Prawns Fry

Ingredients

Prawns - 500 grams
Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
Red chili powder - 2 teaspoon
Shallots - 8
Ginger - 1 medium
Garlic - 7
Curry leaves
Tomato ketchup - 1 teaspoon
Water - 1/2 cup
Salt
Oil

First marinate prawns with little salt, turmeric powder and red chili powder in a bowl. Keep it for 10 - 15 minutes. Meanwhile, add, shallots, ginger and garlic in a mixer. And just grind it. We need thick mixture and not a fine one. Use Ammi Stone if you have it at home. Its a traditional method to use small ammi stone to mash shallots, ginger and garlic which will give us the real flavor instead of using ginger garlic paste.

Now take a pan with water and heat it. Add prawns to it and cook this for 5 minutes by covering the lid. Add mashed shallots, ginger, garlic and curry leaves to this. Mix really well. Cook it for two minutes. Finally add little oil and after couple of minutes add tomato ketchup. Prawns fry is my all time favorite especially this recipe since we are using ginger, garlic and shallots. It is so yummy and gives a different flavor all together. Please try it out.

Upma (Rava)

Ingredients

Rava - 1 cup
Green chilly -3
Onion - 1
Ginger - 1 small
Mustard seeds - 1/ 2 teaspoon
Salt
Water - 1 1/2 cup
Oil - 1 teaspoon
Ghee - 1/2 teaspoon

In a pan, start by adding oil. Once oil is hot, add mustard seeds, curry leaves and green chilies and chopped ginger. Now add finely sliced onion and saute it until it turns golden brown in color.

Add one n half cup water with little salt in it. Let it boil for one or two minutes. Slowly add one cup Rava to this and close the lid. Let it cook for three to four minutes. In between  keep stirring it so that entire Rava is cooked properly. Finally add ghee on top of it and serve. Its is also known as Upma, an easy and a traditional south Indian dish for breakfast. 

Egg Omelette

Ingredients

Egg -3
Onion - 1
Green chilly - 2
Pepper powder - 1/2 teaspoon
Oil
Salt

In a bowl, beat eggs with little salt and pepper. Now add finely chopped onions and green chilies  to this. Beat well. Now in a pan, add little oil. Once oil is hot, add this egg mixture in the pan. And cook both sides for couple of minutes. Very simple egg omelets is all set to have. :)

Dal Curry (Parippu Curry)

Ingredients

Dal - 1 cup
Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
Green chilly - 4
Turmeric powder - 1 teaspoon
Shallots - 7
Salt
Oil
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves

In a pressure cooker, cook dal with 2 cups of water for 3 whistles. Keep it aside. Heat a pan. Add little oil. Once oil is hot, add mustard seeds and mashed shallots. Saute it until shallots become light brown color. Finally add curry leaves and coriander leaves. Mix this with cooked dal. Dal curry is ready. It is so simple recipe and tasty as well. It goes well with rice. 

Whenever  I feel little lazy, I normally go for dal curry which is easy to make and tasty as always. Also, am a big fan of Bengali dal tadka which is bit different  from this I guess. Need to try out the recipe one day from my Bengali friends Subh n Sush :)