Kugan's Kitchen Part 5

Friends, this is Aadi month.
Full of festivals.

First we have the four Fridays, ending with the last friday on the 13th of August :shaking:

To day is the Aadi perukku, simple prayers at home.
August 9th is Aadi Ammavasai, prayers in Sivan temple, and anathanam to the poor.

August 12th is Aadi puram, also prayers in the house.
Aadi ends on the 16th of August.

August 20th is Varalakshmi nombu, usually celebrated with early morning prayers, and ending with villakku pooja at home.

August 24th is Aavani Avitam.
The last is August 28th Maha sangadahara sathurthi

So I will be very busy for the whole of this month.
Thanks, Kugan98

NOV anneh thank you very much for the unni appam recipe.
Anneh there are many ways to do this appam.

Anneh it did not strike me to use jack fruit in the unni appam.
I am sure the aroma would be great.

NOV anneh, normally in Kerala, they do not ferment the batter for the unni appams. They only use rice flour, no other flour is added.
I have tried their method, and always the unni appams are hard.

One more fact is that, if you are fermenting the batter, adding all purpose flour, coconut and bananas, you need not add any baking powder to the batter, you will get super soft unni appams.

NOv anneh, I do it in two ways, one is that, grind the rice flour with the jaggery, add in cardamom powder, add in roasted coconut strips. (Cut the coconut into pallu, pallu, roast in ghee and add to the batter.) little salt and ferment the batter. The next day do as how you will do unni appam.
You will get soft unni appams.

The other method is to add grated coconut, bananas, and all purpose flour. Need not ferment the batter, you will get soft unni appams.
I will post the second method of how to do the unni appam.

Thanks NOV anneh, let me try your method also.
Kugan98

Friends, we should do these types of palagarams, once in a way so that our children will not forget them.
Otherwise slowly this too will become disappearing palagarams.

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UNNI APPAM

Ingredients:
2 over ripe bananas fully mashed
1 cup rice flour
½ cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup grated coconut
½ cup jaggery (more if you like sweet)
¼ tsp cardamom powder
Little salt
Little ghee

Method:

Add the jaggery to 1 cup of water.
Heat a little and dissolve it.
Strain and keep aside.

When the syrup is cold, add the rice and all purpose flour.
Add also the grated coconut, cardamom powder and salt.
Lastly add in the mashed bananas.
Now mix everything to a batter. It should be like idli batter.

Now heat a kulipaniyara chatty.
Pour little ghee, fill the holes, ¾ full with the batter.
When it is cooked at the bottom, flip over and cook the
other side. You will get soft sweet banana appam.

Those without the kulipaniyara chatty,
Can pour spoonful of the batter in hot oil and fry them.


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Another Valaipoo recipe :lol:


VALAIPOO USLI

Ingredients:

(A)
1 cup valaipoo florets, cleaned cut into small pieces.
¼ tsp turmeric powder
Little salt.

(B)
To Soak:
¼ cup toor dal
¼ cup channa dal
3 dried chillies

(C)
A good pinch of asafoetida powder
1 tbs oil
¼ tsp mustard seeds
½ tsp urad dal
1 sprig curry leaves
Salt to taste

Method:
Add all the items in (A) in a pot.
Cook for 10 minutes, remove and strain without water.

Soak all the items in (B) for half an hour.
Strain, add little salt and little asafoetida powder.
Grind to a coarse paste. Steam the paste in a idli cooker.
Remove, and when cold, break it up like bread crumbs.

Heat a wok with oil, add in the mustard seeds, and urad dal.
Let it splutter, add in the curry leaves, and little asafoetida.
Add in the dal crumble and the boiled valaipoo.
On low heat, stir fry till they are mixed well.
The dal should dry and crisp.
Remove and serve with rice.


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kugan,

there are many varieties of making unni appam, normally bananas are used, jack fruit will nice smell. never tried with jackfruit.

mouth is watering, we get unni appam as prasadam in ayyappan temple. keralites when they come from vacation, bring unni appam, all will be in different taste. they told me that they will fry in coconut oil, they will fill oil in the panniyaram kadai and fry appam. :D

kugan,

valaipoo usli is my favourite. but we dont get good valaipoo over here. when i go to india, i will tell mom to make all varieties in valaipoo, banana stem, drumstick leaves, all greens.

also i made chilly soya today for chapathi, it came out nicely kugan, finally i didnot get anything to eat.

K,
Thanks for the chana recipe. The uniappam looks very delicious. Will try and let you know. Vazhai poo is my favorite also. We do not get vazhai poo here. Parthale asayaa irruku sappida!!!. Selvi have a safe trip. Nalla enjoy pannittu vanga.

Suja

Selviem - have a pleasant journey and a great vacation!

K : mee goreng - will post soon
unni appam - looks very much like the 'pink' appam i make for my daughter :lol: i just take the normal thosai maavu, mix some pink colour and add sugar, put them on the paniyaaram and once cooked, give then to her... she enjoys it ... :lol: that's my super-duper fast mini-cup-cake :lol: i've enjoyed it myself. will try your unni appam recipe soon.

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unni appam - looks very much like the 'pink' appam i make for my daughter :lol: i just take the normal thosai maavu, mix some pink colour and add sugar, put them on the paniyaaram and once cooked, give then to her... she enjoys it ... :lol: that's my super-duper fast mini-cup-cake :lol: i've enjoyed it myself. will try your unni appam recipe soon.

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Add raisins and cashew nut pieces. "kuzhandhaigaL" reNdu perukkum pidikkum ! :)

oooh will try that :) :slurp: