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Chowchow Halva

Ingredients:

  • Chowchow grated -1 cup
  • Sugar- 3/4 cup
  • Milk-1/4 cup
  • Ghee- 2 Tsp
  • Cardamom crushed – 4 no
  • Cashew nuts and dry grapes – each 6 no

Procedure:

  1. Remove skin and central seed pod of Chowchow and grate it.
  2. Pressure cook Chowchow gratings with milk – 0ne whistle
  3. Heat further in open vessel/cooker till milk gets absorbed.
  4. Add sugar and stir continually till you get the desired consistency.
  5. Roast cashew nuts and dry grapes in ghee and add to the halwa.
  6. When done transfer it to a plate coated with ghee and flatten the mix.
  7. Use as halwa.

Category: Appetizer (V)DessertVegetarian Tags: DessertSweets

Sethu’s Special Tomato Chutney for all dishes.

Ingredients:

  • Tomato 200g
  • Big Onion 100g
  • Garlic gloves 6
  • Ginger 1 cm
  • Green chili 1
  • Red chili powder half tsp
  • Coriander powder half tsp
  • Turmeric powder 1 pinch
  • Garam masala 1 pinch
  • Mustard 1 tsp
  • Cinnamon 2 cm
  • Sombu half tsp
  • Kalpasi 1 cm
  • Clove 2 no
  • Oil 3 Tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Curry leaves
  • Coriander leaves

Procedure:

  1. Cut tomato into small pieces and grind into thin paste, adding adequate water
  2. Cut onion into 1 cm long pieces
  3. Slice garlic, ginger and green chili
  4. Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard and let it splutter. Add cinnamon, kalpasi, sombu, clove. Reduce to slow fire.
  5. Add onions, garlic, ginger, green chili pieces and curry leaves. Fry for a minute
  6. Add red chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder.
  7. Add tomato paste, salt and cook for six minutes till you get thin sambar consistency. Check the taste and correct for salt and, if needed, add one tsp tamarind juice to enhance the savoury taste
  8. Add garam masala and pieces of coriander leaves and remove from heat.

Sethu’s Special Chicken Roast

Ingredients

  • Chicken pieces 500g
  • Big Onion 2 no
  • Tomato 1 no
  • Garlic 10 gloves
  • Ginger 1″ piece
  • Sombu 1 Tsp
  • Pepper 1 tsp
  • Jeera 1 tsp
  • Cinnamon 1″ piece
  • Clove 2 no
  • Cardamom 1 no
  • Garam masala 2 pinch
  • Salt
  • Curry leaves, Coriander leaves
  • Oil 100 g
  • Corn powder 1 Tsp
  • Red chili powder 1 tsp
  • Coriander powder 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder half tsp

Procedure:

  1. Dry powder Sombu, Pepper, Jeera, Cinnamon, Clove, Cardamom, Salt.
  2. Add diced onion, tomato, ginger, garlic, coriander stem to the above and grind into paste adding minimum quantity of water.
  3. Put the paste in a bowl, add red chili, coriander, turmeric powder, garam masala, salt to taste, curry leaves and mix well. Add the chicken pieces, mix well and cool it in the fridge to marinate for two hours.
  4. Pour 50 ml oil in thick bottomed, flat kadai, special spread the marinated chicken pieces and the remaining paste. Springle 50 ml of water, cover it with a lid and cook in slow fire for three minutes. Open the lid, turn the pieces upside down and continue to cook for another three minutes.
  5. Remove from heat, transfer the chicken pieces to a plate. Continue to cook the gravy into thick paste by adding the remaining oil with constant stirring. Add the cooked chicken pieces, sprinkle the corn powder and mix well.
  6. Add cut coriander leaves and remove from heat.

Hotel style Tomato Chutney

Rasam with Powder -Coimbatore Style

Ingredients:

  • Coriander seeds 1 cup
  • Jeera 1/3 cup
  • Pepper 1/4 cup
  • Curry leaves 1 cup
  • Red chilli 15-20 no
  • Ghee 1Tsp

Procedure:

  1. Heat a thick-bottomed kadai. Add coriander, pepper, curry leaves and ghee. Roast with continuous stirring, in low heat, till smell emanates.
  2. Add jeera and roast further for three minutes. Remove from heat and allow it to cool.
  3. Grind the above in a mixer/grinder as a coarse powder and store in a air-tight container.

Make Rasam with powder

Ingredients:

  • Dhoor dhal -1/2 cup
  • Tomato-2 no cut into small pieces
  • Green chili 1 no, split into two pieces
  • Garlic 5 cloves, crushed
  • Tamarind, small lemon size, soaked in water and filtered into juice
  • Salt, 1 Tsp oil, 1 Tsp Ghee
  • Mustard seed 1 tsp, jeera 1/2 tsp, split dhal 1/2 tsp, Red chili 1 no broken into two pieces. Asafoedita 1 tsp, curry leaves and coriander leaves.
  • Rasam powder 2 Tsp

Procedure:

  1. Boil dhoor dhal in 1 cup of water
  2. Boil tomato, green chili, crushed garlic in 1 cup of water.
  3. Add mashed dhoor dhal, tamarind juice, rasam powder and salt to taste.
  4. Bring it to boil, remove from hear immediately and keep aside.
  5. For garnish: Heat 1 Tsp oil in a kadai.
  6. Add mustard, as it splutters add jeera, split dhal, broken red chili, curry leaves and asafoedita and switch off heat, add 1Tsp ghee, mix it with rasam. Add coriander leaves and serve hot.

