Salt and Spice

Wish You All A Happy And Prosperous Onam! Ingredients Rice Ada – 1 1/2 cups (store bought) Full cream milk – 3 litres Sugar – 4 cups Ghee – 1 tsp (optional) Method Boil 2 litres of water and soak the ada for half an hour.  Wash it 3 times in cold water and soak [...]

Ingredients Pineapple – 1 small chopped Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp Chilly powder – 1/4 tsp Salt – to taste Water – 1 1/4 cup Sugar – 1 1/2 tsp Fenugreek powder/Uluva podi – 1/8 tsp Thick curd – 1 1/2 cups For Grinding Grated coconut – 1 cup Green chillies – 3 Turmeric powder [...]

Ingredients Mushroom – 200 gm chopped Oil – 1 tbsp Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp Urad dal / Uzhunnu parippu – 1 tsp Dry red chillies – 2 broken, seeds removed Curry leaves – 1 sprig Onion – 1 medium chopped Water – 1/2 cup Salt – to taste For Grinding Grated coconut – 1/2 [...]

Ingredients Banana flower – 1 Green gram – 1/2 cup Water – 1 cup + 1/4 cup Grated coconut – 1/2 cup Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp Chilly powder – 1/4 tsp Green chillies – 3 Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp Salt – to taste Coconut oil – 1 1/2 tbsp Mustard seeds – 1/2 [...]

Ingredients Cracked Wheat – 1 1/4 cups Ripe Kerala Bananas – 2 cut into small pieces Ghee – 1 1/2 tsp + 2 tsp Jaggery – 500 gm Water – 4 cups + 1/2 cup Thin coconut milk – 2 cups + 2 cups Thick coconut milk – 1 cup Dry ginger powder/ chukku podi [...]

Ingredients Channa Dal/ Kadala Parippu – 1/2 cup Mixed vegetables – 3 cups diced Water – 1 1/2 cups + 1/2 cup Grated coconut – 1 cup + 2 tbsp Dry red chillies – 4 Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp Salt – to taste Mustard seeds – 1 tsp Black [...]

Ingredients Toor dal – 1/4 cup Water – 2 cups Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp Tomatoes – 2 cubed Water – 4 cups + 1 cup Tamarind – a small lime size Water – 1/2 cup Rasam powder – 2 tsp Pepper powder – 1/4 tsp Salt – to taste Juice of half a lime [...]

Ingredients Nutrela soya chunks – 1 cup Water – 4 cups Salt – 1/2 tsp Onion – 1 small sliced Green chillies – 2 slit Curry leaves – 1 sprig Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tsp Meat masala/ Curry powder – 1 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder – 3/4 tsp Pepper powder – 1/4 tsp Garam masala [...]

Ingredients Yoghurt – 1 cup Water – 1 cup Salt – to taste Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp Jeera/ Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp Uluva/ Fenugreek seeds – 1/8 tsp Garlic – 2 small chopped Curry leaves – 1 sprig Dry red chillies – 2 broken Turmeric powder – 3/4 tsp Oil – 2 tsp [...]

Ingredients Yam – 1 kg Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Salt – to taste Oil – for frying Method Apply some oil on your hands and remove the skin of the yam.  Cut it into small cubes, wash and marinate with salt and turmeric powder for 15 minutes.  Fry them in oil on a medium [...]