Hello Friends, Even for a great chef, the best cook will be his or her MOM! We might have learnt more varieties than our moms or tasted different types of foods in our life. Still, we all have that one receipe of our mom's cooking thats our all time favourite and always feel proud to share it with others. How about we share that receipe with our IL friends here. Feel free to add even one of yours that your kids would love to eat wherever they are in the world! Let me start with Onion-tomato sambhar and Mango Kuzhambu.. MANGO KUZHAMBU Mango - 1 big Mustard seeds - 1/4 spoon Oil - 2 spoonful Fenugreek powder - 1/4 spoon Hing - 1/4 spoon Green Chillies - 4 Red Chillies - 4 Tamarind (lime size) Chilli Powder - 1/2 spoon Jaggery/Sugar - 2 spoons Curry Leaves Salt to taste Method: Cut mango into small pieces. Dont have to peel the skin. Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds, fenugreek powder, hing. When mustard splutters, add red chillies and fry for few seconds. Add cut mangoes and cut green chillies and fry till mango gets tender. Add tamarind water to it. Add chilli powder, salt, jaggery/sugar and allow it to boil for 5 minutes. Add curry leaves. ONION-TOMATO SAMBHAR Ingredients: Tomato - 3 big ripe peeled Small onion (sambhar onion) - 1 cup For Seasoning: Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp Methi seeds - 1/4 tsp red chilli - 1 curry leaves peanuts - 1/4 cup green chilly (slit) -2 For Sambhar Powder: (Fry the following in little oil and powder) Dhania - 2 tsp channa dhal - 1 tsp red chillies - 3 1. Blanch tomatoes in hot water and grind into a puree 2. In a kadai add little oil and heat. Add mustard seed and when it splutters and methi seed, green chilly, red chilly, peanuts and curry leaves and stir for a minute 3. Add peeled and cut small onion and fry for 2-3 minutes 4. Add tomato puree, add salt and a cup of water and let it cook for 3 minutes 5. Add the sambhar powder and stir well and let it boil for 2 minutes
Thats a nice thread you have started. Thanks for starting it. My mom is a self learned great cook. My favourites of her cooking are many. But the most favourite and the one which is liked even by my daughter is her Mysore Pak. Also her Venjanam and Bavani Kuzhambu are other favourites. The most favourite of my MIL's cooking is the Ennai Kathirikai.
Hi RajmiArun, Thanks for sharing your mom's best. Mysore Pak is a sweet that requires a special skill to get it to perfection. I have never succeeded in it. Can you also share the receipe of your mom's with us.. regards,
Hi Nice thread, i shld definitely say about my mom's VATHAKUZHAMBU she is very very very famous for this receipe in our family even with neighbours,friends ..............I CAN BET NO ONW IN THIS WORLD CAN DO THIS VATHAKUZHAMBU LIKE SHE DOES :thumbsup :thumbsup (Ofcourse, hse used the same method like everybody but KAIRASI PAKKUVAM KAIMANAM something different:clap :clap :clap :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: She is expert in cooking and Know in and out , but that was her special receipe latamurali
hi all, Nice thread. As you everybody likes their mom's cooking the best. gals dont laugh...i used to like the coffee my mother made.....But cooking my dad was better than my mom...his vegetable kurmas, dals.......
