Chilly chicken (dry)

Ingredients:

1. Chicken- 1 lb(~1/2 Kg) (boneless and skinless)
2. Ginger garlic paste- 1 tsp
3. Corn flour- 2 tsp
4. All purpose flour- 2 tsp
5. Chilly powder- 1 tsp
6. Yogurt- 2 tsp
7. Egg-1
8. Vinegar- 1 tsp
9. Black pepper powder-1/2 tsp
   
10. Ginger- 2 inch piece (finely chopped)
    
11. Garlic- 4-5 cloves (finely chopped)
    
12. Green chilly- 3-5, sliced
13. Onion- 1 large, diced
    
14. Bell pepper(Capsicum)- 1 large, diced
    
15. Tomato ketchup- 3 tbsp
16. Chilly sauce- 1 tsp
17. Soy sauce-3 tbsp
18. Vinegar- 1 tsp
    
19. Oil for frying
20. Cilantro for garnishing
21. Salt
    

Method:

1. Clean the chicken and cut into 1 inch pieces, wipe off any water.
2. Mix the ingredients 2-9, salt and apply this to the chicken pieces, mix well and marinate for at least 30 min in refrigerator.
3. Finely chop ginger and garlic. Dice the onion and bell peppers to 1 inch squares.
   
4. Heat oil in a pan and fry the chicken pieces. Transfer the fried chicken. (keep any leftover batter from the marination to add at the final step)
   
5. Heat some more oil in the same pan and fry finely chopped garlic, ginger and sliced green chillies for 3 min
6. Add onion and saute until they became transparent. Now add bell peppers and saute for 5 more min.
   
7. Add all the sauces, vinegar, salt and fry for 5 min. Finally add fried chicken pieces and add any leftover batter from the marination along with some water.
8. Fry for some more time until it becomes dry, garnish with cilantro and serve hot with fried rice.

If you want to make gravy: Dissolve 1 tsp of corn flour in water and add it to the preparation.

Breadsticks

Ingredients:

1. Bread slices-2
2. All purpose flour-3 tsp
3. Corn flour-3 tsp
4. Egg-1
5. Soy sauce-1 tsp
6. Tomato ketchup-3 tsp
7. Potato flakes-3 tsp
8. Water
9. Ginger garlic paste-1/2 tsp
10. Black pepper powder-1/2 tsp
11. Parsley flakes-1 tsp
12. Salt
13. Bread crumbs
14. Oil for frying
    

Method:

1. Dissolve potato flakes in hot water and add corn flour, all purpose flour, parsley flakes, ginger garlic paste, pepper powder, ketchup, egg,soy sauce and salt to make the batter.
   
2. Cut each bread lengthwise into 5-6 pieces
   
3. Coat the bread pieces with the batter. Carefully transfer the pieces from the batter using a long knife or spatula to avoid breaking.
4. Coat with bread crumbs.
5. Fry the bread pieces in oil until it became light brown. Serve hot with ketchup

Banana pancake (Pazham appam)

Preparation time:20min
Ingredients for 6 pancakes:

1. ripe bananas-2
2. rice flour-1/2 cup
3. all purpose flour-1/2 cup
4. milk-1 cup
5. cardamom (crushed)-1
6. coconut slices (small slices)-2tsp
7. vanilla extract-1tsp
8. sugar-3 tsp
9. raisins
10. butter (melted)-3 tsp
11. salt -a pinch

Method:

1. Cut bananas into 3-4 pieces and beat with milk, vanilla extract and sugar in a blender.
2. Pour banana milk mixture into flour and mix well with a spoon. Add cardamom, coconut slices, salt and mix again.
3. Heat half spoon of melted butter in a griddle, pour 1/6 of the batter, spread into desired size and sprinkle raisins. Cook each side for 2-3 min.
   

Serve hot with pancake syrup or honey.