Thursday, May 26, 2011

PEANUT CHUTNEY FOR IDLI / DOSA / BREAKFASTS






INGREDIENTS:

PEANUTS -  1 cup
coconut  - sliced into small pieces
green chillies  - 3 no 's
garlic - 3-4 pods
curry leaves
mustard seeds - 1 tsp
urad dal - 2 tsp
cumin - 1/2 tsp
oil - 1 tsp


METHOD :

roast the peanuts , and peel of the outter layer .
grind it in a mixer , add coconut pieces , green chilli , garlic  , salt ,add some water make it into a paste .

put a pan add 1tsp of oil add mustard sedds , cumin seeds , urad dal , curry leaves , red chilli to it and fry them properly , add this tadka to the ground paste and mix well . peanut chutney is ready to serve with any breakfasts.

CURD CHUTNEY / PERUGU PACCHADI



INGREDIENTS :

curd - 1cup
onions - 1 ( sliced )
green chilli  - 2 ( chopped )
salt


METHOD :

mix all the ingredients and the curd chutney is ready to serve with rice recipes  as side dish

this goes well with pulav , biryani , e.t.c.

PULIHORA / TAMARIND RICE



Tamarind Rice is done mainly during festivals in andhrapradesh ...... so this is mainly said to be festival recipe ...


Ingredients :

Tamarind Juice
Tumeric powder
Fenugreek Seeds - 1/4 tspn
Red Chillies - 12nos
Urad Da1
Chana Dal
Peanuts
Cashewnuts
Asafoteida
Mustard seeds
Curry Leaves
Oil
Salt

METHOD :

Heat 1/2 tspn oil in a pan and add fenugreek seeds, 7 red chillies . Fry in medium heat.
Once it is light brown colour take it off  from  the stove and cool.
Once cooled, grind to a nice powder .
Heat oil ( about 8-10spoons), add asafotida, mustard seeds, curry leaves, urad dal, chana dhal, red chillies.
Once the dhal becomes medium brown, add turmeric, salt and add the tamarind juice and allow to boil.
When it is boiling well, add the ground powder and all to boil, till it becoms light paste. Once done,  off the stove.
In another pan add few tspns of oil then add peanuts , cashew nuts and fry them .and keep it aside.
Add the rice in a plate and cool, then add  tamarind paste on the rice and mix well.
add cashewnuts and peanuts to the rice and mix it in the rice .
Tamarind rice is ready to eat .