Hi All, Attukal Paya..Iam always tempted by this name when we were in Chennai but never got chance to try it.My neighbour use to advise me to take goat bone soup once in a week as it is very good for women's health.After so many months I tired it recently and I liked it so much , the flavour of smoked goat legs with masala gives a spicy and wonderful taste. I little hesitated how soup will go well with parota so I brought store brought parota and tried it with paya..Amazingly the soup / paya combined with parota was awesome ,a must try combination. The healthy Paya / Soup recipe is as below, SERVINGS : 4 members. INGREDIENTS : Dried lamp legs – 4 nos. Bay leaf – 2 nos. Curry leaves -a sprig. Cardamom – 2 nos. Coriander leaves - a bunch. Salt – as required. TO GRIND TO COARSE PASTE : Onions - 1 no ( big). Tomatoes - 1no ( big). Coriander powder/ seeds – 1 tsp. Pepper – 1 tsp. Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp. Cinnamon /Pattai -...
Hi, Sea has lot of creatures in it that we can cook and we were much more unaware of many . Squid fish is one among the yummy species which I was totally unaware even after coming to Chennai.One day in market I saw them and surprised that they are selling octopus ( it looked like that to me :)). Then I surfed in net and found actually they are squid ( kadamba / kanava) and not octopus , My friend Saranya cooked this gravy for us during her visit to our home .I copied the recipe from her and tried next week itself.Though the squid fish looks very weird the taste was so yummy and there is no fish odor in that.It just tasted like mutton. The cleaning part is little tricky but easy, I suggest once you finished cleaning dispose the waste immediately out of your house as the waste from squid fish is very smelly and also it starts leaving water .So dispose the waste of squid as quick as possible. Other than that the fish tastes heaven , spicy, yummy and very easy to cook. I have...