Spicy Pork Gravy - Kerala Style#SundayFunday

This Pork recipe has a thick consistency gravy, which comes from the fried onion. This is very tasty, each Christian household in Kerala has their own treasured recipe of making this dish. In this dish I, have added just a teaspoon of brown vinegar and it gave this Pork an absolute divine taste. Try this and you will enjoy it.

Ingredients
½ Kg Pork – cut into medium pieces
2 Large Onions – sliced
½ Teaspoon Fennel seeds powder
2 Green Chillies – cut into pieces
1½ Tablespoons Ginger Garlic paste
1 Large Tomato – sliced
½ Teaspoon Heaped Red Chilly powder
½ Teaspoon Heaped Black Pepper powder
½ Teaspoon Turmeric powder
1 Tablespoon Coriander powder
1 Teaspoon Garam Masala powder
1 + 1 Sprigs Curry leaves
3 Tablespoons Oil
½ Teaspoon Level Salt
1 Teaspoon Brown Vinegar - Optional

For the Pork Marination
1 Teaspoon Red Chilly Powder
1 Tablespoon Coriander Powder
½ Turmeric powder
½ Teaspoon Level Salt
½ Cup Water

Method  

For the Pork Marination 

Wash the pork well and drain it.
In a bowl mix the ingredients together to make paste, add the pork and keep it in the refrigerator for at 3 hours or best overnight.

After the marinated time cook the Pork (see notes).

In the meanwhile as the pork is cooking lets prepare the gravy.

Heat oil in a kadai, add onion and curry leaves, till the onions turn brown but not crisp. Then add fennel powder, green chilly and cook for a minute or two.
Add ginger garlic paste, tomato, red chilly , turmeric, coriander , pepper and garam masala powders and salt and ½ cup water. Mix well and cook till the tomatoes are mushy and oil leaves the sides. Keep this aside till the pork is cooked.

When the pork is cooked, add the prepared gravy and mix well. Cover and let is simmer again on low flame for 5 minutes or till oil surfaces. Then add the vinegar and 1 or 2 whole green chillies de seeded, simmer again for a minute or two. Then switch of the flame, add the sprig of curry leaves, cover. Serve hot .

Enjoy with rice or rotis, soft dosa or appams of your choice. This taste even better the next day.

My Notes

If you have time I would suggest that you marinate the Pork overnight in fridge or for at least 3 hours.

I have cooked the Pork in a mud handi (treezal), for approximately an hour or more, on low flame with water on the lid. Stir this in between after every 15 minutes to check the water content or else pour the hot water from the lid, again place some fresh water on lid. I always cook the Pork like this. If you are in a hurry place it in a pressure cooker.

Labels: Pork, Kerala, Sunday Funday, Main course, Indian

 Sunday Funday we are sharing Meat Dishes, check the recipes made by us.

A Modern Hippie Pot Roast by Culinary Cam
Beef Tenderloin with Red Wine Dijon Cream Sauce by Karen’s Kitchen Stories
Braised Beef with Sauerkraut and Sizzling Potatoes by Palatable Pastime
Chicken Daube by A Day in the Life on the Farm Roman-Style Meatloaf by Amy’s Cooking Adventures
Spicy Pork Gravy - Kerala Style by Sneha’s Recipe

Keto Bullet Coffee#SundayFunday

This is my version of making this Keto Bullet Coffee. If you have this made with cream then you will not fill hungry and want to eat any thing else. It fills your tummy and satisfices your hunger pangs. If you want to add any sweetener feel free to add according to your taste, I have not added it.

Serve One
Ingredients
50 Ml Hot Water
2 Sachets Instant Coffee Powder- 14 gram each
100 Ml Full Fat Milk
150 Ml Whipping Cream
1 Teaspoon Butter

Method

Heat the water and milk, when hot add the cream and let it heat till it starts to scald at the sides. Then add the coffee powder and butter whisk with a hand blender till frothy. 

