Ingredients
- Lychees ( Canned lychees )- 15 Nos
- Lychee syrup- 6 tbsp
- Milkmaid- 1 tin
- Milk- 2 cups
- Water- 1 to 1 1/2 cups
- China grass- 15 grams
- Sugar - 6 tbsp
How to Cook:
- Soak the china grass with the 1 / 1/2 cup water and keep this aside.
- Grind 10 lychees to a puree form and keep this aside.
- Chop the 5 lychees . Keep this aside.
- Mix the lychee puree , chopped lychees with lychee syrup.
- Double boil the Chinagrass till it fully dissolves.
- Boil the milk.When the milk come to boil add the milkmaid and stir for 20 minutes till it start to thicken.
- Mix the chinagrass solution and milk- milkmiad mixture. Make sure you mix it when both the milk milkmaid mixture and chinagrass solution are hot.Let it cool.
- After 20 minutes , when it is cool , add the lychee solution. keep it aside for half an hour.
- After half an hour , it will start to thicken.
- Garnish with lychees
- Refrigerate it for 3 hours.
Ingredients :
- Mushrooms cut lengthwise - 1 Cup
- Onions - 2 No
- Ginger Garlic paste- 1 tsp
- Capsicum - 1 No chopped
- Bay leaves - 2
- Cloves- 3 Nos
- Cinnabon stick - 1 No
- Star Anise- 1 No
- Tomato - 1 big
- Turmeric powder- 1 tsp
- Chilly Powder- 1 /2 tsp
- Garam masala - 1 tsp
- Cashewnuts - 10 Nos
- Milk - 1/4 Cup
- Green Chilly- 1 No
- Coriander chopped- few
- Oil - 2 tbsp
How to Cook :
- Soak the cahsewnuts in milk for 15 minutes.
- After 15 minutes, make a smooth paste of cashew with milk and keep this aside.
- Add oil to the pan and when it is hot, add the bayleaves , cloves , cinnabon and star anise . Cook for 1 minute.
- Add the ginger garlic paste , saute for a minute.
- Add the onion , saute till it turn translucent.
- Now add the tomatoes and saute till the they blend to the gravy well.
- Now add the salt turmeric powder, chilly powder and garam masala and saute for 2 minutes.
- Now transfer to a plate and let it cool.
- After it is cooled , with little water add the onion mixture to a mixie and make a puree of the onion tomato mixture.
- Now heat the pan and add the onion tomato puree.Add 1 cup water and mix well.
- Add the cashew paste to the gravy and again mix well..
- Now add the capsicum and mushrooms , close the pan and cook for 15 minutes.
- Add the coriander leaves chopped.
- The gravy will be thick.
- Now serve hot with rotis!
Ingredients :
- Kaya cut (Raw plantain) - 1 No
- Koorkha cut lengthwise( Chinese potato ) - 2 Cups
- Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
- Chilly Powder- 1 /2tsp
- Green Chilly - 1
- Pepper Powder- 1/4 tsp
- Curry leaves as required
- Onion Shallots- 4 nos chopped
- Salt as required
- Oil- 1 tbsp
Cleaning the Banana and Chinese potato ( Koorkha )
- Before you cut the banana , peel off the skin of the bananas.
- Chop to square pieces.
- Soak in water for 15 minutes.
- Wash the chinese potato well in salt water to move the dirt over it.
- Soak inwater for 15 minutes.
- Again wash it many times and peel off the skin..
- Cut into 2 halves if it small.
- Keep the cleaned banana pieces and korrkha pieces aside.
How to Cook
- Add little water, green chilly ,chopped onion shallots,koorkha ,plantain pieces,chilly powder, salt ,turmeric powder and salt to a cooker and cook to 4 whistles.
- After sometime open the pan and add more water as required for the gravy.(the gravy should be thick )
- Sprinkle pepper powder and cook on high flame for 1 minute.
- Add curry leaves as much as you want.It gives a good flavour.
- After the curry is cooked, add oil over the curry and mix well.
