Kugan's Kitchen Part 6

[kugan98]

Thanks Suvai for your nice post.
No harm try out the cakes one by one. It will be edible

So need not worry of wasting the ingredients.

Having visitors from Singapore. Heavy cooking as usual.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

The guests requested me to do the manathakkali keerai saaru, and pasalai keerai poondu masiyal.
I at once thought of anna Groucho.

Thanks and take care, Kugan98

[kugan98]

Well visitors from Singapore were having mouth ulcers.
They requested for this dish. Here is the recipe Groucho anna.

MANATHAKKALI KEERAI SAARU
Ingredients:
250 grm manathakkali keerai only the leaves
150 grms toor dal
2 green chillies sliced
3 garlic pips
tsp tumeric powder

1 tomato chopped
1 onion sliced
tsp mustard seeds
tsp cumin seeds
1 dry chillie cut into pieces
1 tsp tamarind paste diluted
Salt to taste
Oil
cup coconut milk ( optional )
Method:
Boil the dal with the tumeric powder, sliced green chillies,
And garlic.
After the dal is well cooked ,add the keerai.
Do not over cook the keerai. Remove from stove.
The consistency should be a bit watery.
Use a pan, add the oil, then the mustard seeds.
Also add the cumin seeds. Then add the dried chillies,
Chopped onions, and chopped tomatoes.
Let the tomatoes cook well, add in the diluted tamarind.
Let it boil well, pour the contents in the dal, keerai mixture.
Add salt. Add the coconut milk if you are using it.
Let it boil once and remove from stove, and serve.

Note: This keerai is called Black Nightshade in English.
It is supposed to cure stomach ulcers, and mouth ulcers.


This is how the keerai looks:



The Saaru: (sorry, I do not know how to straighten the picture

[kugan98]

This keerai is good source for iron.

PASALAI KEERAI POONDU MASIYAL
(PALAK)
Ingredients:
1 bunch of keerai cleaned and chopped
4 pips garlic crushed
3 green chillies sliced
Salt to taste
A pinch of sugar (it retains the green in the keerai)

To Season:
1 tbs ghee or oil
4 pips garlic chopped
1 medium onion sliced
tsp mustard seeds
tsp urad dal
Lime juice to taste

Method:
In a deep pot, add the chopped keerai, crushed garlic,
Sliced green chillies, salt and sugar. Add very little water
And cook the keerai. Remove as soon as it is cooked.
Cool a bit and mash it nicely. You can use the wooden mathu
Or just one spin in the mixie.
Heat the ghee, add the mustard seeds, and urad dal seeds.
Then add in the onions and chopped garlic.
Let the garlic brown a bit, it gives out a good aroma.
Pour it on the mashed keerai and mix nicely.
Add little lime juice to your taste.
Serve with steaming rice.


THE KEERAI:



THE KEERAI MASIYAL:

[kugan98]

My dear friends, it's party time again.
Our brother Thirumaran, and sister Aarthii both celebrate their birthdays tomorrow that is on the 19th of March.



WE THE KUGAN'S KITCHEN, WISH BOTH OF THEM A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU BOTH WITH GOOD HEALTH, WEALTH, LONG LIFE,
AND LOTS AND LOTS OF HAPPINESS.

HERE ARE TWO CAKES FOR BOTH OF YOU, SO NO FIGHTING

[kugan98]

Not only that, I spend the whole day cooking for both of you.
So enjoy the present and the meal
It is all from all the members from the forum.

[crazy]

Yummy yummy

[dev]

K, the parotta dough doubling in size might be coz of sprite...theriyalai... but the parotta was not oily...anyway, no idea of trying it at home... adhaan recipe requestye pannalai...
Will try the carrot cake sometime soon... pls post the with egg version... I'll try that...here noone(I mean the so called vegetarians) minds eating cakes with egg in it...
Keerai recipes...good for summer...will try them one by one...

[dev]

Many happy returns of the day Thiru and Aarthii...

K, Thiruku sugarless cakea...

[Aarthii]

Wow,love u kuganka.
Thanks a lot for the birthday wishes kuganka.
First birthday wish unga kitta irunthu thaan.Thank u

appadiye cake and meal eduthu sapida thonuthu,yummy cake and meal kuganka

[Aarthii]

Thanks for the wishes dev.
How about ur little angel?How is she doing now?