Broad bean curry - Avarakkai poriyal

Ingredients:

Broad beans - Avarakkai - 1/4 kg
Red chilly powder - Kaintha milagai thul - 1 table spoon
Coriander powder - Dhania thul - 2 table spoons
Sambar powder - Sambar podi - 1 table spoon
Turmeric powder - Manjal thul - 1 tea spoon
Onion - Vengayam - 1 no.
Tomatoes - Thakkali - 1 no.
Garlic - Poondu - 1 no.
Hing/Asafoetida - Perungayam - a pinch
Salt - Uppu - for taste
Oil - Ennai - for frying
Mustard seeds - Kadugu - 1 tea spoon
Cumin seeds - Jeeragam - 1 tea spoon
Black gram dal - Ulutham paruppu - 1 tea spoon
Curry leaves - Karuvepilai - small quantity

Method:

Wash, cut and boil vegetable in pressure cooker. Cut onions, tomatoes and keep other ingredients ready. Heat oil in a pan/kadai, splutter mustard seed, cumin seeds, black gram dal, curry leaves, add hing, onions, tomatoes, red chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, sambar powder, minced garlic and little salt. Sprinkle water and keep frying till the curry is cooked well. Serve hot with any rice items. This can be served for 4 persons. This required hardly 20 minutes to prepare.

Note: We can cut vegetables into any shapes as desired. It can be small or big.

Optional: Onion, tomato and garlic can be added/removed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadbean

Never eat more than you can lift

Miss Piggy

Ivy Guard fry - Kovakkai varuval

Ingredients:

Ivy Guard/Gentleman's Toes/Tindla - Kovakkai - 1/2 kg
Onion - Vengayam - 1 no.
Tomatoes - Thakkali - 1 no.
Red chilly powder - Milagai thul - 1 table spoon
Coriander powder - Dhania thul - 2 table spoons
Turmeric powder - Manjal Podi - 1 tea spoon
Hing/Asafoetida - Perungayam - a pinch
Salt - Uppu - For taste

For tempering:
Oil - Ennai - For frying
Mustard seeds - Kadugu - 1 tea spoon
Cumin seeds - Jeeragam - 1 tea spoon
Black gram dal - Ulutham paruppu - 1 table spoon
Curry leaves - Karuvepilai - small quantity

Method:

Wash and cut kovakkai length wise, slit into two pieces. Heat oil in a pan/kadai, splutter mustard seeds, black gram dal (Split), curry leaves, hing, then add onions, tomatoes, fry for some time. Then add kovakkai, red chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, little salt and fry for some 10 minutes till the vegetable is cooked well. Serve hot with any rice items. This can be served for 4 persons. Requires hardly 20 minutes to cook.

Note: Vegetable oil is good for health. Split urad dal can be used for tempering. Salt is not good for health, hence add only for taste.

Optional: Ingredients can be added or removed.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin

Mark Twain

Beetroot curry - Senkizhangu/Akkarakizhangu poriyal

Ingredients:

Beetroot - Senkizhangu/Akkarakizhangu - 1/2 kg
Mustard seeds - Kadugu - 1 tea spoon
Black gram dal - Ulutham paruppu - 1 table spoon
Cumin seeds - Jeeragam - 1 tea spoon
Red chilly powder - Kaintha milagai - 2 nos.
Asafoetida - Perungayam - a pinch
Salt to taste
Oil for frying

Method:

1. Wash and peel the vegetable using peeler. First wash and remove the skin then slit as shown above. No need to boil separately.
2. Heat oil in a pan/kadai, add asafoetida, splutter mustard seeds, black gram dal, curry leaves, red chilly broken into 2 pieces and finally vegetable with little salt. Mix them well. Fry for some time.

Hot beetroot curry is delicious and ready to be served. It can be served along with any rice item. It requires some 20 minutes to cook. It can be served for 3 persons.

Note: Since beetroot has its own water, no need to add too much water. Just sprinkle some water, thats enough. Beetroot is very good for health especially for blood circulation.

Optional: Ingredients can be added/removed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetroot

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will
Robert Frost