Sunday, August 20, 2006

RICE PUTTU

RICE PUTTU

Rice Puttu


Ingredients:

1/2 Kg Raw Rice
1/2 grated Coconut
Water to sprinkle
Salt to taste

Method:
  • Soak rice in water for 4 hrs, then drain it and grind it to make fine powder.
  • Heat the powder for 5 mts.While heating stir it. Keep it for cooling.
  • Mix salt with water sprinkle this to the powdered rice just to make the powder wet.
  • For making puttu special utensil is used named puttukutty or micro puttu. Put a handful of grated coconut in the puttukutty and then put rice powder till half then add another handful of grated coconut.
  • This is done till the top. Close the lid steam it for 2 mts in cooker.
  • Serve it with potato curry or ghee
  • Serves - 5
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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Onam---- Festival Of Kerala-- special Puliinji

Puliinji

This is a preparation where ginger is the main ingredient.

Ingredients

1.
  • Ginger 25gm
  • Green Chilly -4nos.
2.
  • Coconut oil - 1tsp
  • Dried red chilly 1no. cut in to 4 pieces
  • Mustard seeds - 1/2tsp
3.
  • Tamarind - size of a lemon
  • Water -2cups
4.
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4tsp
  • Chilly Powder -1/4tsp
  • Asafoetida powder -1/4tsp
  • Jaggery (grated) - 25gm
  • Curry leaves -1 sprigs
  • Fenugreek seeds -1 pinch

Method of preparation :

Peal ginger and cut into very small pieces. Cut the green chillies also into small pieces. Heat oil and sauté the 2nd ingredients for a minute. Add ginger and green chilly pieces and fry well and keep it aside. Put tamarind in two cups of water, squeeze well and take the liquid. Keep this liquid on fire adding the 4th ingredients. Boil till the solution becomes thick. Add the fried ginger and chilly pieces, boil once more and remove from fire.

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Saturday, August 12, 2006

Onam ---- Festival Of Kerala -Koottucurry

Koottucurry

In this curry, a miscellaneous variety of vegetables and some Bengal gram are used. The difference between this and 'Aviyal' is that no tamarind is added.

Ingredients :

  • Bengal gram
    dal - 1/2cup

  • Pumpkin, snake gourd,
    Long runner beans, yam,
    Cucumber - 1/4kg (all together)

  • Inner flesh of
    drum stick - 1/2cup

  • Grated coconut - 1/2cup

  • Turmeric powder - 1/4tsp

  • Green chillies - 3 (split into 2)

  • Salt to taste

  • Coconut oil - 1/4cup

  • Mustard - 1tsp

  • White gram dal - 2dsp

  • Dried red chillies - 3 (each sliced into 3)

  • Curry leaves - 2sprigs

  • Ghee - 1dsp

  • Grated coconut - 1/4cup

Method of Preparation :

Cook the bengal gram dal with salt and water to a thick gravy. Clean and cut the vegetables into small pieces. Par boil the vegetables by steaming. Grind 1/2cup grated coconut and mix it with turmeric powder and green chillies.

Heat oil and season mustard, white gram dal, dried red chillies and curry leaves. Add the ground coconut mixture. Saute for sometime, till the water dries. Add the cooked vegetables, salt and bengal gram dal. Saute well.

Heat 1dsp ghee and fry the 1/4cup grated coconut in it till golden brown. Add this to the koottucurry and mix well.
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Onam ---- Festival Of Kerala -Banana fry

Sarkarapuratty (Fried Bananas Chips in Molasses)

Ingredients :

  • Semi ripe Banana - 1
  • Coconut oil - 100gms
  • Molasses or Jaggery - 75gms
  • Dried ginger powder - 5gms
  • Ghee - 1tsp
  • Water - 1/4glass

Method of Preparation :

Peel the bananas and split it into two pieces. Cut it into 1/4" thick pieces. Fry it in warm coconut oil.

Heat the molasses in 1/4glass of water. Remove from fire when it becomes thick. Add dried ginger powder and fried banana pieces in this molasses solution. Keep stirring till the banana pieces separates.

Kaya Varuthathu (Banana Fry)

Ingredients :

  • Semi ripe banana - 1
  • Coconut oil - 150gm
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4tsp
  • Salt - to taste

Method :

Peel banana and slice into thin round pieces or split bananas into 4 thin pieces and slice. Heat oil and fry the banana pieces. When it is 3/4 done, add turmeric powder and salt mixed in 1tsp water. Fry well.

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Onam ---- Festival Of Kerala - special payasam

Payasam

There are several varieties of 'payasams'. One is in which rice, wheat or vermicelli is boiled with milk and sweetened with sugar. It goes by the name of 'pal payasam'. Another, is made of boiled rice or dal or wheat, to which is added jaggery and coconut milk. Both are flavoured with spices.

Pal Payasam

Ingredients :

  • Milk - 3litres

  • Dried red rice - 180gm

  • Sugar - 700gm

Method of Preparation :

Boil the milk. Add sugar and mix well. When it boils again, add the washed rice in it. Simmer in medium flame. Cook till the rice is done. Serve hot.

