Kugan's Kitchen

Thank you ,thank you Suvai for your comments
and nice feed backs.
Its nice to cook different varaites and serve.

Post more of your aunts recipes for us.
Thanks Suvai, take care. Kugan98

[tscii] I remember Shanthy asking for this kara boonthi recipe.
Here it is Shanthy.


KARA BOONTHI

Ingredients:
500 grms besan flour
½ tsp baking powder
1 tbs vegetable oil
Pinch of asafetida
Salt to taste
Oil to fry

For garnishing:
2 tsp dry chillie powder
½ a cup of curry leaves
few roasted cashew nuts
4 pips of garlic smashed with the skin (optional)

Method:
In a bowl mix the baking powder, salt and the vegetable oil.
Rub nicely till it becomes frothy.
Now add the gram flour and mix nicely.
Add warm water and mix it into a thin batter without any lumps.

Heat oil in a wok, take a boonthi spoon( the spoon with lot of holes.
If you pour the batter over the spoon it should produce small rain drop size boonthis)

Now holding the spoon above the oil, take little batter and run over
The spoon at the same time slightly shake the spoon.
Do not over load the oil. Fry little boonthi at a time.
Remove the crisp fried boonthis on to a kitchen paper.
Do this till all the batter is finished.

Now fry the curry leaves, and the smashed garlic in the oil.
Mix the curry leaves, garlic, little salt , roasted cashew nuts and the chillie powder in the fried boonthis. Mix nicely and keep in an air tight container once it is
Really cooled. Serve as a snack.

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Suvai another halwa for you.


TIRUNELVELI HALWA

250 grms whole wheat soaked for 10 hours.
1 kg sugar
525 grms ghee

Method:
Grind the wheat and strain it with a fine muslin cloth it into a vessel.
Let the milk like batter settle.
Remove the top clear water slowly.

Now pour the milk like batter and the sugar into a thick iron wok.
Heat the wok stirring continuously, till it begins to boil.
Add the ghee and keep on stirring. Let it boil down till it
Thickness and is nearly solid.
Remove and pour it onto a greased plate.
This halwa is of a very soft consistency
It cannot be cut into slices.
Normally this halwa is served suda, suda.
You can eat when cool too.
This type of halwa will literally slide down your throat.

Note: normally no colour and nuts are used in this halwa.
They say the halwa gets a very light colour due to the
Long hours of cooking.

I added a pinch of colour and some cashew nuts.
I never fail to eat this every time I visit Madurai


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Kugan..... today morning i made your peanut chutney. suda suda recipe padichu odane seidhen. It was very very good. thanks.

I also tried your pakoda during week end. I made two mistakes. Baking powder use pannalai and salt romba kammi. I just made very little quantity and so sambarla pottu apdiye adjust pannitten.

Will definitely make again.

Hi Kugan

Thank you for posting the recipe for kara boonthi. I will make it this weekend. Pictures of kara boonthi and thrunelveli halwa looks so yummy. No doubt we are all going to get fat very soon with all these lovely recipes and pictures. I am going to try Suvai's aunt's biriyani for dinner tonight. It looks and sounds lovely. Thanks Suvai.

Regards
Shanthy

Thanks Sudha for the feed backs and compliments.
Try it again with little baking powder and little
more salt. It goes well with the mint chutney.

Thanks Sudha. Take care. Kugan 98.

Thanks Shanthy for the feed backs and compliments.
Deepavali is coming very close.
You can make the kara boonthi for Deepavali.

Let us know how Suvai's biryani was.
Thanks Shanthy. Take care. Kugan98.

hi friends,
i am back now. so many receipes i could find in the hub, it will take time for me to go through it. my regards to everyone.Kugan, suvai, superspicy, nithi, shanthy, sudha all the hub viewers.
selvi

Welcome Selviem, we all missed you very much.
Take a nice rest and come with loads of recipes :lol:
Thanks. Kugan98

Hi Shanthy,
Hope the biriyani recipe comes out well for u & that your family will enjoy it too....:-) Do let us know how it turned out.

kunga nga.....thank u for the bhoondhi & Thirunelveli Halwa.....can it be made with just gothumai maavu? or is it necessary to soak Ghothumai (grains)?
Oru request onga Thai friend kita "Radna" (vegetarian) recipe iruntha kettu sollunga plz plz & thank u...i think its a very simple dish...but fish sauce poduvaanganu neenaikaren not sure....kettu paarunga if that can be made as a vegetarian dish...ilaati paravaa ileenga....with meat podunga i am sure other friends who eat meat will surely enjoy it too...:-)

selvi........welcome back nga.....:-) good to c u!!
I bet there are many recipes to catch up....:-)