Baby Potato Fry

Ingredients:

1. Baby potato - 1/4 kg.
2. rice flour - 1 spoon.
3. Red chilli powder - 1/2 spoon
4. Turmeric powder - a pinch.
5. Mustard - 1/4 spoon.
6. salt as required.
7. Oil as required.

Procedure:

1. Boil baby potatoes and peel off the skin.
2. Mix rice flour,red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt together in a bowl.
3. toss these potatoes in this mixture(Till the potatoes gets the complete coating).
4. Heat oil in a pan.
5. Add mustard.Once it splutters add these potatoes.
6. Keep the stove in low flame.Cover the pan with the lid and wait for 3-5 mins.
7. Potato fry is ready to serve.

Serves good with Rasam rice and Vathakuzhambu rice.

Murungaikai Arachu vitta sambar (Drumstick sambar)

Ingredients:

1. drumstick - 2.
2. shallots - 10-15
3. red chillies - 2
4. channa dal -2 spoons.
5. urad dal -2 spoons.
6. coriander seeds - 2 spoons.
7. coconut - 1/2 cup.
8. tamarind - 1 big lemon size.
9. curry leaves - 2 string.
10. Asafoetida - a pinch.
11. oil - as required.
12. Mustard - 1/2 spoons.
13. Toor dal - 1 cup.
14. turmeric powder - a pinch.
15. Salt to taste.

Procedure:

1. Pressure cook toor dal for 3-4 whistles.
2. peel off the shallots.No need to chop.
3. Soak the tamarind in water for some time.Squeeze the tamarind and extract the juice.
4. cut drumstick into 8-10 pieces.
5. Heat little oil in a pan
6. Add channa dal,urad dal, coriander seeds and red chillies.
7. Fry for sometime and keep it aside till it becomes cool.
8. Heat oil in a pan.
9. Add mustard and wait till it splutters.
10. Add drumstick and shallots and saute for 2-3 mins.
11. Add the tamarind extract,turmeric powder and asafoetida.
12. let it boil till the vegetables turn soft.
13. Grind the fried items along with coconut by adding some water.
14. Once the vegetables are boiled, add this grounded paste and add curry leaves.
15. Add the toor dal (smash it finely) to the gravy.
16. Sprinkle salt.

I used to make this sambar, when sambar powder gets over.

Multi Vegetable porial

Ingredients:

1. cabbage(finely chopped) - 1/2 cup.
2. Carrot(chopped) - 1/4 cup.
3. Beans(chopped) - 1/4 cup.
4. Oil - as required.
5. Mustard - 1/2 spoon.
6. Urad dal - 1/2 spoon.
7. Channa dal - 1/2 spoon
8. Red chillies - 1.
9. Salt - To Taste.

Procedure:

1. Heat oil in a pan.
2. Add mustard and wait till it splutters.
3. Add urad and channa dal and wait till it turns slight red colour.
4. Add red chillies.
5. Add cabbage,carrot and beans and saute.
6. Sprinkle some water and cover the pan with a lid.
7. Let it boil for sometime.
8. Once vegetables are finely cooked.
9. Add salt and saute.

Tomato chutney.

Ingredients:

Tomato - 6 nos.
Garlic - 4 pods.
Red chillies - 4.
Oil -  as required.
Mustard - 1/2 spoon.
Urad dal - 1 spoon.
Salt - as required.


Procedure:

1.Heat oil in a pan.
2. add tomato,red chillies and Garlic and saute till tomatoes goes soft.
3. Keep this aside and let it cool for sometime.
4. Grind the tomato mixture to fine paste.
5. heat oil in a pan.
6. Add mustard and wait till it splutters.
7. Add urad dal and let it turn into red color.
8. Now add the tomato paste.
9. saute for few mins and add salt.

This would be the best combination for Idli and Dosa.

Paruppu keerai kuzhambu

Ingredients:

Greens - 1 kattu (any keerai variety)
Toor dal - 1 cup.
Tomatoes - 3- 4 big sized.
Onion - 1 big
Green chillies - 3-4
Sambar powder - 1/2 spoon.
Turmeric powder - 1 pinch.
oil - as required.
salt - to taste.
mustard - 1/2 spoon.



Procedure:

1. chop greens , tomato and onion.
2,Slit the green chillies.
3.Pressure cook Toor dal for 2-3 whistles.
4. Heat oil in a pan.
5. Add mustard and wait till it splutters.
6. Add onion and wait till it becomes glassy.
7. Add green chillies and tomato one by one.
8. add little water and wait till tomatoes are semi cooked.
9. Now add chopped green and little water and wait till greens turn soft.
10.Add toor dal, turmeric powder and sambar powder.
11.Once the mixture boiled finely.
12. Add salt.

This can be mixed with rice and ghee.

All vegetable kootu - A simple way.

I used to prepare this kootu with left out vegetables. Vegetables are optional. You can prepare with whichever is available.

Ingredients:

Carrot  - 1
beans - 4-5
plantain - 1/2-1
plantain stem - 2 inch.
pumpkin - 1 thin piece.
white pumpkin -  1 thin piece
potato - 1
chow chow - 1/2
brinjal  - 1-2
Channa dal - 1/2 cup
green chillies - 2-3
oil - as required
salt - to taste.
cumin seeds - 1 spoon.

Procedure:

1. chop all the vegetable in cube shape.
2. pressure cook vegetable,channa dal and slitted green chillies together for 2-3 whistles.
3.Heat oil in a pan.
4.Add mustard and wait till it splutters.
5. Add cumin seeds.
6. Pour this on boiled vegetables mixture.
7.Add salt.

This kootu can be served as a side dish for rice as well as chappathies.

Coconut Chutney

Ingredients :

Coconut - 1 cup.
Green chillies - 2
Fried gram (Pottu kadalai)  - handful.
Garlic - 1pod(Optional).

seasoning:
Oil - 1 tspoon
Mustard seeds - 1/2 spoon.
Curry leaves - 1 string
Urad dal - 1 spoon (optional).


Procedure:

1.Grind coconut , green chillies, fried gram,garlic(Optional) and salt to fine paste.
2.Heat oil in a seaprate pan.
3.Add mustard, after it splutters add urad dal and fry till it becomes red .
4. add curry leaves saute for 5 seconds and add this to coconut paste.

Coconut chutney is ready to serve.!!