Masala Kadala

Ingredients:

• Gram flour 1 cup
• Raw peanuts 1 cup
• Kashmiri Chilli pdr 1Tbsp
• Turmeric pdr 1/4 Tsp
• Garlic paste 1 Tbsp
• Asafoetida a pinch
• Curry leaves few
• Vegetable oil 3 Tbsp
• Water 1/4 cup
• Salt to taste

Add all the ingredients into a microwave safe bowl except oil and water. Mix it and pour vegetable oil into this and stir well. Slowly add water and mix it till it coats well on the peanuts. Then microwave it for 2 mins. Take it out and stir it using a fork. Again heat it for 1 min. Repeat the process till it becomes crispy. It took me 6 to 8 mins.

[Recipe Courtesy: Sree's Recipes]

Fish Phyllo Cup

Ingredients:

• Phyllo (aka fillo) sheets 2 to 5
• Tilapia 2 to 4 pieces
• Chopped onion 1 big
• Sliced mushroom 1/4 cup
• Chopped red capsicum 1 small
• Chopped green capsicum 1 small
• Chopped ginger 1 small piece
• Chopped garlic 2 to 5
• Pepper pdr 1 to 2 Tsp
• Turmeric pdr 1/2 Tsp
• Soy sauce 1 Tsp
• Salt

Cook fish with salt, pepper pdr and turmeric pdr. Heat oil in a pan and add chopped onion, ginger and garlic. When it turns light brown, add chopped capsicum, sliced mushroom and stir it for a few mins. Add pepper pdr, soy sauce and little salt into this. Mix and add the cooked fish. Combine it well using a wooden spoon and make the fish mix. Allow it to cool.

Preheat the oven to 180 deg C. Prepare the phyllo cups according to the instruction on the cover and place it in a greased muffin pan. Fill the cups with fish mix and bake it in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 mins.

Bread Balls

Ingredients:

• Bread crumbs from fresh bread 1 cup
• Crushed cashew nuts  1 Tbsp
• Sugar as rqd
• Milk as rqd
• Oil

Mix together bread crumbs, finely crushed cashew nuts and required amount of sugar. Add milk little by little into the bread crumbs and mix well. Make small balls from these and fry well.

[Recipe Courtesy: Vanitha]

Unniyappam

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour 2 cup
• Grated jaggery 2 cup
• Banana 3 (Palayankodan)
• Crushed cardamom 1 Tsp
• Sesame seeds 2 Tsp
• Ghee 2 Tsp
• Oil

Melt grated jaggery with 1/4 cup of water and sieve it. Cool it and mix it with wheat flour and banana. Mash it well. Add crushed cardamom, sesame seeds and ghee into this and keep it aside for 1/2 hr. Heat oil in a unniyappam pan or in a kadai. Pour batter into oil and fry well.

[Recipe Courtesy: Lekshmi Nair, Magic Oven]

Diamond Cuts

Ingredients:

• All purpose flour 2 cup
• Beaten egg 2 1/2 Tbsp
• Cardamom seeds 2
• Water 1/2 cup
• Pinch of salt
• Oil

For Sugar Syrup:

• Sugar 1/2 cup
• Water 2 Tsp
• Cardamom seed 1

Mix the all purpose flour, salt and beaten egg. Add water little by little into the flour and knead it into a soft dough, like chappathi. Add crushed cardamom into this and knead well. Cover it with a damp cloth and keep it aside for 15 mins. Divide the dough into medium sized balls and roll it out into thin rounds. Then cut it diagonally from left and from right to get diamond shaped pieces. Heat oil in a kadai and fry the diamonds till it turns into golden colour. Transfer it to a paper towel and cool it.

For preparing sugar syrup, mix together sugar and water and boil it, till it reaches to a consistency that will help coat the fried diamond cuts. Add the crushed cardamom and coat the diamond cuts in syrup. Transfer it to a tray and cool it.

[Courtesy: Mishmash]

Spicy Chicken Fry

Ingredients:

• Chicken 1
• Cumin seeds 1/4 Tsp
• Fennel seeds 1 Tsp
• Turmeric pdr 1 Tsp
• Pepper pdr 1 Tsp
• Vinegar 1/2 Tsp
• Bread crumbs
• Maida 2 cups
• Egg 2

Clean and cut the chicken into medium pieces. Beat the eggs and keep it aside. Ground together cumin seeds to vinegar and add salt to it. Marinate chicken with this paste and keep it aside. After half an hour, roll marinated chicken pieces in maida and then dip it in beaten egg and roll it in bread crumbs. Fry it well.