Tag: Asafoetida

MAMIDIKAYA TEEPI PACHADI

INGREDIENTS

Raw mango – 1 cup [Peel and grated]

Red chilli powder – 3 tbsp

Sugar – 5 to 6 tbsp

Fenugreek powder – 1/4 tsp

Cumin powder – 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

TALIMPU

Oil – 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup

Mustard seeds – 1/4 tsp

Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp

Dry red chillies – 6 pieces

Garlic – 6 mashed

Curry leaves – few

Asafoetida- 1/4 tsp

METHOD

  1. Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and let them splutter. Add all the remaning ingredients one by one.
  2. Fry for few seconds and switch off the flame and keep it aside.
  3. Add sugar. Mix well and cool it. After that, add all the remaning ingredients one by one.
  4. Mix well. Rest it for 2 hours. Mix well and adjust seasoning.
  5. Goes well with idly and dosa.

MAJJIGA PULUSU

INGREDIENTS

Curd – 6 cups [room temperature]

Water – 1 1/2 to 2 cups

Besan – 2 tbsp

Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp

Finely chopped coriander leaves – 1/4 cup

Pressure cook the below ingredients for 2 whistles Allow the pressure to go out and cool it. Keep it aside.

Drum stick pieces – 20

Bottled gourd pieces – 25 pieces large pieces [ remove pith]

Onion – 2 large cut into 4 pieces

Green chillies – 4 slit

Tomatoes – 2 cut into 4 pieces

water – 1cup

Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp

Wash and soak the below ingredients for 2 hours and grind it to a paste

Green chillies – 2

Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp

Moong dal – 3 tsp

Coriander seeds – 4 tsp

Dry red chillies – 2

Rice – 2 tsp

Moong dal – 3tsp

Fenugreek seeds – 1/4 tsp

TALIMPU

Oil – 2 tbsp

Mustard seeds – 1/4 tsp

Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp

Fenugreek seeds – 1/4 tsp

Garlic – 6 cloves mashed

Dry red chillies – 12 pieces

Asafoetida – 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves – generous amount

METHOD

  1. Take a small bowl. Mix besan with 2 to 3 tbsp of water. Mix well and keep it aside.
  2. Take a large cooking pan, add curd and whisk well. Add water, 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder, grinded masala paste and besan mixture.
  3. Whisk well and prepare smooth butter milk. Then add cooled pressure cooked pieces and mix well.
  4. Cook the butter milk mixture on high flame. Make sure to stir continuously.
  5. When the butter milk starts boiling, add chopped coriander leaves. Cook for another 3 to 4 minutes till the raw smell of the masala fades away.
  6. Switch off the flame, add salt and mix well. Keep it aside. Dont cover.
  7. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds and let them splutter. Add all the remaning ingredients one by one and fry for few seconds. Pour it over the boiled majjiga.
  8. Immediately cover with plate for 10 seconds. Open the lid and mix well. Check out the seasonings.
  9. Serve with podi pappu and rice.
SUGGESTIONS

When majjiga pulusu is hot, don’t cover it with lid.

You can add vegetables like pumpkin, okra and carrots.

PANDUMIRAPA MAMIDIKAYA PACHADI

INGREDIENTS

Pandumirapa paste- 2 cups [for recipe, check out my previous posts]

Raw mango pieces – 1 cup peeled and cut into cubes

TALIMPU

Oil – 1 cup

Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp

Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp

Fenugreek seeds – 1/2 tsp

Garlic – 10 cloves mashed

Broken red chillies – 1/3 cup

Curry leaves – 1/3 cup loosely packed

Asafoetida – 1/4 tsp

Finely chopped coriander leaves – 1/2 cup

METHOD

  1. In a bowl, mix peeled mango pieces and pandumirapa paste. Keep it aside.
  2. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. Let them splutter. Add cumin seeds and fenugreek seeds.
  3. Mix throughly. Add mashed garlic, broken red chilli pieces, curry leaves and asafoetida powder and fry for 15 to 20 seconds.
  4. Lastly, add finely chopped coriander leaves. Mix well and switch off the flame.
  5. Pour it over pandumirapakaya paste and mix well . Check out seasonings.
  6. Goes well with rice, idly and dosa.

TOMATO COCONUT ROTI PACHADI

INGREDIENTS

Tomatoes – 3 cut into small pieces

Oil – 1 tsp

Turmeric powder- a pinch

Tamarind paste – 3 tsp

Salt to taste

Red chilli powder- 3 tbsp

Garlic – 8 with out skin

Curry leaves – few

Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

Freshly grated coconut – 1/2 cup

TALIMPU

Oil – 2 tsp

Urad dal – 1/2 tsp

Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp

Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp

Broken red chillies- 4

Mashed garlic – 3 cloves

Curry leaves – few

Asafoetida – 1/4 tsp

METHOD

  1. Wash and cut tomatoes into small pieces. Heat oil in a pan. Add tomatoes, salt and turmeric powder.
  2. Cook on medium flame for 5 to 6 minutes. Add tamarind paste and mix well. Cook on medium flame till tomatoes becomes mushy.
  3. Take a mortar and pestle. Crush garlic, cumin seeds and curry leaves to a coarse paste. Add cooked tomatoes and crush into a coarse paste. Add freshly grated coconut and red chilli powder. Mix well and mash it to a coarse paste.
  4. At this stage check out salt. If you want it to be more spicy, add more red chilli powder. Mix well and keep it aside.
  5. Heat oil for talimpu. Add mustard seeds. When mustard seeds starts spluttering, add urad dal and cumin seeds.
  6. Fry for few seconds. Add mashed garlic, broken red chillies and curry leaves. Fry for few seconds and add asafoetida. Mix well.
  7. Add tomato coconut mixture to this talimpu. Switch off the flame. Mix well.
  8. Serve with hot rice and ghee.

KATTU PONGAL [ DHANURMASAM PRASADAM]

INGREDIENTS

Rice – 1/2 cup

Moong dal – 1 1/2 tbsp

Water – 2 cup

Asafoetida

Salt – 1/2 tsp

TALIMPU

Cow ghee – 3 tbsp

Cumin seeds – 1/2 seeds

Black pepper – 1/2 tsp coarsely powdered

Dhanur masam is considered the month of bhakthi. Offering of pongal as naivedya is the most sacred offer for Lord Vishnu. Basil is one more thing that is more important and auspicious to offer to god.

METHOD

  1. Heat a pan and add moong dal. Dry roast it till they are slightly golden brown colour.
  2. Cool it . Wash rice and dal twice and drain it .
  3. Heat ghee in a pressure cooker. Add cumin seeds and coarsely grounded black pepper. Fry on low flame till the pepper starts to burst.
  4. Then add asafoetida, curry leaves and fry for 10 seconds.
  5. Add washed moong dal and rice. Mix well. Add salt and 2 cups of water. Pressure cook on high flame till the first whistle .
  6. Then cook on low flame for 6 to 7 minutes. Switch off the flame.
  7. Allow the pressure to release on its own and then open the cooker.
  8. Mix well and offer as naivedyam to god.