A Different Tasty Kovakkai/ Ivy Gourd Fry

With Besan flour sprinkled above kovakkai..it will taste good..

Ingredients:

1.Kovakkai-20 pieces(chopped into thin slices)

2.Oil-8 spoons

3.Salt

4.Chilli Powder-1 spoon

5.Turmeric Powder-a pinch

6.Besan flour/Kadalai mavu-3 spoons

Method:

In a kadai..add oil and let it heat. now add the kovakkai slices and cook by covering it with a lid in a low flame. on cooking for 5-10 minutes, add salt,turmeric powder,chilli powder and mix well. now add besan flour, mix well. let it cooked for another 5 minutes and stop the flame.

Garnish it with corriander leaves.

Peanut Chutney

This chutney can be prepared in a jiffy..if you have roasted peanuts. it is the best combination for hot idlies and rasam rice. This is my most comfort food. shortly Iam addicted to its taste.

Ingredients:

1. Peanuts- 1 cup

2. Red chilli-2

3. Salt

4. Asafoetida powder- 1/4 spoon

Method:
In a skillet, roast the peanut till it pop up and get cracked. it will also start turn into brown colour. remove it and fry the red chilli's. let them cool. In a mixer add peanuts, salt, asafoetida powder and little water. grind it into a paste.

This one is my Family's Favourite recipe.

Grand Sundu Curry

When Sankranthi..we prepare this curry. it's one of my favourite curry.

I have simplified the method by cooking all the vegetables together.my ammamma used to cook and roast the vegetables separately and she prepares this curry. that will give a unique taste.

Ingredients:


1.Elephant foot yam/Karunai kizhangu- 5 slices


2.Sweet yam/Sakkarai Valli Kizhangu- 5 slices


3.Potato/Urulai kizhangu- 2


4.Colacasio/Seppang kizhangu- 2


5.Raw banana/Vazhakkai-1


6.Yellow pumpkin/Sigappu Poosanikkai-10 slices


7. Sena kizhangu-2


8.Jaggery- a small cube


9.Tamarind- a lemon size


10.Oil-1/4 cup(the vegetables should be roasted)


11.Salt


12.Chilli Powder-2 spoons


13.Sambhar Powder-2 spoons


You can also add:


1.Groundnuts


2.Black-eye beans


3.White Pumpkin


4.Chick peas


Method:

Remove the skin of the vegetables and pressure cook it. see to that, you don't cook them so mashy. now in a kadai/thick bottomed skillet, add oil. when the oil got heat,add mustard.wait till it crackles, now add curry leaves and all the cooked vegetables. add salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, sambhar powder and mix well. roast them all together. roast it well till the whole vegetables turn into light brown colour. now add the tamarind water and jaggery. mix well. let the curry get thickened(sundu).
you can serve this with hot rice, hot idlies and dosa.
thou i prepared this on sankranthi.. i couldn't post it hot.