South Indian Meal in minutes

COCONUT RICE

Ingredients - 1 & 1/2 cup rice, 1 coconut, 1 tablespoon blackgram, 1 tablespoon bengal gram
3 green chillies, 3 rd chillies, 1 tablespoon chopped cashewnut, 1 teaspoon mustard seeds, a pinch of asafoetida, 3 tablespoons ghee, a few sprigs of curry leaves, oil for frying and salt to taste.

Method

Wash the rice and put into a container and boil with 2 cups of water in a pressure cooker for 6 minutes. Remove from cooker and spread the rice on a thali and allow to cool, grate coconut and dice red chillies. Heat oil in pan and fry the chillies, mustard seeds asoafoetida, black gram, bengal gram and cashew nuts till golden brown. Add curry leaves and fry for a few minutes then remove from fire. Fry coconut till it turns light brown in colour. Now add the coconut, and the fried ingredients to the rice and mix well with a spoon.

KADALA CURRY

Ingredients: 1/2 cup jackfruit pieces finely sliced , 1/2 cup whole gram (channa), 1/2 cup grated coconut, 1/4 teaspoon tumeric powder, a few sprigs curry leves, 1/2 teaspoon jaggery and salt to taste.

Method

Grind coconut to a smooth paste, place the cooked jackfruit and gram in a vessel. Add coconut paste and curry leaves, allow to simmer on a low fire for 5 minutes. Heat oil add black gram and mustard seeds when mustard crackles and dal turns brown in colour add coconut and fry till light brown in colour. Season curry with this and serve hot.