DEVAKOTTAI SAMAYAL ARAI

Vaazhaippoo vadai is a chettinad dish. It is a good side dish for curd rice, sambhar rice, or even as a healthy evening snack. The main ingredient is Banana Flower.    Ingredients:  Banana Flower - 1 no.(small)(deveined and chopped) Red gram(Thuvaram Paruppu)- 1/4 cup Bengal Gram (Kadalai Paruppu)-1/4 cup Fennel Seeds (Perunjeeragam) - 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds (Jeeragam) - 1 tsp Red Chillies (Kaindha Millagai) - 4 nos. Ginger(chopped) - 2 tbsp Curry leaves(Murraya Koenigii)(chopped) - 2 sticks leaves Cilantro chopped - 1/4 cup  Salt to taste  Oil (for deep frying) / (shallow frying in skillet) - as per your requirement  1. Soak the grams along with fennel seeds,cumin seeds and red chillies for 2 hours.  2. Grind the soaked ingredients and the chopped banana flower and chopped ginger, into a coarse paste, without adding much water.   3. Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan , and put mustard. After it crackles, add asafoet

Here is another chettin ad dish ........ This is a dosai made of 4 main ingredients, toor dal (red gram ) , Channa Dal (bengal gram ), boiled rice and raw rice. This is served for breakfast or dinner.  Let us see how to prepare this  Ingredients 1 :   Bengal gram (kadalai paruppu) - 1/2 cup Red gram (thuvaram paruppu) - 1/2 cup Boiled rice/idli rice  - 1/2 cup   Sonamasoori rice - 1/2 cup   Black gram (uluththam paruppu) - 1/8 cup Red Chillies - 5 to 8 or as per your taste Fennel seeds - 1 tsp Ingredients 2 :   Ginger - 1/4 inch piece   Curry Leaves - few leaves   Corinader leaves - chopped 3 tbsp (optional) Onion - 2 medium size  Asafoetida / Hing - 1 tsp Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp   Salt - to taste   Oil - 1 tbsp   Procedure :   1. Soak all the items in group 1 ingredients for 2 hours     2. Grind the soaked ingredients along with ginger into a coarse batter      3. Heat oil in a skillet and add the mustard seeds. After it crackles, add the chopped curry leaves,  chopped o