Chicken Thoran

Ingredients:

• Minced chicken : 250 g
• Crushed garlic : 1 Tbsp
• Crushed shallots : 3 Tbsp
• Grated coconut : ½ coconut
• Chilly powder : 1 Tbsp
• Turmeric powder : ½ Tsp
• Pepper powder : ½ Tsp
• Garam masala : ¼ Tsp
• Dry red chilly : 3
• Mustard seeds : ¼ Tsp
• Sliced shallots : few
• Curry leaves : few
• Salt : As rqd
• Coconut oil : 2 Tbsp
• Water : As rqd

Clean and mince the chicken well. Keep it aside. Then, crush the coconut with chilly pdr, turmeric pdr, garam masala and keep it aside. Heat oil in a kadai and add the crushed ginger, garlic, shallots and curry leaves into it. Saute till it's translucent and put the minced chicken and required amount of salt and little water. When it is ¾th cooked, add the crushed coconut mix into this and mix well. Cover and cook. Remove it from fire. Heat little coconut oil in another pan  and add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add the curry leaves, dry red chilly and sliced shallots. Saute it and add the cooked chicken and pepper powder. Make it dry. Serve it hot with rice.

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Thengayaracha Mutta Curry (egg curry with ground coconut paste)

Ingredients:

• Boiled egg : 4
• Onion : 2 sliced
• Green chilly : 2
• Shallots : 5
• Grated coconut : 1 cup
• Kashmiry chilly powder : 3 Tsp
• Turmeric powder : ½ Tsp
• Garam masala : ½ Tsp
• Sliced ginger : 1 Tsp
• Tamarind : small piece
• Curry leaves : handfull
• Coconut oil : 2 Tbsp
• Water : 1 cup

Grind together the ingredients from shallots to tamarind, in the list above, into a fine paste. Keep it aside. Heat oil in a kadai and add sliced onion, chilly and curry leaves. Saute till it turns light brown. Pour the ground coconut paste and salt into it and stir it. When oil starts to separate, add 1 cup water into the masala and boil it well. Reduce the heat and put the boiled eggs into it. Cover and cook it for a few more minutes. Remove it from fire and serve it hot with rice or roti.

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