TODAY'S FOOD STORY :

TODAY'S FOOD STORY :
The story of avial and Bhima !!!
Avial is a famous traditional kerala cruisine. It is supposed to have been invented by Bhima (one of the Pandava brothers) during their exile. According to the legend, when Ballav (Bhima's name during this time) assumed his duties as the cook in the kitchen of Virata, he did not know how to cook. One of the first things he did was to chop up many different vegetables, boil them together and top the dish with grated coconut. There are mythological variations. Bheema is said to have prepared Avial, when there were unexpected guests for King Virata and he needed to serve meals for them. There was no sufficient vegetables to cook any single recipe for side dish, so Bheema used what ever available vegetables to make a new dish, which came to know as Avial.

Thursday 22 May 2014

MEAT CUTLET

Ingredients :

Meat (Beef/Mutton) - 250 gm (Cooked in salt and turmeric powder)
Onion - Thin sliced - 250 gm
Potato - 250 gm (boiled and mashed)
Ginger - small pieced (grated)
Green Chilly - 4 nos.
Curry leaves 
Garam masala powder - a pinch
Egg - 1
Bread crumbs (rusk powdered) - 1 cup
Salt - as needed
Oil - as needed

Method of Preparation:

  1. Heat oil in a pan, and saute onion, green chilly, ginger.
  2. Then add mined-cooked meat, Potato mashed, curry leaves, garam masala and salt. Saute all these together for 3 minutes in medium flame.
  3. Turn off the stove and keep aside to cool.
  4. Make small oval shapes with hand or mold.
  5. Take one ball, dip it in the egg beat and then dip in bread crumbs and then deep fry in oil
  6. Do the same with rest of the mixture.
(You may add coriander leaves if you like its taste)

Serve hot with tomato ketch-up.

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