kadala curry

Ingredients:

• Channa - 1 cup
• Onion - 2
• Tomato - 1
• Garlic - 5 to 8
• Bay leaf - 1
• Cinnamon stick - 1" piece
• Curry leaves -  2 strings
• Oil - 2 spoons
• Pepper - 1 tsp

To grind

• Coconut oil - 2 sp
• Cinnamon stick - 1/2" piece
• Pepper - 1 tsp
• Chilli powder - 2 sp
• Corriander powder - 3 sp
• Garam masala powder - 1 sp
• Turmeric powder -  1 sp
• Coconut - 1/4 cup

Method:

Soak channa overnight, pressure cook with salt.
Heat coconut oil and fry all the ingredients and grind it to a smooth paste with little water.
Slice onion, garlic and tomato. Heat little coconut oil in a kadai fry the spices, curry leaves,  followed by onion, garlic and tomato. Once it is cooked well add the cooked channa and let it boil well.
Add the ground paste and boil for a minute, check for salt and spices.

Serve it hot with puttu, idly or rice.

Puttu

Ingredients:

To make the flour

• Raw rice - 1 kg

Method Soak the Raw Rice in water for 1/2 to 1 hour. Drain and leave it for 1/2 an hour. When the water has completely drained and slightly dry blend it to a coarse powder in a mixe. and sieve it.
When done. Heat a kadai and dry roast this flour.
When you get the smell of the flour and when the flour coats the ladle that is the time to remove it from fire. Spread it in a paper and let it cool. Sieve the flour and spread it in paper for a day. Then store it in an air tight container.

To make Puttu

Ingredients

• Puttu flour or raw rice flour - 2 cups
• salt - 1/2 tsp
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Coconut - 1/2

Method

                                     
Mix the flour, salt and sugar. sprinkle water and moisten the flour well by mixing it. the quantity of water for 2 cups of flour can be roughly 1/4 to 1/2 cup. when you hold a hand full of flour it should form a lump and should be able to break the lump again to crumbles.

Sieve this so that when you make puttu it do not form lump.
Layer the puttu maker with coconut on the base flour and coconut. see to that the base and top has shredded coconut.
When steam comes out of the cap it means the puttu is done. You will also get good smell of the raw rice and coconut steaming inside.

Serve this with banana, sugar and ghee. You can also add pappadam or appalam, if you like the flavor of that.
                                  

You can also serve it with Kadala curry or Payaru.