GREEN CAPSICUM CHUTNEY

Tongue tickling spicy Capsicum chutney is totally different than the regular chutney varieties like Coconut Chutney, Onion Tomato Chutney, Peanut onion Red Chutney. To check other interesting chutney varieties click here. This spicy chutney that can be served as side dish to Dosa, Idli and it goes very well with steam rice. It is very quick to prepare compromising taste. Simple yet yummy taste most satisfying comfort chutney that you can mix with steam rice and it tastes divine in lunch box.  It could ease your busy morning routine. 

Recently I served this chutney with Idly in small get together party at home in Diwali Festival time, and it was instant hit by all our friends and they started asking for recipe. So, I thought to share it in my space.  I bet this chutney will undeniably instant hit in your family too. 

Ingredients:

Green Capsicum (Medium)– 1 no.

Tamarind/ Imli/Puli – 1 inch piece

Hing / Asafoetida – a pinch

Salt to taste

Masala items:

Urud Dal/White Lentil – 3 tsp

Channa Dal / Split Bengal Gram – 2 tsp

Roasted Ground Nut – 1 tbsp

Dhaniya/Coriander Seeds – 2 tsp

Red Chili whole – 2 nos.

Seasoning:

Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp

Urud Dal/White lentil – 1 tsp

Curry Leaves – Few

Red chili – 1 no.

Method:

1   Step 01) Clean and chop the capsicum and shell out the inner part and cut them into small pieces. Heat a pan with 3 tsp of oil and add the seasoning items let it splutter and transfer them into a plate. In same pan in low flame add above Masala items ingredients

     Step 02) Nicely roast all the Masala items till it turns to golden color and transfer it mixer jar and allow them to cool. In same pan add 2 tsp of oil and fry the capsicum, tamarind, hing/asafoetida, salt and saute till the capsicum shrinks. Switch off the flame and allow them to cool

      Step 03) Add the fried capsicum in to mixer jar and then grind it as paste adding little water and adjust the salt if any.

Serving: This chutney goes very well with Idli, dosa and other south Indian breakfast recipes. And most importantly it taste divine with steam rice.

Note:

You can tweak this chutney into lots of variations as per your taste buds.  

Below are some variations:

01) To increase the volume of the chutney, you can add onion and tomato and fry them before adding capsicum. If you are adding tomato then reduce the tamarind quantity. Tomato itself gives tangyness to the chutney.

02) Adding garlic makes it more flavorful. Use it as per your family preference and taste buds

03) You can also add coconut to enhance more richness to the chutney. But, the shelf time is less

04)The above chutney procedure gives nice shelf time.  Without any fear you can pack this chutney rice for lunch box.

05) You can also replace green capsicum with red or yellow. Or even combination of all 3 vegetable.

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Kollu Rasam | Horse Gram Rasam

Kollu Rasam /Hore gram Rasam –  Rasam  is a category of hot spicy soup in southern Indian style.  There are various recipes of Rasam can be prepared in so many different process of method using different seasonings, base ingredients and special rasam Masala powder and fresh grounded spices.

 However, among many varieties of rasam,  Kollu Rasam stands tall to its simple preparation and heavenly incomparable taste. This recipe does not require any special/specific rasam powder. We are using fresh grounded spices which are always available in our pantry like Garlic, black pepper, cumin seeds, curry leaves and tomatoes. The taste of horse gram/kollu simply makes it stand out from other Rasam recipes.

Many people make rasam with only cooked kollu/horse gram drained water but, here pounded handful of cooked kollu and mixed it in rasam. This tastes good and filling. Rasam mandi is tastes divine with curd rice.

Ingredients:

Black Pepper corn – 2 tsp

Jeera/Cumin seeds – 2 tsp

Garlic flakes – 4 to 5

Tomato – 1 medium

Broth Ingredients:

Kollu/ Horse gram – 2 tbsp

Imli/Tamarind Juice – ½ cup

Water – 2 cups

Masala Powder:

Turmeric Powder – 1/ 4 tsp

Salt

Hing

Jaggary Powder – 1tsp

For Tempering:

Mustard Seeds – ½ tsp

Urad Dal/White Lentils – ¼ tsp

Cumin Seeds – ¼ tsp

Red chili  – 1 no.

Curry leaves – 2 to 3 no.

Oil – 1 tbsp

For Garnishing:

Fresh Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp

Method:

1   Step 01) Wash and soak the kollu/horesgram for 1 to 2 hrs and then cook them in a pressure cooker up to 3 whistles. Drain the water in a separate bowl. (Don’t discard the drained water from cooked kollu; this recipe specially calls the broth to use). Grind the cooked kollu into fine paste

       Step 02) In a mortar and pastel crush the cumin seeds, pepper corns and garlic flakes

     Step 03) Heat thick medium size bottom pan add oil for seasoning, add mustard allow them to crackle then add cumin seeds, urad dal, red chili and curry leaves and saute for 2 mins. and then add crushed cuminseeds-pepper-garlic mixture fry for 2 more minutes and then add tomato pieces and fry till tomatoes turns to mushy

     Step 04) Add the tamarind juice, 2 cups of water, turmeric powder, hing, jaggary and salt cook them till it starts to bubble form at edge. Add drained kollu water and grounded kollu paste and cook them nicely and garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

Serving: Serve with steam rice, or as hot soup or even with curd rice. It taste so good however you want to take them.

