Capsicum Tomato Curry

Capsicum, Capsicum is one of my favorite vegetable, I got an idea to cook capsicum with the tomato and when i searched about the recipe in google i got an interesting recipe that i found from sailusfood we enjoyed it soo much that we decided to make capsicum tomato curry instead of plain capsicum curry. I followed the above recipe step-by-step from the source. Thank You Sailu for the tasty recipe.

Rasam (Chennai Style)

Ingredients:

200g tomatoes
tamarind - lemon sized soaked in hot water
20g garlic
4 glasses of any dal stock
4 green chilies
1 bunch of cilantro and curry leaves
1/4 tsp turmeric
Salt to taste

For rasam powder:

20g coriander seeds
10g pepper corns
5g cumin seeds
2 red chilies

Method:

1.  Mix the tamarind water with crushed tomatoes and garlic, dal stock, green chilies, turmeric, salt and mix well. Keep aside.
2. Roast the ingredients of rasam powder without any oil and blend to a fine powder. 
3. Add this powder to the above tamarind water and mix well.
4. Also add curry leaves, cilantro leaves and boil on heat until bubbles form in the mixture.
5. Remove from heat and serve with steamed rice.

Pulihora - Tamarind Rice

Ingredients:

2 cups raw rice
1/2 tsp turmeric
15-20 fresh curry leaves
salt to taste
large lemon sized tamarind (soak in a cup of hot water and extract pulp)
1 tbsp channa dal (split bengal gram)
1 tbsp urad dal/minappapu/split black gram
1 tsp teaspoon mustard seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
3-4 medium dry red chilli
4-5 green chillis slit length wise
1 1/2 tsps finely chopped ginger
2 fistfuls roasted peanuts
2 tbsps oil

Method:

1. Sprinkle turmeric pwd, salt and a tbsp of oil to the cooked and cooled rice and keep aside.
2. Heat the remaining oil in a cooking vessel, add the mustard seeds and let them splutter. Add dry red chillis, cumin seeds, channa dal, urad dal and fry for a minute till light brown. Next add the slit green chillis, ginger and few curry leaves and fry for a few seconds.
3. Add the tamarind extract and cook till the raw smell of tamarind disappears, approx 5-7 mts. It will be a like a thick but flowing paste. Remove from heat.
4. Add the cooked tamarind mix and combine well such that its spread all over the rice. Adjust salt. Finally sprinkle the roasted sesame seeds pwd and roasted peanuts and combine well. Let it sit for at least 3-4 hours for the flavors to set in.

VaraLakshmi Puja

VaraLakshmi Puja....An Important Ritual performed by the Married women in South India for the prosperity and welfare of their families.

This year is my Second Puja...But the first puja which i performed alone without my mother or mother in law.....



Preparing the Goddess Laxmi and Decorating with all my jewellry is any intresting part of this puja.For the Naivedyam i prepared "Chintapandu Pulihora" "Payasam" "Garellu" and "Sanividi".