Samai Puli Pongal - சாமை புளி பொங்கல்

Samai Puli Pongal. 

My mom used to make Rice Kurunai (குருணை) puli Pongal.
And serve it with Javvarisi vadam.

It taste similar like puli Sadam (tamarind rice) in mushy form.

I bought small Vengala Panai (வெங்கல பானை) recently in that I wanted to make this puli Pongal.

This came out very well.

Ingredients Needed:-

1. Samai Rice - 1 cup

2. Tamarind small lemon size ball soaked in 3 1/4 cup water

3. Salt to taste

4. Turmeric powder

5. Hing / Perungayam

6. Jaggery little ( optional)

Ingredients for tempering:-

1. Oil - 3 tablespoon (use only gingelly oil) 

2. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

3. Urad dal - 1 tsp

4. Channa dal - 1 1/2 tsp

5. Ground nuts - 2 tablespoon

6. Curry leaves

7. Red Chilli - 2 broken into pieces

8. Green chili - 1 

Samai Puli Pongal - சாமை புளி பொங்கல்

Method:-

1. Wash Samai rice and keep aside. Squeeze the tamarind pulp filter and keep aside.

2. Take all the ingredients for tempering for ready to use.

3. Heat oil in a pressure cooker / pan. (It is Vengala panai for me this time)

4. Temper the ingredients.

5. Pour the tamarind extract, turmeric powder, hing / Perungayam, salt and jaggery. Bring it to boil.

6. When tamarind water starts boiling add in washed Samai rice and stir well.
Cook in small flame.

Put weight and sim the flame for about 12 mins.

7. Open the cooker and stir well and serve this Pongal hot or cold.

Samai Puli Pongal - சாமை புளி பொங்கல்

I served this with Arisi Appalam.

It can be enjoyed hot or cold in both temperatures it tastes good...

Samai Arisi Sambar Sadam (Bisebela bath) - சாமை அரிசி பிசிபேளா பாத்

Samai Arisi Sambar Sadam(Bisbela bath) - சாமை அரிசி பிசிபேளா பாத்

This time Sambar Rice with Samai Rice. 

It's creamy in texture and tastes delicious.

Easy to make dish.

Ingredients needed:-

1. Samai rice -  1/2 cup

2. Tuar dal / thuvaram Paruppu  - 1/2 cup

3. Salt to taste

4. Bisebela bath powder  - 2 tsp ( I used MTR Powder )

5. Sambar powder  - 1 tsp

6. Turmeric Powder -  1/4 tsp

7. Tamarind Small gooseberry size soak in 1 1/2 cups of water

8. Water  - 3 3/4 cups

9. Vegetables cubed (drumstick, beans, carrot, capsicum, chow-chow) 

10. Mustard seeds

11. Oil - 2 tablespoons

12. Ghee - 1 table spoon 

13. Hing / Perungayam

14. Jaggery little optional 

15. Tomato 1 (make into purée) 



சாமை அரிசி பிசிபேளா பாத்

Method:-

1. Wash and cut vegetables and keep it aside.

 

2. Soak tamarind in warm water and extract the juice.

3. Heat oil in a pan season with mustard seeds.

4. Add cubed vegetables, salt, turmeric powder and hing and sauté for a while.

5. Now goes tamarind water, sambar powder and tomato purée.

Cook till the raw smell of the Tamarind and sambar Podi goes.

5. Side by side was and pressure cook Samai Arisi and dal with 4 cups of water.

6. When the vegetables get cooked add in MTR Bisebela bath powder and mix well.

7. Pour this Sambar mixture in cooked rice and mix well.

8. Add remaining oil and ghee season curry leaves and pour over rice.

Pressure cook in slow flame for 10 mins.

சாமை அரிசி பிசிபேளா பாத்

My Sambar Sadam is ready to enjoy with Potato Fry and Papad.

