Sunday, October 23, 2005

Moor kuzhambu with paruppu vadai

Amma's recipe...

Vadai:
Ingredients:
Kadalai paruppu - 1/2 cup
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Garlic - 2 flakes
Green Chillies - 4
Salt
Onion - 1
Curry leaves - 6-7 leaves
Coriander leaves - 2 table spoon chopped

Method:
Soak kadalai paruppu in water for an hour. Then grind(coarsely) this soaked dal with ginger, garlic and chillies to paruppu vadai consistency(with very little water). Then add the finely cut onions, curry leaves and coriander leaves to this. Make balls out of this and cook in pressure cooker. Keep it aside.

Moor kuzhambu:
Ingredients:
Kadalai paruppu - 1 spoon
Thuvaram paruppu - 1 spoon
Coconut - 2 spoon
Dhania seeds - 1 spoon
Red chillies - 2
Garlic - 2 flakes
Buttermilk - 2 cups
Salt
Turmeric powder
Seeragam - 1/2 spoon
Curry leaves - 5 leaves
Chopped Coriander - 2 spoon

Method:
Soak kadalai paruppu in water for 30 minutes. Grind this with thuvaram paruppu, coconut, dhania seeds, red chillies and garlic into a fine chutney. Mix this chutney in buttermilk. Now heat some ghee or oil and add mustard seeds, seeragam and kadalai paruppu. When seeds splutter, add curry leaves and the buttermilk mixture. Add salt and turmeric powder. Add the previously cooked moor kuzhambu vadai to this. Heat for 5 minutes or until it foams. Sprinkle coriander on top. Serve with hot rice.

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