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Kadumanga achar ( mango pickle)

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Ingredients Raw Mango - 2 Greenchilly - 2 Curry leaves Red chilli powder - 2 tbsp Crushed mustard seeds - 1 tbsp Fenugreek powder - 1 tsp Salt to taste Garlic - 4 cloves Boiled cooled water - 1/2 cup Preparation Cut the mangoes into small pieces. Heat the red chillypowder .in to the mangoes add salt , red chilli powder, chopped greenchilly, mustards crushed, garlic cloves ,fenugreek powder, curry leaves and mix well .keep it in a dry container and add half a cup of boiled and cooled water.

Parippu vada

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Ingredients Chanadal - 1/2 cup Toor dal - 1/2 cup (else you can take 1 cup chana dal only) Redchilly - 5 to 6 Onion 2 Curry leaves Salt to taste Oil for frying Preparation Soak the dals for 6 hrs. Grind it along with one or two red chilly , one onion salt and curry leaves.no need to grind more.. add more curry leaves and remaing red chilli snd onion and just crush it.take lemon size ball and press and deep fry it.

Veg .Schezwan noodles

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Ingredient s Hakka noodles - 200 gms Oil - 3 tbsp Onion - 1  medium sliced thinly Ginger and garlic - 3 tbspn finely chopped Green chillies -3 slits Carrot -1 finely chopped Beans - 1/2 cup finely chopped Cabbage and capsicum - 1 cup each Schezwan sauce -1 /2 cup Salt to taste Sugar - 1 tsp Spring onion a hand ful Preparation 1st we have to cook the noodles    Bring lots ofsalted water in a sauce pan.bring to boil add the noodles and cook  as per package instruction. Drain it and toss it with a tbsp of oil.set aside till use. Heat oil in a wok .add onions green chillies , ginger and garlic. Saute on a high heat for a min. Add carrot beans cabbage and toss well on high heat for 8 mins till its cooked. Add capsicum and saute again for a minute.   Add salt and sugar. Mix well. Add Schezwan sauce in it and mix well. Then add cooked noodles and toss well. Fry this for few minuted till the noodles are tossed.. Add spring onions and mix well. Serve hot.

Schezwan sauce

Ingredients Dry red chillies - 30 Garlic - 20 cloves crushed Ginger -4 tbsp grated Tomato ketchup -3 tbsp Soya sauce -1 tbsp Salt to taste Black pepper powder - 1 tbsp Sugar - 1 tsp Oil - 1/4 cup Preparation Take redchillies and cut the top open. Remove the seeds out. Now take the chillies and add it to a saucepan. Add 1 cup of water and bring it to boil.simmer for 5 mins. By this time the chillies must have plumped up.drain chillies .reserve the water. Take chillies in a blender add reserved water slowly and make them in to paste. Now heat oil in a saucepan.  Add garlic and ginger in tto it. Saute for a couple of minutes. Now add the chilli paste and mix well. Then add ketchup, soya sauce salt sugar and pepper.mix well. Simmer sauce for 5 to 7 mind. Sauce is ready..cool and store in a container.

Chilly chicken

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Ingredients Chicken - 1/2 kg Cornflour - 1 cup Salt Kashmiri chilly powder -1/2 tsp Chilly sauce - 2 tbsp Tomato sauce - 2 tbsp Onion - 2 big (square pieces Green chilli - 5 nos Capsicum - 2 Spring onion Oil Preparation Marinate the chicken with salt. In a bowl take a cup of cornflour half a  tspn of kashmiri chilly power mix well. Marinated chicken pices dip in to the flour and deep fry it and keep a side. In another pan heat some oil and add the cubed onion and saute well then green chilly and capsicum ssute it and add the fried chicken pieces. Add the sauces into it.and mix well and cook for 2 minutes..finally add some spring onions.

Oats dates ladoo

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Ingredients Oats - 1 cup Dates - 5, 6 big Jaggery - 1 or 2 blocks Grated coconut -1 /2 cup Preparation Roast the oats till its colour slightly changes.keep aside.cut the dates in to small pieces. In a mixer grinder add the roasted oats dates jaggery grated and grated coconut and crush well and mix well..make lemon sized balls.

Chemmeen moilee (prawns moilee)

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Ingredients Prawns - 1/ 2 kg Salt Turmeric powder- 1 tsp Chilly powder - 1 tbsp Onion - 3 big (slice thin) Tomato - 2 medium Green chilli -3 cut lengthwise Ginger garlic crushed - 2 tsp Coconut milk thick - 1 cup Coconut milk thin - 2 cup Garam masala - 1 tsp Pepper powder - 1 tsp Coriander leaves Curry leaves Oil Preparation Marinate the cleaned prawns with salt turmeric powder and chilly powder.shallow fry the prawns and keep aside. In the same pan add some more oil and saute the onion till it becomes translucent. Then add ginger garlic green chilly and curry leaves.saute again well. Add tomato followed by garam masala pepper powder . When the tomatoes become mushy add fried prawns and the thin coconut milk.check the salt and add .cook well.. then add thick coconut milk and flame off before its started boiling.. Finally garnish with coriander leaves.