Orange carrot drink
Ingredients
Carrot juice: 2 cups
Orange juice: 1 cup
Lime juice: 2 tsp
Honey: 4 tbsp
Ice cubes: 1 cup
Mint leaves: 4-5 leaves for garnishing
Method
Put all the ingredients, except mint leaves into a shaker and shake well. Pour this into a glass and garnish with mint leaves.
Appam
Ingredients
Raw rice: 2 cups
Boiled rice: 1 cup
Yeast: 1 tsp
Sugar: 5 tsp
Luke warm water: 1/4 cup
Coconut: 1/2 cup
Water: as required
Salt to taste
Method
Soak rice for about six hours. Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water with sugar. Grind soaked rice to a smooth paste with enough water and add coconut and grind then add boiled rice and grind Mix this with fermented yeast and enough water. Keep this about six hours. When it is completely fermented, make appams.
Chicken kuruma
Ingredients
Chicken: 500 gm
Ghee: 1 tbsp
Onion: 1 cup, sliced
Cloves: 6
Cardamom: 4
Cinnamon: 1 inch piece
Turmeric powder: 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder: 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder: 1 tsp
Ginger: 1 tsp
Garlic: 1 tsp
Coconut: 1/4 cup
Cashew nuts: 12
Curd (not sour): 1/4 cup
Green chilli: 5, cut into halves
Thick coconut milk: 1/2 cup
Hot water if required
Salt to taste
Method
Add coconut, cashew nuts and curd in a small chutney jar of grinder. Grind them to make a thick paste and keep aside. Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed pan. Add cloves, cardamom and cinnamon sauté them for 15 seconds. Then, add ginger and garlic and sauté well. Add onion slices and green chillies. Sauté until light brown. Add chilli powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder. Mix well and sauté until raw taste goes. Add chicken pieces and cook. Add cashew, curd, coconut paste and stir well. Cook for a minute. Add thick coconut milk and hot water if required. Serve hot with appam.
Coffee custard pudding
Ingredients for base
Marie biscuits (crushed): 2 1/2 cups
Sugar: 1 tsp
Butter: 1/2 cup
Ingredients for topping
Condensed milk: 1 tin
Milk: 2 and a half cup
China grass: 10 gm
Water: 1 and a half cup
Sugar: 5 tbsp
Nescafe: 4 tbsp
Method
Base
Melt butter in a pan. Take the pan off the flame and add crushed biscuit and sugar. Mix well. Line a pudding dish with this mixture. Refrigerate
Topping
In a vessel, mix condensed milk, two cups milk (keep aside half a cup of milk to mix the coffee powder) and sugar. Heat the mixture on a slow fire. Soak China grass in water and boil until the China grass is dissolved. Mix this to the milk-milkmaid mixture. While mixing, make sure that the China grass and the milk mixture should be in the same temperature. Mix well.
Mix Nescafe to the half cup of milk which had been kept aside and add this to the milk and China grass mixture. Pour this slowly over the prepared biscuit base. Let it rest in the refrigerator for three hours.
