Keerai/Greens

Keerai Kulambu

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Ingredients:
  • Keerai/Green leaves - 1 bundle 
  • Shallot onions - 15
  • Tomato - 1
  • Green chilli -1 or Sambar powder - 1 tbsp
  • Black pepper - 5 or 6
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Hing/Asafoetida - a pinch
  • Red chillies - 3
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Curry leaves - few
  • Salt as required
Method:
  • Chop and wash green leaves nicely.
  • Chop onions and tomato, keep this aside.
  • In pressure cooker, add chopped green leaves, onion, tomato, pepper, asafoetida, cumin seeds, salt, and 1/2 cup water.
  • Pressure cook nicely until green leaves smashes nicely.
  • In a small pan, add oil and mustard seeds, when it starts spluttering, add curry leaves and red chillies, saute it few minutes and add this to the keerai kulambu.
  • Serve this kulambu with rice and potato curry.

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Desserts/Snacks,

Mysore Pak

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Ingredients:
  • Gram flour - 75 grams
  • Sugar - 200 gms
  • Ghee - 250 gms
  • Water - 110gms
Method:
  • Before starting the cooking process, take a plate and grease it nicely with ghee or butter because mysore pak tightens in few minutes.
  • Heat ghee in a separate pan in a medium flame because hot ghee should be added to cook mysore pak.
  • Heat sugar in water until it forms one string consistency.
  • Now add gram flour and start mixing it without lump.
  • Now add 1 tbsp of ghee at a time, keep it mixing all the time.
  • When the mysore pak mixture starts leaving ghee, immediately transfer it to the greased plate.
  • After 5 minutes, cut mysore pak into pieces.
  • When it cools, store mysore pak in a jar.
  • Note: Instead of 250 gms ghee, you can use 100 gms vanaspathy and 150 gms ghee.

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Dosa varieties

Dosa Varieties

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Here is a list of few dosa varieties. Enjoy these tasty recipes with your favorite chutney.

Plain dosa
Kadambam dosa
Appam
Ragi dosa
Pesarattu
Adai
Moong dal dosa/Moong dal-Carrot dosa
Muttai dosa
Paneer Dosa
Masala Dosa
Spicy mixed dosa

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Breakfast,

Kadabam Dosa

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Ingredients:
  • Toor dal - 2 tbsp
  • Moong dal - 2 tbsp
  • Channa dal - 2 tbsp
  • Urud dal - 2 tbsp
  • Idli rice - 2 tbsp
  • Roasted gram/Pottu kadalai - 1 tbsp
  • Rajma - 1 tbsp
  • Peanuts - 1 tbsp
  • Soya beans - 1 tbsp
  • Almond - 5
  • Cashew - 5
  • Hing/asafoetida - a pinch
  • Red chilli - 3
  • Salt as required.
Method:
  • Except salt and hing, soak all the ingredients together for 6 to 7 hours.
  • Grind it along with the salt and hing.
  • You can use this dosa batter immediately, no need for fermentation.
  • Heat dosa tawa, dab oil on the tawa, take ladleful of batter and spread it in the form of circle.
  • Sprinkle oil on the dosa sides, flip dosa and cook on both sides.
  • Serve it coconut chutney.

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Boiled Rice,

Plain Dosa

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Ingredients:
  • Parboiled rice/Idli rice - 2 cup
  • Urud dal - 1/2 cup
  • Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tbsp
  • Salt as required
Method:
  • Soak all the ingredients except salt in water for 2 hours.
  • Drain water and grind this into smooth batter with necessary water.
  • Let the batter ferment for 8 hours.
  • Now add salt as required.
  • Heat a non-stick tawa, grease it with little oil, take a ladleful of batter and spread it in the form of circle.
  • Drizzle oil around dosa, flip dosa and cook on both sides.
  • Serve this coconut chutney.

