Thursday, October 20, 2011

Chicken Vathakkal (dry Chickey fry curry)

Ingredients
3 Big onion - cut finely
1/2 Kg chicken cut into 1 inch pieces
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Tumeric

Paste
1 Teaspoon Jeera
2 Dried Red chilli

Fry onions in a pressure cooker, until it is golden brown. Add Chicken and fry until golden. Add Paste, Salt and tumeric.Add a little water and pressure cook for 3 whistles and fry until oil separates and there is no liquid.

Lamb and Potato Curry (Mutton)

Ingredients
1 Big onion - cut finely
1 big potato cut into small cubes
1/2 kg Lamb or Mutton -small cubes
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Teaspoon Ground Jeera
1/2 Teaspoon Tumeric
1/2 Teaspoon Chilli Powder
1 piece cinnamon, star anise

In a pressure cooker, fry onion, star anise and cinnamon stick.when the onions are golden, then fry the lamb.Fry for 4 minutes and then add salt, jeera, tumeric,chilli powder, fry and then pressure cook it with a little water for 5 minutes.
In a pan, fry the potato in oil until slightly brown, then add the mixture from the pressure cooker to the pan. The liquid from the pressure cooker with flavor the potatoes. Fry until all the water is gone from the pan and the oil separates.