VEGETABLE PARATHA

Ingredients for stuffing:

• Potatoes - 2 [ large ]
• Carrots - 2
• Beet root - 1
• Peas - 1/4 cup [ shelled ]
• Onion - 1 [ chopped finely ]
• Green chillies - 4 to 5 [ make into paste ]
• Lemon juice - 1 tabl sp
• Cumin seeds - 1/4 sp
• Salt - as required
• Cut coriander leaves - 1 tbl. sp
• Oil - 2 tbl . sp

Ingredients for making paratha:

• Wheat flour - 1 1/2 cup
• Maida - 1/4 cup
• Melted butter - 1 tbl . sp
• Salt - as per taste
• sugar - 1/4 sp
  

Method:
Sieve and mix the flours together in a mixing bowl. Add salt, sugar, and butter, mix well with the flour till the butter blends. Gradually add water and knead to a smooth dough. Pat and knead well for several times. Make balls and roll out into medium sized parathas. Roast on a hot tawa first on one side. Turn over and apply little oil on top. When it roasts into light brown colour on both sides, remove from the tawa. This is the method of making parathas.


Method of stuffing:
Pressure cook potatoes along with grated carrots. Beetroot and peas in other container. Peel and mash potatoes, crush peas. Heat oil and season with cumin  [ 1/4 sp ] seeds. Fry onions for 2 mins. Squeeze out extra water from carrots, beetroot, and add to onions. Continue frying with mashed potatoes and crushed peas. Add salt, chili paste and lemon juice, mix well and remove from the fire. Garnish with cut coriander leaves. stuff 1 1/2 table spoons of filling for each paratha . Take small lemon size ball from the dough, spread into small puri apply little oil to that, put the filling and close it. Apply little dry wheat flour and spread into 1/2 inch thick parathas. Place it on hot tawa roast both sides to light brown applying little oil or ghee to that. Your yummy vegetable paratha is ready to eat. Serve hot with curd.

Iru Puli Kuzambu

Ingredients:

• Tamarind paste - 1 sp
• Fresh beaten curd - 1 cup
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 sp
• Red chili powder - 1 sp
• Sugar - 1/2 sp
• Mustard seeds - 1 sp
• Coconut oil - 2 tabl . sp
• Curry leaves - little

Vegetables used:

• White pumpkin - 1 / 4 k. g.
• Raw red pumpkin - 50 gm
• Tomato - 1

[ wash and cut the vegetables to big pieces discard skin and seeds ]

Fry in oil and grind to paste:

• Toor dal - 1 handful
• Urad dal - 1 sp
• Methi seeds - 1 / 2 sp
• Red chillies - 5 to 6

Fry till dal is golden in colour, add fresh coconut and grind in mixcer and mix with beaten curd.


Method:
Take one deep bottom vessel, place it on a gas stove, add the cut vegetables along with tamarind paste, salt, turmeric, red chili powder, asafoetida, little sugar, enough water and boil till the vegetables are cooked. Add the grind masala with beaten curd and boil for another 10 mints in sim flame. Before removing the vessel from the gas stove, take a small tava and heat mustard seeds in coconut oil and pour it in the kuzambu. Garnish with curry leaves. The mouth watery iru puli kulabi is ready

Puli vitta Poricha Kuzambu

Ingredients:

• Raw banana - 1 [ peel & cut into dices ]
• Any tipe brinjal - 3 to 4 [ cut into pieces ]
• Tamarind paste - 2 tabl sp
• Salt - as required
• Asafoetida - little
• Red chili powder - 1 sp
• Sambhar powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 sp
• Jaggery - small lemon size
• Fresh grated coconut - 2 tabl . sp
• Moong dal - 1 hand ful
• Curry leaves - little
• Mustard seeds - 1 sp
• coconut oil - 2 tabl . sp
• Coriander leaves - little

Method:
Take one small pressure cooker, put raw banana, brinjal along with moong dal adding salt, turmeric and enough water. Pressure cook. Wait for 2 whistle to come. Then open the cooker add tamarind paste, red chili powder, sambhar powder, jaggery, asafoetida, and boil for 15 mints in lower flame. Finally, fry fresh coconut in coconut oil till it becomes golden brown in colour. Add this to the kuzambu and mix well. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and curry leaves. Serve with rice and curry.

