Baby corn Capsicum curry...

             I tried this curry recently when I was feeling bored at home.I modified the procedure given in microwave recipe book with my imagination. It is a milk based curry.It tastes a bit sweet,creamy and spicy.
Things needed are:

Capsicums                            2 No.s

Baby corn                             200 gm

Onions                                  2 No.s

Chopped garlic                      2 tsp

Milk                                      1 cup

Cashew nuts                            few

Peanuts                                  2 tbsp

Tomato puree                         1 cup

Ginger garlic paste                  1 tbsp

Dhaniya (Coriander seeds)      1 tsp

Turmeric                                 1/2 tsp

Red chilly powder                   2 tsp

Salt

Oil                                          4-6 tbsp

Eggs (optional)

Procedure:

I will explain the procedure with pictures rather than writing each and every step.Cut the vegetables into pieces.

               

First cook the baby corn in a rice cooker for 2 whistles. Then take a pan, heat the oil and fry onions,garlic and capsicum first.Saute till onions turn golden brown.

Now add boiled baby corn, salt, Ginger garlic paste and turmeric.Mix well and close the pan with the lid for 5 minutes.

                   

Now add tomato puree, dhaniya powder, red chilly powder and mix well. While this gets cooked, Grind cashewnuts and peanuts with milk. Add this mixture to the curry in the pan.

Let this boil for sometime with stirring in between. Oil separates and gravy becomes thick and creamy.

                          

This curry can be garnished with coriander.To make it rich, I used egg scramble to decorate it. It enhanced the taste.

This curry can be served with hot rice or chapathis. I served this curry to my family with rice.They all liked it very much...!!

Mahabalipuram trip

                  Happy New year 2013...!!!! I went to Mahabalipuram last week with my family and I want to share my experience with my readers... Mahabalipuram is also known as Mamallapuram. It has a great history.It acted as a foriegn trade centre and  as a port in Pallavas(a southindian dyanasty)  period. It has various monuments built between 7th and 9th centuries. Now its one of the popular tourist attractions near Chennai.

                        We had booked a resort for our stay in makemytrip.com. We reached the beach resort (SilverSands) in the evening. It provided us a decent room and vegetarian food tonight. We sat on the shores and enjoyed the early dinner. The next morning we started exploring the place around us.....

   The restaurant where we had breakfast is this..

                 
                  This resort was pretty close to sea. Then we went to beach to play.Though we didn't see the sunrise, but still beach looked beautiful in the morning.It was very clean and scenery was awesome...Apart from beach there are also other activities in the resort.

                     
                    After enjoying in beach and having breakfast, We went on to see other major tourist attractions like arjuna's penace, pancha rathas, shore temple etc.,We first went to Arjuna's penace which was made with single stone rock.It is a beautiful sculpture.It looks like this...

                    There were many mandapas around this Arjuna's penace. They are Krishna Mantapa, Trimurthy Mandapa, Varaha Mandapa etc., We saw a big rock which stood on the hillslope for several thousands of years without rolling down, this is called 'Krishna's butter ball'.

                   Then we started to panchrathas and shore temple. On our way we had some snacks on the road. I observed an intresting thing on roads. There were shops making sculptures based on the order of their customers. Government of TamilNadu is encouraging the sculpture by running a college of arts and sculpture.

                   Panchrathas means five chariots. The imagination behind this sculpture was that pandavas used these chariots in war against kauravas. It was very sunny when we reached this place..There were five similar mantapas. The mantapa was made of one piece stone. One them looked like...

                   Last but not the least we saw was famous Shore temple.It was built by pallavan king, Narasimhavarman-II who lived in 700 A.D.There are two shrines inside the temple (kshatriyasimheswara and rajasimheshwara).

                      After this we went for shopping. Then we went to resort to check out. We had lunch in ECR daabha on our way..I enjoyed a lot and learnt many things. I am proud of my country which has a very rich and civilized history.