Kugan's Kitchen Part 7

[kugan98]

Oh Selvieam, double joy for me.
Glad that you liked the pulao and mint chutney.
Please try out the ice cream, use any flavour that you like.
Just as Dev made chocolate flavour.
Hope your children will enjoy.
Thanks and take care, Kugan

[kugan98]

ONDEH-ONDEH

Ingredients:

For the dough
200 gm glutinous rice flour
50 ml pandan juice
90 ml - 110 ml warm water
few drops of green colouring

For the filling
150 gms palm sugar, cut into tiny pieces (the size of tamarind seeds)

For the coating
200 grms grated coconut , lightly salted and steamed for about 2 to 3 minutes

Method:

In a bowl, add in the pandan juice, glutinous rice flour, little green colour.
Now add in the warm. water little by little, and mix the dough.
You should be able to pinch the soft dough and form small balls. That’s the consistency.

Take about 10 grms of the dough and make into a ball.
Using your index finger, create a well and place 1 piece of the palm sugar.
Now close the well and gently form it into a ball.

Bring a pot of water to boil. Now drop the ball into a pot of boiling water.
The ball will sink to the bottom. After a while the ball will rise up to the surface.
When the rice balls float to the surface, remove them with a slotted spoon.

Shake off the excess water. Coat the rice balls with the grated coconut.
Serve it with a cup of steaming tea.


NOTE: To make pandan juice, blend about 4 pandan leaves with about 100 ml water.
strain the juice through a sieve.

[Aarthii]

Kuganka,Tried your zuchini vindaloo last night and it came out good
Thanks kuganka.
Thanks for the pulav and the other recipes too.

[kugan98]

Dear Aarthii, thanks for your nice post.
Also thanks for your nice feed back.
Try out the pulao and see, simple and tasty.
Hope you enjoyed your holidays.
Thanks and take care, Kugan

[Lathz]

hye kugan akka.......
i need a favour frm u......
can u help me on d vegetarian mutton fry......
urgently needed....pls help

[dev]

K, actually it was a lemongrass plant... it survived a couple of yrs only... but we made good use of it as long as it was there...now we get dried lemongrass here...so tht's not a prob...
Ice cream innum few scoops thaan irukku... oru 1 week break vittu 2nd round senjida vendiyathu thaan...

K, we got a huge jackfruit from a friend but we had to cut it open when it was semi ripe as it started rotting pn one part which I guess adupattufied while in transit... Wht can I do with this semi ripe jackfruit...I made poriyal today and it was good... halwa seiyalaama?... chips konjam try panninen...it came out okay.,..wht else can I do with this very mildly sweet semi- ripe JF?

[dev]

K, do they sometimes stuff the ondeh ondeh with red bean paste?... I love red bean paste and my neighbor once gave me a similar steamed sweet with a red bean filling?... She also said we can use powdered peanut brittles as filling... hmmm...missing all those lovely food...

K, malaysiala ellam oru plum powder tahruvaangale cut fruits ooda...adhu epdi seiyuradhu?...

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Kugan akka

What is ONDEH-ONDEH ? some Malasyian stuff ??

[nithishri]

ondeh ondeh looks yummy ka...but sad that I dont get any ingredients at all.. Guess neeed to research on a malaysian grocery store

[kugan98]

Lathz, I hope you have received my pm.
How is the little one coping? Take care, Kugan.




MUTTON VARUVAL (SOMA)

Ingredients:

(A)
1 kg mock mutton
2 onion chopped fine
2 tsp ginger paste
2 tsp garlic paste
2 tsp kas-kas powder
½ tsp tumeric powder
½ tsp aniseed powder
1 tbs chillie powder (more or less to taste)
2 red tomatoes very finely chopped
½ cup thick curds
Salt to taste

(B)
2 tbs ghee or oil
1 tsp aniseeds
2 small pieces of cinnamon stick
2 cardamom pods
4 cloves
1 bay leaf
1 sprig curry leaves
1 onion sliced

(C)
Little lime juice
10 cashew nuts roasted in ghee
1 sprig curry leaves

Method:

Clean the mock mutton.
Now mix all the ingredients in (A) nicely
Marinate the mock mutton in the mixed ingredients for an hour.
Do not use any water.

Heat the ghee or oil in a heavy bottomed wok, or non - stick wok.
Add in all the spices in (B) one by one.
Saute well till the onions are light golden in colour.

Now add in the marinated mock mutton with all the juices.
Give a good stir, and let it cook till the juices dry up.
You have to check always to see that it does not get burned.

Keep on stirring gently till the mutton is really dry.
Now sprinkle the lime juice, and garnish with the curry leaves
and the roasted cashew nuts. Your dry mutton varuval is ready.

NOTE: the same method can be used for normal mutton.
But you have to use water to cook the mutton mixture, as the mutton takes long time to cook.