"Kathirikai (Brinjal) Chutney"

"Kathirikai Chutney"

Quantity:2-3 members

About this Foodie!!

"Kathirikai(Brinjal) Chutney" is a special type of dish variety made in South India for breakfast or dinner as an accompanient with idli or dosai.The combination of brinjal and tamarind gives us a good flavor and makes our taste buds feel a different taste apart from our regular type of  other type of conventional chutneys.

Best side dish with Idly, Dosai.

"Brinjal Chutney"

Recipe

Ingredients

   1.       Brinjal – 1/4  kg

   2.       Onion – 1 no

   3.       Tomato – 1 no

   4.       Green Chillies – 3 nos.

   5.       Tamarind Paste- 1 tbl.spoon

   6.       Salt & Oil- to taste

   7.       (Whole Green gram)Pasi paruppu- 2 tbl.spoons

   8.       Mustard seeds -1/4 t.spoon

   9.       Black gram – 1/4  t.spoon

   10.   Red chilly – 1 no.

 Method

   1.      Add  brinjal, chopped onions, tomato, green chillies, tamarind paste along with whole green gram in cooker and cook for 3 whistles.

   2.       Saute mustard seeds,curryleaves,black gram and red chilly and put it into cooked brinjal mixture. 

   3.       Nicely smash the cooked contents with wooden stick with round base.(Kadanju viduvathu) and serve it hot.

   Try it and you will love it!

   Happy Foodie!!!

"Avocados Milk Shake"

"Avocados Milk Shake"

Quantity :  2 members

About this Foodie!!!

"Avocados" a special fruit variety has plenty of health benefits like stroke prevention, prostate - oral - breast cancer prevention , low cholesterol , good for eye health and especially stimulates sexual hormones.Search for yourself on internet for detailed information.

However its thick consistency acts as a good stomach filler.

Avocados Milk Shake

Recipe

Ingredients

1. Avocado - 1 no.

2. Milk - 1 1/2 cup

Method

1. Take out the fruit pulp and just make 1-2 rounds of grind in the mixer and add milk and again grind it and serve it.

Note: No need to add sugar for this dish as the fruit itself has enough natural sugar content.

Try it , feel it and you will Love it...and have good health !!

Happy Foodie!!!

"Tomato Kuzhambu Method 1"

"Tomato Kuzhambu"

Quantity:2-3 members


About this Foodie!!!

"Tomato Kuzhambu" is a classic dish of South India its not spicy or very dull type of dish rather it will be very tastier and has its own kind of flavor and spice , this dish has a consistency that the taste remains in our tongue even after finishing our eating.

Best side dish with Idly , Dosai(Thick), plain white rice along with appalam.

Tomato Kuzhambu

Recipe

Ingredients

1. Big tomato - 5 nos.

2. Big onions or small onions as per your wish - 1 big no or 10-12 small nos.

3. Chilly powder - 1 teaspoon

4. Coriander powder - 1 tbl.spoon

5. Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 teaspoon

6. Coconut scraps - 1/4 cap.

7. Cinnamon - 1 inch sized 1 no.

8. Cloves - 2 nos.

9. Saunf - 1/4 teaspoon

10. Poppy seeds (Kasa kasa) - 1/4 teaspoon

11. Roasted gram - 1 teaspoon.

12. Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon

13. Salt & Oil - Req. Qty

14. Curry leaves - 5-6 nos.

15. Mustard seeds - 1/4 teaspoon

16. Black gram - 1/4 teaspoon


Method

1.Dry fry coconut scraps in a pan without oil  for 2-3 mins in medium flame and then add the fried coconut scraps with  chilly powder,coriander powder,ginger garlic paste,salt, turmeric powder curry leaves, cinnamon,cloves,saunf, poppy seeds and roasted gram and grind all of them in a mixer grinder and keep it separately.

2. In a pan put some oil and fry chopped onions and tomatoes till raw smell goes off(Vathakuvathu in tamil) and onions become golden brown color and then grind them in a mixer grinder to a semi smooth consistency and keep it separately.


4. Now in a frying pan add some oil and fry mustard seeds,black gram and curry leaves and add the grinded mix of coconut contents(mentioned in point no.1) and grinded tomato - onion mix(mentioned in point no.2)   and cook for 5 mins till it gets boiled up to bubbles(in Tamil "Kothi varum varai") and then serve it.

Try it , feel it and you will love it!!

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"Cluster Beans (Kothavarankai) Fry"

"Cluster Beans Fry"

Quantity: 2-3 members

About this Foodie!!!

"Cluster Beans(Kothavarankai) Fry" is a traditional dish variety made in South India especially for its special flavor and taste of its own kind. Normally its food of pure vegetarians type, thee cluster beans used in this dish and the mix of masala gives us a good flavor, taste and its color and appearance gives us a pleasant feel to our eyes.

Best side dish with any type of sambar rice , curd rice and even rasam rice.

Cluster Beans(Kothavarankai) Fry 

Recipe

Ingredients

1. Cluster beans(Kothavarankai) - 1/4 kg

2. Big Onions - 1 no

3. Chilly powder - 1 teaspoon or to your taste.

4. Coconut scraps - 1/4 cap.

5. Mustard seeds and black gram - 1/4 teaspoon each .

6. Oil and Salt - To your taste.

Method

1. In a pan fry mustard seeds, black gram and then add chopped onions and cluster beens and fry till cluster beans cooked and add salt and chill powder and some water and cook.

