Pappadam Mezhukkupuratti ( Appalam stir fry)

              Papadam is one of my favorite dish and I used to make a variety of dishes with pappadam as the main ingredient. This is a simple recipe that can be made within five minutes for the lunch as a curry. So lets start.......

Ingredients

*  Pappadam or appalam -10 nos.

*  Curry leaves-1 sprig

*  Small onion Chopped -2 nos.

*  Chilli powder - 1teaspoon

*  Oil -10 tablespoon

Directions

*  Pour oil into a pan and fry the pappadams.


*  Take it out from oil, when it is done


*  Put chopped onion and curry leaves into the remaining oil.


*  Fry it until it reaches a golden brown color.


*  Reduce the flame and  add chilli powder to it.


*  Mix the fried papadams with this onion and enjoy!!!!!!!!.

Varutharacha Kadala curry (Bengal gram curry with fried coconut)

Puttu and Kadala or Appam or Idiyappam and Kadala are the most common dishes in the breakfast table of Keralalites. I don't think there is a single Malayalee who doesn't like either of this combination. So today I am going to share something with you ie the traditional recipe of Varutharacha kadala curry....Let's begin.......

Ingredients
*  Soaked Kadala or bengal gram -250 grams

*  Masala powder -1/2 teaspoon

*  Chilli powder -2 heaped teaspoon

*  Grated coconut -1 cup (half of a coconut)


*  Salt -as per your requirement

*  Coriander powder -1 teaspoon


*  Green chilli - 5 nos.


*  Sliced onion-1


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*  Coconut oil 2 table spoon


*  Curry leaves-1 sprig


*  Red chilli-4 nos.


*  Mustard seeds - 1 table spoon


Directions:

*  Add soaked kadala or Bengal gram, water,turmeric powder, green chilli, salt and onion into the pressure cooker.


*Cook for about 10 minutes.

*  Add the grated coconut into a pan and fry it till it reaches a dark brown colour.


*  Add chilli powder, coriander powder and masala powder and fry it for two more minutes.


*  Make a smooth paste with the above mixture


*  Add the grinded paste into the already cooked kadala and pour some water.


*  Bring this to boil.


*  Then reduce the flame.


*  When it reaches a semi thick consistency remove it from flame.


*  Add oil into another pan.


*  Add mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chilli into the hot oil.


/*  Season the kadala curry with the above oil.


*  Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  

Padavalanga Thoran ( Snake Gourd Stir fry)

A simple and easy recipe for the lunch which can be made within minutes. A quick and healthy recipe whcih can fill the tiffin boxes as a vegetable curry ... Padavalanga or snake gourd is a vegetable which is most common in a malayalis dining table....

Ingredients

*  Snake gourd - 250 grams

*  Coconut oil-2 tablespoon

*  Cumin seeds -1 pinch

*  Green chilli - 4 nos. (2 green and 2 ripe)

*  Water-100 ml

*  Curry leaves -2 sprigs

*  Grated coconut -1/2cup

*  Turmeric powder -2 pinch

*  Salt - as you need.

Directions

*  Grind the  cumin seeds, turmeric powder, grated coconut,  and curry leaves, roughly in a food processor and keep it aside.

*  Gentle remove the white coating of snake gourd

*  Clean and make the snake gourd into small pieces.

*  Cook the snake gourd, salt and water along with grated coconut.

*  Cook it covered for about five to seven minutes.

*  Reduce the flame to sim.

*  Remove the lid.

*  Evaporate the water, if any, in the snake gourd.

*  Sprinkle some coconut oil on the top of the thoran.

*  Remove it from the stove.

*  Cover the dish for about 2 more minutes.

*  Gently mix it with a spatula, so that the coconut oil will get mixed up with the curry.

Beetroot mezhukkupuratti (Beetroot stir fry)

Beetroot was the most favourite vegetable during my childhood days. May me its charming red colour would have attracted me the most. My amma always used to say, when I was a child, I used to eat rice in the dish in which the beetroot was cooked, so that the rice would get its red color. I also do the same to attract my child from eating colorful rice. So today I am giving you a very simple dish with beetroot. Let's start....

Ingredients

* One meidum sized beetroot.

* Two green chillies.

* Two tablespoon of oil.

* 1/2 cup of water.

* Salt as you need.

* Four numbers of shallots

Lets start......

* Peel off the skin of the beetroot and cut it into pieces.

* Wash it and clean it.

* Cook it in the pressure cooker with salt and green chilli and water.

* When it is cooked, place  a frying pan on the stove.

* Add oil into the pan.

* Saute the onion in the oil.

* When it is half done, add the already cooked beetroot into it and saute for five more minutes.

* Turn off the flame and serve it as a side dish for rice..........