Kanyakumari - Famous Food Recipe - Aanam(Coconut Curry,Verum Curry).Part-8

Ingredients 

Coconut- 3 tblsp
Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric pwd - 1/2 tsp
Shallots - 3 or 4
Green chilly - 2
Curry leaves - 1 stem
Tamarind water -  little (1/4 cup)

Water - 1 1/2 cup (or as needed)

 For seasoning

Oil - 2tsp
Musturd -1/2tsp
Red chilly - 2cnt
Curry leaves - 1stem
Shallot - 1 cnt (finely chopped) 

Method

1.Grind the first 3 ingredients (coconut, chilly powder and turmeric powder) very well to form a smooth paste.
2. Atlast put the shallots, curryleaves and green chillies and grind slightly.

3. Remove the ground mixture in a vessel and add the tamarid water  and water to it. This is the aanam mix.
4. In a pan put oil and temper the seasoning ingredients. The shallot should turn dark brown.
5.Then add the aanam mix to this and heat it but don't boil it. 
6. Serve with rice, aviyal and fish fry.

Tips

 - You can also add a few fenugreek seeds while tempering for an added flavour.
 - Some people do not add turmeric powder in which case the gravy will be orange in colour.



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Kanyakumari - Famous Food Recipe -MOR KULAMBU (Buttermilk Curry) - Part-7

Buttermilk curry (moar kulambu) is a traditional savory dish made in southern part of india. It is usually served with rice and some spicy side dish. It goes very well with fish fry. The different variations of mor kulambu are plain mor kulambu (made without any vegetables) or mor kulambu with veggies. The veggies that are traditionally used are okra, pumpkin and cucumber. Other veggies like squash varieties(zuccini, yellow, acorn, butternut), cabbage or cauliflower can also be used instead.
            The following is the recipe of okra mor curry. It is a very quick and simple recipe and is delicious with rice for a hot summer day.

Ingredients

Batch I

Curd - 1 cup
Lime juice - as per need if curd is not sour enough.
musturd seeds - 1tsp
curry leave - 1 strand
Dry red chilli - 2 cnt
Tomato - 1/4 (optional)
okra - 6 to 8 cnt

Oil - for tempering

Salt - to taste

Rice - 1 tsp
Toor dal - 2tsp
ginger - very small pc
G.chilli - 4 cnt (as per ur taste)
Cilantro - 2 strands
Cumin seeds -1/2 tsp
coconut - 2 tsp (grated)
Tumeric powder - 1/4 tsp
 
Batch II

Method

1. Grind the ingredients from batch I very well.
2. Now add the curd and grind it for about a min.
3. In a pan put oil for seasoning, put mustard seeds, curryleaves and dry red Chilly.
4. Then add tomato if needed.
5. Now add okra and fry it 3 min and add water and let it cook.
6. Once the okra is cooked add the curd mixture, add required salt and allow is to get warm.
7. Take the pan off the stove before boiling to prevent the curd from curdling.
8. It's yummy with rice, fried and spicy veggies.

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Kanyakumari - Famous Food Recipe - Paal Paniyaaram...Part-6

 
Ingredients

Urad dal - 1 cup
Raw Rice - 1 cup

Salt - 1 tsp
Oil - for frying the panniyarams

For Soaking

Milk - 1 cup or as needed ( You can also use diluted coconut milk instead)
Sugar - as needed to sweeten the milk.
Cardomom - a pinch

 Method

1. Soak the rice and dal for atleast 1 hour.
2. Gind it to a very fine paste with salt. There should not be any coarse particles of rice in the batter.
3. Heat oil in a kadai for frying the paniyarams.
4. Drop small amount of batter in medium hot oil and fry till it turns golden brown. The batter will form round balls.
5. In the meantime, add cardomom and sugar to the milk. Make the milk a little extra sweet as it has to flavour the paniyarams.
6. Drop the fried paniyaram balls to the sweetened milk and let it soak for 5 minutes.
7. Serve as a snack or tiffen.

 

Precautionary Tips

Before frying the paniyarams in the hot oil, you have to be careful about a few points to prevent them from bursting in hot oil.

   - The batter should be a very fine paste.
   - The oil should be medium hot (not very hot).

Quick Tips

      - You can make this paniyaram whenever you make idli batter at home. Before mixing the urad dal batter and rice batter, just take a small cup of the urad dal batter and rice batter for the paniyarams. This way you can enjoy paniyarams often with less effort.


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Kanyakumari - Famous Food Recipe - Coconut Rice..-Part-5

Coconut Rice is one of the most popular food items in Kanyakumari. It is in fact the most preferred one, since coconuts are cultivated over here at a large number. There are several ingredients that are used to prepare this dish. Almost all those ingredients remain available in the Kanyakumari markets throughout the year so people don't face any difficulty to make Coconut Rice. The ingredients are as follows:

Rice

Coconut

Mustard seeds

Green chilies

Cashew nut

Bengal Gram

Red chilies

Salt

Water

Oil

The procedure that is needed to be followed while preparing Coco Rice is mentioned in the paragraph below.

First wash and soak the adequate amount of rice. Then add salt to it and give heat to the soaked rice by pouring it into the boiling water. Thereafter grate the coconut and heat the Oil and fried cashew nut. The ingredients of Coconut Rice of Kanyakumari also include grams and spices that need to be fried. Finally all are mixed together to the rice and is served hot.

Since a long time Coconut Rice is considered to be an integral part of the Kanyakumari diet. It is less spicy and easily digestible. The ingredients are also highly available and the procedure adopted to prepare this rice is simple. So, don't waste any more time to prepare and have it. It is delicious as well as less time consuming and this is probably the reason of its increasing popularity among the Kanyakumari people. Coconut Rice is indeed the perfect dish for the health conscious people.

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