AN AUTHENIC DINNER

This is purely an authentic dinner. It’s familiar mainly in Tamilnadu and some areas of Andhra pradesh too....



POTATO.DRUMSTICK.KARAKHUZHAMBHU

Ingredients:

Tamarind - big lemon size

Drumstick - 1

Potato- 1 big

Onion - 1 small

Tomato - 1 small

Garlic- 3-4 flakes

Chilli powder - 2tbsp

Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp

Salt - As per taste.

Seasoning:

Mustard - Few

Curry leaves- few

Fenugreek seeds- 6-7 seeds

Vadagam - few (optional)(This is traditional spice ball prepared from the olden days)
Click here to get details:"VADAGAM"



Method:

First soak Tamarind and get thick paste out of that, keep aside.

Boil drumstick and potato with little salt.

Add water to tamarind extract (not too thick or thin), turmeric powder, and chilli powder, salt.

Now season the things given in seasoning list, add vadagam last as it burnts very quickly.

Fry onion, tomato, garlic in the pan (if you wish you can even grind coarsely these three ingredients and fry to get thick consistency)

Pour the tarmind mix and close the lid, once you feel raw smell has disappear, drop the boiled vegetables in it.

Keep in medium flame, leave till become little thick...

CABBAGE.PEAS.CURRY:

As i already mentioned in my previous post, i like to give importance to colour combination too in my meals. This can be done only with cabbage too, just added few green peas to give richness to the recipe.




Ingredients:

Cabbage - chopped 2cups

Peas - 1/4 cup

Onion - 2tbsp

Garlic - 2flakes

Green chilly - 1 big

Salt - As per taste

Sesoning:

Mustard- few

Curry leaves- few

Broken urad dhal - few

Method:

First seasoning the things given in seasoning column.

Then fry the onion, garlic, green chilly, peas, and cabbage for few minutes.

Add little water, salt along with above ingredients and close the pan.

Once it is cooked if you wish garnish with corriander leaves and serve.