Kerala style lunch – veg chattichoru

Ingredients

• Rice – 1 cup

Method 

• Rice : 1 cup
• Keep a rice pot in stove and boil water in it
• Now wash the rice and put in the rice pot and cook it

Dal curry

Ingredients

• Onion – 3nos
• Tomatoes – 2 nos
• Green chilies – 3 nos
• Shallots – 7 to 8 nos
• Moong dal – 1/2 cup
• Salt – 1 tsp
• Curry leaves
• Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder – 2 tsp
• Dried green chilli- 4 nos
• Asafoetida powder- 1/2 tsp
• Oil – 1 tbsp

Method 

• Peel onions and shallots
• Then keep it aside
• Now wash onions , tomatoes, green chillies, and keep it aside
• Then wash the moong dal and put sliced onions, tomatoes and green chillies in it
• Add curry leaves, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt and add some water and keep it in the stove and cook
• Then add some asafoetida powder and mix
• Remove from fire if it is cookedand keep aside
• By that time chop shallots and cut dried red chilli and keep aside
• Then heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds
• Then add shallots ,dried red chilli and curry leaves, saute it well
• Now remove from fire and add this to the cooked dal
• Daal curry is ready

Potato mezukkuvaratti 

Ingredients

• Potato – 3 nos
• Garlic – 10 to 12 nos
• Green chilies – 3 nos
• Oil – 1 tbsp
• Mustard – 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
• Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
• Salt – 1 tsp
• Pepper powder – 1 tsp

Method 

• Peel potatoes and slice it
• Wash it thoroughly and keep aside
• Then peel garlic and wash it
• Then wash and cut green chilies and keep aside
• Now chop the garlic
• Then heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds , garlic and green chilies in it
• Then add the sliced potatoes and mix well
• Then add turmeric powder , red chilli powder , salt and mix
• Then add pepper powder
• Stir it well and close the pan and cook foe few minutes
• Open the pan and stir and fry it well
• Then remove from fire and keep it aside

Long beans / payar thoran

Ingredients 

• Long beans – 1/2 kg
• Onion – 3 nos
• Green chilies – 4 nos
• Grated coconut – 30g
• Oil – 2 tsp
• Dried green chilies – 4 nos
• Mustard – 1 tsp
• Curry leaves
• Salt – 1 tsp

Method 

• Wash and cut the ends of long beans and keep it aside
• Then peel onions and wash it
• Wash green chillies
• Now cut the long beans in to tiny pieces
• Then chop onions in to tiny piece
• Then cut green chillies in to tiny pieces and keep aside
• Now grate coconut
• Then heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds , dried red chillies and curry leaves
• Saute it and add the long beans in to it and stir well and close the pan
• When it is half cooked open the pan
• Then make some space in the middle of the pan and add grated coconut and cover with the beans , do not mix it now
• Cover the pan for few minutes and then open it and stir it well
• Now remove pan from fire

Boiled tapioca / kappa puzuk

Ingredients 

• Tapioca – 1 kg
• Garlic – 7 nos
• Green chilies – 4 nos
• Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
• Curry leaves
• Cumin seeds – 1tsp

Method 

• Peel the tapioca and slice it in to thin pieces
• Then wash it and keep aside
• Then boil water in a pot and add this washed tapioca and cook it
• Then make a paste of garlic , green chilli , cumin seeds , curry leaves , and turmeric powder in a grinding stone and keep it aside
• Then drain all the water from the tapioca and add this paste in to it and add salt
• Then cook fir a few minutes by covering the pot and mix it with a thudip ( stick used for mixing boiled tapioca)
• Now remove from fire and keep it aside

Pulisheri / curd curry

Ingredients

• Curd – 1 cup
• Oil – 1 tbsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds – 1 tsp
• Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
• Shallots – 7-8 nos
• Garlic – 5-6 nos
• Ginger – 1 piece
• Dried red chilli – 2-3 nos
• Green chilli – 2 nos
• Curry leaves
• Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
• Asafoetida powder – 1/2 tsp
• Salt – 2 tsp

Method 

• Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds , fenugreek seeds , cumin seeds , sliced shallots , ginger, garlic , green chillies , dried red chillies
• Then saute it well and add curry leaves and stir it
• Then add turmeric powder and mix well
• Then add the curd and mix it then add asafoetida powder and salt
• Mix it and remove from fire

Chammanthi

Ingredients

• Dried red chilli – 2 nos
• Ginger – 1 piece
• Tamarind – a pinch
• Grated coconut – 30g
• Shallots- 4 nos
• Curry leaves

Method

• Grind dried red chilli, ginger, tamarind, grated coconut, curry leaves and shallots in the grinding stone one by one and grind again altogether and keep it aside in a bowl
• Now prepare chattichoru
• Now take a chatti and place a round shaped banana leaf
• Then take rice
• Then take some boiled tapioca
• Then some potato mezukuvaratti
• Then take some long beans thoran
• Then some chammanthi
• Then some dal curry in the middle
• And lastly add pulisheri to the tapioca
• Tasty kerala style lunch – veg chattichoru is ready