Birthdays are always deemed to be a special day for everyone....Usually people celebrate their Birthday by cutting a cake and having a big party by calling in their friends and close ones......but in my case it's different ....in our family one thing was always important.....the first thing you should do on your bithday morning is to go to the church,it's only after that we think about the rest of the things....after all we should thank first the one who send you to this planet and the one who protects you from everything, right!
Then comes Food.........aahh....the best thing i like about birthdays ....i remember during my childhood days my Grandma used to make birthday special dishes ....for breakfast,lunch and dinner.wish i could go back to those days.i would like to share some of those special birthday recipes that my Grandma prepared for our family and also i'd also like to share a dessert recipe called Peach Cobbler which was suggested to me by a dear friend of mine for this year's birthday....would recommend everyone who have'nt tried this dessert...to try out this dessert atleast one time....'cause guys this dessert's gonna be an all-time fav once you have tried it..when she messaged me the recipe first i thought it could be a difficult dessert recipe...as i've never heard about it before....but honestly speaking it was pretty easy to make ....can be even made by a 12 year old also!!just take a look at the picture even though it's a bit messy !!i think that this was the best birthday gift i've ever got.....
so with not much of blah blah blah...........here are some of my fav birthday recipes..
Ingredients:
1 kg chicken, cut into medium pieces and cleaned
½ tsp pepper corns, 4 cardamoms, 4-5 cloves, 1 inch piece cinnamon, 2 tbsp fennel seeds,
2 medium onions, sliced into thin long slices
1 carrot, cubed
2 potatoes, cubed
1 inch piece of ginger, julienned
6 cloves garlic, julienned
4-5 green chilies, slit lengthwise
1½ tsp vinegar
1 cup thick coconut milk
2-3 cups thin coconut milk
1 tsp cornflour
4 tbsps Coconut oil
a few curry leaves
Salt, to taste
Method:
1. Heat oil in a vessel large enough to hold the chicken.
2. Splutter black pepper, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and fennel seeds in this order. Make sure the spices do not burn or you would have to start fresh.
3. Saute the ginger, garlic for a few seconds. Then saute the onions till they are tender. Toss in the carrot and potatoes, and after a couple of minutes, add the chicken pieces, and half the curry leaves. Mix everything together and add salt.
4. Pour in the thin coconut milk, so that the chicken is completely covered with milk. Cover and cook, stirring once in a while, till the chicken is completely done. Adjust seasoning.
5. Dissolve the cornflour in the thick coconut milk. Once chicken is completely cooked, add the coconut milk and heat till the gravy just begins to boil. Remove from fire.
6. Add the remaining curry leaves, and vinegar, and mix well.
Enjoy your hot appam and creamy stew.
Peach Cobbler: [i'm just copy-pasting the recipe that was messaged to me ]
1 cup self-rising flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup milk
¼ cup melted butter
3 ½ cups peeled & sliced fresh peaches (you can also use canned peaches but just use half the juice from
the can)
ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, and milk.
Pour melted butter into a 13x9 inch glass baking dish. Pour batter evenly over butter.
Place peach slices over batter. Sprinkle peaches with cinnamon.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with homemade whipped cream or ice cream. You can also use other fruit for the cobbler like blackberries, cherries, or apples.you can aslo serve it with fresh ice-cream and plum cake..
hope you all will try out the recipes..saab kuch bhulake just cook!!
Then comes Food.........aahh....the best thing i like about birthdays ....i remember during my childhood days my Grandma used to make birthday special dishes ....for breakfast,lunch and dinner.wish i could go back to those days.i would like to share some of those special birthday recipes that my Grandma prepared for our family and also i'd also like to share a dessert recipe called Peach Cobbler which was suggested to me by a dear friend of mine for this year's birthday....would recommend everyone who have'nt tried this dessert...to try out this dessert atleast one time....'cause guys this dessert's gonna be an all-time fav once you have tried it..when she messaged me the recipe first i thought it could be a difficult dessert recipe...as i've never heard about it before....but honestly speaking it was pretty easy to make ....can be even made by a 12 year old also!!just take a look at the picture even though it's a bit messy !!i think that this was the best birthday gift i've ever got.....
so with not much of blah blah blah...........here are some of my fav birthday recipes..
Palappam and Chicken Stew:[my grandma's/mom's version]
For Palappam[it can be compared to Pancake ,but it does'nt taste like a Pancake]
Ingredients:
2 cups rice
2 tbsp cooked rice
1 tsp yeast
1 tsp sugar
3 cups coconut milk, made from half a grated coconut
½ cup lukewarm water
Method:
1. Soak the rice in water for 4-5 hours.
2. Grind the soaked rice, cooked rice, and coconut milk together.
3. Combine yeast, sugar and lukewarm water in a bowl, cover and stand in a warm place for about 10 minutes or until the mixture is frothy.
4. Mix the yeast mixture long with the ground rice, and let it ferment for around eight hours. The batter should be ready now. If the batter is too thick, you can add some more coconut milk, or warmed milk.
5. Heat the palappa chatti. A palappa chatti is a metal vessel used to make palappams, and resembles a small wok. If not using a nonstick pan, apply some oil on the chatti so that the palappams do not stick to it.
6. Pour some batter (around 6 tbsps) onto the centre of the chatti, and swirl the chatti around once. Swirling creates the lace of the palappam, and the remainder of the batter settles in the centre to form the soft mound. Cover and cook for 3-4 minutes, till the centre is completely cooked. Once the first palappam is done, you can adjust the heat to make perfect lacy appams.
7. Remove and serve hot.
Chicken Stew:
Ingredients:1 kg chicken, cut into medium pieces and cleaned
½ tsp pepper corns, 4 cardamoms, 4-5 cloves, 1 inch piece cinnamon, 2 tbsp fennel seeds,
2 medium onions, sliced into thin long slices
1 carrot, cubed
2 potatoes, cubed
1 inch piece of ginger, julienned
6 cloves garlic, julienned
4-5 green chilies, slit lengthwise
1½ tsp vinegar
1 cup thick coconut milk
2-3 cups thin coconut milk
1 tsp cornflour
4 tbsps Coconut oil
a few curry leaves
Salt, to taste
Method:
1. Heat oil in a vessel large enough to hold the chicken.
2. Splutter black pepper, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and fennel seeds in this order. Make sure the spices do not burn or you would have to start fresh.
3. Saute the ginger, garlic for a few seconds. Then saute the onions till they are tender. Toss in the carrot and potatoes, and after a couple of minutes, add the chicken pieces, and half the curry leaves. Mix everything together and add salt.
4. Pour in the thin coconut milk, so that the chicken is completely covered with milk. Cover and cook, stirring once in a while, till the chicken is completely done. Adjust seasoning.
5. Dissolve the cornflour in the thick coconut milk. Once chicken is completely cooked, add the coconut milk and heat till the gravy just begins to boil. Remove from fire.
6. Add the remaining curry leaves, and vinegar, and mix well.
Enjoy your hot appam and creamy stew.
Peach Cobbler: [i'm just copy-pasting the recipe that was messaged to me ]
1 cup self-rising flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup milk
¼ cup melted butter
3 ½ cups peeled & sliced fresh peaches (you can also use canned peaches but just use half the juice from
the can)
ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, and milk.
Pour melted butter into a 13x9 inch glass baking dish. Pour batter evenly over butter.
Place peach slices over batter. Sprinkle peaches with cinnamon.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with homemade whipped cream or ice cream. You can also use other fruit for the cobbler like blackberries, cherries, or apples.you can aslo serve it with fresh ice-cream and plum cake..
hope you all will try out the recipes..saab kuch bhulake just cook!!
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