Achu's Recipes

Ingredients Rice Flour - 2 cups Prawns - 1/2 Kg Chilli Powder - 1 tbsp Ginger - 1 tsp (finely chopped) Garlic - - 1 tsp (finely chopped) Grated Coconut - 1 cup Oil - 3 tbsp Mustard Seeds- 1/2 tsp Salt - as required Curry Leaves - as required (chopped) Banana Leaves - as required (cut into palm size pieces) Preparation Method Boil 3 cups of water with enough salt; add rice flour, mix well and switch off the flame and keep aside to cool down. In a wok bring oil to heat, splutter mustard seeds. Add ginger, garlic, curry leaves and saute. Add onion and saute till onion become slight brown in color. Add chilli powder and saute for 2mins: in low flame. Add prawns (if prawns is big in size, chop them), add 1/4 cup water, mix well and cook till prawns are done (about 5 mins:). Add grated coconut to the cooked prawns and saute till the water evaporates completely. In a steamer bring water to boil. Mix the rice flour well with your hands to make a smooth dough and m...

Ingredients Bread - 7-8 slices Butter - 2 tsp Egg - 2 nos: Milk - 1 cup Milkmaid - 200 ml Dry Fruits (Cashew, Raisins, Almond, Pista) - 1 cup (chopped) Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tsp Preparation Method Remove the sides of bread and cut into cubes or triangles. Apply butter on both the sides of bread pieces and toast for 30 sec: To a blender add egg, milk, condensed milk and vanilla essence and blend well. (if you want more sweet, add 1/4 cup sugar also). Preheat the oven to 230 degree C. Apply butter on the baking tray.  Then place one layer of bread pieces in the baking tray. On the top of the bread spread some dry fruits mix. Place rest of the bread pieces on the top of the dry fruit mix and then spread the remaining dry fruits on the top. Gently pour the egg-milk mix on the top of the bread. (Make sure that the entire bread pieces are covered with the egg-milk mix). Gently press the bread down with a wooden spatula. Keep the baking tray in the oven and bake...

Ingredients Rice (Sona Masoori or Basmati) - 2 cups Plantain- 4 nos: (cut into small pieces) Jaggery - 1 block Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp Coconut (finely chopped) - 1/2 cup Ghee or Coconut Oil - as required Preparation Method Wash and soak rice for about 2-3 hrs: Melt jaggery in 1/2 cup water and keep aside. Roast the coconut in ghee and keep aside. Strain the soaked rice, remove excess water, and keep aside for about 10 mins: Add rice, plantain, and jaggery syrup to a mixer jar and grind well. The consistency of the batter should be as that of idly batter. (If you want to make more sweet add more jaggery syrup. If the batter is so thick, add coconut milk or coconut water or water to make it loose).  Keep the batter aside for about 4-5 hrs: Add roasted coconut and cardamom powder and mix well. Pour ghee or coconut oil to each hole of the appe chatti pan (unniyappa chappti). Make sure that only 3/4th of the hole is filled with oil. When the pan...

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 C...

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 re...

Ingredients Netholi / Kozhuva ( Anchovies ) - 1/2 kg (cleaned) Kudampuli ( Malabar Tamarind/ Fish Tamarind ) - 2 pieces Pear Onion / Shallot - handful (cleaned and chopped) Onion - 1 nos: ( chopped) Coconut - 1/2 (grated) Green Chili - 4-5 nos: (cut into 2-3 pieces) Ginger - 1 medium piece (finely chopped) Curry Leaves - 2-3 stems Water - 1/4 cup Coconut Oil - 2 tbsp Salt - as required Preparation Method In a clay cooking pot mix fish, kudampuli, onions, coconut, green chili, ginger, curry leaves, water and salt with hands and keep aside for 5-10 mins:. Cook in high flame till the water starts to boil. Once water starts to boil, lower the flame and close the pot with a lid (preferably clay lid). Cook for 8-10 mins, stirring once of twice. Once the fish is cooked, keep the lid open and cook for 2-3 mins: to evaporate the excess water. Switch off the flame, add some curry leaves and coconut at the top of the fish and keep the lid closed for 5-10 mins: Re...

Ingredients All Purpose Flour (Maida) - 2 cup Mango Puree - 1 cup Walnut (chopped) - 1 cup Sugar - 1 cup (powdered) Egg - 3 nos: Baking powder - 1 tsp Baking soda - 1 tsp Cinnamon powder - 1/2 tsp (optional) Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp (optional) Refined Oil- 100 ml. Preparation Method Dust the chopped walnut with 1 tbsp maida and keep aside. Preheat the oven at 350 degree F. In a bowl mix together 2 cups of flour, sugar,  baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon powder.  Beat  together the eggs, vanilla essence and oil in a large bowl.  Add dry ingredients slowly to the egg mixture and mix well. Add the mango puree and walnut and incorporate well with a wooden spatula. Grease loaf pan and pour the mixture.   Bake for 55-60 mins:, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.  Take the bread from oven and allow it cool in the pan for 10-15 mins:. Cut into slices and enjoy the delicious, crunchy home made Mango-W...