February 09, 2009
By: admin
Category: Sambar/Gravy
Ingredients:
Sliced: carrot, beans, chow-chow, plaintain, yam, potato, snake guard, drumstick – 4 cups
Grated coconut – 3 tsp
green chillies – 5
fresh curd -1 cup

Aviyal
jeera – 1/2 tsp
coconut oil – 2 tsp
mustard – 1 tsp
Salt -to taste
Curry leaves – to garnish
Method:
1. Cook all the sliced vegetables by adding little water.
2. Grind coconut, jeera and green chillies into fine paste by adding little water.
3. Now take a bowl, add all the cooked vegetables along with ground paste and salt and stir well(make sure you dont mash the vegetables while stirring)
4. After few mins, add fresh curd and turn off the stove.
5. Add one tsp coconut oil over the aviyal and mix well.
6. Take another pan, add oil and mustard and garnish over the aviyal along with curry leaves.
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February 08, 2009
By: admin
Category: Chutney/Thokku & podi

Coconut Chutney
Coconut scraped – 4 tsp
Fried gram – 3 tsp
Green chilli – 2-4 nos
oil – 1 tsp
mustard – 1/2 tsp
salt – to taste
urad dhal -1/2 tsp
curry leaves – to garnish
asfoetida – a pinch.
water
Method:
1. Take a mixie jar, add coconut, fried gram, green chilli, salt and make it into a thin paste by adding little water.
2. Now keep a pan, add oil, mustard, urad and curry leaves.
3. Add asafoetida after taking the pan from the flame and immediately garnish over the coconut chutney.
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February 08, 2009
By: admin
Category: Snacks
Ingredients:
Gram Flour – 1 cups
Rice flour – 2 cup
Salt – to taste
Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
Kesari Colour powder – a pinch
Water
Oil – to fry
Vegetables Sliced: Potato, Onion, Plaintain and brinjal
Method:
1. Take gram flour(Kadalai mavu) and rice flour and mix it with water to make into a loose paste.(Dont make it too watery or too thick)
2. Add salt, red chilli powder and kesari powder to get the desired colour.
3. Take the sliced vegetables and dip it in the flour mixture paste.
4. Make sure the paste covers the vegetable. Add it to the heating oil in frying pan and deep fry until it is fully cooked.
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February 07, 2009
By: admin
Category: Sambar/Gravy, Sidedish
Ingredients:

Green Gram Masala
Green gram – 1 cup
tomato – 3
Onion – 2
Garlic – 5-7 pods
Oil – 2 tsp
Mustard – 1/2 tsp
Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
corriander powder -1 tsp
Garam masala powder – 1/2 tsp
Water – to cook
Salt - to taste
Turmeric – a pinch
Method:
1. Wash and Soak the green gram in water for 3-4 hrs.
2. Prepare gravy by grinding 3 tomatoes, 1 onion and garlic.
3. Take a pan, add oil, mustard, 1 chopped onion and grinded tomato gravy.
4. Now add red chilli powder, turmeric, corriander powder, garam masala and salt.
5. Mix well and add green gram along with sufficient water to cook it.
6. Garnish with corriander leaves.
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February 07, 2009
By: admin
Category: Variety Rice
Ingredients:
This is the alternative for those with cholestrol.
Basmati Rice – 2 cups.
Water – 4 cups
Onion – 2 chopped
Green Chilli – 4 sliced
Cinnamom sticks – 2
clove – 2
Bringe leaf – a piece
Corriander leaves
salt – to taste
oil – 1 tsp
Method:
1. Heat the pan, add little oil, add bringe leaf, cinnamom sticks and clove.
2. Now add onion, green chillies and water.
3. Allow it to boil.
4. Add rice and salt.
5. Allow it to cook for ten mins.
6. Now garnish with corriander leaves.
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