Saravana Bhavan Vegetable Kurma

Hai friends today I am coming with yummy and tasty recipe called "Saravana Bhavan Vegetable Kurma".This is very yummy and tasty.This curry is good for rice,chapati and poori.When ever I visit Saravana bhavan we used to order poori kurma or chapathi kurma.My husband loves this curry.So I searched in google for the recipe.Got many recipes but few I liked it.In one website found the best recipe and give a try.It came out so good.Lets go the recipe

Ingredients:

Parval-1 cup
Carrot chunks-1cup
Potato chunks-1 cup
Green peas-1 cup
Onion big-1
Tomatoes-2
Curd-1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Chilli powder to taste
Coriander leaves-few
Pudina leaves-few
Turmeric little
Kashmiri chilli powder-1/2 tsp
Garam masala-1 tsp
Curry leaves few
Sugar 1 tsp
Oil-2 tsp
Ghee-2 tsp

Seasoning

Green chillies chopped-3
Elachi-2
Cloves-3
Star anise-1
Fennel Seeds-1/2 tsp

Masala(to grind)

Coconut-1/2 cup
Green chilli-4
Garlic cloves-4
Ginger- 4 pieces as shown in the pic
Bay leaf-1
Saunf/fennel sees-1/2 tsp
Poppy seeds/Gasagasalu-1 tsp
Cloves-4
Elachi-4
Cashew nuts-1/4th cup


Preparations:

Take all the masala ingredients in the jar and add required amount of water and blend to smooth paste.

 Method:

Place the deep bottomed pan and add both oil and ghee and heat it.Add the spices and green chillies (Mentioned in the seasoning list)

 Add the chopped onions,curry leaves and turmeric.Mix it well and fry until golden brown.

 When the onions turns to light brown add the chopped tomatoes mix it well.

 Cover it and cook until the tomatoes cooked well.

 Add the required amount of salt, chilli powder and Kashmiri chilli powder and mix it well.

Now add the parval chunks,carrot chunks,potato chunks and green peas.

  Add the grinded paste and required amount of water.

 Cover it and cook for 10 to 15 minutes.

 After 15 minutes add the 1 cup of yogurt .Cover it and cook for 15 more minutes.

 Cook this until the oil separates.When the oil separates add the sugar,chopped coriander and pudina leaves cook for 2 minutes.

 Finally add the 1 tsp garam masala cook for 1 more minute.

 Serve it hot with rice or roti.

Millets Uppindi(Korrabiyyam tho Uppindi)

Hai friends today I am coming with yummy and healthy recipe called "Millets Uppindi".This recipe we used to do with rice ravva.It tastes so good.Now a days everyone are trying with millets.So even I also tried this recipe with millets .It came out so good.Now I am making this dish everytime with millets only.I tried this with Pearl Millets.Lets go the recipe

Ingredients:

Pearl Millets(Korrabiyyam)-1 cup
Yellow split moong dal-3/4th cup
Green chillies-4
Dry red chillies -3
Curry leaves few
Mustard seeds-1 tsp
Jeera-1 tsp
Hing little pinch
Salt to tast
Oil-1 tsp
Water-2+1 cups


 Preparations:

Clean well the split yellow moong dal well with water and soak the moong dal for 1 hour.

Clean the millets well with water and soak the millets for 30 minutes.

Method:

Place the deep bottomed pan heat it and add oil .

 When the oil gets heat add the mustard seeds and jeera.Make it pop.

 To this add the slit green chillies,dry red chillies,curry leaves and hing mix it.

 Add the soaked moong dal and mix it well .

 Cook this for 2 minutes.

 To this add required amount of water and salt.

 Cover it and make it boil.

When it starts to boil add the soaked millets and mix it well.

 Now cover with lid and cook in low heat for 10 minutes,(after 10 minutes if it doesn't cook .cook this for few more minutes)

 After few minutes millets cooked and uppindi is ready to serve.

 Serve this hot with yummy tomato chutney,