Kugan's Kitchen Part 4

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DAL TOMATO CURRY

Ingredients:
(A)
250 grms ripe red tomatoes cut into 4
250 grms green tomatoes cut into 4
100 grms toor dal soaked
1 tsp red chillie powder
1 tsp coriander powder
¼ tsp turmeric powder
½ cup water
Salt for taste

(B)
To Grind To Paste:
2 tbs grated coconut
2 green chillies
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp ginger paste
½ tsp cumin seeds.

(C)
To Season:
1 tsp oil
1 big onion chopped
½ tsp mustard seeds
1 sprig curry leaves
2 dry red chillie cut into pieces

Method:
Put all ingredients in (A) into a pressure cooker.
Cook till 3 whistles, remove and let the steam subside.

Add in the ground ingredients to the pressure cooker.
Let it boil well so that the raw smell goes.

Heat a pan, add in the oil, and the ingredients for seasonings.
Sauté well and pour it into the pressure cooker.
Let it boil once and remove.
Goes well with rice, chapathi or idli.

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Originally Posted by suvai

aarthi....all is well here thank u .
guests from husband side ah???? i am sure u r winning them over with ease....especially with super samayal, recipes of kugan/selvi/dev. & your own too ;-)

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Yes suvaika,adhula entha doubtum illa,ellam namma kugan's kitchen samaiyal thaan. :D

ennake en samaiyala partha santosama iruku. :)

when everyone says that the dish is too good,for a moment i used to think , whether is it dream or real! :wink:

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Originally Posted by dev

K, take ur time...:)

Aarthii, enjoy ur tme with the guests...:) Hope lil pranay is keeping well these days...

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Yes dev,since everyone is around,time ponathe theiryala,or else ennakum pranaykum weekdays are very bore ones.

Yes dev,hez doing good.

kuganka,thanks for the dal tomato curry.It looks good.

Yes kuganka,ur brother is highly pleased with my ubasarippu to his family members.

Thanks, Aarthii, I am very happy with you.
That's the way.
Delhi, all relatives are coming to see Taj Mahal
You can expect me the next. :lol:
Glad that you cook well now, its all your ability
Aarthii. Thanks, take care. Kugan98

Well Sonu Gopi is missing for a long time.
I think she is angry with me for not givng
the modak recipe. Here it is Sonu.
Please come and visit the thread. Thanks. Kugan98.


STEAMED MOTHAGAM OR MODAK
Ingredients:
1 cup pan fried broken green peas, boiled and mashed roughly.
1 cup brown sugar
cup grated coconut
2 tbs ghee
a pinch of cardamom powder
cup oil
2 cups rice flour

Method:

Fillings:
Melt the brown sugar with 2 tbs of water
Sieve for dirt. Boil again the syrup,
Add in the ghee, grated coconut, and the boiled green peas.
Cook over medium heat, stirring continuously.
Add in the cardamom powder.
It will thicken and start leaving the sides of the pan as you stir.
Remove and cool.

The Dough:
Heat 2 cups of water in a pan. When it starts bubbling,
Add the oil and the rice flour in a slow stream, stirring
Continuously. When all the water has evaporated and
The dough thickened.Remove and let it cool.
Knead the cooled dough nicely.
Grease the palm of your hand. Take a little dough
And shape it into a cup. Place enough fillings
In the middle of the cup, and shape it like a ball,
with a small cone on the top.
Do this to the rest of the dough.
Steam for about 20 minutes. Serve warm.

The Fillings:

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The Steamed Modak:

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yes kuganka.exactly no one wants to miss it.

It's our pleasure to welcome u kuganka.Kandipa plan pannunga kuganka.waiting for ur arrival.

Kuganka,made ur simple butter cake in my new OTG.It came well.

The cake didnt raise at all kuganka.will send u the snap thru mail.
The taste was very soft and good.I used a square cake mould.One more thing i used normal white flour insted of self rasing flour.would that be the reason for not raising.Can u plz clear me in this.

kuganka,paruppu podi recipe post pannunga plz.

selvika,suvaika,dev,plz post ur versions of paruppu podi also.

Suvai nga, I too owe you some recipes.
One of them is "taugeh fritters"

Suvai nga taugeh na sprouts.
Its, green peas sprouts.

i have given the recipe for it in Kugan's kitchen 1
it is in page 74.
Try panni paarungga.

I will post the 2 more recipes soon.
thanks, take care. kugan98.

ennganga, ennanga.... en presence mark pannunga.

Pleasenga, yarum thittadheenga... Byenga..

Aarthii ma, for a cake you have to use either self raising flour,
or you have to add baking powder to the flour.
Other wise your cake will NEVER rise.

Tips for good cake making:
Sieve the flour 2 to 3 times.
This makes the flour airy.

First cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffly.
Always beat the butter and sugar in one direction only.

Then add one egg, beat well till it is well mixed.
Then only you add in another egg
You add the eggs only one by one.
If you find the egg, curdling, add in little flour and mix.
Curdling means, the egg will seperate from the butter.

Now fold in the flour little by little by folding method.
Do not beat the mixture or you will drive away all
the air in the mixture.

Your oven should be preheated, when you place in the cake,
it must start cooking straight away.
Also your measurements must be right.

Try again Aarthii, I have posted a moist chock cake before.
Its very easy and tasty. I will post it to your mail.
Happy baking, Kugan98