Mixed boiled vegetables

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Mixed boiled vegetables

Ingredients

Beetroot 1
Carrot 2
Tomato 2
Long beans a few
Ginger a tiny piece
Green chilli 1
Rock salt a little
Crushed black pepper a little

Method of preparation

Wash peel and chop vegetables into thin long pieces, slit chilli, chop ginger, long bean and tomato into thin slices. Add all vegetables into pressure pan, add 5 cups water, rock salt, ginger and chilli pieces. Close the lid and pressure cook for two whistles. Off the stove, remove boiled steaming hot vegetables into a serving bowl garnish with crushed pepper and enjoy it.

Idli rava kozhakattai with urad, tuvar dal and coconut

Rice dumpling(kozhakattai) with urad dhal,tuvar dhal and coconut.

Ingredients

Idli rava 2 cup
Urad and tuvar dhal a handful each (soaked for an hour and ground into coarse paste with green chilli and ginger, curry leaves )1/2 cup
Salt as per taste

For tadka

Gingly oil(til) 1 tablespoon
urad dhal broken 1 tsp
Red chilli 1 broken into half
Curry leaves a few

Method of preparation

In a heated pan dry roast idli rawa, once it release aroma add urad tuvar paste, add salt and mix well, add hot water about 3 cups. Mix well in medium flame let it cook for about 5 minutes. Off the stove spread the kozhakattai dough into a plate, let it become warm. Make small balls out of it. You can make it perfect round or oval. In an idly vessel add 3 to 4 cups of water keep the idly grid carefully place kozhakattai and close it. Steam for about 15 minutes in medium flame.

Heat a large pan pour gingly(til) oil, mustard and urad dhal. Let mustard crackle, now add one broken chilli. Reduce flame of stove add few curry leaves, grated coconut and mix well. To this add steamed rice dumpling(kozhakattai)  mix gently till tadka get well coated in all rice dumpling(kozhakattai) serve hot with sambhar and chutney.