pudina rice/mint rice

Ingredients:

• rice -1cup
• pudina leaves-1 cup
• coriander leaves-10
• salt as per taste
• grated coconut-1/2 cup
• fried peanut-1/2 cup
• 1/2 onion chopped
• green chilly-2

Preparation:

1. Half cook the rice with 1/2 tsp salt.
2. Grind pudina ,coriander leaves,coconut,greenchilly with just enough water.
3. Pour oil in a wide tawa and fry onion till its golden brown.
4. Add peanuts and stir well.
5. Add ground mixture ,salt and fry for 3 mins.
6. add rice and mix well.cook the rice till its done.

nadan mutton curry

Ingredients:

• mutton/goat meat-1/2 kg
• 1 onion sliced
• chilly powder-1tsp
• turmeric powder-1tsp
• coriander powder-1 tsp
• salt-1tsp
• oil
• 1 tomato chopped
• garam masala-1tsp
• coconut milk-1cup

Preparation:

1. With 1 cup water pressure cook the mutton with 1/2 tsp each of turmeric,chilly,salt and 1/2 portion of onion.
2. Heat a deep bottom kadai and fry onion in 1 tsp oil till it becomes golden brown.
3. Add tomato and stir well for 3 mins.
4. Add rest of the chilly powder,turmeric powder and coriander powder and fry well for 2 mins.
5. Add half cooked mutton to this and stir well .
6. after 5 mins add garam masala,salt and cook with kadai closed.
7. Add coconut milk and boil it.remove from the heat when its thick.

Onam 2009 dishes

I really missed plantain leaves when I served my onam dishes.I had to adjust with 2 plates for 1 person.

My Onam feast include

1.Sambar

2.Avial

3.Inji curry

4.Injam puli

5.beetroot pachadi

6.Olan

7.cabbage thoran

8.kalan

9.ari murukku

10.andiunda

11.erisseri

12.rice

13.papad

14.vermicelli payasam

15.mango pickle