Kugan's Kitchen Part 6

[dev]

Sure Karthika... will post the recipe soon...

K, tried bittergourd crispies today... Turned out good. Thanks for the recipe...

[kugan98]

My Dear Friends, sorry I was out of town for 2 days.

My friends, I was speechless when I saw all your posts.
My tears were flowing, I am sure with all your nice blessings, wishes and prayers, nothing will happen to me.
God will surely hear all your prayers. I felt soo happy that I have so many friends to stick by me in my time of trouble.

I would like to thank, my NOV anneh. Dev, Selviem, Mrs.Mano akka, Tvshanker, Mayaa, Lakme, NM, Ksen, bKarthika, Aarthii, Suja, Tamby Audazjay, Rose and Gulabjamun

Thanks again, so many Anbu Ullanggal.
Kugan clasps both the palms and says again Thank you.

Take care my friends, I will be back soon. Kugan98

[kugan98]

[tscii]Dev, here is the mixed vegetable recipe for you.

MIXED VEGETABLES

Ingredients:

150 grms broccoli cut into florets
150 grms cauliflower cut into florets
100 grms fresh button mushrooms, quarter them
1 medium sized carrot sliced
100 grms baby corn , cut into lengths
50 grms beans cut into lengths
50 grms snow peas, cut into halves

4 pips garlic minced
1 tsp ginger minced
1 tbs corn flour
¼ cup hot water
1 tbs oil

1 ½ tbs oyster sauce
1 tsp light soya sacue
White pepper to taste
Salt to taste

Method:
Heat oil in the wok till it starts to smoke.
Add in the garlic and ginger, sauté for a minute.
Add in the mushrooms, stir fry for a minute.

Add in the cauliflower, carrot, beans and baby corn.
Continue to stir fry for 3 minutes, sprinkle little hot water.
Cover and cook for a minute
Add in the broccoli and continue stir fry.

Add in the flavourings and continue to cook, till the
broccoli is slightly limp. All the veges must be crisp.
Mix the corn flour with the hot water, add to the veges
to thicken the sauce.

NOTE: You can use less corn flour if you do not want the sauce to be thick. Use accordingly.


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[kugan98]

Dev for the thattu iddli , you have to buy the utensil to steam the iddli. Or you can steam it in a plate.
As for the saiva meen kulambu, my aunt has a very good recipe. I have made it many times. I will come back and post it for you. They have this meen kulambu in all functions in India nowadays. Meena vida mudiyala
Thanks, Take care, Kugan98

[kugan98]

Karthika, my aunt says the best way to consume the thoothu vala keerai is to do the tuvatlal. That way, you do not destroy all the nutrients in the keerai.

1 cup keerai chop it.
2 pips garlic chopped
4 shallots sliced
little oil or ghee.

heat a wok with the oil. add in the garlic and shallots,
stir fry well, add in the chopped keerai, little salt.
stir fry well, and serve with steaming rice immedeately.
you just penai with the rice and eat it.


Also she said, for rasam, we make like normal poondu rasam,
add in the keerai and no tamarind. Tamarind destroys the goodness in the keerai. if you want just add little lime juice just before consuming.

Lets see what Dev posts. My aunt might be wrong.
Take care Karthika. Kugan98

[kugan98]

O.K friends, my flight is on Saturday morning, by Air Asia.
Will be back on the 30th evening.
If possible, I will post from India.
Otherwise, see you all on the 30th.
Thanks and take care, Kugan98

[madhu]

Our prayers are with you !

[dev]

Thoothuvalai-musumuskai rasam(for cold):

Heat a tsp ghee. Add in pepper corns-to taste, jeera-1/2 tsp, cori seeds-1/2 tsp and let it turn brownsh. Add in 5 thoothuvalai leaves(remove the thorns) and abt 10 musumuskai leaves and saute till the leaves become limp.
Grind it along with raw garlic(1 0r 2 )and tamarind(optional- can use lemon juice/tomato instead)

Heat oil. splutter mustard, red chillies. Add asafoetida, turmeric. Add in the ground paste, salt, water(abt 200 ml) and let it come to the beginning of boil stage(or nuraichu varum stage). Switch off flame. If using lemon juice add it now.

Serve with rice.


Variation: (with tomato)
U can also use tomato instead of tamarind. In that case, mash the tomato and add it after tadka and let boil until raw smell goes off. Then add the paste.

Note:
Make this rasam a little hot(kaaram).
It is better to use lemon juice/tomato instead of tamarind whenever we cook greens as tamarind depletes the nutrients in the greens.

[dev]

K, thanks a lot for the mixed veg recipe...

K, oru doubt- my pavakkai chips lost its crispiness today . yday it was very crisp n nice. any idea where the mistake lies?...

Reg thothuvalai- I have not tried the thuvattal. Amma says it's very heating and so we don't take more than 3-4 leaves/person a day...

[dev]

O.K friends, my flight is on Saturday morning, by Air Asia.
Will be back on the 30th evening.
If possible, I will post from India.
Otherwise, see you all on the 30th.
Thanks and take care, Kugan98

take care K... don't worry abt KK... we'll wait for ur return...