Vendakka Mezhukkupuratty

Ingredients:

• Okra (ladies finger) 1/4 kg
• Onion 1 big
• Garlic 7 pods
• Chilly pdr 2 Tsp
• Turmeric pdr 1/2 Tsp
• Coriander pdr 1/2 Tsp
• Garam masala 1/2 Tsp
• Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• Salt
• Oil

Clean and cut the okra (vendakka) into thin pieces. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add curry leaves, sliced onion and garlic. Saute till it turns goldren brown and add okra. Stir it for few minutes and add the turmeric, chilly, coriander and garam masala pdr into it and combine well. Reduce the heat. Stir it occassionally till it turns dry and crispy. Finally add the rqd amount of salt. Remove it from fire.

Idiyappam

Ingredients:

• Rice flour 2 cup
• Coconut 1/2 grated
• Water as rqd
• Salt as rqd

Mix together salt and rice flour. Boil water and pour little by little into the flour and mix immediately using a big spoon. Keep it aside for few minutes and mix it well. Put the dough into the idiyappam maker and press little on the idli steamer and put grated coconut on the top. Then press rest of the dough to the top of the coconut. Steam it well.

Peanut Chutney

Ingredients:

• Peanuts 1 cup
• Garlic 2 pods
• Onion 1 small
• Dry chilly 2 to 3
• Coconut 1/4 cup
• Tamarind pulp 2 Tsp
• Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• Shallots few
• Salt
• Oil
  

Roast the peanuts in low flame for 5 mins. Remove it from fire and allow it to cool. Heat oil in a pan and saute the onion, garlic, dry chilly and curry leaves for few mins. Grind together roasted peanuts, coconut, onion, garlic, dry chilly, curry leaves, salt and tamarind paste using little water. Transfer it to a bowl and season it with mustard seeds, curry leaves and shallots.

[Recipe Courtesy: Kothiyavunnu.com]

Sponge Cake with Walnuts

Ingredients:

• Maida 1 cup
• Sugar 1 cup
• Butter 2 Tbsp
• Baking pdr 1 Tsp
• Hot milk 1/2 cup
• Chopped walnuts 1/2 cup
• Grated lemon rind 1 Tsp
• Vanilla essence 1 Tsp
• Honey 1 Tsp
• Salt 1/4 Tsp
• Egg 2

Preheat the oven to 180 deg C. Grease the baking pan with butter and maida and keep it aside. Sieve together maida, salt and baking pdr and keep it aside. Add butter to the milk and heat it. Beat egg until it thickens and slowly add the sugar. Beat it for another 5 min. Add the dry ingedients into it and mix well. Then add the hot milk, vanilla essence, honey and lemon rind and combine well. Finally add the chopped walnuts into the batter. Pour it into the greased pan and bake it for 35 to 40 mins.

[Recipe Courtesy: niyasworld.blogspot.com]