Mangai pachadi

Ingredients:

Raw mango - 1
Jaggery - 1 cup
Ginger - little bit
Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds & urad dal - 1/4 tsp
Green chilli - 3


Direction:

• Remove the peel of the raw mango using a peeler and slice the mango.
• I sliced using peeler.You can cut into cubes.
• Heat oil in a pan and spread the mustard seeds,cumin seeds and green chilli.
• After that add sliced mango.Saute well for 5 miutes.
• Add 3/4 cup of water and allow to cook.
• After mango become soft,add jaggery and allow to become thick.
• It is my favorite dish.

Simple Aloo- Gopi

Ingredients:

Potato - 3
Cauliflower - 1 cup
Tomato - 1 cup
Onion - 1/2 cup
Green chilli - 2
Mustard seeds & urad dal - 1/4 tsp
cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
Corriander powder - 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste


Direction:

• Finely chop the tomato,onion and green chilli.Put them together in a bowland mash them well.
• Heat oil in a pan,spead mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
• Then add the mashed tomato.Saute for 5 minutes.
• Add turmeric powder in this.It will give nice aromatic flavor.
• Put potatos and cauli flower now to the ablove mixture and add chilli powder,corriander powder and salt.
• Allow to cook the potato and cauliflower.It will take around 10 minutes.
• Keep mixture dry.

Tomato chicken kurma

Ingredients:

Chicken - 1/2 kg
Tomato - 2
Onion - 1 cup
coconut - 1 cup
Clove - 1
Cinnamon - 1
Green chilli - 3
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Garlic - 3 nos
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Sambar powder - 1 tsp
Corriander powder - 2 tsp
curry powder(red chilli,cumin seed,kus kus) - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Ginger garlic paste
Salt to taste
Oil as required

Direction:

• Wash the chicken and cut into small pieces.
• Take oil in pan and put mustard seeds,clove,cinnamon,green chillies,fennel seeds,cumin seeds and garlic.
• Add onion and ginger garlic paste and saute well.
• Blend tomatos and add this tomato juice to the above mixture.
• Close the pan and leave it for 15 minutes.
• At that time grind coconut and keep aside.
• After 15 minutes add chilli powder,sambar powder,curry powder,corriander powder,turmeric powderans salt.
• Now add coconut and chicken pieces.
• It will take 15 or 20 minutes to become a good kurma or gravy.
• So keep aside and enjoy this with idly,dosa,chapathi or rice.

Spinach koottu

Ingredients:

Spinach - 2 cups
Toor dal(thuvaram parupu) - 1/2 cup
Onion - 1 cup
Tomato - 3/4 cup
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Red chilli - 2
curry powder - 1 tsp
Garlic - 3 nos.
Salt to taste

Direction:

• Pressure cook the dal in pressure cooker wiht turmeric powder.
• Take oil in a pan and put mustard seeds,cumin seeds,red chilli,onion.Saute well and add garlic and spinach.
• Close the pan until the spinach get half cooked.
• Now add the cooked dal in it.
• Then add curry powder and salt.
• You can eat this with chapathi or rice.
• I like this to put in rice with ghee..hmmmmm..great!

Meen kuzhambu 2

Ingredients:

Fish - 1/4 kg
Methi seeds - 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves
Corriander leaves
Onion - 2 cups
Tomato - 1 cup
coconut - 1 cup
Tamarind( lemon size)
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Sambar powder - 2 tsp
Corriander powder - 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil as required


Direction:

• Wash and cut fishes into small pieces.Apply turmeric and set aside for 30 minutes.
• Grind coconut,coriander leaves,onion together and keep aside.
• In pan take oil and put mustard seeds,methi seeds,curry leaves,coriander leaves,fennel seeds,onion and tomato.
• Saute well until onion become golden brown.
• Extract the pulp from the tamarind which is already soaked in hot water for 15 minutes.
• Add the tamarind pulp to the pan.And also add the ground mixture.
• After 5 minutes add chili powder,turmeric powder,sambar powder,,coriander powder and salt.
• This kuzhambu is ready...

Semia kesari

Ingredients:

Semiya - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Cardamom - 1
Ghee - 1 tsp
Almond
Kissmis

Direction :

• Put 1 tsp of ghee in a pan and fry cashews or almond and kissmis with cardamom.
• Add semiya into this and fry until it produces a nice flavor.
• In another pan,and 2 cups of water,allow to boil.
• Add semiya into water little by little without forming clot.
• After the semiya boiled,add sugar.
• Boil them for 5 minutes.
• If you want add color.
• Enjoy this at evening...

Surai kai koottu

Ingredients:

Bottle gaurd
Moong dal - 1/2 cup
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Red chilli - 1
Sambar powder - 1 tsp
Onion - 1/2 cup
Tomato - 1 cup
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
urad dal - 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste

Direction:

• Take 1 tsp of oil in a pan.Put mustard seeds,urad dal,onion and tomato.Saute well.
• Pressure cook the moong dal for 5 minutes.
• Add bottle gaurd and dal together to the pan.
• Add turmeric power,sambar powder and salt to this.
• Close the pan and allow to boil.
• In this we can also add channa dal.
• Many of us dont like this vegitable.It has purgative effect in it.
• We should add this atleast once in two weeks.

