(Curry Leaves)Karuveppalai Kuzhambu - KK

Karuveppalai is one , which is hard to get for the money. We hardly get 1 or 2 stems for the a dollar or so. So I keep thinking how do it do when I have very small in quantity where I need it to season for others too...Just kept thinking, my bulb over my head worked.

I can do it with curry leaves powder. Yes, we get powder in stores in fine quantity and quality. And it also serves to be a "Pathiya" samayal. Whats that? well, it is the different kinds of food you eat after delivery !


Karuveppalai kuzhambu is very good for health and hair too. So just make it for a week and store in the fridge.

Ingredients:

Tamarind - a size of big lemon ( Make a tamarind juice out of it)
Lond red chillies/ Vathamolaga - 3-4
Ginger - small piece
Store bought Curry powder - 4 spns ( I have got one from Grand sweets in chennai)
Mustard - 1 spn
Turmeric - 1/4 spn
Asafoetida/Perungayam - 1/2 spn

Sessame oil and salt

Method:

Just two things to do. One is to grind and other is to cook.

In mixie:
1) Tamarind juice
2) Curry powder
3)Ginger
4)Long Red Chillies or Vathamolaga


Once it is grinded, put sessame oil or nallaennai in kadai and season with mustard and wait till it splutters.Put the turmeric powder and the grinded thing and wait till it gets thick.

Tadaaaaaaa...


Karuveppalai Kuzhambu is ready.

You can add one full stem of curry leaves to it :)

Its simple and easy.Isnt?

Dal and Curry - Methi dal, Cauliflower peas aloo curry with Chapati

Yeah its a midday of the week. Having a kid is bit of work and wonder what will I make for dinner... Suddenly struck to make it simple and yummy. Everyday except weekends, my husband does take only chapatis in the night. So only one dish doesn't make tummy full. Thats why I planned to do Dal and Curry combination, which will be easy to take it for chapatis.

Methi dal is one of my favourite dish and its healthy too. Ofcourse, the curry will be delicious cauliflower , peas & aloo !!! Yummy isn't? It just took 1/2 hour to cook and finish off the both. Makes my job easier and lots of time to spend with my daughter.

Methi Dal

Ingredients:

3/4 cup- Methi
1/2 cup - Toor dal
Tomatoes- 1
Chillipowder - 1 spn
Long red chillies - 2-3
Mustard & Jeera - 1 spn
Garlic - 2-3
Salt & oil

Method:

Wash methi nicely in water so all the mud in the methi just goes off away.

1) Put methi leaves & toor dal in vessel in cooker for about 3-4 whistles.
2) Once it is done, put back in the kadai and let it boil with salt, chillipowder & tomatoes.
3) once it is boiling for about 5- 10 mts in high flame, keep it in low flame
4) Take a small kadai,and add 1 spn of ghee( here it is where, taste becomes so yummmy) ,and little bit of oil .
5) Put mustard,Jeera. Once it splutters add garlic and long red chillies.

Pour it back to the dal!

Methi Dal is readyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Photos to be added shortly.