Notes:-

1. Small onions can be added.

2. Cook drumstick separately and take out the pulp and add to the cooked rice.

3. Jaggery is added when the tamarind water is about to boil.

Vegetable Fried Rice

Vegetable Fried Rice 

Indo Chinese cuisine and very popular while dining out.

This Fried Rice is very easy to make and tastes very delicious.

This can be prepared quickly and  even with left over rice.

Ingredients Needed:-

1. Cooked Rice - 1 cup ( add salt and few drops of lime/ lemon juice while cooking )

2. Finely Chopped Vebetables  - 3/4 cup (Carrot, Beans, Cabbage, Capsicum and Onion)

3. Finely Chopped or Crushed Garlic - 4nos

4. Slit green chilli - 1

5. Soya Sauce - 1 tsp

6. Salt to Taste 

7. Spring Onions to Garnish 

8. Oil - 2 table spoons (here I used one tablespoon Sunflower oil + one tablespoon Seasame oil)

9. Sugar pinch 

10. Pepper Powder  - 1/2 tsp 

Vege Fried Rice

Method :-

1.  Heat oil in a broad Kadai.

2.  Add chopped Garlic and fry nicely till you get a good aroma.

3. Now goes chopped onion,  sauté for few minutes then add all vegetables except Capsicum.

4. Add slit Green Chilli and fry for a minute, by this time vegetables get cooked.

5.  Add Capsicum, Soya sauce, Pepper powder and sugar - sauté for a minutes then Add Rice and toss well.

 

6. Garnish with Spring onions and serve hot with any Manchurians.

 

Samai Bagala bath - சாமை பகாளா பாத்

Samai Rice Bagala bath.

Rich and Creamy Samai Bagala bath.

Nowadays people are reducing the intake of Rice and include Siru Dhaniya Unavugal. (சிறு தானிய உணவு)
I add a tasty item with Samai rice.
 

Ingredients Needed:-

1. Samai Arisi - 1/2 cup

2. Salt  - to taste

3. Water  - to cook 1-1/4 cup

4. Milk

5. Curd

6. Butter

Ingredients for tempering:-

1. Oil  - 1 tsp

2. Mustard seeds

3. Finely chopped green chilli

4. Finely chopped ginger 

5. Curry leaves

Ingredients for garnishing:-

1. Coriander leaves 

2. Raisins 

3. Cashew nut cut into small pieces

4. Finely cut (cucumber, carrot, raw mango)

Method :-

1. Pressure cook samai rice.

2. Add butter and salt mix well soon you get it out of the cooker.

3. When the mixture is luke warm add milk and curds mix well.

4. Temper with mustard seeds, ginger, green chilli and curry leaves and pour over.

5. Now goes chopped cashew nuts, raisins, carrot, cucumber and raw mango.

6. Mix well and serve with any pickle or fried Poriyal. 



Samai Bagala bath - சாமை பகாளா பாத்

Samai Bagalabath - Enjoy !!!! 

Coriander Rice in Coconut Milk

Coriander Rice in Coconut Milk 

Rice made with Fresh green Coriander, masalas and cooked in coconut milk.

Very rich and tasty rice and good for lunch box, pot luck parties etc.,

 

Ingredients Needed:-

1. Rice  - 1 cup (here I used Basmati Rice) wash few times and drain the water and keep this for some 15 mins  

2. Onions - 2 nos finely sliced 

3. Carrot - 1 cut into cubes

4. Salt to taste

5. Oil  - 2 tsps

6. Ghee - 1-1/2 tsp 

7. Coconut milk 2 cups (diluted)

Ingredients for Grinding:-

1. Coriander leaves - tightly pressed one cup

2. Ginger - small piece

3. Garlic - 2 pods 

4. Green chillies - 2 according to taste 

5. Turmeric powder little (to bring nice Color to the dish) 

 

Method:-

1. Heat oil  and ghee in a pressure cooker.

2.  Fry onions till it turns into golden brown.

 

3. Grind the Coriander, Garlic, Ginger, Green chillies, Turmeric and Salt .

 

4.  Add now the diced Carrots and fry for few minutes.

5.  Now goes the grinded paste and fry well in medium flame until the raw smell of the Garlic goes.

6. I took 5 tablespoons of grated coconut and extracted milk by adding 2 cups of water, strained it. Check your measure of this for its adequate quantity.

