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 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 Semiya/ Vermicelli – 2 cups Full Cream Milk -2 litres Sugar – 2 cups Cardamom – 8 powdered Salt – 1/4 tsp Cashew nuts – 2 tbsp Golden raisins – 2 tbsp Ghee – 1 + 1 1/2 tsp Method Heat 1 tsp ghee in a non-stick pan and roast the semiya on a [...]

Ingredients Black Channa – 1/2 cup Yam/ Chena – 1/2 kg peeled and diced Raw Banana – 2 peeled and diced Water – 1 1/2 cup Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Chilly powder – 1/2 tsp Pepper powder – 1/2 tsp Jaggery – 4 tsp (optional) Salt – to taste For Grinding Grated coconut – [...]

Ingredients Ginger – 200 gm Tamarind – a lemon size Water – 1 1/2 cup Jaggery – 5 tsp Mustard seeds – 1 tsp Fenugreek seeds/ Uluva – 1/8 tsp Dry red chillies – 2 broken, seeds removed Green chillies – 10 chopped Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Coriander powder – 2 tsp Chilly powder [...]

Ingredients Ash gourd/ Kumbalanga – 1/2 kg Red beans/ Vanpayar – 1/2 cup Green chillies – 4 slit Salt – to taste Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Thick Coconut milk – 1/2 cup Coconut oil – 1 tbsp Method Soak red beans in water overnight or for 6 hrs.  Wash and pressure cook with 1 [...]

Ingredients Yellow Pumpkin – 1/2 kg Red Beans/ Van Payar – 1/2 cup Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp Chilly powder – 1/4 tsp Salt – to taste For Grinding Grated coconut – 1 cup Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp Green chillies – 4 Cumin seeds/ Jeera – 1/4 tsp For Seasoning Mustard seeds – 1 [...]