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dear mrs mano....ammaam nga romba busy aagiten...iniki konjam breathing time ;-) athaan sitting at the computer catching up with it... :mrgreen:
thank u nga for posting the masala coconut chutney same day.....u r awesome! :thumbsup:
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hope all is well with u & g.son!
today making up for all the missed stuff ;-)
cdj........i have tasted vivikam at a friends place when i was in india.....& didnt know that mrs mano has posted that recipe.......will look into it today itself.....it is ofcourse very spongy & perfectly sweetened. It brought back memories...:-)....like mrs mano said...it is an old recipe......& i now remember my friend telling me too that it was a passed down recipe....
cdj......didnt know that u missed me too...sorry! :mrgreen:
mrs mano...i keep forgetting that u have a website also.....i have to remember to visit that too when i am browsing.....thanks for the reminder...;-)
will surely drop by when i visit the hub...next..:-)
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mrs mano nga....have u ever heard of kaya vadai or poori??? dont remember if it is sweet or kaaram......recipe irunthaa podunga....ilaati no worries...:-)
or it may be kaaya poori or vadai not sure of the spelling either.....sorry nga!
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Dear Cdj!
It is a pleasure to know the aappam story of your family! I felt proud and happy to know that you have mastered in making aappam due to me! This is the nicest feedback that I ever had! Thank you very much!!
I will soon post the recipe of ‘coconut appam’!
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Dear Suvai!
I have னொ knowledge on ‘kaya vadai’! It is new to me!
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suvai, I think your "kaya vadai" must be from some other south indian language.
kaya sounds a little like kaai... thus it could be vadai made of some kaai.
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KEERAI PARUPPU KOOTTU
Here I am going to post the traditional keerai koottu recipe which my mother, mother in law and grand mother prepared and fond of. For this, mulai keerai, arai keerai and ponnangkanni keerai are suitable.
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கீரை பருப்பு கூட்டு
Ingredients;
Keerai- 1 bunch
Chopped Small onions- half cup
Ripe tomato [chopped] – half cup
Cumin seeds- 1 sp
Peppercorns- half sp
Shredded coconut- half cup
Small garlic flakes-5
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder-half sp
Asafetida- half sp
Green gram or tuar dal- half cup
Chopped coriander- 2 tbsp
Gingelly oil- 3 tbsp
Chilli powder- ¼ sp
Coriander powder- ¼ tsp
Procedure:
Wash and chopp the keerai .
Pressure cook the dal.
Grind the coconut with the half of the cumin and the pepper corns to a fine paste.
Heat a pan and pour the oil.
Add the remaining cumin seeds.
When they splutter add the onions with the turmeric powder, asafetida, garlic flakes and the tomato.
Cook them until the tomato is mashed well and the oil floats on top.
Add the chopped keerai with quarter cup of water and the powders.
When the keerai is half done, add the ground paste and the cooked dal.
Cook for a few minutes.
The keerai should not loose its green colour.
Add the chopped coriander and mix well.
The hot keerai koottu is ready now for serving.
This is most suitable as a side dish for puli kuzhambu, vatral kuzhambu varieties.
This can be also had with ghee, hot steamed rice and potato fry!
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Dear Mrs.Mano,
I was on a opinion that reading and cooking a recipe is best suited for baking like. But after I started to read and try your recipes in 2005, I understood that reading a recipe is a skill by itself. And I think your recipes are THE best guides I have ever followed with wonderful results.
I prepared your வேர்க்கடலை வடை yesterday and as Adhira said the oil has to be smoking hot. I made the same mistake and corrected the same way. [Stupid of me I did this after reading her feedback.] They turned out good. They tasted mild and had a different flavor like groundnut chutney is mixed in the vadai itself. It was mild and delicious. Thank you very much.
And I prepared your sambar sadham yesterday for lunch and it turned out delicious. Its a staple in our home. I usually serve it with onion thayir pachadi, chips or appalam. Yesterday, my father in law was in the opinion:
"நல்லதாம்மா இருந்துச்சு. தொட்டுக்க குழம்பு மாதிரி இருந்தா இன்னும் நல்லா இருக்கும்."
I really dont know which can accompany that delicious sambhar sadham. I can think of any kind of vatral kuzhambu. Do you have any suggestions for that?
Again thank you very much and sorry for eating up your time with this big post.
suvai:
I did a quick google and got this Kaaya Vadai.
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Dear Cdj!
Thanks a lot for the nice feedbacks on ‘groundnut vadai and sambar sadham’!! This kind of feedbacks always inspire my interest in trying and posting various new dishes here!
The sambar sadham itself has so many fans till date. Whenever I go to my native place, I will cook this for my driver’s wife and give it to her. She is a great fan of this.
There is no need of any side dish for this. We always have this with pappads, and chips as you have said. If you want one, you can have mild potato fry. That will be suitable for this.
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Dear Mrs. Mano,
How are you doing? Hope that all is well at your end.
Visited your blog today and was browsing the recipes there. Just wanted to know if u are posting similar recipes in both or are they exclusive of each other.
Just wanted to know so that I could save those recipes as well in case u aren't posting them here. By the way, the pics there looked so delicious I wanted to eat off my screen :D .
Tx,
Thattai
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Dear thattai!
I am fine and hope you will be enjoying good health along with yr family.
I am posting different kinds of recipes in the foumhub as well as in my blogs. I have posted different recipes in Arusuvai also. Sometimes I will post known recipes in all of them and post the same recipe in another blog also. That is ' sometimes' only.