How to prepare Kerala sambar (Hotel sambar)

Sambar is placed a very important role in South India. But Kerala style sambar is something different in taste and aroma. It is also be called Hotel sambar, Varuththu aracha sambar (Fry and grind). Because, the masala adding in this sambar is a homemade preparation and the taste also very natural. In this i am adding homemade sambar powder with the fried coconut. Otherwise we can fry the ingredients given in my post (sambar powder), grind and add to the sambar. In this sambar, i am adding drumstick. we can add any vegetable or mixed vegetables in it.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	20 Mins
Serve	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Toor dal	:	1 Cup
Asafoetida	:	Small pieces
Turmeric powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Oil	:	3 Tsp
Mustard	:	1/2 Tsp
Cumin seeds	:	1/2 Tsp
Dry methi	:	1/4 Tsp
Sambar Onion	:	1/2 Cup
Curry leaves	:	Few
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Green chilly	:	1 No
Tomato	:	1 No
Drumstick	:	2 Nos
Tamarind juice	:	1 Cup
Salt	:	As per taste
For masala
Coconut	:	1/2 Cup
Sambar powder	:	2 Tsp

Method :

Cook the toor dal in a pressure cooker with adding asafoetida, turmeric powder and 1 Tsp of oil. (If you add caster oil for dal, it will cook quickly and softly).

Heat oil in a pan, add coconut pieces and fry well. Add the fried coconut with sambar powder and little water and grind as a paste.

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard, cumin seeds, dry methi and fry. Add chopped onion, green chilly, curry leaves and fry. Add tomatoes and fry. Add chopped drumstick, salt and stir.

Add tamarind juice and some water and allow it to cook. After the vegetables are cooked, add the ground paste, cooked dal and stir well. 

Allow it to boil for 5 minutes, and transfer to the serving dish and serve hot with  idly, dosa or rice.

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How to prepare Elephant foot yam with chana dal fry (Kerala Erissery)

Elephant foot yam is one of the  healthy vegetable. It is a high fiber vegetable and it has Vitamin B6. The very important thing is,this Vitamin helps to reduce the risk of heart diseases and having this vegetable is reduce our cholesterol level and  body weight. It is good for women because it source to increase the estrogen level and maintain the hormonal  balance. In this post i am going to prepare Kerala style fry.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	20 Mins
Serve	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

For boil
Yam	:	200 Gm
Chana dal	:	1/2 Cup
For grind
Coconut	:	3 Pieces
Cumin seeds	:	1 Tsp
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Red chilly	:	5 Nos
For fry
Mustard	:	1 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	Few
Grated coconut	:	1/2 Cup
Coconut oil	:	2 Tsp

Method :

Peel off the elephant foot yam, wash and cut in small cubes. Grind the grinding ingredients as a paste.

Boil the chana dal .

After the chana dal is half cooked, add cubed yam and ground paste and allow it to boil.

Heat coconut oil in a pan, add mustard, curry leaves, grated coconut and fry well till the coconut comes brown color.

After the yam is fully cooked, add the fried coconut and stir well.

Transfer to the serving dish and serve with rice or chapathi.

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How to prepare Spicy bonda (Karabonda)

Bonda is one of the favorite and simple snack . It goes with coconut chutney. It can be serve with tea or side dish for sambar rice. For preparing this, we can use idly batter also. As soon as we grind the idly batter, we can take for karabonda and keep it in refrigerator and add other ingredients and fry. Otherwise we grind the batter separately. The batter should be thicker than idly batter.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	45 Mins
Cooking time	:	10 Mins
Serve	:	4 Persons

Ingredients : 

Rice	:	1 Cup
Urad dal	:	1/4 Cup
Salt	:	As per taste
Cumin powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Asafoetida powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
oil	:	For fry

Method :

Soak rice and urad dal for 30 minutes and grind as a nice batter. (Thicker than idly batter).

Add cumin seeds powder, asafoetida powder, chilly powder salt with the batter well. We can add chilly powder as much the spiciness we want.

Heat oil in a frying pan, make the batter as bolls with hand.

Fry the balls till brown color comes and transfer to the serving dish and serve with coconut chutney.

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How to prepare Bottle gourd curry (Sorakai kootu)

Bottle gourd is helps to reduce our weight. if you have bottle gourd once in a week, then you will realize the weight loss. Because it has 96% of water. Bottle gourd is also having high fiber and low calories.  In this post, i have tried bottle gourd subji (kootu) and it the best combination with puri and chapathi. This is spicy recipe and very tasty also. This is one of the North Indian recipe. Let's make the tasty and healthy Bottle gourd subji.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	10 Mins
Serve	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

Bottle gourd	:	1/2 No
Onion	:	1 No
Curry leaves	:	Few
Chopped ginger	:	1/2 Tsp
Chopped garlic	:	1/2 Tsp
Tomato	:	1 No
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Red chilly powder	:	1/2 Tsp
Salt	:	As per taste
Oil	:	2 Tsp

Cumin powder       :  1/2 Tsp
Method :

Peel off the bottle gourd and cut into small pieces. Heat oil in a kadai, add onion, curry leaves and fry well. Add tomato and fry well.

Add chopped bottle gourd, turmeric powder, chilly powder, cumin seed powder, salt and fry well.

