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Friday, October 2, 2009

Toor dhal Powder

Ingredients

Red chillies – 1 cup

Toor gram dhal – 2 cups

Bengal gram dhal (Chana) – ½ cup

Horse gram dhal – ½ cup

Coriander seeds – 2 teaspoon

Asafoetida – to taste

Rock salt – to taste

Method

a) Fry dry red chilli with little oil.

b) Fry all other items without oil seperately.

c) Fine grind all items.

Dry Coconut Powder

Ingredients

Bengal gram dhal – 1 cup

Urad dhal – 1 cup

Red chillies – ½ cup

Asafoetida – 1 teaspoon

Rock salt – 1 tablespoon


Method

a) Fry dry red chilli with little oil.

b) Fry all other items without oil seperately.

c) Fine grind all items.

Curry Leaves Powder

Curry Leaf on Foodista

Ingredients

Curry Leaves – 4 cups

Urad dhal – 1 cup

Red chillies – ½ cup

Asafoetida – 1 teaspoon

Rock salt – 1 tablespoon


Method

a) Fry dry red chilli with little oil.

b) Fry all other items without oil seperately.

c) Fine grind all items.

Instant Powder – with rice

Ingredients

Bengal gram dhal – 1 cup

Coriander seeds – 1 cup

Red chillies – 2 cups

Curry leaves – ¼ cup

Rock salt – 1 tablespoon


Method

a) Fry dry red chilli with little oil.

b) Fry all other items without oil separately.

c) Fine grind all items.

Chutney Powder

Ingredients

Chana dhal – 1 cup

Urad dhal – 1 cup

Dry Red chilli – 2 cups

White Sesame seeds – 1 cup

Curry leaves – 1 cup

Rock Salt – 1 tablespoon / Powder salt – 1 tablespoon

Method

a) Fry dry red chilli with little oil.

b) Fry all other items except sesame without oil seperately.

c) Fry sesame seeds without oil in the end.

d) Coarse grind (like rava) all items except sesame first; later add sesame to the mixture and grind again.

[If sesame oil is added early, it leaves oil and creates lumps in the powder!]

Gojju powder

Ingredients

Chana dhal – 1 cup

Urad dhal – 1 cup

Dry Red chilli -2 cups

Fenugreek seeds – ¼ cup

Coriander seeds – 1 teaspoon

Mustard – 1 teaspoon

Method

a) Fry red chilli with oil.

b) All other items to be fried separately without oil.

c) Coarse grind (like rava)the items together. Powder should turn out in golden color.

All purpose seasoning powder

Ingredients

Red chilli – 500g

Coriander seeds – 250g

Toor dhal – 100g

Chana dhal – 100g

Urad dhal – 50g

Mustard – 50g

Black pepper corns – 50g

Jeera – 50g

Fenugreek seeds – 50g

Method

Sun dry above items together and machine powder this. Do not fry.

Rasam Powder – Amma’s


Ingredients

Coriander seeds – 200g

Dry red chillies – 100g

Black Pepper corns – 50g

Jeera – 50g

Toor dhal -25 g

Method

a) Fry coriander seeds without oil. Once done (when the aroma begins), switch off heat and add jeera and black pepper corns along with coriander seeds. Leave it for a minute or two.

b) Fry toor dhal without oil separately.

c) Fry red chillies with very little oil.

d) Fine grind the above items all together. Powder will be a bit dark in color.

Sambar Powder


Ingredients

Bengal gram dhal – 1 plate – 200g

Coriander seeds – 200g

Dry red chillies – 400g

Methi seeds – 20g

Method

a) Fry dhal and seeds without oil separately.

b) Fry red chillies with very little oil.

c) Fine grind the above items all together. Powder should be in golden color.

d) Add small teaspoon mustard – fry and grind it for better taste.

Spinach Pepper Palya / Black Nightshade Palya (Manathakkali Keerai)

Ingredients

Spinach – 1 packet / 2 bundles or Black Nightshade palya

Black pepper corns – 2 teaspoon

Red chillies – 2 Nos.

Idli rice – 2 teaspoon

Big onion – 1 Nos.

Tomato – 1 Nos.

Salt – to taste

Tempering

Mustard – 1 teaspoon

Oil – 1 teaspoon


Method

a) Fry red chillies, pepper & idli rice without oil until the rice starts to splutter.

b) Coarse grind the fried items to powder form.

c) In a pan (on medium flame), add oil & mustard.

d) As the mustard splits, add onion (cut length wise), tomato & cut spinach.

e) Leave this on flame, until the spinach is cooked along with onion & tomato.

f) This is a dry recipe – no water content should be present at the end of this recipe.

g) Add salt & ground mixture to the cooked spinach.

h) Leave this on flame for 2 mins.

