Ingredients:

• Pumpkin (Parangi), Ash gourd (Poosani), Sweet Potato (sarkarai vallikkilangu), Potato, Beans, Brinjal, Raw banana (valaikkai), Broad/Fresh beans (avaraikkai/mochaikkai), Carrot, Colocasia (Seppankilangu), Green peas (pattani) –  each 50 g for four servimgs
• Small onions – 100 g
• Tomato 50 g
• Green chillies – 4 no
• Coriander leaves -finely chopped – half cup
• Curry leaves – half cup
• Red gram dhal (Tuar dhal-thuvaram paruppu) – 100 g
• Asafoedita Powder (Hing – Perungayam) – half tsp
• Red chillies powder – 1 tsp
• Coriander powder one & half tsp
• Turmeric powder – half tsp
• Salt – to taste
• Broken black gram (Urad dhal) – 1 tsp
• Oil & ghee – each 2  tsp

1. Clean and cut all vegetables (1″ square wherever possible)
2. Wash and slit green chillies
3. Wash and drain red gram dhal
4. Pour 6 cups of water in a pressure cooker and bring to boil
5. Add red gram dhal, all vegetables, red chillies powder, coriander powder, turmeric power, half tsp asafoedita, salt and allow it to boil for 5 m.
6. Cover the cooker and pressure cook for 3 whistles and reduce heat to  sim mode for 3 m
7. Remove from heat, release the pressure and open the cooker
8. Heat 3 tsp oil in a kadai, add urad dhal, mustard seeds, curry leaves and half tsp asafoedita. When mustard seeds splutter, add the  sambar and continue to boil for 3 m. If needed add water for required consistency
9. Add 2 tsp ghee and chopped coriander leaves

Ingredients:

• Potatoes – 250 grams (1/2 lb), diced
• Red chili powder – 3 tsp
• Turmeric powder – 1 pinch
• Salt
• Fennel seeds – 1 tsp, crushed
• Onions – 1 cup, finely chopped

Method:

1. Cook the potatoes.
2. Add the red chili powder, turmeric powder, salt, and 2 cups of water to the cooked potatoes and keep aside
3. In a pan add 3 tsp oil. Add the fennel, onions and fry till the onions brown
4. Add the potatoes and cook in slow fire till the gravy thickens and the turn off the stove

Ingredients:

• One of the following vegetables – 500 grams (1 lb)
  • Cabbage
  • Cluster Beans (Avarakkai)
  • Green Beans
  • Black Eyed Beans (Karamani)
• Green Chilies or Red Chilies- 2
• Oil
• Salt
• Curry leaves
• Coconut – 2 tsp
• Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
• Urad dal – 1/2 tsp
• Cumin (Jeera) – 1 tsp
• Moong Dhal (Pasi Paruppu) or Toor Dhal – 1 cup

Method:

1. Cook the vegetable with salt and a pinch of turmeric and keep aside
2. Cook the dhal and keep aside
3. Grind the coconut, cumin, chilies and keep side
4. In a pan add 2 tsp of oil and add mustard seeds, urad dal, curry leaves, and fry them
5. Add the onions and fry till they start to brown
6. Add the cooked vegetables and fry for two minutes
7. Add the coconut paste from step 3 and the cooked dhal from step 2, stir for 2 minutes and turn off the stove

Note:

• If cooking cabbage then add 2 tsp finely chopped ginger stir just before turning off the stove

Ingredients:

• One of the following vegetables – 500 grams (1 lb)
  • Cabbage
  • Cluster Beans (Avarakkai)
  • Green Beans
  • Black Eyed Beans (Karamani)
• Onions – 2 tsp, finely chopped
• Green Chilies – 1, finely chopped
• Red chilies – 1, cut in two
• Oil
• Salt
• Curry leaves
• Coconut – 2 tsp, grated
• Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
• Urad dal – 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. Cook the vegetable with salt and a pinch of turmeric and keep aside
2. In a pan add 2 tsp of oil and add mustard seeds, urad dal, curry leaves, and fry them
3. Add the green chilies, red chilies, onions and fry till they start to brown
4. Add the cooked vegetables and fry for two minutes
5. Add the grated coconut, stir and turn off the stove.

