Egg Curry - Muttai Mas

Muttai Mas is how my mom calls this dish, short form of Muttai masala. :)

This is a plain egg curry dish, which tastes yummy with any fried rice or chapathi.

So, here it goes.. All you need is,

1. Egg - 4
2. Onion - 2
3. Tomato - 2 big sized
4. Turmeric powder
5. Chilli powder / Sambar powder - 1&1/2 tbsp
6. water - 1/2 cup
7. Salt to taste
8. curry leaves - 5
9. coriander leaves
11. Mustard
12. Urad dhal
13. Oil - 2tbsp

Boil the eggs and shell them out.

Heat oil in a pan, add the mustard and urad dhal. Once they splitter add onions and cook them till they turn brown, add tomatoes. When the tomatoes are completely cooked, add turmeric, chilli powder, salt and water. Let it boil. Simmer and cook for 5 mins.

Cut the eggs into 4 and add them to this mixture. Cook for 3-4 minutes, so that the yolk slighlty gets dissolved with the gravy. It adds on to the taste.

Serve hot with chapathi's or rice.

Sure all would like it :)

Stuffed Capsicum - Yennegai capsicum

Its long time since I posted something. I tried out something yesterday which turned out to be too good, so was reminded to visit this place to post it :)

It is a north karnataka dish which I learned from my friend. It tastes extremely yummy!

The things required are:

1. Small capsicums - 4 nos
2. Big onion - 2
3. Tomato -1
4. Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup
5. Ground nut roasted - handful
6. white seasame - 1 tbsp
7. Jeera - 1/2 tbsp
8. Green chilly - 1
9. Red chilli powder - 1tbsp
10. Coriander powder - 1/2 tbsp
11. Garlic - 4 cloves
12. Salt to taste
13. Oil - 6-8 tbsp.

The preparation is very simple. Make a hole in the stem side of the capsicum and remove all the seeds and leave them hollow.

Now grind all the ingredients from 2 to 12 into a coarse paste.

Stuff this paste into all the capsicums. Heat oil in a non stick pan and place these capsicums on it and cover the pan with a lid. Cook for 3 mins on medium heat. Then turn the capsicums to the next side and cover and cook. continue the process till the capsicums are cooked roasted. If there are ground paste left, when the capsicums are half cooked, add the paste to it and cook together.

The color of the paste also would turn brown and would look mouth watering.

Remove from heat and serve hot with Jolad roti or Chapathi.

Nothing would be left out at the end of the day. It would fly in minutes. Do give it a try :)

I would definitely want to thank my friend for such a wonderful dish.

Thanks Roopa! Thank you so much! :)

Kutti Kozhukattai

This is a kids special recipe. Kids love it and its very easy to prepare as well. You need:

1. Rice flour - 1 cup.
2. Grated coconut - 5tbsp
3. salt to taste
4. water
5. Mustard - 1/4 tbsp
6. Urad dhal - 1/2tbsp
7. Curry leaves - 6 to 7
8. Oil - 2 tbsp

Mix rice flour,coconut and salt together. Heat water in a bowl. Add very hot water to the mixture and mix it with a spoon to make a thick dough of chappathi dough consistency. It would actually be softer than that.

Now make very small balls out of this. And bake these rice balls in the idly cooker for 10 to 15 mins. You can either serve and have as it is or heat oil in a pan, add the mustard, urad dhal and curry leaves, leave for a few seconds and add this to the kozhukkai and mix.

They would look lovely to see, and tempting for kids to eat as they look very small, smaller than a grape, so kids would play with it and finish all of them before you turn.

Do give it a try and you will know the magic to make kids eat :)

Peas Fried Rice.

This is a very quick and easy dish. This is something which i would prefer doing it for lunch to office. It tastes good and takes the minimum time :) It would also serve as a good dish when you prepare a whole menu for a grand dinner or lunch party.

Lets see what are the ingredients:

1. Onion meidum sided - 2 thinly sliced.
2. Garlic - 12-14 cloves.
3. Green Chillies - 4
5. Bay leaf - 1
6. Oil - 5tbsp
7. Peas - 1/2 cup
8. Rice - 1 cup
9. Water - 125ml
10.Salt to taste.
11. Coconut milk - 100 ml

Preparation of Coconut milk: This is something which most of them know. In case if you are new to cooking, then this might help you. Grind half a grated coconut with a glass water. Then filter the liquid and remove the coconut. Use only the coconut milk.

Preparation of peas rice:

Heat oil in a pressure cooker. Saute the bay leaf, when it turns brown add the onion, garlic and green chillies and cook till the onion and garlic are half brown. Add the peas and cook for another minute. Add rice and cook for a minute. Now add the coconut milk and water. Both together should be in 1:225 ml ratio with rice.

Add salt to your taste and close the pressure cooker. Cook for one whistle and simmer it for 5 minutes then. Remove from heat.

