Renil's Kitchen: March 2025

Friday, 28 March 2025

Ingredients:

Method:

Cook mutton with crushed ginger & garlic, green chilli, curry leaves, turmeric powder, pepper powder, coriander powder,chilli powder and garam masala
Heat up some coconut oil in a pan
Add shallots and curry leaves
Stir and cook till the shallots turn soft
Add cooked mutton along with gravy
Cook on high flame till the gravy is dried
Then reduce flame to low and cook on low heat for 20 minutes or the mutton pieces turn light brown in colour; Stir occasionally.
Finally add chopped coriander leaves.
Delicious mutton fry is ready to serve.

Ingredients:

Method:

Mix all the ingredients together
Transfer to a baking dish
Bake at 170 degree Celsius for 60 minutes or a toothpick inserted at the centre of the cake comes out clean
Once done, take out from the oven
Remove from the pan
Allow to cool completely
Slice and enjoy

Ingredients:

Method:

Cook the dal along with one tomato, asafoetida, turmeric powder, salt and 1 cup of water and keep aside.
Soak the tamarind in 1 cup of water
Heat some oil in a vessel
Saute shallots, green chilli and curry leaves till the edges of shallots become golden
Add crushed garlic and stir for a few seconds
Add chopped tomato and add 1/2 tsp salt
Stir for 2 minutes
Add sambar powder and stir for a few seconds
Add tamarind juice to this
Bring to a boil
Add cooked dal to this
Add 1 more cup of water
Adjust salt
Allow this to boil
Add coriander leaves
Turn off the flame
Add some coconut oil in a pan
Crack some mustard seeds
Add fenugreek seeds, dried red chillies and curry leaves
Pour it over the curry
Serve after 30 minutes for better taste

Ingredients:

For sheet :-

For filling (egg puffs):-

Method:

Cut butter into 4 equal pieces and make each butter to 3" square pieces; Keep them in freezer.
Make dough by combining together flour, water, salt, sugar and ghee
Keep them in refrigerator for 30 minutes
After 30 minutes of rest, divide the dough into 4 equal pieces
Shape them into balls
Roll each ball into a square into a 5" squares
Place cold butter blocks on it diagonally and cover with dough
Roll them into a rectangle of size 9"x4.5"
Fold it (refer video) and keep in freezer for 20 minutes or till the butter is cold and firm enough to roll again
Repeat rolling and folding two more times
Do this for all four portions
Finally your puffs pastry sheets are ready; You can use it for making puffs with your favorite filling

To make egg puffs:

Heat up oil in a pan
Add sliced onion, green chilli and curry leaves
Once it turn into golden, add crushed ginger and garlic and stir for 2 minutes
At this stage add turmeric powder, pepper powder and garam masala
Add salt as needed
Turn off the flame and allow this to cool
Once it is done, take out prepared puffs pastry sheets from refrigerator
Roll them to a rectangle of 8"x4"
Place filling and sliced egg
Fold it
Give egg wash
Bake at 250 degree Celsius for 10 minutes and then at 200 degree Celsius for 14 minutes