Note:

• If cooking cabbage then add 2 tsp finely chopped ginger stir just before turning off the stove
• Add a handful of  Moong Dhal (Pasi Paruppu)  to the vegetables & cook

Ingredients:

• Pasiparuppu (broken green-gram dhal)-2 tsp
• beans/cabbage-250g-finely chopped
• Green chilli 2 no – finely chopped
• Coconut powder/scrapping – half cup
• mustard 1 tsp
• urad (blackgram) dhall –1tsp
• curry leaves 10
• turmeric powder half tsp
• salt to taste

Method:

1. Heat 150 ml water in a kadai. Wash pasiparuppu and add to boiling water and cook for 3 minutes. Add beans/cabbage, turmeric powder and salt to taste. Allow the water to boil off and remove from heat.
2. Heat 2 tsp oil and roast mustard and urdu dhall till they splutter. Add green chilli and curry leaves. Add cooked vegetables and mix coconut powder. Througly mix and cook for a minute and remove from fire.

Ingredients:

• Tamarind paste 2 tsp
• Eggplant 5
• Onion 1 thinly sliced
• Tomato 1 thinly sliced
• Green chili 1 thinly sliced
• Fenugreek 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds ¼ tsp
• Sesame seeds 1 tsp
• Pepper powder 1 tsp
• Red chili powder 2 tsp
• Turmeric powder 1 pinch
• Salt

Procedure:

1. Mix the tamarind in 4 cups of water
2. Slice the eggplant from the end till ¾ so that its connected near the stem and soak in water
3. Roast the sesame seeds, fenugreek seeds, and mustard seeds each separately and grind them to a powder and mix it to the tamarind juice
4. Add the pepper powder, chili powder, turmeric powder, and salt to the tamarind juice
5. Heat 6 tsp oil in a pan and fry the onions, tomatoes, and green chilies for 2 minutes
6. Add the eggplant and and cook them completely
7. Add the tamarind juice mix and cook till till the gravy thickens

Ingredients:

• Plantain 1
• Fennel ½ tsp powdered
• Red chili powder 2 tsp
• Coriander powder 2 tsp
• Turmeric powder ½ tsp
• Curry leaves
• Salt

Procedure:

1. Slice the plantain into think chips and soak in water
2. Drain the water and mix in the fennel powder, chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, curry leaves, and salt
3. Hear 4 tsp oil in a pan and fry mustard seeds
4. Add the mix from step 2
5. Cover the pan with a lid and cook in slow fire till the mix gets dry
6. Add 2 tsp oil and continue frying by turning  the plantain pieces till they get golden brown

Ingredients:

• Plantain 1
• Onion 1
• Tomato ½
• Coconut 50 grams (0.1 lb)
• Fennel 1 tsp powdered
• Red chili powder 2 tsp
• Coriander powder 3 tsp
• Turmeric powder ½ tsp
• Mustard seeds 1 tsp
• Cinnamin stick 1 stick
• Salt

Procedure:

1. Slice the plantain into think chips and soak in water
2. Slice the onion and tomato into small pieces
3. Grind the coconut and fennel into a fine paste and to this paste add the chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, and salt
4. Hear 4 tsp oil in a pan and fry mustard seeds and cinnamon sticks
5. Add the onions and tomatoes and fry till the onions turn light brown
6. Add the coconut paste mix, plantain pieces, and curry leaves and cook in medium fire till the gravy thickens

Ingredients:

• Toor dal 1 cup
• Channa dal 1 cup
• Red chilies 8
• Cumin 1 tsp
• Green beans 250 grams (½ lb) finely chopped
• Grated coconut 1 cup
• Mustard seeds 1 tsp
• Urad dal 2 tsp
• Curry leaves

Procedure:

1. Soak both the dal’s in water for 2 hours and drain the water
2. Grind the red chilies, cumin, salt, and the soaked dal’s into a coarse mix
3. Shape the mix into thick pancake shapes and steam cook them
4. When it’s cooled down knead it lightly to make it powdery again
5. Cook the green beans with a little salt and keep aside
6. Heat 4 tsp oil in a pan and fry mustard seeds and ural dal. When the splutter add the cooked dal mix and cook for a minutes
7. Add the cooked beans and curry leaves and cook for a minutes
8. Add the grated coconut and mix well and remove from heat

Ingredients:

• Vegetables: Drumstick 1, Plantain 1, Potato 1, Pumpkin 500 grams (1 lb), Poosanikai (White Pumpkin) 500 grams (1 lb), Sakkarai valli kilangu (Sweet potatoes)
• Coconut 100 grams (¼ lb)
• Cumin 1 tsp
• Green chilies 4
• Coconut oil 2 tsp
• Yogurt 2 cups
• Mustard seeds 1 tsp
• Curry leaves

Procedure:

1. Cut the vegetables and cook with salt, turmeric powder, and some water
2. Grind the coconut, cumin, and green chilies into fine paste and mix with the cooked vegetables
3. Add the coconut oil, yogurt, and salt
4. Head 2 tsp oil in a pan and fry the mustard seeds. When they start spluttering add the curry leaves and the vegetables and cook for a minute