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Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Cooker Kathirikai (eggplant/brinjal) Gosthu
Ingredients:-
Brinjal Big - 1 no.
Onion - 2 nos.
Tomato - 2 nos.
Green Chillies - 2/1
Tamarind paste - 2/3 (according to taste)
Curry Leaves - few
Asafoetida powder- 1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Sesame Oil - 3 tsp
Jaggery - 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Chop Onions, tomatoes and Brinjal. Split the green chillies. In a cooker add oil and mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds crackle completely add chopped onions and green chillies. Saute till the onion become transluscent. Now add chopped brinjal, tomatoes, tamarind paste, turmeric powder asafoetida powder, jaggery and salt. Then add 1 1/2 cups of water to the cooker and close it and let it to whistle 4 times and switch off the stove. After the pressure released, open the cooker, check for the taste and add salt if needed. Enjoy this gosthu with hot Pongal.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Crispy Pepper Vadai
Ingredients
1 cup - Urad dal
Black pepper - 1/2 to 3/4 tsp crushed
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
Rice flour - 1 to 2 tsp
Salt as per taste
Oil to fry
Soak the urad dal for 1/2 hour (do not over soak the dal). Drain it and coarsely grind it with salt without adding water. Add crushed black pepper, rice flour and asafoetida to the batter.
Heat oil. When it is hot add 1 teaspoon of hot oil to the batter and mix it.
Make a small ball out of 1 tbsp of batter, keep it in between a ziplock cover well greased with oil and then press it with a cup. By this way you will get same size of vadai.
Heat oil in a kadai and in little less than medium fire fry the vadai till it turns in golden brown color. Remove from the kadai and store it in an air tight container.