Crispy Fried Chicken (not KFC)

 

If you like fried chicken this is it! With a crunch to the batter and the spices it makes a great snack or a main meal. In this I tried in a different way of fried chicken using smashed potato over it. Definitely you will like it, there is no need to stand in a Q in KFC, MB or MAC

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg chicken wings
• 6 potatoes, boiled
• 1 packet cottage cheese, grated
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
• 1 tsp red chili, crushed
• 1 tsp white pepper
• 1 tsp mustard powder
• salt to taste
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• oil for frying

Process:

• Wash chicken wings and pat dry.
• Place chicken wings in a large bowl.
• Add ginger garlic paste, soy sauce and salt.
• Leave it for 30 minutes then steam cook without adding water.
• Peel potatoes and mash them properly.
• Add white pepper, salt, black pepper, cottage cheese and mustard powder in mashed potatoes. Mix well.
• Grease your hand with little oil.
• Take some of potato mixture in your hand, flatten and put a chicken wing in center of it.
• Cover wings.
• Then dip each wing in beaten egg.
• Now roll in bread crumbs.
• Heat oil in a deep pan over medium high heat.
• Fry wings in hot oil for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
• Chicken Wings Kay Drumsticks are ready to serve.
• Enjoy with tomato ketchup.

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Drumstick Chicken

A Healthy Recipe And A Perfect Alternate To Fried Chicken. This is one flavorful baked chicken drumstick recipe that is perfect for your next family dinner. Spicy chicken drumsticks can be a wonderful low carb snack, or a low carb meal! There are times when you need a little bit of spice in your life and more so when you are on the low carb diet.

Ingredients:

• 6 Chicken Drumsticks
• 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
• 2 tbsp All-purpose flour (maida)
• 2 tbsp corn flour
• 2 eggs (beaten)
• 1/4 tsp pepper / chili powder
• A pinch of sugar
• Salt To Taste
• 1 tbsp Soya sauce
• Oil for frying

Process:

• In a bowl add Soya sauce, ginger-garlic paste, sugar.
• Add chicken wings coat well and set aside for 1/2 hour.
• Make a smooth batter by adding corn flour, all purpose flour, salt, pepper and beat in the eggs .
• Heat oil in a wok / kadhai.
• Dip each wing in the batter and coat evenly and deep fry the drumsticks till golden brown.
• Serve chicken drumsticks hot with thin slices of onions and lemon.

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chettinad chicken

Chettinadu cuisine, for those of you who are not familiar, is famous for its hot, spicy non vegetarian dishes. Well there are some of my favorite vegetarian dishes too. But the non veg dishes get more predominance from the many hotels that have sprung up in recent times in the city. Chettinadu Chicken is one of the most sought of curry in this section.

Ingredients:

·         1kg Chicken

·         2 tsp Poppy seeds

·         1/2 Grated coconut

·         1 tsp Fennel seeds

·         1 tsp Coriander seeds

·         1/2 tsp Cumin seeds

·         6-8 no. Whole red chilies

·         1" stick Cinnamon

·         3 no. Green cardamom

·         2 no. Cloves

·         1/2 tsp Turmeric powder

·         1 no. Onion, large

·         2 tsp Ginger, chopped

·         2 tsp Garlic, chopped

·         1/2 Star anise

·         1 tsp Red chili powder

·         3 no. Tomatoes, medium

·         1 no. Lemon

·         10-12 no. Curry leaves

·         Fresh coriander Garnish.

·         1/2 cup Oil

·         Salt To Taste

Process:

• Clean the chicken, remove the skin and cut into small pieces.
• Chop the onions and tomatoes separately.
• Roast the whole red chilies, grated coconut, poppy seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, green cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, star anise, fennel seeds in oil and grind to a paste for 20mts along with ginger and garlic.
• Heat oil in a vessel and fry the onions till golden, then add curry leaves and the ground paste and sauté for some time.
• Add the tomatoes, red chili powder and turmeric powder and sauté.
• Add the chicken, mix and cook for 5 minutes and then add 2 cups of water and lemon juice.
• Cover and cook till the chicken is done.
• Serve chicken chettinad hot garnished with coriander leaves and accompanied with boiled rice, rotis or tandoori naan .

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Mutton chuka

This is an unavoidable recipie in each and every Non-veg hotels in tamilnadu. Why don’t u try it in home. And I am sure you will definitely get a word of appreciation from the one who taste your preparation. My daughter who refuses to take mutton had it lip smacking with his favorite curd rice and I am sure your kids and family will relish its taste

Here is how the preparation goes.

