Olan

Olan

Olan is a Kerala recipe. It is very simple recipe. This is one of the curries for festival days in Kerala.

Ingredients

Olan

.(Elavan)Chopped into pieces)   1cup
.(Mathan)Chopped into pieces)         1cup
Black Eyed Peas                    1/2 cup
Green Chilies(Slit)                   4
Grated Coconut                       1/2cup
Coconut Oil                              1tbsp

Curry Leaves                              Few

Salt to taste
Method
Soak the black eyed peas into water for 5 hours.
Extract coconut milk by grinding the grated coconut. (half cup thick milk and half cup thin milk)
Boil the vegetables and black eyed peas with thin milk. 
When the vegetables are cooked add salt and thick coconut milk,coconut oil and curry leaves.
Mix well. 

Elevan Pachadi ( White Pumpkin Raita)

Pachadi is an important element of the Sadya and festive occasions (Vishu, Onam, wedding)

 Ingredients

• Chopped White Pumpkin....................1 cup
• Yogurt................................................1 cup
• Mustard seeds....................................1 tsp
• Red Chili............................................1
• Grated Coconut...................................1/2 cup
• Green Chili.............................................2

Method

• Boil little water and add the eleven pieces and salt. Remove the water.
• Grind the  grated coconut with one chili and half tsp mustard seeds.
• Add this with yogurt and cooked eleven pieces.
• Heat a pan with ad mustard seeds and broken chili.
• When it splutters add to the yogurt with cooked eleven pieces.
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Potato Bajjias

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

Potato Bhajjias

Ingredients

• Begal Gram flour.(Besan)......................... 1cup
• Rice Flour.................................................1tsp
• Red Chili Powder......................................1tsp
• Asafetida...................................................a pinch
• Salt to Taste

Method

• Mix the flours chili, asafetida, salt with little water make a thick batter
• Slice the potao thin
• Heat a pan with oil, dip the potato slice in the batter and drop in the oil.
• Deep fry them till golden
• Serve with chutney

Pinapple Pachadi

Pinapple Pachadi

Pinappale Pachadi

• Prepare Time.....................5 min
• Cook Time.........................5 min
• Serve...............................3

Ingredients

• Ripe Pineapple Pieces.......................2cups
• Grated Coconut................................1cup
• Red Chili..........................................4
• Turmeric Powder..............................1/4tsp
• Mustard ...........................................1tsp
• Curry Leaves......................................few
• Salt to Taste
  

Method

• Boil pineapple, with turmeric and salt in 1/2cup water.
• Grind coconut with dried 2 chilies to a fine paste.
• Heat a pan with oil with mustard seeds red chilies (broken and curry leaves.
• When it splutters add pineapple pieces and coconut paste.
• The gravy should be thick and cover for 3 minutes in a low flame.
• This is a sweet side dish.
• Usually this dish would be one of the items in Sadya
  

Elai Vadam ( Vathal)

Elai vadam is one of favorite things of my grandchild. So I make this vadam very often,

 Ingredients

Elai Vadam

• Raw rice..........1 cup
• Boiled rice......1/cup
• Salt to taste.

Method

• Soak the rice for an hour and grind it into a smooth paste
• Take the vadam sheets , apply oil and spread one tsp batter.
• Steam them peel and dry them in shade.

Elavan Koottu (White Pumpkin Koottu)

Elavan Koottu

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

Ingredients

• Elavan ( white Pumpkin)............1/2 KG
• Grated Coconut.....................1 and half cup
• Chana Dhal...........................1/2 cup
• Cumin Seed..........................1tsp
• Red Chili................................2
• Mustard Seed........................1tsp
• Urad Dhal..............................2tsp
• Curry Leaves.........................few
• Turmeric Powder...................1/2tsp
• Salt to Taste

Method

• Wash, peel the skin and cut the elavan into small pieces.
• Boil water, add the pieces, chana dhal and turmeric powder.
• Grind the coconut, cumin seeds and red chili into a paste.
• When the vegetable is cooked add the coconut paste and salt.
• Mix them well.Kootu should be thick. 
• If there is excess water, remove the water before adding the coconut paste.
• Heat a pan with oil add mustard seeds, urad dhal, 3tsp of coconut and curry leaves.
• When the coconut turns into red , add this to the kootu. 
• It is very tasty and eat with sambar rice, rasam rice, chapathi or poori

Potato Podimas

Potato Podimas



 







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

Ingredients

• Potato ..............................1 kg
• Coconut ...........................half cup
• Green Chilies................... 4
• Curry Leaves......... ...........few
• Ginger(Chopped)..... ........1tsp
• Mustard Seeds................ 1 tsp
• Chana Dhal........................2 tsp
• Oil .................................3 tsp
• Salt to Taste

Method

• Boil the potato and remove the skin. Mash them nicely. 
• Grind coconut and chilies coarsely. 
• Heat a pan with of oil. Add mustard and chana dhal. 
• When the dhal becomes red, add the mashed potato, coconut, ginger and salt.
• Mix well and lastly add the curry leaves

Tomato Rice

Tomato rice is the easiest recipe to prepare.I prepare this recipe most of the time.

• Prepared Time.......15 minutes
• Cook Time..............20 min
• Serve ......................5

Ingredients

• Cooked Rice....................4cups
• Turmeric Powder,..............1/2 tsp
• Tomato.............................2
• Green Chili.......................5
• Red Chili Powder............. 1tsp
• Asafoetida..........................1tsp 
• Corinader Leaves...............little
• Sambar Powder................1/2 tsp
• Mustard Seeds...................1tsp
• Chana Dhal........................2tsp

Salt to taste

Tomato Rice

Method

• Heat a pan with oil add mustard seeds and chana dhal.
• When it crackles add chopped tomatoes, green chili,
• Add turmeric, red chili powder  and sambar powder.
• When the tomatoes cooked add the rice, salt and mix.
• Sprinkle coriander leaves.
• serve with vadam/ pappadams.

Black Eyed Peas Patties

Black Eyed Peas Patties

Ingredients

• Cooked Black Eyed Peas ............1cup
• Chopped Onion.......................... 1/4 cup
• Green Chili(Chopped)................. 1.tsp
• Scallion. (Chopped).................... 2tbsp.
• Red chili Powder....................... .1/2tsp
• Coriander Powder .......................1/4 tsp
• Maida ..........................................4tbsp
• Salt to Taste 

Method

• Mix above all ingredients and mash nicely with spoon or fork.
• Mix all together make patties. Add little water to the maida and make a batter.
• Dip the patties on the batter and put them on the hot oiled pan and cook both sides till they become brown.(Use these as burgers for sandwich)

Thiruvathirai Festival

Lord nataraja

Thiruvathirai or Arudra darishanam is a festival dedicated to Lord Shiva9Nataraja)All the shiva temple have special event on this occasion.It comes in the month of Margazhi at thiruvathira star/ poorami
There are rudrabhishekam for Lord Shiva in early morning.Onthis day unmarried women and girls take bath early in the mroning, wear  new clothes  sit near the vilakku. We prepare Kali and thalakam with all vegetables, banana, beetle leaves coconut do the naivedyam and seek lord Shivas blessing.

In Kerala they dance thiruvthira kaikottu kali.

Thiruvathira Kali

Thalakam for Thiruvathira Kali