Enjoy with a dusting of unsweetened cocoa powder.
Labels: Keto, Coffee, Sunday Funday, Bullet, Serves One

For Sunday Funday our theme is Hot Hot teas, coffee or drinks!   

• Chocolate de Agua from Christmas Tree Lane
• Fernet Hot Toddy from Amy's Cooking Adventures
• Gløgg (Danish Mulled Wine) from Culinary Cam
• Keto Bullet Coffee from Sneha's Recipe
• Orange Hot Chocolate from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• White Mocha from Palatable Pastime

Nawabi Mutton Paya Stew#SoupSwappers

Nawabi Mutton Paya Stew is a Keto/Low Carb recipe cooked in creamy nutty gravy to tantalize your taste buds. A very unique recipe to try on your weekends. This is a famous Hyderabadi stew recipe made using mutton/lamb trotters and cooked along with a paste of roasted nuts. This is a super delicious and creamy stew, try it and you will love it!

Serves 7 - 8
Ingredients
To Cook The Paya
6 Mutton Paya/ Lamb trotters
1 Teaspoon Turmeric powder
1 Teaspoon Ginger Garlic paste
1 Teaspoon Salt
2 Cups Water
For The Gravy / Stew
To Fry & Grind To Fine Paste
1 Medium Onion - sliced
30 Whole Cashewnuts
40 Whole Almonds
20 Whole Pistachios
6 Green Chillies
2 Teaspoon Desi Ghee
3/4 Cup Yogurt
Other Ingredients
2 Tablespoons Desi Ghee
½ Teaspoon Shahajeera/Caraway seeds
½ Teaspoon Whole Gree Cardamoms
3 Sticks Cinnamon
2 Cloves
½ Teaspoon Whole Black Peppercorns
1 Tablespoon Ginger Garlic Paste
½ Cup Fresh Cream
½ Teaspoon Garam Masala powder
½ Teaspoon Teaspoon White or Black Pepper powder
Chopped Coriander Leaves to garnish

Method

Rub the paya well with whole wheat flour, rubbing the flour on the skin to remove any hair. Then wash them well in clean in running water 3 - 4 times.
Add the paya to a pressure cooker along with turmeric powder, salt, ginger garlic paste, water, take one whistle on high flame , lower the flame and keep on 25 - 30 minutes or till the trotters turn 90% tender. Once cooked keep aside.

In another pan heat ghee sauté the onions, cashew nuts, almonds, pistachios peeled, green chilies till the onion are translucent, taking care not to brown them or else it will change the color of the stew. Once cooled grind this with the yogurt to a fine paste. Keep this aside. 

In same pan add 2 tablespoons ghee to it add all the whole spices like shahajeera, cardamom, cinnamon sticks, cloves and black peppercorns, sauté for a second. Add ginger garlic paste, sauté till raw smell disappears. Now add the ground paste and sauté till raw smell of nuts disappear. Add the cooked trotters and all the stock cpook for 3 -4 minutes. Then add a cup of water ( or according to the gravy consistency) and salt to taste. Cook till trotters turn tender. When trotters turn tender then open lid and add chopped coriander leaves, fresh cream, garam masala powder and pepper powder mix it wel and cook under low flame covered for 5 minutes, stirring in between.

Nawabi Mutton Paya Stew is ready to serve.

Enjoy it along with pulkas or paratha or rice.
Labels: Stew, Paya, Trotters, Mutton, Soup Swappers, Fresh Cream, Hyderabad, Keto, Low Carb, Healthy, Main course, Indian

For Soup Swappers our theme is Milk & Cream Soup/Stew

• Broccoli Cheese Soup in a Bread Bowl by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Cream of Tomato Soup from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Nawabi Mutton Paya Stew from Sneha's Recipe

Eggless Ginger Banana Bundt#BundtBakers

When Banana gets over ripe we don't like to eat them . That's the time when they are perfect for making cakes or some desserts. Whenever there are over ripe bananas at home, I bake a cake or make banana fritters. This eggless version of banana ginger cake makes a soft, moist & wonderful cake.

Ingredients
1½ Cup All Purpose Flour
3 Over Ripe Bananas - mashed
¾ Caster Sugar
¼ Cup Fresh Cream
2 Tablespoons Milk
200 Grams Butter
1 Teaspoon Baking powder
½ Teaspoon Baking soda
½ Teaspoon Ginger Powder
1 Teaspoon Vanilla extract
¾ Cup Walnuts - chopped fine

Method

Sieve together flour and baking powder, baking soda, ginger powder.
Beat sugar, butter ,cream and milk together then add the vanilla extract.
Then add the walnuts and fold in the flour.

Gently mix well then pour in greased bundt mold and bake for 40 minutes at 180°C or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean. 

Cool the cake, then unmold.

Slice, Enjoy this soft moist and yummy cake!

Labels: Eggless, Bundt, Banana, Ginger, Bundt Bakers

BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.

This month Simply Inspired Meals is hosting Spooky Bundt Cakes. She asked the group to make any cake that had some element that made it spooky. This wonderful group is administered by Stacy of Food Lust People Love. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about #BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.

Twisted Gingerbread Bundts

• Cream Cheese Swirl Ginger Bundt Cake by Magical Ingredients
• Eggless Ginger Banana Bundt by Sneha's Recipe 
• Gingerbread Bundt Cake with Maple Icing by Patyco Candybar
• Pumpkin Gingerbread by Palatable Pastime
• Bourbon Gingerbread with Lemon Curd byCulinary Cam

Soft and Fluffy Croissants Bread Rolls#BreadBakers

These are  Homemade Croissants Bread Rolls are soft fluffy and buttery. Perfect to slather with cream cheese, butter or jam. Perfect to make sandwiches too!

6 Bread Rolls
Ingredients
250Grams All Purpose Flour
20 Grams Sugar　
¾ Teaspoon Salt 　
2 Tablespoons Non-Fat Dry Milk Powder
115 Grams water
8 Grams Fresh Yeast
1 Whole Egg - lightly beat and then take half it and the other half keep for brushing the buns.
25 Grams Unsalted Butter
For The Egg Wash
The Remaining Beaten Egg ＋1 Teaspoon water or milk

Method

Combine water and yeast and set it aside till bubbly.
Combine the dry ingredients and mix together with a whisk. To this add the yeast, egg mixture and knead to a soft dough . Take this on to a work surface and knead for 10 minutes. Add butter and knead for another 5 minutes . Place this ball into an oiled bowl and then leave it at a warm place until it doubles in volume.

Deflate the dough , divide it into 6 pieces and roll them into balls. Cover them with a damp cloth and leave them for 15 minutes.

After resting, deflate with your hand, and make a leaf shaped roll. 

With a rolling pin stretch it in length shape it the same way.

Roll it into a croissant.

Once all the croissants are rolled 

Place the dough seam-down a baking tray lined with parchment paper or aluminum foil leave it at a warm place until they get twice in size.

Brush buns with egg wash.

Preheat the oven at 230℃, bake for 12 to 15 minutes.

Place it on a wire rack to cool. 

Slather with cream cheese, butter or jam. Perfect to make sandwiches too! 
Labels: Bread, Croissant, Bread Bakers, Breakfast

BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.

Garlic Parmesan Sourdough Dinner rolls from Karen's Kitchen Stories

Scotish Black Buns from A Messy Kitchen 

Soft and Fluffy Croissants Bread Rolls from Sneha's Recipe

Julekage from Ambrosia

Sweet Coconut Almond Swirls   from Magical Ingredients

Sourdough St.Lucia Buns from Zesty South Indian Kitchen

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. Follow our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated each month on this home page.

We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.