Dear Hubbers,
Pls post some snake gourd (podalangai) recipes.
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Dear Hubbers,
Pls post some snake gourd (podalangai) recipes.
Could someone please post recipes to cook Breadfruit please??? In Tamil, it's Irre Plakkah; Malayalam - Seema Chakka.
If anybody has recipes, please post them here, Pa!! My father-in-law is visiting and we have a huge Breadfruit tree in the garden!!
Thanks in advance!!
Tomato - Try cooking snake gourd sliced into rings, with a tsp of pwdered jeeragam, turmeric, big onions and fresh green chillies. A squeeze of coconut and some nice small shrimps in the thallipu, will lend a nice flavour too.
If you are vege. then omit the shrimps Pa!! :D
Thanx Niro for the recipe. Will surely give it a try.
But I don't understand some of ur cooking terminolgy- like 'a squeeze of coconut' :? I've heard of a squeeze of lemon, but coconut :roll: How would I squeeze a coconut- I don't believe my fingers r strong enough :cry:
Also what is 'thallipu'?
Hmmm.... Breadfruit ... Slurp slurp, one of my fav veggies. Luv anything made using it. Lucky u have a tree in ur garden, would like to visit u Pa!(To get some breadfruit free )
I have a couple of recipes for Bfruit
U can make fritters(two types - one dipped on gram flour, one more spicier using rice pow)
Peel the Bread fruit. Cut it into quarters. Make 1cm or thinner( not too thin though) slices.
Make a thick batter with besan, salt, chilli pow, asafeotida and water. U may also add whole jeera to the batter. Dip the cut slices in the batter and deep fry in hot oil. Enjoy as a evening snack with tea(in ur garden!!) or serve as a part of a meal.
The spicier version.
Cut the Bread fruit as above. make a thick paste of chilli pow, salt and asafeotida sprinkling very little water. apply this paste on the slices. let it marinate for a few min. dip these slices in rice flour, pat well so the flour sticks to it. deep fry. Serve as a part of a meal.
Sigh !! got to get hold of a breadfruit now, craving to make these myself.
Hey I've one more recp which is a coconut based curry, will post if u r interested.
Okay - sorry abt the short terms Pa!! "Squeeze of coconut" - simply a tablespoon or so of coconut milk, thicker the sweeter of course!!
Tallipu - is tempering as per the cook bks!! A bit of mustard/urad dhall, sputtering in a tablespoon or oil with a sprig of curry leaves, in the wok before adding the chillie, onions and small shrimps and finally the poddalangai and spices!!
Great! Would love to try whatever recipes you have for breadfruit, Pa!! Thanks in advance! :D
hi shakthi to buy reliable pressure cookers premier & prestige is always preferable. for mixers kenstar is good & fine.
Can somebody tell me how to make cassata icecream at home
Hi vm,
This recipe is from a weekly magazine and it came out very well. It is very easy method and you can use any regular vanilla icecream as the base, and include whatever flavours that you like. In this recipe, instead of the coffee, I used Cadbury's drinking chocolate powder and used strawberries instead of cherries. You can add more layers , depending on your choice/tastes . For children, can make in smaller individual bowls and top with nuts, smarties, chocolate sauce, raspberry syrup etc.
EASY CASSATA
2 litres vanilla ice-cream, slightly softened
25ml. instant coffee granules, dissolved in little hot water
50gm. shelled & chopped pistachio nuts
425 gms. tinned black cherries, drained & sliced.
Divide the ice-cream into 3 portions. To one part, add coffee solution & pour into a 2lt. glass bowl and freeze for 35mins. Place the remaining 2 portions also in freezer for 15mins. Take out portion no.2, mix with nuts and layer it smoothly on top of coffee layer and freeze it again for another 30mins. Then add the cherries to the final portion, spoon it over the nut layer and freeze till firm . While serving , turn it upside down onto a plate, and slice and serve.
Note :--- I wanted to add sponge cake to this, so I cut a circle from the store-bought sponge cake, and just placed it on the top as the final layer , covered tightly with aluminium foil, and freezed it. { If preferred you can try placing it in between 2 layers of ice-cream, but I didn't want the cake to be too soggy}.
It was a perfectly delicious treat and hope it comes out well for you too,
Indu.
Hi Tomato,
here i am posting a recipe for podalankai kootu.
Boil moong dhal( paasiparuppu) with little turmeric. it shouldn't be overly cooked.
cut podalankai, clean the inner sponge part and chop them,( small square pieces like u usually do other veg), chop 1 med size onion and 2 to 3 green chillies.
in a pan or vessel put onions, green chillies, cut podalankai little water and let it cook, once it is cooked add the cooked dhal and salt and let it cook for few more minutes and remove from stove after it starts boiling. then season it with little ghee or oil, jeera and urad dhal, curry leaves.
usually ghee is used in seasoning kootu as it gives good aroma.
it is very simple and easy to make,only chopping podalankai takes time. add dhal according to ur wish, but it should be more dhal or equal to the chopped veg quantity.
i will post podalangai poriyal. u can also make podalankai poricha kolambu and use this in avial amond other vegetables. hope u like it.
kz
Hi Kz,
Thank you for sharing your recipe. Will give it a try and post feedback.
Pls post the 'podalankai poricha kolambu' recipe.
can any one give me gravies served with pulao,fried rice,veg biryani,etc.veg & non-veg is needed