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You get the best taste when you walk into the fields/garden, dig the peanuts from the ground and boil them! Of course, when you dig you have to taste some raw with the soil attached to it! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by kugan98
Please convey my congratulations to your daughter! :) Looks like we have a future Marie Curie or Indhira Nooyi in the making! We need more of them ! :)
( I am no male chauvinist ! :lol: )
Dev, thanks for your wishes.
Uncle Rajraj, thank you very much.
Rubenee needs all your blessings.
She is very gifted to get blessings from you uncle.
Thanks, take care uncle, Kugan98
[tscii]Dev, I was talking to my friend about the iddli batter and kuli paniyaram, she told me that we can do instant kuli paniyaram.
I tried it out and it came out nice and yummy.
Try it out, Kugan98
INSTANT KULI PANIYARAM
Ingredients:
½ cup rice flour
½ cup idli rava
½ cup sooji
½ tsp baking powder
3 green chillies chopped
1 onion chopped
3 tbs curds
1 tsp cumin seeds
Little coriander leaves chopped
Little curry leaves chopped
Salt to taste
Oil
Method:
Mix the sooji, idli rava, baking powder and rice flour.
Add in the salt , curds and coriander leaves.
Heat a pan with 2 tsp of oil, add in the cumin seeds.
Then add in the onions and green chillies.
Sauté for a minute. Add in the flour mixture.
Add little water to make it into idli consistency.
Keep aside for about 10 minutes.
Heat a kuli paniyara chatty and cook as how you do
normal kuli paniyarams. Serve with coconut chutney
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Here is another method of doing pasta.
You can even bake it for about 10 minutes.
Kugan98
PASTA IN CHEESY SAUCE
Ingredients:
300 grms elbow pasta
3 pips garlic chopped
2 green chillies sliced
6 button mushrooms sliced
2 tbs all purpose flour
1 cup milk
½ cup any vegetable broth
1 tbs olive oil
4 tbs parmesan cheese
1 tsp oregano
Little fresh parsley
Ground pepper to taste
Salt to taste
Method:
Boil the elbow pasta in lots of water, little oil and salt.
Drain and keep aside once it is cooked.
Now in a saucepan, heat the olive oil. Add in the garlic,
and the green chillies, sauté until the garlic is slight brown.
Add in the sliced mushrooms and the vegetable broth.
Sauté until the mushroom is cooked.
Now sprinkle the all purpose flour and mix well with the mushrooms.
Keep stirring for about 5 minutes.
Now pour in the milk and stir well. See that no lumps are formed.
You can add 1 glass of water and keep stirring continuously.
Now add in the grated cheese and mix well.
When the all purpose flour is cooked and a creamy gravy is formed,
add in the pasta and mix well.
Add in the salt, pepper, oregano and mix it well.
Let the pasta get coated well with the gravy.
Remove and garnish with the cut parsley.
Serve it at once or the pasta will absorb the gravy
and will become too soft.
The other way of serving is to place the pasta in a serving plate.
Now pour the sauce over the pasta.
NOTE: You can add veges like carrots and French beans
If you like.
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[tscii]Dev, my children threaten to keep away from the kitchen if more pasta is cooked in our house :rotfl: :rotfl:
Thanks, try it out. Kugan98
LEMON LINGUINE PASTA
Ingredients:
400 grms linguine pasta
1 tbs extra virgin olive oil
2 pips garlic finely chopped
½ tsp crushed chillie flakes
1 tsp lemon juice
¼ tsp lemon zest
Little lemon skin finely cut
Little coriander leaves chopped
Salt to taste
Method:
Cook the linguine till al dente.
Retain little of the cooking water from the pasta.
Heat a non stick wok with the olive oil.
Add in the garlic and the chillie flakes.
Sauté for a minute, add in the lemon juice, salt
and pour about ½ cup of the pasta water into
the olive oil garlic mixture.
Add in the pasta and turn off the heat.
Add in the lemon zest , coriander leaves and the cut skin.
Toss the pasta well with the sauce, allowing it time to soak up the sauce.
NOTE: You can add pepper powder if you like.
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Another way to cook this Lemon linguine Pasta.
MUSHROOM LEMON LINGUINE PASTA
Ingredients:
200 grms linguine pasta
100 grms finely sliced tinned button mushrooms
2 pips garlic finely sliced
30 ml extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp thyme leaves
1 tbs chopped parsley
2 tbs grated paemesan cheese
1 lemon zested and juiced
Little ground black pepper
Method:
Slice the mushrooms and put them in a big bowl.
Add in the olive oil, salt minced garlic, lemon juice and zest.
Add also the thyme leaves. Mix well.
Cook the pasta till al dente.
Drain the pasta loosely, retaining some water.
Quickly put the pasta into the bowl with the olive oil mixture.
Toss everything together well, and then add in the parsley, cheese,
pepper and toss again well. Serve at once.
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SPICY POTATO RICE
Ingredients:
2 cups basmati rice soaked for 10 minutes
Salt to taste
4 medium potatoes cut into cubes and fried
2 large onions sliced
2 tsp garlic paste
3 tbs ghee
¼ cup green peas
Grind To Paste:
5 green chillies
1 tbs ginger garlic paste
½ cup coriander leaves
¼ cup grated coconut
To Roast And Powder:
3 tbs coriander seeds
1 inch cinnamon stick
3 cardamom pods
2 cloves
1 cup curds well beaten
2 tbs lemon juice
Salt to taste
Cut coriander leaves for garnish
Method:
Cook the basmati rice, with little salt ¾ cooked. Drain and spread to cool.
Heat a wok with the ghee, add in the onions and sauté well till
the onions are slightly brown.
Add in the ground paste and cook till the raw smell goes.
Add in the roasted masala and stir well.
You can add ¼ cup of water and cook till the oil rises.
Now add in the fried potatoes and the green peas.
Stir well so that the potatoes are well coated with the gravy.
Now add in the well beaten curs, lemon juice and salt.
Mix well and cook for about 5 minutes.
Now take a rice cooker, add half rice then the gravy.
Now top it with the rest of the rice. Mix gently so that
the rice is nicely mixed with the gravy.
Garnish with the cut coriander leaves.
Switch on the rice cooker and cook for about 10 minutes
Serve hot with a nice raitha.
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Hi Kugan ka and co :)
Hope all of you are having a great holiday !
kugan and friends,
how r u? last full week was so busy with my brother's family, visited us from USA after 5 years. they left yesterday. now back to routine. from tomorrow onwards back to work.
saw the receipes, all are delicious, will try.
spicy potato rice is tempting me a lot. tomorrow i am preparing for lunch. kids are at home coz of winter vacation.
Kugan, I made your pavakkai kulambu today-so good! I added some black pepper to the masala instead of fenugreek. Taste was excellent, thanks for a wonderful recipe!