Egg Tawa Fry | Hot &Spicy Egg Recipe

Egg tawa fry, am hearing this for the first time. Amma always used to make eggs with onion-tomato curry. And that curry can be used as a side dish for idli-dosa and even for rice. This tawa fry don’t need any onions or tomato or any other things. Just the masalas goes along with the hard boiled eggs. When ur really in a hurry to make a hot and spicy dish, definitely you can opt for this. I learned it from TH, his granny used to make this for him it seems and he suddenly remembered that and he badly wanted to taste it now. So, this is his recipe which I tried and tasted and certified to be good. He just loves this along-side with rasam and steamed rice. 

Check out how to make Egg podimas and also Egg Masala Podimas

Egg Masala Podimas | Egg Bhurji

This podimas is a slight variation of Egg podimas recipe which I had posted before. In that I just added onions and green chillies which suits rice with spicy gravy. Whereas this podimas is for rice along with sambar or rasam which are less spiced. This podimas even taste better when done in Iron skillet rather the non-stick wok.

You can directly break the eggs on to the masalas or you can whisk the eggs separately in a bowl and then add to the masalas. In either way it tastes the same, I believe. The best combo for this podimas is Sambar. This will be a sure shot winner if u don’t have any veggies at home, but still wanted to have a perfect meal.

Preparation time: 3-5minutes

Cooking time: 7-10 minutes

Fish Tawa Fry | Simple Fish Fry

After coming to California I tried many varieties of fish as like we get in India. In a way am happy for the switching from Minnesota. I tried King Fish (vanjaram), Pomfret (vavval) and also Golden thread (sankara) fish fries. As I already told u, am a great great fan of fish… and sankara (golden thread) is one of my favorite. I love to have fish with the bones. Actually the bones enhance the tastes. TH really gets irritated to eat the fish along with the bones.

This recipe was tried long before when I was in Minnesota. I tried it with Catfish. Amma always makes this masala for Sankara meen and it melts in mouth… whenever we buy fish, my work is to clean and doing the marinating. TH does the frying part for me patiently. I must say he is an expert in doing that. I really like the way he fries the fish for me. Even this fry was done by him and I simply ate it once they are piping hot.

Try this recipe with any variety of fish and let me know ur reviews. Don’t forget to check out other recipes of Fish. Click here for the recipe. 

Preparation time: 30-45 mins

Cooking time: 15-20 mins 

Chicken 65 Recipe

I was not a huge fan of deep fried items… and I rarely take this Chicken 65 whenever I visit a restaurant. On the other side TH, a chicken addictive always order this and makes me to taste. After marriage I came to see a street food shop which serves chicken 65 with Idyappam!!! Weird right… even I gave the same look to that… TH insisted me to taste that once, since he loves it… though it was full of oil and lots of red food colors in it, I loved the taste and also the combination of chicken with ldyappam. That weird combo makes to go drool… *slurp*

After coming to US, we miss the shop and the combinations of idyappam with that. TH started to crave for Chicken 65 these days and I tried at home. It was super soft inside and crisper on the outer. I dint add food color to make it more attractive, hence the color differences. I served it with Chicken Manchurian and with Chicken Fried Rice.

Preparation time: 1-2 hours

Cooking time: 10 minutes

South-Indian Style Pomfret Fish Fry | Vavval Meen Varuval

After a long search process I found an Asian store which sells all live fish. I got so excited to see the store which has most of the fishes from almost all the countries. Last Sunday I bought one pomfret along with one golden thread fish. Pomfret, here they also call it has Golden Pompano. In Tamil it is called vavval meen. It doesn't have much bone, so it is easy to make steaks. It needs just a sharp chef knife to make the job easier. TH does the job for me making thin steaks and I cleaned the fish later.

 In this recipe I just used spice powders and tamarind juice to make the fry. This is the easiest masala which also suits any other fish too. I personally like the flavor of onions and tomatoes along with this masala. You can do that by adding little of onions and tomatoes paste to the fish with the powders. TH doesn't like this flavor so I avoided using it.

I also have a fish fry recipe with the chettinad flavors. Checkout the recipe here. I served it with Meen Kuzhambu along with rasam.

Preparation time: 1-2 hours

Cooking time: 20-30mins

Nethili Meen Varuval | Anchovies Fry Recipe

Time to share the weekend special non vegetarian recipe… this time it is not chicken or prawns. Its Anchovies, in tamil we call it has Nethili Meen. These are small sized fish and they are sun dried generally to store for a long period. In India, people used to sundry these anchovies during the summer days and make use of it in the winters. Usually they add lots of salt to the anchovies. Hence it can be preserved for long days without any preservatives. Sun drying helps to take out the moisture from it, so it never gets spoilt easily.

For the first time I saw this anchovies in a Vietnamese shop and I quickly grabbed ones and tried on a week day. Amma always used to make this on a week day since weekends are meant only for fish and prawns. Being a non vegetarian it is always fun to eat all these… *slurp*   

When u buy anchovies, make sure they are dried. Wet anchovies are not suitable for making this recipe. Wet ones are always good to make gravy and the dried once are for roasting. Make sure about the salt content before u add any by urs.  

