Ingredients:

Tamarind – small lemon size

Thick butter milk(slightly sour) – 150 ml or 1 glass

Ladies finger – cut into 1 inch pieces

Mustard – 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves – to garnish

Salt – to taste

For Masala:

Dry Red chillies – 6

Urad dhal – 2 tablespoon

Fenugreek – 1 tsp

Asafoetida – a pinch

Grated coconunt – 1/2 cup

coconut oil – 2 tsp

Method:

1. Take a tawa, heat 1 tsp coconut oil and fry the masala ingredients except coconut.

2. Allow it to cool and get them grinded along with coconut adding little water.

3. Extract thick juice from tamarind adding little water.

4. Take a thick bottomed vessel and add the tamarind juice and salt and allow it to boil.

5. Now add the ladies finger and allow it to cook.

6. When half cooked, add the paste and stir well.

7. After 5 mins, add the butter milk and boil for just 4-5 mins and turn off the stove.

8. Heat 1 tsp coconut oil and add mustard and curry leaves and season it over the prepared kuzhambu.

Puli Kuzhambu

This is a traditional recipe that goes very well when served with parupu usili, chepan kizhangu fry and vazhaikai poriyal.

During Sri Ganesh Chaturthi, we also prepare this Kondai Kadalai or channa or garbanzo beans sundal and offer it to God.

Ingredients:

Kondai Kadalai or Garbanzo beans or channa (white) – 1 cup

Coconut scrapings – 3 tsp

Mustard – 1/2 tsp

Oil – 1 tsp

Red chilli – 2 – 3

Curry and coriander leaves – to garnish

Salt – as required

Method:

1. Wash and soak the channa or kondai kadalai in water overnight.

2. Steam cook it adding water and salt.

3. Now take a tawa, heat oil and add mustard and allow it to pop.

4. Now add the red chilli and curry and coriander leaves.

5. Add the cooked kondai kadalai or channa and mix well.

6. Finally add the coconut scrapings and turn off the stove.

Channa or kondai kadalai sundal

Kondai kadalai sundal or Channa sundal is ready.

Kozhukattai or Moodak Recipe is the special dish for Ganesh Chaturthi

Ingredients:

Rice flour – 2 cup

Water – 1 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder – 1/4 tsp

Coconut – 1 cup

Jaggery – 1/2 cup

oil – 2 tsp

Method:

1. Take little water in a tawa, heat it and add the powdered jagerry.

2. Once jaggery melts and add the coconut and mix well.

3. When it thickens add cardamom powder and turn off the stove.

Poornam or the sweet stuffing is ready.

4. Heat 1 1/2 cup water and add a pinch of salt and 2 tsp oil to it.

5. When water starts boiling, add the rice flour and mix well.

6. Allow the recently mixed rice flour to cool down a bit and start making small cups  and fill the poornam inside and close the corners.

Note: You can either close it sidewise or in the top. Just check out both ways in the pics.

Kozhukattai closed side-wise

Moodak (closed at the top) specially for Ganesh Chaturthi

7. Steam cook the prepared kozhukattai for min 7-10 mins and kozhukattai is ready.

Ingredients:

Unpolished Rice – 2 cup

Coconut milk – 1 cup

Ginger – small piece

Green Chilli – 3

Murungai Keerai or drum stick leaves – 2 cup

Coconut oil – 2 tablespoon

Mustard – 1/2 tsp

Urad dhal – 1 tsp

Raw Ground nut or peanut – 1/2 cup

Asafoetida – a pinch

Grated Carrot – 1 cup

Salt – to taste

Water – 1/2 cup

Method:

1. Break the rice to rava consistency in the mixie.

2. Grind ginger (peel off skin) and green chilli to a fine paste.

3. Now take a thick bottom pan, heat coconut oil and add mustard, urad dhal and groundnut and saute.

4. Add asafoetida, ginger-chilli paste, cleaned drumstick leaves and saute.

5. Now add the grated carrot and allow it to cook for few seconds and add half cup water and coconut milk. Allow it to boil.

6. Add broken rice and mix well and add salt and allow it to cook for few mins.

7. When the mixture thickens turn off the stove and allow it to cool.

8. Now make small kozhukattai’s and steam cook it.

Our Murungai keerai Kozhukattai is ready.

Murungai Keerai Carrot Kozhukattai

Note: Unpolished rice is rich in fibre, protein and B-complex. Drumstick leaves are very good for anemic people. Hence you serve your family with a healthy balanced diet.

Ingredients:

Vazhai poo or plantain flower – mediun size 1 or cleaned and chopped 2 cups

Toor dhal – 1 cup

Channa dhal – 1 cup

Red chilli – 2

Green chilli – 2

Onion – 2

Oil – for frying

Curry leaves – 4 tsp

Salt – to taste

Method:

1. Soak the toor and channa dhal in water for half an hour.

2. Grind it lightly along with red chilli, green chilli and curry leaves.

3. Now add chopped plantain flower, onion, salt and grind.

4. Do not make it to a fine paste. Also need not add water.

Note: If required sprinkle water.

5. Heat oil in a pan and take small portions of the prepared batter and flatten it and slowly drop it into the heating oil.

6. Allow it until golden brown.

Vazhai poo vadai

This vazhai poo vadai will be very tasty even if served with rasam.