Kugan's Kitchen

Vallarai salad

vallarai leaves
pineapple
onions
green chillies
vinegar or lime juice
sugar
salt

Method :

cut every thing fine, add enough sugar,salt and lime juice.
Its very tasty eaten as a salad.

You can omit pineapple and add tomatoes if you like.


Vallarai Masiyal
Cook little toor dal, with tumeric and green chillie.
Add the chopped vallarai leaves.
Make a seasoning with little cumin, mustard seeds
and urad dal. Add salt and remove.

Vallarai chappati.
Cut the leaves fine and add to the flour
before you knead. Roll into chapattis
and cook the same way.

Vallarai Drink.

Boil the leaves with rock sugar.
Chill and drink.

[tscii]This is also a disappearing dish from Chettinad

PAAL PANIYARAM

Ingredients:
½ cup raw rice
½ cup urad dal
1 litre milk from 1 coconut
Sugar enough to sweeten the milk
Few cardamoms crushed
Oil to fry
A pinch of salt

Method:
Soak raw rice and urad dal for 2 hours.
Add little salt and grind the batter to idli consistency.
Heat the milk, sugar and cardamom. Mix it well.
Do not let it boil, remove it from fire.
Heat oil, add the batter little by little.
It should form round balls.
Deep fry till golden brown.
Remove the paniyaram and drop it in a pot of cold water.
Strain it and add to the warm milk.
Let it soak well and serve it in a bowl.

Note: you have to grind the batter very fine.
Otherwise the paniyaram might burst while frying.


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hi kugan,
how r u? saw the paal paniyaram receipe, we also do the same. looking at the photo , is too tempting.

Quick receipe for kara panniyaram
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Left over appam batter, if u have idli/ dosa batter . then mix both the batters.
In a kadai, give tadka like as usual. oil, kadukku, urad dhal, kadalai paruppu. then u can add finely chopped onions, green chilles and red chillies according to our wish. Then add curry leaves. U can also add grated carrots, cabbage. saute for 2 to 3 minutes, little corainder leaves (optional).
transfer this in the batter mixture. If u want u remove the chillies now, so that it will not come in ur mouth.
Mix nicely. Here we are using the leftover batters, sometimes it will be too much sour, for that u can add 1/4 tsp of sugar so that the sour taste will not come.
Now in the kuzhi paniyara pan, u can make like kuzhi paniyaram. Kids will like this. This will be a good breakfast for the kids.

Selviem thanks for the kaara paniyaram recipe.
I serve these paniyarams with coconut chutney.
Its a nice change for breakfast.

Hi Kugan

Thank you for the vallarai recipes. Vallarai chapathi is an instant hit in my home. Good suggestions. I didn't think of adding the leaves to dhal curry. Will try now. It is true that vallarai is very good for memory. Here in the garden centers they sell it as a healing plant for athritics. It comes up very well in summer but it just stays in winter.

Kara paniyaram sounds very nice and healthy. It is a good way to use the left overs.
Regards
Shanthy

Bay leaves endral enna? What is it in tamil?

(sorry if it is a very silly Q)

Punnai marathu ilai, brinji leaves.

Dont u use it for veg biryani?

Shanthy thanks a lot for you kind feedback
and responses.
Feed backs like this inspire us to write more.
Please keep on writing.
Thanks again.

Sudha please do not feel bad to ask any questions.
I will answer you if I know.
Or I will ask someone and give you the answer.
I will be very happy that I am of use to some one.
I have posted the picture of the bay leaf.
I am sure you will reconise it after seeing the picture.
Thanks Sudha, feel free to ask anything.
Kugan

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