Kadalai Urundai / Peanut Balls

     According to me Kadalai Urundai = Everyone's childhood (G)Olden memories. Yes, there will be noone especially southindians, who never tasted this during their childhood days. I am a big big crazy fan of "Peanut Balls". Generally you know my way of eating this, it will bit Yuck but still will not leave without telling this :) First will lick completely the outer portion which is the jaggery, if i keep on do that, the peanut will automatically get loosen and finally will start chewing the peanut.. He he... Even now i follow this ;) Without taking much of your time, here comes everyone's favorite "Kadalai Urundai"

ALL YOU NEED:

Roasted Peanut	1 cup
Jaggery	1 cup
Cardamom Powder	Pinch
Dry ginger Powder	Pinch
Warm Water	1/2 cup
Salt	Pinch
Oil	To grease hands

METHOD:
     Take a bowl mix both jaggery and 1/2 cup of warm water. Keep mixing until the jaggery gets dissolved. Now take a non-stick pan, pour the jaggery syrup by filtering it. Let it boil, add dry ginger powder, cardamom powder and pinch of salt, just to enhance the sweetness. Keep on stirring inbetween. To check jaggery consistency, take a water in a small bowl, place a drop of jaggery mixture into the small bowl. If you could able to make it as small balls. Its the perfect texture. Put off the flame. Add the roasted and skinless peanuts, mix well with the jaggery syrup until it all coats the peanuts. Now grease your hand with oil, take some peanuts and make it as balls. Be careful, the mixture will be too hot. If its become hard to make balls, keep the pan in flame for 2 mins, it will get loosen. Now keep repeating the process. Store it in air tight container.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Chicken Pepper Fry

     Being a beginner in cooking and eating non-veg items, me started trying new non-veg dishes at home. I should say this is one among them. Yes, i looted this recipe from my mom who is a big chef in all non-veg items (Shame on me is it :P) Actually she use to prepare this using Kaadai/Quail so thought why i shouldn't try this using Chicken. So, tried it and now its for your views.

ALL YOU NEED:

Chicken	1/4 kg
Capsicum	1/4 cup
Coriander Leaf	1/2 cup
Turmeric Powder	Pinch
Green Chilly	1 No.
Fennel Seeds	1/2 spoon
Curry Leaf	1 Twig
Mustard	1/2 spoon
Salt	To Taste
Oil	1 spoon

To Roast and Grind:

Shallots	6 Nos.
Fennel Seeds	1/2 spoon
Cinnamon	1/2 inch
Cardamom	1 No.
Garlic	4 cloves
Ginger	1 inch
Pepper	1 spoon
Cloves	3 Nos.
Oil	1 spoon

METHOD:
     Roast and grind ingredients under "To Roast and Grind" to a fine paste and keep aside. Keep a pan, heat spoon of oil, add mustard, once it cracks, add fennel seeds and pour the grinded mixture, turmeric powder and pinch of salt, saute it for 1 mins. Now add the chicken pieces and sprinkle some water, cover the pan with lid, let it be in flame until the chicken and raw smell goes off. Once done, take off the lid, let the flame in simmer, dry roast the chicken by adding capsicum (its purely optional), when it becomes dry, adjust with salt and add chopped coriander leaf, curry leaf and slited chilly. Saute it until you get the nice aroma of curry leaf and green chilly. All done. Serve with Roti or hot steamed rice.

Note: If you need some gravy, you can add coconut along with shallots while roasting.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Mixed Batter Paniyaram

     As a routine work, will start banging my head to find out the dinner dish. I should day that was a BIG banging day. Yes, i was running out of Idly/Dosai Batter and even the wheat flour. I got a cup of idly batter, another cup of Adai batter and a cup of wheat flour. As my DH is not lover of Upma varieties so am totally clueless on what to prepare for our dinner having with the leftovers alone. Suddenly i called my friend and was asking her to suggest something for dinner. As my savior, she gave this idea and am totally relieved. Here comes my new excavated recipe.

ALL YOU NEED:

Idly Batter	1 cup
Adai Batter	1 cup
Wheat Flour	1 cup
Chopped Onion	1 No.
Chopped Ginger	2 spoons
Bengal Gram	3 spoons
Green Chilly	2 Nos.
Cumin Seeds	1 spoon
Curry Leaf	2 Twigs
Urad Dhall	4 spoons
Mustard	1/2 spoon
Salt	To Taste
Oil	4 spoons

METHOD:
     Take a wide bowl, mix wheat flour with water by adding pinch of salt. Make sure there is no lumps. Now add both left over batters i.e. idly and adai batter, Mix well. Let it sit for a while. Heat 2 spoons of oil in a pan, add mustard, when it cracks, add urad dhall, bengal gram. When it turns golden brown, add chopped ginger, green chilly and curry leaf. Saute for 1 min. Now add fine chopped onion and pinch of salt. Saute until it becomes translucent. Once done, add cumin seeds, give quick stir and put off the flame. Let it cool. Meantime, heat paniyaram pan by adding some oil in each holes. Now add onion mixture to the batter and give hard stir. Adjust with salt. When the paniyaram pan, gets heated, pour the batter to the each holes occupying 3/4 of the holes. Cover it with a lid for 2 mins. Now toss it carefully to the other side. Let it be in medium flame until it gets cooked. Once done take out from the pan and serve hot with chutney.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