Kugan's Kitchen Part 7

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Thiru

Try Kothamalai water !

[kugan98]

Kugan, so nice spread. All the dishes look so tempting.
Epadi thaan ungalalliukku mudiyutho. Kugan ungal tomato rice looks very tempting.
Sorry to ask you, can you post the recipe for it before you go to India.
Very sorry to disturb you. Thanks Kugan.

Dear Gulabjamun, it was your e-mail, that came to my phone, that brought me to the hub now.
Otherwise I would not have seen my Tamby's request for the rasams.
Thanks, I will post the tomato pulao for you.
Take care, Kugan

[Thirumaran]

Kugan
Nandu kidaichaa intha week end nandu rasam thaan

[kugan98]

TOMATO PULAO

Ingredients:

2 tbs ghee
1 bay leaf
2 cardamom pods
2 cloves
1 inch cinnamon stick
½ tsp aniseeds
1 sprig curry leaves

1 big onion sliced
1 tsp ginger and garlic paste
2 green chillies sliced
3 tomatoes chopped fine
1 tsp red chillie powder
1/8 tsp tumeric powder
½ tsp garam masala powder
6 mint leaves
1 tbs coriander leaves

¼ cup green peas
A pinch of sugar
Salt to taste

1 cup basmathi rice soaked for 10 minutes and drained
1 ½ cup boiling water

Method:

Heat a pressure cooker with the ghee. Add in the seasonings.
Let them crackle for a minute. Add in the onions and ginger garlic paste.
Saute well till the onions turn limp. Add in the green chillies.
Add in also the chopped tomatoes. Stir fry once nicely.

Add in the red chillie powder, tumeric powder, and garam masala powder.
Cook until the tomatoes turn mushy. Add in the mint, coriander leaves.
Add in also the green peas, sugar and the salt.
Now add in the drained rice and the boiling water.

Give a good stir, close the lid and cook on low flame till 1 whistle.
Off the flame, and let the steam subside on its own.
Remove and fluff up the rice, serve with any raitha.
Garnish with roasted cashews and raisins.

NOTE: My cooker needs only one whistle. Please cook as to how you
will pressure cook in your house.

[kugan98]

Thiru Tamby, I forgot to tell you, the nandu has to be alive, when you buy.
You know they call it , kaanda nandu.
I do not know what they call it there.
Not the dead ones that they call flower nandu.

NOV anneh can you help me?
What do they call the nandu's that are alive?
Thanks, Kugan.


They will be tied like this.

[kugan98]

oru 1/4 adiyunga ellam sariyagidum

P.S Tamby, Kailashla irrunthukiitu, ipaadi sollalaama?


Kugan

[PARAMASHIVAN]

P.S Tamby, Kailashla irrunthukiitu, ipaadi sollalaama?


Kugan

Kugan akka,

Athu annan Thiruku I was just joking akka

[NOV]

Thiru Tamby, I forgot to tell you, the nandu has to be alive, when you buy.
You know they call it , kaanda nandu.
I do not know what they call it there.
Not the dead ones that they call flower nandu.

NOV anneh can you help me?
What do they call the nandu's that are alive?
Thanks, Kugan.

dead crab... vittaa funeral panniduveenga pOla ... yeah, those are called flower crabs and live in water exclusively

the live crabs are called mud crabs and move in both land and water and called kaandaa nandu in thamizh

[Thirumaran]

Sure will check for alive crab's..

[selvieam]

kugan,

what a spread. it looks great. tomato pulao is my favourite, i will add little coconut milk to it. let me try ur version too.