Ingredients:
Big onion - 1 chopped
Garlic - 6 nos
Tomato - 1 (big)
Red chilli - 4 nos
Oil - 3 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - few
Salt - 1/4 tsp or as per need
Method:
1. Grind garlic, redchilli, and tomato finely.
2. Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds and add curry leaves.
3. Add onion, and fry until oil gets separated.
4. Add the grinned paste, 1/4 cup water, salt and let it boil until oil gets separated.
Ingredients:
Small onion - 10 nos
Garlic - 6 nos
Red chilli - 4 nos
Tomato - 1
Oil - 3 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp or as per need.
Curry leaves - few
Method:
1. Grind onion, garlic, red chilli and tomato finely.
2. Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, add curry leaves.
3. Add the grounded paste and let it boil until oil gets separated.
Note:
People who like garlic, will definitely like this chutney. Very tasty, but take a mint candy or gum after having this. Because the smell of onion and garlic will come from your mouth.
Ingredients:
Small Onions - 15 nos
Garlic - 10 nos
Red chilli - 4 nos
Tomato - 1(big)
Oil - 5 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves - few
Method:
1. Heat 2 tsp of oil in a pan, add onion, garlic, red chilli, tomato and fry well until the color of the onion changes.
2. Let it cool for 10 mins, and grind finely.
3. Heat 3 tsp of oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, add curry leaves and add the grinned paste.
4. Add 1/4 or less amount of water. Add salt and let it boil for 3-4 mins.
Notes:
-> If you feel more spicy add a table spoon of gingley oil and have along with idly, dosai.
-> More varieties of kaara chutney's are there. Try all of them!
Ingredients:
Boiled rice - 1 cup
Coriander leaves - 1 bunch
Garlic - 2 nos
Green chilli - 3 nos
Coconut - 2 tsp
Tamarind paste - 1/4 tsp or 1/2lemon size
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad dal - 1/4 tsp
Hing - A pinch
Salt - 1/4 tsp or as per need.
Curry leaves - few
Method:
1. Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan, fry coriander leaves and keep it aside.
2. In the same pan, add coconut, garlic and green chilli and fry until you get the nice aroma of coconut oil.
3. Let every thing cool for some time and grind everything together finely with tamarind and salt.
4. Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, add urad dal, hing and curry leaves.
5. Add this to the grinned paste and mix well. Add salt if needed.
6. To the cup of rice, add 3 tsp of this green coriander paste and mix well. Add more if needed.
Note:
Green coriander paste can also be served with dosai and idly. This goes well with curd rice and rasam rice.
Ingredients:
Cauliflower - 1 nos
Peas - 1/4 cup
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
Big Onion - 2 (chopped)
Tomato(Big) - 2 (Chopped)
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala powder - 3/4 tsp
Cloves - 3 nos
Cinnamon - 2 nos
Sugar - 1/4 tsp or less
Grated Coconut - 3 tsp
Poppy seeds - 1/2 tsp
Cashew - 2 tsp(optional)
Kesar color - A pinch(optional)
Oil - 3 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp or as per need.
Coriander leaves - A hand full
Method:
1. Take hot water in a vessel, not too hot. you should be able to keep your hands. Add a tsp of salt and soak cauliflower in that for 10-15mins and keep it aside.
2. Soak dry green peas in water for whole night, boil it and keep it aside. You can also use fresh green peas or frozen green peas.
3. Grind coconut, poppy seeds and cashew(optional) and keep it aside.
4. Heat oil in a pan, add cloves, cinnamon and wait for some time.
5. Add onion and fry for some time, then add ginger garlic paste and fry until raw smell goes off.
6. Add chopped tomato, turmeric, chilli powder, garam masala powder,Kesar color, sugar and salt and fry until oil gets separated.
7. Add coconut paste, and vegetables and wait until it gets cooked.
8. In between check for salt and spiciness. If you want you can add 2 tsp of butter now to bring restaurant taste. Finally add coriander leaves and mix well.
Note:
Best side dish for Naan, Roti/Chappathi, Pulav, Fried rice, Jeera rice. Bring restaurant in your home!
Ingredients:
Vaazhaipoo/Plantainflower - 1
Moong dal - 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds/Jeeragam - 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Hing - A pinch
Small Onion - 10-15 nos
Red chilli - 2nos
Curry leaves - few
Coriandar leaves - few
Method:
1. Boil moong dal with cumin seeds and keep it aside.
2. Boil the chopped plantain flower with turmeric and 1/4 tsp of salt.
3. Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, add onion, redchilli and curryleaves and fry until you see golden brown color in onion.
4. Add the boiled plantain flower, moong dal and mix well. Add salt if needed.
5. Add coriander leaves and boil for 2-3mins, so that the dal and plantain flower mix well.
Note:
Do you know this? Which tree has no wood? Its Banyan tree/Vaazha maram. Each and every portion of the tree is very useful. Few things are listed, whichever i know.
1. If you eat in the young leaf of banyan tree, its very good for health.
2. The flower and the inner stem of this tree are very good for the funtionality of kidney. Especially gents must have this weekly once.
3. And the banana, every one knows its a healthy fruit. Kids grow up if they have banana daily.
Now, hope you feel how its important to have this dish. If you don't know to clean this flower here are the easy 3 steps. On seeing the picture itself you can understand very easily. In a bowl of water add 2 tsp of curd, so that the flower retains its color, otherwise it will turn black.
Step1: Rub the tip of the flower, so that you could see the gynesium part of the flower. Pull that out, you can find another part of the flower too which should be removed.
Step2: Pluck these two from the flower
Step3:Keep it aside and chop the flower
Ingredients:
Rice - 1 cup
Cumin seeds(Jeeragam) - 1 tsp
Green chilli - 3 nos
Mint leaves - few(optional)
Coriander leaves - A hand full
Salt - 1/2 tsp or as per need
Oil / Ghee - 2 tsp
Kesar color - A pinch
Method:
1. Soak rice in water for 30 mins, after that drain water and keep it aside.
2. Heat oil in a pan, add splutter cumin seeds.
3. Add green chilli, mint and coriander leaves.
4. Add 2 cups of water, salt and wait until it boil [If you add more cups of rice, then reduce 1/2 cup of water]
5. Add rice now and close the lid.
6. When you see there is no water in the rice, simmer the gas and close the lid for another 5 mins.
7. Then, mix kesar color in 1 tsp of water and sprinkle here and there and mix well.
Note:
Very simple dish. If you want to get best cook applause, you can try this. I got a big applause from my friends. You can try any gravy item(veg/non-veg) as side dish. Paneer butter masala, that too if you make, mm...who knows, you may be crowned as "Samayal Rani". You can also refer my cauliflower-peas masala to prepare paneer butter masala.
