Saturday, November 29, 2008

Gourd Dal (best combination for ready made chappati/roti)

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Ingredients:
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(1) One cup of moong dal (approx 120 gms)
(2) One Gourd (any)  (approx 300gms)
(3) One medium sized onion (chopped into small pieces)
(4) Two tomatoes cut into small pieces
(5) Oil (6 spoon), Mustard (1 spoon), jeera (1 spoon), urud dhal (1 spoon),
 two chilly (cut along length), 1/2 spoon of salt.
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Preparation:
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(1) Wash moong dal and take it in a cooker. Pour 3 parts of it with water
(2) Cut Gourd into small pieces (cube sized) and put in cooker. Pour 2 more cups of water
(3) Add 2 tbl spoon of chilly powder and pinch of turmeric powder and finally
  2 spoon of salt.
(4) Pressure cook the above mix. Leave 6 whistles or 8 whistles (depends upon yours).
(5) When pressure cook is about to complete, start with a fry pan for 
    tempering [all items in ingredients (5) in same order]. Then onion
    and tomatoes. 
(6) Once onion and tomatoes are fully cooked , open the cooker and add the tempered
    stuff and allow boiling for 5 minutes.
           Done

If you like gourd very much, better lessen dal content and add more gourd.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

ASATHAL KEERA KUZHAMBU

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ASATHAL KEERA KUZHAMBU
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2 pack Keerai (approx 500gms)
1 cup (approx 150ml) paasi paruppu (moong dal).
1/2 piece of big onion, cut into small pieces.
1 carrot (medium sized), cut into small pieces.
1/4 part of coconut, thuruval (grated)
5 pieces milagai (chilly), cut into small pieces.
20 gms of ginger, cut into fine pieces
2 tbl spoon mustard.

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Preparation Method:
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(1) pressure cook moondal(1 cup) and 3 cups of water. add 1 & 1/2 spoon of salt and a tinge of turmeric powder. <<>>
(2) side by side to (1) boil keerai,onion,carrot,ginger in a open pan with enough water. add 1 spoon salt to this. Once it is done mix it in mixer (just to smash Keerai)
(3) in a pan heat enough oil (4 to 5 tbl spoon) and put all chilly.
(4) Now open cooker and pour the keerai-onion-carrot mix in mixer. Also put the oil-chilly in the cooker and boil it for 5 min.

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                       ASATHAL KEERA KUZHAMBU Ready :)
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