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Thuvaram Paruppu Thogayal / Toor Dal Chutney

It has been quite a long time I am back to my blogging space. To start with, I have come up with very easy, quick, simple yet healthy recipe of Thuvaram Paruppu Thogayal i.e. Toor Dal Chutney. Unlike other regular chutney, which usually goes for breakfast dishes; this chutney has the goodness of toor dal ready source of proteins for a balanced diet and it is so flavorful and delicious perfect combo with hot rice and ghee, rasam rice and even it goes well with chapatti. This thogayal is one of the best bachelor’s recipe. I have survived many days with this in my hostel days. 

Whenever you feel lazy to cook for the day, try this simple thogayal recipe then.  It could ease your busy morning routine or it serve as brunch in the lazy weekends. 

Ingredients:

Split Yellow Gram / Toor Dal/ Thuvaram Paruppu – 3 tbsp

Garlic flakes – 2 to 3 nos.

Tamarind/Imli –1/4 inch piece

Red Chilies  – 2 nos.

Pepper Corn – 2 to 3 nos.

Hing/Asafoetida – a pinch

Grated Coconut – 1 tbsp

Oil – 1 tsp

Salt to Taste

Method:

       In a pan heat oil, add toor dal/ thuvaram parruppu and fry them till golden brown and transfer dal/paruppu into a plate

In the same pan, add  tamarind piece, garlic flakes, red chilies, hing, pepper corn and  grated coconut saute them till coconut turns slightly golden color

Once it is cool enough grind it in blender adding little water to a semi coarse paste. Add little more water if you want it in chutney consistency

     That’s it easy healthy simple and quick thogayal is ready to enjoy with Rasam rice, steam rice and even with chapatti too.

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Poondu Rasam | Garlic Rasam Recipe

Rasam is prepared mainly using tamarind juice or tomato juice as a base ingredient and cooked with added spices as seasonings. You can prepare rasam in so many different kinds of preparations. Each variations of rasam has unique/distinct in taste comparing to one another due to its deviation in seasoning ingredients. Here is one such simple method of preparing Garlic Rasam/ Poondu Rasam recipe without rasam powder and dal/lentils. As I promised to myself that, I will try to learn as many versions of Rasam as possible. :)

Rasam severed as side dish to steam rice and popular in southern part of India. It is very quick to prepare and also you can serve as spicy Indian soup.

Ingredients:

Imli Juice/Extract Tamarind pulp – 1 cup

To Grind

Garlic – 5 to 6 flakes

Jeera/Cumin Seeds – 2 tsp

Pepper Corns – 1 tsp

Green Chili – 1 no.

To Temper

Oil – 1 tbsp

Mustard Seeds – ½ tsp

Red Chili – 2 no.

Tomato – 1 no.

Hing/ Asafoetida – ¼ tsp

Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp

Curry Leaves – Few

Crushed Garlic – 3 to 4 flakes

Salt to taste

Method:

In a small mixer jar add garlic, jeera, pepper corns and green chili and blend it as coarse paste and keep it aside

In  a mortar and pestle roughly crush the garlic pearls and keep it aside

In a microwave safe bowl add lemon size tamarind and 1 cup of water and cook for 1 minute. Allow them to cool for 2 to 3 minutes. Grind it in a mixer jar. This process is very easy to extract the pulp from tamarind. 

In a pan, add 1 cup of tamarind pulp and 2 cups of water. Add the ground mixture and mix well and cook them for 2 to 3 mins.

Heat a pan with 1 tbsp of oil, add the mustard seeds and allow them to crackle add red chili, chopped tomato, curry leaves, turmeric powder, Hing and salt and sauté them for 2 mins. Or till tomato turns into mushy

Add the above seasoning and cook them for 4 to 5 minutes

When it starts bubbly/frothy add fresh coriander leaves and turn off the flame.

 Serving: Serve hot with rice and curry!. You can also serve like a spicy soup. 

  

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Coconut Rice

Instead of slogging in the kitchen for long time to prepare a dish, sometime you should know the quickest recipe too so that you can enjoy the time with your family. This recipe works great with left over rice and if grated coconut is in handy this can be prepared in 10 minutes. Coconut aroma and spicy chili seasoning simply make this dish special :) If you are using frozen coconut then keep the coconut at least for 15 minutes from the fridge before using.


Ingredients:

• Cooked Rice - 1 Cup
• Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup
• Dried marinated chili/ Mor Molaga - 4 to 5nos.
• Few Curry Leaves
• Few Cashew Nuts (Optional)
• Mustard Seeds - 2 tsp
• Urud Dal / White Lentils- 2 tsp
• Hing/Asafoetida - a Pinch
• Salt as per taste
• Oil - 2 tbsp

Time Required: 10 Minutes ( Excluding the Rice cooking time)


Method:

1) Cook the rice in the pressure cooker as the same way you do. Cool it in a plate so that grains can be separated nicely.  It works great with left over rice

2) Put a reasonable size heavy bottom pan on the range and heat oil.

3) Fry the mor molaga/dried chili, once they are done remove it from the oil and keep it aside

4) In the same oil, temper the seeds. Once they start popping add cashew nuts, curry leaves, salt, Hing, coconut grated and stir for 5-10 min or until the coconut gets toasted and turns slightly reddish brown. Switch off the flame.

5) Add the rice and mix well. Crush some mor molaga and mix it nicely. 

6) Serve extra mor molaga for more spicyness

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