south indian recipe

Aviyal – Recipe [step by step visual recipe]

Aviyal basically is prepared of  assorted vegetables steam cooked with addition of minimal masala and coconut. The dish is unique to Kerala and Tamil cuisine and each region might have a different versions to it but the basic principles remain the same. The choice of vegetables can vary and it’s also a convenient way to round off the left over vegetables in your kitchen.

The avial recipe am sharing here is how my mom makes it.

Ingredients for Aviyal:

Cucumber – 1 small

Brinjal (regular) – 1 medium size

Long green brinjal – 1 small

Raw banana – 1 small

Drumstick – 1

Beans – 3

Carrot – 1 small

Yam – 50 gm (optional)

Mango (raw) – 1 small

(if not available can be substituted with lemon and curd)

Coconut – 1/2 shredded

Green chilly – 3 0r 4

Curry leaves

Jeera – 1 tsp

Tamarind powder -

Salt – to taste

curd – 1 tbsp

Coconut oil or any cooking oil – 1 tbsp

How to make Aviyal

Step 1

Cut all the vegetables finger-size long

Step 2:

Coarsely grind green chillies, few strands of curry leaves, jeera and turmeric powder and keep aside. Grate the coconut.

Step 3:

Add the vegetables in the cooking pan, the coarsely ground green chilly mixture, salt as per taste, 1 spoon oil and sprinkle little water.

Step 4:

Cover with a lid and steam cook it in low flame. Keep stirring in between and if required sprinkle water during the process.

Step 5:

The vegetables getting cooked …

Step 6

When the vegetables are cooked, add the coconut, few curry leaves and 1/2 spoon oil

Step 7

And mix well… Optionally you can add little curd to the mixture while removing from pan.

Step 8

Aviyal is ready to be served. Traditionally it is served with rice but it also goes well with roti, dosa especially ada dosa (dal dosa)

 

 

Idli Batter Pakoda – Visual Recipe

A lazy weekend and suddenly you feel to the urge to have something hot and crispy, you child comes back from school and demands a snack, you find sudden guest knocking your door and you want to make something? Here is a quick recipe everyone would love to bite. But wait it is an instant recipe provided you have idly batter ready at home.  You have it ? Well, then time to treat yourself and your family with a quick , crunchy and tasty snack.

Ingrediedts:

• Idly batter – 2 measures
• Rice flour – Half measure.
• Channa dal (kadalai parupu) – Quarter measure
• Onion – 2 big
• Green chilly – as per taste
• Red chilly powder – as per taste
• Curry leaves – 8-10 leaves
• Salt – as per taste
• Asafoetida powder – a pinch
• Baking soda (optional) – a pinch

Step 1: Mix Idly batter and Rice flour (ratio of 2 : 0.5) along with other ingredients. Make the dough to a thick consistency (like you make for roti or poori)

Step 2: Keep the mixed dough aside and heat the cooking oil in a pan.

Step 3: Make small balls of the dough with your fingers and fry it golden brown.

Step 4: Crispy, tasty instant vada is ready to relish.

Maladu – Visual Recipe

Maladu or Pottu kadalai urundai is an easy to make laddu variety.

Ingredients:

• Bhuna Channa (roasted gram / pottu kadalai)
• Sugar
• Ghee

Step 1:

Take a measure of bhuna channa (pottu kadalai) and sugar as per your choice.

Step 2:

Grind bhuna channa (pottu kadalai) and sugar together into powder form.

Step 3:

Add ghee to the grinded flour.

Step 4:

Mix well to the consistency as shown in the picture below.

Step 5:

Make balls out of the mixed flour to make laddus.

Delicious maladu is ready to eat.  Enjoy the yummy dish!

Black Til Laddu – Visual recipe

This is a simple, easy to make , healthy traditional snack made with black sesame seeds ( black til seeds) . In Tamil the dish is called Ellu urundai.

Ingredients:

• Black Til (black sesame seeds)
• Jaggery

Step 1: Roast the til (sesame seeds) in low flame till they crackle.

Step 2: Grind the roasted til in mixie grinder  to make a powder. Add shredded jaggery to it and grind again. You will get the final mix like how its shown in the picture below.

Step 3: Make balls  with the mixture. Your delicious black til laddu is ready to eat.

Black til laddu makes a healthy, nutritious and delicious  laddu for your kids.

Eat healthy, Stay healthy.