KUGAN'S KITCHEN PART 3

I hope you all will not run away after seeing so many sandwiches.
Many more to come. :lol:


GREEN CHUTNEY SANDWICH

Ingredients:

2 potatoes boiled and mashed well
Salt to taste
Little pepper powder
Little garam masala powder


Green Chutney:
2 tbs of coriander leaves
2 tbs of mint leaves
1 pip garlic
1 green chillie
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tbs olive oil or vegetable oil


Sliced cucumber, onion and tomato
Bread slices

Method:
Mash the potatoes well, adding the pepper powder,
salt and the garam masala powder.

Grind the ingredients in green chutney using olive oil.

Lightly toast two slices of bread on one side only.
Apply green chutney on one bread slice.
On the other slice of bread apply the mashed potato mixture.
Top it with slices of onion, cucumber and tomato
Place the bread with the green chutney on top of the other bread,
with the potato mixture.
Cut into triangles and serve.

The Green Chutney Sandwich:

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I would like to wish my NOV anneh, my dear friends of the Kugan's Kitchen, Suvai , Selvi, Dev, Aarthii, Sudha, Madhu, Sonu, Shanthy, Nithi, SuperSpicy , Hemantji uncle , Mrs. Mano , (please forgive me if I have left out any one) a very happy ponggal.

Happiness and Peace must boil over in each and every home of my dear friends, just like how the milk boils over.

HAPPY PONGGAL

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Its coustomary in our house to cook the paal ponggal, sakkarai ponggal and the ponggal kulambu.
All our relatives cook the ponggal kulambu the same way.
We normally do it in our front yard.
This year its a quiet one and cooked in the kitchen.

Here is the sakkarai ponggal.


SAKKARAI PONGGAL

Ingredients:

1 cup raw rice
¼ cup moong dal roasted until you get a good aroma
¼ cup of ghee
3 cups of water
2 cups of milk
1 cup jaggery more if you like
6 cashew nuts roasted in ghee
1 tbs of raisins roasted in ghee
2 cardamom pods crushed

Method;
Wash the rice and the moong dal, soak them for about 30 minutes.
Put the rice and the dal in a thick bottomed pot.
Add the milk and the water. On a low fire cook the rice and dal.
You have to keep on stirring in between so that it does burn.
(Or you can cook it in a pressure cooker for 4 whistles)
The rice and dal have to be cooked well, then mash it .

Put the jaggery in a pan add water to cover it.
Boil in a low flame till it melts, then filter the syrup.
Now boil again for about 5 minutes.

Now add the hot syrup to the hot cooked rice.
Add in the crushed cardamom pods, let them boil .
Keep stirring it, allow them to boil, now add in the ghee little by little.
The mixture must come together, add in the roasted nuts and raisins.
Mix well, and remove. The ponggal will thicken when it gets cold.

Note: The rice will stop cooking once you add the jaggery.
So your rice dal mixture must be well cooked before adding the jaggery. Also do not skimp on ghee and jaggery

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PAAL PONGGAL

Ingredients:

1 cup raw rice
2 ½ cups of milk
2 ½ cups of water
Little salt

Method:
Wash and soak the rice for about 30 minutes.
In a thick bottomed pot, add in the milk and water.
Let it simmer for a minute.
Add in the drained rice, salt and cook on low heat.
You have to keep on stirring so that the rice does not burn.
The rice should have cooked to a ponggal consistency.
Remove and serve with the ponggal kulambu.

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PONGGAL KULAMBU

Ingredients:
½ cup of toor dal soaked and boiled till cooked
1 orange size tamarind soaked in water

To roast and grind into powder:
2 tsp channa dal
2 tsp raw rice
2 tbs coconut scrapings
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp black pepper

½ tsp tumeric powder
3 tbs chillie powder
Salt to taste
1 sprig of curry leaves

Veges:
2 plantains cut into cubes
2 cups of yellow pumpkin cut into cubes
1 cup broad beans cut into 1 inch pieces
1 cup of brinjals cut into cubes
1 cup of yam cut into cubes
1 cup of tomatoes cut
2 cups of motchai soaked and boiled till cooked
( Its customary to use fresh green motchai)

Method:
Squeeze about 2 cups of tamarind juice.
In a heavy bottomed big pot, add in all the vegetables, and cooked motchai.
Add enough water to cover the vegetables.
Add in the tumeric powder and salt, let the vegetables cook.
Cook on medium heat, when the veges are half cooked, add in the
tamarind juice and the chillie powder. Let it boil.

Now add in the cooked toor dal, mix well and boil again.
By now the vegetables would have fully cooked.
The pumkin and yam all should look a little smashed.
Add in water if you feel the gravy is very thick.
Normally the gravy should be neither watery nor very thick.
Add in the ground powder, mix nicely and let it boil once.
Remove and garnish with the curry leaves.
This kulambu has kaaram, pulippu and ennippu.
No oil and no seasonings. Tastes heaven with the paal ponggal.


Ponggal Kulambu:

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kugan,

nice to see so many sandwiches. i will try one by one. vadagam ridgegourd chutney is tempting. sure i have to try that. from today back to routine. school started for kids. so i get time for myself.

thank u and wishing u a happy pongal.

selvi

kuganka,thanks for the ponnagani keerai poriyal recipe,all the sandwich recipes as well the sesame sweet recipe.Thanks a lot

Kuganka,tried ur badusha recipe for my guests yetserday.It came out very well.The taste is good.I have one thing to ask u akka,the badusha's are lil hard,can u tell me why it was like that?
Not too hard,lil hard only.The taste was too good.

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suffering from a bad tooth ache... another reason to cut down on sweets... :roll: experiencing tooth ache for the first time in my life... I just couldn't believe I have tooth decay...:cry: :cry3:

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Dev ,tooth ache ippo eppadi iruku?

Aiyoo dev,i can very well realise the pain.Dev wen i was pregannat i experinced this tooth ache in my life for the first time.As u all know,we can't take any other mediction during all the trimesters.I suffered a lot dev.Habba still now i used to say entha paina venalum thangikalam ,intha tooth ache thavira.really very worst pain.
Hope u will get alright soon.

Kuganka,do u remeber , wen i was in japan i suffered frm the sam pblm again ,even i cant take of pranay also.I got the tooth repairment after 6 months for pranay.

Dev,thanks for the valalrai chutney recipe.Amma used to make this often for my brother during his school days.Stating that it will increase the memory power.Thanks for the healthy chutney recipe dev.

Suvaika,ur way of making kadamaba kulambu is same as mom's style.Amma used to make like this only.But i dont know the method.Will try it once with ur recipe suvaika.
Kuganka thanks for posting it with a picture.