How to make... Pathiri

Ingedients

Roasted fine rice flour : 1 glass

Water : one & a quarter glass

Salt : to taste

Method

 Boil water and add salt to taste. Gradually add the flour. Keep stirring continuously. After all the flour has been added lower the flame and cook for a minute. Switch off the stove. Put the contents on a big plate.

  Knead the dough well while it is still reasonably warm. You have to knead it well using both hands. Well kneaded dough makes the pathiris soft and helps them to puff up. Apply a little coconut oil on your palms to prevent the flour from sticking to your palms. 

  Make small balls of the dough as we do for the chapattis. Flatten it a little with your palms. Dust the chappati board with rice flour. Roll the flattened balls on the wooden board using a chappati roller in the shape of chappatis. Place a non stick tawa on a medium flame. When the tawa is hot, place the pathiris on it. Steam passes through it within a few seconds. Turn over the pathiri. This time wait a little longer till the ends of the pathiri are a little crisp and cooked. Then turn it over again. The pathiri soon puffs up. Remove the pan and place it on a plate. Serve with coconut milk and chicken curry or mutton curry.

How to make... Tapioca chicken kozhukkatta

Method
 Boil tapioca in salted water. Strain and mash well. Add to rice flour and make into smooth dough. Then make small evenly sized balls. Keep aside. Heat the oil in a frying pan and stir fry onion, ginger garlic green chillies and curry leaves. Add the spices and minced chicken. Cook well on a slow flame. Adjust seasoning and turn off the heat. Stuff the chicken mixture carefully inside the balls till all the balls are stuffed thus. Then cook them on a steamer for ten minutes. Serve hot with mint chutney.

How to make... Stuffed poulet with pumpkin sauce

Method
  Marinate chicken (breast pieces) in ginger / garlic paste with lemon juice and crushed peppercorn for 10 minutes. Dice carrot, onion, celery. Stuff the filling into the chicken and roll. Tie a knot with a thread to prevent from breaking. Heat oil and sauté carrot, onion, celery. Add cinnamon stick to it and fry till golden brown. Add hot water (two cups) and put the put the stuffed chicken roll into it and cook well (close it with a lid). Remove cooked chicken roll and keep aside, add boiled pumpkin to the above mixture and stir well until it becomes a thick sauce. Cut the cooked chicken roll into round pieces and put it into a plate. Pour the sauce onto the above chicken pieces. Garnish with boiled carrot and cabbage. Serve hot.

How to make... Saboodana khichri

Method
  Soak the sago in water for two to three hours. Peel and cut the potatoes into small pieces. Coarsely grind the roasted peanuts. Heat the ghee in a kadai. Add jeera and green chillies and stir fry for one minute. Add the potatoes and cook until tender. Mix the sago and roasted peanuts. Add it to the above mixture. Add salt, sugar and red chilli powder. Mix well and cook on a low flame add lemon juice. Mix again. Serve hot garnished with coriander leaves.

How to make... Sakarkhandi chaat

Method
  Peel and chop sweet potatoes into one inch pieces. Heat the ghee. Add chopped sweet potatoes and chilli paste and stir fry for two minutes. Add the jeera powder, salt, pepper and cook on a low flame until the sweet potatoes becomes tender. Add lemon juice and sugar. mix well . Sprinkle coriander leaves. Serve.

How to make... Beef paupiette

Method
  Take one beef steak slice and put one sausage inside and roll firmly. Tie the meat with twine. Keep aside. Dress the meat slices the same way.

 Heat the oil in a casserole pot and brown the chopped onion and garlic. Add bay leaf and salt with pepper. Lower the flame and place the beef whirls in the pot. Brown all the sides. Add paprika powder, tomato puree and beef stock. Cook the meat until tender on a slow flame. Cover the pot until cooking. Reduce the stock completely. Adjust seasoning. Add the wine. Serve with chopped parsely on top and ratatouille.

 Ratatouille is a mixture of different vegetables like tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber, onion, olives and so on.