- Switch off the flame.
- Close the pan and keep for 5 minutes.
- Serve hot with rice.!!!
Note : Instead of adding onion shallots initially along with vegetables to the pressure pan , you can add oil to a pan , saute the onion shallots and add to gravy at last .( alternative to step 5 )
Ingredients :
- Cherupayar/ Moong Dal- 1 Cup
- Pepper - 1 tsp
- Salt as required
- Onions - 2 No
- Oil as required
- Curry Leaves
- Chopped tomatoes and onions for garnishing.
How To Cook :
- Wash the moong Dal well.
- Soak the moong Dal for 12 hours.
- After 12 hours , drain out the water and wrap the moong Dal in a wet cloth and keep closed overnight.
- Moog Dal will be sprouted.
- Add oil to the pan and when it is hot, add the chopped onions.
- Saute till the onion turn translucent.
- Add pepper , turmeric powder , salt and saute for 2 minutes.
- Add the sprouted moong dal and add 1/4 cup water , close the pan and cook for 2 minutes.
- Open the pan and stir fry till the water gets dried off.
- Garnish with curry leaves, chopped onions and tomatoes.
Ingredients:
- Tapioca - 2 Nos
- Onions Big - 2 Nos
- Curry Leaves- few
- Oil as required
- Salt as required
- Coconut grated- 1 Cup
- Onion shallots- 10 nos
- Red Chilly- 2 No
- Coriander powder- 2 tbsp
- Garam Masala- 1 tsp
- Pepper powder- 1/4 tsp
How to Cook:
- Add tapioca with enough water to a bowl and cook on low flame.
- After the tapioca is cooked , generally i drain out the tapioca and keep this aside. ( optional )
- Add grated coconut to a pan and stir fry on low flame till it turn brown in colour.
- Now add the masalas ( garam masala , coriander powder , pepper powder ), saute for 3 minutes.Keep this aside.
- Add oil to the pan , add the onion shallots, red chilly and stir fry for few minutes, till the red chilly start to turn brownish.Keep this aside.
- Let the coconut onion shallot mixture( ingredients from step 3 , 4 and 5 ) cool.After it is cooled, with little water grind the mixture to a smooth paste . keep this aside.
- Add oil to the pan, when it is hot , add onions , saute till translucent.
- Add the grinded mixture and mix well.
- Add cooked tapioca , salt , tumeric powder and again mix well for 2 minutes.
- Now add 2 cups water , close the pan and cook for 3 minutes.
- Add water if you want more gravy.
- Serve hot with rice , rotis, parathas.
Please go through the following post in my blog
For the Dosa /Idly Batter
http://maluzculinary.blogspot.in/2011/02/idly-dosa-batter.html
For the preparation of Dosa
http://maluzculinary.blogspot.in/2011/03/dosa.html
Ingredients
- Potatoes- 3 medium sized
- Onion - 1 No
- Green Chilly- 2 No
- Mustard Seeds - 1/4 tsp
- Turmeric Powder- 1/4 tsp
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Salt as required
- Curry Leaves .
How to Cook
- Peel off the potatoes and cut into cubes and set aside.
- Put the potatoes with enough water in cooker and pressure cook the potatoes for 5 whistles.
- Wait until the pressure is released from the cooker and open the cooker , Strain the water out.Mash the cooked potatoes well.
- In a Pan , pour oil and when hot , splutter mustard seeds.
- Add Onion , green chilly , curry leaves and saute till the onions are translucent.
- Add the cooked potatoes into the mixture along with turmeric powder , required amount of salt and mix it well with the onions. Mash the potatoes again.
- Add 1/4 cup water and mix it well. Cook for 3 minutes till the gravy becomes thick
- Garnish with curry leaves and serve hot with puri.
How to prepare masala dosa
- Pour the dosa batter to the pan and brush through ghee over the dosa.
- Close with a vessel and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the prepared potato gravy and chutney of your choice.
- Again close with a vessel and cook for few seconds.
- Slightly fold the dosa.
- Serve Hot.