About this blog

Here is a blog that contain our traditional foods recipes. If you are a keralite u will surely like the taste of this recipes.As for the Cuisine of Kerala, it is midly flavored, gently cooked and has a certain genteel delicacy on the stomach.

The unusual cuisine of Kerala brings to the fore the culinary expertise of the people of Kerala. Producing some of the tastiest foods on earth, the people of Kerala are gourmets with a difference. The cuisine is very hot and spicy and offers several gastronomic opportunities. The food is generally fresh, aromatic and flavoured. Keralites are mostly fish-and-rice eating people.

The land and the food are rich with coconut, though one can't imagine Kerala food without chilies, curry leaf, mustard seed, tamarind and asafoetida.

Just a pinchful of tamarind can substitute tomatoes, but there is no real substitute for curry leaf. Since time immemorial, coconut has been an integral part of the cuisine of Kerala.



Chemmen Theeyal


Ingredients:-

Prawns(Chemmeen) - 250 gm
Small onions(Kunjulli) - 400 gm(cut long)
Green chillies - 6 nos (cut long)
Fenugreek powder(Uluva) - A pinch
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Red chilly powder - 3 tsp
Turmeric powder - A pinch
Tamarind(Puli) paste - As reqd
Curry leaves - A few
Coconut oil - 4 tbsp
Salt - As reqd

Method:-

Clean the prawns very well.
Cut small onions and green chillies.
Heat oil in a pan.
Add prawns, onions, green chillies & curry leaves.
Fry well, till onion turns light brown.
Add all the other powders and mix well.
Add salt, tamarind juice and 3 cups of water.
Cook, till the gravy thickens.

11 comments:

Soniya Sreekumar said...
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deepak said...

it's very nice to look at this intersting items of kerala.........the picture of karimeen & prawn curry was able to bring water on every ones mouth.........

Sreekumar PP said...

Who is the owner of this blogspot... looks good... well copied... stealing credits...

Reji Chirayinkil said...
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Reji Chirayinkil said...

Looking good contents also good..
so its a nice link to look...
stealing never mind...

balu said...

nalla cuurya pakshe theyal style yennu parayan vaiya
thenga varathu arachu try cheythu nokanam oru alpam garam masala avachithyam pole upayogikam

Sreekumar PP said...

Chemmen Theeyal is full of oil. Not good for health. Madam, you may also need to focus on health issues.

kathir said...

parikshana karyannoo chechi kazhikallo alle

sangi said...

Nice...

sangi said...
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shyamlal said...

chemmen theeyal kaduvarukal bakki ha