Chilli Paneer

Ingredients:

1. Paneer                                      : 250 gms
2. Salt                                           : 2 tsp
3. Egg                                           : 1
4. Corn flour                                 : 1/2 cup
5. Ginger-Garlic paste                   : 1 tsp
6. Onion                                       : 2 cups ?(chopped)
7. Green chillies                            : 2 tbsp (sliced)
8. Soya sauce                               : 1 tbsp
9. Vinegar                                     : 2 tbsp
10. Ajinomoto                                 : 1/4 tsp
11. Oil                                             : for frying
12. Water                                        : as required
13. Spring onion and coriander         : for garnish

Method:

• Cut the paneer into cubes. Mix together the paneer. salt, egg, corn flour, ginger-garlic paste and water to just coat the paneer pieces with the mixture.
• Heat oil in a pan and fry the paneer pieces coated with mixture till golden in color.
• Heat 2 tbsp of the oil in a work and stir fry the onions in it over high heat for half a minute.
• Add green chillies, salt, soya sauce, vinegar, ajinomoto and the fried paneer cubes.
• Mix well, and garnish the chilli paneer with finely cut spring onions and coriander.

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Erissery

Ingredients:

1. Ripe pumpkin                          : 2 cups (cut into cubes)
2. Red  oriental beans                  : 1/2 cup
3. Coconut milk                           : 1 cup
4. Oil                                           : 2 tsp
5. Dried chilli                                : 2
6. Mustard seeds                         : 1 tsp
7. Curry leaves                            : a few
8. Water                                      : as required
9. Salt                                          : to taste

For Paste:

1. Coconut                                  : 1 cup (grated)
2. Onions                                    : 1 tsp
3. Cumin seeds                            : 1/2 tsp
4. Turmeric powder                     : 1/2 tsp
5. Green chilli                              : 2 - 3
6. Garlic                                      : 2 - 3

Method:

• Soak beans overnight.
• Make paste on above ingredients.
• Cook pumpkin with beans after adding enough water and salt.
• Put the grounded paste to the pumpkin, boil for sometime till the raw smell away and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a pan, season mustard, curry leaves and dried chillies and add the thick coconut milk. Then pour it to the cooked pumpkin curry and stir well.

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Kalan

Ingredients:

1. Ripe banana                           : 1 (nendra banana is the best for kalan if available)
2. Sour curd                               : 6 cups (beaten, thick)
3. Yam / chena                           : 200 gms
4. Coconut                                 : 1 cup
5. Turmeric powder                    : 2 tsp
6. Pepper powder                      : 1 tbsp
7. Salt                                        : to taste
8. Red chillies                             : 3 - 4
9. Green chillies                          : 2 - 3
10. Mustard seeds                        : 1 tbsp
11. Methi seeds                            : 1 tsp
12. Curry leaves                            : a few
13. Coconut oil                             : for seasoning

Method:

• Wash and cut the vegatables into pieces, they should be thick.
• Grind the coconut and cumin to a smooth paste without adding water, keep it aside.
• Fry the methi seeds to a golden brown in a drop of oil and grind to a fine powder and keep aside .
• In 1/2 cup of water dissolve the pepper powder and strain it through a clean cloth. 
• Cook the vegetables in this water with turmeric powder and salt. When the water dries, add  1 tsp ghee and add the beaten sour curd to the cooked vegetables and boil, stirring occasionally, until the gravy is thickened.
• Add the grinded coconut mixture and fenugreek powder into it and bring the gravy to boil stirring continuously. 
• Remove the gravy from flame.
• Heat oil in another pan, add mustard seeds leave it to splutter, then add the red chillies broken into halves and curry leaves and season the gravy with it.

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