Cheera Thoran / Spinach Thoran

Ingredients:

1. Cheera - 1/2 Kg
2. Coconut scraped -  1 cup
3. Green Chillies - 4 Big
4. Cumin seeds / Jeerakam - 1/2 tsp
5. Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
6. Garlic - 3 cloves
7. Curry leaves - 1/2 spring
8. Mustard seeds / Kaduku - few
9. Dry Red Chillies - 4
10. Salt
11. Oil

Method:
Coarsely grind coconut, green chilies, cumin, turmeric powder, garlic, curry leaves, adding required salt
Wash spinach and chop to very fine pieces
 Heat oil in a pan and crackle mustard seeds, add red chillies. Saute and add the ground coconut mixture when raw smell goes add spinach and mix well.
Cook covered.
Serve hot with Rice.

Carrot Pomegranate Juice

Ingredients:

Pomegranate 1
Carrot 2
Tomato 1/ tbsp of Lemon juice
Honey 1 tsp (optional)
Sugar - as per your taste

Method:

Peel pomegranate to extract the juicy beads.
Blend this in your mixie with some water for some time just right enough so that the seeds are not blended. Take special care of this step.
Keep this aside.
Blend all the remaining ingredients well and add it to the prepared pomegranate juice.
Serve chilled or at room temperature.

Kadala Curry/ Black Chana curry

 

Ingredients:

Black Chana 1 cup

Onion 1/2 sliced fine

Ginger garlic paste 1tbsp

Green Chillies 3 cut lengthwise

Red Chilly Powder 1 tsp

Hot Chilly Powder 1tsp

Coriander powder 2tsp

Garam masala powder 1 tsp

Curry leaves few

Tomato 1

Coconut Milk 1 cup (optional)

Coconut Oil

Method :

Cook the chana well with adequate water, salt, 1 garlic pod, 1 green chillies,  1/2 tsp garam masala.

Saute the onions in oil in a pan.

When they are brownish add ginger garlic paste, green chillies,curry leaves and saute for 2 mins.

Add the powders, when the raw smell is gone add sliced tomatoes and saute well.

When masala is mixed up, add cooked chana. Add the gravy also.

Stir well in low flame.

You can avoid ading coconut milk, if you prefer. Adjust the consistency by adding hot water.

Else add 1/2 - 1 cup coconut milk. 

Goes well with ari puttu, appams, chappathys, etc.