Tadka Times
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Rajma Rice
– Pressure cook rice, rajma and chop rajma into pieces so that it enhances the taste – Add oil in a pan and sauté cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, kasa kasa, coriander seeds, cashew nuts and grind to a fine powder – Add oil in a pan and sauté chopped onions, tomato purée, red chilly powder, curry…
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Paal Kozhukattai
– Soak little raw rice and bengal gram separately in water for half an hour – Grind soaked raw rice in mixie to a fine paste – Pour 2 litres of water in a heavy bottomed vessel and boil it, then add soaked bengal gram into it – Mix more water in the grounded raw…
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Mutton Briyani
– Pressure cook mutton, little onion, little tomato, little ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, little red chilly powder and salt – Add oil, ghee and sauté cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger garlic paste, onion paste, tomato paste, red chilly powder, curry masala powder, coriander powder, cooked mutton, rice, salt and hot water – Add coriander leaves,…
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Sprouted Green Gram Fried Rice
– Soak whole green gram for one day and make sprouts out of it – Chop carrot, beans, cabbage, capsicum, onion and spring onion into small pieces – Add more oil and saute sprouted green gram, chopped vegetables, sweet corn, till it gets cooked – Add freshly grinded pepper powder, salt, already cooked and cooled…
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Paruppu Adai
– Soak 100 gms parboiled (idli) rice, 50 gms bengal gram, 25 gms broken green gram, handful of toor dal and handful of urad dal (OR) – Soak 100 gms parboiled (idli) rice, 25 gms black chickpeas, 25 gms whole green gram, 25 gms kaara mani, 25 gms bengal gram and handful of urad dal…
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Saamai/Little Millet Khichdi
– Add oil in a pan and sauté mustard, broken urad dal, bengal gram, cashew nuts, chopped onions, ginger, green chillies, chopped tomato, drumstick leaves and salt – Add 3 cups water to it and let it boil for sometime – Add 1 cup saamai and once it comes to khichdi consistency, add grated coconut…
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Potato Stew
– Dry roast urad dal, fried gram, bengal gram, coriander seeds, red chillies and grind it with coconut – Add oil in a pan and add tadka, onion, tomato, boiled potatoes, salt, grinded mixture and bring it to boil – Add pepper powder while serving
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Grilled Chicken
– Grind big onion, unpeeled more garlic, cumin powder, red chilly powder, turmeric powder, pepper powder, oregano, chilly flakes, lemon/vinegar, sugar/honey, salt and oil – Cut the chicken in to bigger pieces and marinate it with the grinded paste – Let it marinate for at least 3 hours or even over night – Cook the…
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Kollu/Horse Gram Porridge
– Dry roast horse gram and broken green gram until golden brown – Pressure cook par boiled rice, little horse gram and little broken green gram – Once the pressure subsides, add salt according to taste
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Dal Rasam
– Add oil in a pan and sauté mustard, curry leaves, cumin seeds, freshly grinded pepper, smashed garlic, finely chopped tomato, turmeric powder, asafoetida powder and salt – Once the tomatoes turns mushy add tamarind water – Boil it for sometime unlike the normal rasam – Add coriander leaves and add boiled toor dal to…