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Ingredients:
Oil-2 tsp
Red chillies-3
Groundnuts-1 tbsp
Method:
1. Heat kadai.
2. Add 1 tsp oil. Toast the groundnuts, till seeds and grated coconut and one red
chilly until light brown. Cool and mince in mixie coarsely.
3. Heat kadai. Add one tsp oil. Temper with mustard seeds, urad dhal and red
chillies.
4. Add the cleaned murungai Keerai and saute. When Keerai is 3/4 th done add the
ground coarse powder and mix well. Cook until Keerai is cooked.
5. Serve with rice and kara kulambhu.
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Red chillies-3
Salt- to taste
Curry leaves
Hing
Channadhal-2 tsp
Oil -I tsp
For Batter:
Salt
Water
Method:
1. Mix together the kelviragu flour, rice flour, and salt. Add water and mix until you
get a dosa batter consistency. It will thicken with time. Will need to add more
water just before making adai again.
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For seasoning:
1. Heat kadai.
2. Add oil.
3. Add the urad and channa dhal saute until light brown.
4. Add the curry leaves, red chillies and hing.
5. Add the onion and cook until translucent.
6. Add the Keerai and salt and cook until Keerai is half done.
7. Finally add the grated coconut and mix.
8. Add this seasoning to the prepared kelviragu, rice flour batter. Mix well.
9. Check and adjust salt. if the batter has thickened add some water to get dose
batter consistency.
10. Make adai's and serve with kaara chutney.
Note:
1. The above can be done slightly differently. Instead of making a batter you can
add prepared seasoning to kelviragu/ rice flour and sprinkle water and mix like to
a pakora flour consistency and deep fry in oil too.
Or
2. Mix the whole thing in a vada batter consistency and shallow fry like vadas too.
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Contributor: Anbarasi
Ingredients:
Onion - 5
Tomato - 5
Green chilli - 2 or 3
Asafoetida - 1 pinch
Vadagam - little
Salt - as required
Method:
1. Take cooker & put the toor dal in it. Wash it thoroughly & add the required amt of
water, a pinch of turmeric & asafoetida.
2. Now add the Keerai which is also washed & cut into pieces.
3. Cut the onions & tomato into slices & add it too. Put the garlic pieces & both the
chillies. Now keep the cooker in stove till 3 whistles.
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4. After 3 whistles, remove the cooker from the stove & open it after the pressure is
completely reduced.
5. Now transfer the content to the keerai chatti, add required amt of salt & tamarind
and mash it.
6. You can splitter the vadagam & add to it finally for enriching the taste. Now the
delicious keerai paruppu kuzhambu is ready.
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Ingredients:
Green chillies-4
Ginger-small piece
Salt
Curry leaves
Method:
1. Wash and soak urad dhal. Take two handfuls of the soaked dhal and leave
aside.
2. Grind the rest of dhal with green chillies, ginger and salt.
3. To the vada batter, add the soaked urad dhal, keerai, chopped onion and curry
leaves. Mix well.
4. Heat oil. Deep fry the vadas.
5. Serve hot with Coconut chutney.
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Ingredients:
Salt
Green chillies-6
Cream-3 tbsp
For seasoning:
Butter-3 tbsp
Jeera-1 tsp
Elaichi-2
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Method:
1. In a nonstick pan add 1-2 tsp oil. Add the paneer cubes and lightly fry until
golden.
2. Steam the Palak with the green chillies.
3. Grind in mixie to a smooth paste.
4. Blanch the 2 large tomatoes in boiling water. Then peel skin, remove the seeds
and grind in mixie to a puree.
5. For cooking, heat kadai.
6. Add butter and melt.
7. Season with jeera and elaichi.
8. Add chopped onions. Cook until lightly brown.
9. Add the Ginger garlic paste. Cook until raw smell disappears.
10. Add the dhania, jeera powders, garam masala powder and salt. Saute and cook
in low flame or else will burn. You may add 2 tbsp water to avoid burning.
11. Add the tomato puree. Cook until oil separates.
12. Add the fried paneer, cook for few mins.
13. Add the spinach/green chilly puree. Add some water if very thick to get gravy
consistency.
