Kugan's Kitchen Part 7

[kugan98]

Kugan: Thanks. unga veettukku vandhaal indha bottle ellaam kidaikkumaa? bayappaadaadheenga. naan idhai ellaam thoduradhillai. idhellaam pottu oru recipe podunga!

Rajraj uncle thank you very much for your nice post and comments.

At least you replied for my fathers day wishes.
What happened to all our fathers?
After all we have only five fathers
NOV anneh, Groucho anneh, Madhu aanna, Thiru Tamby.
Of course our P.S Tamby is not married


As for the bottles, naangalum thoduradhillai, aannal unggalukku empty bottles,
venumnaa, try to get them for you

Thanks uncle have a nice day. Kugan

[kugan98]

Thank you so much for preparing the Masala saadham. You rock
And thanks for quickly posting me the red curry/// Totalllly rocking sis

Thanks Nithishri, for your nice post.
I will soon post the green curry paste and curry.
Today is ammavasai, too many cookings.
Thanks and take care, Kugan.

[kugan98]

Looks yummy!
Rendu loosu kelvigal Tamarind pulp epadi mix panna? Isn't that kind of hard! Suppose to mix with some water or something?
And soak overnight in the fridge or?
Feeling extremely stupid asking these questions, but I am not experienced cook, neither do I cook Indian food

Dear Crazy, thanks for your post.
No harm in asking your doubts.
What you can do is, add little warm water and extract thick tamarind juice.
just enough for the rice, or to your taste.
Mix it with the rice using a spoon, or your fingers.
Keep it in the fridge over night.
What I did was mixed the tamarind juice and just kept it for 30 minutes.
Then I seasoned the rice, taste wonderful just like puli saatham.
Try it out, very simple. Come often with your kelvigal.
Thanks and take care, Kugan

[kugan98]

Recipe Source: Ramrish

SPICY FRIED GREEN BEANS

Ingredients:
1 lb - fresh green beans
2 cloves -garlic minced
2tbsps - stir fry sauce or substitute with soya sauce
4 tbsps - any cooking oil
chilli powder,salt - to taste
Method:
Wash the green beans .Chop the ends off and cut the beans into halves.Heat oil in a pan.When the oil is very hot add the beans and keep on stirring them in high heat for about 5 minutes.Then add the minced garlic ,salt and continue the stirring for another 5 minutes.By this time the beans would have started to brown.
Add the soya sauce/stir fry sauce and chilli powder and saute for about 1minute.Turn off the heat.
Serve with rasam sadham(rasam rice).

[kugan98]

Dear friends, we normally use potatoes for every thing.
Seldom use the sweet potato. Try this dish.
The taste of, sweetness, sourness and heat, makes this dish very yummy.
You can have it as a side dish or can have it like that.
Thanks and take care, Kugan



SPICY SWEET POTATO PORIYAL

Ingredients:
300 grms sweet potato
1 tbs oil
¼ tsp mustard seeds
1 sprig curry leaves
1 green chillie chopped
¼ tsp tumeric powder
1 tsp chillie powder
Salt to taste
¼ tsp garam masala powder
Enough amchur powder to taste


Method:
Boil the sweet potatos with little salt.
Do not over boil it. Remove skin and cube it. Keep aside.

Heat oil in a non-stick pan, add in the mustard seeds and let it splutter.
Add in the curry leaves and green chillies.
Give a stir, slow the flame, add in the tumeric and chillie powder.
Give it a stir add in the cubed sweet potatoes, and salt.

Sprinkle little water and gently turn the potatoes.
See that it is coated with the spices.
Add in the garam masala powder, and the amchur powder.
Stir fry till nicely roasted, remove and serve.

[kugan98]

Come on ladies, give us a list of what you all cooked for father's day.

I made, mock mutton biryani, nice biryani brinjal kulambu, Ramya's green beans,
tofu sambal, cucumber patchadi, paal payasam. A cake and some curry puffs


Please roll out your menus. Thanks and take care, Kugan

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Dear P.S Tamby, let me try out the recipe by Madhu Sree first.
I will post the feed back with pictures.
Thanks and take care, Kugan

All the best

[crazy]

Thanks for the clarification, Kugan'ka!

[Madhu Sree]

Took a pic this morning. Attached it.

This is one of my favourite rice I prepare often.

Capsicum Rice:

Capsicum - 1 for 1 person
Ural dal - 1/2 spoon
Cooked rice
Oil
Turmeric Powder - litle
Chilli Powder - 1/4 spoon
Salt

To Grind:

Red Chillies - 7
Urad Dal - arai kozhambu karandi ( sorry these are my measuring thinggies , karandi, 1 kai, arai kai )
Channa dal - arai kozhambu karandi
Asafoetida powder aka perungayam

Method:

Heat the pan, dry fry Red chillies, asafoetida, urad dal and channa dal. After it turns slightly brown, Transfer the contents to a mixer grinder and make a powder.
Keep it aside.

Now let us go to the main dish,

Heat the same pan, pour oil. Now add urad dal after it started turning brown, add capsicum, fry for a minute.
Add salt, chilli powder turmeric powder. Cover a cook so that the capsicum cooks soon. Turn off the stove after ensuring that the capsicum is well cooked.

Now add the cooked rice to the capsicum content, then, add 1 spoon of the prepared powder, give a good mix. Check for the spice and salt, if salt is required, it can be added now.
If spice is less then add 1 more spoon or the desired content of the prepared powder. Give a good mix again. Thats it Capsicum rice is ready.
It may be appearing tedious but it is easy to prepare once the powder is ready on hand.

I prepared the powder and kept it safe so that I can add whenever I prepare this rice.

Thanks,

Sree

[Aarthii]

Kuganka,curry puffs recipe post pannunga please