KUGAN'S KITCHEN PART 3

[kugan98]

Friends Arudhra star falls on full moon day, of the month of
Margazhi. (This time it is on the 1st of January 2010)

Thiruvadhirai is supposed to be the birthday of Lord Siva.
Lord Siva blesses his devotees on that day.

We observe the thiruvadhirai fast, and have the thiruvadhirai kali
and kutoo.

Here is the recipe for the sweet kali

TIRUVADIRAI KALI

Ingredients:

1 cup rice
1 cup jaggery
10 cashew nuts
10 raisins
A pinch of cardamom powder
A pinch of salt
4 tbs ghee

Method:

Dry roast the rice until it becomes pink in colour
with a nice aroma. Keep aside to cool.
When cooled grind it in a mixie until it becomes like
fine sooji.

Pour 3 cups of water in a wok, add in the jaggery, little salt,
and 1 tbs of the ghee. Let it come to a boil.
Add in the ground flour and stir and cook, until it becomes a lump.
Add 2 tbs of the ghee and blend well.

Heat the 1 tbs of ghee in a pan, add in the cashew nuts and raisins.
When they are roasted well, add it to the kali.
Add in also the cardamom powder. Mix well.
Offer to God.

Note : some people like to add coconut milk instead of water.
Also some people like to add coconut scrapings to the kali.

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[NOV]

K, how can you forget the most important date in the entire calendar - Vaikunda Ekadesi - which falls tomorrow.

When I was growing up in Penang, there used to be 2 films for the price of 1 for every VE in all cinemas. 1 Sivaji and 1 MGR film.
No one knew or celebrated Sivarathri, but everyone knew VE. kaalam maari pOchu.

[kugan98]

NOV anneh Vaikunda Ekadesi is not forgotten.
We just have simple prayer in the house.
Vishnu Sahasranamam is recited in the house.
In the evening I usually go to the Sunderaja Perumal
Temple in Klang for prayers.
I remember elders telling when I was small that people
who die on this day, go straight to heaven.


On Sivarathiri I will be hopping from one Sivan temple to the other,
ending with the Sivan temple in Sentul for the last puja.

Thanks NOV anna, nice to know that you too remember
all the auspicious days.
Take care. Kugan98

[kugan98]

[tscii]Well I asked my maid to cut the veges into cubes.
When I finished my prayers, she already chopped
the veges into small pieces. Anyway I had to cook it.


THIRUVADIRAI KUTOO

Ingredients:
150 grms brinjal
150 grms avaraikkai
150 grms carrot
150 grms ash gourd
150 grms pumpkin
150 grms sepangkilangu
150 grms fresh green motchai ( I used dried ones) soak and boil

300 grms toor dal
Little tumeric powder

To roast and grind:
25 grms dried red chillie
25 grms channa dal
25 grms coriander seeds
Little asafetida
½ cup scrapped coconut

100 grms tamarind
½ tsp mustard seeds
1 sprig curry leaves
Salt to taste
Oil

Method:
Cook all the diced veges with just enough water. Keep aside.
Boil the motchai till cooked , keep aside.
Cook the toor dal with the tumeric powder. Keep aside.
Heat 1 tsp of oil and dry roast all the ingredients to grind.
When cooled , grind it to a fine paste.
Squeeze about 4 cups of juice from the tamarind.

Heat a pot with 1 tbs of oil.
Add in the mustard seeds and curry leaves.
When the mustard seeds splutter, pour in the tamarind juice.
Let it boil so the raw smell goes.

Add in the boiled veges with the motchai.
Let it boil once, add in the ground paste.
Mix nicely and let it boil again.
Now add in the cooked toor dal, mix well.
See that you have enough thick gravy.
Add hot water if your gravy is very thick.
Taste for salt and remove.

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[kugan98]

Thanks NOV anneh for pasting the index on the first pages
of the Kugan's Kitchen ! and 2.
It would be very easy to look for the recipes.
Thanks again Anneh. Kugan98

[dev]

NOV, oru request... can u copy-paste the index of Kugan's Kitchen 1 & 2 on the first page,first post(with the permission of K) of the threads?...

தங்கள் சித்தம் என் பாக்கியம்!

Done

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[dev]

K, sg - malaysiala food stallsla oru nasi biriyani vechirupaangale...without any meat or vegs in it... plain biriyani rice... how do we make it?...

[dev]

K, thiruvadhirai kootu ethoda saapida nalla irukkum?... with rice or tiffin items?

[NOV]

I remember elders telling when I was small that people
who die on this day, go straight to heaven.

in Srirangam, they will open the parama patha vaasal on this day only. everyone prays - young and old - that they will reach the feet of paramathma eventually.
you have to fast completely (no water also) and not sleep for 24 hours.

VE comes in the month of maargazhi - the holiest month in the Hindu calendar - Sri Krishna said மாதங்களில் நான் மார்கழி.
We would be vegetarian the whole month while my sisters used to get up early in the morning, draw kOlams and conduct prayers. I was usually the escort to look for flowers - my favourite was magizham poo - tiny whitish flowers but very fragrant. aandal's thirupaavai will be playing in the background.

so many memories...

[Selviem]

kugan,

thanks for thiruvathirai kali and kootu. i do prepare for thiruvathirai. yea ofcourse, for me too elders told the same thing. Srirangam will be very busy day. we get local holiday over there for vaikunda ekathesi. my mom do fasting and she prepare sambar with 27 veges. i remember my granny in her old age she do fasting.

whenever i go for vacation, my kids like to go to srirangam coz of dasavatharam movie. they love the song "kallai mattum kandal". my mom explain them everything. All nice memories.

selvi