Happy's Cook

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Achu Murukku Recipe | Kerala Acchappam | Rose Cookies | Christmas Special Recipes

As I mentioned in my Munthiri Kothu post, Achu Murukku is also my native special (Kanyakumari Dist) snacks made for Christmas. This sweet crispy murukku is made using a special mould in the shape of a flower with a long handle to hold. I made this murukku last January and it was waiting in my drafts until this Christmas :). I got the recipe from Vanitha Akka who helps us with the household work in my native after mum. She learned many recipes from mum since she was with us for a long time now. I am learning the recipes that I missed from mum through her. Let us move on to the recipe:

Munthiri Kothu Recipe | Roasted Green Gram and Jaggery Balls | Kanyakumari Special Snack | Christmas Special Recipes

Munthiri Kothu is one of the traditional snacks we make in my hometown (Kanyakumari District) for Christmas. In Malayalam 'Munthiri' means grapes and 'Kothu' means a bunch. After deep frying, this snack tends to stick to each other and it resembles a bunch of grapes. Maybe, that is the reason behind the name 'Munthiri Kothu'. Though my mum is a teacher, she finds time to make many traditional snacks for Christmas without missing it. She always makes Munthiri Kothu, Adhirasam, Achu Murukku and Mullu Murukku in the beginning of half early holidays (a few days before Christmas) and stocks it up. Like mum, I wanted to make all the traditional snacks for Happy. I am in the process of learning all the snacks. I got this recipe from my mom-in-law and it turned out super awesome. Do try this for this Christmas and share me the feedback.

Sweet Bonda Recipe | Wheat Flour Unniappam | Fried Whole Wheat Banana Cake | Kerala Bonda | Tea Stall Sweet Bonda | Undampori | Christmas Special Recipes

The tea stall unniyappam brings me so many childhood fond memories of my native. My grandfather, while returning home after his evening walk brings me a pack of unniyappam, parippu vada or omapodi from the nearby tea stall. My grandmother, mom and I relish it with evening coffee. It tastes so yum and still I can feel its taste. When I was planning for Christmas recipes, this snack comes to mind since mum used to make it during our Christmas vacation. I tried this a month ago when our friends visited us and they gave us a thumbs up. I have few more traditional Christmas snacks from my native that I will be posting it soon. Let us see the step-by-step preparation:

Mutton Cutlet Recipe | Minced Mutton Cutlet | Kerala Style Mutton Cutlet | Meat Cutlet | Mutton Recipes

Mutton cutlets are one of my recent favourites at home. Jany and Happy enjoy it to the core and hence I am making it whenever I get mutton. This recipe is a sure winner and I have tried it twice when our friends visited us. They liked it very much and I got good feedback about it from them too. Finally, I found a way to make Happy eat mutton since she doesn't focus much on non-veg dishes. I have already posted Chicken cutlets in my initial days of blogging, check that too. I will try to post a vegetable cutlet as soon as possible for my veg readers. Let us move on to the recipe.

Mutton Stew Recipe | Kerala Style Mutton Stew | Mutton in Coconut Milk Gravy | Mutton Recipes

I was very busy for the entire week and hence I have not posted anything here. I have many Christmas recipes in hand and hopefully, I will be posting it from this monday. Until then thought of finishing few more non-veg recipes from my drafts. A few months back I visited my friend's son birthday here in Sydney. She is a Malayali and for the dinner, she made appam and mutton stew along with other items. Mutton stew caught my attention and I even brought a box of stew back home to relish it the next day😆 I tried it the next weekend after getting the recipe from her. It turned out super awesome and I wanted to post it here in the blog before Christmas. Let's move to the preparations.

Chettinad Chicken Kuzhambu Recipe | Chettinad Chicken Gravy | Chettinad Kozhi Curry

I always make mom's Varutharacha Chicken Curry or Chicken Kuruma if I am planning for Chicken Curry since I am very much comfortable with those recipes. Recently, I started exploring Chettinad recipes and they are really awesome. Though the ingredients list seems to be a bit lengthy, it is worth giving a try. I have already posted the following Chettinad Non-Veg recipes:

Egg Podimas Recipe | Muttai Podimas | Egg Poriyal | Scrambled Egg | Egg Stir Fry

Egg Podimas is one of the easy to make poriyal for rice which we can make in a jiffy. Whenever I ran out of vegetables, I make this egg podimas to accompany rasam rice. Sometimes I pair the egg podimas with Channa Masala and rice, which is a yum combo as well. Please check out my other Egg recipes mentioned below: