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Friday, October 2, 2009

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.