Spinach Dhal Palya


Ingredients

Spinach – 1 packet / 2 bundles

Bengal gram dhal – ½ cup

Toor dhal – ½ cup

Red chillies – 4 Nos.

Salt – to taste

Asafoetida – pinch

Tempering

Mustard – 1 teaspoon

Oil – 1 teaspoon


Method

a) Soak Bengal gram dhal & toor dhal for 4 hours.

b) Strain the water from dhal, coarse grind the dhal with little salt & asafoetida.

c) Cut spinach into small pieces.

d) Cook the spinach with little salt on medium flame with little water.

e) Keep a pan on medium flame, add cooked spinach to the pan with tempering.

f) Leave this on flame until the spinach becomes dry from water.

g) Transfer this to a separate bowl.

h) In the same pan, add oil and mustard, once the mustard splits, add the ground dhal mixture to this.

i) Leave this on flame until the water is absorbed from dhal and the dhal becomes dry and separate.

j) Now, add the spinach mixture to the pan.

k) Remove this from flame after 5 mins.

Spinach Palya

Ingredients

Spinach – 1 packet / 2 bundles

Shallots – 10 Nos.

Green chilli – 4 Nos.

Tempering

Mustard – 1 teaspoon

Urad dhal – 1 teaspoon

Bengal gram dhal – 1 teaspoon

Asafoetida – pinch

Salt – to taste

Oil – 1 teaspoon


Method

a) Cut spinach into small pieces.

b) Keep a pan on medium flame, add tempering with all items.

c) To this tempering, add shallots & green chillies. Leave this on flame, shallots becomes golden brown in color.

d) Add spinach, sprinkle little water & salt. Allow this to cook for few mins.

This recipe will be tasty with rice.

Spinach Kootu with Pepper


Ingredients

Spinach – 1 packet / 2 bundles

Dry red chilli – 3Nos.

Black Pepper seeds – 2 teaspoon

Tomato – 2 Nos.

Coconut scrapings – 1 cup

Cooked toor dhal – 1 cup (Medium consistency)

Tempering

Mustard – 1 teaspoon

Urad dhal – 1 teaspoon

Bengal gram dhal – 1 teaspoon

Asafoetida – pinch

Salt – to taste

Oil – 1 teaspoon


Method

a) Fine grind – coconut scrapings, red chilli, black pepper with little water.

b) Cut spinach into small pieces.

c) Keep a pan on medium flame, add spinach, tomato with little water and allow this to cook.

d) Add salt, asafoetida, ground masala and cooked toor dhal to spinach.

e) Allow this on flame for 5 mins until it loses raw smell.

f) In a separate pan, add tempering – mustard, urad dhal, Bengal gram dhal.

g) Add the tempering to the cooked spinach.

Spinach Kootu


Ingredients

Spinach – 1 packet / 2 bundles

Dry red chilli – 5 Nos.

Cumin seeds – 1 teaspoon

Coconut scrapings – 1 cup

Cooked toor dhal – 1 cup (Medium consistency)

Tempering

Mustard – 1 teaspoon

Urad dhal – 1 teaspoon

Bengal gram dhal – 1 teaspoon

Asafoetida – pinch

Salt – to taste

Oil – 1 teaspoon



Method

a) Fine grind – coconut scrapings, red chilli, cumin with little water.

b) Cut spinach into small pieces.

c) Keep a pan on medium flame, add spinach with little water and allow this to cook.

d) Add salt, asafoetida, ground masala and cooked toor dhal to spinach.

e) Allow this on flame for 5 mins until it loses raw smell.

f) In a separate pan, add tempering – mustard, urad dhal, Bengal gram dhal.

g) Add the tempering to the cooked spinach.

Spinach Sambar/Keerai Khozambu/Huli Soppu


Ingredients


Red/green Spinach – 1 packet / 2 bundles

Fenugreek leaves (Menthya soppu) – 1 packet / 1 bundle

Green chillies – 6 Nos.

Dry red chilli – 1 No.

Tamarind juice – 1 cup

Turmeric powder – 1 teaspoon

Cooked toor dhal – 1 cup (Medium consistency)

Tempering


Mustard – 1 teaspoon

Fenugreek – 1 teaspoon

Asafoetida – 1 teaspoon

Salt – to taste

Oil – 1 teaspoon


Method


a) Cut spinach & fenugreek leaves into small pieces.

b) Heat the oil in a pan on medium flame.

c) Add mustard, fenugreek & asafoetida with green chillies & red chillies.

d) Include spinach to the pan with little water. The pan should not be closed during this recipe.

e) After 5 mins/spinach is completely cooked, add salt, cooked dhal & turmeric powder. Allow this to boil for 5 mins.

f) Add tamarind juice to the pan.

g) Remove this from heat once the mixture takes to medium consistency.