Cut the vegetables into long pieces and steam in pressure cooker.
Grind grated coconut and green hot chillies and salt.Add this to thick curd.Add
cooked vegetables, mix well and heat for sometime. When cooked, add curry
leaves and 1/2 spoon coconut oil.
80. Tamarind pickle (Pulikkachal)
coriander seeds (Dhaniya), fenugreek seeds, sesame seeds - each 1 spoon
asafoetida - 1/4 spoon
Slightly roast the above without oil and grind into fine powder. Pour 3 spoons of oil
in a fry pan and add some gram dal and whole red peppers and fry slightly.
Add tamarind juice to this and bring it to boil.Add salt and heat with constant
stirring until the mixture becomes thick. Now add the ground powder and stir
constantly with heating until it becomes a non-sticky paste.Store in refrigerator.
81. 7-cup sweet
Milk - 1 cup
gram flour - 1 cup
Sugar - 3 cups
Grated coconut - 1 cup
Ghee - 1 cup
Mix well and heat in a fry pan until it becomes soft.
82. VenPongal
Mix rice and moong dal in the ratio 1:1.Add 3 times water and steam until it is
overcooked.Cut green chillies and ginger into fine pieces.Take some ghee in a fry
pan and add whole black peppers, and cumun seeds.When the peppers burst add
chillie and ginger pieces and a pinch of turmeric powder.Add some cashewnuts and
remove the pan when the cashews are roasted and begin to smell.Add this to
cooked dal-rice.Add salt, curry leaves and mix well.Add some ghee while serving.
83. Lime pickle
Fresh lime(large size, thin skin, ripe) - 6
Cut into medium pieces.(Preseve the juice while cutting).Add salt- 4 spoons,red
chilli powder - 4 spoons, asafoetida - 1/2 spoon and mix well.
Next day add 1/4 cup of sesame oil and leave it aside.
Next day, add mustard seeds to 4 spoons of oil and when it splatters add
fenugreek seeds and asafoetida.Add this to the poickle and mix.Store in
refrigerator.
84. Ginger Pickle
Grate ginger finely.Take oil and add mustard seeds.When it splatters, add
fenugreek seed powder an asafoetida.Add grated ginger and fry well till the
moisture is gone and it becomes a non-sticky paste.