Kugan's Kitchen Part 7

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Originally Posted by rajraj

Kugan: Thanks. unga veettukku vandhaal indha bottle ellaam kidaikkumaa? :) bayappaadaadheenga. naan idhai ellaam thoduradhillai. idhellaam pottu oru recipe podunga! :lol:

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Rajraj uncle thank you very much for your nice post and comments.

At least you replied for my fathers day wishes.
What happened to all our fathers?
After all we have only five fathers:roll:
NOV anneh, Groucho anneh, Madhu aanna, Thiru Tamby.
Of course our P.S Tamby is not married:-D


As for the bottles, naangalum thoduradhillai, aannal unggalukku empty bottles,
venumnaa, try to get them for you:smokesmirk:

Thanks uncle have a nice day. Kugan

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Originally Posted by nithishri

Thank you so much for preparing the Masala saadham. You rock
And thanks for quickly posting me the red curry/// Totalllly rocking sis :)

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Thanks Nithishri, for your nice post.
I will soon post the green curry paste and curry.
Today is ammavasai, too many cookings.
Thanks and take care, Kugan.

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Originally Posted by crazy

Looks yummy!
Rendu loosu kelvigal :( Tamarind pulp epadi mix panna? Isn't that kind of hard! Suppose to mix with some water or something? :oops:
And soak overnight in the fridge or?
Feeling extremely stupid asking these questions, but I am not experienced cook, neither do I cook Indian food :oops: :(

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Dear Crazy, thanks for your post.
No harm in asking your doubts.
What you can do is, add little warm water and extract thick tamarind juice.
just enough for the rice, or to your taste.
Mix it with the rice using a spoon, or your fingers.
Keep it in the fridge over night.
What I did was mixed the tamarind juice and just kept it for 30 minutes.
Then I seasoned the rice, taste wonderful just like puli saatham.
Try it out, very simple. Come often with your kelvigal.
Thanks and take care, Kugan

Recipe Source: Ramrish

SPICY FRIED GREEN BEANS

Ingredients:
1 lb - fresh green beans
2 cloves -garlic minced
2tbsps - stir fry sauce or substitute with soya sauce
4 tbsps - any cooking oil
chilli powder,salt - to taste
Method:
Wash the green beans .Chop the ends off and cut the beans into halves.Heat oil in a pan.When the oil is very hot add the beans and keep on stirring them in high heat for about 5 minutes.Then add the minced garlic ,salt and continue the stirring for another 5 minutes.By this time the beans would have started to brown.
Add the soya sauce/stir fry sauce and chilli powder and saute for about 1minute.Turn off the heat.
Serve with rasam sadham(rasam rice).


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Dear friends, we normally use potatoes for every thing.
Seldom use the sweet potato. Try this dish.
The taste of, sweetness, sourness and heat, makes this dish very yummy.
You can have it as a side dish or can have it like that.
Thanks and take care, Kugan



SPICY SWEET POTATO PORIYAL

Ingredients:
300 grms sweet potato
1 tbs oil
¼ tsp mustard seeds
1 sprig curry leaves
1 green chillie chopped
¼ tsp tumeric powder
1 tsp chillie powder
Salt to taste
¼ tsp garam masala powder
Enough amchur powder to taste


Method:
Boil the sweet potatos with little salt.
Do not over boil it. Remove skin and cube it. Keep aside.

Heat oil in a non-stick pan, add in the mustard seeds and let it splutter.
Add in the curry leaves and green chillies.
Give a stir, slow the flame, add in the tumeric and chillie powder.
Give it a stir add in the cubed sweet potatoes, and salt.

Sprinkle little water and gently turn the potatoes.
See that it is coated with the spices.
Add in the garam masala powder, and the amchur powder.
Stir fry till nicely roasted, remove and serve.



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Come on ladies, give us a list of what you all cooked for father's day.

I made, mock mutton biryani, nice biryani brinjal kulambu, Ramya's green beans,
tofu sambal, cucumber patchadi, paal payasam. A cake and some curry puffs


Please roll out your menus. Thanks and take care, Kugan

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Originally Posted by kugan98

Dear P.S Tamby, let me try out the recipe by Madhu Sree first.
I will post the feed back with pictures.
Thanks and take care, Kugan

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All the best :thumbsup:

Thanks for the clarification, Kugan'ka! :)

Took a pic this morning. Attached it.

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Originally Posted by Madhu Sree

This is one of my favourite rice I prepare often.

