NADAN RUCHIKAL

It is one of my favourite dish. It is a superb combo with rice... lets learn how the recipe is........ Ingredients: Potato : 2 Drumstick : 1 Tomato : 2 Brinjal : 1 Onion : 2 Coconut : 1 cup grated Chilly powder : 3 tsp Coriander powder : 2 tsp Turmeric powder : 1/2 tsp Fenugreek powder ( uluva podi) : 3/4 tsp Salt : To taste Method: Cut the vegetables as square pieces and drumstick as 2 1/2 inch length. Cook the vegetables except tomato in 1/2 cup of water and salt. Grind coconut, chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and fenugreek powder finely. Once the vegetables cooked, add tomato and coconut paste to that and cook for another 15 minutes. Once the gravy is set, check the salt, if needs more add some more salt. Season it with oil, mustard, dry chilly and curry leaves.  Pachatheeyal is ready!!!

Cabbage thoran is another recipe in the box of sadhya. It is also a daily recipe in kerala. We can make pure cabbage thoran or cabbage and carrot mixed thoran. Both the method are same. Here the recipe is... Ingredients Cabbage : 2 cup finely chopped Onion : 1/2 cup finely chopped Ginger : 1 tsp Green Chilly : 2-3 Coconut : 1/2 cup grated Cumin Seeds (jeerakam) : 3/4 tsp Urad dhal : 3/4 tsp (for seasoning) Garlic : 2 pod Mustard : 1 tsp Dry chilly : 2 cut in to pieces Curry leaves : few Oil : 2 tbsp Method: Grind the coconut, cumin seeds, garlic and turmeric roughly. Just give only one back pulse in mixer.  Heat a pan, add oil and splutter the mustard, to this add ginger, urad dhal, onion, dry chillies, curry leaves and saute for 2 minutes till the onion becomes light brown colour. Add cabbage, onion, green chilly and salt to this and saute for 2 min. Add the grounded coconut to this and pat down it tightly and cover the pan with a tight lid. Cook for 10 - 1

Onam is coming, the main attraction towards onam is the delicious sadhya :) . Without sadhya, onam is incomplete and without parippu curry, sadhya is incomplete lol..... Lets learn how to make parippu! Ingredients For onam special parippu curry, we are taking cheru payar (moong dhaal). Cheru payar (Moong daal) : 1 Cup Shallots : 5 Green Chillies : 3 Turmeric Powder : 1/4 tsp Oil : 1 tbsp Ghee : 1 tsp Dry Chilly : 3 Cut in to small for seasoning Curry leaves : Few Mustard Seeds : 1 tsp Coconut : 1/2 cup Method Roast the dhaal in a pan till it turn little brown. Pressure cook the dhaal for 3 whistles with 2 1/2 cup of water, salt, turmeric, green chillies and 3 shallots.  Grind the coconut finely with little turmeric and keep aside. Once the pressure releases, mash the dhal well with back of a spoon/ladle. Add the coconut paste to this and cook well for another few minutes. Should not over cook. Use less water always. Consistency of the gravy is between thick to l

Ingredients Drumstick : 3 Big cut into 2 inch Egg : 4 Coconut : 1/2 Cup Onion : 1 Cup finely chopped Turmeric Powder : 1/2 tsp Garlic : 2-3 pods Cumin (Jeerakam) : 1/4 tsp Oil : 1 tbsp Mustard : 1/2 tsp Dry chilly : 2 cut into small pieces for seasoning Curry Leaves : Few Method  Peel the drumstick and cut it into 2 inch sized pieces and cook it in water with salt. Boil the egg in another vessel for 15 minutes in water, with 1/2 tsp of salt, so that we can easily remove the shell of egg. Meantime, grate the coconut and grind it with turmeric, garlic and jeerakam. When both the drumstick and egg got cooked. Heat a pan, add oil to that, splutter mustard, add onion and saute well. Add dry chilly and curry leaves. Saute for another 2 minutes. Add drumstick to this and add the ground paste to this, pour little water and cover it with a lid and cook for 10 minutes.  When the water got evaporated, when it becomes dry saute it well in low flame.  Cut the boiled egg in t

Kothu Chappathi is a recipe which I used to make as a tea time snack. Its very simple recipe and little spicy too. Hope everyone like this. Ingredients  Chappathi : 6 Onion : 2 finely minced Pepper Powder : 1/2 tsp Garam Masala : 1 tsp Tomato : 1 finely chopped Green Chilly : 1 Egg : 3 Curry leaf : Few Salt : to taste Oil : 1 tbsp Method  Cut chappathi into small pieces. Beat the egg with salt well. Heat the pan and pour oil, add onion and green chilly and saute for few minutes.  To this, add pepper powder, garam masala powder, tomato, curry leaves and saute it or few more minutes till the tomato cooks. Add chappathi and beaten egg to this and mix and whisk well.  Delicious kothu chappathi is ready. Serve hot!!!

Here, its a new healthy snack recipe using banana. Hope everyone like this!!! Ingredients Jaggery : 1/4 kg Coconut : 1 Banana : 1 Rice Flour : 2 Cup Salt : 1/2 tsp Cardamom Powder : 2 tsp Oil Method Melt the jaggery in low water and drain it and keep aside. Grate the coconut and take the coconut milk and that too keep aside. First blend banana with little water, to this add rice flour and coconut milk and mix well. Add jaggery solution to this and pour cardamom powder and salt. The batter consistency should be like the consistency of thick dosa batter.  Keep this mixture for one hour.  After one hour, steam cook it in low flame using oil coated vessel.