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Fish

Sura Meen Kulambu/Shark Curry

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This kulambu is very good for lactating mother

Ingredients:
  • Sura meen/shark - 1 kg
  • Shallot onion - 15
  • Pepper - 1 tbsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Garlic - 10
  • Chilli powder/sambar powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
  • Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp
  • Vadagam - 1 tbsp
  • Tamarind - lemon size
  • Salt as required
Method:
  • Soak tamarind in one cup of water and strain tamarind juice in a bowl.
  • Boil the washed fish pieces  in water along with salt and turmeric powder for 5 minutes and remove the outer skin. Keep this aside
  • In a pan, saute pepper and cumin seeds for 2 minutes.
  • Grind sauteed pepper and cumin seeds along with garlic.
  • Add the ground paste, salt, coriander powder, and sambar powder to the tamarind juice. (Remember till now we didn't heat anything).
  • Heat a pan, add a teaspoon of oil and add vadagam and onion. Saute this for few minutes and add tamarind juice. 
  • When the juice , starts boiling, add fish pieces, bring this to boil.
  • Serve hot with rice.

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Maida,

Rumali Roti

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Ingredients:
  • Maida - 1 cup
  • Wheat flour - 1 cup
  • Ghee - 2 tbsp
  • Rice flour - 1 tbsp
  • Water to knead
  • Salt as required
Method:
  • Mix maida, wheat flour, and salt together. Add water and prepare smooth, elastic dough. Keep it aside for 1/2 an hour covered with muslin cloth.
  • Make small balls from the dough. Take 2 balls and roll them. Now apply ghee and rice flour on one sides of both the balls.
  • Place one ball over the other with ghee side facing each other. Now roll the sandwiched rotis together into thin roti.
  • Cook this roti on both sides on low flame, immediately separate two rotis, fold it into triangle and serve with any spicy curry.

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Maida,

Jalebi with Rabadi(Rabari)

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Jalebi and Rabadi are two separate dishes and can be had independently. 
Refer this post for jalebi and rabadi. Prepare this yummy recipes.
Take a plate, place jalebis and pour rabadi. Enjoy this delicious recipe. 

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Milk

Rabadi or Rabari

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Ingredients:
  • Milk - 1 cup
  • Sweetened condensed milk - 1 cup
  • Pista - 10
  • Almond - 4
  • Cardamom powder - 1/2 tbsp
  • Saffron strands - 1/4 tbsp
Method:
  • Put almonds in hot water for 10 minutes and remove skin of it.
  • Chop pista and almonds into small pieces.
  • Boil milk till it reduce to half, add condensed milk, chopped pista and almond, cardamom powder, and saffron strands. Boil rabadi for 5 more minutes and switch off.
  • Keep rabadi in room temperature for few minutes and refrigerate it. Serve chilled. 

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Maida

Jalebi

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Ingredients:
  • All purpose flour/maida - 1 cup
  • Curd - 3/4 cup
  • Corn flour - 2 tbsp
  • Ghee - 2 tbsp
  • Cooking soda - a pinch
  • Yellow color - a pinch
  • Oil + ghee for frying
  • Sugar Syrup
  • Sugar - 1 cup
  • Water - 3/4 cup
  • Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
  • Yellow color - a pinch
Method:
  • Mix maida, cooking soda, yellow color, corn flour, and ghee.
  • Now add curd to the above mixture, beat it nicely. Add water if necessary. Consistency should be of vada mixture.
  • Let this mixture to ferment overnight.
  • Boil sugar with water to one string consistency. Add yellow color and lemon juice to the sugar syrup and keep this syrup in low flame.
  • In a pan, add oil and ghee for frying. Take a cloth or ziploc bag make small hole in it. Fill batter in this and draw circles in the heated oil. Keep flame little low and fry jalebis crispy.
  • Immediately add jalebi in the sugar syrup, let it be for 2 minutes in the syrup. Drain jalebis and keep it in a plate.
  • You can store this jalebis for 4 to 5 days.

