Mrs.Mano's Tamilnadu Delicacies - Part 2

[Mrs.Mano]

Dear Thattai!

Thanks a lot for your sincere wishes.
And again I thank you very much for the nice feedback on tomato egg masala.

[Mrs.Mano]

Dear sinrultz!

The quantity of the curd is quarter cup.

[Mrs.Mano]

Dear suvai!

I have received your email and will reply back soon.
Here is the recipe of ‘Adai prathaman’ for you!!

ADAI PRATHAMAN:

Ingredients:

Raw rice- 200gm
Jaggery- 400 gms
Big coconuts-2
Ghee- 1 tsp
Salt- a pinch
Cumin powder- a pinch
Cardamom powder- a pinch
Dry Ginger [chukku] powder – a pinch
Plantain leaves cut in to small handkerchief size and wilted through fire for a few minutes.

Procedure:

Extract thin and thick milk from the coconut. Each should be measured to 2 cups.
Soak the rice for 3 hours, drain the water and then pound it to a fine powder. Pass it through a fine sieve twice. Pour the ghee on it. Mix with sufficient water and the salt to make a thin batter. Pour into each leaf a spoonful of batter and spread thinly. Roll each leaf tightly and tie them with a string. Steam all of them for 15 minutes. When cooled, remove the adais and cut them into small pieces. Drop them in to the thin milk. Boil it on medium fire. Make syrup with the jaggery to one thread consistency. Pour it on the adai prathaman. Let it cook for some minutes. When the prathaman is thickened, add the first thick milk and all the powders. Allow the prathaman simmer for a few seconds.

[suvai]

Dear mrs. mano......thank you for your prompt recipe....oru kelvi.....big coconut - 2 nu pottu irukeenga....athu evalo vendum for the 200gms raw rice & 400gms jaggery....rendu kai fulla pothungalaaa?
sorry & thanks for your replies.
Hope all is well with u & at home.
tc
s

[dev]

pr, for wheat dosa just soak req qty of broken wheat(not wheat rava) overnight & grind it into a coarse batter adding water as required. you can add g.chillies,ginger,jeera if u like. but I prefer the plain ones. No need of fermenting this batter. the batter should not be too water. Should be lil thick.

Grinding is the tricky thing here coz of the stickyness of the wheat... I have always used mixie for it & not a grinder...

[pr]

Thanks Mrs Mano and Dev for your replies on wheat dosa. I will try and let you know the feedback
Thanks again
Pr

[KPR]

Hi,
I am looking for a recipe for soft kadala maavu bonda which we used to get in hotels in chennai.

[sinrultz]

Another Gem of a recipe...made gongura chicken for a potluck party and ended up having all the ladies behind me for the recipe...thank you very much

When time permits could you post your vegetable omlette recipe and a recipe for stuffed chilly bhajji which we get in hyderabad.

[pr]

Dear Mrs Mano
Hope you are doin good. I would like to have a recipe from you .
How to prepare munthiri cake with koya . Back at home when I was little a cook used to come to prepare sweets for diwali . He soaked cashews , grind it , added with sugar , koya and when it reahed the patham ,he put pieces .

I want exact proportion for the same . If you have any recipe could you please post it ..

Thanks and Regards
Pr

[Mrs.Mano]

Dear sinrultz!

Here is the recipe of ‘vegetable omlette’ which you have requested. I never tasted the chilli stuffed bajji of Hyderabad.

VEGETABLE OMLETTE:

Ingredients:

gram flour – 2 cups
Finely chopped tomatoes- half cup
Finely chopped spring onion- half cup
Finely chopped green chilli- 2
Chopped coriander- 3 tbsp
Salt to taste
Butter

Procedure:

Add all the ingredients to the finely sieved gram flour. Prepare batter like dosai batter with the help of little water. Heat a dosai pan and pour a table sp of batter and spread it like a thin dosai. Pour a little butter around it. When one side is slightly browned turn it on the other side and cook for a few seconds. This is a best stuffing for sandwiches.