Easy Panniyaaram

Ingredients:

  Idly Maav - Fresh 4 cups
  Onion - 1 (finely chopped)
  Carrot - 1 (grated)
  Temper - Mustard, Cumin, Crushed pepper corns, curry leaves.
  Rava - 1 tbsp
  Salt - a pinch
  Oil - for panniyaaram and tempering

Method:

• In a bowl take 4 cups of maav.
• Heat oil in a pan and add tempering items.
• Then add onion and saute and then add grated carrot.
• Add this to idly maav.
• Then add salt and rava and mix well.
• Heat panniyaara kal and add 3/4 of this in each hole.
• Boil both sides and serve hot with kaara chutney

Kaara Chutney #1

Ingredients :

Onion - 2 (finely chopped)
Dry Red Chilly - 5
Tamrind - small piece(cherry size)
Garlic Pods - 3 - 5
Salt, Oil - As reqd
  
Method:

• Heat oil in  pan and add onion and saute till color changes.
• Now add chilly and saute. Then let it cool.
• In a jar add these and then tamrind, garlic pods, salt.
• Grind it.
• Excellent combo with panniyaaram.

Ridgeguard (Peerkangaai) Chutney

 Ingredients:

Ridgeguard - 1 (remove nerves and cut it)
Red Chilly powder - 1 tbsp
Tamrind - small piece(cherry size)
Salt, oil - As reqd
Temper - Mustard, cumin and urad dhal

Method:

• Heat oil in a pan and add ridgeguard and saute for a while.
• Then add chilly powder, tamrind and salt, let it cool.
• Grind it to a paste.
• Heat oil and add tempering items and let it splutter.
• Now add grinder paste and cook in low range for few minutes.

Tomato Thokku

Ingredients :

  Tomato - 8 
  Chilly powder - 1 tbsp
  Coriander powder- 1 tbsp
  Salt - As reqd.
  Oil - 1 tbsp
  Water - To blanch tomatoes

Method:

• Heat water in a pan.
• When it boils add tomatoes and let  it boil for 8 minutes.
• Now strain water and peel the skin and blanch it.
• Now heat the pan and add blanched tomatoe to it.
• Saute it in low range and till raw smell goes.
• Now add chilly powder, coriander powder and salt.
• Finally add oil and take from range and serve it.
• Goes good with dosa, idly, upma and chapathi.

Tomato & Onion

 Ingredients:

Small onions - 6

Tomato - 3

Channa dhal - 3 tbsp(dry roast and keep aside) 

Red chilly powder - 1 tbsp

Tamrind - small piece(cherry size)

Salt, Water, oil - As Reqd.

Temper - Mustard 1/2 tbsp, cumin - 1 tbsp

Method:

Heat pan and add a spoon of oil.
Then add onion,tomato, chilly powder, salt and tamrind.
Saute till raw smell goes and let it cool.
Add dhal and above mixture in jar & add water and grind it.
Now heat pan and add 3 spoons(kuzhi karandi) oil.
Add items under temper, let it splutter.
Then add grinded one and let it boil few minutes.
Delicious chutney ready.