This is a simple shrimp gravy that I tried couple of months ago. My parents were here at that time and they used to take care of cooking, baby and everything else around home. I wanted to give some rest to them and so decided to cook something. This is what I came up with. This is inspired by my aayi’s sungta ambat . I wanted to give a slight different taste to it, so I used a paste of onion and tomato.
Ingredients: 1/2 lb shrimp 1 cup onion (for paste) + 1/4 cup finely chopped onion 1 cup tomato 5-6 curry leaves 4 cloves 1″ cinnamon 1 tbl spn chopped ginger 1 tbl spn chopped garlic 2 tbl spn fresh/frozen coconut 4 red chillies 1 tea spn coriander seeds 3 green chillies A pinch turmeric Oil Salt
Method: Heat oil and add coriander seeds. When they are fried, add onion, ginger, garlic, green chillies, cinnamon, cloves and fry till the onions turn translucent. Add red chillies, coconut, tomatoes, salt and cook till tomatoes turn mushy. Grind to a paste. Heat oil and add curry leaves and onion. Fry till the onions are translucent. Add shrimp, turmeric and fry for 2-3mins. Pour in the ground masala, add enough water to bring it to gravy consistency and cook till the gravy starts boiling.
Serves : 3-4 Preparation time : 30mins
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Poha is one of the main items of Konkani breakfast/snack. Depennding upon individual taste there are many varieties in it. There are some types on this blog – kalayil phovu , jeere kalayil phovu . The one with green chillies is another very popular type. These pohas are not heated, they are just mixed with hand. So thin poha is most suitable for these.
Some people do not add sugar and hence diabetics can also enjoy it. But many people like it when sugar is added. When my children were small, we used to make two batches, one with sugar for them and another without sugar for all the elders at home.
Ingredients : 1 cup thin phoha 1/2 cup grated coconut(fresh/frozen) 2 tea spn green chilli pieces 1 tea spn ginger pieces Salt 1 tea spn sugar (optional)
Method: Crush the green chilli pieces and ginger pieces finely with salt using your fingers.Mix it with grated coconut. Add sugar over this, mix. Add poha to this mixture and mix well. Sprinkle a handful of water and mix well (do not add too much water). Serve immidiately .You can eat it with sev or any spicy mixture or on its own.
Serves : 1-2 Preparation time : 10mins
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