Vazhakai Podimas

Vazhakai Podimas

• Prepare Time........................5 min
• Cook Time............................10 min
• Serve.......................................4

Ingredients

• Raw Banana........................6
• Grated Coconut...................half cup
• Green Chilies,......................5
• Chopped Ginger..................2 tsp
• Curry Leaves.......................few
• Salt .....................................to taste
• Mustard Seeds....................1 tsp
• White Dhal (Urad Dhal).......2 tsp


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Method

• Boil the bananas . When the colour of the banana skin becomes black remove the skin and grate it in grater.
• Mix the coconut and chillies in a blender (only one round).
• Heat a pan with oil add mustard seeds, urad dhal and curry leaves.
• When the mustard splutters add the grated banana and coconut. Mix it well.
• This is a side dish for sambar rice or rasam rice.

Ada Pradhaman

Prepare Time                     15 min
Cook Time                         20 min
Serve                                  6

Ingredients For ada
Fresh Rice Powder                    200gms
Sugar                                        1/2 cup              
Ghee                                       1tsp
Small Plantain Leaves             6   
Method
Place the  plantain leaves directly on the gas and make them tender.
Add rice flour, sugar and ghee make a dough not too thick not too thin.
Sprinkle the dough with your hand on the leaves.
Roll the leaves and tie them both sides with thread.
Drop them in boiling water for 20 minutes.
Remove them and put them in cold water and keep them in strainer.
Cut the Adas into small.pieces
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Ada Pradhaman

Ingredients

Ada              1cup 
Jaggery                        1/2 kilo
Coconut                          2
Cardamom Powder            1tsp
Coconut Pieces            2tbsp
Cashew Nuts                 2tbsp.
Method

Grate the coconut and extract the milk Melt the jaggery
Fry the adas by adding ghee for few minutes.
Add the jaggery to the adas and boil for ten minutes.
Add the coconut milk and mix it well.
When the  mixture is about to boil, remove from the flame.
Add cardamom powder and roasted cashew nuts and coconut pieces.

Chakka koottu (Jack Fruit Curry)

Prepare time          10 min
Cook Time              20 min
Serve                      5

Ingredients

Chakka Koottu

Chakka pieces                  2 cups
Grated Coconut                1cup
Red Chili                          2
Turmeric Powder            1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds                    1tsp
Rice                                1tsp
Mustard Seeds               1tsp
Urad Dhal                       2 tsp
Curry Leaves                   few
Salt to taste.
Method
Cut the chakka pieces into small.
Heat a pan with water add the chakka pieces.
Add turmeric and salt, cook till it becomes tender.
Grind the coconut,chili cumin seed and rice into a paste.
Heat a pan with oil, add mustard, 2 tsp coconut, urad dhal and curry leaves.
When mustard  crackles add to the koottu and mix well.