Morappam

Morappam can be made immediately if you have dosa batter.
Add spice and make appams.

Morappam








   

Ingredients

Rice                            3 cups
Urad Dhal                   1 cup
Coconut Flakes           2 tbsp.
Green chilies Chopped          2 tsp
Ginger Chopped             2 tsp
Curry Leaves               few
Asafetida                1/4 tsp

Method

Soak the rice and urad dhal together for 3 hours and grind , add salt and keep for overnight.
Next day add green chili, ginger, asafetida and curry leaves and coconut pieces.
Heat oil in appakarai ( appam vessel) and pour the batter in each pit( kuzhi).
When it becomes red turn the other side.
Remove when they are fully fried.
Eat hot and drink hot tea or coffee. 

Coconut Rice( Thenga Satham)

South Indian Coconut Rice(Thenga Satham)

This rice is very easy to prepare and tasty to eat. Adi pathinettam perukku, we make different types of rice. This coconut rice is one of them.

Coconut Rice

Ingredients

• Rice.....................2 cups
• Grated Coconut...1 cup
• Urad Dhal..............2 tsp
• Mustard seeds......1 tsp
• Red Chili...............1
• Curry leaves.........few
• Roasted peanuts....1/4 cup
• Salt to taste

Method

• Soak the rice for about 15 minutes and cook.Left over rice work great too.
• Heat a pan with oil add mustard seeds,once it starts spluttering, add urad dhal, red chili and curry leaves and coconut.
• Fry  for 4/5 minutes add the cooked rice, salt and roasted peanuts(Use cashew nuts also).
• Mix well  together.Serve hot.

Chinese Noodles

Chinese noodles is favourite among  everybody.

Ingredients

• Chinese Noodles...............................1 packet
• Sesame Oil......................................2 tsp
• Minced Garlic..................................2 tbsp
• Minced ginger..................................2 tbsp
• Shredded Cabbage..........................1 cup
• Corn................................................1/4 cup
• Soy Sauce.....................................1 tbsp
• Black Pepper..................................1 tsp
• Chili Sauce to taste
• Onions cut.....................................1 cup
• Carrot cut in match sticks................1 cup
• White Vinegar.................................1 tbsp
• Chinese Sauce to taste
• Chili sauce to taste
• Soy Sauce
• Bell Pepper cut.............................1 cup

Chinese Noodles

Method

• Boil the water adding little oil and salt.Put off the flame. 
• Then add the noodle and cover it.
• After some time remove the water and keep
• Heat  a large wok with 1tsp oil add ginger/garlic, onion, carrots, bell pepper,cabbage and baby corn.
• Toss them well. Add black pepper and noodles, white vinegar, chili sauce, 
• Chinese sauce and salt. Mix them nicely so that all together mixed well.
• Turn off  the flame sprinkle some spring onions.

Palak Paneer

Ingredients

Palak Panneer

• Palak.............................2 bunches
• Onion.............................2
• Green Chili......................2
• Cumin Seeds...................1 tsp
• Paneer............................1 cup
• Tomatoes........................2
• Chili Powder...................1tsp
• Coriander Seed Powder...1tsp
• Garam Masala.................1/2tsp
• Fresh Cream...................2tsp
• Salt to taste

Method

• Wash and chop the palak.Cook the palak with little water.
• Remove the water and keep.
• Slice the onion and tomatoes.Heat pan with oil add onion and tomatoes and fry.
• Grind all together with palak.
• Heat a pan with oil add cumin seed(you can use garlic too),slit red chili,chopped onion and fry them.
• Add chili powder ,salt, coriander seed powder and garam masala .When fired add ground paste, add the palak water into the mixture.Allow it to boil.
• Mix the paneer cubes..
• Remove from the fir add cream.(add grated cheese too) .Serve with rice/chapathi.

Mudira Chutney (Horsegram Chutney)

Mudira is very good for health. we make mudira puzhukku for kanji. Here I am giving the mudira chutney.

