Hi All, Every Monday my lunch will be very simple either rasam or any thuvayal or parupu podi..As Sundays will be very heavy lunch ,Mondays will be very simple and easy to digest. This Paruputhuvayal is such an easy sidedish that you can make it in 10 mins and goes great with rice . The recipe is so simple just fry , grind , mix and top up with a tsp of ghee or coconut oil and enjoy. INGREDIENTS : Toordal / Thuvarumparupu – ½ cup Garlic – 6 pods. Coconut – 3 tsp Peppercorns / Milagu – ½ tsp Dry red chillies – 3 to 4 nos Curry leaves – a sprig Asafoetida – ¼ tsp Salt – as required. Water – 3 tsp. NEED CLARIFICATION ABOUT MY MEASUREMENTS? PLS CLICK TO CLARIFY PREPARATION : 1) Dry roast the above ingredients separately one by one in low flame till they changes colour. 2) You can roast curry leaves and asafoetida together as asafoetida powder will burn soon ,you can add it at the end along with curry le...
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...