Soraikaai Kootu

Ingredients:

Soraikaai - 1 cup
Moong dal(split) - 1/4 cup
Small Onion - 10 Nos. (chopped)
Garlic - 2 Nos.
Tomato (small) - 1 Nos.(chopped)
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp.
Asafoetida - 1 pinch.
Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Black pepper - 3 Nos.
Red chilli - 2 Nos.
Oil - 3 tsp,
Salt - 1/2 tsp or as per need
Curry leaves - few
Coriander leaves - A handfull

Method:

1. Boil the Moong dal with 2 garlic, 1/2 tsp of cumin seeds and 1/4 tsp of turmeric and keep it aside.
2. Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds, black pepper, and red chilles.
3. Add onions, curry leaves and fry till you see golden brown color.
4. Then add chopped tomato and fry well.
5. Then add 1 cup of soraikaai, and salt and cook it.
6. When soraikaai is cooked well, now add the boiled moong dal and a pinch of asafoetida.
7. Stir well and taste for salt. Then add coriander leaves and change it to a bowl.

Note:

Very healthy food, can be served with chappathi(roti), rice. Specially with rasam, puli kulambu.
I love to have this with chappathi.

Potato Pal Curry

Inredients:

Potato - 3 Nos
Greenpeas - 1/4 cup
Onion(Bid) - 1 Nos
Tomatao - 1 Nos
Coconut - 1/2 cup
Greenchilli - 4 Nos
poppyseeds - 1/4 tsp
Ginger - 1/2 inch
cloves - 1
cinamon - 1
salt -3/4 tsp
oil - 3 tsp
curry leaves - as per need
coriander leaves - A hand full
Method:

1. Dry roast coconut, greenchilli, cloves, cinamon, poppyseeds, ginger and grind well.
2. Boil the potatoes and make into pieces using hand.
3. Boil the greenpeas(if dry) with salt added to it.
4. Heat oil in a pan and add 1 cloves and 1 cinamon and wait untill it splutters
5. Add onion and curryleaves and fry uintill you see golden brown color.
6. Then add tomato and fry untill you see oil seperated from the gravy.
7. Then add the coconut paste you grinded.
8. Add salt to this mixture and taste for salt. Add more if needed.
9. Now add the boiled potatoes and green peas and boil for 10 mins. If you have fresh green peas boil it untill peas gets cooked.
10. Add coriander leaves and stir well and change it to a bowl now.

Note:

You can serve this with puli kulambu, thakkali saatham (tomato rice). Everyone will like this dish. Mostly we see this in Indian wedding parties, and many of them dont know how to make this. I hope now its very easy for you to prepare. Ungal Kudumbathil anaivaraiyum asathungal.

RavaPongal

Ingredients:

Rava(Sooji) - 1 cup
Green gram(MoongDal) - 1/4 cup
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Green Chilli - 2 (chopped)
Ginger - one inch(finely chopped)
Salt - 1/2 tsp/as per need
Coriander leaves - Handful
Ghee/Oil - 2 tsp

Method:

1. Boil moong dal for 10 mins and keep it aside. (Make sure its not over boiled and become semisolid.)
2. Fry the rava/sooji for few mins (5mins approx), or until you get the smell of rava.
3. Heat oil or ghee in the kadai and add cumin seeds, black pepper seeds, chopped green chillies, and chopped ginger and stay away until the everything splutters.
4. Add 2 and 1/2 cups of water and required amount of salt and let it boil for 5 mins.
5. Then add rava slowly and stir it when you add (same thing when we do rava upma).
6. Simmer the gas, so that rava gets cooked well.
7. Now add the boiled moong dal and stir until both rava and dal get mixed well.
8. Add ghee on the top (optional)

Note:

Serve with coconut chutney, sambar....mmm...yummy it will be. You feel to cook rava pongal immediately?? Reply me, how the taste is....