Kugan's Kitchen Part 6

pumpkin kadalai paruppu kootu:
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kadalai paruppu - 3/4 cup soak for 1/2 hour and pressure cook one whistle and remove the water (can use the water for soup or rasam)
pumpkin (yellow) - 2 cups cut in cubes

in a pan add pumpkin cubes, green chillies 3 (slit), turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp, salt reqd. and 1/2 cup of water cover and cook till pumpkin is 3/4th cooked.

than add cooked dhal with this and allow it to cook for another 5 mintues.

now grind a coarse paste from 4-5 tblsp of grated coconut and 1 tsp of jeera.

add this paste to pumkin-dhal mixture and allow it to cook for 2 to 3 minutes.

in a kadai, add oil (either coconut oil or cooking oil)- 1 to 2 tsp, mustard seeds, urad dhal, little vadagam, red chilly 2 and curry leaves. then add one big onion chopped and fry for 3 minutes, then transfer to dhal mixture, after one boil remove from fire. serve hot with steamed rice, chapathis.

Rose 75, thanks for your compliments.
Hope you will try out the recipes and give us the feed back.
Thanks, Kugan98

Suvai, konjam recipeya nalla padingo.
You only grind the coconut and the kas kas.
I have separated the ingredients in the recipe.
The cook in my niece house cooked this biryani in Trichy.
The aroma was abaram, I could not taste it.
I will try with veges one day.

Thanks for trying the kutoo.
I try as possible to give day, to day recipes,
that we cook daily in our house.
Thanks Suvai, you are really a very good inspiration to me.
Take care, Kugan98

Selviem, thanks a lot for your pumpkin, kadalai kutoo.
Glad that you too like too like to try out different methods,
in cooking. Thanks, and do post if you have different type
of recipes. Thanks and take care, Kugan98

Dear Suvai, I cooked this cumin rice with ponni rice, as I ran out of basmathi.
So the picture is not that appealing, but the taste was yummy.
Please try with basmathi rice. Thanks, Kugan98

CUMIN RICE

Ingredients:

3 cups of basmathi rice.
2 medium onion sliced
5 green chillies, slit into 4 and cut across
2 tsp ginger paste
2 tsp garlic paste
Salt to taste
Little coriander leaves for garnishing

2 tbs ghee or oil
1 tbs cumin seeds
2 one inch cinnamon sticks
3 cloves
2 bay leaves

Method:

Soak the rice for 15 minutes, then drain. Keep aside

Heat ghee in a wok, add in wok.
Add in the cinnamon sticks, bay leaves and cloves.
Add in the cumin seeds and let it splutter.
Add in the onions and fry till light brown.

Add in the green chillies, ginger and garlic paste.
Fry for a minute till raw smell goes.
Add in the drained rice, sauté gently for a minute.

Now transfer the whole thing to a rice cooker.
Add in 4 ½ cups of water and salt.
Mix every thing once gently, and cook in the rice cooker.
When cooked, fluff up the rice and garnish with coriander leaves.


NOTE: You can even cook this dish in a pressure cooker.
Give 2 whistles and remove.

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My dear friends, normally, this panang curry is made with the panang paste.
Panang paste consists of red chillies, kaffir lime leaves, lemon grass, coriander stems, lengkuas and things. I know it will be difficult to obtain such items overseas.
I have simplified the recipe for our use. The taste is still yummy. Try it out friends. Thanks, Kugan98.


PANANG CURRY

Ingredients:

2 cups of mixed vegetables, carrots, beans, baby corn, potato, capsicum.
2 firm tofu cut into cubes
1 ½ cups thin coconut milk
½ cup thick coconut milk
1 tbs smooth peanut butter
2 big onions sliced
1 tbs grated ginger
5 pips garlic finely chopped
3 tbs red chillie paste
2 tsp brown sugar
½ tsp turmeric powder
½ tsp cumin powder
3 tsp lime juice
2 tbs oil
Salt to taste

Method:

Heat a wok with the oil, add in the onion, ginger and garlic.
Sauté well till the onions are limp.
Add in the red chillie paste and sauté in the oil.
Add in the thin coconut milk and mix well.

Now add in the turmeric powder, cumin powder and peanut butter.
Mix well, add in the vegetables, salt and sugar.
Cook on low heat till the vegetables are cooked.
Add in the thick coconut milk. Let it come to a boil.
Remove from the stove, add in the lime juice.
Serve with any rice.

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selvi....ty for promptly posting the kadalai paruppu kootu......kandipa try pannaren....

kugan ngo.....:noteeth: kannadi pottu thaan padichen....thooka kalakam pola...:noteeth: thank u for pointing that out...ilaati kandipa araichi pottu irupen:rotfl:

romba ruchiya irukum pola irukey intha panang curry....paarthaaley theriyuthu....u r correct..ingris kidaikarthu konjam kashtam thaan unless a trip is made to china town..

cummin rice.....looks very simple to make nga kugan.....ithai kandipa try pannidaren...with basmati rice...

thanks kugan and suvai. try this and give me the feedback

K, panang curry looks so simple...will try it...

I made the jackfruit seeds perattal... made it semi-dry...it was yummy with both rice and rotis... thanks a lot for such a simply but yummy recipe...:) Innum edhavadhu jackfruit seeds, raw mango, ripe mango recipes irundhaal post pannunga... it's all in season now...