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BeetRoot porial Ingredients: Beetroot 2 Green chilly 4 Garlic 4 cloves Ginger 1 piece Shallots 4 Oil 1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds 1/4 tsp Curry leaves a few Salt to taste Vinegar 1 tbsp Directions: 1. Grate the beetroot, and steam cook with chopped green chilly, ginger, and garlic. 2. When it is almost cooked, add the chopped shallots and cook for some more time. 3. Heat oil in a pan and allow mustard seeds and curry leaves to splutter. 4. Add the cooked beetroot, salt and vinegar and serve.
Plantain Fry (Green Banana Fry) Ingredients: 1.Green Banana/Plantain -2 2.Garlic paste - 3 tsp 3.Red chilli powder -1tsp 4.Salt 5.Turmeric - 1pinch For seasoning: Oil -1 tsp Mustard seeds-1 tsp Urad dal -1tsp Channa dal -1 tsp Curry leaves -1 tsp Salt to taste How to make: • Cut Plantain into small slices(very thin ) into a bowl of cold water. • In a pan heat oil then add all seasoning ingredients. • Add garlic paste,Turmeric and Red chlli powder. • Add little water(1/4 of cup) and salt.Let it boil then mix well. • once the garlic cooked well then add the plantain. • cover it .mix well occasionally.keep it in low flame. • let it cook well until soft.
Banana flower Ingredients 1 small banana flower (vazhapoo) 1/2 cup Bengalgram dal 1/2 cup Red gram dal Salt to taste Bit of asafoetida Few curry leaves Oil 1/2 tsp mustard seeds Soak the dals for 1 hour. Take out the red cover, remove each petal of the flower and pull out the thread like strand from the center. Cut it into small pieces and keep them soaked in some water. Cook it with little water till it gets soft. Keep aside. Grind the dals together to a coarse paste. Heat oil, add mustard seeds, curry leaves and when it splutters, add the dal paste, salt and asafoetida. Cook till you get seperate grains of the paste and the colour starts changing. Keep stirring it else it will get stuck to the pan. Add the cooked banana flower and mix well. Serve with rice.
Bitter Gourd Curry . Ingredients: Bitter gourd-1/2 kg Onion-1 Turmeric little pinch Jaggery 1 tsp Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp Jeera-1/2 tsp Curry leaves few For powder: Dry red chillies-6 Roasted chana dal-2 tsp Chana dal-1 tsp Urad dal-1 tsp Coriander seeds-1 tsp Jeera-1 tsp Salt to taste Oil-1 tsp Method: Preparation of Powder: Place one pan and heat it.When it is heat add 1/2 tsp oil and heat when it is add all the Ingredients to prepare the powder except salt.Fry until all changes to light brown color. Make it cool and then grind to powder. This u can prepare more powder and store it for more days. Preparation of curry: First clean the bitter gourd and onions chop it and keep it aside. Place another pan and heat it.When it is heat add the oil and heat it. Now add the mustard seeds when it starts cracking add the jeera and curry leaves to it. Add the bitter gourd pieces to it fry for 1 minute add the turmeric to it. Now close the lid fry for 2 minutes.Open the lid and add the chopped onions and mix it . Again close the lid and cook for 5 minutes. Add salt and jaggery to it and fry for 5 minutes. Now the bitter gourd is cooked well.Finally add the 3 tsp powder mix it well and take out from heat. Now take this in the serving bowl.This goes nice with the hot rice.
Dry side dish Broccoli-Egg Poriyal:- Yummy Combo :crazy Finely chopped onions - 1 medium sized Finely chopped Green chillies as per taste Broccoli - 1 (chop into very tiny chunks) Eggs - 2 (beat them with little salt) To temper :- Oil Mustard seeds Curry leaves Heat oil in a kadai and temper with the given ingredients. Now add chopped onions and saute well. Next green chillies, broccoli and salt and saute for a minute.Sprinkle enough water and let it cook in medium flame.Cook it covered. Once they are soft enough and cooked well add the beaten eggs and kindle without taking hands.Soon they cook.Chop them into tiny chunks with the laddle itself.If necessary add little oil in the end.Serve hot.Tastes great and absolutely healthy too :thumbsup. Do not add more water while cooking the veggie.Better you sprinkle enough water.
Thanks mam.Actually my friend's maid used to prepare a dish out of radish and egg.A perfect side-dish for rasam rice. Will check out the recipe and update here soon :thumbsup
Cabbage and potatoes Ingredients: Cabbage- 500gms, sliced, Potatoes- 2, cut in small cubes Oil- 1/2 tablespoon, Turmeric paste- 1 tablespoon Chilli paste- 1 teaspoon, Cumin paste- 1 and one fourth tablespoon Coriander paste- 1 tablespoon, Ginger paste- 1 teaspoon Ghee- 1 tablespoon, Bay leaves- 2, Garam masala- to taste Salt- to taste, Sugar- to taste Steps: Fry the cubed potatoes in hot oil until light brown.Remove from oil and keep it aside.To the hot oil in the pan add the sliced cabbage and sprinkle salt.Stir and cover the pan.Cook for 5 min. Remove cover and to the water given out by the cabbage add the masala pastes.Stir and fry until masalas are well blended with the cabbage.Add 1/4 cup of water to cook the potatoes.Add a sliced tomato and fry.Add salt a to taste.Simmer over medium until the potatoes are cooked and there is almost no gravy left.In a frying pan heat a tablespoon of ghee Add the bay leaves and garam masala.Stir and pour it on the cooked cabbage
- Stuffed Snake Gourd Ingredients: one foot long tender snake gourd 1 tbsp lime juice 3/4 salt (to taste) 2 tbsp oil Ground to a smooth paste 3/4 cup grated fresh coconut 3-4 green chillies 2 tsp cumin seeds 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves 1/4 cup water Tempering 2 tsp oil 1/2 tsp mustard seeds 1 dried red chilli, halved 1 sprig curry leaves Method: 1. Chop off and discard both ends of a snake gourd. Slice snake gourd into 1 inch pieces, without peeling it. Scoop out seeds from within the slices to make hollow cylinders. Set aside 2. Mix spice paste with lime juice and half the salt. 3. Heat oil for tempering in a pan over moderate heat. Add remaining ingredients for tempering in the order given. When mustard seeds splutter, add spice paste and fry over low heat for 1-2 minutes, stirring continuously. 4. Remove pan from heat. Cool and stuff snake gourd cylinders with spices. 5. Place a frying pan over moderate heat and add 2 tbsp oil. Add stuffed snake gourd, sprinkle with a little water, and cook over low heat for 8-10 minutes, till tender. Stir gently, taking care not to break them. Serve hot as a side dish with rice or roti.