LADY'S FINGER KOOTU [OR] VENDAIKAI KOOTU.
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| VENDAIKAI KOOTU |
INGREDIENTS:
Lady's finger - 250 gms
Toor dal - 1/2 cup
Onion - 1
Garlic Cloves - 5
Tomato - 2
Green chilli - 2
Thick Tamarind pulp - 2 tbsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Fenugreek - 1/2 tsp
Dried Red chilli - 1
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 tbsp
Gingelly oil - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste
METHOD:
Cook Toor dal in cooker and keep side.
Wash and cut lady's finger into one inch long pieces.
Chop Onion, tomato, garlic and slit green chillies. Keep aside..
Take a frying pan..
Add the gingelly oil. When hot...
Add the mustard and fenugreek seeds. when it splutter ..
Add the dry red chillies and curry leaves.
Then add the chopped onion and saute well,
Add garlic and turmeric powder. Saute well till onion turns transparent
Add the tomatoes and salt, saute till it turns mushy.
Add the sliced lady's finger and saute for 5 minutes.
Add the chilly powder and tamarind pulp. Cover the pan and let cook for 2 min.
Add cooked toor dal and mix well and allow to boil well.....
Tasty lady's finger kootu is ready to taste..
Goes well with Rice and Chapati...
JAANGRI
Hi friends!! Iam happy to announce... its my 175th post in this blog ... I am sharing my happiness with you all by giving a sweet recipe... One of the familiar sweets in Southern part of India....Its my Son's favorite sweet and of course mine too...
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| JAANGRI |
INGREDIENTS:
Urad dal – 1 cup
Rice flour – 1 tbsp
Food Color [sunset orange] – 3 drops
Oil – for deep frying
Sugar – 2 cups
Rose essence – 4 drops
Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
METHOD:
Heat sugar in a pan along with water to immerse the sugar.
Make a syrup and add rose essence.
Add lemon juice if desired to stop crystallizing of sugar. Keep aside..
Soak Urad dal in water for 2 hours.
Drain the water and grind urad dal to a fine paste.
Add the rice flour along with food color, grind it for a few times till it is mixes equally.
The consistency of the batter thick.. when dropped in water it should float.
Pour the batter into Ziploc bag and make a small hole in it.
Take a frying pan..
Add oil and when hot.
Squeeze the jangiri batter in oil making jaangri shape..
Fry jangiri on both sides.
Remove from oil and immerse it in sugar pan for 3 minutes.
YUMMY sweeeeet Jaangri is ready to taste.........
