Kugan's Kitchen Part 2

[kugan98]

DOUGHNUTS
Ingredients:
250 grm high protein flour ( you can get it in the supermarket )
100 grms plain flour.
tsp salt
1 tbs instant yeast
30 grms castor sugar.

Combine:
30 grms melted butter
150 ml warm milk
1 lightly beaten egg (optional)
oil for frying

For coating:
Castor sugar, mixed with tsp cinnamon powder

Method:
Put both the flours in a large bowl. Stir in yeast and sugar.
Pour the combined ingredients into the flour.
Mix well and knead till you get a soft dough.
Cover the dough with a damp tea towel and leave aside
To proof for about an hour, or it doubles in size.
Knead dough on a lightly floured board for a minute.
Roll out the dough to cm in thickness.
Stamp out with a doughnut cutter.
Place the cut out doughnut on a grease proof paper.
Leave aside to rise for 25 to 30 minutes.
Heat oil and deep fry doughnuts till they puff up and turn golden brown.
Remove and drain doughnuts on absorbent paper.
Toss them in cinnamon sugar and serve.

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[Selviem]

kugan,
so many receipes for past two days. i am not keeping well. now came back to normal. all the receipes are too good. as suvai told keerai vadai is tempting. doughnut is perfect .
let me try one by one. thanks for posting nice receipes.

selvi

[Selviem]

kugan,
perfect ur ulunthu satham looks like same what my mil makes. nice presentation.
thanks for trying it out.

selvi

[dev]

K, experiment enna aagudhunnu senju paarthittu solren...
We cook the roti jala on only one side ,right?...

NOV, please post the potato-tomato curry recipe or any other veg recipe to go with roti jala...

[kugan98]

[tscii]Suvai and Dev, I will post the picture of this rasam
as soon as I take the picture.
Thanks. Kugan98


MURUNGAI LEAVES RASAM

Ingredients:
¼ cup toor dal cooked with 2 cups of water
1 lime sized tamarind soaked in ½ cup water
1 cup tender murungai leaves cleaned (little more if you want)
1 tomato crushed well
2 green chillies slit and cut across.
½ tsp asafetida powder
½ tsp tumeric powder
2 dry red chillies broken
½ tsp mustard seeds
1 sprig curry leaves
1 tbs chopped coriander leaves
2 tsp oil
Salt to taste

Pound a little coarsely:
1 tsp coriander seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp black pepper
3 pips garlic just smashed

Method:
Cook the toor dal well and mash well.
There should be about 2.5 cups of the toor dal water.
Squeeze the tamarind juice and keep aside.

Heat a pot with 2 tsp of oil, add in the mustard seeds.
Add in the broken red chillies, curry leaves.
Sauté well, add in the sasfoetida powder, tumeric powder,
And the coarsely pounded ingredients. Fry for a second.
Now add in the slit green chillies, and crushed tomato.
Sauté well, add in the tamarind juice, let it boil once.

Add in the murungai leaves, the toor dal water.
Add salt, let it boil once. Once the leaves are cooked,
remove and add the cut coriander leaves.

You can add more water while adding the tamarind juice.
If you find that your rasam will be thick.

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[kugan98]

OH dear Selviem, hope you are better now.
The season is very bad now.

My nephew too started to vomit and was having diarrhoea.
I was very scared, luckily he got better in 2 days.

Take care Selviem. try the recipes at your own pace.
Thanks. kugan98

[NOV]

dev, you need to cook on both sides. flame has to be very small so that it doesnt burn. you turn it over when the pancake becomes stiff.

tomato potato masala is nothing new for you ladies, I am sure you would have done something similar a million times.

cut boiled potato into bite size. in a pan fry some kadugu, sliced onion, curry leaves, slilced chilly - (in that order). then add sliced tomato (same amount as potato or just slightly less) and let it cook. once half cooked add water and the boiled potato and let it become a little soft. the gravy should have thickened too. thats it!

you can use this as an accompaniment for dosai/idly too - especially when you are tired of saambaar. :P
it will taste slightly sour because of the tomato.

variation 1 - omit the tomato and water. the potato will be dry (a little like podimas but still lumpy)

variation 2 - omit the potato. once the tomato has cooked, add sliced hard boiled egg.
believe me, the taste is heavenly.
this can be an accomaniment for rice as well, esp on days you decide not to make any gravied curry.

[kugan98]

You are right Dev, you cook on both side of the
roti jala.
This is a very popular item, when entertaining guests
here in Malaysia. "Of course the chicken curry goes with it"

Hopefully NOV anneh gives us the recipe.
Thanks. Kugan98.

[Aarthii]

Kuganka doughtnut looks too good.It's my favourite dessert.Thanks for posting it.

[Aarthii]

kugan,
so many receipes for past two days. i am not keeping well. now came back to normal. selvi

Selvika,what happened?
Take nice rest selvika.