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Keerai/Greens

Keerai Poriyal

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Ingredients:
  • Arai keerai/Mulai keerai/Siru keerai(Green leaves) - 1 bunch
  • Moong dal - 1/4 cup
  • Green chillies - 2
  • Garlic - 2
  • Cumin seeds - 1tbsp
  • Shallot onion - 2
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
  • Grated coconut - 2 tbsp
  • Salt as required
Method:
  • Chop keerai nicely.
  • Chop onion nicely and keep it aside.
  • Roast moong dal lightly.
  • In a pan, add oil and mustard seeds, when it start spluttering, add cumin seeds, onion, garlic, and chopped green chillies. 
  • Now add keerai and moong dal along with salt.
  • Add very little water to cook and finally garnish it with grated coocnut.
  • Serve it with rice and curry of your choice.

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banana

Banana Milkshake with Icecream

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Ingredients:
  • Banana - 1 
  • Milk - 1/2 cup
  • Sugar - 2 tbsp (optional)
  • Ice cream - 6 tbsp
Method:
  • Chop banana nicely.
  • In blender, add banana, sugar(optional, add if you want shake to be sweeter), milk, and ice cream.
  • Blend it nicely and serve chilled.

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Thayir vadai

Thayir Vadai

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Ingredients:
  • Medu vadai – 4 
  • Click here for medu vadai recipe
  • Curd – ½ cup
  • Salt a pinch
  • Coriander leaves - little 
Method :
  • Prick the vadai with the fork on both sides.
  • Mix curd and salt well.
  • Now soak the vadai into the curd.
  • Garnish with coriander and serve. 

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Egg

Masala Egg Omelette

10:24 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Egg - 1
  • Shredded coconut - 1 tbsp
  • Chopped coriander - 1 tbsp
  • Green chilli - 1/2
  • Cumin seeds - 1/4 tbsp
  • Cashew - 2
  • Garlic pod - 1
  • Salt as required
Method:
  • Grind all the ingredients except egg.
  • Beat egg nicely, add ground paste and salt, again beat egg.
  • In a flat bottomed pan, add little oil, pour egg mixture, cook on both sides.
  • Serve hot

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Moong Dhall

Moong dal Dosa/ Moong dal - Carrot Dosa

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Ingredients:
  • Idli rice - 3/4 cup
  • Moong dal - 1 cup
  • Red chillies - 3
  • Ginger - small piece
  • Asafoetida a pinch
  • Ghee
  • Carrot - 1 (Optional)
  • Salt as required
Method:
  • Soak rice and moong dal together for 2 hours.
  • Grind soaked material with red chillies, ginger, asafoetida and grated carrot.
  • Add salt to the ground batter.
  • In dosa tawa, spread little ghee, add ladleful of batter and spread it in circle.
  • Add little ghee and flip dosa.
  • Serve this with coconut chutney or any other chutney of your choice.
  • Note: Instead of carrot, you can also add tomato, beetroot or any other vegetable of your choice.

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Fish

Coconut-Coriander Fish Fry

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Original recipe: onlyfishrecipes.com


Ingredients:
  • King fish or Snakehead murrel - 1 kg
  • Coconut -1 cup
  • Chopped coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
  • Garlic pods - 4
  • Green chillies - 3 or 4
  • Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp
  • Cashew - 5
  • Curd - 1 cup
  • Salt as required
  • Oil for frying
Method:
  • Grind coconut, coriander, cashew, garlic, and green chillies into paste.
  • Cut and wash fish nicely.
  • Marinate fish with turmeric powder and salt.
  • Keep the marinated fish aside for an hour.
  • Now dip fish in the curd and cover one side of the fish with the ground paste.
  • Heat a flat bottomed pan, add little oil and pan fry on medium heat. 
  • Serve this with rice and kulambu of your choice.

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Egg

Muttai Dosa/ Egg Dosa

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Ingredients:
  • Dosa batter - 1 cup
  • Egg - 2 or 3(according to number of dosas)
  • Salt as required
  • Pepper - a pinch
  • Ghee - 2 tbsp
Method:
  • Beat a egg nicely with salt and pepper.
  • Heat dosa tawa and pour ladleful of batter.
  • Spread the batter in the form of circle.
  • Sprinkle ghee over the dosa.
  • Now add beaten egg mixture and spread it on top of the dosa.
  • Flip the dosa and let it cook nicely.
  • Serve this with coconut chutney. 

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