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Puli Pongal / புளி பொங்கல்
Ingredients
Raw rice granules ( Kurunai) : 1 cup
Tamarind water : 3 1/4 - 3 1/2 cups
Red chilly : 7 - 8
Currry leaves
Salt
Asafoetida
Mustard seeds
Chana dal
Gingelly oil
Turmeric powder
Method
Heat 3 tbsps gingelly oil in a thick bottomed pan / kadai , splutter mustard seeds,
Add curry leaves,broken red chillies,asafoetida ,2 tsp chana dal and fry.
Add tamarind water, turmeric powder,salt and allow it to boil.
Now reduce the fame,slowly add the rice and keep stirring.
Cover it with a lid, cook on low flame till the rice is cooked.
Once done remove from flame.
Serve hot.
Beans Curry / Beans stir fry
Beans( chopped) - 1 cup
Coconut - 1/4 cup
Red chilly - 2
Salt
Oil
Curry leaves
Urad dal
Method
Heat oil in a pan, season with mustard, urad dal, red chillies and curry leaves.
Add chopped beans, mix well.
Add salt,a pinch sugar and 1/4 cup water.
When beans cooked add coconut.
Remove from flame and serve hot...
Kothu Chapathi - Leftover recipes
This is what happens when i have leftover chapatis and leftover chana masala..
Ingredients
Leftover Chapathis : 4
Leftover chana masala : 1/2 cup ( chana masala recipe here)
Chopped Onion : 2 tbsps
Tomato : 1
Green chilly : 1
Red chilly powder : 1/4 tsp
Ginger - Garlic paste : 1/4 tsp
Fennel seeds : 1/4 tsp
Coriander leaves
Salt
Oil
Method
Cut the chapathis into strips and keep aside.
Heat 1 tbsp oil in a frying pan, splutter fennel seeds .
Add chopped onion, chopped green chilly and fry.
Add ginger garlic paste,chopped tomato ,salt and fry on medium flame till they turn mushy.
Add the chana masala , chapathi pieces and mix everything well.
Finally add chopped coriander leaves.
Remove from flame and serve hot.
Enjoy....
Pattinam Pakoda / Pattanam pakoda / பட்டிணம் பக்கோடா
Ingredients
Roasted gram flour / Pottukadalai powder : 1 cup
Rice flour : 1/2 cup
Chopped onion : 1/2 cup
Ghee : 2 tsp
Green chilli : 2
Red chilly powder : 3/4 tsp
Grated ginger : a pinch
Curry leaves
Salt
Asafoetida
Oil
Method
Take a wide bowl , add onion,ginger, finely chopped green chilli, ghee, salt and mix well for few minutes.
Add roasted gram flour, rice flour,red chilly powder, asafoetida and mix.
Sprinkle little water and mix.
Make balls and deep fry in hot oil till golden brown.
Serve & enjoy...
Baby corn Manchurian dry recipe
Ingredients
Babycorn : 10 nos
Maida : 3tbsps
Corn flour : 3 tbsps
Spring onion : 1/2 bunch
Tomato sauce : 1 tsp
Chilly sauce : 1 tsp
Soya sauce : 1 tsp
Chopped garlic : 1 1/2 tbsp
Green chilly : 2 nos
Capsicum : 1
Oil
Method
Make a batter with maida,corn flour, salt using little water and dip the chopped baby corn one by one ,deep fry and keep aside.
Heat 2 tbsp oil in a frying pan , add chopped garlic and fry.
Add chopped green chilly, white part of the spring onion and fry.
Add soya sauce,
Chilly sauce,
Tomato sauce,
Salt and mix everything well.
Now add chopped capsicum ,
fried baby corn,
chopped spring onion , mix and fry in high flame for few minutes and remove from fire.
Serve hot & Enjoy..
Kothu Parotta - Street food
Ingredients
Frozen parotta / paratha : 4 nos
Chopped onion : 1/4 cup
Chopped tomato : 2 tbsps
Chopped carrot : 2 tbsps
Chopped capsicum : 2 tbsps
Ginger - Garlic paste : 1 tsp
Red chilly powder : 1 tsp
Pepper powder : 1/4 tsp
Garam masala powder : 1/2 tsp
Fennel seeds : 1/2 tsp
Green chilly : 2 nos
Coriander leaves
Salt
Oil
Method
Chop the parotta into small pieces and keep aside.
In a pan, heat 1 1/2 tbsp oil ,temper with fennel seeds, curry leaves and chopped green chilly.
Add chopped onion and fry.
Add tomato ,carrot,ginger - garlic paste and cook till the tomatoes turns mushy.
Add turmeric powder,red chilly powder, pepper powder,garam masala powder salt and stir.
Add the chopped paratha pieces, chopped capsicum and mix everything well.
Finally add coriander leaves,mix, cook for few more minutes and remove from flame.
Serve with raita.
Enjoy.
Pasta Jalebi
Ingredients
Pasta : 1 cup
Salt : a pinch
Ingredients for the batter
Maida : 1 cup
Dry yeast : 1/2 tsp
Sugar : 1/2 tsp
Salt : a pinch
Cardamom powder : 1/4 tsp
Oil : for frying
Ingredients for sugar syrup
Sugar : 1 cup
Water : 1 cup
Saffron : 4 -5 threads
For garnishing
Pista : 2 tbsps
Almonds : 2 tbsps
Boil pasta in enough water with little salt.Drain it and keep aside.
Combine the Yeast,
sugar and
1/2 cup of lukewarm water in a bowl , mix and keep aside for 5 minutes.
Take maida in a bowl ,add 1tsp sugar,
a pinch salt,
yeast mixture and some water and mix well to make a thick batter.
Mix and keep aside for 30 minutes.
Soak saffron in little water for few minutes.
For the sugar syrup ,combine 1 cup sugar,
1 cup water, safforn water in a kadai and boil on low flame for 10 minutes or until the syrup is slightly thick and sticky and keep aside.
Now add cardamom powder to the maida + yeast mixture and mix well.
Heat oil in an another kadai,
Dip the cooked pasta in maida batter
and deep fry in oil till golden brown. Drain and keep aside.
Place the pasta jalebis in the sugar syrup
Soak for 2 minutes and transfer it to a serving plate.
.Garnish with sliced almonds and pistachio and serve immediately..
Cooking time : 45 minutes
Servings : 5
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