Poondu(garlic) kuzhambu

Ingredients:

Pepper - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds _ 1 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Coconut
Onion - 1 cup
Red chilli - 1
Full garlic - 2
Oil - 3 tsp
Salt to taste
Curry leaves

Direction:

• Fry pepper,mustard seeds,cumin seeds,red chilli and 2 nos(2 pallu) garlic without oil in a pan.
• Take them in a blender with cocounut and blend them well.
• In the pan take oil and put mustard seeds and curry leaves.
• Add onion and saute well.
• After it turns to golden brown,add the blended mixer and theremaining garlic.
• Add salt as required.
• Close the pan and allow garlic to cook.
• Now awesome poondu kuzhambu is ready.
• It is good for our health...so try this..
  

Tomato chutney 1

Ingredients:

Tomatos - 2
Red chilli - 1
Onion - 1
Mustard seeds
Curry leaves

Direction:

• Saute onion,tomato and red chilli in a pan.
• Allow them to cool.
• Blend it using a blender.
• In the pan take oil and add mustard seeds and curry leaves.
• Add this to the mixer.

Chicken gravy(Madurai special)

Ingredients:

Chicken - 1/2 kg
Onion - 1 cup
Tomato - 1 cup
Cashews - 4
Corriander leaves - 1 cup
Curry leaves
Mustard seeds
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
Ginger garlic paste
Grated coconut - 1 cup
Chicken masala - 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil to fry

Direction:

• Take 2 tsp oil in a pan. Put mustard seeds,cumin seeds,fennel seeds,curry leaves and corriander leaves.Saute well for 15 minutes.
• Add ginger garlic paste.Saute until the raw smell of ginger garlic turns.
• Add tomatos,close the lid until tomatos are cooked well.
• Grind cashews with coconut.
• Wash chicken and add this to the above mixer and mix well.
• Add chicken masala(otherwise add turmeric powder,corriander powder,garam masala)
• Boil upto 10 minutes.
• Add ground coconut paste and allow to boil.

Thattu vadai

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 1 cup
Channa dal - 2 tsp
curry leaves
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil to fry


Direction:

• Cut curry leaves,take rice flour in a pan.
• Add channa dal,curry leaves,cumin seeds,chiilli powder and salt.
• Add water little by little in the flour to make it to a dough.
• Take small portion of the dough and make it to a ball.
• Put this ball in your palm and press it to become flat.
• Deep fry it in oil.

Sandesh

Ingredients:

Milk - 1 gallon
Lemon juice - 3 tsp
sugar - 1 cup
Badam

Direction:

• Boil the milk.when it comes to boil,add lemon juice.
• Gently mix with a spatula.Now water and paneer will be separated.
• Drain the water in cheese cloth.
• After water is fully drained,add sugar.
• You should kneed well to get soft sandesh.
• Take small portion of paneer and make this as a ball.
• Docorate it with pista,badam,cashews etc.

Palkova

Ingredients:

Milk - 2 litres
Sugar - 1 cup(as per taste)
Lemon juice - 2 tsp
Ghee - 2 tsp

Direction:

• Boil the milk in a pan.
• When it starts boiling,lower the heat.
• When it reduced to half,add lemon juice in it.
• Stir continuously and now it turns to light sandal color.
• You have to stir continuously,until it becomes thick.It will take 2 hours.
  
• Here more attention should be given,otherwise it will stick to the bottom.
• Add sugar and keep stirring upto 20 minutes.
• Now you can almost roll a ball with it.
• At this stage add ghee and remove from the pan.
• Now palkova is ready to serve.

Chettanad chicken

Ingredients:

Chicken 1/4 kg
Onion - 1
Tomato - 1
Curry leaves
Corriander leaves
Chilli powder


To grind 1:

Fennel seeds(sombu) - 1/4 tsp
Poppy seeds(kasa kasa) - 1/4 tsp
Pepper(milagu) - 1/4 tsp
Cumin seedsa(seeragam) - 1/4 tsp
coriander seeds(gundu malli) - 1/2 tsp
Cardamom(yelakai) - 1
Clove(kirambu) - 1
Cinnamon(pattai) - 1

To grind 2:

Ginger
Garlic

To grind 3:

coconut

Direction:

• Boil chicken for 20 minutes in a pan.
• In another pan take oil and add onion,tomato,curry leaves,corriander leaves.
• Add ginger garlic paste to this.
• Saute for 15 minutes.
• Now add chicken into this and also add the ground powder and pasted coconut.
• Then add chilli powder and salt as required.
• Saute them for 10 minutes,..
• And now,our chettinad chicken is ready.