2. Finally add coconut scraps and nicely mix it and cook it and serve it.

Try it and you will love it!

Happy Foodie!!!

"Masala Brinjal Fry"

"Masala Brinjal"

Quantity: 2-3 members

About this Foodie!!!

"Masala Brinjal Fry" is a wonderful dish of South India , normally brinjal is vegetable that easily gets adapted to a taste of masala it is been added with, in that way the masala in this dish gives us a touch of non-veg taste, eventhough the dish is vegetarian and the flavor really shoots up your taste buds.

Best side dish with Curd rice, chapati and even it can be directly put in plain white rice and taken.

Masala Brinjal Fry

Recipe

Ingredients

1. Medium sized brinjal(Full purple)- 1/4 kg

2. Chilly powder - 1 teaspoon or to your taste.

3. Coriander powder - 2 tbl.spoon

4. Ginger gsrlic paste - 1/2 teaspoon

5. Cinnamon - 1 inch sized - 2 nos, cloves - 2nos, saunf- 1/4 teaspoon

6. Kasa kasa (Poppy seeds) - 1/4 teaspoon

7. Coconut - 6-7 tooth

8. Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon

9. Roasted gram - 1 tbl.spoon

10. Salt and oil - Required qty.

Method

1. Grind all the above ingredients( 2 to 10)  in a mixer grinder and keep the masala separate.

2. Cut the brinjal into four slices ( not entirely but till its cap so that the brinjal opens like a flower shape) and stuff with masala mentiond in point no.1

3. Take a pan and put some oil and cook the stuffed brinjal and add some masala water( water washed with left out contents in mixer grinder) cook for sometime till brinjal gets cooked and serve it .

Try it and you will enjoy it!!

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"Arachuvittah(Grind) Sambar"

"Arachuvitta Sambar"

Quantity:3-4 members

About this Foodie!!!

"Arachuvittah Sambar" is one special traditional type of  sambar dish of South India, famous for its exclusive tase and flavor than the regular type of sambar dish prepared , small onions and tomatoes plays the main part in this dish.Its flavor will be really mouth watering and its consistency and texture gives a awesome look and feel for the dish itself.

Best side dish for Dosai, Idly , Idiyappam  and plain white rice along with appalam.

Arachuvittah Sambar

Recipe

Ingredients

1. Yellow spilt peas(Thoor dal) - 100 gms

2. Small Onions - 200 gms

3. Green chilly - 2 nos.

4. Red chilly - 4 nos.

5. Coriander powder - 25 gms or to your taste.


6. Bengal  gram - 1 teaspoon

7. Raw rice - 1/2 teaspoon

8. Fenugreek  seeds - 1/2 teaspoon.

9. Asafoetida - 2 pinches or to your taste.

10. Coconut tooth + small onions - 5(1 inch sized) + 4 nos

11. Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon

12. Tamarind water - 1 small lemon sized or to your taste.

13. Mustard seeds , Black gram - 1/4 teaspoon

14. Curry leaves - 6 nos.

15. Oil and Salt - Your required quantity.

Method

1. Make a 3/4 th boil of yellow split peas , turmeric powder, 2umbler of water along with 1/2 teaspoon oil and keep it separately.

2. (Arachuvitta process)- In a pan with some oil add red chilly , coriander powder, raw rice, bengal gram, fenugreek seeds, asafoetida,   coconut along with small onions and nicely fry them in medium flame and them grind all in mixie and keep it .

3. In a pan saute(thalipathul) mustard seeds, black gram , curry leaves along with that 200 gms small onions , tomato and green chilly and nicely cook (vathakuthal).

4. Now add that contents from mixie to mixture mentioned in 3 rd point.

5. Add required amount of water and salt and again cook nicely and allow it to boil up for 5mins and add tamarind water.

6. Now add the boiled yellow split peas contens mentioned in point no.1 to the mixture of 5 th point.

7. Finally cook for sometime and if required add chilly powder to your taste during 6 th point process.

8. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve it.

Try it and you will really get your taste buds shoot up.

Happy Foodie!!!

 

"Tomato Rice with Tamarind Water"

Tomato Rice

Quantity: 3-4 members

About this Foodie!!

"Tomato Rice" is a special variety rice dish made often in South Indian houses as easy to make and fast to cook dish which is always liked from kids to elders at our home.In this dish type tomatoes and bit of   tamarind water is also added to enhance the flavor which gives us a different foodie experience.

Best side dish for this dish is coconut chutney or tomato sauce and appalam.

Tomato Rice

Recipe

Ingredients

1.Rice : Water - 1:2 (cups)

2. Tomatoes - 2 nos.

3. Big Onion - 1 no

4. Tamarind Water - 1 teaspoon

5. Garlic tooth - 3 -4 nos.

6. Salt & Oil - To taste.

7. Mustard seeds - 1/4 teaspoon

8. Curry leaves - 5-6 nos.

9. Black gram - 1/4 teaspoon

10. Coconut tooth - 1 tbl.spoon

Method

1. Grind coconut,tomato,onion and garlic and keep it separately.

2. Saute mustard seeds,black gram and curry leaves in a pan with little oil(Thalippathu) and put it to the mixture above.

3. Add tamarind water to the mixture above and add water when it boils add rice and cook in cooker for 3 whistles.

Try it and you will love it!

Happy Foodie!!!