Special Sausage Potato Curry

Special Sausage Potato Curry is a very rich and special curry as it is named. This was a day I was totally confused on what to cook. No stock of chicken in fridge and too less of veggies. What I had was sausages. So.. there this recipe started and came out with a rich and tasty dish. Don't hesitate on trying this dish friends.. For sure family and kids will love this curry. Have a great weekend friends :) :)

Ingredients:

Chicken Sausage - 5 nos (cut to small cube pieces)

Potato - 2 medium (cut to small cube pieces)

Tomatoes - 5 medium (puree)

Onions - 2 medium (chopped)

Green chillies - 4 nos (cut to half)

Garlic - 5 pods (thin slices)

Turmeric powder - ½ tsp

Kashmiri chilli powder - 3 tsp

Garam masala powder - ½ + ½ tsp

Dry Kasuri methi - 1 tsp

Fresh corriender leaves - 3 tbsp

Butter - 50 grams (250gm + 250 gm)

Black pepper powder - ½ tsp (optional)

Cashewnut paste - 3 tbsp (15 - 20 nos)

Water - ½ - 1 cup

Salt - To taste

Preparation:

- Clean, cut chicken sausage to small cube sizes and keep aside.

- Peel, clean, cut potatoes to small cube size. Boil cut potatoes with salt till cooked. Drain water and keep aside.

- Grind 5 tomatoes and keep aside.

- Grind cashew nuts with two tsp of warm water to a thick paste and keep aside.

- Heat 250 gm of butter in a kadai. Add and saute green chillies, garlic in butter for a minute.

- Now add the chopped onions and fry till soft and translucent.

- Pour the tomato puree to the kadai, add turmeric powder, kashmiri red chillies powder, ½ tsp of garam masala powder, chopped corriender leaves and mix well. Let this mixture cook for about 10-15 minutes on low flame with lid on.

- Once done, add kasuri methi, cooked potatoes, sausages, black pepper powder and mix well. Add water, salt, 250 gm of butter at this stage and cook for another 5-10 minutes on low flame.

- Now add cashew paste, ½ tsp of garam masala powder and mix well for a sec.

- Switch off flame, garnish and serve hot with Rotis, Naan or Chapathis.

Note:

- Make sure to puree the tomatoes without water.

- Adding black pepper powder is optional.

- You can add more butter if needed. Excess butter adds more taste to the gravy.

Beef Varattiyathu

Its been a while I had posted a recipe. So lets have something very spicy and finger licking dish. Its nothing other than Beef Varattiyathu. A spicy, delicious and yet simple dish with every day kitchen ingredients. Let this dish be your dinner star for the day. Have fun and enjoy life friends :)

Ingredients:

Beef - 500 gms (with or without bone)

Onions - 3 medium (1+2)

Green chillies - 6 nos (3+3)

Garlic - 8 pods

Tomato - 1 small

Jeera - ½ tsp

Cinnamon - 1 small piece

Turmeric powder - ½ tsp + ½ tsp

Red chilli powder - ½ tsp + ½ tsp

Meat Masala - 1 tbsp

Black pepper powder - 1 tsp

Garam masala powder - ½ tsp

Curry leaves - 2 strings

Water - ½ cup

Oil - 3 tbsp

Salt - to taste

Preparation:

- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a cooker. Let hot, add one sliced onions, three green chillies, garlic pods, sliced tomato and saute for two minutes.

- Add ½ tsp turmeric, ½ tsp red chilli powder, 1 tbsp meat masala, salt and saute till raw smell goes. Once done add the cleaned, cut beef, water and let cook on medium flame for 7-8 whistles. Once done, let the beef cool down and keep aside.

- Take a kadai, heat 2 tbsp of oil. Add jeera, cinnamon stick and let heat for a sec.

- Add sliced two onions, three sliced green chillies, curry leaves and fry till onions turn translucent. Add garam masala powder, black pepper powder and fry for another sec.

- Now toss the cooked beef and mix well. Let cook on medium high flame till you get a semi gravy consistency (check and add salt at this stage).

- Delicious and spicy Beef Varattiyathu is ready to serve hot with rice, chapathi or kerala parotta.

Note:

- This is a spicy fry dish. Adjust salt and spice as per taste.

- I used sunflower oil for this dish. You can add coconut oil for a different taste.