Salmon Fry

Ingredients:

Salmon - 2 fillets

Lemon - 1,sliced

Lemon Juice - 2 tspn

Turmeric - a pinch

Salt and pepper - to taste

Red chilli flakes - to taste

Olive Oil - 2 tbspn or as required for frying

Method:

1. Wash the salmon with turmeric in running cold water

2. Mix the salt,pepper,flakes,1 tbspn Olive oil in a bowl and marinate the Salmon for 1/2 hour

3. Heat the oil in a wide pan and fry the fish one by one or by batch

4. Once the fish is done,add the lemon slices into it and fry for a min and use this for garnishing.

Serve it with green beans or Broccoli or with Rice.

Celery Chutney

Ingredients:

Celery - 1 whole stock
Corainder leaves - 10 sprigs
Cumin seeds - 1tspn
Green/Red chillies - 2 or 3
Garlic - 3 cloves
Ginger - 1 inch
Salt - to taste
Oil - 1+1 tspn or as required

Seasoning:

Mustard seeds - 1 tspn
Urad dhal - 1tspn
Channa dhal - 1 tspn
Curry leaves - 1 sprig
Red Chilli - 1
Hing - a pinch

Method:

1. Heat the oil in a wide pan, fry the cumin seeds,Ginger,Garlic,Chillies, celery and the coriander leaves for 2-3 mins or until tender
2. Once done, let it cool and grind it
3. Again heat the remaining oil in a pan and fry the seasoning ingredients and mix it with the ground paste.

Serve with Dosa, Idly.

Tomato Gravy (Thakkali Kurma)

Ingredients:

Tomatoes - 2 medium,chopped

Onion - 1 large,thinly sliced

Red/green chillies - 2,slit

Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Mustard seeds - 1 tspn

Channa Dhal - 1 tspn

Hing - a pinch

Coriander leaves - for garnishing

Salt - to taste

Oil - 2 tspn

To Grind:

Tomatoes - 2

Ginger - 1 inch

Garlic - 2 cloves

Grated Coconut - 3/4 cup

Roasted Channa - 1 tbspn

Red chilli powder/Sambar powder - 2 tspn

Corainder powder - 3 tspn

Curry leaves - 1/2 sprig

Method:

1. Grind the ingredients coresly which are given in To Grind column

2. Heat the Oil in a pan and pop the mustard seeds and add the channa dhal,hing,curry leaves, red/Green chillies and fry for 1min

3. Add the Onions,fry for 2mins or until its light brown

4. Add the Tomatoes and fry until it leaves out all its water and Now add the Ground paste to it and fry for 3mins

5. Add water as required for the consistency and cover and bring it to the boil.

6. Finally add the salt and coriander leaves.

Serve hot with Idly,Dosa,Poori or even rice.