SuvaiArusuvai - Veg Recipes of India

Brinjal Contest Entry  Ingredients 750g baby brinjals (green) 200ml refined oil 1 tbsp sesame oil (gingely oil) 2 tbsp cashewnut 2 tbsp poppy seeds 4 tbsp coconut, grated 4 red chillies, whole 1 tbsp peanuts, roasted 1 tbsp curry leaves 2 onions, chopped 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste 2 tomatoes, chopped Salt to taste 1 tsp turmeric powder 2 tsp red chilli powder 1 tsp coriander powder 1 tsp garam masala powder 3/4 cup tamarind pulp 2 tbsp fresh coriander leaves, chopped Method: Take the baby brinjals and slit it from the center. Fry it in hot oil and keep it aside. Roast the sesame seeds, cashew nut, poppy seeds, coconut, whole red chilli and make a fine paste. Crush the peanut and keep it aside. In a pan heat some oil, add curry leaves, chopped onion and fry till onion gets golden colour.  Add ginger garlic paste and saute for another 2 minutes. Add tomatoes and cook for some more time. Once it starts leaving out oil, add the powder spices and the paste, and

Brinjal contest entry posted by Sumangalee Dhandapani Ingredients Brinjal 2 medium sized Scraped coconut 1/2 a cup Green chillies 4 or 5 (can add more if you want) Garlic cloves 3 Tamarind half a lemon size Corriander leaves Salt for taste For seasoning 1 teaspoon oil  1/2 a teaspoon mustard seeds 1/2 a teaspoon urad dhal Method Apply oil on the brinjals and grill it or hold it on flame or fire to cook Leave the brinjals to cool. When they become cool, remove the burnt skin and take the pulp Grind the coconut, green chillies, garlic cloves, tamarind, corriander leaves and salt into a smooth paste Add the brinjal pulp and run the mixer once Season it and serve it with iddly or dosas

Brinjal Contest entry by  Bhooma Sudhagar Ingredients: Brinjal – 5-6 pcs (medium size-finely diced) Onion – 2 Tomato – 1 Tamarind extract - one cup (take a lemon size tamarind extract) thuvar Dhal – cooked and smashed Turmeric powder and salt as required. Roast and coarse grind:- Coriander seeds – 3 tsp Urad dhal – 1 tsp Channa dhal – 1 tsp Red chillies – 4 (round chillies) For seasoning:- Musturd seeds - ½ tsp Curry leaves – 1 string. How to make :- Heat the kadai, pour 2 spoons of oil and add mustard seeds and curry leaves. When the mustard splutters, add onions and allow to saute till soft. Now add the tomatoes and mix well. Tap in a pinch of turmeric and cook till the tomato-onion mixture is mushy. Now add the diced brinjals and mix well. Then add the tamarind extract. Allow around 5-8mints for the brinjals also to cook in to the mixture and get soft. When its a little thick add the smashed thuvar dhal, add salt and pour some more water depending on what you want the final

Welcome Drink: Masala Buttermilk, Watermelon Juice, Orange Juice Starters: Hara Bhara Kabab, Crispy Baby Corn, Green Salad, Thayir Vadai, Masala Pappad. Soup: Tom Yum Soup, Curry Leaves Soup Main Dish Mini Idlys/Dosas, Poori (For Kids), Plain Naan, Butter Naan, Onion/Garlic Kulcha, Bisibelabath, Veg/Peas Pulav, Curd Rice.  Side Dish Sambar/Chutney (Coconut, Coriander/Tomato), Vegetable Manchurian, Channa Masala, Dal Makhani, Onion/Cucumber Raitas, Roated pappad.  Desserts: Pineapple Kesari, Fruit Salad/ Gulab Jamum with Vannila Ice cream, Rasamalai

Ingrdients: Wheat Rava- 1cup Ghee 4 tablespoon salt to taste cashew 5 nos roasted in ghee puliyogaray mix Method:  Dry roast wheat rava flour.add salt to taste with 1 1/2 cup of water and cook in medium heat.stir well.add puliyogaray mix as needed (mtr ready made paste) mix well.add cahew raosted before with coriander garnish. takes 25 minutes for preparation.

Welcome Drink For Children Orange Juice For adults Fruit punch Soups For Children Creamy Tomato Soup For adults Veg.clear soup Starters Veg.rolls, paneer tikka, veg.kababs, dholka and samosas Main Menu  Veg.Parantha, Malai Koftha, masal dosai, chutney, sambhar, Bisibele Huli Anna, Baby potato Fry, Onion Raitha, Russian Salad, Brinji, Gobi Manchurian dry, Semiya Bahalabath, chips, pappad, ginger pickle and avakkai for children Veg.noodles, fingerchips, bhelpuri, poori, potato masala, curd rice and chips. Dessert Fried ice cream, Fruit salad, gulab jamoon, carrot halwa. 2 types of ice creams - vanilla and butter scotch - separate or with Fruit salad, gulab jamoon, carrot halwa. Sweet paan for children Regular paan for adults

Every ingredient can be used to make a different kind of dish. There are lots of different cuisines in India and each different state have various kind of cooking the same kind of dish and each of us too have a different method of cooking a particular dish. These contests are to share the different types of dishes that we could make with one or two particular ingredient.  Here are the ingredients for the first contest - Wheat/Wheat flour and Rawa.  You can make either a sweet dish or a spicy dish or a snack or any other dish. Ensure you follow the contest rules  .  The last date to post your entries is Feb 20th.