Amma's Simple Cabbage Pepper Fry

Amma's Simple Cabbage Pepper Fry

This is an Indo-Chines stir fry.  Amma's very special dish. Cabbage helps to keep yourself warm on a cold day. Eating the right vegetable and making use of the vegetables available during the season makes sense.  Cabbage are in season and so make use of it with this yummy stir fry.

Ingredients: (serves 4)

Peas -1 cup

Cabbage- 2 cups

Onion- 1 tbspn(finely chopped)

Ginger- garlic paste- 1 tspn

Garam masala powder- 1 tspn

Turmeric powder- 1 tspn

Amma's Simple Cabbage Pepper Fry

Pepper powder-1 tspn

Dark soy sauce- 1 tspn

Sesame oil / any cooking oil- 1 tbspn

Chopped cilantro leaves- to garnish

Salt to taste

Method:

Heat the pan and add the oil. When the oil is hot add the onions followed by ginger- garlic paste. Add the peas and cabbage and mix well. Remember to cook under medium fire. Now add all the spices, salt and the soy sauce and keep stirring continuously for 2 to 3 minutes.

Switch off the fire, garnish with cilantro leaves and serve with hot rice or roti.

Beans Karakulambu - Mommy's Special- 200th Post

 Beans Curry - Mommy's Special

 Beans Karakulambu - Mommy's Special

Yet, another recipe from my family to be my 200th Post. My mother always hesitates to prepare this dish, saying...this  beans may give heart burns and increase one's bile secretion...I dunno how far this is true! Food allergies and taboos come from individual dislikes and phobia. Anyhow, I like this cluster beans a lot. So, it became mandatory to include this once in a while in cooking, back home. My Mom goes to different lengths to minimise the effect, by boiling the beans and duly throwing away the water (which is vitamin rich in my opinion) and she compulsively adds more cumin powder to reduce the intensity. Oh, my...now as a grown up, I feel awful for being so adamant(demanding). Coming to the recipe, its very simple...follow the instructions below.:)

Ingredients:
 Beans 1/4 kilo
Tamarind paste 1/2 spoon
Red onion 1 large finely chopped
Garlic 1 large peeled and semi crushed
Ginger 1" grated
Tomato 1 large chopped
Jaggery or brown sugar 1 spoon
Salt
Turmeric powder 1/2 spoon
Chili powder 1 spoon
Rice powder 1 spoon
Cumin seeds 2 spoons - toasted and powdered
Sesame oil 1 cup
Mustard seeds 1 spoon
Cumin seeds 1 spoon
Fenugreek seeds 1/2 spoon
Chana dal 1/2 spoon
Urad dal 1/2 spoon
Asafoetida 1/2 spoon
Dry red chilies 3-5
Curry leaves few.

Method:

Wash and clean the beans, remove the strings and cut into tiny pieces.

Boil 2 cups of water, with enough salt and pinch of turmeric. Now add the vegetable to this. Allow this beans to get half the way cooked. Remove from heat and discard the water.

In a deep pan, heat few spoons of oil. Add garlic, ginger fry till its raw smell leaves the pan. Further add onions, fry till golden brown. Now add tomatoes and continue frying.

Add salt, turmeric, chili powder, sugar and rice powder.

Add the cooked beans to it, now. Fry them for a while. Then add tamarind paste and 2 cups of water. Cover and cook over medium flame.

Once the curry thickens, add the cumin seeds powder to it, bring this to a boil...its done.

In a separate pan, heat oil. Add mustard, cumin, asafoetida, fenugreek, chana dal, urad dal, dry red chilies and curry leaves. Let them pop and splutter well. Run this seasoning over the curry made.

Serve to go with plain steamed rice. Run a spoon of ghee over it, just before serving. Thats it, dig in:)

Amma's Simple Fish Fry

 This is one of the simplest and easy to make tasty fish fry. It will take only a short time to prepare. I’ve learnt this recipe from one of my good friends Neeru. It tastes crunchy and delightful with the addition of bread crumbs. You can use any type fish for this fry.
Spice level : 3 out of 5
No of servings : 3-4
Preparation Time : 1 hour 30 minutes (1 hour for marinating)

cabbage puttu. .Mom's Special

 cabbage puttu. .Mom's Special

This is one of the delicious preparations of ma mom. .it tastes really good. .it can be eaten with rice with a little ghee on top of it. .instead of cabbage,u can also use tamato or bottleguard. .
Preparation Time: 15 Minutes
Cooking Time: 20 Minutes
Servings: 2
 Serving Suggestion : Rice or can be eaten as such

Mom's Simple Aloo Chicken Curry

Mom's Simple Aloo Chicken Curry

Mom's Simple Aloo Chicken Curry

This curry is a basic chicken dish with potatoes in it.Amma use to make this mostly on wednesday,because sometime we love to eat some NV bit also feel lazy to make. So amma used to make it in just 15minutes and violaaaaaaa. .it's done!!!!I love potatoes so much,and these simple potatoes becomes super delicious when they get cooked in yummy chicken curry..This is a typical south indian dish that goes perfectly well with rice.But if you are cooking this for parties you could add some soaked cashews to the coconut and grind it together,this will make this dish more rich.This dish is so tasty because you don’t add any additional water to this,the chicken and the potatoes are cooked in there own juices...I know most of you will make some chicken dish on Sundays and now you know what you should make this Sunday..(he he).So try this and let me know what you think...