Cabbage Mezhukkupuratti

Ingredients:

• Onion 1 big
• Cabbage 2 cup
• Garlic 5 to 6 pods
• Ginger small piece
• Green chilly 3 to 4
• Meat masala 1 to 1 1/4 Tbsp
• Garam masala 1/2 Tsp
• Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• Water
• Salt
• Oil

Slice the cabbage and keep it aside. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add sliced onion, chilly, chopped ginger, garlic and curry leaves. Saute it and add garam masala, meat masala and rqd amount of salt. Reduce the heat and mix well. Add cabbage into this and sprinkle some water into this. Cook it in low flame.

Pacha Payar(Long beans) Thoran

Ingredients:

• Longbeans 1/4 Kg
• Coconut 1 to 1 1/2 cup
• Turmeric pdr 1/2 Tsp
• Green chilly 3 to 4
• Shallots 2 to 3
• Curry leaves
• Mustard
• Water
• Salt
• Oil

Clean and slice the long beans into thin pieces. Grind together(dont grind it too much) coconut, shallots, green chilly and turmeric pdr. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, curry leaves and sliced shallots. Then add the grounded coconut and rqd amount of salt. Saute and add the sliced beans into it. Mix well and sprinkle little water into it and cover it well. Cook it in low flame and remove it from fire.

Canapé with Egg Topping

A canapé is a small, prepared and usually decorative food, held in the fingers and often eaten in one bite. Crackers or small slices of bread or toast or puff pastry, cut into various shapes, serve as the base for savory butters or pastes, often topped with a canopy of such savory foods as meat, cheese, fish, purees or relish. (Source: Wikipedia)

Ingredients:

• Salt biscuits 5 to 10
• Egg yolk of boiled egg 2
• Grated cheese 1 Tbsp
• Mayonnaise as rqd
• Coriander leaf
• Raisins few

Mix together egg yolk and grated cheese with rqd amount of mayonnaise into a paste. Transfer this into an icing bag and pipe it into the top of salt biscuits using desired nozzle. Garnish it with coriander leaves and sliced raisins. You can garnish it with any thing you want.

Cheerathandu (Spinach stem) Moru Curry

Ingredients:

• Spinach stem 1 cup
• Green chilly 4 to 5
• Shallots 5 to 6
• Garlic 2 to 3 pods
• Coconut 3/4 to 1 cup
• Turmeric pdr 1/2 Tsp
• Cumin seeds 1/4 Tsp
• Curd 1 1/2 cup
• Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• Water
• Salt
• Oil

Clean and cut the spinach stems into length wise pieces. Cook it with few sliced shallots, 2 green chilly, curry leaves, pinch of turmeric pdr, salt and little water. Keep it aside. Grind together coconut, chilly, shallots, garlic, cumin seeds, turmeric pdr, water and curd. Pour it into the cooked spinach stem. Heat it in low flame and remove it from fire. Season it with mustard seeds, shallots and curry leaves.

Happy Valentines Day 2010.....!!

Wishing you all a wonderful and Happy Valentine's Day 2010.....!!

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Pazham Pori

Ingredients:

• Ripe plantain 2 big
• Maida 1 cup
• Water as rqd
• Salt
• Oil

Peel the plantain skin and cut it into thin (length wise) pieces. Add required amount of water and little salt into the maida and make a thick batter. Dip plantain slices in batter and fry it well.

Raw Mango Juice

Ingredients

• Row mango 2 med
• Green Food colour a pinch
• Sugar 1 1/2 cup
• Water 3 cup

Peel the mangoes and cut it into pieces. Cook it in 3 cups of water. Add sugar into it and boil till the sugar melts completely. When it cools completely, grind it well and a pinch of green food colour. Pour required amount of water and ice cubes into the mango pulp and just mix it in a blender.

If you want to preserve it for a longer period, you can add a pinch of citric acid to it.

[Courtesy: Lekshmi Nair]