AMLA RICE / NELLIKAI SADHAM/ GOOSEBERRY RICE

NellikaiSadham/Amla rice/Gooseberry rice is an easy, simple, delicious, and instant south Indian recipe with the complete tangy flavor of Amla. This is a must-try recipe in the season of gooseberry. Amla is high in vitamin-C, chromium reduces the blood sugar level which is good for diabetic patients. It helps to strengthen the lungs, enhances fertility, healthier hair growth, body coolant, strengthens eyes, acts as an antioxidant. 

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Course: Veg –Main course	Prep Time:20minutes	Cook Time:40 minutes
Cuisine: Indian	Serving: 3	Author: Bhuvana Devi

Ingredients:

Boiled Rice-2cup       Gooseberry-4      Cinnamon- 1(1 inch )      Cloves-2      Cardamom-2      Cumin seeds- 1tsp      Fennel seeds-1/2tsp

Ginger-1tsp (chopped)    Garlic-1tsp (chopped)      Ghee- 2 tbsp           Green Chilly -2             Peanuts-2tbsp    Cashews-10      Curry leaves- few     Salt- req

For vegan: Instead of ghee you can use sesame oil it enhances the flavor of the rice.

Preparation:

•   Grate 4 gooseberries with the veg grater and set aside.

    Instructions:

• Heat a pan with 2tbsp of ghee,1 cinnamon, 2 cloves,2 cardamoms, Fennel seeds cumin seeds, Mustard urad dal, curry leaves sauté it.
• Add chopped garlic & ginger, saute well.
• Add Cashews, Dry roasted peanuts 2 green chilies.
• Then, add Turmeric powder, Asetafoia, and sauté well. 
•  Add grated amla/Gooseberry, salt, mix well.
•  Now, add the boiled rice, mix gently.
• Add,1/4tsp of lemon juice. Immediately turn off the flame, fluff it gently. Serve it hot.       

                                          

Serve the Tangy Amla Rice /Nallikai Sadham/Gooseberry Rice with Papad, Vaazhaipoo kola!!!!

 Step by step Pictorial  Method:

• Step1: Grate 4 gooseberries using a veg grater and keep it aside.

                                                   

• Step2: Heat a pan with 2tbspof ghee,1 cinnamon, 2 cloves,2 cardamoms, Fennel seeds cumin seeds, Mustard urad dal, curry leaves sauté it.

  

• Step3: Add Cashews, Dry roasted peanuts 2 green chilies.

• Step4: Add chopped garlic & ginger, saute well. add Turmeric powder, Asetafoia, and sauté well.

•  Step5: Add grated amla/Gooseberry, salt, mix well.

 

•  Step6: Now, add the boiled rice, mix gently.
• Step7: Add,1/4tsp of lemon juice. Immediately turn off the flame, fluff it gently.  Serve it hot.

   

Serve the Tangy Amla Rice /Nallikai Sadham/Gooseberry Rice with Papad, Veg Starters!!!!

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TOMATO RICE/THAKKALI SADHAM

Tomato Rice/Thakkali Sadham is a spicy simple one-pot recipe and very popular in South India. It is an easy and quick recipe that goes well with onion raita or aloo matter curry. It is the best bachelor recipe to make it with pressure cookware or pot. Come!! I will share with you all the step by step procedure and pictorial method of making Tomato Rice in the pressure cooker method.

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Course: Veg –Main course	Prep Time:20minutes	Cook Time:40 minutes
Cuisine: Indian	Serving: 4	Author: Bhuvana Devi

 Ingredients

•       Normal Rice-1 ½  cup (Water ratio 1:2)
•      Garlic -Garlic Paste -1 tbsp
•      Coriander & mint leaves- 1 full hand
•      Cinnamon-  2 (2 inch )
•      Cloves-5
•      Cardamom-5
•      Cumin seeds- 1tsp
•      Fennel seeds-1/2tsp
•      Oil-2 tbsp
•      Ghee- 2 tbsp
•      Onion-1 (chopped)
•      Green Chilly -5  
•      Tomato -7
•      Corriander powder-1tsp
•   Cumin powder- 1tsp
•    Chili powder- 1tsp
•      Bay leaf -2
•      Curry leaves- few
•     Salt- req 

Note: If you are using the basmati rice,wash clean ,a soak it for 30 min, for cooking the water ratio is 1:1 and cook for 1 whistle in pressure cookware.

