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Thorans are very simple dishes to make and its unavoidable with rice for most of us… so i decided to post some thoran recipes here.. some call it upperi…today i am putting beans thoran recipe and i will try to add most of the thoran recipes here as soon as possible.. 🙂
Ingredients for Beans thoran
Beans – 1/4 kg
Grated coconut – 1/4 cup
Green chillies – 2
Salt to taste
Water
Oil
Method
1. Chop nicely the beans and green chillies..
2. Heat a pan put beans and green chillies in it along with water and add required salt to it… cover the pan with a lid and cook it…
3. After cooking add grated coconut and sprinkle some oil and mix well and keep it in flame for 2 mins.. and switch of the flame… Dish is ready…
This dish can be made in different ways.. i like this way… i will give you some more options.. try these too….
Notes:
1. Coconut is optional if you don’t like it you can avoid that…
2. You can mix the grated coconut with turmeric powder, chilli powder(or red chilli) in a blender…. (don’t make a paste just mix it or you can do it with your hand also) and add that….
3. You can splutter mustard seeds, red chillies and curry leaves and can add to this….
4. You can finely add chopped onions if you need….
Semiya upma is a delicious dish.. Its very easy to make for breakfast or for evening tea… Its so tasty that we can eat it without any other items for combination..
Ingredients for Semiya upma
Semiya 1 packet
Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves few
Green chillies – 4
coconut grated – 1/4 cup
Water 1 cup
Salt to taste
Oil
Method
1. Heat oil in a pan… Splutter the mustard seeds and add curry leaves and green chillies… Stir for a minute…..
2. Add the semiya and saute until it turns golden brown…..
3. Add sufficient amount of water and salt and cook it….
5. After cooking add the grated coconut to it and stir well… Switch off the flame…
Semiya upma is ready… if you need you can add vegetables too…
Sambar is a common and famous dish of south india…. I made this sambar using the shallots which we call cheriyulli or kujulli in kerala….Among different sambars i like this the most… Now iam sharing this with you. try this also….
Ingredients for Sambar
Shallots – 1 cup
Dal- 1/2 cup (paripe)
Green chilli – 4
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Sambar powder – 2 tbsp
Tamarind – lime sized ball
Coconut grated – 1/2 cup
Dry red chillies – 4
Curry leaves few
Coriander leaves few
Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp (jeerakam)
Fenugreek seeds – 1/2 tsp (uluva)
Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
Oil
Salt to taste
Method
1. Cook the dal and mash it and keep aside….
2. Dry Cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds and red chillies in a pan with little oil. Add the grated coconut and saute till golden in colour… and then keep aside for cooling.
3. After cooling grind this to fine paste…. keep aside…
4. Soak the tamarind in 2 cup of water for 15 min and squeeze it and extract the paste….
5. Take a pan, heat oil and fry shallots and green chillies in medium flame and keep aside…
6. Boil the tamarind extract with turmeric powder and required salt…
7. Add the fried shallots, green chillies to it…. put sambar powder in it and let it boil…
8. Add the cooked dal, granted coconut and required water and salt. Boil it..
9. Heat the pan add oil and splutter the mustard seeds and saute dry red chillies and curry leaves. Pour it in to the sambar…
