Potato Palkoottu( coconut & potato curry)

Ingredients:

Potato - 3
Onion - 1/2 cup
Shredded coconut - 1/2 cup
Green chili - 4
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves

Direction:

• Pressure cook the potatoes.
• Heat oil in a pan and add curry leaves,mustard seeds and onion.
• saute well and blend the coconut and green chili together.
• Add coconut paste to the onion.
• Give a boil and cut the potatoes into small pieces.
• Add them to the coconut paste.
• Close the lid for 5 minutes.

Spinach & Black channa Curry

Ingredients:

Spinach - 3 cups
Black channa - 1/2 cup
Tomato - 2
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves
Green chili - 2
Ginger - a small piece
Sambar masala - 1 tsp
Salt to taste

Direction:

• Pressure cook the channa for 3 whistle.
• Blend tomato,green chili and ginger.
• Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds,cumin seeds and curry leaves.
• Add the tomato paste and stir for 5 minutes.
• Cut the spinach into small size and add to the above paste.
• Add sambar masala and salt.
• Now add channa and allow to boil.
• Serve hot with rice or rotti.

Puliyotharai(Tamarind Rice)

Ingredients:
Rice - 1 cup
Tamarind - lemon size ball
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Channa dal - 2 tsp
Urad dal - 2 tsp
Peanuts - 2 tsp
Curry leaves
Red chili - 7 or 8
Hing - a pinch
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp
Red chili powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - 2 ot 3 tsp

Direction:

• Cook the rice and allow it to cool.
• Make a thick tamarind extract and keep it aside.
• Heat 3 tsp of oil in a pan and add mustard seeds,red chili,channa dal,urad dal and peanuts.
• Saute them until all dals cook and add curry leaves.
• Now add hing and turmeric powder and saute for 5 minutes.
• Add tamarind extract and allow to boil.
• After 5 minutes add coriander powder,cumin powder,chili powder and salt.
• Boil this gravy until it becomes thick paste and also the oil separates from the gravy.
• Take required gravy and add to the cooked rice.
• Mix it well and serve with pickle or vadagam.

You can preserve the remaining paste in an air tight container.
Keep refrigerate and use as and when required.

Poori with Chicken kurma

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup
Hot Water - 1/4 cup
Salt to taste

Direction:

• Mix flour and salt together.
• Kneed the flour by adding little by little water.
• Kneed it so gently and softly.
• The dough should be so soft.
• Cover it with a wet cloth. Heat oil for Deep Frying.
• Divide the roll into lime sized balls. With the help of rolling pin , roll each to circular shape.
• Deep fry poori in hot oil for a minute,turn side & fry till puffed & golden in color.
• Serve with poori kizhangu(potato curry) or chicken kurma

Simple chicken Kurma

Ingredients:

Chicken - 1/4 kg
Onion - 1 cup
Tomato - 1cup
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
Shredded coconut - 1/2 cup
Sambar masala - 2 tsp
Clove - 2
Cinnamon - 1
curry leaves
Mustard seeds
Poppy seeds - 1 tsp
Cashew nuts - 4
Salt to taste

Direction :

• Wash chicken and cut them into small pieces.
• Soak poppy seeds for about 15 minutes and blend it with coconut and cashew nuts.
• Heat oil in a pan,add cloves,cinnamon,mustard seeds and curry leaves.
• Add onion and saute well until it turns translucent.
• Now add ginger garlic paste,saute until  raw smell goes.
• Then add tomato and saute until it cooks well.
• Add masala powder and salt and close the lid.
• Keep aside for about 5 minutes.
• Now it looks like a gravy.(check salt and masala)
• Add chicken and coconut paste.
• Close the lid and allow to boil until oil oozes out from the chicken and gravy.
• Now you can serve it for rice,dosai,roti or poori.

Orange Juice

Ingredients:

Orange - 2
Sugar - 2 tsp or Honey - 1 tsp

Direction:
Cut oranges and squeeze them.
Strain them and extract the juice.
Add little water if u want.
Add sugar or honey.
Serve cool.

Ulundhu Kazhi(Urad dal balls)

Ingredients:

Urad dal flour - 1 cup
Jaggery - 1/4 cup
Sesame Oil - 2 tbsp

Direction:

• Take jaggery in a pan and sprinkcle some water.
• Heat it until jaggery melts.
• Strain them to remove dust.
• Add some water to urad dal and make a batter of it.
• Take this batter in a pan and heat it.
• Add melted jaggery little by little until it becomes halwa like consistency.
• Cool it upto 5 or 10 minutes.
• Pour 5 drops of oil in palm and make balls of the above halwa.

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Ingredients:

Strawberries - 5
Milk - 1/2 cup
Vanilla ice cream - 1 scoop
Ice cubes
Sugar - 1 tsp

Direction:

Blend strawberries,milk,ice cream,ice cubes and sugar in blender.
Strain if u want.
Simple and delicious smoothie is ready..

Onion Egg Pesarattu

Ingredients:

Whole green moong dal - 1 cup
Onion - 2 tbsp
Rice - 1/2 cup
Green chili - 2
Ginger - a small piece
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Egg - 1
Salt to taste

Direction:

• Soak moong dal and rice overnight or at least 5 hours.
• Then move them to a blender and add all other ingredients.
• Blend them well.It should be dosa batter consistency.
• Make dosas from this batter.
• Break and pour egg on the top of the dosa.
• If you want add crushed pepper.
• Cut onion into small pieces and saute them well with green chili,curry leaves and coriander leaves.
• Add this on the top of  the pesarattu.

Plain Egg Pesarattu

Ingredients:

Whole green moong dal - 1 cup
Rice - 1/2 cup
Green chili - 2
Ginger - a small piece
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Egg - 1
Salt to taste

Direction:

• Soak moong dal and rice overnight or atleast 5 hours.
• Then move them to a blender and add all other ingredients.
• Blend them well.It should be dosa batter consistency.
• Make dosas from this batter.
• Break and pour an egg on the top of the dosa.
• If you want, add crushed pepper.

Onion Pesarattu

Ingredients:

Whole green moong dal - 1 cup
Onion - 2 tbsp
Rice - 1/2 cup
Green chili - 2
Ginger - a small piece
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Salt to taste

Direction:

• Soak moong dal and rice overnight or atleast 5 hours.
• Then move them to a blender and add all other ingredients.
• Blend them well.It should be dosa batter consistency.
• Make dosas from this batter.
• Cut onion into small pieces and saute them well with green chili,curry leaves and coriander leaves.
• Add this as a topping for the pesarattu.

Plain Pesarattu

Ingredients:
Whole green moong dal - 1 cup
Rice - 1/2 cup
Green chili - 2
Ginger - a small piece
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Salt to taste

Direction:

Soak moong dal and rice overnight or at least 5 hours.
Then move them to a blender and add all other ingredients.
Blend them well.It should be dosa batter consistency.
Make dosas from this batter.

Onion Chutney

Ingredients:

Big Onion - 1
Tomato - 1/2
Garlic - 2 piece
Tamarind - little bit
Shredded Coconut - 1/4 cup
Red chili - 2
Salt to taste

Direction:

• Heat oil in a pan and add red chili and garlic.
• Now add onion and saute them well.
• Add tomatoes and saute well.
• Move them to a blender and add coconut,tamarind and salt.
• Blend them well.
• Heat oil in a pan again,add mustard seeds,curry leaves and red chili.
• Add them to the chutney.

Mutter Paneer

Ingredients:

Green peas - 1 cup
Paneer - 1/2 cup
Onion - 1/2 cup
Tomato - 1 cup
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Cumin powder - 1 tsp
Chili powder - 1 tsp
Ghee - 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste

Direction:

• Heat ghee in a pan and roast the paneer.
• Cut them into small cubes.
• Heat oil in another pan and add onion and tomato.
• Saute them well and blend them using a blender.
• Pour the tomato puree in the pan and add coriander powder,cumin powder,chili powder and salt.
• Add green peas in it.
• Let it boil for 15 minutes.
• Then add paneer and let it be simmer for 5 minutes.