DEVAKOTTAI SAMAYAL ARAI

Healthy Thick Tomato Soup This is a recipe apt for bachelors. For this soup, i have not used even a drop of oil. You can add few drops of ghee or butter if you wish, before you serve the soup. No need of seasoning. Ingredients : Tomato - 1 large Carrot - 1 medium Salt - as per taste Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp Preparation Method: 1. Cut the tomato into half , and put it in a pot. 2. Wash the carrot , peel off the skin and put in the pot. 3. Now, add 1 cup of water and cook the carrot and tomato for 10 minutes. 4. Let it cool and then, grind it into a paste in blender, by adding 1/2 cup of water. 5. Now, crush the jeera (cumin seeds) and sprinkle on the soup. 6. Add salt and pepper, and heat it for 2 minutes in microwave. The Soup is ready to serve. It will be a thick soup. This is an easy- to- make recipe and very healthy too.

Chettinaad Muttai Kuzhambu (Egg in tamarind gravy ) This is another delicious chettinaad kuzhambu. This recipe uses a special powder for the chettinaad flavour. Guess what... keep guessing.... Ingredients : Eggs - 4 Onions- 1 medium Tomato - 1 medium Garlic pods - 5 to 6 Tamarind- 1 lemon size Dhania powder - 3 tbsp Chilli powder - 11/2 tbsp Turmeric powder - 1 tsp Salt - as per taste To season: Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Methi seeds - 1 tsp Kadalai paruppu - 1 tbsp Fennel Seeds - 1 tsp Asafoetida powder - 2 pinches Secret Powder : Mustard seeds - 2 tbsp Fennel Seeds - 1 tbsp 1. Take the mustard seeds and fennel seeds and make a fine dry powder. Keep aside.      Soak the tamarind in a little water.Keep aside. 2. Hard boil the eggs and remove the skin. Cut 4 slits on the narrow e dge side of the egg , but only till     half the length.     The egg will look like a white flower ...

Dear viewers , Beans chops kuzhambu is now available for all of you. This dish looks like a gravy... But, i havent added coconut in this recipe. So,are you wondering how ???? Let's see the recipe........... Ingredients : Beans - 1 cup (chopped into 1inch pieces , cooked separately with salt) Jeera - 1 tsp Garlic - 6 flakes Cinnamon - 1 inch piece Cloves - 4 nos. Onion - 2 Tomato - 4 Dhania powder - 2 tbsp Chilli powder - 1 tbsp Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp Oil - 2 tbsp Procedure: 1. Grind jeera and garlic into a paste and keep separately. 2. Grind the Onion and tomato into a fine paste , keep aside. 3. In a skillet, heat 2 tbsp of oil , put cinnamon and cloves and saute. 4. Now, add the jeera garlic paste and saute till the flavour comes. 5. Then , add the onion- tomato paste ,and saute till the raw smell goes and oil separates from the corners of the skillet. 6. Now, add all the masala powders and saute well. 7. Hmm... it is ...