Monday, March 29, 2010

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Coorg Pictures

Cherimoya, Sita Phal in Ooty, The Nilgiris, South Indian

Cherimoya, Sita Phal in Ooty, The Nilgiris, South Indian
One of the Exotic fruit grown in Ooty, The Nilgiris. Available in Ooty, Coonoor Markets during December – April.
It can take a couple of day to ripen, store it in a warm temperature to ripen the fruit faster. When ripe, the fruit is soft and tender.
Split the ripe fruit, remove the black seeds and eat the white portion.

Mango Lassi

Ingredients:
1 Cup Plain Yogurt or Sour Cream
1/4 cup mango pulp
Sugar to taste

Preparation:
Add the plain yogurt (or sour cream), mango pulp and sugar in a blender and blend till smooth. Add ice cubes if you want to serve chill.

Gajar ka Halwa ( Carrot Halwa)

Ingredients:

1 kg Carrots ( 2 lbs)
1 liter milk
2 tbs Ghee
5-6 Cardamom ( powdered)
2 tbs Condensed milk
Cashews
Raisins
Sugar
A pinch of Saffron

Preparation:
Grate the Carrots, and in a vessel add the grated carrot, milk and sugar ( you can add sugar as per your taste requirement). Now let the carrot cook in the milk till all of the milk evaporates(stir on a regular basis). Add the powdered cardamom in between. Add the condensed milk.(condensed milk is not a must, but gives a better taste). Fry the Cashews and Raisins in Ghee, later add it to the carrot cook for 2-3 minutes. Garnish with broken cashews and saffron.

Indian Recipes, Simple recipe for Dal Fry

Ingredients:

1 Cup Toor Dal
1/2 Onion (Sliced thin and long)
4-5 Green Chills
1 Tomato (Diced)
1 Pinch Turmeric Powder
1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds
1 tsp Cummin Seeds
Curry Leaves
1 1/2 tbsp Ghee
Salt to taste

Preparation:

Pressure cook the dal until done. Add the Ghee into khadai until hot, add the mustard seeds to sputter followed by cummin seeds and curry leaves. After few second’s add the onions and green chillies. Fry until Onions turn golden brown.
Now add the diced tomato and fry for 2-3 minutes adding the turmeric power. Now add the cooked dal and water as per thickness required. Bring to a boil and garnish with Cilantro (Coriander leaves)

Note: Serves 4-5 people

Coorg Pork Curry (Pandi Curry)

Coorg is a beautiful district in Karnataka also know as “the Scotland of India” with Coffee and rice as the main cultivation. In addition to these crops there are various spices like pepper corn, cardamom and others grown. The language spoken there is known as Kodava thak. Pork is the main Delicacy which is served in almost every occasion.
http://www.karnataka.com/tourism/coorg/
http://www.greenretreatcoorg.com/

Ingredients:

1 Kg Pork (2 Lbs)
1 tbs Chilly power
1tsp Turmeric power
1tsp Cummin Seeds (Jeera)
8-10 Small Onions or 2 big onions
10-15 cloves of Garlic
3-4 Green Chills
1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
2 tbs Cummin Power
Vinegar or concentrated tamarind juice (or Kachampuli if you can get it)
Salt to taste

Preparation:
Wash the Pork couple of times, remove excess water. Marinate the pork for 10-15 minutes with salt, red chilly power, and turmeric. In the mean while blend the Onions, Green Chilles,Ginger and a little Cummin seeds. Now fry the Cummin Power until it turns almost black (but be careful not to burn it), add the mustard and the rest of the cummin seeds and fry for few minutes more.Now put the pork which was kept for marination in a pan and let it cook till the excess water is drained. Now add the mixture of Onions, Green Chills, ginger and Cummin seed and let it cook (stir as often as possible to avoid burning). After the pork is cooked, add the fried cummin power and cook for 5 minutes on low flame. Add the Vinegar and we are ready to go.

Serves 4-5 people

How to Cook Fried Sardines Fish (Mati meen)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardine

Ingredients:
Sardine’s (8-10)
2 tbs Red Chilly powder
1 tbs Turmeric powder
1 tbs Lime Juice (Kachampuli)
Salt to taste
3-4 tbs Oil to fry

Preparation:
Mix the salt, chilly powder, turmeric powder, and lime juice to form a thin paste. Marinate the sardines 1 hour (the longer the better).
In a pan put the oil, and after the oil is hot reduce the flame and fry the fish by turning on both sides.