Kugan's Kitchen

[kugan98]

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TOMATO DAL SOUP

Ingredients:
¼ cup tur dal soaked
5 big red tomatoes chopped
½ tsp cumin seeds
½ an inch ginger crushed
4 pips garlic chopped
¼ tsp tumeric powder
Salt to taste
1 ½ litres of water

1 big onion chopped fine
1 tsp chillie powder
Little pepper powder
1 bay leaf
3 cardamoms
1 inch cinnamon stick
1 tbs ghee
Little coriander leaves for garnishing

Method:
Boil the soaked dal with cumin seeds, ginger
Garlic, and tumeric powder.
Cook till the dal is well mashed.
Now add in the chopped tomatoes and cook
Again till the tomatoes are well mashed and
There is no raw smell.
Cool the cooked ingredients, then grind it in a mixie.
Drain and sieve it to remove the skin and seeds.
Add about 1 ½ litres of water to make up the soup.
( use your judgement when adding water )

Heat ghee in a pot, add in the bay leaf, cardamoms,
Cinnamon stick and sauté for a second.
Add in the finely chopped onion and fry nicely.
Now add in the tomato, dal soup and chillie powder and pepper powder.
Add salt to taste, boil well. Add the cut coriander leaves and remove.
Serve the steaming soup in a bowl as a starter.
See that you remove the cinnamon stick, cardamom and bay leaf before you serve.

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[kugan98]

[tscii]Suvai here is the vadai curry recipe you requested.

VADAI CURRY
For vadai
2 cups kadalai parupu
2 big onions chop fine

Method soak the dal for an hour. Then grind it roughly without adding any water. Add the chopped onions and salt. Shape them into small rounds and deep fry them.

For curry
Ingredients
4 big onions - slice them
2 whole garlic - skin them into pips
¼ kg tomato blanch , remove skin and blend
½ tsp tumeric powder
chopped coriander leaves
a pinch of sugar
enough oil
salt to taste

To Grind
1 onion
1" ginger
5 dried chillies
5 green chillies
½ tsp big seragam
3 cardamons
2 cloves
1 tbs pottu kadalai
4 pips garlic
1 tbs coriander powder
½ tsp seragam

Method
Heat oil in wok. Fry the onions and garlic. Then add the ground masala.,
Tumeric powder, a pinch of sugar and cook well
till oil rises.
Then add the blended tomato and enough water and let it boil. (You must
Add enough water ,for the vadai will swell in the liquid) Let it boil for sometime
Test for salt .Add the vadai, stir once,add the chopped coarinder leaves and remove from fire.
Serve with hot iddlis or thosai.

Note: Some people like to steam the vadais, but this is how we do it in our house.
You can even shape them like vadais and fry them, and later cut them into 4 pieces each.

The round fried vadais.

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The vada curry

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[kugan98]

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Another vege which is often cooked in my house.
In form of poriyal, saaru, or soup.

MURUNGGA KEERAI SOUP.

Ingredients:
1 cup cleaned murungga keerai
1 big red tomato chopped.
4 pips garlic crushed
½ inch ginger paste
4 green chillies sliced
3 small red onions sliced
¼ tsp tumeric powder
¼ tsp pepper powder
½ tsp mustard seeds
¼ tsp fenugreek seeds
¼ tsp cumin seeds
1 tbs ghee
1 tsp lime juice
Salt to taste
Little jaggery
1 litre water

Method:
Heat a deep pot with the ghee. Add in the mustard seeds
Fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds. When they splutter add in
The garlic, ginger and onions. Sauté nicely. Add in the green
Chillies and the tomatoes. Let the tomatoes mash nicely.
Now add in murungga keerai and give a good stir.
Add in the water, also the tumeric powder, pepper powder
Salt to taste and little jaggery.
Let it boil nicely. Remove from stove. Add in the lime juice.
Serve it piping hot with a tsp of butter.

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[Thalafanz]

Hello Kugan sir, long time no see...

Yeah, vege dish mattum post pannungga as I'm on vege...

[kugan98]

Thanks Thalafanz, you made my day.
I was upset as there were no comments or encouragement
from the hubbers. Thanks for dropping by.

I will post another healthy soup for you.
Thanks. Appa appa etti paarungo.

[Thalafanz]

Thanks Thalafanz, you made my day.
I was upset as there were no comments or encouragement
from the hubbers. Thanks for dropping by.

I will post another healthy soup for you.
Thanks. Appa appa etti paarungo.

Well, I drop by everytime there is a new recipe. Its just that I don't post/reply sometimes. It could be others doing the same thing, u know.
So, don't be discouraged by hubbers response. U r doing a great job. Keep it up!!!

[Thalafanz]

Oru chinna vEndukOl. Is it possible for u to write those ingredients in Thamizh beside the English (i.e chillies - milagai).
I got to admit that I'm not good or I can't recognise most of veges/ingredients in English.
For example, I have never heard of 'cumin seeds' before.
Call me dumb or anything but I'm just trying to be honest here.

[kugan98]

Any thing for you Thalafanz.
I will write in future.
Thanks.

[kugan98]

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When I had this dish in my friend’s house, I was
Surprised by the combination of these two veges.
Anyway it tasted good.

PULICHA KEERAI AND BRINJAL

Ingredients:
300 grms of cleaned pulicha keerai or gongurra
150 grms of brinjal (kathirikai)
5 garlic pips (poondu)
2 green chillies sliced (pachai milagai)
3 birds eye chillies. ( usi milagai)
Salt

½ tsp mustard seeds (kadugu)
1 tsp urad dal (ulunthu )
3 small red onions sliced ( chinna vengayam )
2 dry red chillies cut into pieces ( kaintha milagai )
1 tbs oil

Method:
Chop the keerai, add the keerai brinjal, garlic,
Green chillies, birds eye chillies and salt,
In a pot, add little water and boil till the keerai
And the brinjas are cooked nicely.
Cool the mixture and grind it coarsely in a mixie.
Heat a wok , add the oil when it is hot add the mustard
Seeds, urad dal, the small onions and the cut red chillies.
Sauté nicely add in the ground keerai, add enough salt.
Let the mixture boil once, remove and serve with
Steaming rice.

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[kugan98]

[tscii]A healthy soup.


TOMATO BARLEY SOUP

Ingredients:
½ cup masoor dal soaked (mysore paruppu)
½ cup barley soaked for 2 hours
1 tomato chopped
½ cup carrot diced
1 onion chopped
2 tbs of chopped coriander leaves ( malli elai )
2 spring onions with leaves chopped ( vengaya thal )
10 pips of garlic chopped ( poondu)
2 tsp oil
¼ cup milk (optional)
Little ground pepper (milagu powder)
Salt to taste

Method:
Boil the masoor dal and barley with 6 cups of water till cooked.
Heat oil in a pot, add the onions and garlic and sauté until
The onions are lightly brown.
Add the carrots and cooked dal and barley.
Add more water if needed.
Let it boil well, now add the tomatoes spring onions
Coriander leaves, pepper and salt, bring to a boil.
Remove add milk and serve hot.


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