Kugan's Kitchen Part 6

[tscii] The recipe for the schezwan as given by the chef.


SCHEZWAN SAUCE

Ingredients:

15 dry red chillies soaked in water for an hour.
12 pips garlic finely chopped
1 inch ginger grated finely
2 tbs red chillie sauce
1 tbs vinegar
1 tsp soy sauce
½ tsp sugar
Salt to taste
2 tbs sesame oil

Method:
Squeeze out the water from the soaked red chillies.
Grind them into a paste. The paste has to be thick.

Heat oil in a wok, add in the ginger and garlic and sauté well.
Now add in the chillie paste and cook till oil seperates.

Add in the soy sauce, red chillie sauce.
Add in the salt, sugar and mix well.

Add in little water and the vinegar.
Let it boil once nicely, remove.
The schezwan sauce is ready.



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Originally Posted by dev

Sodhiku pinnadi ippadi oru kadhai irukka!!!... appo I'm sure it's a very spl curry... There is already a sondi recipe posted by Mayflower in some other thread... K post pannrukangalanu theriyalai...
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Thanks fo the tips regarding Masoor dhal and parsley dev.

Yes dev,it is a spl curry,as like nomal curries we shud not have one or two spoons over the rice,we shud pour some more spoons on the rice and we shud have it in a semi solid consitency.(amma used to tell as nalla kolaiva sapdianum like that)Then it tastes great!

selvika,thanks for the parsley salad.Will try it out soon and will let u know the feedback.

Kuganka,u made my day today.
I made ur spicy potato rice fof lunch.
It came out very well. :D
I packed it for my husband to office.He called me by 2.00 and he praised me for the lunch i gave him today.
And my prince,after getting one spoon of rice frm me,he kissed me and told me amma,it is YUM!
Thanks for the recipe kuganka.

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Originally Posted by kugan98

I will post the Sodhi recipe for you.
The next time you visit your mom, you can cook for her.

Take care, Kugan98

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Waiting for the recipe kuganka.

Kugan,

Visiting hub after a long time. Can you give me the recipe links to the dishes you made in page 55? I want to know the recipe for vazhakai masala and what was that dish next to rice(super red color).

Happy new year to all of you.

Aarthii, thank you again for the nice feed back.
I am very glad that you all enjoyed the dish.

Aarthii, I am still waiting for some veges to do the sodhi.
Its very difficult to get drumstick , in the place where I live. So I wait for a chance for someone to go to a place called Brickfields to get this veges.
Or what I will do is I will omit drumstick that I do not have, but post the recipe in full.
I am sure you too will not get the drumsticks in Canada :lol:
Let me try.

We do sodhi for Iddiyappam, its only, coconut milk, green chillies, onions, tumeric powder, little funugreek seeds, curry leaves, salt and lime juice.
My guests had this sodhi with iddiyappam, and told me that she will teach sodhi with veges.

Take care, Aarthii, Kugan98

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Originally Posted by vm

Kugan,

Visiting hub after a long time. Can you give me the recipe links to the dishes you made in page 55? I want to know the recipe for vazhakai masala and what was that dish next to rice(super red color).

Happy new year to all of you.

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Dear VM, welcome to Kugan's Kitchen.
Thanks for your new year wishes.
We all too, wish you the same.

Now to the menu in page 55


Missing in the picture is, curds, appalam and sambar.

Lunch:
French beans sambar
Avarkkai paal poriyal
Cabbage poriyal
Valakkai masala
Mango patchadi
Cucumber raitha
Appalam
Rasam
Curds
White rice
Green gram dal payasam




VM the recipes are all very simple once.
I am sure you know beans sambar, make sambar with french beans.

Avarakkai paal poriyal is nothing, just make poriyal with seasonings, green chillies, onions and curry leaves.
Before removing add little thick coconut milk.

Cabbage poriyal is the same just add grated coconut before removing from the stove.

The super red cocolur is only mango patchadi.
It is in Kugan's Kitchen 1, page 65.

Valakkai masala or roast is also in Kugan's Kitchen 1
page 5.

I will post the links for you.

Valakkai Roast or Masala:
http://mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic.php?...r=asc&start=60



Mango Patchadi:

http://mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic.php?...=asc&start=960

I will post the recipe for the moong dal prathaman
Thanks, Kugan98

Here is the recipe:

Moong Dal Pradhaman

Ingredients:

1 cup roasted moong dal (whole moong dal roasted and split)
4 tbs ghee
2 cups of brown sugar, make it into syrup
1 cup of thick coconut milk
5 cups of thin coconut milk all from 1 coconut
1 tsp cardamom powder
2 tbs cashew nuts broken into pieces and roasted in ghee
2 tbs fresh coconut , thinly cut and roasted in ghee
1 tbs rasins roasted in ghee

Method:
Boil the moong dal with 1 cup of water. Cook over medium heat
until the moong dal is soft enough to mash with a spoon.
Stir often to make sure that the dal does not stick to the bottom of the pan.

Add the brown sugar syrup and continue to cook over medium
heat for another 10 minutes.
Stir gently so that the moong dal is not totally mashed.

Pour in the thin coconut milk and cook for twenty minutes
over low heat, stirring occasionally. Let it come to a nice boil.
Now add in the thick coconut milk. Do not let the milk come to a boil.
Boiling will result in curdling of the coconut milk.
Remove it from the stove, and sprinkle it with cardamom powder.
Now add the fried garnishes to the pradhaman.
Serve warm or cold.

Note: An authentic moong dal pradhaman does not contain sago.
If you like you can add 1 tbs of sago while boiling the moong dal


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Dear friends, there is a small hitch in the schezwan sauce.
The chef's wife e-mailed me that the chief did not give me the authentic recipe for the sauce as he does not want to disclose the secret ingredients of the hotel.
As I told him that I will be posting it in the forum.

She said she felt very bad, because even though they were strangers to me, I made my guests to agree to accompany her mother to India, not only that I even made my guests to carry her hand luggage for her.

She said people are so scared about drugs and things and that no body will volunteer to help.

Well anyway she mailed me the ingredients, and asked me not to tell anyone.

Frankly speaking I find that the ingredients do not make much difference in the recipe.
I have already made the sauce and also the noodles and fried rice. All taste yummy with out the ingredients.
If any one is interested please kindly pm me and I will post the ingredients

Thank you and take care, Kugan98