1 tb G dall + 1 tsp U dall + 1/4 coco – fry in oil –> grind–> onion + tom + paste–>boil….
Oops , Sorry for the scribble, but it was the way my recipe notes used to be before I started this blog. Can you understand? Of course , you can’t. But now , I have all my treasured recipes safe in the virtual cook book, I need not worry of losing any good recipes in the last pages of my last year dairy!
Thanks for the great bloggers who inspired me to start a blog, in particular, Indira. It started as a hobby and now is more like a place for communicating with my friends and relatives. Moreover, I have earned a good number of friends in the blogosphere. Lots of sharing, learning new recipes everyday, and it is a wide variety of recipes at my home almost everyday!
This particular recipe was in my notebook ,scribbled as said before but indeed a treasured recipe given Mrs.Kandhimathi from Naperville (An expert cook , needless to say) through Mrs Lakshmi Mohan, our common friend (Yet another expert!). A word in advance, keep off your diet consciuosness when you cook this dish. Only when you go by the measures given (especially for the coconut and oil), you get the exact excellent taste!
Ingredients:
Cauliflower florets – 2 cups
Pearl onion- 1/2 cup
Medium sized tomato – 1 number
Oil – 2 tbsp
Coconut- grated from 1/4 shell
For masala:
Coriander seeds – 1 tbsp
Dry red chillies- 8 number
Gram dall/chana dall – 1 tbsp
Urad dall- 1/2 tsp
Garlic – 2 cloves
Ginger- 2 inch piece
Kuskus- 1/4 tsp
Pepper corns- 3 number
Fennel seeds- 1 tsp
Cinnamon – 1inch stick
Cloves- 3 number
Cardamom- 2 number
Fry the ingredients for masala in oil separately and grind with freah grated coconut . Drop the cauliflower florets in boiling hot water for 10 minutes.. This cleans cauliflower without doubt.
Heat oil in a skillet, sputter mustard seeds, add pearl onions and saute well. Drop in the chopped tomatoes , stir a bit till it gets mushed. Add the ground masala , adequate salt and finally cauliflowers. Cook on slow heat. Serve with idlis, chapathis , parathas, or naans.
This is my entry for JFI-Coconut hosted by the thotful Ashwini