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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…
This is a common dish found in south india especially in kerala and also the combination, Kadala curry and puttu is famous ….. its awesome… try this..
Ingredients for Kadala curry
Brown chickpeas – 1/2 cup
Grated coconut- 1/4 cup
Onion sliced- 1
Tomato sliced- 1 medium sized
Green chilies sliced- 2
Ginger chopped- 1 tsp
Garlic chopped- 1 tsp
chili powder- 1 1/2 tsp (or as required)
Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder- 2 tsp
Garam masala powder-1/2 tsp
Water-1 and 1/4 cup (or as required)
Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp
Curry leaves- few
Dried red chilies- 2
Coconut pieces- 2 tbsp
salt to taste
Oil
Method
1. Soak chickpeas in water overnight…
2. In a pan heat oil and dry roast grated coconut over medium low flame,until it turns to a reddish brown color.Allow this to cool slightly and grind to form a smooth paste adding very little water.Keep this aside….
3. Cook chickpeas with Onion sliced,Tomato sliced, Green chilies sliced, Ginger chopped, Garlic chopped, chili powder, Turmeric powder, Coriander powder, Garam masala powder in water….
4. After cooking add the roasted coconut paste and add water if required and stir it for 5 mins.let it to boil….
5. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds let it splutter. Add curry leaves,
dried red chilies and coconut pieces.stir until it turns golden brown. Pour this over the curry.Mix well…….
Serve this hot with puttu or anything you like dosa, iddli…. its delicious…..
i like my mom’s rasam the most… its spicy and yummy… rasam is also called saaru which is a soup mainly found in south India. Its very tasteful to eat with rasam, rice and papad (papadam)…
Ingredients for rasam
Tomatoes
Tamarind paste (soak lemon sized tamarind in hot water for 5 mins and then sieve out the concentration)
Rasam powder
Salt
Turmeric powder
chilli powder
Mustard
Red chilli
Method
1. Take a deep bottomed pan and add 3 cups of water. Add about 2 tablespoons of tamarind paste to it. Add a teaspoon of salt, a pinch of turmeric powder , 2 teaspoons of rasam powder, 1 1/2 tsp chilli powder. Dice 2 tomatoes and add it to it. Let it to boil.
2. Take a pan add some oil and add mustard and red chilli to crackle and pour it to the boiled rasam.
I am interested to post small dishes which can be made in 10 or 15 mins rather than giving a huge recipe. Today we know that every one is busy.. and these type of dishes will be very helpful.Today i am putting the recipe of a ladies finger dish. Its common in our houses ,making this dish but many may be unaware of its easiness. Today when i went to kitchen after my work i opened each vessel and i didn’t see anything i like. U know obviously we don’t like everything , we like some and some we don’t……. ;-( I am so hungry that time and i searched in kitchen and decided to make this dish.. and i made this with in 10 min and i like its taste very much and i had a nice meal….. 🙂 So i wish i can share this with you……..
Ingredients for ladies finger dish
Ladies finger – 8
Tomato – 1
Onion sliced – 1
Green chilli – 3
Oil
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder(if needed) – 1/4 tsp
Meat masala – 1/4 tsp (optional, i used ,it increases the taste)
Salt to taste
Method
1. Heat oil in the pan, add onion slices and stir, after 1 min add ladies finger again stir it. 2. when it loose its hardness, add chilli slices and tomato and continue stirring. 3. Add salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, meat masala and stir well… 4. Add little water , 1/4 cup of water is enough again stir it once and keep it for sometime until all water is drained. (if u want u can add some more oil now and stir it for 2 min if u like oily dishes) switch off the flame…
1. Slice cucumber into small pieces. Remove the seeds but do not remove the skin. 2. Cook these pieces with turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt. Add sufficient water. 3. Make a paste of grated coconut, mustard seeds, cumin, small onion, turmeric and red chili powder. Add this ground paste to the cooked cucumber. Add sufficient water and boil it. 4. Take some oil in a pan and pop mustard seeds. To this add curry leaves also. Finally garnish the curry with this seasoning.
