Tadka Times
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Nellikaai/Gooseberry Thuvayal
– Add oil and sauté mustard, urad dal, green chillies, coconut and boiled gooseberry – Grind all the above with salt
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Tomato Thokku
– Grind ripen tomatoes to a fine paste – Add oil and sauté mustard, red chillies, more asafoetida powder, curry leaves, tomato paste, red chilly powder and salt – Simmer the stove and cook in low flame until it becomes thokku
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Ginger Kuzhambu
– Finely chop ginger into very small pieces and sauté ginger for more time and grind it to a fine paste – Add tamarind juice in a pan and boil for sometime – Add turmeric powder and 1/2 tbsp red chilly powder and boil for sometime – Add salt, grinded ginger paste, little jaggery to…
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Pulicha Keerai/Sorrel Leaves Kadayal
– Add tamarind and 4 green chillies in water and make it to boil – After the water starts boiling, add pulicha keerai and cook well – Strain the water and grind it to a fine paste by adding salt – Add sesame oil in a pan and sauté vadagam, bengal gram, urad dal, finely…
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Beetroot Rice
– Dry roast and grind pepper, cumin seeds, bengal gram, urad dal, coriander seeds, red chillies, cloves and cinnamon to a coarse powder – Add oil and sauté mustard, curry leaves, onion and grated beetroot – Once beetroot is cooked, add grinded powder, roasted peanuts, salt and cooked rice – Add coriander leaves at the…
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Aapam
– Soak and grind 100 gms raw rice, 100 gms idli rice, little fenugreek, little urad dal, handful of parboiled rice – Add 1 tbsp coconut water, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp salt and a pinch of baking soda and make it little water consistency – Close it with tight lid (cooker lid) for 10…
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Keerai Kadayal
– Boil broken green gram in a pan or cooker – Add oil and sauté 4 pearl onions, 2 green chillies, 10 garlic flakes, 1 tomato and turmeric powder – Pour water to it and add chopped greens – Boil until it gets cooked and once cooled, grind the above in mixie – Add oil,…
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Egg Kuzhambu
– Grind 2 big onions, ginger and garlic – Grind 3 tomatoes – Grind coconut, fennel seeds, roasted gram and pepper to a fine paste – Add oil, cloves, bay leaf, cinnamon, cardamom and sauté all the above one by one – Add red chilly powder and salt to it – Bring it to the…
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Vaazhakaai Karanaikizhangu Kootu
– Without adding oil, sauté coconut, red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds and curry leaves – Pressure cook chopped vaazhakaai, karanaikizhangu, bengal gram, broken green gram, turmeric powder, curry leaves and salt – Grind the masala to a fine paste – Once the veggies are cooked, smash it well and add the grinded…
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Marundhu Kuzhambu
– Add oil and saute parangi sakka, kanda thippili, vaal milagu, paal milagu, sukku, pepper, cumin seeds and asafoetida cake – Grind it to a fine paste by adding water – Add turmeric powder, tamarind juice, tomato and salt to the gravy – If the gravy is too spicy, add coriander powder – Add sesame…