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Monday, December 15, 2014

Hotel samayal Tamil Hotel saravana bhavan sambar in Tamil style

Enjoy the recipe of hotel samayal Tamil Hotel saravana bhavan sambar in tamil style preparation. Hotel Sarvana Bhavan is famous for its mouth watering food recipes. The soft idlies, crispy dosas and puffy uttapams go well with tasty sambar we get here. The sambar which we get in Sarvana Bhavan is famous everywhere for its delicious taste. Here is the recipe of the famous saravana bhavan arachuvitta sambar.
Saravana bhavan sambar ingredients 
Red gram dal: 250 gms
Brinjal: Two or three
Drumsticks: 2
Small samabr onions: 10 to 12
Tomatoes: 3 medium
Green chillies: 3 to 4
Coriander leaves: finely chopped
Salt as per need
Tamarind paste or thickly squeezed tamarind juice.

Ingredients for paste:
Roasted gram: 3 tsp
Tomatoes: 2 small
Thangai grated: 2 tsp
Homw made or aachi samabr podi: 4 tsp
Asafetida little
Mix and grind all the ingredients into fine paste.

For seasoning:
Mustard seeds: ½ tsp
Cumin seeds:  1tsp
Broken black gram:1 tsp
Red chilly pieces of 2 chillies
Curry leaves: few

Saravana bhavan sambar in Tamil style 
Cook red gram dal properly in pressure cooker by adding sufficient amount of water. Make medium sixe pieces of brinjal and drumsticks. Slit green chillies and keep aside.

After opening pressure cooker, add 1 cup of water in cooked dal and then add cut pieces of brinjal and drumsticks. Now add small onions (5 to 6), tomatoes cut in medium pieces and green chillies. Mix and cook the entire mixture again.

Now add ground paste in dal. Add tamarind juice or tamarind paste and mix well. Add salt as per taste. If the sambar is too thick then add required amount of water in it. Cook dal till all the vegetables are completely cooked. When vegetables are cooked your sambar is ready. Remove sambar from the heat.

Take a pan and heat oil in it. Add mustard seeds, cumin seed and broken black gram. Fry the ingredients till the mustard seeds spatter well. Add remaining small onions, dry red chillies, curry leaves and fry well. This seasoning will make the sambar tastier.

Add the seasoning ingredients in cooked dal. Add finely chopped coriander in dal and take a boil. Remove it from heat and serve with Idli, dosa and uttapam. If you like spicy taste, then add green chillies with red gram dal while cooking. You can prepare saravana bhavan tiffin sambar recipe by using the same ingredients but the consistency differs.


Monday, December 1, 2014

Tamil Brahmin samayal iyer recipes Khara pongal and Milagu rasam

Tamil Brahmin samayal iyer recipes Khara pongal and Milagu rasam
This is easy preparation of Iyer samayal Tamil brahmin samayal recipes Khara pongal and Milagu rasam.

1. Tamil Khara pongal
Pongal is one of the most famous and favorite recipes of south Indians. Let’s see how to make yummy khara pongal at home:
Ingredients needed for Tamil Khara pongal
Raw rice (pacharici): 1 cup
Split yellow moong dal (pachapayaru): ½ cup
Cashew nuts as per taste
Salt as required

Khara pongal seasoning ingredients
Oil as per your need
Ghee as per your need
Grated ginger 2 tsp
Garlic 4 (crushed)
Cumin seeds 2 tsp
Black pepper 2 tsp
Curry leaves little

How to make Khara pongal Tamil iyer style
  • Dry roast rice and dal separately. Do not fry them or change the colour of the ingredients. Keep them aside
  • Fry cashew nuts in ghee and keep aside. Mix dal and rice and cook them together in pressure cooker by adding salt and nearly 4 cups water.
  • Take 2 whistles to the cooker. When the pressure goes off open the cooker and mash the ingredients when they are hot.
  • Take a pan and add ghee and oil. Fry grated ginger and then add whole pepper, cumin seeds, curry leaves. When the ingredients are properly fried, pour the entire mixture over the mashed rice and dal.
  • Mix properly, add fry cashew nuts and mix well. Heat the entire mixture for 2 to 3 minutes.
  • Serve hot with lentil sambar or coconut chutney. Some people prefer to take ulundu vadai  (Medu-vada) along with hot pongal and sambar.


2. Tamil brahmin milagu rasam

milagu rasam recipe in tamil style is with hot rice is the best combination loved by every south Indian for every day meal.
It is a medicinal recipe for cold and cough. It is very easy to make recipe made with cumin seeds, pepper and garlic.
This recipe is healthy and helps to digest the food easily. Here is the recipe of tasty pepper rasam.

Ingredients needed for Tamil milagu rasam
Tomatoes: 4 medium
Tamarind one middle finger length
Black pepper: 2 tsp
Cumin seeds: 2 tsp
Garlic: 4-5 cloves
Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
Rasam powder: 1 tsp if required
Curry leaves
Jaggery or sugar a pinch
Salt needed

Tamil nadu milagu rasam seasoning Ingredients:
Ghee 2 tsp
Mustard seeds 2 tsp
Red chillies 2
Curry leaves
Finely chopped coriander leaves for garnishing.

How to make Tamil milagu rasam  
  • Soak tamarind in warm water and extract juice in a cup. You can also use tamarind paste.
  • Dry roast jeera and pepper and then grind them together along with garlic in grinder. Do not make a fine paste, just crush the ingredients.
  • Now mix tamarind juice, jaggery, finely chopped tomatoes, rasam powder (optional), turmeric powder, ground paste of jeera/pepper/garlic, salt and curry leaves.
  • Add required amount of water and boil the mixture of low flame. Boil the mixture till the raw smell of tamarind goes off.
  • Now add 2 cups water more in rasam and let it to come to foam state (just before boil) then remove it from heat and garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.
  • Take a pan and heat ghee in it. Add mustard seeds in it. Add red chilli pieces, curry leaves. Pour the ingredients on ready rasam. Serve hot with rice and enjoy its yummy taste and aroma.