sardines pepper fry | how to fry Matthi or Chaala meen

Sardines are called as Matthi in tamil and chaala meen in malayalam.As an usual concept, fishes are generally rich source of Omega -3 fatty acid. In that specifically sardines are one among the most richest source.Sardines particularly have a strong smell when compared to other varieties.They contain the healthy unsaturated fat which lowers the cholesterol and reduce risk of heart diseases. This recipe I learnt from one of my colleague from Kerala. Its very simple to prepare and of course, fish lovers enjoy the most. But some doesn't like this fish because of its strong flavor.



Ingredients:

Sardines (small variety) - 6
Pepper powder -3 tsp
Salt -1 tsp
Oil to fry


Method :

1. Wash and clean the fish without any clots or black wastes.
2. Make a cut in the both sides of the fish (3 cuts maximum) 
3. To this add pepper powder, salt and mix well.
4. After 10 minute's heat oil in kadai/iron tawa and fry these sardines in medium flame.
5. Serve crispy and this fried sardibes can be kept even for the next day.

Pepper fried Sardines

Note:

Washing of sardines require more concentration in cleaning. So take care to clean well.

Do not make more slits/cuts as the fish may get burnt while frying.

Also do not fry without making cut as the fish becomes soggy