Dal curry for Chapati

Ingredients

Dal – 1.5 cups

Onion – 2, sliced

Ginger – ½ inch piece, sliced

Garlic – 2 cloves, sliced

Green chillies – 2, slitted

Curry leaves – a few

Turmeric powder – ½ teaspoon

Chilli powder – a pinch (optional)

Cumin seeds – 1 teaspoon

Ghee – 1 teaspoon

Oil – 1 teaspoon

Salt – to taste

Method

Pressure cook dal with required amount of water, 1 sliced onion, ginger, garlic, turmeric powder and salt up to 3 whistles and in low flame for 2-3 minutes. Heat oil and ghee in a pan and fry cumin seeds, curry leaves and sliced onion. Add a pinch of chilli powder (I haven’t added chilli powder). Saute until onions are brown in colour. Open the pressure cooker lid and pour some more water if the dal is too thick. Boil dal for a couple of minutes. Add the fried mix to the cooked dal and mix well. This is a very tasty dish for chapati. Enjoy!

Kadala Curry/Black Chickpeas Curry (Easy and tasty kadala curry without coconut)

Ingredients

Black Chickpeas – 1 cup

Onion – 1 big, sliced

Ginger – ½ inch piece, chopped

Garlic - 3 cloves, chopped

Green chillies – 2, slitted

Curry leaves – a few

Mustard seeds – ½ teaspoon

Dry chillies - 2

Turmeric powder – ½ teaspoon

Coriander powder – 1.5 tablespoons

Meat masala powder – 2 tablespoons

Salt – to taste

Oil – 3 tablespoons

Method

Wash and soak kadala overnight. Pressure cook kadala for 6 whistles and cook in low flame for 5 minutes. Heat oil in a pan and fry mustard seeds, dry chilly and curry leaves. Add sliced onion, chopped ginger and garlic. Saute for 2 minutes and add all the powders and fry for a minute. Now add the cooked kadala and salt. Let it boil for 2-3 minutes. Garnish with some coriander leaves and enjoy with Kerala’s most popular breakfast item puttu.

Atta Dosa (Gothambu/Wheat Dosa)

All of us are familiar with dosa. Most common dosas are masala dosa, ghee dosa etc. Here I'm gonna introduce you wheat dosa. I know many of you know this dosa. Sometimes when I post some recipes, I'm aware that all of you know the recipe. Why I'm still posting is because sometimes we might not have tried those recipes recently and will have the cravings especially when we see the recipes or the pictures, then we feel like trying it soon.

Here's the recipe of atta dosa. Its very simple and delicious. Please try it out! Enjoy!!

Ingredients

Wheat flour – 2 cups

Onion – 1, chopped

Green chillies – 2 nos, chopped

Curry leaves – a few

Salt – to taste

Water – as required

Method

Mix together wheat flour and salt. Add water little by little to make a thin batter and there should not be any lumps. Add chopped onions, green chillies and curry leaves and mix well. Now the batter for atta dosa is ready.

Heat a dosa pan and grease with the oil lightly. Pour a ladle full of batter to the pan and spread the batter in a circular shape. You can sprinkle some oil on the dosa at this stage if necessary. (I haven’t used oil as I don’t like oily items) Once the edges of dosa starts lifting up, you can flip the dosa. Wait until the bottom part turns into brown. Have the hot atta dosa with chutney or sambar.

Bean Sprout-Soya Bean Cake Fry

When I first came to Singapore, I didn't like sprouts at all. It might be because we don't get this vegetable in India those days and not used to it. I started preparing this dish for my husband. I tried to taste it slowly and started liking. Now I cook this dish weekly once or twice. Another thing which makes me to cook this dish is my kids. Both of them love it a lot.

This is a very easy recipe and its health contents are high. Sprouts contains a lot of vitamins and minerals and soya bean cake is an excellent source of iron and calcium and a very good source of protein. 
Ingredients

Bean Sprouts – 300gm

Soya Bean Cake (Unicurd Tau Kwa) – 400gm

Shallots – 3 nos, sliced

Chillies – 2 nos, slitted

Turmeric powder – ½ teaspoon

Salt – to taste
Oil – 3 tablespoons

Steps

1. Wash and clean the sprouts well.
2. Cut soya bean cake into square pieces and fry in oil. (No need to deep fry)
3. Heat oil in a pan and saute shallots and green chilli.
4. Add cleaned sprouts to it and mix well.
5. Add turmeric powder and salt and saute for 2 minutes.
6. Now add the fried bean cake pieces. Mix well and remove from the fire.
7. This is a very tasty and healthy side dish for rice.

Fish Molly

Ingredients

King Fish – 500 gm, cut into pieces

Onion – 1 big, sliced

Tomato – 1 big

Garlic – 2 nos, chopped

Ginger – 1 tablespoon, chopped

Green chillies – 3

Turmeric powder – a pinch

Pepper powder – ½ teaspoon

Vinegar – ½ teaspoon

Cinnamon stick – 1

Cloves – 3

Cardamom – 3

Cashew nuts – 8, make a smooth paste

Raisins – a few

Thin Coconut milk – 1 ½ cup

Thick coconut milk – 1 cup

Coconut oil – as required

Salt – to taste

Coriander leaves – for garnishing

Method

Wash and clean the fish pieces and keep aside. Heat oil in a pan and splutter cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. Add onions, ginger, garlic & chillies and saute until onions are soft. Add tomatoes & turmeric powder and saute well. Pour thin coconut milk, vinegar & salt and let it boil. Once it boils, add fish pieces. Mix gently and cover the pan until the fish pieces are cooked. Add cashew paste and mix well. Pour thick coconut milk and simmer the fire for 2 minutes. Add pepper powder and raisins. Switch off the fire. Garnish with coriander leaves. Fish molly goes well with appam or pathiri.

Notes: You can also shallow fry the fish pieces before you add.