Ridge gourd thuvaiyal

wash and remove only the ridges on the gourd and cut it along with the skin into medium size pieces.

Put a tea spoon of oil in a kadai and fry asafoetida, urad dal, red chillies along with tamarind. then remove it. Again add one more teaspoon oil and add the peerkankai pieces and fry on a medium flame for about 5 to 6 min. Remove and cool it for 10 min.

Add  fried dal, chilli, asafoetida, tamarind along with salt in a mixie and powder it. then add the fried peerkankai  and grind it for 2 min.

add fried mustard seeds and curry leaves

Crispy bhindi Fry

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• Wash Bhindi and dry them 
• In a bowl mix salt,garam masala, turmeric powder, gram flour,chilly powder,coriander powder and cumin powder.
• Finally add bhindi and coriander leaves and toss well.
• Heat oil in  a pan
• Add bhindi tossed with all powders and saute for 2 mins
• Close the lid and cook until bhindi turns crispy
• Finally add grated coconut if u wish.
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Bhindi masala

Take a Pan Saute bhindi in oil till they are cooked and remove them.
Add oil fry onions till they are translucent
Add ginger garlic paste and chilli powder, salt.
Finally add the fried bhindi and cook for 10 min.

Cabbage pakoda

Combine 1/2 cup rice flour and 1 1/2 cup besan flour(Kadalai mavu) with salt, ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder, green chillies, sliced onions and cabbage. 

Add oil and mix well with fingers.

Add few water so that the  batter should coat the cabbage and onion well.

Heat enough oil in a vessel. reduce the flame to medium and use fingers to drop the batter in the vessel to form fritters.

One they turn golden brown remove them from oil. Serve hot with tea....

Spicy Cabbage Curry

Wash Cabbage and Potatoes.

Take a pan add oil fry ginger garlic paste

Add Tomato onion paste, little coconut grinded 

Add Chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala and salt.

Now add cabbage and potatoes and add coriander leaves and allow it to cook for 2- 3 whistles.

Sweet Aval ( sugar)

Wash aval and drain it in a bowl
Add grated coconut, sugar, cardamom powder, nuts and mix them well along with aval.
Optionally add banana and can  be served as breakfast.

sweet poha

Wash and soak poha in water for 5 min.

Add jaggery and a little water in a pan and bring it to a boil. when jaggery dissolves, filter the impurities.

Fry cashew nut with a little ghee until golden brown.

When jaggery syrup becomes thick add powdered cardamom, fried cashew and poha. mix well and add grated coconut. mix well and serve.

Aval Laddu

Dry roast the poha until golden in color and cool down.
Grind along with sugar and cardamom to a fine powder/flour
Heat ghee and add tiny pieces of cashews and fry until golden brown then add raisin and fry till fluffy.
Take the powdered ingredients in a bowl and mix it with heated ghee and make laddus out of it.

fish curry

Add 1 spoon oil in a pan
fry tomatoes, small onions and 1 tea spoon cumin seeds and fenugreek seeds and green chilli
Grind them in a mixer.
Take a thick bottomed  vessel, Add oil fry some onions, curry leaves
Now add the grinded mixture.
Add red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and salt then cook it for 10 min
Now Add tamarind pulp after which add fish pieces.
cook for 10-15 min in medium flame.
Finally add coriander leaves and serve hot with rice.