Nov

17

Crab Curry

Ingredients:-

1 ½ kilo crab (Clean and cut into two).
1 large onion (cut into wedges).
4 table spoon curry powder.
1 large tomato cut into 4.
50 gm tamarind with 1200 ml water.(squeeze , remove seeds and retain the tamarind juice)
7~8 table spoon cooking oil.
Salt to taste.

Blend to paste
30 gm ginger.
8~10 cloves garlic

Methods:

1. In a wok, slowly heat up the cooking oil and fry the onion until fragrant.
2. Add tomato together with the blended paste and cook for a minute.
3. Then add the crab and salt.
4. Stir well and let it cook for 3~4 minutes.
5. Add the curry powder with 100 ml of the tamarind juice and stir well and cook for about 5 min.
6. Then pour all the remaining tamarind juice and cook for 15~20 minute
7. Remove from heat and serve with white rice.

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Jul

23

Prawn Sambal

prawn

Ingredients
1. 1 kg medium sized prawns, shell and devein.
2. 1 or 2 potato cut into cube 1cm by 1cm
3. 5~10 pcs of curry leaves
4. 6~8 table spoon of cooking oil.
5. 1 big onion (cut slice)
6. 1 pc medium size of tomato cut into 4.
7. Small pulp of tamarind (extract the juice with 50 ml of water)
8. 100 ml of water
9. Salt to taste

grind to a paste :
20~25 dried chilies
½ onion
3~4 cloves of garlic
Tomato ½
50 ml water

Method
1. Heat the oil in frying pan and fry onion until it turns to yellowish.
2. Then add in the grinded paste and mix well. When it is fragrant add curry leaves and stir.
3. Next add the tomato, potato and salt to taste. Add 50 ml plain water and stir well.
4. Next add the prawn and stir well and let it cook for 3~5 minutes under slow fire.
5. Then add the tamarind juice and stir well.
6. Taste it and make sure the potato is cooked before turn off the fire.

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Jul

4

Sweet Appam

Ingredients

  1. 500 gm rice
  2. Coconut – 1 (grated)
  3. Sugar 4~5 table spoon.
  4. Salt 1 tea spoon.
  5. Water 1000 ml. (500ml for thick milk & 500ml for thin milk)
  6. 5 table spoon of cooked white rice.
  7. 1/6 tea spoon yeast.

Method :

  1. Get 500 ml of thick and thin coconut milk.(keep separately)
  2. Soak 500 gm rice for ½ day with plain water.
  3. Wash the soaked rice 3~4 times and drain the water.
  4. Put the rice, yeast, salt and add 100 ml of thick milk and 100 ml of thin milk and grind(blender) till fine.
  5. Pour the mixture into a suitable pot and keep it for another 4~5 hours.
  6. Boil the balance coconut (thin & thick milk) approximately 800ml by adding in some sugar according to taste, in small fire and remove when the milk is boiled.
  7. Heat up the small size wok once its heated up pour a scope(approximately 5 table spoon) of the mixture on to the wok lift it up and make a 360o turn to get a round shape. Cover and leave it for 1~ 2 minutes in small fire.
  8. Remove the sweet appam by using a knife.
  9. Serve the sweet appam with the boiled coconut milk.

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