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Pineapple Pulissery

April 4, 2011 Indian Cooking, Indian Vegetarian, South Indian No comments

Ingredients:

Pineapple – 1 cup

Curd – 1 cup

Grated coconut – 1 cup

Small onions – 2 tablespoon

Green chillies – 3

Turmeric – 1 pinch

Cumin – 2 pinch

Mustard seeds – 1/2 teaspoon

Fenugreek – 1 pinch

Curry leaves – 1 sprigs

Dry red chillies – 2

Oil – 2 tablespoon

Salt to taste

How to:

Grind coconut, green chillies and cumin to a fine paste.

Cook pineapple with one pinch of turmeric and a little salt till soft. Pour in the ground coconut paste and cook for 5 minutes.

Blend curd with a fork and make sure there are no lumps.

Pour the curd into the pineapple and coconut mixture, add more water if necessary and keep stirring. Do not let it boil.

Meanwhile, add 2 tablespoons oil to a pan, splutter mustard and fenugreek, add sliced small onions, curry leaves, dry red chillies and sauté till the onions brown. (properly browned onions enhance the flavor of the curry) Pour this over the pulissery. Remove from flame, and serve with rice.

Curd and Chili Chutney

February 25, 2011 Chutney/Pickles, Indian Cooking, Indian Vegetarian, South Indian No comments

Ingredients:

Curd – 1 cup

Red Chillies – 6-7

Garlic – 4 flakes

Ginger – 1 teaspoon

Shallots (small onions) – 6

Green chili – 1

Curry leaves – 1 sprig

Mustard  seeds – 1/4 teaspoon

Salt – to taste

Oil – 2 tablespoons

How to:

In a pan add a tablespoon of oil and sauté red chillies, garlic, ginger and small onion. Blend all the roasted ingredients along with 1 cup curd, 1 green chili and enough salt. Transfer the chutney to a bowl.

In a pan add 1 tablespoon oil, splutter mustard, add curry leaves and one red chili. Pour this over the ground chutney.

Serve with dosa and idli.

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