Thursday, October 27, 2011

Diwali Wishes to all of you

Hey Dear Friends,


Happy Diwali Wishes to everybody. 






Hope you had a great and safe diwali. And here i enjoyed well with friends with Diwali Sweets and Snacks....





Thursday, October 20, 2011

Verkadalai / Peanut Chutney



Ingredients:
  • Roasted and peeled Groundnuts – 1 Cup
  • Whole red chillies – 6 to 7
  • Tamarind – 1/2 tsp ( 1/4 the small lime size )
  • Grated coconut – 2 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
  • Urud dhal - 1/2 tsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
  • Salt – as required
  • Oil – 2 tsp





Method:

1. Take a pan, add 2 tsp of oil.
2. Once the oil is ready, add the red chillies and  roast them.
3. In a mixer grind together the roasted and peeled ground nut, roasted red chillies, tamarind, grated coconut along with required salt.
4. Grind well till you get a chutney consistency using water.
5. Take the pan again and add some oil and heat it. Once ready add the mustard seeds, urud dhal and cumin seeds and allow it to splutter.
6. Then add it to season the chutney.


Yummy peanut chutney is ready to served. I served this chutney with onion oothappam. I hope you all will like it :)

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Ericheri Kootu



Ingredients:

  • Vazhaikkai / Plantain - 1 no
  • Senai kizhangu / Yams - 1 no
  • Coconut - 1/2 cup, keep 1 tbsp of coconut
    separately for seasoning.
  • Milagu - 1 tsp
  • Rice - 1 tsp
  • Salt - as required
  • Curry leaves
  • coconut oil - 1 tsp
To Grind:

  • Coconut,
  • 1/2 Red Chilli,
  • Milagu,
  • 1/4 tsp of rice.
Method:

  1. Cut both the vegetables into small cubes.
  2. Then boil the vegetables till it becomes tender.( see to that it does not get over cooked.)
  3. Till the time it gets boiled grind the paste that is required.
  4. After the vegetables get cooked, add the ground paste and stir well.
  5. Take a pan, pour 1 tsp of coconut oil into that.
  6. Then put 1 tbsp of coconut and curry leaves and fry them till coconut turns dark brown in color.
  7. Then add that to the gravy getting prepared.
  8. Delicious kerala special ERICHERI kootu is ready to serve.
Hey, here i'm ready and happy to get into another event CWF-WV:Plantain/Raw Banana posted by Kiran 


Hope you all will like this recipe