Asparagus Soup

Ingredients :

Tender Asparagus - 1 Bunch

Onion - 1

Garlic - 4 pods

Butter - 2 tbsp

Milk - 1 cup

Pepper powder

Salt

Saute the Onion and Garlic in the butter in a pan.

Add asparagus and fry couple of minutes.

Add just enough water, close and cook.

Once cooked, cool and grind to paste.

Mix the paste with milk and bring it to boil.

Add pepper and salt to taste

Avial

Ingredients:-
Beans/Carrots/Shell Peas/Drumstick/Potato - 2 cups
Sour curd - 1 cup
Coconut - 1/2 cup
Green Chilli - 5
Cumin - 1 sp
Curry Leaves - 1 string
Coconut Oil - 1 sp
Rice flour/Corn Flour - 1/2 Tbsp
Salt
Turmeric - A pinch

-Grind together coconut,chilli,cumin to a paste adding just enough water.
-Cut the vegetables to 2" to 3" long and cook it adding just enough water adding salt when the vegetables are half cooked.
-Once cooked, add the ground paste,turmeric.Cook
-Finally add curd, cook few minutes for the taste to blend well.
-If avial is too watery, add 1/2 tspn of rice flour or corn flour mixed in little cold water for thickening.
-Switch off. temper curry leaves in 1 sp coconut oil and add.
-Serve hot with rice. Also goes well with Adai, roti's.
(The avial should not be cooked too long after adding curd, as it might result in curdling)

Beans Paruppusili

Ingredients:
Cut Beans - 2 cups
Salt

To soak for 1 hr and grind:
Gram Dal/Channa Dal - 1 Tbsp
Tur Dal - 1 Tbsp
Red chilli - 3-4
Hing - 1 sp

Pressure cook beans for one whistle/or till just soft.
Soak for 1 hr and grind to coarse powder, the ingredients given above.
Boil/Pressure Cook this coarse powder for 1 whistle. They tend to form lumps once cooked, add little oil to your hand and sieve them separate.
In a tava, add some oil, saute the paruppusili, add cooked beans and combine.
Cook for few minutes till they blend well. Add salt.

--If oil is generously added while sauting the paruppusili, it becomes crisp and this adds great taste to the dish.

Masala Corn

A quick tasty snack..

Ingredients:
American Sweet Corn Kernels - 1 cup
Red Chilli powder - 1 sp
Salt
Chat Masala (opt)
Butter - 1 sp

Mix butter to the corn. MW the corn adding redchilli powder, chat masala and salt for couple of minutes.