Carrot Cabbage Poriyal / Carrot Kose Poriyal

This is a simple south indian poriyal with carrot and cabbage.. Which is easily available in the market around the year.. This is a simple stir fry recipe with little spiced and coconut, made for lunch with puli kuzhambu or vatha kuzhambu meals.. The combination of cabbage and carrot works very well... 

Simple Spicy Potato Fry / Aloo Fry

Simple spicy potato fry is quick and easy to make and goes well with briyani or pulao or verieties rice or rasam rice or sambar rice.. Here I used quite few ingredients to prepare this simple potato fry.. My kids is a great fan of this potato fry they offer me to prepare the simple potato fry as the sidedish for curd rice in their school lunch box..

Here I use very less oil to fry this potatoes by just boil the chopped potato with water in sauce pan, drain it and I roast it in oil, so they not stick to the pan.. (easily cooked). And the main thing is roast the potatoes in medium flame, so they became crisp at outside and soft texture inside...  I served this with Soya Chunks Vegetable Briyani which I have already posted in my blog.. 

So I hope that you must try this recipe and let me know how it's turns out from you...

Preparation Time : 5 mins

Cooking Time : 20 to 25 mins

Serve - 2 to 3

Recipe Category - Sidedish

Recipe Cuisine - South Indian

INGREDIENTS :

Potato - 2 (large)

Onion - 1 (sliced)

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tspn

Chilli powder - 1 tspn

Salt - as needed

Oil - 1 tbspn

METHOD :

• Take your potato, peel the skin and cubed..
• In a sauce pan add in cubed potatoes and water, allow to boil (not to cooked)
• Drain it a sieve and keep aside..
• Heat a pan with oil add in onion, toss till transparent..
• Add in potato and cook it in low flame..
• Inbetween add in turmeric powder and salt.
• Toss well and cook the potato turn soft (it will take 10 to 15 mins)
• Once they are cooked add in chilli powder..
• Stir fry in medium flame, it will turns they attain golden crisp exterior..
• Serve hot and enjoy..

PICTORIAL :

Take the potatoes

Peel the skin

Chopped it into small square pieces, wash well

Take them in a sauce pan and add some water

Bring to boil, but sure not to cook completely

Drain it 

Take your ingredients

Heat a pan with oil

Add in onions

Toss till transparent

Add in potatoes, mix well

Add in salt and turmeric powder

Mix well and cook it medium flame

Keep stirring till they cooked

Once it cooked

Add in chilli powder

Mix well and cook till the raw smell leaves

Now it's done

Transfer it to a bowl

Serve with briyani, pulao 

Enjoy...

Vazhaipoo Poriyal / Banana Flower Stir Fry

Vazhipoo is in our recipe menu often as I love this recipe with green chilli as masala amd adding fresh grated coconut...This is my mom's recipe, when she came here with my sister in last vacation, my hubby brought this banana flower from our village.. I plan to make my normal poriyal which i have already posted in my blog..

But my mom told, i prepare this banana flower with green chilli and frresh coconut.. So i remove the big skin and take the florets found inside the bract, in the florets find a thick string in the middle and rubbery skin out side.. Remove both from each florets and chopped it into tiny bits.. Put into the water with little butter milk, This will avoid decolouration of the florets..I gave it my mom, she make it as a delicious, yummy and tasty poriyal. 

I remember those days while tying my recipe, I miss u mom.. So I hope you must love and try this recipe, let me know how it's turn sout from you..

Preparation time : 1/2 hours

Cooking Time : 20 mins

Serve - 3

Recipe source - My mom

Recipe category - Poriyal Recipe

INGREDIENTS :

Vazhipoo / Banana flower - 1 

Salt - as needed

Water - 1 cup

Fresh grated coconut - 1 cup

FOR MASALA :

Green chilli - 4 nos

Garlic - 1 cloves 

Cumin seeds - 1/4 tspn

Fresh coconut - 2 tspn

Shallots / Small onion - 4 to 5 nos

TO TEMPER :

Coconut oil - 2 tbspn

Mustard seeds - 1 tspn

Urad dal - 1 tspn

Shallots - 3 nos (chopped)

Curry leaves - few

METHOD :

• Make the masala first, the ingredients given in the list " FOR MASALA" into a blender and pluse it once..Keep aside.
• Heat a pan with coconut oil and temper it with mustard, urad dal, shallots, curry leaves..
• When it became little brown, add in vazhaipoo and toss well in the oil.
• For 2 to 3 mins, and add in water and mix well.
• Cover it with lid and cook till water evaporate..
• Inbetween toss it lightly and the water 3/4 evaporate add in salt, grounded paste..
• Cover it with lid (no need to mix).
• After 2 mins open the lid and give it a mix ..
• Again, it will relase some water so cover it with lid and cook for few mins.
• Open the lid and mix well.
• Once it cook and raw smell goes, add in grated fresh coconut.
• Mix evenly and serve hot..
• Enjoy..

PICTORIAL :

Preapare your vazhipoo and chopped it

Take the masala ingredients

Take them in a blender

Pulse it lightly, keep aside

Heat a pan with coconut oil

Add in mustard seeds. allow to crackle

Add in urad dal

Add in chopped shallots and curry leaves

Toss till brown

Add in vazhipoo without water

Mix well

Along with oil

Once it mix

Add in water

Mix evenly

Cover it with lid and cook

Open the lid 

Mix it once

When the water evaporates 

Add some salt

Add in grinded masala

No need to mix, cover it with lid

Once after 2 mins

Masala blended with vazhipoo

Mix it evenly

Cover it with lid

Now it almost done

Add in fresh grated coconut

Mix well.

Done

Transfer to the serving bowl

Enjoy...