Showing posts with label SOUP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SOUP. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Spinach Soup ( Keerai kootu)

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Ingredients:
  • Spinach 1 bunch
  • Yellow Green Gram dhal – ½ cup 
  • Red or green chilly – 4
  • Tomato - 1
  • Bay leafs - 5
  • Garlic - 5 cloves (Big one)
  • Mustard seeds- 1 tsp 
  • Cumin seeds 1 tsp
  • Onion – 15 to 20 small chopped
  • Sambar powder- 1 tsp 
  • Turmeric powder- ½ tsp 
  • Asafetida – 1 tsp
  • Coconut gratings – 3 tsp
  • Oil- 4 tsp 
  • Salt – ½ teaspoon
  • Water  - 4 cup

Methods:
  • Wash and soak the yellow green gram dal for 15 minutes. Drain and keep aside.
  • Wash the spinach, cut the leafs and keep aside
  • Boil spinach, onion, tomato, garlic and yellow green gram dal.
  • Boil until gram dal and garlic get smashed.
  • Heat the oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. Wait for mustard seeds start spluttering, add bay leafs, cumin seeds and chilly and fry.
  • Mix the fried item into boiled spinach and add turmeric powder, asafetida powder, Sambar powder and salt. Cook for another 5 mins.
  • Serve with rice or chapathi.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Gooseberry Rasam (Nellikai Rasam)


  • Gooseberry (Nellikai) water - 1 Cup (Cut 8to10 piece, grine it and take the water)
  • Rasam powder - 1 tsp
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  • Pepper powder or Whole peppercorn - 1 tsp
  • Tomato (chopped ) - 1
  • Green or red chilly - 5
  • Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
  • Tuwar dal  (boiled and smashed) - 1 cup
  • Asafetida (powder) - 1/2 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Mustard - 1 teaspoon
  • Curry leafs- 1 stem
  • Ghee - 4 tsp
  • Water - 3 cups
  • Salt - to taste
Procedure:

  • Heat 1 tsp of ghee in a pan. After ghee melted, add green chilly, tomato pieces, Ginger Garlic paste and fry it for 2 mins.
  • Add pepper powder, Asafetida powder, rasam powder,Turmeric powder and mix well.
  • Add gooseberry water and water.
  • Add boiled and smashed Tuwar dal, salt  and mix well.
  • Cook it in a low flame. Don't leave it to boil
  • Heat 2 tspn of ghee in a pan and fry mustard seeds. When the mustard starts to crackle add cumin seeds, Curry leafs and mix it to the above rasam.
       Serve hot with rice.