7.19.2012

Farzana's Pal Koottu

Ingredients
  • Snake Gourd - 1 medium
  • Toor Dal - 1/4 cup
  • Channa Dal - 1/2 cup
  • Milk sufficient for grinding the below:
    • Coconut  -1/4 cup
    • Jeera
    • Red Chilly - 2
  • Salt
Method

Cook Sanke gourd and Dals seperately.
Once the above are cooked well, in a kadai, season with below and add everything together and simmer for few minutes.
  • Oil - 1 tsp
  • Hing - 1pinch
  • Urad dal - 1tsp
  • Curry leaves
 

Aunty's Mochai(Avarekalu/Lilva Papdi) Pulao

Ingredients:
  • Rice - 2 cups
  • Potato - 1
  • Mochai(Avarekalu/Lilva Papdi)
  • 1/2 onion
  • 1 Tomato

  • To Grind:
  • 1/4 cup coconut
  • 1/2 cup Mint
  • 1/2 cup Cilantro
  • 1 small Onion
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1" ginger
  • 2" Cinammon
  • 2 cloves
  • 2 Cardamoms
  • 6 G Chillies (or according to your taste)
Method:
  1. Heat oil in a pan.
  2. Add 1/2 onion and fry.
  3. Add Potato, Mochai and little salt and fry till potato is transparent.
  4. Add the ground masala and fry for few mins.
  5. Now add tomato and salt and fry till the raw smell goes.
  6.  
  7. Add rice, mix well. Add 4 cups of water, check for salt and cook the rice.
  8. You can cook rice direclty on the pan or in pressure cooker or you can tranfer the whole thing to a rice cooker and cook too.

Aunty's Vadai/Egg Curry

Ingredients:
  • Masala Vadai - 8-10
  • Coconut - 1/2 cup
  • G&G Paste - 1tsp
  • Onion - 1 medium
  • Tomatoes - 3 small
  • Cilantro - some
  • Red Chilli Pd. - 1 tsp
  • Dhaniya Pd. - 2 tsp
  • Garam Masala Pd. - 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves
  • Salt
  • Oil - 1 tbsp

Method:
  1. Grind Coconut, 1/2 onion and G&G paste.
  2. Heat oil in a kadai and season with mustard, 1/2 onion
  3. Add Chilli pd, Dhaniya and Garam Masala pd and fry
  4. Add ground paste and fry for some time.
  5. Add tomato, cilantro, curry leaves.
  6. When the tomatoes are little mushy, add water and cook till the oil seperates.
  7. Add Vadai or Egg.

7.14.2012

Aunty's Cutlet

Ingredients
  • Carrot - 1
  • Peas - same amount as carrot
  • Pudina - 1/2 bunch
  • Onion 1/2 big
  • Potato 2 1/2 boiled
  • Butter
  • Corn Flour
Method
  1. Fry oil with onion and pudina, add vegetables
  2. Mix potato, veg, pepper, butter, Gharam masala to make a dough.
  3. Make cutlet shape and dip it in the corn flour paste (watery) and roll it in bread crumbs and shallow fry it.

Aunty's White pumpkin stew

Ingredients
  • White pumpkin 1/4 lb
  • Tomato - 1 small
  • Cinammon - 1"
  • Clove - 4-5
  • Bay leaf - 2
  • Grind all the things below :
    • Onion 1/2
    • Pudina and cilantro 1/2 cup
    • Green chilies -5
    • Ginger 1/2"
    • Garlic 2 pods
    • Coconut 4x1"
Method
  1. Season using oil, mustard, onion, cinnamon , clove, bay leaf.
  2. Add ground masala.
  3. Add tomato and pumpkin. Add a lot of water. Pressure cook for 2 whistles.
  4. Eat with set Dosa.
  5. If White pumpkin stew is left over. Add butter milk and season with jeera, green chilies, curry leaves and asafetida to make Mor Kolambu.