Capsicum Rice:

Capsicum - 1 for 1 person
Ural dal - 1/2 spoon
Cooked rice
Oil
Turmeric Powder - litle
Chilli Powder - 1/4 spoon
Salt

To Grind:

Red Chillies - 7
Urad Dal - arai kozhambu karandi ( :oops: sorry these are my measuring thinggies :|, karandi, 1 kai, arai kai :lol2: )
Channa dal - arai kozhambu karandi
Asafoetida powder aka perungayam

Method:

Heat the pan, dry fry Red chillies, asafoetida, urad dal and channa dal. After it turns slightly brown, Transfer the contents to a mixer grinder and make a powder.
Keep it aside.

Now let us go to the main dish,

Heat the same pan, pour oil. Now add urad dal after it started turning brown, add capsicum, fry for a minute.
Add salt, chilli powder turmeric powder. Cover a cook so that the capsicum cooks soon. Turn off the stove after ensuring that the capsicum is well cooked.

Now add the cooked rice to the capsicum content, then, add 1 spoon of the prepared powder, give a good mix. Check for the spice and salt, if salt is required, it can be added now.
If spice is less then add 1 more spoon or the desired content of the prepared powder. Give a good mix again. Thats it Capsicum rice is ready.
It may be appearing tedious but it is easy to prepare once the powder is ready on hand.

I prepared the powder and kept it safe so that I can add whenever I prepare this rice.

Thanks,

Sree

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Kuganka,curry puffs recipe post pannunga please

madhu ,capsicum rice looks yummy !!! :)

Thanx kugan for trying out the beans recipe..ur picture looks drool worthy..for fathers day I made all the traditional TamIl recipes because that's what my husband likes of all...I made kuzhambu vadagam vatha kuzhambu,beans parippu usili,lemon rasam and fried appalam..
We had the leftover strawberry bread.

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Originally Posted by Aarthii

madhu ,capsicum rice looks yummy !!! :)

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:D thanks....

Kuganka, thanks for all your nice recipes. As usual you have cooked up a storm.
I did not cook anything for father,s day:-D
Whole family went out for brunch, later for a show . In the evening went out for dinner.
So no cooking Kuganka.

Welcome to Kugan,s kitchen Ramrish.

Thanks P.S Tamby, Crazy and Madhu Sree.
Thanks again Madhu for the nice capsicum rice picture.
Thanks, all take care, Kugan

Thanks Aarthii for your post.
What did you cook for Subra, on father's day?

I have already posted two types of curry puffs.
One is the spiral type and another the normal curry puff.
Since you are special, I will repost them for you.
Thanks and take care, Kugan

Here is the curry puff recipe.
You can just do it with potatoes alone,
or you can add in little grated veges and things.
remove the spices after cooking before making the puffs.
Thanks, Kugan.

Here is Curry puffs

CURRY PUFFS
Ingredients:

PASTRY
400 grms plain flour
tsp salt
150 grms margarine
180 ml cold water or more

METHOD:
Put the flour and salt into a mixing bowl.
Rub margarine into flour until it resembles fine bread crumbs.
Make a well in the centre and add in cold water to bind.
Knead the pastry well and keep aside.

FILLINGS:
50 ml oil
3 pips garlic finely chopped
1 big onion finely chopped
3 tbs coriander leaves chopped
tsp ginger paste
1 tsp black pepper powder
2 tsp meat curry powder
120 grms carrot finely diced
180 grms potatoes peeled and finely diced
75 grms green peas
1 tsp sugar
1 green chillie finely chopped
2 tsp lime juice
salt to taste
1, inch cinnamon stick
2 cloves
2 cardamoms

METHOD:
Add the oil, the spices, garlic, onion, ginger paste, stir nicely.
Add in the potato, carrot, and peas, stir once.
Now add in the meat powder, pepper powder, green chillies
Salt and sugar. Sprinkle water and allow the veges to be cooked.
You can mash the veges a little with your spoon.
Now add in the lime juice and coriander leaves and dish out.

PUFF MAKING:
Turn the pastry onto a floured table top and roll out thin
. Cut into rounds with a 5cm round pastry cutter.
Put a tbs of filling in the centre of each pastry round.
Fold pastry into half to enclose the filling.
Seal by pinching and fluting the edges.
Deep fry curry puffs in hot oil, until brown.
Drain on crushed absorbent paper.


