Arusuvai Friendship Chain: Season 2 and a mystery ingredient

Arusuvai Friendship Chain is about sending along a surprise ingredient as a gift to your friends for them to prepare something tasty with it, share the recipe, and pass on other surprise ingredients to more people. Arusuvai means six tastes (aru=six, suvai=taste) in Tamizh and is used to refer for Tasty preparation with six tastes – inippu/ thithippu (sweet), orappu/ karam (hot), kassappu (bitter) , pulippu (sour), uppu(salt), tuvarpu (tastes that one gets in raw leaves).

When you receive a package with a “surprise ingredient” as a part of Arusuvai here are the basic rules you need to follow:

1. Prepare something tasty with it and post recipe with a picture if you are a blogger with the logo, a link to person who passed it to you and to this post if you like for reference.
2. If you don’t blog, do share the recipe with the friend who gave it to you or post it as a guest post on someone you know who blogs.
3. Pass on a “surprise ingredient” to two or more friends, one of whom must preferably blog. We all want to have some fun together right?

All people in India who blog or have blogged or those who’d like to be a part of this chain to show themselves up – we’ll ensure you get to be part of the fun.

The Arusuvai network has already forged many friendships. This network was initiated by Srivalli, Bharathy and Lathamma. This network is on its second season and hosted by a very friendly and warm person SAYANTANI. Its a pleasure interacting with her. Thank you for linking us up.

Shalini send me very nice ingredient to me in little nice pink color jar. She wrote very heart touching latter to me also with great gift. She gifted me the recipe book of rice …She send these entire on Valentine’s Day this is my Valentine’s Gift from you dear. Thank you very much.

Actually I like to make different type of rice and she gifted such a great recipe book….

Thank you dear sending all these things.. When I see your recipe book and your pink color jar I have little smile on my face which I never explain what I feel it….

This is my entry to the Arusuvai friendship chain…

I made two items from Poppy seeds one is Spicy Potato curry and one is sweet Poppy seeds Seero.

Spicy and yummy Potato carrot curry with Poppy Seeds....

Poppy seeds Halwa...sweet dish...

Potato Curry – Potato with Poppy seeds (Khas-Khas)

Ingredients:

2 medium size Poatoes

1 big size carrot

3 tbsp Khas-Khas (Poppy seeds)

3 fresh green chillies

3 tbsp oil

Salt and lemon to taste

Method:

Step 1: Sock the Poppy seeds (Khas-Khas) in a little water for an hour.

Step 2: Cut the green chillies in small pices.

Step 3: Remove the extra water from Poppy seeds.Grind the green chillies with sock poppy seeds in mixer. I have used the traditional way of making the paste because my grinder jar is not working condition. Use this type of steel vessel and then crush with heavy handle. Keep aside.

Step 4: Peel and cut the potatoes and carrot into medium size.

Step 5: Heat the 3 tbsp oil in pan.

Step 6: Add half of the potatoes and fry in low flame.

Step 7: Fry until it becomes slightly change in color.

Step 8: Remove from the pan and add remaining potatoes and carrot together.

Step 9: When they cook and become soft and color is change then also remove from the oil.

Step 10: Put all dry ingredient in another plat.

Step 11: Remove the one tbsp oil from pan then add crush poppy seeds and green chillies paste in it on low flame. Beware of spluttering (you can immediately close the pan with a lid).

Step 12: Stirring in low flame until all water part is burn and it become very light chnge in color of poppy seeds.

Step 13: Then add fry potatoes and carrot in it.

Step 14: Add salt as par taste.

Step 15: Turn off the flame after stirring for 5 minutes when nice aroma of poppy seeds with fry potatoes fills your kitchen.

Step 16: Turn off the flame and last add the lemon juice for great taste of curry.

Step 17: Serve Hot with Roti or Paratha with Riyata.

Benefits -
1. Poppy seeds are rich in linoleic acid (an important omega-6 fatty acid), which protects the heart against heart attacks.
2. Poppy seed oil is also rich in oleic acid, which is believed to help prevent breast cancer.
3. It contains 45 to 50% of unsaturated essential fatty acids, which make it a good source of nutrition and health food.
4. Consuming half teaspoon of poppy seeds everyday is a home-remedy for the symptoms of asthma and whooping cough.
5. A paste made from the seeds can be used to get relief from swellings and joint pains.
6. Finely ground powder made from poppy seeds can also be consumed to treat insomnia and diarrhea.
7. It gives essential enzymes and fatty acids to body as a form of nutrition.
8. The oil derived from poppy seeds is used in various cosmetic like for the head and skin as balms and conditioners. Many pharmaceutical companies use poppy seed oil in the manufacture of various drugs and medications.
So now I will teach you how to make a quick recipe with poppy seeds using potatoes.

