Tadka Times
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Black Chickpeas Kuzhambu
– Pressure cook soaked black chickpeas, broken green gram, turmeric powder and asafoetida powder – Add smashed onion, smashed garlic, grinded tomatoes, drumstick, brinjal, mango, broad beans, potato, capsicum, sambar powder, red chilly powder, corainder powder, tamarind juice and salt to the pressure cooked items – Pressure cook again the kuzhambu for 4 whistles –…
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Chicken/Mutton Kuzhambu
PRESSURE COOK MUTTON WITH LITTLE ONION, TOMATO, GREEN CHILLY, GINGER GARLIC PASTE, TURMERIC POWDER AND SALT, SO THAT THE MUTTON GETS COOKED WELL BEFORE PREPARING THE GRAVY (Not required for chicken) – Grind ginger and garlic to a coarse paste – Grind pearl and big onions to a coarse paste – Chop 3 tomatoes into…
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Khatta Meetha Tomato Dhokla
– Whisk 1/2 cup curd and salt – Add in 1/2 cup rava slowly to this curd and mix well. Let it rest for half an hour – Next add the 1 tbsp grated coconut, 1/2 tsp ginger paste, 1-2 tsp red chilli powder, and 1/2 cup tomato ketchup and mix well – Preheat the…
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Kovai Cauliflower
– Mix curry leaves coriander leaves paste, bengal gram flour, ginger garlic paste, salt and cauliflower florets – Deep fry cauliflower in oil – Add oil and sauté red chillies, chopped ginger garlic, green chillies, onion, deep fried cauliflower, curry leaves, pepper powder and salt – Add tomato sauce or chopped tomatoes, to make gravy…
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Urad Dal Porridge
– Soak 50 gms of urad dal and 1 tsp of raw rice – Grind it in mixie with water – Boil it with salt in a pan – Add cardamom powder, grated coconut and jaggery and boil it for few mins
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Nombu Kanji
– Pressure cook noi rice, more bengal gram, more broken green gram, 5 chopped pearl onions, 5 whole garlic cloves, 1 tomato, little fenugreek, 2 green chillies and add water 3 times the quantity of rice – Add ghee in a pan and sauté cinnamon, cloves and either drumstick leaves or mint leaves – Add…
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Vegetable Soup
– Add little oil in a pan, sauté chopped onion, finely chopped cauliflower and finely chopped carrot, add water and cook until soft (this can be done in cooker) – Grind boiled broken green gram and boiled potatoes – Add the grinded mixture to the vegetables, salt and crushed pepper powder – Add chopped coriander…
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Prawn Kuzhambu
– Chop brinjal or ladies finger or drumstick with mango and smash the small onions – Add little tamarind juice, 3 small grinded tomatoes, turmeric powder, 2 1/2 tbsp sambar powder, 1/2 tsp red chilly powder and salt in a bowl – Add 3 tbsp oil in a pan and sauté vadagam, smashed onions, veggies,…
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Vegetable Dum Briyani
– Add water in a pan and cook until it boils – Add 15 mins soaked rice in the boiling water and cook for 75% percent – Drain the water and keep it ready – Add oil in a pan and sauté onion until golden brown – Add beans, carrot, potato, green peas and sauté…
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Varagu/Kodo Millet Idli
– Soak 200 gms varagu, little urad dal and fenugreek – Grind varagu and urad dal separately – Allow it to ferment for 12 hrs and steam cook varagu idli’s later