Soya & Baby Potato Curry

Ingredients:

• Soya - 1 cup
• Baby potatoes - 250 gm
• Onion - 2
• Tomato - 2
• Ginger paste - 2 tsp
• Garlic paste - 2 tsp
• Bay leaf - 1
• Oil - 3 tbsp
• Coconut - 1/2 cup
•  Badam - 6 to 10
• Chilli powder - 
• Turmeric Powder
• Garam Masala Powder - 
• Coriander leaves - 1/2 bunch

Method:

Finely chop the onions and tomatoes.
Boil the soya in little water along with salt.
Cook the potato with salt peel and keep aside.
Grind the coconut and badham into a fine paste.
Heat oil in a  pan. Fry the bay leaf. Add the ginger and garlic paste and saute well till the raw smell goes.
Add the onions and cook well. then add the tomatoes and cook well till it reaches a gravy consistency,
add turmeric powder, chilli powder and cook till the oil starts coming out.
Add the cooked soya and potato toss well.
If needed add the water in which soya was cooked.
When the gravy boils simmer it and let it cook for a while, adjust salt and spice.
Add the ground paste.
Add a generous quantity of chopped coriander leaves.
Serve with Basmathi rice or Chapathi

Note: If the coconut is tender it will give a smooth paste u can peel the skin off for badam and add as a paste, if the coconut is not tender then grind both and squeeze the milk into the gravy.

Seppang Kizhangu Fry

Ingredients:

• Seppang Kihangu (Colocasia) - 1/2 kg
• Chilli powder - 3 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 2 tsp
• Garam Masala - 2 tsp
• Corn flour - 1 tbsp
• Curd - 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil few spoons to fry.

Method

Pressure cook the Colocasia. (do not over cook).
Peel and cut them into round pieces.
Take the cut pieces in a plate, sprinkle chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, corn flour and salt over it. Also spread the curd and mix well. Let it soak in the marination for about an hour.
In a pan or a dosa thava heat two spoons of oil and place these marinated colocasia pieces.
Turn them over and cook and repeat till they are roasted.
Goes well with curd rice.

Note: Even if you cook with salt, it will not be imparted into it. So pressure cook without salt. Mommy's.... if you are travelling out of station do the marination and store it in the firdge so that the kids or your man can just roast them in the thava.