Before Frying:
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After Frying:

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Aarthii spiral curry puffs.

SPIRAL CURRY PUFF

Ingredients:

Fillings:
200 grms potatoes cut into cubes
100 grms sweet potatos cut into cubes
150 grms big onion sliced
½ tsp garlic and ginger paste
1 tbs meat curry powder
1 tbs chillie paste
1 green chillie sliced
Little coriander leaves chopped
2 tbs oil
Little lime juice
Salt to taste

Method:
Heat the oil, add in the sliced onions, and ginger garlic paste.
Sauté well, add in the chillie paste mix well.
Now add in the cut potatoes , sweet potatoes and the curry powder.
Sprinkle little water and mix well, cover and cook on low flame.

Stir now and then, add in the green chillie and salt.
Fry every thing till fragrant. Add in the coriander leaves,
fry till dry, remove and add the lime juice. Leave aside to cool.

Water Dough:
400 grms all purpose flour
225 ml water
¼ tsp salt
2 tbs margarine

Place flour in a mixing bowl, add the salt to the water.
Now rub the margarine into the flour.
Slowly add in the water little by little and knead to a smooth dough.
Keep aside for about 10 minutes. Divide the dough into 24 equal portions, shaping into a ball. Keep aside.


Oil Dough:
200 grms plain flour
100 grms margarine

Rub the margarine into the flour to form an oily dough.
Knead and leave aside for 10 minutes.
Divide the dough into 24 portions shaping into a ball.

Making the pastry:
Flatten one water dough, and wrap one oil dough into the water dough.
Do this to all the doughs. You will get 24 balls.

Now take one dough and flatten it length wise with a rolling pin.
Now roll it up like a swiss roll.
Repeat the process one more time.
Roll it again into a swiss roll, then cut the roll into 2 equal parts.
You can see the circles in the cut halves.

With the cut side on the table, roll the dough into a circle and fill
with a spoonful of the fillings.
Wet the outer rimr of the circle and fold into half.
Flute the edges. Deep fry the spiral puffs in medium hot oil.
Drain and serve.


Before Frying:

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After Frying:
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Originally Posted by Ramrish

Thanx kugan for trying out the beans recipe..ur picture looks drool worthy..for fathers day I made all the traditional TamIl recipes because that's what my husband likes of all...I made kuzhambu vadagam vatha kuzhambu,beans parippu usili,lemon rasam and fried appalam..
We had the leftover strawberry bread.

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Dear Ramya, nice to know that you made all traditional dishes. Yes, you have to cook their favourite food.
What camera do you use? your pictures all look very nice.
I have changed 3 cameras. My latest is Nikon J1. Meera bought it for me.
Now I am eyeing for a DSLR camera. My HB says the cameras are good, only I am no good:-D
Thanks and take care, Kugan

Gulabjamun, thanks for your nice post.
You are damn lucky, no cooking.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach:smokesmirk:
Next year cook in the house and see his response:-D
Thanks and take care, Kugan.

Dear friends, it is celebration time again.

Our new friend Ramrish's birthday is on the 15th of June.
Our Selvieam's birthday is on the 21st of June.
Come lets celebrate, Kugan

KUGAN'S KITCHEN WISHES OUR FRIEND RAMRISH A VERY HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY.

KUGAN'S KITCHEN ALSO WISHES SELVIEM A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU BOTH WITH GOOD HEALTH, WEALTH AND LOTS AND LOTS OF HAPPINESS.


HERE IS YOUR CAKE:


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HERE IS YOUR PRESENT:

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ROSES FOR YOU LADIES:

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Oh thanx a lot!i was spellbound to see the surprise wishes from you kugan..btw how do you know I am crazy about truffles?thanx once again ..my advance bday wishes to selviem too!

Kugan I have a Sony Alpha 33 dslr camera..Iam an amateur in photography too...iam learning from various food photography websites..

Happy birthday Ramrish.
Happy birthday Selvieam.
Enjoy my dear friends. Rose

MINI Besan dosas/Besan omlette(Eggless):

I prepared these dosas last week, it turned out to be good. It is quick and easy to cook.
I will take a snap of this when I do the next time and share the photo. As of now bare with me :).

