It was a threatening week for Japanese. On wednesday, there was a minor quake from then on the people were so tensed following the warning of a major earth quake. It all happened when the quake bombarded the Northern Japan by 14:46 local time. The earth quake was measured at 8.9 on the richter scale. After shocks was around 20 in just two hours. Strongest being around 7.4 on the richter scale occured after half an hour after the main shake.

Shock epicenter was located about 130 km off the east coast of the island of Honshu, and the hypocentre was at a depth of about 10 km.

Sendai, North Tokyo was afraid to be the terribly hit place by the quake. Following the quake, Tsunami warning was issued. Alongwith this Hawaai,Australia,Phillipines,Indonesia were also issued Tsunami warning. In few hours the most devastating thing occured, a 13 foot Tsunami hit the northern coasts of Japan and it was learnt that the damage is quite huge in terms of people,money and infrastructure. The Onagawa nuclear power plant caught fire added salt to the injury.

The death toll and the number injured are yet to be made public. But the Government has issued concerns saying that the death toll would be quite huge. The waves destroyed the surface of a dozen houses. Also flooded the runways at the airport in Sendai. This is the worst earthquake for 20 years – said Reuters correspondent in Tokyo.

UN said that 30 international rescue teams indicated their willingness to share.Japan's PM Naoto Kan has requested people to stay calm and gain strength to fight this natural disaster.

Japan has asked for U.S. assistance in the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that swept the country.

People along the coasts of Hawaii and west coasts breathed out a sigh of relief as a Tsunami with a 500MPH threatening to strike with a wave as tall as 9 foot high, just soaked the beaches which caused little damage and a few traffic jams.

A famous recipe on ganesh chadhurthi. Kozhukattais are steamed rice balls with sweet coconut.

Add grated coconut and cumin seeds and mix it well.

 Ingredients

• Red chillies - 200 gram.
• Grated coconut - 1 cup.
• Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon.

Preparation of Red chilly kozhukattai

1. Soak the boiled rice for 2 hours.

2. Add the red chillies to the boiled rice and it grind it well.

3. To this add grated coconut and cumin seeds and mix it well.

4. And make this into small balls.

5. Apply oil on idly plates and boil this kozhukattai.

Tandoori chicken is the famous North Indian recipe. It’s an oil free food served with pudhina chutney as side dish.

Prepare tandoori chicken, tandoori chicken masala in 30 minutes

Ingredients

• Chicken 1 No.
• Lemon juice 3 tsp.
• Red chili powder 2 tsp.
• Curd (Yogurt) As per taste
• Garlic paste 1 tsp.
• Ginger paste 1 tsp.
• Garam masala powder 1 tsp.
• Mustard oil 1 tsp.
• Oil For basting
• Salt As per taste

Chicken Tandoori Preparation Method

1. Skin the chicken and make diagonal incisions all over. 

2. Mix 1 tablespoon red chili powder, salt and 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Apply this to the chicken and leave it for half an hour. 

3. Hang Curd/Yogurt in the muslin cloth for some time.  Take Yogurt in a bowl, add red chili powder, salt, lemon juice, Ginger Paste, Garlic Paste, Garam Masala Powder and mustard oil. Mix well. 

4. Apply this marinade to the chicken. Put the chicken onto the skewer and roast in the tandoor oven. 

5. When chicken is almost done, baste it with oil, and roast again till done. 

6 Serve hot with onion slices and lemon wedges.

The preparation of the dish is very easy with green chilies and with chopped spring onions. This is made with boneless chicken and Soya sauce gravy.

Ingredients

• Chicken boneless 800 Gms.
• Ajinomoto A pinch
• White pepper powder 2 spoon.
• Sugar 1 tsp.
• Soya Sauce 2 tbsps.
• Cornflour 2 tbsps.
• Egg 1 no.
• Chopped green chilies 8 nos.
• Chopped Garlic 6-8 cloves
• Oil - 2 cup
• Salt

Preparation of Chilly Chicken

1. Marinate the boneless chicken pieces (one inch cubes) in 1 tablespoon. Soya sauce, salt, egg and 1 tablespoon cornflour for ten minutes.  
2. Deep fry the chicken in hot oil till it turns light brown.  
3. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a wok. Add chopped garlic and chopped green chilies and toss for 15 seconds.  
4. Add 2 teacups of chicken stock or water. Bring it to a boil. Add ajinomoto, sugar, white pepper powder, salt and rest of the Soya sauce.  
5. Add fried chicken pieces and cook for 3 minutes.  
6. Add rest of cornflour, after dissolving it in water. Stir constantly.
7. Garnish with chopped spring onions and green chilies julienne.

Naan is a northern Indian baked flat bread. Learn how to prepare it at home.

In a medium bowl, mix milk together flour, fresh yeast and salt.

Ingredients

• Maida - 1 cup.
• Fresh yeast - a pinch.
• Milk - 1 glass.
• Salt - as you required.

 Preparation method

1. Add yeast and salt in the milk mix it and close it.

2. Add this to the maida flour and make chappathi mixture.

3. keep the mixture in the big vessel.

4. After some times the mixture will become larger.

5. Then you make chappathi from the mixture.

6. Fry it in a thavva.