Ingredients

• Mutton-500(1/2 kg) gms
• Minced small onion-300-400gms(chinna venkayam or ulli-If more onion is added it gives good taste)
• Tomato 2
• Ginger garlic paste-1-2 teaspoon
• Corriander powder(thania podi)-3 teaspoon
• Garam masala (Kuzhambu milagai Thool)-3 teaspoons
• Turmeric powder(manjal podi)-1/2 teaspoon
• Garlic Chopped(poondu)-5 pods

To Fry

• Gingely or ground nut oil
• Cinamon(pattai)-2 small pieces
• Clove(kirambu)-2
• Bay leaf-a small piece
• Curry leaf(karu veppalai) -few stigs
• Fennel seed(perunjerakam)-1 teaspoon

Grind the following ingredients

• Grated coconut-half the coconut(I prefer more coconut for taste if you are diet consicious you can reduce it).

Note:You can also add as thenka pal(conout milk prepated from grinding coconut in mixie nd mixing little water and filtering out to get thenka pal or coconut milk) instead of adding water.It has a sweet and spicy incredible taste if you add thenkapal believe me.

• Cashews- 2 tsp
• Fennel seeds(perunjerrakam)-1 teaspoon

Method

• Cut the mutton into Small pieces and clean it thoroughly with plenty of water.
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• In a kadai add 2 tsp of groundnut or gingely oil,onion(do not use of all the onions use say about 2 tsp),garlic and saute it till they become golden brown then add coriander powder followed by kulambu millagai thool and chilli powder and now time add up the mutton and saute for two minutes, Now pressure cook the mutton by adding water or thenkapal till the mutton get immersed add 2 pinch of tumeric and salt into it and wait for the first whistle keeping it in high flame,once you get the first whistle lower the fame and leave the pan for 10 minutes in sim and after 10 minutes turn off.
• In the mean time grind the items given in the ingredients,that is coconut ,fennel seeds and cashew nuts add little water to make it a smooth paste.
• Now again take a kadai and add little oil(preferably gingely oil)then add cinnamon,clove bay leaf and saute it,now add the rest of onions ,curry leaf and fry till golden brown and then add tomatoes and saute them for about 3-5 minutes depending on texture of the tomatoes,now transfer this int o the pressure pan where we have cooked the mutton pieces for 10 minutes if required add more salt and kulambu millagai thool and chili powder.Give it a good stir until the gravy becomes thick keep stirring for five minutes.Once you are happy with the Chukka remove form flame and you can now transfer it in a serving bowl.

Ya...you are done with a incredible traditional,lip smacking ,yummy,tempting mutton chukka ready on the table.Ahh..and people at home must be waiting irresistible to taste it from it great aroma spread all the home.

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Home pregnancy test

Home pregnancy tests are too much excitement to take but you have to remember some important things. First you must know your body and its timing. One thing you may very well know getting wrong answer by using home pregnancy test too quickly. Your body requires for building up sufficient pregnancy hormone (HCG) to proper screen it on test.

Below 25 HCG many pregnancy tests fail to detect. For this fact, it’s recommended that you should wait at least one week until your period late. There are many different tests that make known there capabilities to report if you are in pregnant condition, just before your five days expected period. Hence, women never face such type of cycle; some case too early may prove for some women. The common average of women cycle is twenty-eight days, but some women have shorter or longer cycle periods, starting from twenty-five day to thirty-two days.

Ovulates time of every woman very in their cycles. 12-14 days are the average ovulate period of women and some women experience in between this period, yet other wait until the end of cycles, or some women experience ovulate very earlier . . . while few women ovulate during their period, it’s easy to understand why it’s easily to get false result. It is good option for you to take test one week after missed period. 

You can buy many varieties of home pregnancy tests. All they have special sensitivity level and read aloud. The price of these tests ranges $1 dollar minimum, $20-30 dollar maximum. Some home pregnancy tests extra come with 1-3.

Before purchasing any home pregnancy tests products read carefully the instructions of manufactures. Early morning urine is recommended, as it holds enough HCG, and you more likely to get 100$ correct result, keep patients wait up to one week or next period if you are getting unexpected test result. Go for retest again if you fail to see next period. Again if you get continuously negative result, its perfect time to consulate about your matter with doctor.

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