Beef Stew

Ingredients:

• Beef : 1 kg
• Potato : 1 big
• Carrot : 1 big
• Onion : 3 big
• Ginger : 1.5 Tbsp
• Green Chilly : 6 to 8
• Crushed Pepper : 2 Tsp
• Cardamom : 3
• Cloves : 3
• Cinnamon : 1 big piece
• Semi-thick Coconut Milk : 2 cup
• Thick Coconut Milk : 1 1/4 cup
• All Purpose Flour (Maida) : 2 Tsp
• Curry Leaves : few
• Salt : as required
• Coconut Oil : as required

Clean and cut the beef into small pieces. Then, cook it with salt, few curry leaves, crushed pepper and rest of the whole spices till it turns soft. Keep it aside. Cut the potato and carrot into small cubes and boil it. Heat coconut oil in a kadai or in a non-stick pan and saute the cubed onion, slitted chilly and curry leaves. When it becomes translucent, add the cooked beef, boiled vegetables, semi-thick coconut milk and required amount of salt into it and boil it in medium flame for few minutes. On another pan, saute 2 tsp of All Purpose Flour in coconut oil for a few minutes. Then, add a little water into it and make it into a paste.  Pour the thick coconut milk and flour paste and combine it with the beef. When the stew starts to thickens, remove it from fire. 

Serve it hot with appam, idiyappam or bread.

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Chicken Pakoda

Ingredients:

• Chicken : 250 gms (small pieces)
• Onion (sliced) : 1 med
• Green Chilly : 1 thinly sliced
• Chopped Ginger : 2 Tsp
• Coriander Leaves : 2 Tbsp (chopped)
• Curry Leaves : few (chopped)
• Besan Flour :1/2 to 3/4 cup
• Rice Flour : 2 Tbsp
• Chilly Powder : 2 Tsp
• Turmeric Powder : 1/2 Tsp
• Hing : a pinch
• Salt : as required
• Water : as required
• Oil : as required

Combine all the ingredients, except chicken pieces and oil, into a thick mixture by adding required amount of water. Then, add the chicken pieces into it and mix well. Keep it aside for a few minutes. Then, fry it in oil and serve it with hot coffee. 

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