Panchamirtham

Panchamirtham is mainly offered as "neivedhayam" to God. This is prepared for Lord Murugan during Thai Poosam occasion.

As the name indicates, its made of 5 elixir.

In my case, banana ripened well. so i made this sweet instead of wasting it.

Ingredients:
Banana - 2
Date syrup - 2 spoons ( i didn't have dates, so i used syrup. you can use 5 dates instead)
honey - 2 spoons
jaggery - 4 spoons (raw sugar can also be used)
Ghee - 1 spoon

Optional Ingredients:
Raisins - 1 spoon
cardamom powder - 1/2 spoon
sugar candy - 1 spoon

Preparation:
Smash the banana and mix it with all the ingredients given above.

Offer to God on auspicious days / occasions to get the blessings.

Quantity: 2 cups

Fenugreek coriander Thogaiyal

Ingredients:
Fenugreek leaves - 1/4 bunch
Cilantro leaves - 1/4 bunch
red chillies - 3
green chillies - 3
chana dal - 1/2 spoon
urud dal - 2 spoons
cumin seeds - 1/4 spoon
tamarind paste - 1/4 spoon
hing - a pinch
oil - 1 1/2 spoons
salt - 1 spoon or as needed

Preparation:
In 1/2 spoon of oil, roast dals, cumin, red chilli with pinch of hing until dals turn light brown.
take the spices out
in 1 spoon of oil, saute fenugreek leaves until leaves become soft and turn dark green.
Now add green chilli, tamarind paste to it and slightly saute it.
Add cilantro leaves and salt to it.
Grind all the ingredients. add water if needed that too less than a spoon.
you will get green thogaiyal with the consistency as shown in image.

Mix it with rice and pack it up for lunch !!

Servings: 4

Little millet laadu

Healthy snack for evening or when you are hungry ... This recipe is very simple and easy to make. This can be made for Diwali or any occasion.

This recipe is from Indira Patti :)

Ingredients:
Little millet - 1 cup
Jaggery - 2 cups
Ghee - 10 spoons

Preparation:
Roast Little millet with 1 spoon of ghee until aroma comes and millet changes color
After 15 mins, powder the millet. The powder will be slightly coarse.
Melt the ghee and keep it warm.
Now mix millet powder, jaggery and ghee. Quickly portion it into small balls
Then fine shape it

Servings: 18

Green Curry

This green curry is my customized version of "Thai Green Curry". I slightly changed to available Indian ingredients and avoided any fish / chicken items in original Thai curry.

Ingredients:
Snow peas - 1 cup
Thai green eggplant - 5
green capsicum - 1/4
lemon grass - 1 stalk
milk - 1/4 cup
salt - 1 spoon or as needed
water - 6 cups or as needed

For Dry roast:
cumin - 1/4 spoon
pepper corn - 1/4 spoon
coriander seeds - 1/2 spoon

For green paste:
green chillies - 6
ginger - 2 inches
onion - 1/4 large
coconut - < 1/2 cup
lemon peel - from 1/2 lemon
coriander stem - 10 twigs (if few leaves are there, thats fine too)

Preparation:
Cut the snow peas, eggplant and capsicum and boil them in water with little salt for 10 mins
Cut the lemon grass. Take out the usable portion. Add half of it to the boiling vegetables. Add remaining portion with the ingredients for green paste.
Dry roast cumin, pepper corn and coriander seeds for 30 sec and add it with ingredients to paste.
Take rest of the above ingredients given for green paste and grind. No need to water and fine grind the paste.
Add the paste and salt to the boiling vegetables. let it cook until the raw smell is gone.
Once the curry starts to thicken, add 1/4 cup of milk. Let it simmer for a min and take it out.

Serve the aromatic green curry with fried rice !!

Servings: 3