Parippum Kaayayum Curry (Dal Plantain Curry) & Awards

Nowadays we are quite busy as we have to move to another house. Need to pack up all our items. So I was not in a mood to update the blog. I had a left over plaintain, and I was thinking what to prepare with 1 plaintain and idea sparked from my hubby. Without any thoughts, prepared this and thought of updating my blog.

Ingredients:
Plantain - 1 (Chopped into medium pieces)
Toor dal - 1/2 cup
Shallots - 5 no.s (chopped into half)
Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
Cumin seeds - 1/4 t spoon
Turmeric powder - 1/4 t spoon
Red chilly powder - 1/4 t spoon
Dried Red chillies - 4 no.s
Garlic - 2no.s ( chopped into fine pieces)
Curry Leaves - few
Salt - to taste
Mustard seeds - 1/2 t spoon
Cooking oil - 1 table spoon


Preparation:

1. Soak dal for 30mins.
2. Cook dal & plaintain pieces in a pressure cooker with 1 cup of water,turmeric powder, chilly powder, salt & cook for 1 to 2 whistle.
3. Grind coconut with cumin seeds and make a paste.
4. Add the coconut paste to the cooked dal,3/4 cup water & then cook over low flame for about 3 minutes.
5. Heat a pan and add oil. Splutter Mustard seeds, dried red chillies, garlic, shallots, curry leaves. Transfer these contents to the curry.
6. A good combo with white rice & fish fry.

Here comes the Awards. I apologise to all my blogger friends as i couldn't comment to their recent posts and couldn't publish the awards too. Sorry for the delay friends.
Awards from Beena & Jagruthi

Thank you so much dearies. 

Now, it's not enough just to grab this award, there are conditions and obligations in receiving it:
Requirements:-
I must thank the person who gave me the award and list their blog and link it
I must list 10 honest things about myself
I must put a copy of Honest Scrap logo on my blog
I must select atleast 7 other worthy bloggers and list their links
I must notify the bloggers of the award and hopefully they will follow the above three requirements also.

Here comes the award from Ruchi bedhangal & Deepa

Thank you so much dear. To know more about me please visit here.

I would like to share these 2 awards with
Cicily
Tina
Fathima
Vineetha
Sangi
Rekha
Sushma

Njoy!!!!!!!

Dal Tomato Curry

Ingredients:
Toor Dal - 1cup
Tomato   - 2no.s/3no.s
Onion - 1no.(medium)
Ginger - 1small cut.
Garlic - 2 no.s from 1 pod.
Green chilly - 2no.s
Curry leaves - 1 strip
Turmeric powder - 1/4 t spoon
Red chilly Powder - 1 t spoon
Salt  - to taste
Ghee - 1 t spoon
Cooking oil - 1 1/2 table spoon.

Preparation:

1. Soak toor dal for about 1/2 hour. 
2. Slice Onion lengthwise, green chilly into half, slice tomatoes into small pieces.Chop garlic and ginger into minute pieces.Keep it aside.
3. Add the soaked toor dal in a pressure cooker. Into it Pour 3 cups of water,1/4 t spoon of turmeric,1 tspoon of red chilly powder, salt to taste, half of sliced onions, sliced green chilly.Cook toor dal for 3 whistles. Remove the lid only when the steam is gone completely.
4. Meanwhile heat a pan with 1 cooking oil and add ginger, garlic, saute it for a minute.Add sliced Tomatoes, Saute it very well until the tomatoes becomes soft.
5. Once the tomatoes are ready add these contents to the cooked dal on very low flame.Stir it well.
6. Heat a pan add 1 t spoon of ghee, Add the other half of onions and saute it till it turns brown.
7. Transfer the cooked dal to a serving dish and garnish with sauted onions & curry leaves.
8. Now its ready to serve .A very good combination with white rice, chappathi, Rotis.