Most of the Konkani dishes contain coconut as the main ingredient. But a very few dishes like ‘Tomato saru’,which does not contain coconut, are very famous. I guess these were prepared when the ladies were bored of cooking and still wanted to prepare something delicious. My aayi usually prepared this for dinner.
In North Kanara, people usually cook(except rice, which is prepared fresh for lunch/dinner) in the morning for both lunch & dinner. Sometimes when the main dishes get over in the lunch, simple items like this is prepared for dinner. (Mainly because, people did not have electric mixer or grinders at home. Grinding was done using the hand grinders. So all the cooking was done once in a day. A lot has changed in recent years. All the people have these electric appliances, but since most of the places i am refering to are villages and there is power cut 10 hrs a day, and sometimes more than that, people still follow the old tradition of cooking once in a day).
Ingredients: Tomatos(ripe) 2 Green chillies 2 Sambar powder 1 tea spn Sugar 1/2 tea spn Mustard 1/2 tea spn Cumin seeds(Jeera) 1/2 tea spn Asafoetida(hingu) a pinch Coriander leaves 3-4 strands Oil/ghee 1/2 tea spn Curry leaves 1 Salt
Method: Heat oil and add mustard and jeera. When they start spluttering, add curry leaves, slitted green chillies and asafoetida. Fry for sometime. Add 3 cups of water and tomatoes cut into big cubes. Cover and cook till tomatoes become soft. Add salt, sugar and sambar powder. Cook for 1min. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot with rice.
Serves : 2 Preparation time : 10min
I have been thinking from many days to share some of my favourite egg recipes here, mainly because, I will forget them if I don’t write them down somewhere. I feel this is the best place to store the recipes, since this will be helpful to me and others who are interested. So this week I will share all the egg recipes which I tried in last few days.
Few days back, I was searching in google for some delicious egg recipe. This sesame egg recipe caught my attention(I am extremely sorry for not saving the original recipe link). I was surprised when I read the ingredients. Milk, sesame with egg !!!. Still, I thought let me give it a try. When I prepared this, I simply loved the taste.
Ingredients: Egg(boiled) 3 Sesame Seeds(white Til) 3 tbl spns Onion 1 Mustard seeds 1 tea spn Coriander powder 1 tea spn Garam masala 1/2 tea spn Green Chilies 4 Milk 1 cup Cumin Seeds ½ tea spn Oil 2 tbl spn Salt
Method: Grind green chillies and sesame seeds to get a smooth paste adding a little water if needed. Heat oil, add mustard and cumin seeds. When they start spluttering, add onions and fry till onions become slightly brownish. Add the sesame-chillie paste and fry for 5min. Now add milk, mix and put boiled eggs (put some slits into the egg so that the masala reaches the yellow part). Cover and let it cook for 5-6 minutes. Add salt, garam masala, coriander powder and let it cook for a while. Serve hot garnished with coriander leaves.
Serves : 2 Preparation time : 20min