Besan flour - 2 cups
Onion - desired
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tea spoon
Green Chillies - 2 finely chopped
Ginger - small piece chopped fine
Chill powder - optional for taste and more spice
Salt

Method:

Mix besan flour in a bowl with water(1.5 cups to get a thick batter), mix it without lumps. Add onion(Can be fried and added), cumin seeds, green chillies, Ginger, Chilli powder, salt. Mix well.
Pour on the dosa pan and wait till the base turns brown, flip it over and cook the other side, slide it to the plate. Dosas are ready to eat.

This can be had as a snack or as a side dish for vathakuzhambu rice, just like how people have omlet as side dish :).
For variations can add some veggies.

Thanks,

Sree

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Originally Posted by kugan98

Thanks Aarthii for your post.
What did you cook for Subra, on father's day?

I have already posted two types of curry puffs.
One is the spiral type and another the normal curry puff.
Since you are special, I will repost them for you.
Thanks and take care, Kugan

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That's so nice of you kuganka :)
Thanks a lot for the recipes.
Have u posted it before?i think i have missed it completely.
going to try that soon.
Once again thanks kuganka.

We went for a picnic kuganka, i made your set dosai and vadai curry on father's day.

Happy Birthday Ramya !

Selvika,How r u and family?
Wish you a very wonderful brithday selvika.
Whats special?

thanks for the besan dosa recipe madhu.
Have not heard about it before,will try it soon

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Originally Posted by Aarthii

thanks for the besan dosa recipe madhu.
Have not heard about it before,will try it soon

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do try aarthi :), it is very easy to prepare.

Many happy returns of the day Ramrish n Selviem...:)

wow, so many recipes... stir fry beans looks so tempting... will give it a try...:)

ramrish, pls post ur blog url...

MS n crazy, nice to c u in the food sec after a long time...:)

2 simple recipes... not sure if it's posted already...

Pudalangai kootu:snake Gourd kootu

Cook a small cup of yellow moong dhal.

Grind to a paste- coconut, jeera, green chillies and Garlic
heat coconut oil or any oil. Splutter mustard, jeera,curry leaves, red chillies.
Add chopped onion and saute till translucent.
Add 1 medium snakegourd chopped, water,salt and turmeric and cook until the veg is 90% cooked.
Add the paste, dhal and let cook for 2-3 mins.
Done!!!
Goes well with plain rice.yumm!!!

Masala rava Kitchidi:

Grind to a paste-1" gin-3 or 4garlic,1green chillies,1 inch pattai , 1 krambu,1/2 tspsombu.
Roast the white rava(1 cup) in a lil oil/ghee fro 2 mins.

Heat oil. Splutter mustard,2 dry chillies,curry leaves.
Add chopped onion and fry till translucent.
Add the paste and fry till nice n flavourful n brownish.
Add chopped 1 small tomato chopped and cook till mushy.
Add finely chopped mixed vegs(carrot,beans,peas,cauliflower) and cook for 2 mins.
Add water(rava:water=1:2 1/4 to 2 1/2), salt and let it come to a boil.
Taste test now and make necssary modifications.
Once the vegs reach the cooked but crunchy stage, add the rava and stir and cook till the water is absorbed.
When the water is 90% absorbed, switch off flame, add ghee and close with a tight fitting lid and leave it on the stove for 5-10 mins.
Mix well once again and serve with coconut chutney.:)

coconut chutney:

Grind a handful of grated coconut, 1/4 handful of roasted channa(pottu kadalai aka chutney dhal), 2 green chillies, few cori leaves(optional), 1 sprig curry leaves, a small pice of ginger, salt to a paste adding lil water.
Season with mustard,curry leaves and dry chillies.

Var: u can add garlic in place of ginger for the chutney.
1 or 2 shallots can also be added while grinding the chutney.

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Originally Posted by dev

wow, so many recipes... stir fry beans looks so tempting... will give it a try...:)

ramrish, pls post ur blog url...

MS n crazy, nice to c u in the food sec after a long time...:)

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Thanx dev...I make rava kichadi in the same way..
My blog URL is
http://vegetarian-planet.blogspot.com

Thanx rose..

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Originally Posted by Aarthii

Happy Birthday Ramya !

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Thanx aarthi..

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Originally Posted by Ramrish

Thanx dev...I make rava kichadi in the same way..
My blog URL is
http://vegetarian-planet.blogspot.com

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nice blog ramrish :) :clap:

I have a very basic and stupid questions :oops:
How do you make ginger garlic paste? Enga paathalu add 1 tsp ginger garlic paste'nu poduraanga?
Can I buy it somewhere? Make myself? :oops: