Meat Balls (kolla orundai)

These are the most yummiest meat balls ever. They are just so awesome and so tasty that you can't stop with just a few. This is recipe is also from my mom and its so common in my native and in chettinad region.

Ingredients:

Minced mutton - 500 g
Green chilies - 4-5
Garlic - 5-6
Sombu - 1 tsp
Coconut - 2 tsp grated
Poppy seeds - 1 tsp
Onion - 1
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Puttu kadalai - 2 tsp
Egg - 1 (NOTE: avoid using the egg yoke if you will deep fry in oil)
Tumeric powder - 1tsp
Coriander leaves
Curry leaves
Oil - to deep fry and if using a air fryer about 2 tsp

Method:

I had to make minced meat from normal meat pieces in my mixie. It was not very hard but then the mutton was more of a paste than minced.

Grind all the ingredient shown on the plate in this picture into a fine paste. You could add a few cashew nuts to make it more rich and yummier.

Mix these ground ingredients into the minced meat. Add egg, turmeric, finely chopped curry leaves, finely chopped coriander, salt to taste.

Make them into small patties and you could deep fry in oil or you could use air fryer. Since I used air fryer I added about 2 tsp of oil into the meat mix and mixed it together with the other ingredients.

Air fryer at 180 C for about 15 mins. Turn it around once after about 8 mins of frying.

They are looks soo pefect and wow just mouth watering.

My Verdict about air fryer: I only needed about 2 tsp of oil to fry about 20 meat balls, with normal deep frying it would typically way too much than that. It was so much hasel free, i tossed these meat balls into the fryer and could do something else. There was just the nice aroma of the meat balls at home and not the strong smell of fried meat. So over all i loved it.

Muffins with air fryer

Yes you read the title right. Air fryer could also bake muffins and cakes. I have made some muffins for a small kids party. With my toddler at home i don't get so much time to make everything from scratch so i went with the store bought muffin mix  and gave it a try with the air fryer.

There is not big recipe in this post its more of a review on air fryer. The store bought packet comes with a pack of muffin mix, i have got both chocolate and vanilla. There is also a packet of choco chips and some paper muffin cups. All i need was to mix oil, milk and egg with the muffin mix as per the direction in the packet and it was all ready for backing.

I used this muffin mix

I set the air fryer at 160 C and for 10 mins for vanilla and for 12 mins for chocolate muffins. 

Muffins all set ready for backing

Muffins all done!!

My verdict on air fryer: They are just making sooper soft cup cakes. Its faster. In an conventional bake oven it would take 20 mins as per the direction in the box, while in the air fryer it just took half the time. 

Vathal with philips air fryer

Here is something very very simple which i tried out in the air fryer. As i mentioned in the first post about air fryer, i want to try the basic cooking init so i could use it more in our everyday cooking.

I coated the store bought vathal which half a teaspoon of oil in a bowl and tossed it into the air fryer and fried it for 2 mins at 160 C. Its comes out really puffed up and evenly colored. You really cant make out if it was fried in a conventional way or not.

It makes a lot of sense as its just 2 mins and way too little oil to get this one. In the traditional method, i normal fry a big batch and store it for a week or two and if the oil doesnt look bad i use it in the next days or sometime throw it away. 

My verdict: Its faster, cheaper on power and oil, tastes the same. So really cool.

Fried vathal