This is a very famous
combo meals of Tirunelveli natives which provides a balanced diet and served hot
usually on special family occasions and get togethers….
I BLACKGRAM RICE:
Ingredients:
Rice 4 cups
Splitted
black gram 1 cup
Fenugreek ½ tea
spoon
Garlic
pearls 10
Grated
coconut 2 tb spoons
Karupatti a
small piece (Optional)
Method:
Heat a pan
and fry the black gram without oil for few minutes till the colour changes
slightly. Add the fenugreek mix well and add it to the rice. Wash the rice and
gram together and add 13 cups of water (as we add for the regular rice). Add
the rest of the ingredients to it and pressure cook it as usual with required
salt.
II SESAME CHUTNEY:
Fry 3 table
spoons of sesame in a pan without oil till it splutters and keep aside.
Fry 4 red
chillies in a tea spoon of oil.
Now grind the redchillies with a cup of fresh grated
coconut, little tamarind and salt. Finally add the roasted sesames and grind
well with little water. Now the chutney is ready.
III LADY’S FINGER GRAVY:
Ingredients:
Lady’s
finger ¼ k.g
Green
chillies 3
Red chilli
powder 1/2tea spoon
Tomatoes 3
Onion 1
Tamarind juice
¼ cup (Raw mango pieces could be added instead of tamarind water)
For grinding
2 tb spoon
of coconut, 3 shallots and a tea spoon of cumin seeds.
Method:
Split the
Lady’s finger into two vertically and then finely chop them. Chop the onions ,
tomatoes and green chillies too. Heat 1 tb spoon of oil in a kadai. Add mustard
seeds and blackgram. Then add the onions, green chillies, tomatoes and fry
well. Then add the lady’s finger pieces and salt and fry for 5 minutes in
medium flame. Add the tamrind water and required water for boiling the
vegetables. When the lady’s finger is boiled well add the coconut paste and
curry leaves and switch off the stove in 2 minutes.
Add gingelly
oil to the blackgram rice and mix the chutney with it. Have with pappad and
lady’s finger. The same rice could also be had with curd.