Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from August, 2014

Meen Kizhi / Fish Kizhi

Meen Kizhi / Fish Kizhi is a Malabar special spicy dish. This is a dry side dish and we steam cook the fish in plantain leaf along with other ingredients.  We got a chance to try this dish in a food fest, but didn't get the recipe from there.. :( After an elaborated search, I got a recipe of Meen Kizhi, but that doesn't contain coconut. The one we had was having coconut, small onion and all... So I modified the recipe in my own way to get the same taste of that we had.... Luckily, that was a great success.... Sharing with you the Meen Kizhi recipe that I modified and tried.... :) Ingredients Fish (soft fleshed, preferably bone-less) - 1/2 kg Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp Tamarind - 1 Gooseberry size (here we are using the tamarind, which we use in sambar and dry coconut chutney) Small Onion /Shallots (finely chopped)  - 1 cup Grated Coconut - 1 cup Garlic - 2 pod (chopped) Ginger (chopped) - 1 tbsp Green Chilli - 2-3 nos: (chopped) Crushed Pepper - 1 tbsp Crushed Red Ch

Cherry-Coconut Muffins

Cherry-Coconut Muffins is best suite for kids as a snack. The main attraction while baking the muffin is the pleasant and tempting aroma of coconut. The whole house will be filled with amazing aroma of coconut..... Try out and Enjoy!!!!!!!!! Ingredients Maida (all-purpose Flour) -2  cups  Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp Salt - a pinch Butter (in room temp) - 100 gms:  Cherry - 100 gms (pitted and chopped) Grated Coconut - 1 cup Coconut Milk - 1.5 cup  Egg - 2 nos: Sugar - 1/2 cup Preparation Method Sieve together maida, baking powder, baking soda and salt and keep aside. Preheat the oven at 230 degree C. Roast the coconut in low flame for about 5 mins: (make sure that the white color should remain, only the water has to get evaporate). Or else you can use store bought desiccated coconut. Cut butter into small pieces and add to the dry ingredients. Mix together dry ingredients and butter with your fingers, till it resembles like bread crumbs. B