Pepper Chicken

Raw Plantain/Banana Fry (Vazhaikai Varuval)

Want to prepare some quick side dish for lunch. Here it is - Raw Plantain fry/ Vazhaikai Varuval is a simple side dish to make and it is great with variety rice, rice with sambar/rasam/curd.This is everyone's favorite at our home.Here comes the recipe.

Potato & Capsicum Fry

Potatoes is a favorite with most of us. And this always makes a super and yummy side dish for rice. Along with potato i added some capsicum which was lying inside the fridge for so many days and made this simple side dish - Potato and Capsicum fry. If you have boiled potatoes ready, this can be done in few minutes using just a few handy ingredients.

Tamarind Rice (with leftover rice)

Tamarind rice (Puli Sadham)is a popular recipe in south India. Whenever I have plenty of leftover rice, I prepare this. I can say It's the perfect way to use leftover rice and it is easy to prepare also. Just marinate the rice with tamarind pulp, sambar powder, turmeric powder, and a little salt, cover, and keep it overnight. And the next day morning you just need to do tadka and add the rice. Along with this I prepare some coconut chutney and serve this as breakfast.

Ingredients

• Cooked Rice - 2 cups
• Oil- 3 tbsp
• Bengal Gram - 1/2 tbsp
• Black Gram - 1/2 tbsp
• Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
• Curry Leaves - few
• Dry Red Chillies - 8 nos
• Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
• Sambar powder - 1/2 tsp
• Roasted Peanuts - 2 tbsp
• Shallots - 10nos, peeled and chopped (or u can use 1 big red onion) - optional
• Tamarind - lemon sized

Method

• Soak tamarind in water and leave for few minutes and take out the extract.

• In a large bowl place the leftover rice, add the tamarind pulp, sambar powder, turmeric powder, salt, and mix well.

• Heat oil in kadai, add bengal gram, urad dal, and fry for 30 seconds, then add mustard seeds to it and let them splutter.

• Add dry red chilies and curry leaves and fry till the red chilies turn lightly brown.

• Now add chopped onions to it and fry till it turns pink.

• Add the peanuts, salt and mix well.

• Finally, add the rice and mix well.

Note:

• Take a thick extract from tamarind, don't add too much water, otherwise, the rice becomes soggy.
• Do not add too much sambar powder b'cos its flavor will dominate.

Tangy Egg and Drumstick Curry

Today's recipe is an easy, tasty, interesting recipe to add proteins to your diet - Egg and drumstick curry. This is cooked in tamarind gravy and lots of curry leaves are added to enhance the flavour. This tangy egg curry is just awesome when eaten with plain rice and Dal. One of my favourite combo and here's the recipe.