This is a special side dish, often prepared in brahmin families. I learnt this recipe from one of the TV shows. It sounded so easy and hence I thought of giving it a try. I first tried it with beans and it came out so well, but I didnt took pictures. This time I made it again just to take some snaps. This time I used cluster beans(kothavarangai). 

Ingredients:

Cluster Beans - 1/4 kg

Channa Dhal - 1 cup 

Red Chillies - 5

Aesfoetida - 1 pinch

salt as required

Seasoning:

Mustard & Urad Dhal - 1 tsp each

Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp

Onion - 1 

Curry Leaves Few

Method:

Soak the dhal for 1/2 hr. Drain the water and grind it with chillies & little salt. Grind it coarsely as we do for vada. 

Put this paste to a microwave safe bowl and bake it for 5-8 mins(depending on your microwave). It will become like one hard dried dosa. 

Cut it and grind it in mixer again. You will get a coarse powder. 

Cut the cluster beans and cook it in microwave by sprinkling some water and salt. 

Once it is cooked well, add the powder and mix well. Cook it for a min again. 

In a sepearate bowl, heat a tsp of oil and add the seasoning items mentioned, with the help of microwave. 

Add the cooked beans and usli mixture to this seasoning and cook it again for a min. 

Thats it. Its ready to serve with a hot sambar rice. 

It will be really easy to cook this dish with the help of microwave. 

This Usli enters MEC:Essential Extras event hosted by Rachel originated by Srivalli.

This quick fix dish also enters the WYF:Quick Meal hosted by EC

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My hubby dear loves this. He doesn't like poori, but love to have this masala with dosa. Hence every time I prepare poori masala, he will be having only dosa. Anyway I dont like this combo. 

This time I prepared only masal for dosa, especially for him(as a thanks note for getting me some nonstick ware). 

I prepared masala dosa once. For first dosa, my husband said "Masala is more inside the dosa". For the second dosa, he said "I am searching for the masala inside the dosa". My reaction: Stopped the masala dosa and served this dosa masal. He can take the masala, how much ever he wants. 

OK here comes the recipe. 

Ingredients:

Potato - 4

Onion - 2

Green Chillies - 5

Red Chillies - 2

Curry Leaves and Coriander Leaves - few

Mustard Seeds and Urad dhal - 1 tsp each

Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp

Tomato - 1 (optional)

Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp

Salt - as required. 

Method:

Boil the potatoes, cool it and mash it gently. 

Mince the onion and chillies. 

Heat oil in a wok, and season the masal with mustard, urad dhal and cumin seeds. 

Add the onion, chillies and saute well till its get cooked well. 

Add the potatoes and mix well. Add 1 cup of water, salt and turmeric powder. 

Mix well and close with a lid. 

It wont take much time to cook. Once it reaches the required consistency, switch off the stove and add the leaves. 

My version will be little gravy/watery kind, to serve with dosa. 

You can even make it thick and serve it closed inside the dosa. This is what we call masala dosa. 

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This is one more kind of preparing greens. 

Ingredients 

Arai Keerai - 1 bunch

Pearl Onions - 10

Green Chillies - 3

Red Chillies - 2

Coconut Scrapped - 2 tbsp

Seasoning

Mustard - 1tsp

Urad dhal - 1 tsp

Channa dhal - 1 tsp

Aesfoetida - 1 pinch

Method

Sort the greens and wash it cleanly, to remove all the sand. 

Mince it nicely. Mince onion and chillies too. 

In a kadai, add a tsp of oil and add the seasoning items.

Then add the onion and chillies. Saute till the raw smell goes off. 

Then add the greens and salt. Mix well and wait until it gets cooked. No need to add water as the greens will get cooked in its own water. 

It will take jus 5 mins to cook. Once cooked, add the scrapped coconut and mix well. 

Serve hot with sambar rice. 

When I am in a good mood to cook, I will take time and prepare all these chutneys together for idly. I love to have idly with variety of chutney as they serve in restaurants. Whenever I go home from hostel, I used to torture my mom, by asking her to prepare three chutneys in little quantities for me. It will delicious to have like that.

Chutney 1: Coconut Chutney

Ingredients:

Coconut - 1 cup scraped

Green chillies - 6

Ginger - 1/2 inch piece

Roasted Gram - 1/4 cup

Salt

Method:

In a kadai add 1 tsp of oil and saute the chillies and ginger.

Add this with the rest of the ingredients and grind it smooth.

Season it with mustard, urad dhal, and curry leaves.