14. Mix well and cook for few mins.
15. Add kasoori methi and cook for 2-3 mins.
16. Finally add the cream and mix. Cook for 2 mins.
17. Palak paneer is ready.
18. Serve with Naan, Chapati, jeera rice etc.
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Note:
1. My Punjabi friend does another version - she blanches some onion and grinds it
with cashews, little grated coconut and some cream. adds this ground mix after
the tomato puree is added. Rest of steps follow this gives a more creamier and
slightly sweeter gravy.
2. My version is more for parties as it uses butter and cream. For a healthier day to
day version use less butter or use a mix of butter and oil.
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Ingredients:
Salt
Yoghurt- to knead
Oil-2 tbsp
Method:
1. To the wheat flour, add the besan flour and mix.
2. Add the dry powders (jeera, red chilly and turmeric) and salt. Mix until
incorporated uniformly.
3. Add the minced green chilly and ginger garlic paste and mix well.
4. Add the 2 tbsp oil. Mix well. Will become slightly crumbly.
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5. Add the finely chopped methi and mix well until moisture is absorbed by flour
mix.
6. Finally add some yoghurt enough to make chappati dough of soft consistency.
7. Let it soak for 1/2 -1 hr.
8. Roll out like chapattis.
9. Cook the theplas in a tawa with oil or butter.
10. Tasty theplas are ready.
11. Serve with plain yoghurt or raita.
Note:
1. My version does not use Jowar flour.
2. I use whole wheat atta flour.
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Contributor: Santhi1984
Ingredients:
Egg - 3 nos
Onion - 1 no
Chilly - Teaspoon
Method:
1. In a non stick pan, pour 2 teas spoon of oil and wait till oil gets heated up.
2. Add cut onions, green chilly and fry till it gets light brown color.
3. Mix garlic and teaspoon of chilly powder and then mix Palak fry till it gets fried.
4. Lastly add egg 3 nos and fry 5 minutes to get ready of Palak Egg Bhurgi.
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Gongura Thokku
Ingredients:
Salt
To temper
Method:
1. Heat oil season with mustard, channa dhal and hing.
2. Add the garlic and gongura - saute until raw smell disappears.
3. Add salt and coarsely ground red chillies. Cook until oil separates.
4. When cooled store in air tight container has shelf life of 3-4 weeks if stored in
fridge.
5. Also Gongura pappu can be made. Same as any keerai paruppu kadayal but no
need to add ant tomato or tamarind as gongura itself is sour.
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Mudakathan keerai
Raghi flour
Salt
Method:
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If the grinded paste is 1 cup, then take 2 cup ragi flour. Add required amount
of water as well salt and make it like dosa batter.
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Keep it aside for 8 hrs. After it is fermented, you can prepare dosas.
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Manathakkali keerai
Green chillies - 2
Salt
Curd -1 cup
Method:
1. Wash the leaves perfectly in running water.
2. In a pan,once it is heated, Add 1 tbsp oil + Green chillies + Leaves.
3. Fry it for 5mins .Before switch off the flame add roasted gram just stir it with
leaves.
4. After the mixture is cooled down ,Grind it as nice paste with salt (Dont add
water)
5. Now the grinded paste and curd will be mixed together before serving.
6. Thats it. Pachadi is ready.
7. You can have it as main dish with hot boiled rice
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Ingredients:
Thaniya - 2 spoon
Perungayam - sirithalavu
Thalika:
Oil
Method:
1. Kadayil sirithalavu oil vittu perungayam, varamilagai, thaniya ivatrai varuthu
edukavaum.
2. Then sutham seitha keerayai nanghu vathaki aravaikavum.
3. Ellavatraiyum sirithalavu puli matrum thevayana alavu salt serthu araithu
edukavum.
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4. Kadayil oil vittu thalipiku thevaiyana porutkalaipotu thalithu athil garlickai nasuki
potu vathakavum intha kalavaiyil araitha gongura chutneyai serthu (ennai piriyum
varai) nangu vathakavum.
5. Andra gongura chutney ready. Ithai sathathil sirithalavu nallanai vitu sapida
supera irukum.
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Vallarai keerai - 1 cup-Make small pieces with your hands only (They tell if you
cut with knife or scissors it becomes more bitter. I don't know how far it's true, but
I always make it pieces by my hand only)
Method:
1. In a pan, in little oil, add the seasonings. Once the kadugu splutters, add onion &
poondu, & saute for few mins. Add the keerai also & saute for few mins.