Add little water and close the kadai.

After the bottle gourd cooked, transfer to the serving dish and serve hot with puri.

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How to prepare Mavadu pickle (small mango pickle)

Mavadu or Vadumango pickle one of the popular pickle in South India, mostly in Tamil Nadu. This is typical iyyangar  style pickle. This very tasty and for preparing this, we no need oil. It can be serve with all menus. Curd rice with vadumango pickle is the most favorite menu. I am mentioning ingredients here, for 8 cups of small mangoes.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	10 Mins
Soaking time	:	10 Days
Preserve	:	Long time

Ingredients : 

Mavadu	:	8 Cups
Red chilly	:	1 Cup
Salt	:	3/4 Cup
Mustard	:	1/2 Cup
Dry methi	:	1 Tsp
Turmeric	:	1/2  Tsp
Caster oil	:	1/4 Tsp

Method :

Wash the small mangoes and make it full dry.

Add 1/4 Tsp of caster oil, mix and put it in a bottle or jar.

Add salt and mix.

Grind red chilly, mustard, methi, make as a paste and add it in the mangoes.

 Mix well and allow to soak. Every day mixing is needed.

After 2 days it starts to come water.

It should be soak well and the mangoes have to shrink.

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How to prepare tasty chicken curry

Chicken curry is the most common recipe in most of the Sundays. In this i am adding all the masala powders and it is a spicy gravy. This curry goes with rice, chapathi, appam, puri, and other breakfast also. It is very tasty recipe. When i prepared at my home, everyone liked it and i learnt this from my mother-in-law.

Basic information :

preparation time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	20 Mins
Serve	:	4 Persons

Ingredients :

Chicken	:	1/2 Kg
Fennel seeds	:	1 Tsp
Sambar onion	:	1 Cup
Curry leaves	:	Few
Coriander leaves	:	Few
Ginger paste	:	1 Tsp
Garlic paste	:	1 Tsp
Tomato puree	:	1/2 Cup
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Coriander powder	:	2 Tsp
Pepper powder	:	1 Tsp
Garam masala powder	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	As per taste
Oil	:	4 Tsp

Method :

Wash the chicken well with turmeric powder. Heat oil in a pan, add fennel seeds. Add onion, curry leaves and fry.Add Ginger garlic paste and fry.

Add washed chicken, all the masala powders, salt and fry.

Add tomato puree (1 tomato) , little water and close the pan.

 After 15 minutes of cooking stir and allow it to boil till the gravy consistency comes.

Transfer to the serving dish and serve hot.

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How to prepare Appam

Appam is traditional Kerala recipe which is very tasty. This is made with rice and coconut and it goes with coconut milk, milk, egg curry and stew. In this recipe i am adding raw rice and steemed rice in same quantity. But we can add cooked rice or avalakki (aval), instead of steemed rice. I am not adding east or soda salt. If we not getting the softness, we can add soda salt. It is good for breakfast.

Basic information :

Soaking time	:	2 Hrs
Grinding time	:	10 Mins
Cooking time	:	5 Mins
Serve	:	6 persons

Ingredients :

Raw rice	:	1 Bowl
Normal rice	:	1 Bowl
Black gram dal	:	1/4 Bowl
Coconut	:	1/2 No
Sugar	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	2 Tsp

Method :

Soak the rices and black gram dal (urad dal) for 2 Hours.After 2 Hrs, grind it with adding coconut (grated) as batter.After grinding the batter, add sugar, salt, mix well and keep it for 5-6 Hrs in room temperature.

 Heat a non sick appam thava, pour the batter and make round the batter and close it.

After 3 seconds, transfer to the serving plate and serve hot.

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How to prepare Stuffed bitter gourd fry

Usually bitter gourd is a unusual vegetable in my home. I was thinking, how can we make the bitter gourd interesting. After that i tried the fry stuffed with some interesting masala. Then, we used to buy bitter gourd in every week. It is very tasty and bitter less fry. Already i posted the tasty bitter gourd chips fry. In this post, let's see bitter gourd fry with stuffed masala.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Cooking time	:	10 Mins
Serve	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

For stuffing
Potato	:	1 No
Chopped onion	:	1/2 Cup
Tomato	:	1 No
Curry leaves	:	Few
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Lemon juice	:	1 Tsp
Salt	:	As per taste
For fry
Bitter gourd	:	1/4 Kg
Oil	:	For fry

Method :

Cut the bitter gourd into 2 pieces. Take out the seeds inside the bitter gourd. If you want, we can peel off the embossed portion of the bitter gourd. Add water with the bitter gourd and allow to boil for 3 minutes.

After boiling, keep it aside.

Boil the potato, peel off and smash it. Heat oil in a pan, add Chopped onion, curry leaves and fry well. Add chopped tomato,  smashed potato and fry. Add turmeric powder, chilly powder and finally add lemon juice and fry a little.

 Cut the bitter gourd in one side,stuff the fried stuffing inside the bitter gourd and tie with the thread.

Heat oil in a pan, fry the stuffed and tied  bitter gourd and make shallow fry.

After frying in all the sides, cut out the threads, transfer to the serving dish and serve with rice or we can have it as a snack. Please try this wonderful fry and send your valuable comments....

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