Spinach with moong dhall recipe, ( green leaves with moong dhall recipe) ( keerai kootu)

                                                

Ingredients:

• 1 bunch of spinach leaves,
• Moong dhall (50g)
• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• 4 green chilli, slit it
• 1 medium size tomato, finely chopped
• 7 pods of garlic, crushed
• 1/2tbsp mustard seeds
• 4tbsp grinded coconut
• 1/2tbsp black gram
• 1/2tbsp bengal gram
• oil

Procedure for preparation:


Step 1: Cut the spinach into small pieces, wash it in water and drain the water completely and keep aside. Then cook the moong dhall in pressure cooker.

Step 2: Keep the pan on the stove, pour 2tbsp oil, put mustard seeds, after popping add black gram, bengal gram, green chilli, garlic, chopped onion and fry it, then add tomato and fry it nicely until onion and tomato merge together.

Step 3: Then add the spinach pieces and fry it for 2 minutes. After spinach gets cooked for about 75 percent, then add the cooked moong dhall to spinach and stir it.

Step 4: Once the spinach cooked, add the grinded coconut and stir for 3 to 5 minutes.

The spinach moong dhall is ready, you can have this dish with rice or chapati.

 

Sweet pongal recipe, ( sarkarai pongal recipe)

                                               

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rice, soak it for 15 minutes
• 5tbsp moong dhall, soak it for
• jaggery (150g)
• 6tbsp ghee
• 5 cashew nuts
• 5 almond nuts
• 5 raisins
• 2 cardamom

Procedure for preparation:


Step 1: Keep the cooker on the stove, pour 3 cups for water, and put 1 cup rice, moong dhall and allow for 6 whistle.

Step 2: Break the jagger into small pieces, then keep the pan on the stove pour some water and allow it to boil, then put the jaggery and dissolve it in water.

Step 3: Open the cooker, smash the rice slightly and pour the dissolved jaggery water and mix it nicely with rice and moong dhall, then keep the cooker in medium flame, stir the sweet pongal.

Step 4: Then keep the pan on the stove, pour ghee, put cashew, almonds, cardamom, raisins and fry it, and put in the sweet pongal. Then put off the flame, you can serve the hot sweet pongal.

If you want more sweet taste, youucan extra jaggery to the recipe.

 

Black gram vada recipe, (ulundhu vada recipe) (urad dal vada recipe)

                                 

Ingredients:

• Black gram (150g), soak it for 4 hours
• 2 onion, finely chopped
• 6 green chillies, finely chopped
• 2tbsp ginge rgarlic crushed
• curry leaves, finely chopped
• coriander leaves, finely chopped
• Salt as per taste
• oil

Procedure for preparation:


Step 1: Grind the black gram nicely in food processor.

Step 2: Take a bowl, put the grinded black gram, chopped onion, green chillies, curry leaves, coriande rleaves, crushed ginger garlic paste, salt and mix it nicely.

Step 3: keep the pan on the stove, pour oil and heat it, then make the mixture to vada shape and fry it in the oil, until it turns into golden brown colour.

Step 4: Then you can serve it hot with coconut chutney, sambar, or curd...

Banana flower vadai recipe

                                     

Ingredients:

• Bengal gram (100g), soak in water for 2 hours
• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• 1 cup banana flower, finely chopped
• 1tbsp ginger garlic, crushed
• 5 green chilles, finely chopped
• curry leaves, finely chopped
• coriander leaves, finely chopped
• Salt as per taste
• oil

Procedure for preparation:


Step 1: Grind the bengal gram coarsely in food processor.

Step 2: Take a bowl, put the grinded bengal gram, chopped banana flower, crushed ginger garlic, curry leaves, green chillies, coriander leaves, salt and mix it nicely.

Step 3: Keep the pan on the stove, pour oil, make the mixture into small vada shape and put in the hot oil and fry it, until it turns to golden brown colour.

Step 4: Then serve the hot banana flower vada.

Crab masala recipe

                                                            

Ingredients

• 1kg crab
• 2 cinnamom stick
• 2 bat leaf
• 1/2tbsp fennel seeds
• 1/4tbsp turmeric powder
• 2tbsp chilli powder
• 1 and half tbsp coriander powder
• 1tbsp ginger garlic paste
• Onion (100g), finely chopped
• 2 tomato, finely chopped
• 2 green chillies
• 2tbsp oil
• Salt as per taste
• curry leaves
• coriander leaves

 
Ingredients for crab masala:

• 1 cup grated coconut
• 1tbsp pepper
• 1tbsp cumin seeds
• 1tbsp poppy seeds
• 1/tbsp fennel seeds
• 3 cashew nuts
• 1tbsp oil

     ( Grind all these together as paste.)

 
Procedure for preparation:


Step 1: Pour oil, add fennel seeds, bay leaf, chopped onions, ginger garlic and fry it, then put chopped tomato, curry leaves and fry it.

Step 2: Then put crab and fry it, following that add turmeric powder, green chillies, salt and continue frying.

Step 3: Then add chilli powder, coriander powder, then add some water and allow it to boil. Then add salt and grinded masala and allow it boil and crab has to be cooked.

Step 4: Once the crab cooked and gravy becomes thicker, garnish with coriander leaves and serve it hot.


 

karaikudi chicken gravy recipe

                                                        

Ingredients:

• Chicken (500g)
• Onion (200g), finely chopped
• 2tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 2tbsp pepper
• tomato (200g), finely chopped
• 4 green chillies, slit it
• 1 inch cinnamom stick
• 2 cloves
• 2 cardamom
• 10 dried small red chilli
• 3tbsp coriander seeds
• curry leaves
• 1tbsp cumin seeds
• coconut (50g)
• salt as per taste
• oil

Procedure for preparation:

Step 1: Keep pan on the stove, put dry red chilli, coriander seeds, cloves, cardamom, cinnamom and  roast it.

Step 2: And then add pepper, curry leaves and roast it. Then transfer the content to a plate.

Step 3: Pour 3tbsp oil, put cumin seeds, curry leaves, chopped onion, ginger garlic paste and fry it, then add green chilli, chopped tomato and fry it nicely, until onion and tomato merge together.

Step 4: Then put the chicken pieces and fry it, then add turmeric, salt and continue frying.

Step 5: Then pour some water for chicken to get cooked.

Step 6: Grind the masala content along with coconut as paste and put it in the chicken and stir it, then allow it to boil for few minutes, then add coriander leaves and boil it.

Step 7: Hot karaikudi chicken is ready.

 

Crumbs chicken recipe

                                        

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg chicken
• 1tbsp lemon juice
• 2tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 1 egg
• 1/2tbsp cumin powder
• 2tbsp pepper powder
• 2tbsp bread crumbs
• salt as per taste
• 1/2tbsp chilli powder
• oil

Procedure for preparation:


Step 1: Put the chicken in a bowl, put lemon juice, salt, ginger garlic paste, pepper powder, chilli powder and mix it nicely, then add eggs and mix it.

Step 2: Coat the chicken with bread crumbs nicely and fry it in oil.

Step 3: Then serve it hot with tomato sauce.