Steamed Rice Strings Iddiappam Nool Puttu

 Ingredients

Rice Flour                   2 cups

Ghee/cooking oil         1 tspn

Grated coconut           1 cup

Salt                              As per required

Method

Sieve the rice flour through a fine sieve

Add 1 tspn of ghee/cooking oil and required amount of salt to 3 cups of boiling water

Reduce the heat and add the rice flour gently and keep stirring until the rice flour is cooked

Finely blend the rice lumps to ensure that excess water evaporates (cooked well)

Allow to cool by transferring the contents into a wide plate coated with ghee

Blend the lumps smoothly and make into medium size balls

Use rice strainer as a steaming utensil by placing it on a vessel with water on the stove

Coat the rice strainer with oil and sprinkle grated coconut

Use a Murku maker and make rice strings into the rice strainer

Allow the steam to pass through the rice strainer for 3-5 minutes

Sprinkle some more grated coconut and transfer contents into a casserole

Can be served with coconut milk and sugar

Steamed Rice Nuggets Koyakatta

Ingredients

Rice Flour                   1 cups

Ghee/cooking oil         1 tspn

Grated coconut           1 cup

Salt                              As per required

Seasoning

Mustard seeds             ½ tspn

Redchilly                     3-4

Urad dal                      1 tspn

Channa dal                  ½ tspn

Curry leaves                1 stalk

2 tbspn oil

Method

Add 1 tspn of ghee/cooking oil and required amount of salt to 1 ½ cups of boiling water

Reduce the heat and add the rice flour gently and keep stirring until the rice flour is cooked

Finely blend the rice lumps to ensure that excess water evaporates (cooked well)

Allow to cool by transferring the contents into a wide plate coated with ghee

Blend the lumps smoothly and make small nuggets

Use rice strainer as a steaming utensil by placing it on a vessel with water on the stove

Coat the rice strainer with oil place the rice nuggets into the rice strainer

Allow the steam to pass through the rice strainer for 5-7 minutes

Transfer them to a separate plate

Heat oil in kadai/wok and add seasoning ingredients

Now add a tbspn of grated coconut and saute until golden brown

Now add the cooked nugets and saute to mix evenly

Transfer into serving bowl

Can be served just as it is or with aloo bhaji

Vegetable Pulav

Ingredients

Rice                             2 cups

Chopped Vegetables   ½ cup (beans, carrots or cauliflower, peas etc)

Ginger garlic paste      1 tbspn

Green chillies              3-4

Turmeric                      ½  tspn

Tomatoes                     1 large size

Garam masala              1 tspn

Mint leaves                  2-3 stems

Coriander leaves         handful

Bay leaves                   1

Cardamom                  2

Cinnamon                    1 small piece

Clove                           2

Vanaspathi/Dalda       3 tbspn

Method

Heat 3 tbspn vanaspati/dalda in cooking pot/pressure cooker

Add 2 each of cardamom and cloves, cinnamon stick and bay leaf

Now put the strained rice into the pot and stir until the rice turns white

Now add the chopped vegetables, slit green chillies and stir with a little salt and garam masala

Add 4 cups of boiling water adjust salt and stir well

Add chopped tomatoes and chopped mint and coriander leaves and cook with lid covered.

Serve vegetable pulav with raita, bhagara bhaingan/ mirchi ka salan

Fenugreek Methi Chicken

Chicken pieces            250 gms

Fenugreek leaves         2 bunches destemmed

Tomatoes                     3- 4 medium size

Onions (chopped)       1 small size

Ginger garlic paste      1/2 tbspn

Red chilly powder      1 ½  tbspn

Turmeric powder         ½ tspn

Salt                              As per requirement

1 ½  tbspn oil

Method

Marinate chicken with 2 tbspn of curd, ginger garlic paste and salt for an hour

Heat oil in kadai/wok and add chopped onions and saute

Add ginger garlic paste and saute, now add turmeric and chilli powder

Add the washed leaves and saute

Now add the marinated chicken pieces and saute until oil leaves

Now add chopped tomatoes and salt

Stir well and cook with lid cover (pressure cook if needed)

Adjust salt and consistency of gravy (evoprate excess water for thicker gravy)

Serve with bread, rice, chapatis, rotis, puris and rice dishes

Cluster Beans Curry Kothavvara Varuthada

Ingredients

Chopped beans           2 cups

Ginger garlic paste      1 tbspn

Garlic                          4-5 slightly crushed

Tomatoes                     2-3 medium size

Garam masala              1 tspn

Red chilly powder      1 tbspn

Salt                              as per requirement

Seasoning

Mustard seeds             ½ tspn

Cumin seeds( Jeera )   ½ tspn

Curry leaves                1 stalk

1 tbspn oil

Method

Heat oil in kadai/wok and add seasoning ingredients

Add ginger garlic paste along with crushed garlic and saute

Now add chopped tomatoes and cook until half cooked

Add turmeric and chilly powder and saute

Now add the chooped beans and salt

Add half cup of water and cook with closed lid (may pressure cook)

Sprinkle garam masala and stir well

Serve with rotis, puris, plain rice

Amranthus Fry Cheera Varuthada

Ingredients

Amranthus                  4-5 bunches

Onions                         1 medium size

Green chillies              5-6

Grated coconut           handful

Turmeric powder         ½ tspn

Salt                              as per requirment

Seasoning

Mustard seeds             ½ tspn

Cumin seeds( Jeera )   ½ tspn

Redchilly                     1

Urad dal                      1 tspn

Channa dal                  ½ tspn

Curry leaves                1 stalk

1 tbspn oil

Method

Heat oil in kadai/wok and add seasoning ingredients

Mix the chopped leaves with chopped onions, slit green chillies and ½ tspn salt and transfer into kadai

Stir the seasoning into the chopped amranthus and cook with lid covered

Adjust the salt since the content reduces to half

Evoporate any excess water by cooking without lid

Garnish with grated coconut

Can be served with hot rice

Fenugreek leaves in Tomato gravy Methi tomato curry

Ingredients

Fenugreek leaves         1 small bowl (3 bunches destemmed)

Tomatoes                     4-5 medium size

Onions (chopped)       1 small size

Red chilly powder      1 ½  tbspn

Turmeric powder         ½ tspn

Salt                              As per requirement

                                             

Seasoning

Mustard seeds             ½ tspn

Curry leaves                1 stalk

1 tbspn oil

Method

Heat oil in kadai/wok and add seasoning ingredients

Now add chopped onions and saute

Add the washed leaves and saute

Now add tomatoes along with turmeric, chilli powder and chopped tomatoes

Add salt and stir well and cook with lid cover

Adjust salt and consistency of gravy (evoprate excess water for thicker gravy)

Serve with rice, chapatis, rotis and puris