Vegetable Pulao / Pulav

It’s an easy to prepare rice variety. It is also called mixed vegetable pulavu.

Ingredients:

Cooked rice: 3 cups

Coriander leaves: 1 bunch

Green chilies: 3

Shredded coconut: 2 tsp

Fine onion slices: from 3 onions

Chopped onions: from 1/2 onion

Cinnamon: a few sticks

Cardamom: a few

Cloves: a few

Red chili powder: 1 ½ tsp

Cauliflower: 1 cup

Garlic: 2 flakes

Ginger: a small piece

Ghee : 3 tbsp

Beans, carrots, green peas etc.: as required

Ghee for frying

Salt to taste

Method of preparation:

• Grind together the chopped onions from ½ onion, shredded coconut, garlic, ginger and coriander into smooth paste. This is the masala.

• Fry the onions in ghee.

• Add cloves, cinnamon and cardamom.

• When onions become brown, add red chili powder and fry for a while.

• Add all the vegetables including the cauliflower.

• Sprinkle some water, close the lid and cook under low flame for about 20 minutes.

• Sprinkle water as and when required.

• Remove from flame and transfer the content into a large vessel.

• Add cooked rice, masala and salt.

• Mix thoroughly and heat a little.

• Serve with kuruma (kurma), salna, Raita and pickle.

Quick Kichadi

It is an easy to prepare, healthy and delicious food with rice and lentil as major ingredients. We can have and enjoy this food with chutney, thuvaiyal, pickle, thokku, curd etc.

Ingredients:

• Rice: 2 cups
• Green gram (Paasip paruppu / Moong dal): 1 cup
• Mustard (Katuku / Rai): 1 tsp
• Curry leaves (Kariveppilai / Karipaththa): A few
• Green chili: 3
• Onion: 1
• Tomato: 1
• Garlic: A few
• Coriander leaves (Kothumalli thazhai / Dhania paththa): As required
• Cooking oil / Edible oil: As required
• Turmeric powder: A little
• Ghee / Clarified butter: As required
• Salt: As required
  

Method of preparation:

• Take a cooker and heat oil in it.
• Add muster, curry leaves, chopped green chili, garlic, onion and tomato one after the other and sauté for about two minutes.
• Add six cups of water and boil the contents.
• Add salt and turmeric powder.
• Add rice and green gram.
• Pressure cook for three whistles.
• Add a little ghee and decorate with coriander leaves.

Cabbage Pickle / Pickled Cabbage

Cabbage pickle is an easy to prepare tasty pickle. It will last for about ten days, if preserved properly in a fridge.

Ingredients:

• Grated cabbage – 1 cup
• Chili powder – 1 tsp
• Mustard powder –1tsp
• Finely grated Garlic pods – 4
• Edible oil – 2 tsp
• Salt – 1 tsp
  
  

Method of preparation:

• Sprinkle salt on grated cabbage.
• Leave it for about an hour.
• Separate water by squeezing the cabbage completely.
• Discard the water.
• Add all other ingredients one after the other.
• Cabbage pickle will automatically be ready within about five hours.
• Tastes good with cooked rice, parotha, chapatti, etc.