Chutney 2: Tomato Chutney

Ingredients:

Pearl Onion - 20

Garlic - 10

Tomato - 2 fully ripen

Red Chillies - 10

Salt

Method:

In a kadai, add 1 tsp of oil and saute all the ingredients, till they are cooked.

In a mixer, grind it coarsely by adding salt.

Season it with mustard, urad dhal, and curry leaves, using gingelly oil.

The other one is pudhina chutney for which u can find the method here.

Serve all the three chutneys as side dish with spongy hot idlys.

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This is a sweet prepared only during the "Mattu Pongal", when we used to do pooja for our "Veetu Theivam"(family GOD hehehe). From the morning, we will be preparing only tiffin items for breakfast and lunch. Will start cooking only in the evening. We will do a heavy menu for the offering, which will the standard items every year. This sweet will surely be a part of the menu and this will be the last preparation. We will do the pooja only after 10pm in the night, have dinner after pooja and we will wear the new pongal dress after that only. But being an atheist, me and my chithi(who is also from an atheist family) will taste everything on time, before pooja. After all these hungama, "swamy ther" (Chariot) will come and we will offer this sweet to that god or goddess (i don't know as I will be almost sleeping on that time every year and get scoldings the next day morning). Stories aside, here comes the recipe

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup

Jaggery - 1 1/2 cup

Ghee - 5 tbsp

Cashew - few

Raisins - few

Cardamom - 3

Coconut scrapped - 2 tbsp

Method:

In a kadai roast the rice, till it becomes puffed. 

Cool it and grind it in a mixer. It will become like rice semolina. 

Heat a 1 tsp of ghee and roast the cashew and raisins and keep it aside. 

In the left over ghee, add the coconut and roast till golden brown. Keep it aside. 

In that kadai, add the jaggery and 4 cups of water. When it starts boiling, add the rice semolina and mix well, without forming lumps. 

keep on mixing as you do for halwa. Till it becomes thick enough. 

It is usually served ball shaped while offering to god and for us in a bowl with a spoon ;)

I was thinking so long for the Mithai Mela conducted by Srivalli and ended up here. But I missed the deadline, I don't whether she will accept this. 

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When it comes to non veg, we rarely prepare at home. My hubby dear is very much intended towards Vegetarian and me too not a strict non vegetarian. I have one of my best friend and her mom is an excellent cook, especially non veg. Till date if I wish to prepare any non veg item, I used to call her and get recipe from her. Everything has turned out so well. This is one among them. Its so simple and it tastes so great. 

Ingredients:

Chicken - 1/2 kg

Onion - 1 big

Tomato - 2 

Green Chillies - 2

Red Chilly Powder - 2 tsp

Coriander Powder - 4 tsp

Ginger Garlic paste - 2 tbsp

Coconut Paste - obtained from half coconut+1tsp cumin seeds

Seasoning

Clove - 2

Cinnamon - 2 inch piece

Fennel Seeds - 1 tsp

Star Anise - 1

Cardamon - 1

Method:

Cut and clean the chicken pieces well. First with water and then with turmeric powder. 

Cut the onion, tomato and green chillies. 

Marinate the chicken with ginger garlic paste, salt, chilly and coriander powder. 

In a kadai, heat 1 tbsp of oil. Add the seasoning items and then add the onion. 

When the onion turns translucent, add the tomato and green chillies. Saute for a minute. 

Then add the marinated chicken and saute till the chicken is half cooked. 

Add 2 cups of water and close the kadai. Once the chicken is cooked well, add the coconut paste. 

Switch off the stove, once it starts boiling. 

Garnish with pudhina leaves. 

This kulambu will be little watery. Its a good combination with dosa/Idly. You can even have it with Rice/Roti.

I am sending this to The Potluck - Chicken event conducted by Viki

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Continuing my post related to chitra pournami, I am posting this tamarind Rice. Please do take some time to read my post on chitra pournami. 

Recipe for Tamarind Rice

Ingredients

Cooked Rice - 1 cup

Tamarind - Big lemon sized

Red Chillies - 10

Mustard Seed - 1 tsp

Urad Dhal - 1 tsp

Aesfoetida - 1/4 tsp

Channa Dhal - 1 tsp

Groundnut - 1 handful

Cashew - few

Curry Leaves 

To Grind

Fenugreek Seeds - 1 tsp

Red Chillies - 4

Mustard - 1 tsp

Method:

Cook the rice with 1 tsp of gingelly oil added. 

Cool down the rice in wide vessel.

