CHICKEN CHUKKA  

  

                                                             

Ingredients:
1.Chicken 1/2kg
2.small onion 1/4 kg
3.ginger garlic paste 2 tablespoon
4.turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
5.chilly powder 1 tsp
6.coriander powder 2 tsp
7.fennel seeds 1 tsp
8.coconut half grated
9.salt as needed to ur taste
Then oil 2 tsp,curry leaves and corianders leaves

Method:
1.Clean wash the chicken with salt and turmeric keep aside.
2.Heat oil in a iron pan to chicken chukka fry iron pan gives nice aroma.
3.Add cloves and cinnamon to the heated oil.Then add sliced small onions.Saute the onions till it turns translucent.Then add ginger garlic paste cook for a while till the raw smell goes.Then add the tomatoes cook it till the tomatoes get smash well.

2.Then add salt to it cook the tomatoes well.then add the chicken and mix well to the masala .let the masala incorporate with the chicken.Keep it in low flame don't add water .Let the chicken cook well.close the pan with the lid till the chicken cooks well .

3.Then grind the coconut and fennel seeds finely remind that don't add water more.Add the coconut paste to the chicken mix it well so that the paste incorporate with chicken again close the pan with the lid for a while let it cook till the water absorb.

4.Then add coriander leaves and curry leaves to it.Increase the flame and roast it till them become dry.

5.Roast the chicken well.Now chicken chukka varuval ready to have with rice or chappathi.

SWEET SOMAS

Sweet somas is a sweet prepared by  indians for diwali every year.Even though there  is no doubt the sweet somas preparation process little bit difficult but it is worth and very delicious sweet.

Ingredients for outer layer:

1.Maida -   one kilo
2.Rawa   -  2 table spoon(soak in the water for 5 minutes)
3.Salt      -  as required
3.Ghee   -  1 table spoon
4.Oil      -  For frying

Ingredients for stuffing:

1.Roasted gram dhal - Half kilo
2.Sugar                     - 3/4 kilo
3.Grated coconut      - 2 coconut full
4.Cardamom             6 nos.

Method:

1.Take maida,soaked rawa,ghee and salt in a bowl.Add water to it knead the maida to a soft dough.The dough should not stick in the hands.keep aside for 1 hour.

2.Grind the roasted gram dhal in the mixer.Then grind the sugar with cardamom.Take the coarse roasted gram dhal,sugar and cardamom in a bowl.

3.Keep a frying pan in the stove in low flame add grated coconut and fry it till it give a fine aroma flavour.Allow the grated coconut to fry till light golden colour so that its give us a good taste.

4.Mix fried coconut,coarse roasted gram dhal,sugar to a bowl this is the stuffing inside maida patty.

5.Then take the dough and make small balls from that.
Take chappathi making plate roll out the dough into big poori .Take a steel tiffin box lid and make it to small pooris.Take one small poori and add the stuffing in the middle.. Apply little water to the corner of the patty and close it to bring a semi circle.press the corner edges and seal it .Then take the somas cutter and trim the edges carefully.While trimming be careful don't leave the stuffing outside.

6.Repeat the same process for rest dough.Keep the remaining scrapes and roll it again.

7.Fry till it golden and crispy after frying drain the somas in drain pan allow it to cool and store the sweet somas in a airtight container to remain crispy.

Enjoy crispy sweet somas.........