I have cooked very limited Srilankan dishes so far. The main ingredient for all of these dishes is coconut milk. I am not sure if most of their dishes use coconut milk or it was just a coincidence. But whatever I tried so far were big hits. So when I got this recipe in a Kannada weekly, I tried it immediately.
I keep at least 2-3 coconut milk cans all the time in my pantry. I used to make this coconut milk from frozen/fresh coconut before, but I feel the ready made cans can be very handy when I am busy. This dish turned out to be great. I gave it in my husband’s lunch box along with chapathis . It was a filling and very tasty lunch.
Ingredients: 14-15 baby potatoes 1 tea spn chopped/grated garlic 15-16 shallots (tiny onions) 5-6 red chilies 1/2 tea spn fenugreek seeds 3/4 tea spn chili powder A pinch turmeric 1 and 1/2 cups coconut milk 1/4 tea spn tamarind extract or 2-3 pieces of normal tamarind Oil Salt
Method: Heat oil and fry garlic, onion (whole if they are small, cut into big pieces if they are big). Fry till onions turn slightly brownish. Add fenugreek seeds and fry for sometime. Add chili powder, turmeric and peeled baby potatoes(if potatoes are big, cut them into two). Pour in coconut milk, red chilies, salt and tamarind extract/pulp. Close and cook till potatoes are done. Serve hot with rotis/chapathis.
Serves : 2-3 Preparation time : 20mins
The course-2 of wilton cake decorating ended yesterday with the last class. In this entire course of 4 weeks, we bake just one cake in the last class. We make a lot of different kinds of flowers, save them all and use in the grand finale in the last class. So it all gets built up until then.
I could not make all the flowers, because I took wrong icing to all the classes. For some classes, I was really tired and just wanted to take rest. So I practiced all flowers on last Sunday. I could not get one flower, but thought that I would leave that flower out for grand finale.
When I went to the class yesterday, I thought I would mess up this cake. I was really tensed about the basket weave. But when I started it, I realized that it was too easy. Though I messed up at few places, the final result came out to be cute. It was better than my expectations. I know some of other students might get it perfect, but I am very happy with my cake :). The pictures don’t make justice to this cake, I tried taking good pictures many times. But finally I let it go.
I wish I had a few friends and family here for whom I could bake these cakes. My husband is getting a heavy dose of cakes due to my classes :), if only I could bake them for someone else, I would be very happy.