Preparation:

•   Take the blender, Add Tomatoes blends well into a paste. Set aside.
•    Soak the rice for 20 min.

 Instructions:

• Heat a pressure cooker pan with 2 tbsp of oil, 2 tbsp of ghee, 2 cinnamon, 3 cloves,2 cardamoms, 2 bay leaves Fennel seeds cumin seeds, sauté it.
• Add chopped onion, 5 green chilies, and salt. cook well till onion turns glossy.
• Then, Add ginger-garlic paste, coriander, mint leaves and sauté well until raw smell goes.
• Then add the tomato paste, sautés well in low flame for a few mins.
•  Add chili powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt, mix well.
•  Now, Add 3 cups of water, mix well.
• Once forth comes, Add the soaked rice and mix well.Check for salt
• Close the lid of the pressure cooker and cook for 5 whistles.
• Gently fluff the tomato rice and mix it. (do not over fluff,the rice may be broken).
• Turn on the flame, Once the pressure released. open the pressure cooker, garnish it with coriander and mint leaves.

        Serve the Tasty Tomato rice with Raita, green peas curry, Veg-Gravy!!!!

 Step by step Pictorial  Method:

• Add the Tomato with little water blends well into a paste.
•  Soak the rice for 10 min.

                                                        

• Heat a pressure cooker pan with 2 tbsp of oil, 2 tbsp of ghee, 2 cinnamon, 3 cloves,2 cardamoms, 2 bay leaves, Fennel seeds, cumin seeds, sauté it.

• Add chopped onion, 5 green chilies, and salt and cook well till onion turns glossy.
• Then, add ginger-garlic paste, coriander, mint leaves and sauté well until raw smell goes.

 

• Then add the tomato paste sauté well in low flame for a few mins.

•  Add chili powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt, mix well.

  

•  Now, add 3 cups of water, mix well.

 

•  Once the forth forms, Add the soaked rice and mix well. Check for salt.

 

• Close the lid of the pressure cooker and cook for 5 whistles. 

• Turn on the flame.
• Once the pressure released. open the pressure cooker, garnish it with coriander and mint leaves.

• Gently fluff the tomato rice and mix it. (do not over fluff, the rice may be broken).

 

•  Yummy spicy and tasty Tomato Rice/Thakkali Sadam is ready to serve.

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VAAZHAIPOO /BANANA BLOSSOM BIRIYANI

Frying all the masalas before cooking is biriyani. Biriyani is the tempting dish. It’s a favorite dish for all age factors. Why can’t we make it with ingredients?. This Vaazhaipoo/Banana Blossom Biriyani is a delicious and healthy one to have. Banana blossom/Vaazhaipoo is a boon to all women, there are more benefits of Vaazhaipoo - It is the best home remedy for PCOS, excessive bleeding, treats all uterus problems, and keeps healthy. It is good to have during pregnancy time to prevent constipation and it helps to increase the breast milk supply for lactating mothers. check with the link for more Vazhaipoo recipes => Vazzhaipoo/Banana blossom poriyal , Vazhaipoo /banana blossom kola. Even though Banana blossom has starchy taste, you can make it tastier by this recipe.  Here, I will explain to you how to make Banana Blossom Biriyani which is more famous in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

                                             

Come!! I will share with you all the step by step procedure and pictorial method of making Vaazhaipoo/Banana Blossom biriyani that makes your kitchen smell with the aroma of biriyani the whole day.

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Course: Veg –Main course	Prep Time:25minutes	Cook Time:40 minutes
Cuisine: Indian	Serving: 3	Author: Bhuvana Devi

                                            Note: * 1 cup = 235 ml

    Ingredients:

•      Seeraga samba rice -1.5 cups (water ratio (1: 2))
•      Banana Blossom –1 cups
•      Coconut oil  -2 tbsp
•      Ghee- 1 tbsp
•      Ginger Garlic paste-2 tbsp
•      Green Chilly -2
•      Tomato -1  (Small size)
•      Big onion- 1 (Medium sized)
•      Curd- 1 tbsp
•      Half Lemon Juice
•    Chili powder- 1tsp
•      Turmeric powder- 1/2tsp
•      Biriyani Powder-  2 tbsp
•      Coconut pieces – 5 (2 inches)
•      Bay leaf -2
•      Cinnamon- 2( 2 inches)
•      Cloves-3
•      Cardamom-4
•      Star Anise -1
•      Coriander leaves  &mint leaves -  ¼ cup each
•      Salt- req 

Check this link for making Different Biriyani recipes=> Vegetable- Bread biryani, Mushroom Biriyani, Dindigul Thalapakatti Chicken Biriyani.