Serve hot with pomogranite salad! The color of the rice is also exciting for kids white with green balls :)

It would taste yummy! It will be everyone's favourite soon in your house as well :)

Try it out and leave me your commnets.

Green Gram Dhal

Its long time since a post. North Indian or south indian, these days its chapathi for dinner in most of our houses. So, what will be the side dish, something different every now and then to keep it interesting for kids to eat.

Green Gram - 200gm.
Tomato - 4 medium sized
Green chillies - 4
Garlic - 8 cloves
Bay leaf - 1
Water - 3 cups (600 ml)
Salt to taste
Oil - 2 tbsp
Jeera - 1/2 tbsp
Curry leaves - 5 to 6
Onion - 1 medium sized
Chilli powder - 1/2 tbsp

Pressure cook green gram, tomatoes, garlic, bayleaf, 3 green chillies, chilli powder, half salt and water for 15 to 20 minutes in simmer anfter steam, so that green gram is compltely cooked.

Heat oil in pan, add jeera, onion thily sliced, 1 green chilly, curry leaves. Fry till the onion turns brown.

remove the green chillies and bay leaf from the pressure cooked mixture and mix the remaining ingredients. Add the fried onion to this and bring it to boil. Add water and salt according to the consistency you require.Serve hot!

It tastes good with chapathis, idli and rice.

It is a very healthy dish for all ages :)

Vazhai Poo Vadai - Banana Flower Vadai

Its been a longtime since a new post. It was vacation time, and off we went for a whole week out. I will soon write about our vacation as well.


Here is one of the traditional type of vada, Vazhai Poo vadai.


1. Channa dhal - 1 cup
2. Red Chillies - 2
3. Sounf - 1/2 tbsp
4. Jeera - 1/2 tbsp
5. Salt to taste
6. Vazhai Poo or banana flower cleaned - 1/2
7. Turmeric - a pinch
8. Onion - 2 medium sized chopped
9. Curry leaves - 5
10. Coriander leaves - 5 tbsp
11. Coconut grated - 4 tbsp
12. Raw rice - 2 tbsp
13. Oil to deep fry.


Soak the Channa dhal and rice for 30-45 minutes. Grind the soaked dhal, rice, sounf, jeera and salt into a coarse paste. Remove the ground mix to a bowl. Now grind the banana flower, just for 2-3 seconds, say like running a wiper. Add this also to the mix.


Add all the remaining ingredients to the ground mixture and mix well. Make lemon sized balls.


Heat oil in a frying pan. Apply water on your left palm so that the dough doesn't stick to your hand. Keep the lemon sized balls on your hand, press them to make them flat to a shape of vada and shallow fry them till golden brown.


They would taste delicious! Serve hot as a snack or with rice.

Cauliflower and Double Beans Kurma

It was weekend and I was feeling very lazy to cook. It was too tiring. So what to cook was the question ? I started of slowly to cook. It just took 15 minutes to prepare. But it turned out too good. Lot of praises as well :) yes it is cauliflower and double beans kurma with rice for lunch. :) Quite simple but very tasty! Everyone liked it including my kids which was a surprise.

The same dish was used for dinner also for chappathi and dosa, with the praises still continuing.. :) Here goes the recipe for you:

1. Cauliflower - small sized. cut into 2 inch sized pieces.
2. Double beans fresh - 20 seeds.
3. Sounf - 1/2 tbsp
4. cumin seeds - 1/2 tbsp
5. Poppy Seeds - 1/2 tbsp
6. Coconut - 1 cup
7. Cashew - 2
8. Green Chillies - 4 to 5
9. Fried gram - 4 tbsp.
10. Onion - 1 medium sized chopped
11. Tomato - 1 medium sized Chopped
12. Garlic - 6 to 8 cloves - chopped
13. Mustard - 1/2 tbsp
14. Urad dhal - 1/2 tbsp
15. Coriander leaves - little chopped
16. Currey leaves 5 to 6
17. Salt to Taste
18. Oil - 4 tbsp

Heat 2bsp of oil in a pan. Add the sounf, cumin seeds,poppy seeds and saute for 30 seconds. Add greenchillies, cashew, fried gram and cook till cashew and fried gram slightly turn color. Add the coconut and stir for 20 seconds. Remove from heat, let it cool and Grind it to a fine paste.

Heat 2 tbsp oil in a cooker. Add Mustard and urad dhal and let them splitter. Add the onion, garlic and curry leaves.when the onion chage color andd the tomatoes, cauliflower and double beans. cook till the tomatoes are completely cooked. Now add the ground mixture and cook for a minute. Add water and salt as required. After a whistle, simmer for 5 mins and remove from heat.Garnish with Coriander leaves.

Serve hot with Rice or chapathi or idli or dosa! It goes well with both rice and tiffin items. Its more like a two in one :)

You can use potatoes instead of double beans. Potatoes and cauliflower also goes well.