Ravai Uppama a Complete Meal

Ingredients:

2 Katories / cups of Rava or Sooji (cream of wheat)
1 Katori of mixed vegetables such as Carrots, Green peas, Cauliflower etc finely cut and boiled till tender
1 medium size onion
2 green chilies or as per taste
1 tablespoon of chopped curry leaves
1 tablespoon ginger finely cut
1 teaspoon mustard seed
1 teaspoon black gram Dal (washed) or Dhuli Urad
2 tablespoon of oil
Salt to taste

Method:
1 Roast Rava or Sooji (cream of wheat) in a non-stick pan till golden brown. Keep it Separately. Put the required oil and add mustard seeds and black Gram Dal or Dhuli Urad. When it starts fluttering, put chopped onions, green chilies, curry leaves and finely cut ginger. When onion turns brown add the roasted Rava or Sooji and sauté nicely. Add salt and cooked vegetables if desired and sauté nicely. Then in a medium flame add about 4 cups of luke warm water and mix well. To avoid lumps keep on stirring the Uppamma. Serve hot with coconut chutney. If desired add roasted cashews before serving.

Fish Fry Dali & Rotis/Rice

Ingredients:

Fish-1/2 kg
Garlic-10 flakes of pod
Onion-100 gms
Chilly powder-2 tsps
Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp
Salt-to taste
Lemon juice-1 tsp
Oil-to fry

Method:

1.Grind all ingredients into a fine paste.
2.Add the paste to sliced fish pieces and marinate for about half an hour.
3.Fry. Serve hot with lentils and rice or rotis

South Indian Style - King Prawn Biryani

Ingredients:

20 Prawns
1 cup Basmati rice
11/2 cup Water
1 cup Onion(thinly chopped)
3/4 cup Tomato(finely chopped)
2 inch Ginger
8 Garlic cloves
1 Green chilly
3/4 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Red chilli powder
1 tsp Coriander seeds
1 tsp Anise seeds
1 Cinnamon stick (small)
3 Cloves
Kesari powder a pinch
1/4 tsp Garam masala powder
1/4 cup Mint leaves
4 tbsp Coriander leaves (finely chopped)
3 tsp Oil
2 tsp Ghee or dalda
Salt to taste

Method:

Clean the prawns. Grind the ginger, garlic and anise seeds into a fine paste.
Add oil in the pressure cooker and heat it. Add cinnamon stick, cloves and fry it for a few seconds. Add ginger-garlic paste, mint leaves, coriander leaves, onion and tomato and fry it well. Add the prawns and fry it for a minute. Then add turmeric powder, chilli powder, 11/2 cups of water, salt and rice and stir it well. Close the cooker with the lid and turn the flame to medium high. Once you get the pressure, put the weight on the cooker and turn the flame to medium low and keep it for 8 minutes. After 8 minutes remove the cooker from the stove and keep it aside.
After 10 minutes remove the lid and stir the rice well and serve it with onion raita.

Kerala Mango Fish Curry

Ingredients :

2 lbs. fish, cut into big pieces
1 cup chopped onions
4 medium green chilies, slitted
1 marble size tamarind
1 big raw mango, cut into pieces
Few curry leaves
Salt to taste

Method:

First grind into a fine paste 1 cup chopped coconut
1 tsp. pepper1 tsp. cumin seeds - 1 tbsp. Coriander powder, 1 pinch turmeric powder
For seasoning - 1 tbsp. oil1 tsp. fenugreek seeds & 1 tsp. aniseeds

1. Clean the fish pieces and wash it clearly. Dissolve a pinch of turmeric powder and a pinch of salt in a cup of water and soak the fish pieces to avoid any smell.
2. Soak the tamarind in water and take juice from it. keep it aside.
3. Mix the mango pieces, fish pieces, onions and green chilies in tamarind water with salt.
4.Cook until they become soft.
5. Add the ground items and cook it on low heat until the raw smell has to be gone with the lid on. Season it and add the clean curry leaves. Let it reach the boiling point and remove it from the heat.
Serves: 6Preparation time: 30 minutes

Cauliflower in Gravy

Ingredients:

Cauliflower - 1/2 kg, oil - 2 tsp, salt - 1/4+1/4 tsp, moong dal - 6 tsp, turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp, grated coconut - 2 tsp (or as required), red dried chillie - 1

Method:

Cut cauliflower into small flowerets. Put these pieces in boiling water, add 1/4 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp turmeric powder, 1 dried red chilli and leave it covered for 5 min.Remove the cauliflower which float on top to a separate vessel. This ensures that cauliflower becomes clean.

Heat 2 tsp of oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. When they pop, add urud dal. When it is roasted, add the washed cauliflower. Add 6 tsp moong dal1/4 tsp salt, 2 tblspoon waterand cook covered in low heat, stirring occasionallt to see if it is fully cooked and soft.In the end, add 2 tsp grated coconut if required. Serve hot.

Spicy Aubergines - Vegetarian

Ingredients:-

300 g. brinjals
1 cup curd
2 large onions, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
2 tsp. chilli powder
2 tsp. ginger-garlic paste
1 tsp. coriander powder
1 tsp. garam masala powder
1 tsp.coriander leaves, chopped
1/4 tsp. turmeric powder
1/4 tsp. cummin powder
Salt
1/4 cup ghee
For garnishing
1 onion - sliced
1 tbsp. cashewnuts
1 tbsp. raisins

Method:-

Cut brinjals into 2.5 cm. thick slices. Smear with salt and keep aside for 10 minutes. Wash and squeeze dry. Heat ghee, fry cashewnuts, raisins and sliced onion till golden brown. Remove from ghee and keep aside. Fry the brinjals in the same ghee till tender. Remove. In the remaining ghee fry the chopped onions till transparent.

Add all the dry spices, ginger-garlic paste and chopped tomatoes and saute till the ghee floats on top.

Add curd, coriander leaves and salt. Stir well. Cook till the gravy thickens.
Add fried brinjals to the gravy and simmer for two minutes. Sprinkle the garnish on top. Serve hot with rice or parathas.

Puttu & Kadala Curry

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 2 cups
Grated coconut - 1 cup
Water - 1/2 cup
Salt to taste

Method:-

Add salt and approximately 3 table spoons of grated coconut into the flour and mix well. Add water little by little to the rice flour and mix it. The flour should be wet enough for steaming, but we have to be careful when you add water to the flour. The consistency has got to be right. It should not become too watery. Puttu has to be made in a Puttu maker. Layer the Puttu maker with some grated coconut first, then the rice mixture and then the grated coconut again. Steam for 2-3 minutes, take out and serve hot with Kadala Curry as below.


Ingredients:

Kadala (Gram Dal) - 2 cups
Mustard - 1/4 tsp
Onion - 1
Ginger - a small piece (1 inch length)
Garlic - 6 cloves
Chillie Powder - 1tsp
Coriander powder - 3 tbs
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Tomato chopped - 1
Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
salt to taste
optional ( small pieces of coconut, coconut milk and garam masala powder(1/2 tsp))

Method:

Cook the kadala with salt and keep it aside. In a pan season the mustard and satue onions, ginger, garlic, chillie powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, chopped tomatoes and curry leaves. (optional small pieces of coconut can be added). Add the cooked kadala to it. For extra taste add half cup of coconut milk and masala powder.