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Into oil, crushed or smashed garlic & Bay leaves.
Sliced long beans.
Turmeric powder, plain chilli powder, salt and a tiny bit of lime juice.
Stir and cook to soften beans. Add some water, if you want to, to soften beans.
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Watermelon Cheese 🧀 Savoury Salad.
Ingredients -
Salad leaves + Yellow Watermelon + Roasted White Sesame Seeds + Roasted Sunflower Seeds + Chilli Sauce + Cheddar Shredded 🧀 Cheese

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Katrikai Poriyal/Brinjal Stir Fried.
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Two Brinjals - sliced,
mix with some turmeric powder, some rice flour and. salt.
Fry in batches, remove and keep aside.

A little oil to fry green chillies, onion and curry leaves.

Add brinjal, a little salt and a little lime juice. Stir and dish out.
Easy Vegetarian Tauhu sambal.
To make:
Heat 2 tbsp of oil.
Sauté 1 sliced tomato,
5 smashed shallots and
I sliced green chilli.
Pour in 2 tbsp chilli sauce. Season with salt.

Add 2 sliced tauhu.
Gently stir to cook.
Off the heat and combine in some sliced spring onion.
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Snake gourd kootu (cooked with peas).
To make:
cut one gourd, remove seeds and slice.
Add with 1 sliced tomato
1/3 cup green peas without skin (soaked for 10 mins)
4 sliced shallots
1/2 inch sliced ginger
4 sliced garlic
1 tsp turmeric powder
salt and enough water.

Simmer till soft and tender. Temper/fry 5 sliced shallots
1 tsp fennel seeds and
2 sprigs sliced coriander leaves in 1 1/2 tbsp ghee or oil.

Combine into gourd mixture.
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Green brinjal parathal/stir fried. To make:
simmer about 13 small green brinjals to soften.
Remove, cool down and sliced/cubed.
Add in a bowl with
1 tsp plain chilli powder,
1 tsp turmeric powder,
1 tsp cumin seeds,
5 sliced shallots,
3 sprigs curry leaves and
salt to taste.
Gently mix together.

Heat 2 tbsp of oil, add brinjal mixture, stir over high heat for a couple of minutes and off the heat.
Combine in a little lime juice.
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Spring onion potato sambal (vegetarian)

To make
For the sambal paste
6 red chillies
1 tomato
1/2 handful spring onion (only the white part)
**blend/pulse these ingredients with some water

Other ingredients
4 potatoes - boil till tender, cool down and slice
Palm sugar - per taste
6 shallots - slice
Some sliced spring onion
Oil and salt

Method
Heat enough oil.
Fry potatoes, remove and keep aside
Leave about 5 tbsp of oil in the same wok.
Add sambal paste and shallots.
Fry till aromatic and oil splits
Season with palm sugar and salt.
Note - pour some water for more gravy (optional).
Add potatoes, stir, off the heat and combine in some spring onion.
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Kerala style drumstick aviyal
To make
add sliced drumsticks (7 sticks, remove string and sliced to 1 inch)
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
1 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and enough water for gravy.
Simmer to soften sticks.
Add 1/4 cup lightly pounded fresh coconut.
Season with salt.
Stir.
Off the heat

Temper
1 tsp mustards seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 sliced red chilli
1 sliced green chilli
2 sprigs curry leaves
in 2 tbsp ghee or oil.
Tip into gravy and combine in 1/4 cup whisked yoghurt.

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French beans stir fried with coriander seeds.
To make: remove strings and slice beans (1 packet) to 1/2 or 3/4 inch length.
Add in bowl with 1 tsp ginger paste, 1 tsp garlic paste, 1 tsp coriander seeds, 1 tsp turmeric powder and 2 sprigs curry leaves. Keep aside.

Heat 2 tbsp of oil, tip beans inside, season with salt and stir fry over high heat.
Dish out.
Sprinkle some water while frying to further soften the beans.
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Cumin saffron rice.
Ingredients:
2 cups rice (rinsed)
1 1/2 tbsp ghee
1/2 tsp saffron strands (alternatively 1 tsp turmeric powder)
salt.

Heat ghee in rice cooker, fry cumin seeds for 2 to 3 mins, add rice, stir, pour 3 cups of water, saffron, season with salt and stir. Let it cook and fluff up.
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Kerala puli-inji (ginger chilli spicy condiment).
To make
add 5 finely chopped green chillies,
1 handful of finely chopped ginger (without skin),
1 tsp fenugreek/halba seeds,
1 tsp turmeric powder,
1 1/2 tsp plain chilli powder,
2 tbsp crushed palm sugar,
1 cup tamarind juice,
3 sprigs of curry leaves and
salt in a pan.

Simmer and cook till everything comes together for a thick mixture.
Remove from heat and combine in 2 tbsp gingerly oil and a pinch of asafotieda powder.
Note: taste or adjust ingredients as per taste.
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Pullichai keerai/sour leaf chutney. To make:
pluck leaves from stem (about 1 bunch), rinse and simmer with some water to soften.
Drain off the extra water.
Add 2 sliced red chillies, 4 smashed garlic, 4 smashed shallots and salt.

Simmer and lightly mash.
Stir, pour into 1/2 tbsp gingerly oil and dish out.
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Butter Garlic Rice (rice cooker cooking)

Washed rice, smashed garlic, a little butter (optional) and some salt in the rice cooker to cook and fluff up.
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Lemongrass tofu stir fried.
Ingredients
1 packet brown flat tofu - slice into pieces
2 lemongrass - slice thinly
7 shallots - slice thinly
1 green chilli - slice thinly
Some spring onion - slice thinly
Salt and lime juice to taste
3 tbsp of oil

To make
Sauté lemongrass, shallots and lemongrass in heated oil.
Add tofu and salt.
Stir and cook over high heat to lightly brown tofu on both sides.
Add spring onion and lime juice.
Stir in and dish out.
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