Wednesday 21 January 2015

POTATO CHIPS











Making crispy and yummy Potato chips in this blog is a simple and an instant homestyle preparation. no hard rules...no long process....just make in minutes by this easy method; It goes well with any rice and any meals. And also it is good to have as a handful snack in the evening with tea..
Ingredients:

potato two medium size two
pepper one tablespoon coarsely ground
salt as required
Cooking oil to deep fry

Procedure:

Wash the potatos several times. Peel off the outer skin of the potato with peeler.
Make the potato slices with the help of manual potato slicer.
Heat the cooking oil to deep fry level te mperature.
Drop potato slices one by one into the oil carefully. Deepfry the potato slices in several batches.
Allow them to deep fry until the oil pubbles cease.
Take care that the chips are fried crispy and light golden brown.
Strain the oil with a laddle from the fried chips.
Sprinkle Salt and pepper and shake until the salt and pepper mixed well and applied on the chips both sides.
Yummy and crispy potato chips ready within fifteen minutes. It is ready to combine with main dish. you can have its wonderful taste with any fried rice like tomato rice, lime rice,puthina rice, tamarind rice as well.

PUTHINA RICE (MINT RICE)

Puthina rice is a delicious dish. It is an instant, easy cooking dish with few ingredients.






Ingredients :

fresh mint leaves two cups.
garlic two pulses chopped
tamarind goozeberry size
jaggery one piece 
mustard seeds one spoon
urad dal one tablespoon
curry leaves one cup
onions chopped one cup 
Red chillies seven or eight
cooking oil one tablespoon
gingelly oil one spoon
salt as needed
asafoetida two pinches


Step by step procedure:

Soak the boiled rice (ponni variety first quality) for 30 minutes.
Cook the rice in pressure cooker.
Let it cool..
Meanwhile, wash the puthina leaves three times and  blend the puthina or mint leaves, tamarind, jaggery and garlic into coarse paste .
Mix the cooled cooked rice with one spoon gingelly oil well. This helps the rice non sticky and soft.
Heat the cooking oil in a heavy bottomed pan and add mustard seeds to crackle. Then followed by urad dal.
saute a while to turn the urad dal golden brown. Then add splitted red chillies, onions followed by curry leaves. saute well until the onions become translucent. Add little turmeric and sprinkle asafoetida powder.
Add the ground mixure of puthina paste and saute for a while. Add little salt and mix well. 
Then add the rice and mix well until the paste evenly combined with rice.
Sprinkle some salt and mix well.
Let the flame in sim level.
Check the taste of salt in the rice..
Adjust the salt and spice levels according to your taste habit.
Puthina rice is ready..
Do try in your kitchen and taste..

I prepare potato chips instantly for this rice..we love it to eat the puthina rice with potati chips. It is  really the amazing and wonderful combination.


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