Amma's Vetha Kuzhambu

Soak tamarind.  Heat a little Idhayam oil and add hing.  Keep it aside.  Grind 1/4 cup coconut and keep aside.  Burst 1 tsp mustard seeds, 1 1/2 tsp methi seeds, 1 red chili, 3 tsps tuar dal. Grind into a paste. In some regular oil, saute some vethal.  Once done, add coconut paste, tamarind water and salt and if needed some jaggery.  Then add seed paste.  Boil until raw smell goes.  

Mom just added hing to the oil before adding coconut.  

Pudina Chutney

2 handfuls of pudina leaves

One small onion - chopped

One big tomato

1 tbsp grated coconut

Green chilli/red chilli per taste

Hing

½ tsp tamarind paste

A small piece of jaggery

Heat oil.  Burst urad and channa dal.  Add hing. Add onion and
chilli.  Saute. Then add tomato, coconut, tamarind and jaggery
and salt to taste.  Turn off the gas and add pudina leaves.
Once cool, grind.

Note:  Can saute baby potatoes with the pudina chutney

Amma's Tomato Masala

Grind coconut, dhania, red chillies, tamarind (all without roasting).  Add cinnamon and cloves to oil, then saute onions. Then add masala and salt.  Add tomatoes.

Seven Cup Sweet

1 cup besan
1 cup coconut
1 cup milk
1 cup ghee
3 cups sugar

Add everything to a pan and cook.  When it thickens, pour onto a greased plate and cut.

Ragda

1/2 cup dried peas
2 big onions
2 big tomatoes
1 piece ginger
4 cloves garlic (optional)
lime size piece of tamarind
coriander leaves
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp turmeric pwdr
1 tsp chilli pwdr
1 tsp garam masala pwdr
salt to taste

Soak peas overnight.  Pressure cook for 15 mins with a little salt.  Chop tomatoes.  Grind together onion, ginger, garlic, tamarind and coriander leaves.  Heat oil.  Add cumin seeds, then the chilli and turmeric pwdrs.  Add ground paste and saute until raw smell goes.  Add garam masala, boiled peas, a little water and salt to taste.  Garnish with chopped tomatoes.

Malabari Curry

Ingredients

1/2 coconut
1tbsp Dhania
1 1/2 tsp jeera
3 small pieces cinnamon
3 cloves
3 peppercorns
2 cloves garlic
1 red chilli
3 tsp khas khas
1 big onion, chopped

Heat oil. Roast the above.
Add some water and grind into a paste.

1 tomato
Boiled carrots, peas, cauliflower, beans and potato

Fry the ground paste in oil.
Add tomato and sauté for a while.
Add the cooked vegetables, salt and some water and let it boil for a few minutes.
Add cream at the end if desired. 

Groundnut Chutney

Ingredients

Raw peanuts
Onion
Tomatoes
Tamarind
Salt
Cilantro
Red chillies
Coconut
Oil, mustard

1. Steam the peanuts.
2. Sauté the chillies.
2. Grind all ingredients together.
3. Burst mustard and sauté the above mixture.

Beet root Chutney

Ingredients

Beet root
Coconut
Onion
Cilantro
Red chillies
Jaggery
Hing, salt, oil

1. Sauté onions. Add beet root, coconut, and red chillies. Sauté for a bit.
1. Grind together beet root, onion, chillies, coconut, tamarind, jaggery and cilantro.
2. Heat oil and burst mustard. Sauté the above mixture.

Onion Chutney

Ingredients

250  gms onions
5 red chillies
Tamarind ( lemon size)
Jaggery
1/2 tspFenugreek
Salt, oil, mustard

1. Fry fenugreek and chillies in some oil.
2. Grind onions, fenugreek, tamarind.
3. Heat oil. Add mustard.
4. Add the paste above, salt, jaggery and stir for about 15 mts.

Tomato Masiyal

Ingredients
Tur Dal
4 Tomatoes
1 Onion
2 garlic pods
2 Green Chillies
Oil, mustard , cilantro, curry leaves

1. Pressure cook the tur dal.
2. Heat oil, burst mustard. Add urad dal, hing, green chillies and curry leaves. Saute onion and garlic.
3. Add tomatoes and let it cook.
4. Add mashed dal and salt.
5. Add cilantro.

Vatha Kuzhambu

Ingredients

lime size tamarind, soak in water
1 tbsp urad dal
pinch of fenugreek powder
hing
2 tsps chilli powder ( add 1 tsp and if required add more)
1 small drumstick


Heat 3 tbsps oil in a pan and burst mustard seeds. Add urad dal, fenugreek powder, hing, chilli powder. Saute for 1 minute. Add tamarind water, 1 cup water, drum stick,salt, & let it boil till it thickens. Add curry leaves & turn it off.

Amma's Carrot Chutney

Another one of my favorites.

Amma's Tomato Masala

It's been years since I've had Amma's tomato masala. It is so awesome with chapathi and used to be one of my favorite dishes.