Godhumai Karupatti Kolukattai / Kolukattai recipes

Wheat flour – 500g

Coconut – ½

Ghee – 5tbsp

Palm Jaggery – 100g

Cardamom powder – 1 tsp
Dry ginger powder - 1/2 tsp

Method of Preparation

1.   Slightly dry fry the wheat flour in kadai. Fry the coconut gratings as golden colour with ghee.

2.     Mix all ingredients well together and prepare the mixture as soft with little water as like Kolukattai.

3.   Apply little ghee in hands and give the shape as Pidi Kolukattai. Cook it in Idli steamer.

4.     Godhumai Karupatti kolukattai is in delicious taste and flavour, try this one in this Ganesh Chathurthi

Mutton Milagu Masala / Mutton Pepper Masala

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Onion, chopped – 150g

Tomato, chopped – 50g

Ginger paste – 1 tbsp

Garlic paste – 1 ½ tsp

Mutton – 500g

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Chilli powder – ½ tsp

Coriander powder – ½ tsp

Pepper powder – 2 tsp

Cumin powder – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Refined oil- 4 tbsp

Water as required

To make Milagu (pepper) Masala

Coconut – 150g

Pepper corns – 2g

Cumin seeds – 2g

Fennel seeds – 2g

Ginger – 20g

Garlic – 10g

Khus khus – 1tsp

Cashewnuts – 15g

Chilli powder – 1 tsp

Coriander powder – 2tsp

Method of preparation

1.     Grind the ingredients of milagu masala very finely in mixie.

2.    Heat oil, add curry leaf. Add onion, fry the onion till golden colour. Add tomato. Saute it.

3.     Add ginger & garlic paste. Mix and add all the masala powders one by one. Stir it all well.

4.     When the masala flavour emanates add the water and salt. Stir and boil it. Add the mutton pieces now.

5.   Once the mutton pieces are half cooked, add the milagu (pepper) coconut masala into it. Stir and cook the mixture in slow fire till mutton cooked well.

6.     Golden fry the small onion in ghee and add it to the gravy in the end. Take it out from fire and serve hot.

Note : You could alternate this Milagu Masala with chicken also.

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BOONDHI KOZHUKATTAI - Ganesh Chathurthi Neivedhyam / Kolukattai recipes

Raw rice flour -  500g

Sweet Boondhi -100g

Sugar – 50g

Coconut, grated – 1

Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp

Ghee – 5tbsp

Method of Preparation

1.  Heat a tbsp of ghee in kadai; slightly fry the coconut in it. Add sweet boondhi,

    sugar and cardamom powder in a bowl; gently mash it all with your hands.

2.    In raw riceflour, add the water and prepare the good kozhukattai dough.

3.  Take a piece of dough, apply little ghee in palm. Keep the piece of kozhukattai dough in your palm and spread it. Keep the sweet boondhi mixture into it and fold it.

4.     Cook it in Idli steamer and serve. 

MASALA KOZHUKATTAI - Vinayagar Chathurthi Special Kozhukattai recipe / Kolukattai recipes

Rawrice – 500g

Ghee – 4tbsp

Cumin seeds, dry fried – 1tsp

Fennel seeds, dry fried – 1 tsp

Curryleaf – a few

Salt to taste

Coconut, gratings – a handful

Garam Masala powder-1 tsp

Dry redchillies – 1

Ginger, chopped – a small piece

Luke warm water as needed to make Kozhukattai dough

Method of Preparation

1.     Fry the coconut and dry redchillies in little ghee without change the colour. Grind it finely without water.

2.     Dry fry and powder the cumin and fennel seeds separately (If you need add very little turmeric powder).Soak the raw rice in water for two hours after that drain the rice well then spread the rice over plain towel and dry it under shadow. When it gets dry out, powder the rice in machine. Slightly fry the rice in medium fire and keep it aside.

3.   Add grinded masala, a pinch of cumin and fennel seeds powder, raw rice flour, salt, ginger, curry leaf, garam masala powder, a tbsp of ghee in a vessel.

4.   Mix it all well then sprinkle required amount of luke warm water to prepare the soft Kozhukattai dough.

5.     Make small balls from this Kozhukattai dough and cook it in steamer.

6.     Serve this delicious and spicy Kozhukattai in this Vinayagar Chathurthi season. 

Sundakkai Vathal Kulambu Recipe

Sundakkai (Turkey Berry) – 2 tbsp

Tamarind – 10g

Salt to taste

Tomato, chopped – 1nr

To prepare Vatha Kulambu Masala

Coconut – 100g

Coriander seeds – 3tbsp

Dry Redchillies – 4nrs

Fenugreek Seeds – 1tsp

Cumin seeds- 1 tsp

Fennel seeds – 1 tsp

Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp

For Tempering

Gingelly Oil – 4tbsp

Fennel seeds – a pinch

Fenugreek – a pinch

Curryleaf- 5nrs

Shallots, chopped – 50gms

Asafoetida powder – ¼ tsp

Method of Preparation

1. Heat oil in a pan, add coconut, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds,

 fenugreek, turmeric powder, dry redchillies. Fry all these items nicely but not
golden or brown colour. Grind it into very fine paste. Gently wash the sundakkai in
water and drain it. Fry it in hot oil and keep aside.

