Friday, December 4, 2009

Great Recipes

Mango Rice

Ingredients

2 tbsp ghee or oil
1 tbsp Bengal gram
1 tbsp white gram
½ tsp mustard seeds
3 dried chilies cut into 3cm pieces
2 green chilies, sliced
2 spring curry leaves
1 tsp turmeric powder
250g unripe green mango, peeled, stoned and grated
1 ½ tsp salt
375g (3cups) hot or warm cooked rice
2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves

Method

1. Heat ghee in a pan over medium heat, and fry Bengal and white gram until golden brown, about 2 to 3 minutes
2. Add the mustard seeds and dried chilies and sauté for another few minutes.
3. Add in green chilies, curry leaves and turmeric powder. Sauté for a couple of minutes over low heat, then add in grated mango, salt and cooked rice. Stir fry for 5 to 10 minutes and remove from heat.
4. Serve garnished with chopped coriander leaves.




Banana Appam

Ingredients

A
440g (2 cups) rice, soaked for 4-5 hours, drained
40g (scant ½ cup) grated coconut
1 ripe banana, about 125g (4 oz)
125ml (1 ½ cup) coconut water
B
½ tsp salt
C
½ tsp soda bicarbonate

Method

1. Blend ingredient A into a smooth paste.
2. Add B and set aside, covered for 5 hours to ferment at room temperature at (28C). If the batter is fermented on a relatively warm day, you may have to reduce standing time.
3. Add the bicarbonate and mix. Add a little water if required. The batter should flow freely off spoon.
4. Heat a frying pan over medium-low heat, and grease it lightly. pour a ladle of batter into the pan, spreading it like a thick pancake. Cover the pan. Cook until the underside is browned, 8 to 10 minutes.
5. Serve hot with coconut chutney, coconut milk or brown sugar.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you ever seen somebody lick the chutney spoon in an Indian Restaurant and put it back? This would never have happened under the Tories.

poonisha said...
This comment has been removed by the author.