7.  Add washed rice and fry well.

8. Add Coconut milk and bring it to boil.

9. Cover the cooker lid and cook till 2 whistles.

10. Coriander Rice in Coconut milk ... Serve with papad and raita.

KARUVEPPILLAI SADAM (CURRY LEAVES RICE) - கறிவேப்பிலை சாதம்

Curry Leaves Rice - கறிவேப்பிலை சாதம்

Curry leaves has lots of medicinal properties.
In indian cooking it is used as seasoning agent that gives the nice flavour to the food. 

It is very good for digestion and hair growth.

It is very good for those who have sugar and blood pressure issues.

We normally discard the curry leaves which we season in dishes, here in this rice we can get the full benefit of curry leaves.
 

Ingredients Needed:- (for one cup rice)

1.  Curry leaves 2 handful 

2.  Urad dal / Ulutham Paruppu 2 tsp

3.  Channa dal / Kadalai Paruppu. 2 tsp

4.  Dry red chillies 5 nos

5.  Cooked rice ( one cup rice I cooked and kept it in a broad vessel and drizzled 2 tsp of oil)

6.  Salt to taste

Fry the above ingredients separately with little oil cool and powder it adding salt.

Ingredients for Seasoning:-

Oil - preferably use Gingely oil (Sesame oil) - 2 tsp plus 2 tsp to sprinkle on rice.

Mustard Seeds

Ground nuts.

Method for making rice:-

1.  Heat Kadai or any heavy bottom pan and season the Mustard seeds and when it splutters add ground nuts and fry till done in low flame.

2.  Add the cooked rice, powdered Curry leaf mixture.



கறிவேப்பிலை சாதம்

3. Mix nicely so that you get bright Green Colour rice.

Serve this rice with Morekoottu or Morkuzhambu.

This dish can be prepared for pot luck parties and for lunch box.

 

Mixed Vegetable Rice

Mixed Vegetable Rice

Rice made with mixed vegetables.
Easy to make and good for Lunch Box, Bachelor cooking as this is a very nice, wholesome and friendly dish.

This is not Spicy or with Masala items, so kids and elders can enjoy this dish.

Ingredients Needed:-

1.  Vegetables - Mixed vegetables like Carrot, Beans, Cauliflower, Peas, Potato and Capsicum cut into fine pieces.  Nearly 2 cups.

2.  Onion -  2 - finely chopped.

3.  Green Chilli  - 1 big size

4.  Tomato-  1 finely chopped.

5.  Sambar Powder  - 1 1/4 tsp

6.  Turmeric powder

7.  Hing 

8.  Coriander leaves for Garnishing.

9.  Cooked rice - 1 1/4 cup

10. Salt to taste 

11. Lime/ lemon juice 

12. Ghee - 1 tsp.

Ingredients for Tempering :-

1.  Oil 2 tablespoon 

2.  Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp

3.  Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp

4.  Curry leaves 

Method:-

1.  Heat Oil in a Kadai, temper with Mustard seeds, Cumin seeds and Curry leaves. 

2.  Add chopped Onion, Green chillies and fry till golden brown.

3.  When Onion turns golden brown, add chopped Tomatoes.

4. Sauté for few minutes and then add all the cut vegetables.

5.  Now goes Turmeric powder, Hing and Salt. Cover and cook.

6.  When the vegetables cooked add Sambar powder and one tsp of ghee.
Sauté till the the sambar powder mixes with the vegetables.

7.  Now add cooked Rice, chopped Coriander leaves.

8.  Mix well in medium flame when it is thoroughly mixed switch off the stove and add lime /lemon juice and mix well.

Serve this Mix Veg Rice with raita and papad.