Onion Paratha

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 2 cups
• Big onion - 2 [ cut onions as finely as possible ]
• Green chillies -  2 [ finely chopped ]
• Coriander leaves - 1 tabl sp [ finely chopped ]
• Salt - as required
• Fresh cream - 2 sp [ it makes paratha soft ]
• Water - little [ if required only ]
• Oil, Ghee mixed - 1/2 cup [ frying for paratha ]

Method:
Mix chopped onion, green chili, salt, fresh cream, chopped coriander leaves along with wheat flour in a big bowl. Mix well, to knead a soft dough. If necessary, sprinkle little water. Then make small lemon-sized balls from that. Keep one tawa on the gas, heat it. Meantime make paratha with 1/2 inch thickness and place it on the heated tawa and fry using oil on both sides. While it roasts to light brown colour, remove from the tawa. Paratha is now ready to eat. Serve hot with pickle and yogurt.

Karuveppilai Kuzambu

Ingredients:

• Toor dal - 1 handful
• Urad dal - 1 handful
• Pepper - 2 tabl . sp
• Methi seeds - 1/2 sp
• Red dry chili - 10
• Tamarind paste - 3 tabl . sp
• Salt - as required
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 sp
• Red chili powder - 1 tsp [ it's gives colour ]
• Asafoetida - little
• Jaggery - as required
• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Til oil - 3 tabl . sp
• Tender fresh curry leaves - 1 cup
• Sunflower oil - 1 tabl . sp
•  Fresh curry leaves - 1/2 cup

Method:
Heat 1  table spoon sunflower oil in a frying pan, add toor dal, urad dal, methi seeds, pepper, red chillies and fry in lower flame till it turns into golden colour. When it cools, add tamarind paste, jaggery, and fresh curry leaves and grind in a mixer into a coarse (near nice) paste adding little water to it. Then keep one deep mouth kadai on the gas, pour 3 table spn of til oil to that, when it becomes hot, add mustard seeds, asafoetida. When the mustard seeds splutters, add  grinded masala, salt, turmeric, and chili powder and salt over a lower flame till the gravy is well thickened and comes to sauce consistency. Remove from the gas and allow to cool. Keep in a dry vessel inside the fridge. Karuveppilai Kulambu is ready. You can preserve this for 15 to 20 days. This is very tasty. Mix with rice and have it with keerai.

PineApple Pulav [It is not sweet pulav]

Ingredients:

• Basmati rice - 2 cups [ boiled ]
• Pineapple finely cut pieces - 1 cup
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 cup
• Salt - as required
• Red chili powder - 1/2 sp
• Sugar - 1/2 sp
• Bay leaf - 2
• cinnamon - 2 pieces
• cloves - 2
• Cardamom - 2
• Cumin seeds - 1 sp
• Cashewnuts - 10
• Raisins - 7 to 8
• Ghee - 2 tbl sp
• Oil - 1 tbl sp
• Finely chopped coriander leaves - little

Method:
Soak the rice for 20 mins. Then pressure cook the rice and keep aside. Take one pressure cooker, keep on the gas, pour ghee and oil together, add cumin seeds, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and bay leaves. Fry for 2 mins, and add the finely cut pineapples and mix well. Meantime mix salt, turmeric, red chillie powder in 1/2 cup of water. Add the masala water to the pineapple. When the oil leaves the side add the boiled rice and mix well in lower flame. Finally add fried cashews, raisins in 1 tsp of ghee and mix into the pulav. Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves. Serve hot with onion raitha.

Raw banana Roasted Dry Curry

Ingredients:

• Raw banana - 3 to 4 [ peel the outer skin and cut into thin round pieces ]
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 sp
• Salt - as required
• Tamarind paste - 1/4 sp
• Red chili powder - 2 sp
• Asafoetida - a pinch
• Sambhar powder - 1/2 sp
• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp [ for seasoning ]
• Urad dal - 1 sp [ for seasoning ]
• Curry leaves - little [ for garnising ]
• Oil - as required
  

Method:
Take one deep fry pan, place it on the gas and pour oil, add mustard seeds, urad dal, and curry leaves. When the mustard seeds splutters, add urad dal. When the dal turns to golden brown in colour, add the cut bananas, put salt, turmeric, red chili powder, sambhar powder, asafoetida, tamarind paste and mix well. Cook over moderate heat for 10 mins and close it with a lid. In between open the lid, add 1 table spoon oil and fry till the banana becomes dry. Add more oil and saute to give a fried look. Garnish with curry leaves. Serve with hot rice and sambhar etc.