FEBI'S COOK BOOK

Have you prepared Chicken C hukka. Well, I was kind of expecting similar kind of recipe for Mutton, but ended up totally different from its Chicken version, yet tasty. This Mutton chukka recipe is thick and creamy, apt with any Indian rotis. However, the recipe is quite time consuming to make, not much, only due to extra steps involved in making it. But it is, however, worth trying. This recipe is adapted from here , which is one wonderful blog.  Sorry not to mention, all the food stuffs arranged behind this curry is my own preparation, except the Quail fry, which was my hubby's contribution. Btw, dont go overboard with the thought that I have similar kind of dinner always. This is only one rarest of rare dinners.. Hehe... Over to the recipe. Ingredients: Mutton 700gm Cloves 4-5 Black Peppercorns 7-8 Cardamom  3 Cinnamon 1 stick Bay leaf 2 Mustard oil 5tbspn Onions 3 medium chopped Ginger garlic paste 1 tspn Whole Kashmiri Red Chilies 4 Cumin Seeds 1...

The cheesy pizza makes me drool every time I come across a picture of it. The stretchy like texture of mozarella can drive any cheese lovers totally crazy. This one was made, when I was craving one so madly, and hence with available ingredients at home. The favourite toppings however are, Olives, Jalepenos and Mushrooms. Over to the recipe, Ingredients: For the pizza base: 3 cups flour 1 tbsp yeast 1 tsp sugar Warm water- 1 cup Egg 1 Milk powder 2  tbsp Oil 4 tbsp For the filling: homemade pizza sauce  or store-bought one- to spread on top of pizza Tomato ketchup- 1 tbsp Sweet corn - 1/2 cup Bell pepper- chopped- 1/4 cup Chicken- boneless- boiled and shredded- 1/2 cup Mozarella cheese- 1/2 cup Pepper powder- 1 tsp Oregano- 1 tsp Olive oil- 1 tsp Method: For the base: Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water for 15 minutes or until frothy. To the above mix, add rest of the ingredient...

Summer is approaching. The only nice part of summer is having nice cold refreshing drink. Well, I love refreshing drinks and I utilize maximum excuses to have one whenever I crave. This punch has the goodness of Pineapple, Mint, Orange and Lime, which also imparts refreshing feel to the drink too. Over to the recipe. Ingredients: \ Orange-  1 Lime- 2 Pineapple sliced- 4 slices- Mint- 1/2 cup Water, chilled- as required Sugar- As required Ice cubes- As required Method: Squeeze Orange and Lime to get juice out of it. In a blender, put all the ingredients together and blend well. Strain  the juice in a strainer. Pour in glasses with pieces of lime and mint. Serve chilled.  

Being from Malabar part of Kerala, I am so much used to wanted and unwanted customs being followed in the society. The main propaganda is serving food for every tiny little occassion and that too in a wide variety and quantity. Some of them are really useless and harming the peace of a family, while there is no option of omitting it out only because of fear what community would say. However there are some positive points. Every occassion is an excuse for family gatherings and food is the vital part of it, or I must say food is an excuse to bring all the family together, which is what I think is most wonderful thing about food. On post today is Idiyapam biriyani which I prepared for a cousin while she was 7 months pregnant as a part of the above mentioned custom. But even though outside Malabar nobody is going to question you for breaking those rules, I simply love to cook or any excuse to feed your loved ones. That is why amidst all the kids tantrums and tight schedule, I somehow ...

  There must be scarcely anyone who doesnt like Pedas and Barfis. You dont need to be sweet toothed for that. When it comes to Pedas, people ranging from kids to old, love this chewy milky fudgy Indian sweet. To make your cravings even more stronger, this recipe is totally different from the traditional Pedas in terms of labour intensive procedures involved in its preparation. For not so chewy textures, if you are patient enough, you can wait for next day, to get bit more powdery kind of Peda... Not making you long more, over to the recipe .     Ingredients: Saffron- 1/2 tsp Desi ghee- 2 tbsp Condensed milk- 1/2 tin Milk powder- 1 cup Cardamom powder- a pinch Milk (warm) - 2 tbsp Pistachios- to garnish Method: Soak Saffron in milk for 10 minutes. In a heavy bottomed pan, heat ghee on medium low flame. Melt ghee and add condensed milk. Mix well. Add milk powder and keep stirring for smooth, lump free dough. Once it forms like a dough add ca...

I love sandwiches and especially for breakfasts... Sandwiches are always super easy to make and yet filling to keep you going for hours without starving. For me, boiling chicken, waiting it to cool before you shred it, is the hardest part. But if you have left over chicken, task becomes lot more easier... All I have done here is mixed few veggies found in my fridge and shredded chicken with mayo, full the buns and then ready to go.... Ingredients: Chicken, boiled with salt and shredded- 1 cup Mayonnaise- 1 cup Carrot- grated-1/4 cup Cabbage- chopped finely- 1/4 cup Black Pepper- freshly crushed, coarsely- 2 tbsp Pitted Olives- a few, sliced thinly Long buns Method:  Mix all the ingredients together except the buns and spread some of it over one side of horizontally sliced buns.  Close with the other half. Serve.

  Obsessed with the Woodland bakery blog tv on Youtube, I have been experimenting some of the video host, Gretchen's cake recipes.. Everytime I watch her video, I realise, I am getting more than addicted to cake baking... Also, I awe at her skill of how easily she gets her cake done. I must say that I already tried this Vanilla sponge cake recipe thrice, in may be just 2 weeks. Its so spongy and ressembles just like the one bought from bakery. I stumbled on this recipe on my search for a sponge cake one and decided to alter the flavor by adding P ista essence. The next two times I baked it, I flavoured it Vanilla. I'll be uploading images of the two cakes I tried for second and third time both which was iced in a different way.   Ingredients:   For the cake: Flour-2 cups Sugar- 2 cups Eggs- 4 Milk- 1 cup Butter- 100 gms Baking powder- 2 tsp Vanilla essence- 1 tsp Pista essence- 1 tsp Salt a pinch For the Icing: Wh...