Moore Kulambu (Maziga Pulusu)

Ingredients:

Ash Guard Pieces 1 1/2 Cup

Sour Curd 3/4 Cup

Thuvar Dal 1 Tbl Spn

Red Chillies 3 or 4

Turmeric Powder 1/2 Tsp

Salt As Required

Fresh Grated Coconut 1 Tbl Spn

Jeera 1 Tsp

Asafoetida 1 Pinch

Curry leaves and Coriander leaves Few

For seasoniong: Mustard and 1 Tsp oil

Method:

Soak one Tbl Spn Thuar dal in water for an hour. Cook the ash guard pieces and keep aside. Take one day sour curd. Grind soaked thuar dal, coconut, jeera, red chillies coarsely. Add that paste in curd. Put boiled ash guard in curd. Add salt, turmeric powder. Now the keep the vessel in stove and boil it. Like milk when it boils remove it from stove. Donot boil it for a long time. Then it will become very liquid. Then season it with mustard and asafoetida. Also add cleaned curry leaves and coriander leaves and mix well. This is good with white rice.

Chenna Masala

Ingredients:

White Chenna 3/4 Cup

Onions 3

Tomato 3

Chilli Powder 2 Tsp

Salt As Required

Sour Curd 4 Tbl Spn

Cloves 4 to 6

Cinnamon 1 inch piece

Coriander leaves 1 bunch

Method:

Soak White chenna for 8 hours. Then cook it in pressure cooker for 20 minutes. After it becomes cool take one third of boiled chenna and make it into paste with the help of mixie. Cut onions and tomatoes into big pieces and grind it in mixie without adding water. Keep a kadai in stove. Pour 2 Tbl Spn of oil. Fry cinnamon and cloves. Then add grinded tomato and onion paste and fry it in low flame till the oil separates. Then add chillie powder, salt, sour curd and chenna paste and the remaining chenna. Mix well. Add a glass of water and allow it to cook for some time. After it becomes thick pour it in a bowl. Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves and finely cut onions. Perfect side dish for Chola Poori.

Aloo Tomato Kurma

Ingredients:

Tomato 2

Onions 2

Aloo(Potato) 1

Fresh grated coconut 4 Tbl Spn
Gusgus 1 Tbl Spn

Green Chillies 4 or 5

Salt As Required

Method:

Cut onions and tomatoes into medium size pieces. Cook it in a pressure cooker. Boil the potato, peel the skin and smash it. Grind gusgus, coconut, chillies and salt together adding enough water in a mixie. Put boiled vegetables, smashed potato and grinded masala together and boil it. Till the raw smell goes off. Add few curry leaves and remove from fire. It goes well with plain dosa.