Ingredients

• Mudira.........................1/4 cup
• Red Chili......................6
• Urad Dhal....................2 tsp
• Asafoetida...................1/4 tsp
• Tamarind Paste............1 tsp
• Mustard Seeds............1 tsp
• Curry Leaves...............few
• Grated Coconut.........1 cup

Method

• Roast the mudira till it becomes brown. Fry the chili and  dhal.Grind mudira ,dhal and chili. 
• Then add tamarind, curry leaves salt, asafoetida and coconut. 
• Mix well and transfer to a bowl.Heat  a pan with oil add mustard seeds.
• When it splutters add to the chutney. 
• This mudira chutney goes with rice, dosa,idli and chapathi

Badusha ( Diwali Sweet)

Ingredients

Badusha

• Maida......................1/2 kg
• Dalda/Ghee..............200 gm
• Yogurt.....................50 gm
• Sugar.....................1 and 1/2 kg
• Baking powder.......1/2 tsp
• Salt to taste

Method

• Mix maida,baking powder, yogurt,ghee, salt and make a thick dough.
• Cover and keep the dough in fridge for about 2 hours.
• Heat oil or ghee to fry. Take little ball sized dough roll in the hand and flatten little and press at the center by the thumb.
• Drop them  in the hot oil and fry them till they are golden.
• Heat a pan with little water add the sugar and boil till it turns into one consistency.
• Drop the cooled badushas one by one.
• Keep in syrup about 15 minutes.
• Then take them out and keep them in a tray
• .You can see that all the badushas are coated by the sugar syrup.

Oats Pongal ( Oats Kichadi)

Oats Pongal.
My husband takes oats everyday.I want to try different varieties. This  time I tried with pasiparippu and it came out very well. My husband loved it.

Ingredients

• Oats...........................................1 cup
• Pasi parippu(Split Moong Dhal)...1 cup
• Pepper/Cumin Seed Powder.....1tsp
• Cashew Nuts.........................few
• Cumin Seeds........................1tsp
• Ghee.....................................1 tbsp
• Chopped Ginger...................1tsp
• Chopped Green Chili...............1 tsp

Method

• Roast the dhal and oats for about 5 to 7 minutes.
• Pressure cook them with enough water, salt and pepper/cumin seed powder.
• Heat a pan with ghee add cumin seed powder,cashew nuts, curry leaves,ginger and green chili. 
• When it fried add to the pongal.
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• ( Roast both dhal and oats separately and cook only moong dhal first and then add the oats and boil few more minutes).

Lemon Pickle

Ingredients

Lemons.................10

Chili Powder.........4 tbsp

Asafoetida.............1 tsp

Sesame Oil..............3 tbsp

Methi  Powder........1tsp  

Mustard Seeds.........1tsp 

Salt to Taste



Lemon Pickle

Method

Take the lemon juice from five lemons. 

Cut the lemons into pieces.

Add salt, lemon juice, chili powder, asafoetida and methi powder and mix well. 

Heat a pan and add mustard seeds and oil. 

When it splutters add to the pickle...Mix well and keep in a airtight bottle.

Medu Vada

Medu Vada

Medu Vada

Ingredients

• Urad Dhal............................2 cups
• Rice.....................................2 tbsp
• Chopped Curry Leaves..........few
• Asafoetida.............................1 tsp
• Pepper Corns.........................1 tsp
• Chopped Ginger ....................1 stsp
• Salt to Taste

Method

• Soak the dhal and rice for about 5 hours. 
• Drain all the water grind it with pepper  and salt in food processor or wet grinder.
• If needed add very little water.The dough should be fluffy.
• Dip your hand in water, take little dough, spread it, and make a hole in the middle and drop them into the hot oil. let it fry one side and turn the other side.
• You can add chopped onions and coconut pieces in the batter and make vada.

Ulundhu Kozhakattai

Ulundu Kozhakattai

Ingredients

Urad Dhal…………….. 1 cup

Green Chilies………….3

Grated Coconut………. half cup

Ginger………………. 1 piece

Curry Leaves…………. few

Mustard Seeds……… 1tsp

Rice Flour………… ..1 cup

Water………………..1/2 cup

Oil ………………… 1 tsp

Salt ………………….1 tsp

Asafoetida……………half tsp

Green Chili...................2

Method

Ulundhu Kozhakattai

Soak the dhal for an hour and grind coarsely with chili and salt. 

Steam this mixture for 10 minutes.

Heat a pan with oil add mustard seeds,curry leaves,chopped ginger asafoetida and when mustard crackle add the steamed mixture and stir well.. 

Add coconut,chili and curry leaves and make small balls and keep. 

Boil the water in a pan and add oil, salt and rice flour,. 

Stir well with out forming lumps. 

When it becomes thick dough,cover and keep.

Knead the dough with little oil till it becomes smooth.

Make cups and place this dhal pournam and cover them. 

Steam all the kozhakattais for 10 minutes.