Hi All, Aromatic, most flavourful and much easy to make coconut idli podi, recipe below, Cooking time : 20 mins. Servings : 10 members. INGREDIENTS : Grated coconut – 3 cups. Garlic – 2 nos ( full garlic) Urad dal – 1/2 cup Asaofoetida – 1/2 tsp. Dry red chillies – 10- 12 nos Salt – as required. METHOD : For your easy ref , here is the recipe video, Dry roast coconut till aroma.If you are using dry coconut (kopurai) then it will give double taste. Remove it to a plate and in same kadai dry roast rest of the ingredients till golden brown separately . When cooled down to room temperature except coconut grind all ingredients to little coarse powder. Finally add coconut and pulse for once or twice for very coarse powder. Over grinding coconut will leave oil and shelf life will be less.store in airtight container and can be used for about 10 days. If refrigerated the podi stays fresh for more than a month.
Hi, Sea has lot of creatures in it that we can cook and we were much more unaware of many . Squid fish is one among the yummy species which I was totally unaware even after coming to Chennai.One day in market I saw them and surprised that they are selling octopus ( it looked like that to me :)). Then I surfed in net and found actually they are squid ( kadamba / kanava) and not octopus , My friend Saranya cooked this gravy for us during her visit to our home .I copied the recipe from her and tried next week itself.Though the squid fish looks very weird the taste was so yummy and there is no fish odor in that.It just tasted like mutton. The cleaning part is little tricky but easy, I suggest once you finished cleaning dispose the waste immediately out of your house as the waste from squid fish is very smelly and also it starts leaving water .So dispose the waste of squid as quick as possible. Other than that the fish tastes heaven , spicy, yummy and very easy to cook. I have...