Kugan's Kitchen Part 7

[rajraj]

Hello Rajraj uncle, Happy Thankgsgiving day to you too.
Uncle what is the menu in your house for the occasion .
Do you go for the midnight shopping?

Thanks Kugan!

Thanksgiving is like Harvest festival in other countries (pongal in Tamilnadu) giving thanks for the year's harvest.

Aunty harvested some jasmine flowers ! A grandson arrived on Oct 3.

The menu is as usual baked stuffed(spicy) turkey, cranberry sauce and sweet potato! We are in San Francisco with our sons,daughter in law and grand children. Aunty will make whatever else they want. This is our family get together time!

It has been commercialized too much! We don't go shopping during Thanksgiving Holidays.

[rose75]

Kuganka, thanks for the ellu podi and other visuals . Your moong dal looks good. I have not seen before.
Why is it hard any reasons?
Thanks Rairaj sir. for the nice explanation on Thanksgiving.
Kuganka looking forward for Meera's pictures.

[chinnakkannan]

//Shhhhh, Kannan anneh, I was taught to make idli upma with little tumeric powder only.
Konjam lazy, athoda, I like white color idli upma. Athuthaan//

Thanks kuganji..for the recipe. Will ask her to make.. aamaa..2 spoon dhaal kku 10 chilli yaa..romba kaarama irukkaathu ?!

[sudha india]

Hi friends and K

Visiting KK after a long time, but was missing this very much.
Read few posts.

1 Q : Kugan : Does adding cooked rice give the fluffyness to idlis ? We do get good idlis but have never added cooked rice.
cooked rice podaradhula enna advantage ?

Ellu milagapodi.... will do this tomorrow.

[kugan98]

Thanks Kugan!

Thanksgiving is like Harvest festival in other countries (pongal in Tamilnadu) giving thanks for the year's harvest.

Aunty harvested some jasmine flowers ! A grandson arrived on Oct 3.

The menu is as usual baked stuffed(spicy) turkey, cranberry sauce and sweet potato! We are in San Francisco with our sons,daughter in law and grand children. Aunty will make whatever else they want. This is our family get together time!

It has been commercialized too much! We don't go shopping during Thanksgiving Holidays.

Thanks Rajraj uncle for the nice explanation.

WOW! congrats uncle, have a nice time with your grandson.

Yes, uncle, once I was with Meerra for Thanksgiving day, she cooked so many dishes.
She has posted to me her spread this time.
You are right, the Black Friday shopping was a mad rush.
We went for the fun of it. Thanks and take care, Kugan.

[kugan98]

Kuganka, thanks for the ellu podi and other visuals . Your moong dal looks good. I have not seen before.
Why is it hard any reasons?
Thanks Rairaj sir. for the nice explanation on Thanksgiving.
Kuganka looking forward for Meera's pictures.

Thanks Rose for your nice post.
I do not know the reason why the moong dal was hard.
I just soaked it for about 3 hours, drained it and dried it with out moisture.
Fried it in hot oil, removed and added, fine salt and hing powder.

Any reasons any one knows?
Thanks, Kugan.

Here is Meerra's Spread:

Broccoli casserole, green beans casserole, candied yam, roasted butternut squash,vegetarian meat loaf,
mashed potato, homemade buns, vegetarian meat balls with cranberry sauce and spicy cake.

[kugan98]

Super Kugan Ji.. thanks for the post.

U made my weekend Menu

Danq

Thanks Peter for your nice post. Nice to see you after a long time.
Do ask us if you need any recipes, we will gladly response.
Take care, Kugan.

[kugan98]

//Shhhhh, Kannan anneh, I was taught to make idli upma with little tumeric powder only.
Konjam lazy, athoda, I like white color idli upma. Athuthaan//

Thanks kuganji..for the recipe. Will ask her to make.. aamaa..2 spoon dhaal kku 10 chilli yaa..romba kaarama irukkaathu ?!

Kannan anna, you are also adding 50 grms of sesame seeds.
Anneh, uppu, kaaram, pulipu ellam, up to your taste anneh.
The recipe is only a guideline as to how to do.
Thanks and take care, Kugan.

[kugan98]

Hi friends and K

Visiting KK after a long time, but was missing this very much.
Read few posts.

1 Q : Kugan : Does adding cooked rice give the fluffyness to idlis ? We do get good idlis but have never added cooked rice.
cooked rice podaradhula enna advantage ?

Ellu milagapodi.... will do this tomorrow.

Dear Sudha, so nice to see your post.

Sudha, that's how my great grandma taught our family.
I am sure we get fluffy idlis, by using the cooked rice.
Even for aapam, we only use pachai arisi with with little cooked rice.
The aapam would come that fluffy.

The measurement that I gave gives fluffy idli every time.
You can even use idli rice with the measurement.

I have yet to try NOV anneh's measurement.
No time to go out to purchase the noi arisi.

Thanks Sudha, take care, Kugan.

[kugan98]

My dear friends, if you say Mysore bonda, I will only think about urad dal bonda.
My relative who came from India told me that it can be done in maida too.
So she taught me how to do Maida Mysore Bonda. Try it friends. Kugan.


MAIDA MYSORE BONDA


Ingredients:

1 ½ cup water
1 cup curds
Use as needed to make the soft batter.

2 cups maida flour
½ cup rice flour
1 tsp cooking soda
Salt to taste

1 tsp cumin seeds
2 tbs coconut pieces cut into small pieces (pallu, pallu )
3 green chillies chopped fine
1 tbs ginger chopped fine
1 tbs coriander leaves chopped fine
½ tsp coarsely crushed black pepper

Method:

Whisk together the curd and water, keep aside.
In a bowl, add in the maida flour , rice flour, cooking soda and salt.
Mix every thing well, add in the curd water mixture slowly and mix well.
Make it into a vadai like batter.

Now add in the cumin seeds, coconut pieces, green chillies, ginger,
coriander leaves and crushed black pepper.
Mix well and keep aside for about half an hour.
Heat oil in a wok, make round bonds and drop them in the oil.

Cook on medium heat, and cook till it is golden brown in color.
Serve with chillie sauce or coconut chutney.