SuvaiArusuvai - Veg Recipes of India

Ingredients: Ginger - 100 gms Method: Grind chopped ginger in a blender, if it is not a fine paste then add 1 or 2 spoons of water and blend again. 

Ingredients: Ginger - 2 inch piece (50 gms) Tomato - 6 nos (preferably the sour ones) Ghee - 2 tbsp Curry leaves - 1/2 cup Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup Asafodeita - 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Green chilly - 1 no Rasam Powder - 1/2 tbsp Salt to taste Method: Grind the tomatoes along with curry leaves, coriander leaves, asafodeita, rasam powder and salt. Peel and mash the ginger coarsely and add it to the ground paste. Add 2 cups of water and bring it to a boil. When the bubble starts appearing on top, remove from flame. In a seasoning laddle add ghee, and when hot add mustard seeds and when it splutters add green chilly slit into two. Saute for a few seconds and add it to the rasam. Though this can be had with rice, it is good to have as a soup too.

Ingredients: Ginger - 100 gms Grated coconut - 1/2 cup Green chillies - 2 nos Curry leaves - a few Mustard seeds - 1 tsp Red Chillies - 2 Butter milk - 1 cup Asafodeita - 1 pinch Oil - 1 tsp Salt to taste Method: Grind ginger, grated coconut, curry leaves to a fine paste. Add buttermilk to it and mix well. In a seasoning pan heat oil and add mustard seeds, when they splutter add red chillies and asafodeita. Add the seasoning to the buttermilk mixture. Makes a great side dish for idly, dosa and also ghee rice.

Ingredients: Water Melon - Small size 1 Ginger Juice - 1 tbsp Sugar - 2 tbsp Method: Scoop out the pulp from water melon. Deseed it and grind it along with ginger juice and sugar. Serve it with ice cubes. I had it recently in Annalakshmi restaurant. It tasted heaven. The taste was different.

Ingredients: Ginger - 1 inch piece Sugar Syrup - 1 tbsp Honey - 1 tbsp Salt one pinch Chilled water - 1 cup Method: Cut ginger into small pieces and grind it with 1/4 cup of water. Drain it through a sieve. Take 1 tbsp of ginger juice and mix it with sugar syrup, honey and salt. Add the chilled water. This is a great cooler. The above quantity is for one glass of the drink. Can increase the quantity in the same proportion for more glasses.

Ginger, a common ingredient that is used in our day to day cooking have lots of health benefits and when used regularly, it helps in releiving indigestion, diarrhea, stomach cramps as it aids in digestion. It have a good amount of vitamins and minerals that will help Pregnant Women. It also helps in curing Nausea during pregnancy. If one have congested nose, sore throat or cold and cough ginger kashayam is highly helpful. It also helps in controlling Asthma and Wheezing. Ginger have the property to reduce and releive pain and inflamation. It helps in stinulating blood circulation, cleaning the bowels and kidneys and removing toxins from the body. Ginger helps in nourishing the skin.

Ingredients: Garlic pods - 100gms (peeled) Ginger - 100gms (peeled and finely chopped) Salt - 1 tsp Oil - 1 tbsp Method: In a flat bottom pan heat oil and add garlic and ginger fry for 2 to 3 mins. Cover and remove from flame. Let it cool. In a grinder add all the ingredients along with salt and grind it to a fine paste. Store in airtight container in fridge. This can be used for almost a month as it is fried. If it is not fried, it have to be used within a week.  Note: Fried or not fried, never use water to grind it.

This is one paste, which is very useful, while making Pulavs, fried rice, Khurmas etc. Most of the time, we grind it when we do these items or use the ready made pastes that is available in the market. While preparing such dishes only a little of the paste required. For bachelors, office goers and students, this paste is of great help, not only while making the above said items, but this can be used also in Lemon Rasam, or to make Poondu Rasam. Ingredients Garlic - 100 gms Ginger - 100 gms Salt - 1 tbsp Oil - 1 tsp Method Peel garlic, peel and wash ginger. Grind both of them together to a fine paste along with salt. In a pan add oil and add this paste, when the oil separates, remove from flame, let it cool and store in a dry jar and refrigerate. You can also fry ginger and garlic in oil before grinding. Do not add water while grinding. You can use the same method to make ginger paste or garlic paste separately.

Ingredients: Grated Coconut - 1 Cup Green Chillies - 6 nos Red Chillies - 4 to 5 nos Ginger - a medium sized piece (50 gms) Small Onions - 6 nos Tomatoes - 2 Garlic - 1 Pod Gingely Oil - 1 Tbspn Hing/ Asafodeita - a pinch Method: In gingely oil, fry onions, tomatoes and garlic. Fry the red chillies and remove the pan from fire and add the coconuts to the pan. Toss the coconut around for a min or two and remove from the pan. Let them cool and grind all the ingredients into a fine paste.

Ingredients: Grated coconut - 1 Cup Green Chillies - 6 nos Red Chillies - 6 nos Ginger - (50 gm) a medium sized piece Thick tamrind paste Salt - according to Taste Method: Grind the coconut, tamrind and red chillies separately. Grind green chillies, ginger and salt. Now add the coconut paste and grind again to a fine paste. Season it with mustard, broken urad dal and curry leaves.