2. Heat Gingelly oil in a pan, temper with fennel seeds, fenugreek, Curryleaf and

    asafoetida. Add shallots in it, fry till it turns golden colour.

3.     Add tomatoes now, fry it. Add the ground Kuzhambu masala. Add the water and mix. Boil it for three minutes.

4.     Add salt and tamarind extraction. Mix and simmer the fire. 

5. Add the sundakkai now, cover the kadai with lid and keep it in simmering fire for another 5 minutes.

6.     Check the seasoning and consistency. Take it out from fire and Serve.

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Aadi Dosai / Koil Prasadham Dosai

Parboiled Rice (Puzhangal Arisi) - 200g

Raw rice flour (Pacharisi mavu) - 150g

Urad dal – 200g

Pepper corns – 10

Ginger, chopped – 2 tbsp

Dry redchillies – 2

Curry leaf & coriander leaf –  a few

Method of Preparation

1. Soak parboiled rice and urad dal, grind these both items like dosa batter. Add the raw rice flour into the batter. Mix all together. Leave the batter for overnight to ferment.

2.  Pound curry leaf, coriander leaf, dry redchillies, pepper corns and ginger. Add the pounded items and salt in to the batter. Mix well. Now the batter is ready to prepare dosas. Use little ghee to cook the dosa. 

3.     Use the batter to prepare tastiest divine dosa. 

Poosanikkai Kootu

White Chickpeas, soaked for 3 hours – 50g

Yellow Pumpkin, diced – 500g

Cumin Seeds – a pinch

Small onion – 2 nrs

Curry leaves – 2 leafs

Green chillies – 2nrs

Coconut – 1nr

Salt to taste

Method of Preparation

1.  Take first and second extraction from coconut. Pour the second extraction into the vessel.

2.   Heat the extraction; add the pumpkin and white chick peas. Let it to boil well.

3. Add salt, stir and add first extraction of coconut milk after the vegetables get cooked. Simmer the fire.

4.  Prepare the coarse ground masala with coconut, small onion, curry leaves, green chillies and cumin seeds.

5.  Add the ground masala, stir well. Keep it in stove for one minute, stir and take out.

6.     Superb vegetable Kootu for all auspicious occasion. 

Manja Pongal

Manja Pongal is the delicious Prasadham / Neivedhyam in all auspicious seasons to offer deity.

Raw rice – 500g

Tuvar dal – 50g

Turmeric powder – 1 tsp

Cumin seeds- ½ tsp

Salt to taste

Ghee – 5 tbsp

Method of Preparation 

1.  Wash the rice and toor dal well and soak both for 15 minutes.

2.  In a pressure cooker, add drained rice, toor dal, turmeric powder and water.

3. Close the cooker, open it after 4 whistles. Temper the cumin seeds in ghee and

   put it over the Manja Pongal.

Kuzhannam

Varalakshmi Viradham recipe in Aadi Velli day of Tamil Aadi Month.

Rawrice – 500g

Jaggery – 100g

Milk – 2 litres

Water - 200ml

Ghee – 50ml

Turmeric powder -1/2 tsp

Pepper powder – 1 tsp

Method of Preparation

1.   Heat milk in cooker. Add turmeric powder, pepper powder and Jaggery. Stir it.

2. Add the rinsed rice in boiling milk along add jaggery, mix all well. Close the cooker with lid.

3.   Make it to allow 4 whistles, turn off the fire.

4. Once the pressure is released, Open the lid and pour the ghee on top, stir it all well.

5.   Now the divinely flavoured Kuzhaanam is ready for prayer. 

Urulai Malli Poriyal / Potato and Coriander leaf poriyal

Shallots, chopped – 5nrs

Coriander leaves – 100g

Potato, chopped -1nr

Coconut – 60gms

Cumin seeds – ½ tsp

Green chillies, chopped – 1

Refined Oil, Mustard seeds, Urad dal and Curryleaves for tempering

Method of Preparation

1.   Heat oil in a vessel and temper mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves.

2.   Coarsely grind together the coconut, cumin seeds and green chillies.

3.   Add the shallots and fry it slightly. Add the potato in to it, sauté it in slow fire till soft.

4.  Add salt and coriander leaves. Fry it altogether. Add the coarse ground coconut in it and mix.

5.  Mix all together in slow flame for few seconds and take out from fire. Serve Urulai

   Malli poriyal with rice.

Garlic Kulambhu / Poondu Kuzhambu by Chef Raj Mohan