Monday, November 25, 2013

Sunday, November 17, 2013

SORRY !!!!

My apologies to those who are checking in to see my Blog........some of the images from my blog "Viji's Odds & Ends" have disappeared......I do not know how that happened!  I am trying to remove the image which is blocked and will upload new images for the recipes and other posts in due time. I had to upload the header also with a new image as the old one disappeared.

BEEF ROAST

 
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Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Viji's Kitchen

  •  I have started a take-away food business from home, (Chennai, India) on the 10th of November 2013
  • Orders can be take-away or home delivered on request.
  • Orders should be given 48 hours in advance.
  • Orders must be for a minimum of 4 persons upto 30.
  • Cutlets will be charged per piece, and the curry items will be charged per dish.
  • Prices will be given on request (as I have not worked out the costing).  I will do so as the orders come in.
  • Payment method : Cash only.........on delivery.
  •  Given below are the items I will be catering.
CHICKEN
 BEEF
MUTTON
 PORK
 DUCK

Chicken curry

Beef steak

Beef curry

Mutton Curry

Pork Vindaloo

Duck Vindaloo
Chicken Kurma
Beef vindaloo
Mutton kurma

Pork Vadavam curry
Duck roast
Chicken Masala
Beef roast
Mutton Cutlets

Pork roast (two ways)
Duck vadavam curry (Pondicherry)
Chicken Roast (3 ways)
Beef Cutlets
Mutton Chops

Pork Pepper Chops


Chicken chettinad
Beef Kurma
Mutton chilli fry
Pork ribs

Chicken Vindaloo

Beef pepper fry

Mutton pepper fry


Chicken pepper fry

Beef Chill fry

Chicken cutlets

Beef Devil fry






TURKEY
SEA FOOD
PICKLES
SANDWICHES
RICE
Turkey roast

Fish Tamarind curry
Prawn pickle
Chicken sandwiches
Fried Rice


Turkey vadavam curry (Pondicherry)
Fish Molee
Fish Pickle
Cheese sandwiches
Jeera Rice

Fish fry
Brinjal pickle
Egg sandwiches
Coconut rice

Fish cutlets



Mushroom rice


Crab chilli fry (two ways)


Ghee Rice


Prawn Masala

Shark fish puttu



SPECIAL VEGETARIAN DISHES ON  REQUEST

Mobile Phone  98406 20271


Sunday, June 30, 2013

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

MUSHROOM RICE



INGREDIENTS :
2 packets of button mushrooms
2 cups of fine rice (basmati)
4 cloves, a small stick of cinnamon
2 onions
2 slit green chillies (Optional)
a little pepper
a little oil (I used olive oil)

METHOD :
Fry the chopped mushrooms (should not get completely dry) in a little oil sprinkle a little salt and pepper
In a little heated oil put the spices and then add the green chillies and onions.  Fry until the onions are slight brown.
Wash the rice and add the fried ingredients to it.  Pour 1 to one and a half cups of water ( depending on the quality of rice) and put everything into a rice cooker.  When cooked remove into a serving dish and garnish with coriander leaves.

Saturday, June 08, 2013

TRAVELING SPOON


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Love and happy eating,
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Friday, April 26, 2013

IDLI POWDER




Ingredients
1.    Urad Dhal (Black gram without the black skin it will be white)…1 cup
2.    Kadalai Dhal (Bengal gram…..yellow)….half cup
3.    Dry red chillies………………10 to 15 depends how spicy you want it.
4.    Asafoetida..(the hard variety not pwder) …a small piece
5.    Sesame seeds………….2 tsp
6.    A few curry leave
7.    Rock Salt to taste
     METHOD
       Broil in all the ingredients one by one separately in a frying pan until it is golden brown            
     Then broil the asafoetida, sesame seeds and the curry leaves together. 
     POWDER EVERYTHING IN A MIXEE…………….should be a little coarse.
     Use with idli or dosai, by adding oil or ghee in it.
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Friday, April 19, 2013

VIJI'S RASAM



INGREDIENTS
  1. 4 tomatoes
  2. 2 tablespoons of Rasam powder (if you do not have Rasam powder then alternately grind coarserly 1tsp of cummin seeds, 1 tablespoon of whole pepper, 10 cloves of garlic……but this should be added at the end and with one boil must be removed from the gas)
  3. A small lime size ball of tamarind (if you do not have tamarind 1 tbs of tamarind paste can be used)
  4. 1 cup of chopped coriander leaves

For Seasoning
  1. 10 cloves of crushed garlic if you are using Rasam powder (5 cloves if you are not using rasam powder)
  2. 1tsp mustard
  3. 1 tsp urad dhal (is black gram with the skin removed and broken in half)
  4. 1 tsp cummin seeds
  5. 2 dried red chillies (optional)
  6. 4 tbs of oil
  7. 1tsp of whole peper

METHOD:
Boil the the 4 tomatoes in one and a half litres of water with the rasam powder until the tomatoes are soft and split. (if you need less rasam  then use  1 litre of water, 3 tomatoes, 1 tbs of Rasam Powder and a little less garlic….everything else is the same)
Lower the heat of the of the water, and on another gas keep a frying pan (kadai) and put in the oil.  When it is fairly hot, pujt in the mustard, dhal, cummin seeds and peper.  After a few seconds when the mustards splutter add the crushed garlic when it is lightly brown, add the tomatoes from the rasam water and smash it up into the seasoning and fry it a little while.  Then add the rasam water and 3/4 of the coriander leaves and let it boil for a minute or two.
 (If you are using the alternate method when you are adding the water add the ground mixture and coriander leaves.  Stand close by and as soon as it starts boiling take it down.  In this method if it boils the rasam will turn bitter)
Garnish on top with the remaining coriander leaver before serving.

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