Thursday, April 23, 2009

Tomato Stuff curry

Ingredients :
5 Tomatoes
1 Onion
To make Powder
Ground nuts 3tsps
Sesame seeds 2 tsps
Coriander seeds 1tsp
Zeera 1tsp
chana dal 1tsp
urad dal 1 tsp
red chillies 2

Procedure:

1.Heat a pan and roast the above ingredients with out oil for 5minutes
2.Cool the fried dals and grind it with 1/2 cup of water,salt to make paste.
3.Now Cut the tomatoes in middle and make a hole to stuff the paste.
4.Heat a pan with 2tsp oil,add onions and fry them.Add 3tsp of grounded paste and cook for 5minutes.
5.Now add the stuffed tomatoes in the gravy and cook for 15minutes by stirring ocassionally.
6.Serve Hot with Rice or Rotis

Note:
We can also do capsicum stuff curry with above grounded paste

Greenmoong masalacurry

Ingredients:
Moong 1cup
butter 2 tsps
1 Onion
2 Tomatoes
Ginger Garlic Paste 2 tsps
Green chillies 3
Red Chilly powder 1/2 tsp
coriander powder 1/2tsp
cumin powder 1/2tsp
turmeric powder 1/4tsp
salt to taste
curd 2 tsps


Procedure:
1.Soak moong(pesalu) whole night for about 8 hours.
2.Pressure cook the dals for 3 whistles.
3.Heat the pan with 1tsp of oil and add onion,greenchilly,ginger garlic paste.
4.Now add the chopped tomatoes and stir continously for 5minutes.
5.Add curd,masala powders,cooked dal,salt and 1/2 cup of water.
6.Finally add the butter and serve with rotis.

potals stuff curry

Ingredients:
potals 6
gramflour 2tsps
corianderpowder 1tsp
redchilly powder 1tsp
onion chopped 1 cup
salt to taste
oil 1tsp

Procedure:
1.Wash the potals and dry them with a paper towel.
2.Remove the rough skin with knife and cut the edges.
3.slit them vertically and horizontally like a plus sign without breaking them into halves.
4.Mix the above ingredients and stuff this powder into the potals.
5.Now heat a pan with 2 tsps oil and fry this potals , stir the potals ocassionally.
6.Potals changes the colour slowly and finally add 1tsp of above mixed powder.
7.Serve With Rice or roti.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Tomato Rasam


Ingredients:
4-5 tomatoes
zeera 1tsp
pepper 1tsp
coriander seeds 1tsp
urad dal 1 tsp
Red chilly 3
salt to taste
tamarind 1 inch
coriander leaves 1/2 bunch

Procedure:
1.Boil tomatoes and grind the tomatoes to make tomato puree.
2.Take a pan and fry the spices for 3min and grind it to make powder.
3.Heat a vessel and pour tomato puree,tamarind paste,one cup of water and salt.
4.Add the ground powder to the boiling rasam.
5.For seasoning fry mustard seeds,zeera,methi seeds,1 red chilly,urad dal.
6.Finally add the seasonings,coriander leaves to rasam.
7.Serve Rasam with rice and papads.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

POLI BOORELU


INGREDIENTS:
1 cup moongdal
1/2cup uraddal
1cup rice
1cup sugar
4tsps coconut
1cup water
Elachi powder 1/2 tsp
Procedure:
1.Soak moongdal for 30to 45min and soak rice,urad dal for 4to 5 hrs.
2.Now grind the moongdal as a smooth paste.
3.Grind the urad dal and rice like dosa mix as a topu and keep aside.
3.cook the moongdal paste in steam(like idly ) for 15minutes.
4.Take the moongdal pindi from cooker and grind it for 1min to make like pindi so that no lumps are formed.
5.Take a pan and fry coconut till light brown and it to moongdal mix.
6.Now heat a vessel add water and sugar to make sugar syrup like tega pakam.
7.Then add the moongdal plus coconut mix,elachi powder to sugar syrup and mix well
8.Now make the balls and dip it in uraddal mix as a topu and deep fry it in oil.
9.Serve boorilu with ghee.

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