2. Then add sambar powder, saute for few mins, add the tamarind juice & salt &
allow it to boil.
3. You can stop when the raw smell goes & eat with rice.
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Redchilli - 10 or 12
Coconut 1 cup
Kasakasa - siridhalavu
Tomato 2 nos
Method:
1. Paruppai nangu vegavaithu kollavum.
2. Keeraithavira matravatrai varuthu araithukollavum.
3. Oil serthu kadu urud dall fry seitha piragu keeraiyai vathakki turmeric powder
serthu thanneer vittu keerai nangu venthavudan uppu serthu araithathaiyum
paruppaiyum serthu kothikkavittu irakkavum.
4. Ithai rice udan serthu samppidalam.
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Methi Rice
Ingredients:
Tomato-1 (chopped)
Seasoning:
Bay leaves
Cloves-2
Cardamom-2
Method:
1. In a pan, take 2 tsp oil, when it boils add bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamom &
cloves.
2. Add onions & garlic & saute until onion turns brown.
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Ingredients:
Red chilli - 5
Tomato - 1 big
Small onion - 3
Method:
1. In kadai add 1 tsp oil, temper with vadagam.
2. Then add all the ingredients, little water cook until the keerai is well cooked.
3. When it is cool, blend them in mixie to a paste.
4. It goes well with rice.
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Ingredients:
Arai keerai
Garlic 2 cloves
Curry leaves
Salt - to taste
Asafoetida - a pinch
Method:
1. First boil water with asafoetida. Then add garlic, onions, green chillies, keerai
and let it to cook for 5 min.
2. After it cools down wipe it in the mixer with jeera.
Seasoning:
1. In a pan take some oil and add mustard seeds to it.
2. When it splutters add red chilly and curry leaves. If you want u can add tomatoes
too. It goes well with rice.
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Ingredients:
Oil-2 tsp
Red chillies-3
Groundnuts-1 tbsp
Method:
1. Heat kadai.
2. Add 1 tsp oil. Toast the groundnuts, till seeds and grated coconut and one red
chilly until light brown. Cool and mince in mixie coarsely.
3. Heat kadai and add one tsp oil. Temper with mustard seeds, urad dhal and red
chillies.
4. Add the cleaned murungai Keerai and saute. When Keerai is 3/4 th done add the
ground coarse powder and mix well. Cook until Keerai is cooked.
5. Serve with rice and kara kulambhu.
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Ingredients:
Jeera - little
Method:
1. Take only the leaves of the keerai and wash nicely then drain. Heat a kadai, add
little oil and add jeera. Then the keerai and saute it well till the moisture in the
keerai goes.
2. Then add little salt, chilli powder and atta and knead into a dough.
3. Roll like regular chappatis and roast in the tawa smearing ghee or oil on both
sides.
4. You can add mashed potatoes too while kneading the dough for extra softness.
5. Methi paratha is ready.
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Tomato - 2 or 3
Tumeric powder
Salt
Method:
1. Potatovai manjapodi serthu vegavithu kondu tholurithu kondu smash seithuvaithu
kollavum.
2. Piragu vendhaya keerai clean seithu cut seithu kollavum.
3. Vanaliyil oil vittu kadugu thalithu onionai vathakki thakkaliyudan vendhaya keerai
manjal thool serthu vathakki kondu siruthu neram konjam thaneer vittu plate
pottu cover seithu vidavum.
4. Thaneer vatri keerai naangu vendhavudan potatovudan salt, red chilli powder
serthu sirdhu neram nangu vathikkayavudan kothamalli thoovi irakki vaikkavum.
5. Ithaiye gravyaga seithal chappathikku side dish agum.
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Ingredients:
Cauliflower - 1
Salt
Method:
1. Mudhal naale cauliflowerai small piecesa cut sithu hot wateril kaluppupotu 10
minutes vaithu vittu piragu filter seithu kondu ordinary waterilum kazhuvi
kollavum piragu thaneer illamal filter seithu vittu athanudan salt kalanthu tumeric
powder red chilli powder,vendyapodi lemon juiceyum vittu kalanthu oillyum vittu
kilari one day cover seithu vidavum.
2. Piragu next day riceudan intha pickle kalanthu sappidavum different and easy
recipe
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