Carrot Thoran

Ingredients:-

1. Grated carrot - 4-5 carrots
2. Onion -small- chopped - 1 or shallots 4-5
3. Salt to taste
4. Oil
5. Water - one tablespoon
6. For Grinding:
7. Grated coconut - 1/4 cup
8. Ginger chopped - 1/2 tsp
9. Green chilies - 3
10. Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

(not too smooth just to mix all the ingredients well)

For Tempering:

1. Mustard seeds
2. Curry leaves
3. Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu - 1 tsp (optional)

Method:

1. In a bowl combine grated carrots and the ground mixture and salt and mix well with your hands.
2. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, when they pop up add curry leaves and chopped small onion.
3. Saute for a couple of minutes and add the carrot mixture and combine it well. 
4. Keep everything to the center of the pan, sprinkle water and cook it covered on a low flame for 5 to 6 minutes. 
5. Uncover and saute for a couple of minutes and remove from heat.Serve warm.     

Bhindi/Okara/Ladyfingers spicy fry

Bhindi/Okara/Ladyfingers - washed drained and thinly sliced - 250gm

Ginger- thinly sliced- 1 table spoon

Oil- 1 to two tablespoon.

Yogurt- 1 tablespoon

Curry leaves

Spice powder.

Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Cumin/Jeera powder - 1/2 tsp
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala - 1/2 tsp

Salt.

Method:

1. Mix spice powder with yogurt first. Mix Bhindi with this mixture and keep it aside for sometime.

2. Heat oil in a pan, fry curry leaves, just fry ginger for a one minute remove this from heat, fry onion for 3-4 mnts. Remove from heat. Add the Bhindi mixture and a fry well in medium heat.

3. Add onion and ginger mix well. Serve hot  :)

Cabbage Stir Fry

Ingredients: 

Shredded Cabbage: 1 small (1/2 kg)

Small onion/ shallots crushed - 10

Shredded coconut - 1 cup

Green chilly crushed - 5

Crushed ginger - 1/4 teaspoon

Cumin seeds - 1/4 teaspoon

Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon

Mustard - 1/4 teaspoon

Curry leaves- few

Oil

Salt

Method.

1. Mix grated coconut with turmeric powder and salt and mix this well with shredded cabbage.

2. Heat oil in a non stick pan and add mustard seeds, allow this to splutter, then add curry leaves.

3. Add shallots and green chilies and ginger fry for another 2-3 minutes in low flame.

4.Add the cabbage mixture, stir well, cover and cook for further 10 minutes. Stir every now and then. After 10 minutes stir-fry/thoran will be ready. Serve hot.

Achinga payaruthoran/long yard beans stir fry-kerala style.

Getting ready for the frying pan, originally uploaded by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon.

Yard Long beans+curry leaves+green chilli+dryied chilli+shallot+grated coconut..all getting ready for kerala "payaru thoranan@long beans fry"

Ingredients:

Yard long beans- 1/2 kg or 20 long ones.
Onion - 1big or
Shallots-10
Green chillies- 3
Curry leaves- 10 leaflets.
Garlic= 3 cloves
Coconut Grated- 3-5 tbspns.
Dried red chilli=one
Mustard, jeera (cumin seeds- 1 tspn (for tempering)
Oil- 2 tbspns.
Termaric powder =1/4 tsp.
Salt to taste.

Prepare coconut mixture first:



Crush shallots, garlic and green chili,portion of jeera,turmeric,salt and coconut together. We need to combine them together as a crushed mixture.

Method:
1.Cut long yard beans into small pieces as shown in picture.
2.Add coconut mixture to the beans. Mix well with your hands. (Set aside for 10mnts-not necessary)
2.In a pan, heat oil. Then add mustard seeds. When they begin to crackle,add few cumin seeds,curry leaves and dried red chilli saute for 2 minutes.
3.Add the beans mixture to it mix well.
4. stir well for one minute.
5.Sprinkle just a hand full of water on top of it and stir again then keep everything to center cover it with a lid and cook in low flame for another 5mnts or till the beans became tender. Check in-between and mix well. Once it is dry remove from heat.
(My mom"s kottayam method)

P.S :Another option is cooking the beans alone first with 1/4 water and add the coconut mixture at the end, then you will get a more raw taste of coconut,shallot and chilli mixture.

(my mother in laws-palakad method-I have also seen her using urududal in step two).

Enjoy the dish...and let me know if you like it..hey womans day greetings