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Ingredients  Green Peas - 2 cups. Chopped Onion - 2 Pudhina / mint leaves - half cup Fennel seeds - 1 tspn Salt Oil - 1 tbspn Rice - 2 cups Water - 6 cups Method  Clean the rice. Heat a pressure cooker with 2 tbspn of oil . Drop 1 tspn of sombu/fennel seeds. Add chopped onions & saute for a min. Add Green peas & cleaned mint leaves & saute for 1 min. Pour 6 cups of water to it. Add the cleaned rice. Add Salt & a small pinch of turmeric (opt) Mix well & close the cooker . Keep 3 whistles & wait until the pressure leaves. Serve it hot with Onion Raitha.                                                ********* Happy Cooking ***********

Kara kuzhambu is a popular gravy in south India especially in TamilNadu . This is one of the easiest & simple gravy that can never go wrong :) It goes well with any veg poriyal / egg poriyal / appalam / aviyal . At least once in a week  tamilnadu people will  hit on this kuzhambu for sure .. Cos it doesn't need any special vegetables or a big procedure.. Even Beginners can hit sixer with this recipe !! Try this spicy kara kuzhambu with pictorial steps . Happy Cooking ! Ingredients  Drumstick - 1 Chopped Pototes - 2 medium sized Chopped Onion - 2 Chopped Tomato - 2 Brinjal - 3 Tamarind - 1 lemon sized Vadagam - 1 tspn (optional ) Homemade chilly powder - 2 full tbspn  (OR pure chilly powder - 1 tspn , coriander powder - 2 tspn ) Turmeric - 2 fat pinch Salt To Temper ~ Oil - 2 tbspn Curry leaves - few Fenugreek / vendhayam - 1 tspn Mustard - 1 tspn Method  Heat a pan / kadai with 2 tbspn of oil...

Aviyal is a delightful mix of all sort of vegetables . This goes well with kara kuzhambu / vathal kuzhambu & it is also a best side for kara adai & Aapam .,.. I strongly recommend you try this cos it as lots of healthy ingredients " VEGETABLES " & second thing is its TASTE . Try this recipe.. have a healthy & fit life !! Happy Cooking :) :) Ingredients  Chopped Mixed Vegetables - 2 cups. ( Carrot small- 2 ,  potato - 2 ,  Broad beans - 3 no. , Beans - 5 no. , Plantain  / Vazhaikai  , drumstick - 1 ,  snake gourd Mango - 3 pieces ) Salt to taste Curd - 1/4 cup   To grind ( grind with less water ) Coconut - 3 tbspn Cumin / seeragam - 1tspn Green chillies - 3 To temper  Mustard & curry leaves in 1 tbspn of oil. ( use cooking oil OR coconut oil ) Method Cook all the vegetables with little salt. Heat a pan with oil & drop mustard and curry leaves . Add the grinded coconut paste with 1/2...

Homemade is always special rite ?? ;) Here is my spicyyy special homemade chilly powder for you !!!  Kuzhambu milagai podi (குழம்பு மிளகாய் பொடி) / Homemade chilly powder is a substitute for pure chilly powder & coriander powder that we use in our daily cooking. Normally we used to prepare this in large amount, so that it can be used for months.I use this powder for almost every spicy dish i do.. and in lazy days i even use this as sides for idly & Dosa ( 2 tspn of homemade chilly powder + 3 crushed garlic cloves + salt + Sesame Oil ) Ahhh its mouthwatering when i think that combo .. " idly & Chilly powder with gingelly oil " :) :) Anyways lets jump into the procedure of preparing it :) Ingredients  Dry Red Chilly - 1 kg Dhaniya / Coriander seeds - 1 & 1/2 kg Cumin seeds - 100 gm Fennel seeds - 100 gm Black Pepper - 100 gm Channa dal / Kadala Paruppu - 100 gm Curry leaves - 1 cup (optional ) Raw rice - 100 gm (optional ) Method...

Nandu Kuzhambu I got this recipe idea from my soyachunks curry which i made for chappathi. It was totally totally as good as non veg dish ,so all motivators in my home told me to try this soyachunks curry with Crabs instead of soyachunks.. Believe it or Not, i got this mouth watering & aromatic crab curry as output !!!! :) :) :) Felt really great :D  Try this recipe & be happyyyyy as i am :) YES Ofcourse!! with lots of smilesssssssss :):):):):):) Know about What you eat ~

Potato fry is almost everyone's favorite in India. It goes well with any rice or even with chappathis ..Whenever we cook this fry, half potatoes will be already in our stomach before going in plate.. Before its fully cooked, myself & my brother used to steal potatoes from hot kadai in the name of taste & finish nearly half of it... ;) lol .. It's such a mouth watering dish !!! :)  Ingredients  Potatoes - 5 (medium sized) Mustard - 1 tspn Curry leaves - few Homemade chilly powder - 2 or 2 1/2 tbspn ( as per your taste ) Salt Oil - 4 tbspn max. Method  Chop the potatoes & clean it twice. Heat a kadai with 2 tbspn of oil , drop mustard & then curry leaves. Add the chopped potatoes. Add some water (not more than half cup ) Sprinkle some salt on it & mix well. Keep it in medium flame & let it cook until all water is absorbed well. (don't forget to stir in between) Add Chilly powder , turmeric a pinch & Salt . P...

Poricha Kuzhambu is one of my favourite gravy , cos it is " The Simplest " gravy  for Beginners to learn and get good comments & am sure there is no doubt about it !! It goes well with pappads or any spicy side dishes. We normally cook this, only on our lazy days..that is when, myself & mom have no ideas or gone mad in a thought process of what to cook for lunch.. 2 potatoes & 1 drum stick is more than enough for this dish to bring yummy flavor . Learn this aromatic Poricha kuzhambu with pictorial steps .. Happy Cooking !! * Click on image to enlarge * Brinjal , Potatoes & Drumsticks Ingredients  Brinjal - 3 Potatoes - 2 or 3 (as per your need ) Drumstick - 1 Chopped Onion - 2 medium sized Chopped Tomatoes - 2 medium sized Curry leaves - few Turmeric Powder - 2 fat pinch Grinded Coconut Cumin Paste Homemade Chilly powder - 2 full tbspn. ( OR Pure Chilly powder - 1 tspsn & coriander powder - 2 tspn ) Salt Oil - 2 tbspns Fenugre...