Variety Rice – Curd Rice

Ingredients:

  • Raw Rice 1 cup
  • Milk half cup
  • Curd 1 cup
  • Asafetida – 2 pinch – fry in oil a small piece and crush to powder
  • Green chilli – 2 no- thinly sliced
  • Ginger 1 cm – thinly sliced
  • Asafetida – 2 pinch-Fry in oil and crush a small piece
  • Curry leaves 10 no
  • Coriander leaves – thin slices – 2 Tsp
  • Mustard seeds half tsp
  • Urad dhal – 1 Tsp
  • Cashew nuts 10 no – broken into two
  • Dry grapes – 10 no
  • Gingelly oil – 1 Tsp
  • Salt to taste

Proceedure:

  1. Wash rice, add 3.5 cups of water and pressure cook for 3 m/ whistles
    Pour the rice on a plate, add milk and crush well.
  2. Heat 1 Tsp of gingelly oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds and let it splutter in medium flame, add Urad dhal, cashew nut pieces and dry grapes, fry till it turns golden brown, add green chilli and ginger slices, broken curry leaves and add to cooked rice.
  3. Add curd, salt to taste, coriander leaves, asafetida. Add additional salt, if needed.

Variety Rice – Lemon Rice

Ingredients:

  • Raw rice – 1 cup
  • Lemon 1 no – cut and extract juice
  • Turmeric powder 1 tsp
  • Asafetida – 2 pinch – fry in oil a small piece and crush to powder
  • Green chilli – 2 no- thinly sliced
  • Ginger 1 cm – thinly sliced
  • Curry leaves 10 no
  • Coriander leaves – thin slices – 2 Tps
  • Mustard seeds 1 tsp
  • Chana dhal – 1 Tsp
  • Cashews nuts 10 no – broken into two
  • Dry grapes – 10 no
  • Gingelly oil – 3 Tsp
  • Salt to taste

Proceedure:

  1. Wash rice, add 2.5 cups of water and pressure cook for 3 m/ whistles
    Pour the rice on a plate, sprinkle salt, turmeric powder and 1 Tsp of gingelly oil on hot rice and mix well.
  2. Heat 1 Tsp of gingelly oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds and let it splutter in medium flame, add chana dhal and fry till it turns golden brown, add green chilli and ginger slices, broken curry leaves and add to cooked rice. Add lemon juice and mix well
  3. Add coriander leaves, asafetida and sprinkle 1 Tsp of gingelly oil. Fry cashew nut pieces and dry grapes in gingelly oil and mix it well with the rice. Add additional lemon juice or salt, if needed.

Masala Vadagam

Ingredients:

* 250g rice flour

* 25g sago

* small onion 100g

* green chili 3no

* curry leaves 10no

* sombu 2tsp

* cinnamon 1″

* salt to taste

* Lemon juice 10 drops


Procedure:

1) Wash and soak sago in water overnight.

2) Peel and cut onion into slices, cut green chili into half cm pieces, cut curry leaves, crush coarsely sombu and cinnamon.

3) Take rice flour In another vessel and add 250 ml water and salt to taste. Mix well to a thick batter.

4) In a thick bottomed vessel, bring half litre of water to boil, add soaked sago, stir often, and cook till it becomes a thin gravy.

5) Reduce to medium heat and slowly add rice batter with constant stirring for about 6-8min, add all spices, mix well and switch off heat.

6) Add ten drops of lemon juice and mix well.

7) While medium cool, split into smaller pieces and sun-dry for 2 or 3 days.

Note: For regular Vadagam follow the same procedure with the following variation in procedure 2) Grind green chili into paste, add 2 tsp asafoetida powder, 2 tsp jeera, 2 tsp ajwain. Use star murukku achchu to make regular vadagam.

Schezwan sauce/chutney

Ingredients:

  • Dried Red chilli 2 cups
  • Oil 1/4 cup
  • Garlic finely chopped 1/4 cup
  • Ginger finely chopped 2 tbsp
  • Pepper powder 1/2 tsp
  • Vinegar 2 tbsp
  • Soy sauce 2 tbsp
  • Tomato sauce 2 tbsp
  • Sugar 1 tbsp
  • Salt to taste

Procedure:

1 Soak red chilli in hot water for 30m, blend smoothly and keep aside

2 Heat oil in a kadai, add garlic, ginger and saute well

3 Add chilli paste and saute for 2m

4 Add 1/4 cup water and mix well

5 Cover with a lid and simmer for 15m or till oil separates

6 Add pepper powder, vinegar, soy sauce, tomato sauce, sugar and salt

7 Mix well and, when cool, store in a container 

Banana Fritters(Pazha vadai)

Ingredients:

  • Very ripe banana 4 no
  • Jaggery. 250g
  • Wheat flour 3 Tbs
  • All purpose flour (Maida) 2 Tbs
  • Rice flour/ Suji(Rava) 1 Tbs
  • Grated coconut 3 Tbsecure:
  • Ghee 3 Tbs
  • Cooking soda
  • Cardamom 4 no -crushed
  • oil for deep frying

Procedure:

  1. Pour 2 Tsb of ghee in a kadai, add grated and heat until it turns golden brown and keep aside.
  2. Put jaggery in a kadai, add 50 ml of water and boil for 3m. Filter the syrup to remove dust and keep aside
  3. Peel and mash the ripe bananas without any lumps, add cardamom, roasted coconut, cooking soda, jaggery syrup, 1 Tbs ghee and mix well.
  4. Add required quantity of wheat flour, maida and rice flour to banana paste to get vada consistency.
  5. Heat oil in a kadai in medium flame, take a handful of banana batter and drop it in oil as small balls. Fry in medium flame till they turn dark golden brown. Drain the oil and serve.