Curry Leaves Rice / Karuveppillai Sadham | Lunch Box Recipes

 We know that curry leaves have lots of medicinal beneficts.Curry leaves oil prevents hair fall and premature hair grey.

Whenever i got fresh leaves first i prepares curry leaves podi and stored in fridge.It can be served as side dish for idli,dosa ,Curry leaves rice and curry leaves kuzhambu etc..will share the recipe one by one...


Ingredients For Curry Leaves Podi

Curry leaves -1 cup (Tightly packed)
Dry red chillies -7
Whole white urad dal - 1/2 cup
Channa dal -2 tbsp
Salt -To taste
Pepper -1 tsp

Method

*Wash well the leaves and pat dry with towel to remove excess water from it.Spread it in clean cloth and dry it in shade for 2-3 hrs.

*Dry roast ingredients except curry leaves one by one in low flame.let it cool down.

*Spread the curry leaves in microwave plate,Microwave in high for 1 min.When you touch the leaves it should be break.

*First grind the dal and red chilli mixture to coarse and then add curry leaves and salt to a coarse powder.

*Cooled it completely and stored it in a airtight container.

Curry Leaves Rice

Ingredients :

Cooked Rice -2 cups
Curry leaves Powder -1/4 cup
Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp (adjust )
Salt- To taste

To temper
Gingelly Oil - 1 tsp+ 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds -1/2 tsp
Urad dal -1/2 tsp
Channa dal -1 tbsp
Red chillies -2
Cashews -8 broken

Method

*Mix the Rice with salt and 1 tbsp oil and lemon juice .

*Add curry leaves podi and tempering ingredients.Mix well

*Give a resting time for atleast 1/2  an hour before serve.

Chettinad Fried Rice Masala /How To Make Chettinad Fried Rice Masala / Podi Varieties

Chettinad Fried Rice Masala --I never heard about the masala until i learnt from our chef.Few Years back we owned our indian restaurant here.A chef came from our native pondicherry .As all pondicherrians known hotel mass which is situated near in new bus stand.

He worked in that hotel and came here to work with us.One day i went our restaurant specially he preapred chettinad chicken fried rice and served it for me.I fallen love with that taste and asked the recipe.

Kindly he shared the secret recipe and the key ingredient of the rice is freshly prepared ground masala.Strictly told me that without curry leaves dont prepared this masala,as the taste wont be good.Thxs to the great chef and he shared the ingredients in grams.

So i also give in gram measurement only,kindly use the weighing scale to measure the ingredients.

Due to my laziness i postponed to share the recipe.Finally the day came and share here,In future it will be helpful for my daughter too...


Ingredients

Cinnamon - 25 g
Cardamom - 10g
Cloves -10 g
Pepper -17 g
Jeera - 12 g
Fennel seeds - 10 g
Dry Red chillies -25 g
Curry leaves - 5 sprigs
Cashews - 25g
Roasted gram dal - 25g
Coriander seeds - 10gm
Bay leaves -2


Method

*Dry roast the ingredients sperately without getting to burnt in a low flame.

*Once cooled down ground to a fine powder

*Once the masala  cooled down completely stored it in a airtight container.

Coriander Seeds Chutney |Kothamalli Vithai(Dhaniya) Chutney / Side Dish For Idli & Dosa

Its been a long time i post a recipe in blog.Now i came up with another interesting recipe,thats coriander seeds chutney which i learnt from my friend.the taste was heaven,goes well with idli and dosa.
Now let us move to the recipe...

Preparation time :5 mins
Cooking time : 10 mins
Serves :2

Ingredients:

Coriander Seeds /Malli Vithai/Dhaniya - 2 tbsp
Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
Chopped Onion - 1
Dry red chillies -5
Tamarind - a grape size
Garlic pods -3
Ginger -1 tsp
Salt -to taste

For Temper :
Oil -2 tsp
Mustard seeds -1/4 tsp
urad dal -1/2 tsp
hing -1/8 tsp
Curry leaves -1 sprig

Method

*In a kadai add 1 tsp oil,roast the coriander seeds for2-3 mins.keep it aside.

*Remaining oil saute the garlic+ginger+red chillies and onion one by one until the raw smell goes away.add the tamarind and grated coconut.just mix and switch off the flame.

*Once it cooled down first powder the coriander seeds and then grind it with onion mixture to a fine paste by adding little water and salt.

*Finally temper with ingredients given under "To temper".Pour over the chutney,mix and serve.