Thursday, March 20, 2008

Cabbage

Ingredience

Cut the cabbage,big onions, green chillies, ginger and garlic into small pieces and put aside.
coconut(optional)
curry leaves
salt

Method
1. Heat oil,
2. Add mustard seed,
3. When all the mustard breaks,add the big onion sliced and saute for a while followed by green chilli,
4. Add the ginger garlic mix and saute for a while and
then add some tumeric powder(1/2 tea spoon) jeeraha powder(1 tea spoon) and some coconut shredded( if you like) and stir it and
5. Add the sliced cabbage and mix it together and cook until it becomes tender.
Don' close the lid if the cabbage is too watery

Sambar

Ingredience
Splitted greenbeans(cherupayaru)
Thuvara parippu
sambar powder
Tamarind
uluva and kayam
Method
1. cook splitted greenbeans and thuvarapparippu (sambar parippu) together in a pressure cooker
2. Add vegetables (potato, tomatoe, green chillies etc..) and cook again
3. When the vegetables are half cooked add two table spoon sambar powder and salt and some tamarid paste and a little kayam powder
4. Add some kariveppila .
5. Boil for 10 more minutes .
6. Heat oil, put mastard seed and uluva seed and curry leaves, and pour over the curry.

(can add a little bit sugar or jaggery to make it more tastier)

Sambar is ready.