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 15-20 mins

Pepper Prawns Fry | Eral Milagu Varuval | Spicy Shrimp Masala

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15-20 minutes

Reshmi Kabab Recipe

I and TH always have a love towards tandoor, tikka and kababs. It has less oil and we love the way it’s been grilled. I make different tikkas at home since it is easy to do. You just need to marinate the chicken with the paste and the grill will take care the rest of the cooking . You don’t have to bug spending time inside the kitchen near the hot oil burning with heat and all that. And more importantly it doesn’t need much oil as I previously mentioned.

TH always helps me in doing a tikka… actually he loves to do make tikka on his own. I have already posted few recipes on chicken hariyali tikka and also chickentikka. These can be served as a starter when u has party at home. Make sure u serve the tikkas to be really hot, else it will turn rubbery. So start doing after ur guest's arrival.

This time we tried making reshmi kabab. When I heard the name of it, I was wondering why the name came. It is made with almonds and onions paste. I love the taste of this raw paste itself. Since TH was rounding around to taste this kabab, I took the pics very fast. So I don’t find time to decorate it.  Serve this kabab with sliced onions. 

Chicken Tikka

Chicken Tikka is one which I wanted to make for years and now the time arrived. I always use to mention TH as a chicken addict.  He is the one who helped me to do this tikka out so perfectly… oops!!! Sorry, I should say in the other way. I was the one who helped him a little in doing this!!! Yes this recipe is completely from his side.

 The one, who never ever used to come inside the kitchen, took this as a new venture in cleaning, marinating and broiling the chicken. And, I silently watched what he does and kept clicking the photos for uploading. Hmmm!!!  How nice is it, if somebody cooks and u needs to just click the pics alone... ahmm 

Tikkas are generally made in tandoor. But here we used the grill oven that we use for baking. We used the skewers to cook the chicken. This method doesn’t need much oil as we use for the normal chicken fries.

Preparation time: 2 hours

Cooking time: 20-30 mins

Pepper Chicken - Dry Version

Lobster Pepper Fry - Step by Step

Preparation time: 75 mins (includes the marination period)

Cooking time : 10 mins

Prawn sukka fry – Shrimp sukka fry

Prawn sukka fry – Shrimp sukka fry

Preparation time: 15 mins(includes cleaning steps)
Cooking time: 10 minutes

Egg Podimas - Muttai Podimas

Egg Podimas - Muttai Podimas

The simplest and easiest side dish I can ever make is Egg podimas. Iam not a great fan of meen kuzhambu but still I always like to have it with this podimas.. Else I can eat as such.

You can also enjoy it by stuffing inside a chapathi or dosas, as like a masala dosa… If u really like garlic flavor try adding it. Amma used to add some vegetables like carrot, cauliflower, broad beans (avarakkai) to it.

Preparation time: 3-4 mins

Cooking time: 5 mins

Coorg Chicken

Coorg Chicken 

I don’t remember from where I got this recipe. When I was searching for some chicken recipes in my diary I got this recipe suddenly out in the middle of the page. This recipe doesn’t need the usual chillipowder, onions and tomatoes. Just marinating and frying makes the dish extra-ordinary. 

We enjoyed having it with jeera rice and even the usual sambhar and rasam are the best choice to accompany.

Preparation time: 2 hours (includes the marination time)

Cooking time: 30-45 minutes

Chettinad Fish Fry - Chettinad meen varuval

Chettinad Fish Fry - Chettinad meen varuval

Before I start I need to tell this, am a great great fan of fish.  Either if it is a fry or gravy I can eat it as such. I badly need any non vegetarian food for my Sunday and mostly amma makes fish, since dats my first choice. And you know it is comparatively healthy when compared to other meat varieties  .Whenever amma makes fish I ll be the first person to taste it, even if it is hot on the tawa. Even am famous among my relatives as a fan of fish and they definitely include fish fry on the menu whenever I make a visit to their place. 

This recipe I have adapted from a cookery show and I haven’t tried it before. Once I tried, I could not able to resist myself. The flavor arrested me and I ate some pieces before taking the photo   

Here I have used catfish and it is really very soft. I have also tried with salmon and tilapia. Both are equally good. So, as like me enjoy ur Sunday with this delicious chettinad fish fry. 

Preparation time: 2 hrs
Cooking time : 30-45 mins 

Chicken Hariyali Tikka

Chicken Hariyali Tikka

One of my favorite chicken recipe “Chicken Hariyali Tikka”.  This can either be served as a starter or a side-dish. 

When I was in Chennai I tried this tikka in most restaurants and it really tasted yummy-delicious.  I used to try this at home. Since I used a stove-top it consumed so much oil but still I couldn't able to get the perfect texture.

Since I have a grill oven out here I tried this recipe and it came out really well... 

Preparation Time: 3-5 hrs

Cooking Time: 20-25 mins