Mothers' recipe Kolukattai and Meat curry

Kolukattai

Ingredients

• Rice powder or dry roast ragi powder - 1 cup 
• Ghee - 3 tbps
• Grated coconut - half cup
• Jaggery - grated half cup
• Cardamom powder - 3 - half tbps
• Salt - pinch
• Sugar - 1 spoon
• Water - 3 spoon.

Procedure

In a bowl take the flour, add coconut , Jaggery, cardamom powder, salt, sugar, and mix it with water and prepare a dry dough. Take hand full of dough in  palm and press it with your fingers to make kolukattai. Place it on the plate and steam in a pressure cooker as we do to prepare idli. Serve hot.

Meat curry

Ingredients

Meat - half kg

Grated coconut

Green chillies - 6

garlic cloves - 10

ginger garlic paste- 4 tbps

tomatoes - 4

Onion - 4

turmeric powder - 1 tbps

dry chilly powder- 4 tbps

coriander powder- 4 tbps

garam masala powder - 1 tbps

curd - 1 tbps

Salt for taste

oil as required

Procedure

Wash the meat thoroughly three to four times until the water is clear without blood color. 

Marinate the meat with salt, turmeric powder, chilly powder, ginger garlic paste and curd . Keep it aside for nearly one hour. Prepare paste of coconut, green chillies, garlic.

Heat oil in cooker, add chopped onion, ginger garlic paste, chopped tomatoes, when they are cooked add the paste prepared, coriander powder and garam masala. Add the marinated meat and pressure cook for nearly 10 minutes. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Beans fry

Ingredients
2 tablespoons               Ghee or vegetable oil
8 nos.                           Green Cardamom pods
8 to 10                         Cloves
1 inch stick                  Cinnamon
1 medium                    Onion (peeled & grated)
3                                  Green chillies (slit lengthwise)
1 teaspoon                   Turmeric powder
½ cup                           Potato, peeled and diced
½ cup                           Carrots,            peeled and diced
1 cup                           Fresh or frozen peas (thawed)
1 cup                           Basmati rice (rinsed twice and soaked for 45 minutes)
½ cup                           Split pigeon peas/ Toor dal (rinsed twice and soaked for 30 minutes)
3 cups                          Water
to taste                         Salt

Method:

1. Heat the ghee or oil over medium heat in a medium pot with a lid. Add the cardamom pods, cloves, cinnamon, onion, chillies and turmeric powder and cook, stirring, until fragrant, for about a minute.
2. Add the potatoes, carrots and peas and sauté for a minute.
3. Add the rice, lentils and salt and stir continuously for 3-4 minutes until well mixed.
4. Add the water, bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook until the mixture has a thick, risotto-like consistency, about 15-20 minutes.
5. Serve hot.

Sandwich recipe

Boil two medium size potatoes,one carrot, soaked overnight kidney beans, green peas, black head beans
Prepare paste of 4 green chillies,  ginger and garlic.
Smash the boiled ingrediants and add a tp garam masala, tp channa masala, half tp chilly powder, a tp of zeera powder, tp soya sauce, a tp green chilly sauce,a tp tomato sauce, one chopped onion, paste prepared and salt to taste.
Take bread slices, smear it with ghee, add the mixture between two slices and keep it in the sandwich maker. After 5-7 minutes, remove it and serve hot along with tomato sauce. 

Dr. Abdul Kalam

 

 Beautiful incident which I read , want to share and remember always.

 

 

Ex Indian President Dr. Abdul Kalam Says:
"When I was a kid, my Mom cooked food for us.
One night in particular when she had made dinner after a long hard day's work, Mom placed a plate of 'subzi' and extremely burnt roti in front of my Dad.

I was waiting to see if anyone noticed the burnt roti. But Dad just ate his roti and asked me how was my day at school.

I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember I heard Mom apologizing to Dad for the burnt roti.

And I'll never forget what he said: "Honey, I love burnt roti."

Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy, good night & I asked him if he really liked his roti burnt. He wrapped me in his arms & said:
"Your momma put in a long hard day at work today and she was really tired. And besides... A burnt roti never hurts anyone but HARSH WORDS DO!"
"You know beta - life is full of imperfect things... & imperfect people..."

I'M NOT THE BEST & AM HARDLY GOOD AT ANYTHING!
I forget birthdays & anniversaries just like everyone else.
What I've learnt over the years is: To Accept Each Others Faults & Choose To Celebrate Relationships"

Life Is Too Short To Wake Up With Regrets..

Love the people who treat you right & have compassion for the ones who don't.

Acalypha indica , a common weed to remove facial hair and treat skin diseases

 Acalypha indica (Kuppaimeni in Tamil ) is called as Indian Nettle in English

To get rid of facial hair:

Prepare paste of sprouted moong , kasturi turmeric, fresh 10 leaves of kuppaimeni and five neem leaves and apply as face pack , leave it for just 10 to 15 minutes and just pull it off.  We can do once in a week.
Please look into the plant photo properly, check out for the correct identity in the internet pages. Then after confirmation proceed. 

To treat skin diseases :

Prepare juice of 20-30 leaves of fresh kuppaimeni with water ,filter to get a half cup juice, half cup of coconut oil, and turmeric freshly powdered , all the three things put it in a kadai, and heat it, the sizzling sound due to water arises .  Turn off the stove when this sound stops, this indicates that the water has completely evaporated. Apply the oil to the body just one hour before  bath (with warm water).

Simple amla pickle

Ingredients

500 g amla
2 tp mustard seeds - roast it slightly and grind it to powder
2 tp fenugreek seeds - roast it slightly and grind it to powder
half tp hing
a pinch of asafoetida
10 -15 garlic cloves
10 tp chilly powder
2 tp haldi powder
1 cup sesame oil and salt as per the requirement

Procedure

Wash all the amlas in tap water. 
Boil it with little amount of water
cook boil it till the amla becomes soft. and there shouldn't be any water left.
with the help of knife just press the amla, it will just open up like a flower, with the help to spoon remove all the seeds.
Heat the oil in a kadaicool it, when it is slightly warm add hing and the amlas
when the oil is completely cool add the  mustard and fenugreek powder, garlic cloves, chilly powder, haldi powder, asafoetida , salt and mix it thoroughly.
do not touch it with hand
transfer it in a clean dry glass bottle.
After three to four days, the pickle is ready to relish

Simple Groundnut chutney

Ingredients required

handful of roasted groundnuts
handful of Puffed chick pea - Puttanalu/daria dal/bhuna dal 
3-4 cloves of garlic
1 green chilly
a small flat piece of tamarind
salt as per the requirement
option : few coriander leaves stem 

Oil for seasoning

Dry red chillies - 2

Black gram dhal ( urad) - 1/4 tsp

Mustard - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Method

Add all the ingredients in small jar of mixer and grind it to paste. 
Take the paste in a bowel. 

Season with black gram, mustard and curry leaves.

Serve with idli/ dosa/ uthapam