KUGAN'S KITCHEN PART 3

[kugan98]

Thanks Dev, for the nice words.

Thanks for the tayir kulambu recipe.
Dev, the tayir kulambu looks like poosani tayir pachadi for me.
Thats how we do tayir patchadi.
Anyway I will cook the dish and post the picture.

Thanks Dev, kugan98

[dev]

Oh, so it's known by some other name-aa?... theriyalai... we call it thayir kuzhambu here...

[kugan98]

Thanks Suvai nga, I will post the kambu recipes for you.

Too much of ponggal fares, so today I fried noodles for dinner.
I will post the recipe and picture.
Thanks Suvai nga, counting your days I presume.
Take care. Kugan98

[kugan98]

[tscii]Too much of ponggal, so today is noodles.


NOODLES WITH RED SAUCE

Ingredients:
100 grms dried vege noodles
2 tsp of oil
3 tbs red sauce
1 tsp soy sauce

1 tbs chopped spring onion

Steamed veges:
3 leaves of a cabbage
½ a carrot cut into fingers
4 beans cut into 1 inch in length
6 small florets of cauliflower
2 baby corns slit into 4 then cut into fingers
5 small florets of brocooli

Steam all the veges with little salt and peppe
Do not over steam them


Red Sauce:

10 dry red chillies soaked in hot water
5 fresh red chillies sliced fine
3 white part of the scallions
2 tbs of coriander leaves
5 coriander stems
5 pips og garlic
2 small shallots
3 tbs of vinegar
Salt to taste
A pinch of sugar

Method:
Drain the soaked chillies, add all the other ingredients.
Grind to a smooth paste.
Heat about 3 tbs of oil in a wok, add the ground ingredients.
Cook on low flame till oil separates.
Remove, cool and store in a container.

To Assemble The Noodles:
Cook the noodles in boiling water, as soon as it is cooked,
drain and rinse the cooked noodles, and keep it aside.
Do not over cook the noodles.

In a wok add the 2 tsp of oil, add about 3 tbs of the red sauce.
Stir well, add in the cooked noodles and the soy sauce.
Mix gently with 2 spoons so that the sauce gets well mixed
with the noodles. Off the stove.

In a plate line the cabbage leaves. Put some noodles on the
cabbage leaves. Garnish with little steamed veges and spring onions.
Serve while hot.

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[kugan98]

In India, the front portion of ground near our gate will be all sand.
So it will be nice to make kolam early morning.

In Malaysia, normally all will be tarred.
I still follow the practise of sprinkling water early in the morning
and making a kolam in front of my house.
One kolam I made today.
Thanks. Kugan98

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[suvai]

ahaaaa kolam looks superrrrrrr kugan nga!....i heard that kolam podarathu romba nallathu veetuku...actually in those days they used arisi maavu....so that ants & insects are also fed. But times are different i guess arisi vikara vilaiki?eh?

noodles looks yumz..will have to try it one of these days.

dev potta thayir kuzhambu is pachadi..like kugan said...no wonder no cooking.....will surely try.

[Selviem]

kugan,
back to the thread. busy with pongal and had guests at home. noodles looks very yummy.
kolam is so good. in our apartment, myself and my neighbour drew big kolams on pongal day and mattupongal day. we did colour also, kids enjoyed. so many people from our building came to see that.

really it is nice to put kolam everyday like india.

peanut butter receipe looks very easy, i have to try that.

selvi

[Selviem]

dev,
ur thayir kulambu, i will prepare for adai. coz my kids like that, they call as pumpkin aviyal. it is very tasty too. i will cut the vege very small pieces.

ur menu on the day of pongal, omg thalai suthuthu, how u made all those.

i made early morning little and prayed to god. after that i made full swing menu for distribution.
selvi

[Selviem]

suvai,
eppadi irukinga. pongal celebration eppadi irrunthathu. hope everybody enjoyed pongal.

selvi

[kugan98]

You are right Suvai nga, kolams are meant for ants and insects.
Nowadays the kola maavu is made of fine white powdered sand.
I used to carry back kilos of the powder.

During the last month, my sister gave a bag to my worker who was coming from India to give it to me.
She had put a kilo of the kola podi in the bag, which my worker did not know.
After scanning the bag, the officer pulled him aside and question him as to what he was carrying in the bag.
That boy simply tiru tiru muli and said that the bag belonged to his boss. They opened the bag threw out all the things, after examining the podi many times only they allowed him to board the plane. Poor boy he was very badly shaken.
So please do not carry kola podi in your luggage.

Thanks. Kugan98