Mushroom Ularthiyathu/ Mushroom Roast

I love mushrooms and this is one of the favourites from ma mom's kitchen! Can be made quickly and is really yummy!

Ingredients:

1. Button Mushrooms (cut into smaller pieces) - 1 cup
2. Shallots - 4-5 nos
3. Dry red chillies - 2nos (You can add more if you want the dish to be spicy)
4. Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
5. Coconut oil (preferably)/ Cooking oil - 2 tsp
6. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
7. Curry leaves - a few
8. Salt - for taste

Method:

• Grind together shallots and dry red chillies.
• To the mushrooms, add the grounded paste, turmeric powder and the required salt and keep aside for 5 minutes.
• Add some water to this marinated mushrooms and allow it to boil. Cook till the mushrooms are soft.
• In a kadai pour some coconut oil/ cooking oil. Splutter the mustard seeds and curry leaves.
• Add the cooked masala mushrooms and shallow roast it.
• Yummy Mushroom Ularthiyathu is ready. Tastes best with hot rice or rotis.

Muringha Ila Chaaru (Drumstick leaves curry)

Happy to post my first dish! This is a very easy and healthy way of cooking drumstick leaves.

Ingredients:

1. Drumstick leaves - 1 cup
2. Bengal gram - 1 tsp
3. Yellow split peas / Thoor dal - 1tsp
4. Black gram (skin removed) - 1tsp
5. Pepper corns - 1tsp
6. Cumin seeds - 1tsp
7. Dried red chillies - 2 nos
8. Shallots - 10 - 12 nos
9. Garlic cloves - 2 nos
10. Coriander Powder - 1tsp 
11. Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
12. Salt - for taste
13. Water - 2 to 3 glasses
14. Refined Oil -  1tsp
15. Coconut oil - 1/2 tsp.

Method:

• In a kadai sprinkle some oil and fry all the ingredients from 2 to 9 until the shallots turn to brown color.
• Leave the above mixture to cool down and then grind it together by adding some water, into a smooth paste.
• Dilute this grounded paste by adding some more water.
• Add turmeric powder and salt and allow it to boil.
• Add the drumstick leaves.
• Allow the curry to boil for 10-12 mts. Make sure that the drumstick leaves are cooked well.
•  Remove from fire and as a last step, sprinkle the coconut oil on the top of the curry. This gives a flavour to the curry. This can be avoided if you don't like the taste of coconut oil.
• Tasty drumstick leaves curry is ready. Goes very well with hot boiled rice.

Surprise start.. :)

I am really new to cooking and very much new to blogging. I never thought I would create a blog so soon. It would be a sweet surprise to my people especially to my husband if he knows about this tomorrow morning. I have tried some good recipes worth publishing and I promise to publish those soon. I think it will be a tough time for me to blog besides managing my naughty baby. But I would like to take the challenge. With all of yours' wishes and blessings; here, I am kick starting!!!