Dhal-Squash-Coconut Milk Curry

Ingredients:

1. Oil - 3 tbsp
2. Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
3. Bay leaf - 1
4. Red Onion chopped - 1
5. Curry leaves - 1 sprig
6. Ginger-Garlic Paste - 1/4 tsp
7. Salt - to taste
8. Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
9. Coriander-Cumin powder - 1 tbsp
10. Red Chilly powder - 2 tsp
11. Garam Masala powder - 4 tsp
12. Bisibela bath powder - 3 tsp
13. Tomato chopped - 2
14. Yellow squash chopped - 2
15. Green gram dhal cooked - 1/4 cup
16. Coconut milk - 1 cup
17. Ajinomoto - 1 pinch
18. Cilantro - to garnish

Method:

1. Wash and soak green gram dhal in plenty of water overnight and cook it and keep aside.
2. In a thick wide pan heat oil, add mustard seeds - wait until it crackles.
3. Then add bay leaf, chopped red onion - fry this.
4. Reduce heat - add ginger-garlic paste, salt, turmeric powder, coriander-cumin powder, red chilly powder, garam masala powder and bisibela bath powder and fry it on low flame until the oil oozes out.
5. Now add chopped tomato - cook it.
6. Add chopped yellow squash - cook it with lid closed.
7. If needed at this point add some water.
8. Now add cooked green gram dhal, coconut milk, Ajinomoto.
9. At this point add salt and water if needed.
10. Cook it once again on medium flame until it boils and bubbles up.
11. Switch off heat and garnish with cilantro.

Coconut-milk Murukku

Ingredients:

1. Rice flour - 1 cup
2. Roasted channa dhal powder - 1/4 cup
3. Salt - to taste
4. Ghee - 3 tbsp
5. Coconut milk - 1/2 cup
6. Water - to knead all these
7. oil - to fry

Method:

1. Sieve rice flour.
2. Powder and sieve roasted channa dhal.
3. To this add salt, ghee and coconut milk and mix well.
4. Then add water and knead it like chapathi dough.
5. Make murukku directly in hot oil.
6. I used star shaped murukku.

Note:

This murukku takes long time to fry since it has coconut milk in it, but it is very crunchy and tastes very good.

Yellow Squash-Mint-Coconut Milk Curry

Ingredients:

Oil - 3 Tbsp

Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Mint leaves - 7

Onion - 1

Ginger-Garlic paste - 1 Tbsp

Salt - to taste

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Coriander-Cumin powder - 1 Tbsp

Red Chilly powder - 1 Tbsp

Garam Masala powder - 1 Tbsp

Tomatoes - 3

Yellow squash - 4

Coconut Milk - 3 ladle full

Cilantro - to garnish

Method:

1. Heat oil in a wide pan.
2. Splutter mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
3. Brown fry curry leaves, mint leaves and onion.
4. Add ginger-garlic paste, salt, turmeric powder, coriander-cumin powder, red chilly powder and garam masala powder and fry for a minute until oil oozes out.
5. Immediately add tomatoes and cook.
6. Then add yellow squash and cook with closed lid until it is done.
7. Now add coconut milk and cook again for a boil.
8. At last garnish with cilantro.