Dry roast the items mentioned to grind and grind it to a smooth paste.

Take a thick extract of tamarind juice and add turmeric powder to it. 

In a hard bottomed kadai, add this tamarind juice and keep stirring, till the raw smell goes off and thick base is got. 

In a wok, heat 3 tbsp of gingelly oil. Add all the seasoning items one by one and saute till the groundnut and channa dhal are fried properly. 

Add this seasoning and ground powder to the cooled rice and mix well. 

Add a little tamarind paste and mix well. Add salt and check for the taste. 

Accordingly adjust the tangy or spice level. If you feel its not so spicy, you can roast few more chillies in gingelly oil and add to it. 

Serve it with potato chips or plantain chips. 

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I just thought of sharing my own way of preparing curd rice(seasoned). Recently we celebrated chitra pournami. This is not a must to celebrate festival in tamilnadu, but we do celebrate just to have moonlight dinner with all the family members. Let me define Chitra Pournami(obviously for those who really dont know). This is the full moon day in the month of Apr-May, that is the tamil month Chithirai. The day is dedicated to Chitragupta, the official assistant of Lord Yama. This day is considered as Chitragupta' s Birthday.Chitragupta, the first assistant of Lord Yama, is the one who keeps record of the good and bad deeds of human beings on earth. After death, when one reaches the abode of yama, it is he who tallies the good and bad deeds and declares it to Yama. Therefore, the day is dedicated to Chitragupta and devotees pray to him to forgive their sins.

On this day we should be on fasting for the whole day and cook in the evening at before the moon comes. We will have our dinner only after seeing the moon. That will really nice to sit in the terrace, watching the moon and having food, chitchatting...so much fun.

Ok coming to the point, I prepared lemon rice, coconut rice, tamarind rice and curd rice finally. all in very small quantities, just to have a flavour of all variety rice. 

Here comes the recipe for Seasoned Curd Rice

Ingredients:

Raw Rice - 1 cup cooked

Milk - 1/2 cup

Curd - 1/2 cup

Green chillies - 3 finely cut

Ginger - 1 small piece finely cut

Aesfoetida - 1 pinch

Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp

Urad Dhal - 1 tsp

Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp

Method:

Cook the rice with 1 cup extra from normal cooking. 

Add the milk to the rice and let it cool. 

Heat a vok and add 1 tsp of oil. Add all the seasoning items and saute for a min. 

Add this to the cooled rice and mix well. 

Add the curd, salt and mix well. 

Serve with mango pickle. 

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I think, everyone will be aware of the rich Iron content in the drumstick leaves. Unluckily, I was not able to find good drumstick leaves in any shop here. Either they will have a spoiled branch or dried branch. Its my favourite and was desperatly waiting for introducing this leaves to my kid. During our search for a play home for my kid, we found a fresh drumstick tree near my place, at the play school. I felt very bad, that the tree was unexplored till that time and it was only a few yards from my place. Anyway they didnt give admission for my kid, saying its too early to put him in a play home. I realized that i am running so fast for everything with my kid. But i felt happy for my discovery of drumstick leaves atlast. So with their permission am getting fresh bunch of leaves. I love everything made out of this, and the first thing that striked my mind was adding the leaves to the adai. 

Here goes the recipe

Ingredients 

Par Boiled Rice - 1 cup

Raw Rice - 1 cup

Toor Dhal - 1 cup

Channa dhal - 1/4 cup

Moong dhal - 1/4 cup

Urad dhal - 1/4 cup

Fried gram - 1/4 cup

Red Chillies - 8

Green Chllies - 2 

Pepper corns - 1 tsp

Gralic - 7 pods

Drumstick Leaves - 1 cup

Saunf - 1 tsp

Aesfoetida - 1/2 tsp

Salt and oil as required

Onion - 2 big minced.

Method

Soak the both the rice together in a bowl. Mix all the dhal and soak them in a seperate bowl.

Let them be sokaed for an hour. 

In a mixer, add the garlic, chillies and saunf. Grind it to a smooth paste. 

Later add the rice and grind well. Add the dhal later and grind it coarsely. 

Add salt and aesfoetida and mix well. 

Heat a kadai and saute the minced onion with 1 tsp of oil. 

Once the onion turns translucent, add the randomnly cut drumstick leaves. Saute this for a minute. 

Add this to the batter and mix well. The batter should be little thick. 

In a tawa, prepare adai as we do for dosa. Be little liberal in using oil for getting crispy adai. 

Serve hot with crushed jaggery, which also is rich in Iron. This is truly a healthy meal(Iron + mor eprotein) esp for kids and ladies. 

