So here is to her and her special day. Happy B'day Amma 🙂
Kadalai Kuzhambu Recipe (With Coconut Milk)
Serves 2-3
Ingredients:
Chickpeas / Kabuli Chana - ½ cup
Thick coconut milk - ¾ cup
Tamarind - one marble sized ball (or 2tbsp if you are using paste)
Rasam Powder - 1 tbsp
if using your own sambar powder, use ½ teaspoon and ½ teaspoon red chilli powder.
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Hing/Asafoetida/Kayam - ½ tsp
Salt - to taste
Oil and mustard seeds - for tempering
How to make Kadalai Kuzhambu:
1. Soak the chickpeas overnight in 3 cups water. Pressure cook and keep aside. Or, just use canned chickpeas.
2. Use ½ cup warm water and blend the tamarind with your hand to extract the juice. If using paste, dilute it in ½ cup water.
3. Heat a pan and bring the tamarind water to boil. Add turmeric powder, hing, salt and the sambar powder to this. Sim and let it boil for 10 minutes.
4. Add the cooked chickpeas and boil for another 10 mins.
5. Remove from fire, add coconut milk and mix well. Adjust salt.
6. Heat some oil in a small saucepan and temper some mustard seeds. While hot, pour on the above gravy and mix well. You can even use some curry leaves at this stage.
Nags
Oh.. I thought parents became grandparents too?
On a serious note, I think a small attitude change on both sides can go a long way. After all, parents-in-law are parents too. Right? You will understand better if you have a brother and your husband has a sister.
Nags
Rajani - hahaha! never thought of it that way! naah, dont have anything to worry about 😀
Suma
this is a different chick pea recipe...quite tempting to try it..must do it when i'm the only one for dinner...(the rest don't like coconut :()
and does that tshirt say orkut? COOL!!! 🙂
RAKS KITCHEN
Belated wishes to ur MIL....Your photography is great,I thought you must be having a DSLR camera seeing ur photography!!!
Richa
that's such a pretty pic of urs 🙂 the dish looks so good, gotta' try it!
Mansi
great pic and great curry! I use coconut milk in my chickpeas too:)
Nags
Thank you so much for the lovely wishes guys. Amma was very surprised and pleased with the gift with a difference 🙂
Yes, that is an Orkut tee I am wearing. Orkut was voted the MTV Teen Icon of 2007 and I was in Google Hyderabad at the time so we all got one 🙂
Priyanka
That was sweet of you....the chickpeas in coconut curry is a new variation for me...the pics look fabulous
Laavanya
What a sweet DIL you are... That kadala kuzhambu looks smashing - pretty picture.
Jayashree
What a lovely tribute to your MIL. Happy birthday to her...