Next post for Poppy seeds Halwa…that is Khas-Khas sero...

Chole with Paneer and bhature

For the dry masala:
1 tbsp cumin seeds (Jeera)
1 tbsp coriander seeds
5-6 cloves
3-4 small stick of cinnamon
2 dry red chilli
¼ tbsp oil

For the dry masala:
Step 1: Take a small vessel and heat ¼ tbsp oil. Add all ingredients for dry masala.
Step 2: Sauté on medium flam for 2 minutes so its color is slightly change in brown.
Step 3: Turn off the flame and cool it. Grind this entire ingredient in mixer.

For the chole with paneer:
1 cup chick peas (Kabuli chana), soaked overnight
2 medium size onions
3 medium size tomatos
150 gm paneer
½ tbsp cumin seeds (jeera)
2 teaspoons amchur (dry mango powder)
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder (haldi)
3-4 piece of garlic
2 tbsp red chilli powder
3 tbsp oil
Salt to taste.
For Chole with paneer:
Step 1: Peel and cut the onion. Cut the tomatoes in to big size and grind the onion, garlic with tomato into mixer. (also add ginger if you like that test)Step 2: Pressure cook the chick peas with 1½ cup water with slat for 3 whistles until they are soft . Drain the extra water and keep aside.
Step 3: Heat the oil in pan, add the cumin seeds. When the seeds crackles, add the tomato-onion gravy.Step 4: Sauté in medium flame for 5 minutes and add the turmeric and red chilli power in it.

Step 5: Add the cook chick peas and I cup water and mix well. Add the dry masala powder, amchur powder and salt and sauté for another 10 minutes.

Step 6: Add the paneer cubs and simmer for 5 minutes. Trun off the flame.

Step 7: Place it in serving bowl and decorate with onion and lemon round slices.

For the bhature :
1 cup plain flour (maida)
½ cup curd
3 tbsp oil
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying
Water for making dough if needed
For the bhature:
Step 1: Combine the flour, salt and oil and mix together.
Step 2: Add ½ cup fresh curd and water if necessary. Knead the dough very well till it is smooth.

Step 3: Cover with a wet muslin cloth otherwise any of the vessel and rest the dough for 2 hours.
Step 4: Divide the dough into small parts and roll out into circles of 125mm (5”) diameter.
Step 5: Deep fry in hot oil till the bhature puff up and both sides are golden brown.

Step 6: Serve hot with the chole-paneer.
Make your Sunday dinner special for someone special with mango ras……

Peas-Carrot Capsicum curry with onion tomato gravy

Ingredients for curry:
1 cup fresh green peas
½ cup peel and long cut carrot
½ cup cut pieces of capsicum
1\4 tbas turmeric powder (haldi)
1 tbsp red chilli powder (mirch powder)
1\2 tbsp gram masala
1\2 tbsp mustard seeds (rai)
1 tbsp cumin seeds (jeera)
¼ tbsp asafetida powder
3 tbsp oil
Sugar optional
Salt to taste

Ingredients for gravy:
3 medium size tomatoes
2 medium size onions
Small piece of ginger
8-9 pieces of garlic

* Peel the onion and ginger and cut into medium size pieces.
* Cut tomatoes and remove the skin of garlic and place all this into mixer of bowl.

* Grind it and make gravy. Add little water if required.

Method of making curry:
Step 1: Heat the oil into cooker and add mustards seeds.

Step 2: When the seeds crackle, add the cumin seeds, and asafetida powder.

Step 3: Add the cut carrot and capsicum pieces in it.

Step 4: Sauté on a medium flame for few seconds.

Step 5: Then add fresh green peas and mix well.

Step 6: Turn the flame law and add the tumeric powder, red chilli powder, sugar (optional) and salt to taste.Step 7: Add the tomato-onion gravy and then add 1\4 cup of water. (approximate)

Step 8: Then add ½ tbsp gram masala and mix well.

Step 9: Pressure cook for only one whistle on medium flame.
Step 10: Wait for 5 minutes and then open the lid of cooker.

Step 11: Place into serving bowl.

Step 12: Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with triangle shape paratha, lemon aachar, papad and curd. :-)

As women, when the missing gets too overwhelming, you can just let your tears fall and still your heart squeezes in pain. You wonder how long it will be before you can be in your lover's arms again... And the smallest thing can just spark off the ache of absence and tears will just spring to your eyes uncontrollably.