Semiya Payasam

Ingredients :

  • Vermicelli - 1 cup
  • Cashew nuts - handful
  • Raisins - handful
  • Water - 3/4cup
  • Sugar - a cup
  • Saffron - a pinch
  • Milk - a cup
  • cardamon - two or three pods

Method of preparation :

Heat the ghee and fry the vermicelli till light brown. In the meanwhile, boil the water. Add the vermicelli to the boiling water and cover it. Keep stirring occasionally. Once the vermicelli becomes soft , add the sugar and continue to stir. Put the saffron in the milk and dissolve it, add this milk to the vermicelli. Powder the cardamom and add it to the mixture. Then fry the cashewnuts and almonds in ghee and add these. Mix well and boil for about two minutes. Your payasam is ready and can be served hot or cold.

Wheat Payasam

Ingredients:

  • Broken Wheat - 250g

  • Coconut - 2

  • Jaggery - 500g

  • Raisins -10g

  • Cashew Nuts -10g

  • Ghee -3tbs

  • Cardamom -5g

  • Dry ginger powder-10g

  • Cumin Powder-10g

Method of Preparation:

Grate the coconut. Add1/2 glass warm water to the grated coconut. Extract the first milk. Extract the second milk by adding 1 1/2 glass warm water. Again repeat the process to extract the third milk.

Fry broken wheat lightly in one teaspoon ghee. Cook the wheat well in 1 1/2 liters of water.

When it is done add the third milk and the second milk to the wheat and bring to a boil. when it thickens to a semi solid consistency, add powdered jaggery. Add the first milk, fried nut, raisins, powdered Cardamom, ginger and cumin. Mix well and remove from fire immediately. Serve hot.

Parippu Payasam

Ingredients:

  • Parippu (Green gram dal) - 250gm

  • Sarkara (Jaggery) - 250gm

  • Coconut milk - From 2 coconuts

  • Ghee - 2 tbs

  • Cashew nuts, Raisins - As required for seasoning

Method of preparation :

Fry dal till light brown. Clean and boil the fried dal well.
Heat jaggery with some water and make a thick solution. Take milk from the coconut thrice. Keep the thick milk taken 1st, aside. Add the 2nd and 3rd milk and the jaggery solution to the boiled dal. Simmer on medium flame till thick. Fry the cashewnuts and Raisins in ghee. Add these and the 1st milk to the payasam . Mix well and remove from fire.


Pal Ada

Ingredients

Ada - 250 gm
Milk - 2 Litres
Water - 3 cups
Sugar - 1 cup
Condensed Milk - 1 tin
Butter - 150 gm

Method

Boil 5 cups of water. When it boils add the Ada to it and boil it.

Drain this and wash the ada in cold water.

In another pan add 3 cups of water to 2 liter of Milk. Boil this on a medium flame. When all the water evaporates and it reduces to 2 liters add the Ada and Sugar.Keep stirring and when it turns slightly golden color add the condensed Milk and boil. Next, add Butter.

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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Onam ---- Festival Of Kerala


Onam is one of the biggest and most important festivals of Kerala. Festivities of Onam continue for ten long days. Of all these days the most important ones are the first day, Atham and the tenth day, Thiry Onam.



All the religious and traditional people of Kerala sincerely follow the customs and traditions set by their ancestors. People wear new clothes on this day and indulge themselves in dances and sports. The children and the youth join in the entertainment of the season and set about collecting flowers early in the morning to decorate the yards of their houses for the next ten days until the festival ends. The major highlight of this festival is “pookalam” the flower carpet and there are specifications of the type of flowers to be used on each day of the festival. But in today's times the artistic and skilful decorations of the traditional “pookalam” has been lost in darkness.



On the day of Utradam, ninth day since the beginning of the festival, houses are well cleaned and decorated and gala feasts are also arranged. Then the images of deities made up of sticky clay painted red are placed there. They are known as “Trikkakara Appan”. These images are adorned with the lines tastefully drawn from the rice flour mixed with water and then they are worshipped.


The next day, that is the tenth day and the main day of Onam, new clothes are given as presents followed by a grand feast. On the ninth day, tenants of the family, dependents and hangers on present the food of their hard work, such as vegetables and coconut oil to “Karanavar”, the eldest member of the Tarawad in a ritual called “Onakazhcha”. In return they are treated with an extravagant feast on the main day of Onam.

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Prawn Coconut Soup Recipe


Ingredients


Shrimps(chopped) - 250 gm
Yam(Chena) - 100 gm
White Pumpkin - 100 gm
Beans - 50 gm
Peas - 50 gm
Yellow Cucumber - 100 gm
Drum Stick(Muringakkai) - 100 gm
Coconuts - 2 nos
Corn Flour - 5 gm
Turmeric powder - 2 gm
Peppercorns - 5 gm
Cumin seeds(Jeerakam) - 1 tsp
Ginger - 2" piece
Green chillies - 6 nos
Oil - 25 ml
Water - 100 ml
Salt - As reqd

Preparation Method


1)Wash, clean and cut the vegetables.

2)Boil them till soft but not mashy.

3)Chop shrimps.

4)Take out milk from coconuts with 100ml of water. Take out 2 extracts with 600ml of water and 400ml of water respectively.

5)Grind together peppercorns, green chillies, cumin and turmeric to a fine paste.

6)Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan.

7)Add ground masala and fry for a minute.

8)Add second extract and simmer for 15 minutes.

9)Mix corn flour with a little water and add to the gravy.
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