Corn Capsicum

Another Tasty Recipe TD's Healthy Subzi Cookbook. Simple and great taste. The Original Recipe uses Red and yellow capsicums, but i made using  green ones, lazy to go get it!!! But never mind, it came out great!!!

Ingredients
1 cup boiled Sweet Corn Kernels
2 Medium sized Capiscums (Any Color)
1/2 cup Chopped Onions
1 tsp Ginger-Garlic paste
1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Red Chilli powder
1 tsp Garam Masala
2 Tomatoes
1/4 tsp cCorn Flour mixed with 1/4 cup low fat milk
2 tsp oil
Salt taste
Chopped Coriander for garnishing

Method

Boil a Vesselful of water and add the tomatoes to it. Remove afte a few minutes, peel and blend to a smooth puree. Keep aside. Heat 1/2 tsp oil in a n on-stick pan and add the capsicum and saute for a while. Keep aside.  Heat the remaining oil in the same pan, add onions and saute till they turn brown in colour.

Add the ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder,red chilli powder and garam masala and fry for a while. Sprinkle little water to avoid burning of masalas.  Add the tomato puree to it and cook for 3-4 minutes.  Add the corn, sauteed capsicum, corn flour and milk mixture, and salt mix ell adn simmer till the gravy thickens.

Serve Hot garnished with coriander.

Instant Cornmeal Dosa/Crepe

When u have kids around, u got to know the instant version of anything!!!! Dinner Time yesterday evening, My Lil Angel came running to the kitchen, "Amma, amma, enna venum?", it means i should ask him "enna venum". I asked him "enna venum di chellam?", "mmmm, white dosai :)" came the reply. Aha idly/dosa batter got over!!! i said to him "amma will make poori for you, flower poori, aeroplane poori, star poori!!!" with my eyes wide open!!!!! The Reply "illai, white dosai". All my acting gone waste!!! Ok, i said wait go watch Tom and Jerry i will make Dosai for you. Thats the Story behind my Instant Dosa!!!

Ingredients

1/2 cup Cornmeal

1 tablespoon All Purpose flour

2 tablespoon Wheat flour

Eno Fruit Salt a pinch

1 cup Buttermilk

Salt to taste

Method

Mix all the above said ingredients with buttermilk to pouring consistency.Heat the tava, pour half a laddle of the batter, spread a little, dont make it tooo thin!!!. Drizzle some ghee/oil on the sides,Cook both sides on a Low flame. Keep the flame low, or else u get black Dosas!!!! :)  If you enough time you can even add some shredded carrot to the batter.

Serve HOT with any Chutney, Mine vanished with some Thokku!!! Happy Tummy!!!! Happy Mummy!!!

SpotLight Blog #My Experiments With Food ~ Recipe - Aval Kozhukkattai

The calendar is showing a new month and its time for a new blog to be on the spotlight. And this month, the limelight blog is Jayashree's 'My Experiments with Food'. The similarity doesn't end with our names and blog names, our traditional cuisine is same too (Palakkad Iyer cuisine).  I found many interesting, delicious recipes yet not very complicated in her blog.

The first recipe I tried for this series was Aval Kozhukkattai - Steamed balls from beaten rice. It made a quick and filling meal. The preparation is similar to upma kozhukkattai. When I first saw the recipe, my thoughts were how different is it going to be from aval upma/puli aval. The ingredients were almost the same except that tamarind or an equivalent is not used here. I am glad I tried it since it was so different from upma and had a unique taste. It was worth trying.

You need

Coarsely powdered aval/beaten rice - 1 cup
Water - 2 cups
Grated coconut - 2 tblspn
Salt to taste

Seasoning

Oil - 2 tspn
mustard seeds - 1 tspn
Chana dal, urad dal, peanuts - 1 tspn each
Green chilly - 1 no
Curry leaves - few sprigs

Method

I used the rose matta aval which is very tasty and has a thick texture. To get one cup of coarsely powedered aval, take 2 cups of aval. Make sure you don't grind it fine else the kozhukkattais will not have the right texture.

Take a kadai. Heat oil and add the seasoning ingredients. Add water and salt. When water starts boiling, add the powdered aval. Mix well. Cook on low heat till the water is fully absorbed and resembles upma. Add grated coconut and mix well.

Spread the cooked mix on a plate to cool. Spape the dough into balls and steam cook for 5 minutes. Jayashree has  done this in microwave and I chose to do it on stove top.

The kozhukkattais tasted good on its own. You can serve it with any chutney as dip or sprinkle some chutney powder on it and serve. I got 11 nos of the size shown in the picture.