PREPARATION:

• Cleaning Vaazhaipoo/Banana Blossom:   TakeVaazhaipoo/Banana Blossom, open the feathery petals which is not edible,  you find the florets , inside the flower, you can see the match stick like stem and transparent papery petal i.e.; calyx & pistil remove  this two as it tastes bitter, chop & soaks it in the buttermilk to avoid discoloring.
•   Masala paste:  Take a blender, add, coconut pieces, mint & coriander leaves, Fennel seeds, add little water and blend it into a smooth paste and keep it aside.
•   Chop the onions, tomato finely, Slit green chilies.
•  Wash and soak rice in water for 20 minutes. Then drain the water and keep the rice aside.

INSTRUCTIONS

1.   Take pressure to heat oil & ghee, once it gets heated, add cloves, Cinnamon stick and cardamom cumin seeds, bay leaf. Sauté it.

2.   Add chopped onion and green chili. Sauté well

3.   Add ginger-garlic paste. Sauté well until the raw smell goes away.

4.   Add the coconut, mint coriander paste and sauté well.

5. Then, add chopped tomato, salt, turmeric powder and chili powder, Biriyani powder. Saute well for a few mins.

6.   Now add the cleaned banana blossom/ Vazhaipoo and mix and sauté well until raw smell goes away.

7.   Add the ½ tbsp curd and mix well.

8.  Add 3 cups water, ½ lemon juice. Mix well. Allow the mixture to boil well. Add half lemon juice. After the mixture boils well and foam forms, add soaked rice, mix well, and check for salt.

9.   Close the pressure cooker with lid and cook it for 4 whistles in medium flame.

10. Once the pressure is gone, do not disturb it for  10 more minutes. And open the cooker, fluff it gently using a spoon.

                 Serve the delicious Vaazhaipoo Biriyani with onion raitha.

Step by step Pictorial method:

Step1: TakeVaazhaipoo/Banana Blossom, open the feathery petal which is not edible, you find the florets, inside the flower, you can see the match stick like stem and transparent papery petal i.e.; calyx & pistil remove this two as it tastes bitter, chop & soaks it in the buttermilk to avoid discoloring.

        

Step2: Take a blender, add, coconut pieces, mint & coriander leaves, Fennel seeds, add little water and blend it into a smooth paste and keep it aside.

Step3: Wash and soak rice in water for 20 minutes. Then drain the water and keep the rice aside.

Step4: Take pressure to heat oil & ghee, once it gets heated, add cloves, Cinnamon stick and cardamom cumin seeds, bay leaf. Sauté it.

Step5:  Add chopped onion and green chili. Sauté well.

Step6: Add ginger-garlic paste. Sauté well until the raw smell goes away.

Step7: Add the coconut, mint coriander paste and sauté well. 

 

Step8: Then, add salt, turmeric powder, chili powder, Biriyani powder.  chopped tomato Saute well for a few mins.

 

Step9: Now add the cleaned banana blossom/ Vazhaipoo and mix and sauté well until raw smell goes away.

 

Step10: Add the ½ tbsp curd and mix well.

 

Step11:  Add 3 cups water, ½ lemon juice. Mix well. Allow the mixture to boil well.  After the mixture boils well and foam forms, add soaked rice, mix well, and check for salt.

 

Step12: Close the pressure cooker with lid and cook it for 4 whistles in medium flame.

Step13: Once the pressure is gone, do not disturb it for  10 more minutes. And open the cooker, fluff it gently using a spoon.

                                      

Step14: Serve the delicious Vaazhaipoo Biriyani with onion raitha.

Serve the tasty Mushroom gravy along with, Vazhaipoo /banana blossom kola, onion raita to stimulate your taste buds. 

   

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