I am sending this to Grammathu Kaimanam/Village Special Recipe Event hosted by Shama. 

also sending to SWC - Cooking with Greens event hosted by Sowmya

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Its a simple but delicious recipe. In Tamilnadu,  smaller functions will have this dish for sure. Even a novice at kitchen can do it with ease. If you are diet conscious, its a good option. Nowadays I have started adding veggies in almost all things i prepare . Its reduces your intake of food at the same time provides you more intake of veggies. 

Coming to the recipe

Ingredients

Sooji/Rava - 2 cups

Cut Vegetables - 1 1/2 cups (I used carrot, beans, cauliflower, green peas, potato)

Onion - 2 big

Green Chillies - 5

Red Chillies - 2 

Ginger - 1/5 tsp finely chopped

Curry Leaves and Coriander Leaves

Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste 

Ghee - 1 tsp

For Seasoning

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Urad dhal broken - 1 tsp

Bengal Gram dhal - 1 tsp

Aesfoetida - 1 pinch

Method:

Roast the rava, till the aroma of roasted rava fills in air. 

Cut all the vegetables, onion and chillies. 

In the kadai, heat 1 tbsp of cooking oil and add the seasoning items. 

Then add the onion, chillies and curry leaves. Saute till translucent.

Add the veggies and saute till they become soft. 

Add 4 cups of water and close with a lid. 

When the water starts boiling, add the roasted rava and mix well without making any lumps. 

Smear 1 tsp of ghee and close with a lid. Cook in a lower flame for 5 more minutes. 

Delicious kichidi is ready, garnish it with coriander leaves and serve hot with Coconut chutney. 

Variation- 

Few people add 1 cinnamon stick and a clove while seasoning and a thick coconut paste while adding water. It also will be good, as I don't like masala much, I opted this way. 

If you want it little tangy, you can even add a tomato. 

I am sending this to the 15 minutes cooking event conducted by Mahimaa and also the WYF-Quick Meal event conducted by EC.

This also enters the FIC Favourite hosted by curry leaf, originated by Sunshinemom.

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This is a recipe learnt from my MIL. But still I didn't get any appreciation from my hubby dear. Every time I try it, he used to say "It doesn't match my mother's preparation". I don't know, i do the same way, as she tells. I liked, hence posting it here. You please try ti and let me know, whether its good or not ;)

Ingredients:

Fully Ripen Tomatoes - 4

Onion - 2 big

Green Chillies - 3 

Chilly Powder - 1 tsp

Jeera Powder - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric - 1/4 tsp

Cinnamon - 1 inch

Bay Leaf - 1

Curry Leaf - 1 

To Grind

Coconut - Half coconut

Ginger - 1 inch piece

Method:

Scrap the coconut, peel off the ginger. Grind them together to a very smooth paste with less water. 

In a kadai, heat1 tsp of oil and add the cinnamon and bay leaf. 

Add the onion, chillies and saute well. Then add the tomatoes and saute till they becomes soft and mashy. 

Then add all the powders, salt and 2 cups of water. 

Close it with a lid and bring it boil for 5 mins. 

Once the raw smell goes off, add the coconut paste and stir well. 

Before it starts boiling, switch off the stove.

Serve hot with idly or dosa. 

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This is my all time favourite. I think this is the simplest recipe which delivers a heavenly taste. I had a school time friend, who had a regular menu of this potato fry with curd rice. I have seen her taking this for the entire year, other than weekends. I am also a great fan of this dish, but for health reasons, I restrict from making this often. But this is the right time for my kid to enjoy the taste of this fry. He loved it a lot, when I gave him for the first time. Previously I used to give him only baked potato, with little salt and pepper. But after tasting this fry, he is not willing to take baked potatoes anymore. So nowadays I am giving potato in this form alone. 

Coming to the recipe, it doesn't involve complex procedure or ingredients. 

Potatoes - 3

Chilly Powder - 1 tsp

Coriander powder - 1 tsp

Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp

Salt - As per taste

Oil for cooking.

Method:

Peel off the skin of the potato with a peeler. Slice them into thin discs. 

In a kadai, heat some oil and add the mustard seeds. 

Add the potato and fry it for 5 mins. 

Add all the powder and salt. close with a lid and cook for 5 more mins. 

In simmer, fry it for some more time, until they become crisp. 

Serve hot with sambar rice or curd rice.
 

I am sending this potato fry to 15 minute cooking event conducted by Mahimaa

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