Monday, January 18, 2010

MAJJIGA CHARU/CHALLA CHARU



Source: MOM
Cuisine: South Indian, Andhra
Prep time: 7 mins
Cooking time: 5 MIN
Makes: 2-3 people

INGREDIENTS:

3 cups cour curd

2 to 3Green chillies

1/2 tbspn putnalu/dahlia

1/2 tbspn roasted peanuts

few sprngs corainder leaves

salt to taste

handful chopped onions

1/4 tspn turmeric

1/2 glass of water

PROCEDURE:

.Take a mixie jar add from greenchillies to salt make a powder add chopped onions for this just crush for 1 time dont make a paste do it coarsely.

2.Take a curd in to bowl add turmeric ,beat well add above coarse mixture,water mix it well adjust water,salt according to your consistency make a tadka for this challa charu by adding mustard,cuminseeds,curry leaves.Now your majjiga charu is reay to serve with rice.

It will cool the body.

Friday, January 8, 2010

TINDORA/DONDAKAYA CHUTNEY




SOURCE:Myself
CUISINE:South Indian,Andhra
prep time:10 min
cooking time:10 min
makes:2-3 people

INGREDIENTS:

1/4 kg Dondakaya/tindora

1 small onion

1 medium tomato

1 tspn corainder seeds

1 tspn cumin seeds

small lemon size of tamarind

salt to taste

3 to 4 redchillies

1/2 tbspn corainder powder

1 or2 garlic pods

PROCEDURE:

1. wash and clean TINDORA/DONDAKAYA and cut them into small pieces,chopped onions,tomatoes and keep it aside.

2.Take a medium pan add oil add corainder,cuminseeds,redchillies fry for 1 min then add tindora pieces fry for 5 min then add onions saute them well finally add chopped tomatoes,turmeric,tamarind,1glass of water place a lid cook until it cooked let them cool down for a while .

3. grind in a mixture along with by adding salt,corainder powder,garlic .first grind these three then add above dondakayalu grind in a coarse,as shown in the above photo.

4.add tadka to this chutney/pachadi serve with rice/ghee....