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Murukku is an all time favourite crunchy snack for every Indians. It can be prepared in various ways and it is generally prepared on special festive occasions. Srivalli stated the Murukku recipe using rice flour and roasted urad dal flour....... Jantikalu or Murukku Preparation Time : 20 - 30 mins Cooking Time : 20 - 30 mins Makes : app 250 kg of Muruku Cuisine: Andhra & Tamil Nadu Utensils needed: Muruku /Chakli Press Kadai Ingredients Needed: Raw Rice - 4 cups Urad Dal - 1 cup Water - app 1/2 cup or more For Seasoning Cumin seeds - 1 tsp Sesame seeds- 1 tsp Asafetida/ Hing - 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Butter - 75 gms Method to prepare: Wash and drain the rice. Shade dry the Rice for 1/2 hr. Dry roast the Urad dal to light brown. Allow it to cool (If you are using more quantity, you can get it ground in rice mil, else use your mixie to grind both Rice and Urad dal). First grind rice into a fine flour, keep it aside. then grind the urad dal to fine powder. In a wide vessel, take both th...

Durga Puja also referred to as ?Durgotsab?, is an annual Hindu festival that celebrates worship of Hindu Goddess Durga. Durga Puja is widely celebrated in the eastern part of India, specially in West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Tripura. Apart from Eastern part of India, Durga Puja is also celebrated in Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab, Kashmir, Karnataka and Kerala. Durga Puja is also celebrated as a major festival in Nepal and Bangladesh. Goddess Durga is the widely worshiped deity of Sakti including various forms corresponding to her two aspects benevolence and fierceness. She is the personification of tender love, wealth, power, beauty and all virtues. She is also known as Parvati, Uma, Gauri, Ambika, Jagatmata, Bhairavi, Chandi and Kali in different avatars. During Durga Puja, God in the form of the Divine Mother is worshiped in Her various forms as Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati together. Though the Goddess is one, She is represented and worshiped in three differe...

An all time favourite recipe for fish loving Bengalis...It is prepared with onion paste, sometimes yogurt is also added. Here is the recipe for typical Bengali Rui (Pona) Machher Kalia (Rui Fish Curry)..... Ingredients: rohu fish: 250-300 gms / 6-8 pieces bay leaves: 2 ginger paste: 1 tsp garlic paste: 1 tsp onion paste: 2 tbsp tomato: 1 (finely chopped) green chilli: 1-2 pieces (slit) salt to taste turmeric: 1-2 tsp garam masala: 1/2 tsp mustard oil for cooking sugar: 1 tsp water: as required for gravy Procedure: Wash the fish pieces, apply salt and turmeric and coat well. Heat oil in non stick kadai and shallow fry the fish. Keep aside the fried fish pieces. Heat oil (add a little more oil, if required) again and add sugar. Reduce flame when the sugar starts to caramelize, add the bay leaves, green chilli. Add the onion paste, saute a little, add the ginger and garlic paste, mix well and saute a little more. Add chopped tomatoes, turmeric powder and salt and mix all the spices. Add a...

A nutritious and filling Chicken Soup prepared in microwave.....a perfect dish to savour on a cold day... Ingredients: chopped chicken: 1/2 cup water: 3 cups cornflour: 1 tbsp (mixed with 1/2 cup cold water) butter: 1 tbsp milk: 1/2 cup garam masala: 1/4 tsp salt to taste freshly ground black pepper cream: 1 tbsp (whipped / beaten) Procedure: Place butter in a microwave safe bowl and microwave at 100% power for 30 secs. Add chicken pieces, water, salt & garam masala and microwave at 80% power for 4-5 mins. Allow to stand in the oven for 5 mins. Take out the bowl, remove the the chicken pieces from the stock and shred to small pieces. Add the shredded chicken pieces, milk, cornflour mixture to the stock and microwave at 100% power for 3-4 mins. Allow to stand for 5 more mins. Remove from oven and transfer to a serving bowl. Garnish with cream and freshly ground black pepper and serve hot. Sending this soup to MEC-Potluck Party , hosted by Sri of Cooking 4 all Seasons.

Ganesh Chathurthi special dishes (Festive Cooking) from various regions across India were finalized as Indian Cooking Challenge for the month of August' 2009. Each member was supposed to try out apart from dishes famous in their homestate atleast one more from another state. Well! all the recipes were new to me and I tried the following recipes... Panchakhadya (from Maharashtra) Boorelu (Sweet filling dipped in savory batter from Andhra) Kudaalu (from Andhra) Panchakhadya Ingredients: Grated Dry Coconut / Copra - 1 cup Sugar - 4-5 tbsp powdered Poppy seeds - 2 tbsp Dried Dates - 4-5 Cardamom powder - 1/2 tbsp Mixed Nuts (almonds,cashews, pistachios) - 4-5 tbsp coarsely powdered pinch of nutmeg powder (optional) Method to prepare : Heat a thick bottom pan/ Kadai and dry roast the grated coconut on low flame till it starts turning golden. This takes about 4 -5 mins, once done set it aside. Dry roast poppy seeds and grind them coarsely after cooling them for 5 minutes. Pit the dr...

Some people just don't learn from their mistakes.... Well Sarmila of Samayal Blog copied my Eggs in Milk recipe and wrote as Egg curry with Milk . After my notification, she changed the recipe with a new one, which I stated in my earlier post . Still not satisfied, I happened to browse further and came across this site, Indian Cooking by Sagari. She wrote about Egg Korma with coconut milk and to my surprise the new recipe at Samayal Blog is none other than the recipe of Sagari (I found out her copied work through spelling mistake of turmeric). I have notified Sagari also on this.... You can find Sagari's recipe out here: 1) Egg Korma with coconut milk 2) Same recipe at Sify by Sagari, Egg Korma And moreover, lots of other recipes are copied from various food sites as mentioned below: Fabulous Fruit Salad Fabulous Fruit Salad at Samayal Blog, copied from here Summer Fruit Salad Dal Biryani Dal Biryani at Samayal Blog, copied from Hungryzone (she even attached the same p...

Well folks, I didn't think my post on plagiarism will have such a quick effort on Sarmila, the writer of Samayal Blog . Just now, she changed the whole recipe of Egg Curry with Milk , my word-word copied version of Eggs in Milk , replaced milk with coconut milk (how convenient and so very original!!!!). But maybe she do not know that the name of the post is still the same " http://www.samayalblog.com/index.php/egg/egg-curry-with-milk ", coz even if you edit / modify your post & post title, the original post title (code) remains the same. I notified the writer by posting a comment on the original post, she smartly deleted my comment and modified my recipe as stated below: Ingredients: 100 gms / 4 eggs 2 cups water (to boil eggs) 1 cup / 250 ml milk 4 tbsp onion paste (2-3 large onions, made into a paste) 2 tsp ginger paste 2 tsp garlic paste 1 green chilli 2 tbsp white oil 1 ? tsp salt (to taste) 1 bunch fresh coriander leaves, finely chopped Method: Add water and pre...