Malaysian ketchup chicken(Chicken in soy sauce)

Ingredients

Chicken 1 kg

Onion chopped 1

Ginger garlic paste 2 tsp

Fennel seeds ½ tsp

Bay leaf 1

Cinnamon 1

Dry red chilli 4

Soy sauce 5 tbsp

Chilli tomato sauce 1 tbsp

Pepper powder 1 tbsp

Preparation

1.      In a pan add oil, fennel seeds, bay leaf, cinnamon and dry red chilli

2.      Add chicken and saute well

3.      Add ginger garlic paste and allow to cook

4.      Add salt

5.      Once done add soy sauce, chilli tomato sauce, pepper powder and onion

6.      Allow to cook till it dries up

Serve with yellow rice

Simple sardine fry( mathi meen varuval)

Ingredients

Sardine 8

Chilli powder 1 tsp

Turmeric powder ½ tsp

Pepper powder ½ tsp ( coarsely ground)

Lemon juice 1 tsp

Salt and oil as required

Preparation

1.      Clean the sardines and keep aside

2.      In a bowl mix chilli powder, turmeric powder, pepper powder,salt and lemon juice

3.      Rub this paste on the sardines and marinate for 30 minutes

4.      Deep fry or shallow fry in oil

5.      Serve hot as starter

Goes well in combo with sambar or rasam

Mackerel fish sambal(malaysian style)

Ingredients

Canned mackerel 200 gm ( mackerel in tomato sauce)

Onion 1

Tomato 1

Green chilli 1

Chilli powder  tsp

Tamarind extract 1 tbsp

Salt and oil as required

Preparation

1.      In a pan add oil and onion. Saute well

2.      Add tomato and slit green chilli saute well

3.      Add chilli powder and salt

4.      Add tamarind extract and bring it to boil

5.      Add mackerel along with tomato sauce in it

6.      Smash the fish and cook for 5-7 minutes

7.      Cook till gravy thickens

Serve with rice, roti or parathas