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Vellai Kurma is a popular Chettinadu delicacy made with mixed vegetable,potato or chicken and mutton.Its a rich creamy white colored kurma relished with chappathi and parottos,even with rice. As green chillies are used to spice up the kurma and the color is pale,hence the name Vellai Kurma.Vellai means White in Tamil. This kurma is truly an easy to cook dish and can be made in minimum time.Its a great substitute for non veg lovers as the soya chunks resembles and tastes meat.Also I added some fresh green peas along with soya chunks as my kids love it.Let's move on to the recipe......................                                                                                                    ...

As soya chunks are good source of vegetarian protein I include in my diet either in some rice or curry.Today's recipe is a flavorful,simple soya chunks kurma which I adapted from Divya's space.Her version of making soya chunks kurma is easy and sounds interesting,doesn't need any fancy ingredients.So without any second thought I tried,the kurma was so delicious and creamy,we enjoyed with rotis for dinner.Here goes the recipe............................................... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Soya chunks(uncooked) 1cup Onion(chopped) 1(large size) Tomato(chopped) 2(medium size) Coconut(grated) 1/4cup Ginger&garlic paste 11/2tsp Chilly powder/milgai podi 11/2tsp Coriander powder/dhaniya podi 2tsp Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/4 Garam masala powder 1/8tsp(optional) Fennel seeds/sombhu 1/2tsp Cloves/lavangam 4 nos. Cinnamom/pattai 1 inch piece Curry leaves few Coriander leaves(chopped) 2tbs Cinnamom/pattai 1 inch piece Cumin+Fennel se...

Soya chunks is a great source of protein and I include in our diet in the form of either fry or kurma with it. But today for a change made soya chunks 65 for the meatless dishes for blogging marathon#31.It came out super delicious and we all enjoyed. Here I made it with the mini chunks and marinated it for almost 2 hours,now off to the recipe.......  Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Soya Chunks/meal maker 1/2cup Ginger&garlic paste 11/2tsp Chilly powder 11/4tsp Green Chilly 2(chopped) Garam masala powder 1/4tsp Curry leaves 2 sprigs Corn flour 2tbs Maida 1tbs Red food color a pinch Yogurt/curd 1tbs Lemon juice 1tsp Coriander leaves to garnish Oil for frying Salt to taste Method  Boil the soya chunks in the boiling water and rinse it couple of times,squeeze the water. In a bowl mix the yogurt,lemon juice ginger &garlic paste,chilly powder and salt and mix it well. To this add the boiled soya chunks,green chilly,curry leave...

As soya chunks is a great source of protein I try to include in our diet atleast once in a week either in a one pot meal or kurma. This version of fry is slightly dry version and usually I make it when I ran out of veggies to accompany with the seasoned dhal and rice or variety rice. Here I used the mini chunks,if you are using the bigger chunks then cut into two and use it to get the flavors incorporate well.Lets move on to the recipe........................................ Soya Chunks Fry/Varuval    Basic Information    Preparation time 15 minutes    Cooking time 30 minutes    Serves 3(generously)       Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Soya chunks/meal maker 1 cup Onion(finely chopped) 1 (medium size) Red chilly powder/milagai podi 3/4 tsp Coriander powder/dhaniya podi 1 tsp Turmeric powder/majal podi 1/4 tsp Fennel seeds/sombu ...

Kari dosai is  popular in Madurai,in which minced mutton curry is topped and served with kurma.But I wanted to share a vegetarian version with minced soya curry.In the original recipe egg is also used on top of the minced mutton.Since its a vegetarian version I didn't use it.Also the dosa needs to be on the thicker side and the minced meat/soya is topped and cooked.This dosa doesn't need any side dish,it tatses good as such.Off to the recipe...                                                                                                                                            ...

Egg kurma is one such delicious,creamy and flavorful one which goes very well rice,rotis,appam,idiyappam and parottas. This egg kurma appears in my kitchen either for lunch or dinner,most of the times when I ran out of veggies. The same recipe can be followed for veggies such as potato or soya chunks and I noted this recipe long time back from a magazine.Try this simple and creamy egg kurma,now on to the recipe..................... Basic Information Preparation Time 10 minutes Cooking Time 25 minutes Serves 4 Ingredients Egg 4-6 Onion(finely sliced) 1(large size) Tomato 3(medium size) Red chilly powder/milagai podi 1tsp Coriander powder/dhaniya podi 11/2tsp Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/4tsp Curry leaves/karivepillai few leaves Coriander leaves/kothamalli(chopped) for garnishing Salt 11/4tsp Oil 21/2tbs Grind to a fine paste Garlic/poondu 3 cloves Ginger/inji 1/2 inch piece Green chilly 2-3 Coconut(grated) 1/4cup Fennel seeds/sombu 1/2...

This is my mom's recipe which goes very with almost everything such as roti,paratha,rice and pulao.Whenever we have get together or guests this one will be in her menu,if cauliflower is not available she replaces it with either potato or soya chunks.This is a creamy and delicious kurma with coconut base and coconut paste needs to be finely ground to get a creamy texture.Here goes the recipe.............................. Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Cauliflower florets 2cups Chickpeas/channa(cooked) 1cup Onion(thinly sliced) 1no.(medium size) Garlic(thinly sliced) 3 cloves Tomato 2-3nos.( Green Chilly(slit) 3nos. Coriander leaves(chopped) 2tbs Curry leaves(chopped) 1 sprig Mint leaves(optional) 10-15 leaves Chilly Powder/milagai podi 11/4tsp Coriander powder/dhaniya podi 1tsp Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/8tsp Garam masala powder 1/4tsp Lemon juice 1tsp Salt 11/2tsp Oil 1tbs For the seasoning Ingredient Quantity Cloves/lavangam 4-5nos. Cinnamon...