ಹೀರೆಕಾಯಿ-ಬೇಳೆ ಪಲ್ಯ ~ Ridge Gourd-Dal Dish

Ridge Gourd - Dal Palya

This is simple yet tasty recipe.

Ingredients :

Ridge gourd : 2 cups (peeled & chopped)
Toor Dal : 1 or 1/2 cup 
Onion : 1 small
Green chillies : 2 -4 
Jeera : 1/2 spoon
Curry leaves
Oil : 1tsp

ಟೊಮ್ಯಾಟೋ ಕಾಯಿ ಚಟ್ನಿ ~ Tomato Kayi Chutney

                                                   Tomato Kayi Chutney

This is an simple & tasty chutney recipe to have with Roti or chapati, dosa too.  As unripe tomatoes are sour, so it gives a different tangy taste when jaggery, chillies are added.

Ingredients :

Green/UnripeTomatos  :  4 -5 medium sized  

Green/Red chillies : 4 -5 (depends)

Garlic cloves : 3 - 4

Jaggery : to the taste

Uchellu pudi : 1-2 tsp

Jeera : 1/2 tsp

Curry, Coriander leaves : few

Salt : to the taste

Oil  : 1 tsp

Turmeric powder : 1 pinch

Hing : 1 pinch while seasoning

Mustard seeds : 2 pinchs

ಬದನೆಕಾಯಿ ಸಾರು ~ Badanekai Saaru

Badanekai Saaru

This one is a simple recipe & tasty one to have with a hot rice & ghee.

Ingredients :

Brinjal  : 2 -3 

Tomatoes : 2 -3 

Groundnuts :  1- 2 tsp

Jeera/Cumin seeds : 1/2 tsp

Grren chilies : 3 - 4 depends

Sambhar Powder : 1/2 - 1 tsp

Tamarind juice : 1 - 2 tsp (optional)

Onion : 1 small.

Salt : to the taste.

Oil : 1 tsp

Seasoning : Mustard seeds, Curry leaves.

ಮೆಣಸಿನ ಕಡುಬು ~ Menasina Kadabu

Menasukaalu Kadabu

This dish is an ideal one when you suffer from cold & cough, yes a type of medicine :). Nice to have in rainy, winter seasons. Amma used to cook this when some one wld get cold & cough at home.

Ingredients :

Jaggery : 1 cup

Dry Ginger( powdered) : 1/2 cup

Black pepper : 1 Tbsp

Hurikadale hittu : 1/2 cup

All these can be varied to ones taste.

For Dough :

Wheat flour : 1 Cup

Chirotti Rava : 1 tbsp

Method :

Take Dry ginger, black pepper, dry roast the peppers, now make powder from ginger & pepper, mis well.

Add powdered Jaggery, hurikadale hittu, here you can adjust the taste as u wish, if more spice is needed one can add more ginger powder/pepper powder.

Take wheat flour and chirotti rava(optional), mix well adding water as we prepare dough for chapatis, let it rest for 20 mins.

Make small sized balls out of dough as we make to prepare pooris, roll them as shown.

Now fill them with the powder as shown

Keep a vessel, add water, add a tsp of oil so that dumplings/kadubu should not get stick  to each other.

When water starts boiling add kadubu one by one. Let it cook for 5 - 8mins, one can see the color change & remove from the water. Nice to have when it is hot, tastes good when its cooled also..& when its syrupy inside it tastes great.

An household remedy for cold.. :)

ಹಾಗಲಕಾಯಿ ಚಟ್ನಿ ~ Hagalkai Chutney

Haagalkai Chutney

Bitter gourd chutney is a tasty one with its usual bitterness :)

Ingredients :

Bitter Gourd : 1 - 2
Green/Red chillies :  3 -4 (to the taste)
Jaggery : 1 piece (to the taste)
Jeera : 1/2 tsp
Tamarind pulp : an inch (to the taste)
Curry, Coriander leaves : few
Grated coconut :  1 tbsp (optional)
Uchhellu pudi : 1/2 tbsp
Garlic pods : 2 -3 
Turmeric powder : a pinch
Oil : 1 tsp
Salt : as per taste