Velan's Cuisine Extraordinaire

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Naan samaichatha naaney nalla irruku-nu solla koochama irruku ... I feel very shy you know.

Had Coconut Milk Rice and Tauhu Sambal for dinner. It was splendid.

This is the 1st time I am trying a dish like this, its kind of 'Indo-Franco-Malay' food.

Did some modifications to NOV's receipes to suit my habits (hope he won't mind it) :

Coconut Milk Rice (it had an extrodinary taste)

1/ 1 measure Basmathi Rice soaked in water for 15 mins.
2/ For 1 measure water, I diluted 2 tbs of Coconut purée.
3/ Rinsed and dropped the rice in the cooker-vessel which I coated with ghee initially.
4/ Added 2 measure of prepared (see point 2) Coconut milk.
5/ Heated pan with ghee, added cinnamon, bay leaf, 5 cloves, 3 cadamon pealed and only seeds, finally cashew nuts.
6/ Added it to the rice (don't stir), cooked it until the timmer ran out.

Tauhu sambal (this is a "wow" dish)

Just one modification : I fried the onions and tomatoes and grinded them to a purée (mashed them using Preethi Robot) seperately. I did that to get a thick sauce. Other than that I followed exactly the rest.

Had it with onion-"rasam podi"-omlet & my favorite Appalams.

Thanks NOV for this wonderful menu, we loved the taste absolutely. Tomorrow Greens Day. Yes, we get Kailan here.