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Aadu Soup / Goat Leg Soup

Ingredients

  • Goat legs – 10-12 pieces
  • Onions – 3, medium size, chopped finely
  • Corn flour/Maida – 1 tbsp
  • Pepper powder – 2 tbsps, coarsely powdered
  • Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
  • Cloves – 4 no’s.
  • Cinnamon – 1” piece.
  • Peppercorns

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Kerala Vattayappam / Steamed Rice Cake

Ingredients

  • Fine Rice flour/Appam podi – ½ kg
  • Yeast – ¼ tsp
  • Grated Coconut – 2 cups, fresh
  • Sugar – ½ kg
  • Salt – ¼ tsp

Preparation method

  1. Grind the grated coconut and extract milk.
  2. This thick

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Meen Pollichathu / Grilled Fish (in banana leaf)

Ingredients

  • Fish– ½ kg , karimeen or any other fleshy variety
  • Small Onions/Kunjulli – ¼ kg, finely sliced
  • Tomatoes – ¼ kg, finely chopped
  • Ginger – 1 tbsp, finely chopped
  • Garlic – 1 tbsp, finely chopped
  • Red Chilli powder –

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Kerala Kallappam / Rice pancake

Ingredients

  • Rice flour, fine powder – ½ kg
  • Yeast – ¼ tsp
  • Scraped coconut – 2- 2 ½  cup
  • Sugar – ¾ cup
  • Salt to taste

Preparation method

  1. Soak the yeast in 2 tablespoons of lukewarm water.

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Orange Carrot Soup

Ingredients

  • Onion – 1, large, finely chopped
  • Butter – 75 gms
  • Carrots – 6, medium size, peeled and diced
  • Potatoes – 2, medium size, peeled and diced
  • Lemon juice – 3 tbsps
  • Orange juice – 1 cup
  • Cloves –

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Cabbage Soup

Ingredients

  • Green cabbage – 1 cup, chopped
  • Onions – 2, medium size, chopped
  • Tomato juice – 2 cups
  • Sour cream – 1 cup
  • Roasted cumin seeds – 1 tsp
  • Butter – 4 tbsp
  • Maida – 2 tbsp
  • Sugar –

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Vegetable Cheese Soup

Ingredients

  • Spinach – 100 gms
  • Cauliflower – 30 gms
  • Beans – 30 gms
  • Cottage Cheese/Paneer – 30 gms, grated
  • Cornflour – 30 gms
  • Ajinomoto – 5 gms
  • Salt and Pepper to taste

Preparation Method

  1. Cut the vegetables

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Spinach and Carrot Soup

Ingredients

  • Carrots – 300 gms
  • Spinach – 200 gms
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation

  1. Boil the spinach leaves and the carrots.
  2. Put in a mixie with a little water and grind them to a semi-paste.

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Hyderabadi Chicken Haleem

Ingredients

  • Chicken – 1.5 kg, cut into medium size pieces
  • Broken wheat – 1 kg
  • Onions –1 kg, chopped
  • Green chillies – 50 gms.
  • Ginger-garlic paste – 350 gms
  • Curd – 600 gms
  • Cloves – 10 no’s.
  • Cinnamon –

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Double ka Meetha/Bread Halwa

Ingredients

  • Bread regular, white – 250 gms
  • Milk – 100 ml
  • Condensed milk – 1 tbsp
  • Khoya – 1 tbsp
  • Sugar – 200 gms
  • Saffron – 1/4 tsp
  • Almonds – 10-12 no’s.
  • Cashew – 10-12 no’s
  • Raisins – a

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Paneer Badam Phirni

Ingredients

  • Paneer – 1 cup, crumbled
  • Badam – 18-20 no’s.
  • Milk – 3 ½ cups
  • Water – 1 cup
  • Sugar – 1 cup

Preparation Method

  1. Soak almonds for an hour in a cup of water.
  2. Microwave on

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Tender Coconut Soufflé

Ingredients

  • Milkmaid – 400 gms
  • Tender Coconut water – 5 cups
  • Gelatin – 3 tbsps

Preparation Method

  1. Dissolve gelatin in ½ cup of coconut water over a pan of hot water.
  2. Mix milkmaid into dissolved gelatin.
  3. In

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Mini Masala Rava Idli

Ingredients

For Making Mini Rava Idlis
  • Sooji/Rava – 1 cup
  • Curd – 1cup
  • Green chillies – 1, chopped
  • Coriander leaves – 2 sprigs, chopped
  • Eno fruit salt – 1 sachet
  • Oil – 1tsp
  • Salt to taste

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Fruit Punch

Ingredients

  • Apple juice- 1 cup
  • Pomegranate juice – ½ cup
  • Mixed fruit juice – ¾ cup
  • Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
  • Soda water – 1 cup
  • Mint leaves – 2 sprigs
  • Cinnamon powder a pinch
  • Sugar to taste

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Karimeen warathathu / Pearl Spot Fish Fry

Ingredients

  • Pearl spot Fish / Karimeen – 1 kg
  • Ginger-Garlic paste – 2 tsps
  • Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
  • Red Chilli powder – 4 tsps
  • Pepper powder – 4 tsps
  • Curry leaves – 4sprigs
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil –

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