Simple Lemon Rice/Elumichai Sadam

Simple Lemon Rice/Elumichai Sadam

Ingredients

Long grained Rice(Basmati preferable) - 1 cup

Water - 2 cups

Oil - 3 tea spoons

Lemon juice - 4 tea spoons

Mustard seeds - 1 tea spoon

Coriander powder -1 tea spoon

Turmeric powder -1 tea spoon

Channa dhaal - 1 tea spoon

Urad dhaal - 1 tea spoon

Ginger-Garilic paste(Optional) - 1/2 tea spoon

Onion - 1/2 cup diced into fine pieces

Green chillies - 5 - slit into halves

Red Chillies(Optional) - 2 - cut into small pieces
Salt - To taste

Curry leaves - As required

Coriander leaves - As required

Procedure

1. Cook the Basmati Rice with 2 cups of water.Add 1 spoon of Oil while cooking so that the rice grains don't stick after cooking

2. Spread the cooked rice on a plate to cool down

3. Heat a Pan and add 2 spoons of Cooking oil.

4.When the Oil is hot, add the channa dhaal and Urad Dhaal to it.When the Channa dhaal turns golden brown and the raw smell goes off, add the mustard seeds and curry leaves to the oil and let them splutter.

5.Add the Chillies to the Oil and sauté them

6.Add the Onion,Ginger Garlic paste and saute well.

7.When the onion turns golden brown, add the turmeric powder and coriander powder and sauté well.

8.Now lower the stove flame or put the stove in low heat mode

9.Start adding the Rice, sprinkle salt as per taste and keep mixing the rice with the previously cooked mixture gently till it is evenly spread across the rice.

10.Now add the lemon juice evenly and mix the rice well.Cook in low flame for 5 minutes.

11.Garnish with coriander leaves on top.

Simple and tasty lemon rice is ready to be served.Adding a spoon of ghee will provide a nice aroma.

Happy eating:-)

Vegetable Kurma and Chapathi

Vegetable Kurma

Vegetable Kurma is a great dish which goes well with Chapathi, Roti, Naan and also Idli, Dosa.
Here is the recipe that I use to make it.

Servings for 2
Preparation time : 20 minutes

Ingredients
Potato -1
Carrot - 1 (if Big) or 4(if baby carrots are used)
Beans - a handful
Onion - 1
Ginger Garlic paste - Half a tea-spoon or as required
Green Chilies -6
Tomato - 1
Cloves - 1
Cinnamon - 1 or 2 small pieces
Cardamom - 3
Cashew nuts -3
Freshly Scrapped Coconut or Coconut powder - 1/2 cup
Cumin seeds(Jeera) - 1 tea spoon
Vegetable/Any cooking Oil - 2 tea spoons
Butter - 1 spoon (optional)
Coriander powder - 1 tea spoon(heap)
Chilli powder - 1 tea spoon
Garam Masala powder - 1 tea spoon
Mustard seeds - 1 tea spoon
Water - 2 cups or can be added as required for cooking (depending on the consistency required for the kurma)

Procedure

Cut all the vegetables into small pieces separately.



To create the coconut paste

Add water and grind the following ingredients well using a Mixer: Coconut,Chillies, Cashew nuts,Cinnamon,Clove,Cardamom,1/4th of the chopped onions and half spoon of cumin seeds

To prepare the Kurma

1. Heat the Oil In a thick skillet
2. Once the oil is hot, add the mustard seeds and the remaining jeera



3. When the mustard and jeera splutter, and the jeera turns brown, add the remaining chopped onions.Let them turn into golden brown colour.



4.Now add the carrots and saute them for sometime after which add the potatoes.
5. Keep sauting them so that they get partly cooked in the heat without adding water.Add the tomatoes and saute them.

6. Now sprinkle some Chilli powder, Garam masala powder, Salt and Coriander powder
7. Add one cup of water and let the vegetables get cooked well till soft.
8. Now add the ground paste , add the remaining water. Add salt if required.
9. Allow the kurma to cook well till the raw smell of coconut goes away.This can be done either in the same skillet Or the kurma can be transferred to a pressure cooker and cooked for 1 whistle.

Transfer the contents to a bowl, add 1 spoon of butter and sprinkle coriander leaves for the final touch.
Your delicious Vegetable kurma is ready to be served.

To prepare Soft Chapathi
Ingredients
Wheat Flour - 2 cups
Water - As required
Milk - 1 cup
Ghee - 2 tea spoons
Cooking oil - 2 tea spoons
Salt - 2 tea spoons
Sugar - 1 or 2 tea spoons

Procedure
1. Mix the Wheat flour, Salt and Sugar well
2. Pour the Milk into the Wheat flour and knead the dough.Add water as required
3. When the dough if formed add Ghee and Oil and knead well till soft.
4.Keep closed for 30 mins to  1 hour and make the dough into balls.
5.Dip them in flour and Press them into round shape using the Chapathi base and roller pin
6.Heat a thick based skillet
7.Place the chapathi dough and flip both sides at an interval of about 10 seconds, till cooked well.
8.Apply a bit of Ghee once the chapathi is taken off the stove.

Soft Chapathi is ready to be served with tasty Vegetable kurma.Hope you have a great time eating :-)