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Here is a blog that contain our traditional foods recipes. If you are a keralite u will surely like the taste of this recipes.As for the Cuisine of Kerala, it is midly flavored, gently cooked and has a certain genteel delicacy on the stomach.

The unusual cuisine of Kerala brings to the fore the culinary expertise of the people of Kerala. Producing some of the tastiest foods on earth, the people of Kerala are gourmets with a difference. The cuisine is very hot and spicy and offers several gastronomic opportunities. The food is generally fresh, aromatic and flavoured. Keralites are mostly fish-and-rice eating people.

The land and the food are rich with coconut, though one can't imagine Kerala food without chilies, curry leaf, mustard seed, tamarind and asafoetida.

Just a pinchful of tamarind can substitute tomatoes, but there is no real substitute for curry leaf. Since time immemorial, coconut has been an integral part of the cuisine of Kerala.



Manga Curry

Ingredients:-

Raw Mango - 2 nos
Red chilly powder - 2 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Thick coconut milk - 1 cup
Thin coconut milk - 1 1/4 cup
Salt - As reqd
Curry leaves - 2 stem
Oil (Coconut oil is best) - 2 tsp

For tempering:

Oil - 1 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 3/4 tsp
Fenugreek(Uluva) seeds - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 stem
Whole red chillies(Kollamulaku) - 4 nos (broken into two)

Method:-

Cut mango into small pieces without skin.
Roast red chilly powder and coriander powder.
Mix the mango with roasted powders, turmeric powder, salt, curry leaves and oil.
Leave it for ten minutes.
Cook the above mixture in thin coconut milk on a medium flame.
When it is cooked and the gravy becomes thick, add thick coconut milk.
Keep the flame in minimum, until oil appears on top of the curry.
Do not boil the curry on medium and high flames, after adding thick coconut milk.
Switch off the gas and leave it for two minutes.
Heat oil in a pan.
Add mustard seeds and let it splutter.
Add fenugreek, curry leaves and broken red chillies.
Pour it into the curry.

1 comments:

sms said...

..am sherin....this site is good.....i request u to kindly post more of such recepies...as these are very helpful for beginers like me....