Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Sambar

Ingredients
vegetables
potato-1
tomato-1
onion-1
carrot -1 small
bringal-1
ladies finger -3 
turmeric -1tsp
toor dal -1/4 cup
smabar powder-4 to 5 tsp
water 
salt

Preparation
Cook toor dal in a pressure cooker
Cut all the vegitables and cook with salt and turmeric
Mix sambarpowder in little water .
Mix both coooked vegetables and cooked toor dal and 
sambar paste.
Boil it for 5 mints.
In a hot kadai add little oil ,mustard seeds,curry leaves.
Add this to above sambar.



Enji curry

Ingredients

Ginger chopped -1 cup
Green chilles chopped -1cup
Turmerind paste -1 cup
Jaggery-1 lemon like length
oil -2 tsp
salt
for seasoning
oil,mustard,curry leaves


Preparation

In a kadai add little oil,ginger and green chillies
Salute for few minutes until it become brown.
Grind this in a mixi.
Mix tramerind paste and jaggery.
Add little water in it and boil .
Mix the ginger-greenchilli paste 
Boil it for some time and  add required salt. 
In a kadai heat oil,mustard and curry leaves.
Mix all.









Friday, April 11, 2008

Tomato Salad

Ingredients

  • Tomato
  • Coconut Oil
  • Mustard
  • Chilly Flakes

Preparation
  • Cut tomato into small pieces and add salt
  • In a kadai add oil, mustard and chili flakes
  • Add tomato pieces and mix well

Mixed Vegetable Salad

Ingredients
  • Onion, Carrot, Cucumber, Tomato, Palak, Corriander leaves
  • Green chilies
  • lemon-1 slice
  • Salt to taste
Preparation

  • Grate carrot
  • Remove seeds of cucmber
  • Cut onion, tomato, cucumber, palak and corriander leaves into very small pieces
  • Cut green chilies
  • add lemon juice and salt and mix well. 

Brinjal Curd Curry

Ingredients
  • Onion, Brinjal (eggplant)
  • Curd
  • Chilies Flakes
  • Asafoetida
  • Green Chillies
  • Ginger
  • Garlic
  • Curry Leaves
  • Turmeric Powder
  • Coconut oil
  • Mustard
  • Cumin Seeds

Preparation
  • Cut brinjal into small pieces, apply salt, chilly-flakes and asafoetida and keep aside for 15 minutes
  • Stir-fry the brinjal pieces in coconut oil. When it is nearly cooked, add little turmeric powder, transfer to another vessel and keep aside
  • Add little oil in a pan and then add mustard, cumin seeds, sliced green chillies, sliced ginger and garlic, sliced onion and curry leaves one by one, to make the spice mix.
  • Add the spice mix to fried brinjal and add curd and salt as required.


Note: This curry can be served with rice or chapathis. You can saute few tomato slices too along with brinjal for a different taste.

Beetroot/Carrot salad

Ingredients

  • Beetroot-1
  • Carrot-1
  • Curd-1 cup
  • Coconut oil-1 spoon
  • Mustard-1/2 spoon
  • Jeera -1/4 spoon
  • Green chilies-2
  • Curry leaves


Preparation

  • Grate beetroot / carrot
  • Add some salt and curd mix well
  • In a pan put coconut oil
  • Add mustard, jeera, green chilies and curry leaves
  • Mix this with the above

Onion-Tomato salad

Ingredients
  • onion-1
  • tomato-1
  • curd-1 cup
  • pepper powder-1 spoon
  • green chilies-2
  • salt


Preparation

  • Cut onion and tomato into small peaces
  • Add curd, pepper powder/green chillies and some salt to the above pieces
  • Mix well



Thursday, April 10, 2008

Coconut Chutney

Ingredents

  • Coconut grated-1/2 cup
  • Pottu kadala-1/4 cup
  • Green chilies-4 to 5
  • Curry leaves
  • Turmerind-very small piece
  • Cummin seeds
  • Coconut oil
  • Mustard
  • Salt to taste

Preparation
  • Grind coconut,pottu kadala(optional),green chilies,curryleaves and turmerind in a mixi
  • Take coconut oil in a pan
  • Add mustard,cummin seeds and curryleaves
  • Mix this with above grind mixture and add required salt

Banana Baji

Ingredients


  • Raw banana

  • Basin (channa) flour

  • Chilli powder

  • Asafotedia

  • Oil to fry

  • Salt to taste



Preparation


  • Slice the banana and add salt

  • To prepare batter, mix basin flour, chilli powder, asafotedia and salt with water to make a smooth paste

  • Dip the sliced banana into batter and fry in oil till it becomes brown in color

  • The bajjas can be eaten hot

Salted Leamon

Ingredients

Leamon

salt

turmeric powder

Preparation

Boil some water with some salt and cool it.

Boil lemon for 10 to 15 minuts with salt and turmeric powder.

let it cool .Remove the leamon from water and put it in above salt water,lemon can be stored like this for long period of time

we can also use this lemon for making pickles simply by adding chilli powder and hig




Thursday, April 3, 2008

Payam Pori

Ingredients

Banana-2

Rice Powder-1 measure

Mida-1/4 measure

cooking oil to fry

Salt to taste

Prepartation

Cut the banans as long slices

to make batter mix rice powder,mida and salt with some water

take banana pieces one by one and dip in the batter and deep fry

Fry until the bubles in oil stop