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Kerala Kadala Kurry

This is a very simple and tasty recipe. Most keralites make this curry similar way and enjoy it with puttu for breakfast or sometimes dinner.

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Ingredients:

Black Kadala – 1 cup
Shallots finely chopped – 1
Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tspn
Salt – to taste
Oil,Curry leaves
Roast and make a fine paste of:

Coriander powder – 1 ½ tspn
Fennel Seeds – 1/4 tspn
Dry red chilies – 3 to 4
Cinnamon – very small piece
Cloves -2
Coconut(grated) – 4 to 5 tspns
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Unniappam/Kuzhiyappam

A sweet made with rice flour,cream of wheat, banana and molasses/jaggery, fried in appakkara (unniappam chatti) just for this purpose.

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Ingredients

Rice flour – 1 Cup

Sooji /rava /semolina -1 cup

Grated Coconut – 1/2 cup

Molasis (jaggery) syrup -1 cup

Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp

Banana (Palayankodan) – 1 cup chopped

Coconut oil/cooking oil/ghee as required

Coconut pieces (optional) fried in ghee- 1/4 cup

Dried ginger – a pinch

Cumin – a pinch

Baking  soda- a pinch

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