Saturday, January 24, 2009

Nellikkai Oorugai

Set 1:
1/2 KG of nellikkai. There should be about 20 of them.

Set 2:
5 gms of Perungayam, Kadugu, Milagai kaara podi ( about 4 spoons), Salt - 3 spoons.

Set 3:

Vendhayam - about 2 spoons.

Step 1:

Boil nellikkai in water until it comes soft enough to remove the seed. Don't cook it very soft. Remove the seed from the middle and keep it separate.

Step 2:

Put vaanali. Put vendhayam and roast it for 2 mins. Keep it separate.

Step 3:

Now pour about 50 ml of Nalla Ennai. Heat it for about a min. Now put Perungaayam and fry it. Take it out and keep it with roasted perungaayam.

Step 4:

Put kadugu. Allow it to explode. Once it completes, put the Nellikkai prepared in step 1. Mix it. Add salt and Milagai podi. mix it. Keep mixing. Add oil and keep mixing. Keep mixing for about 3 mins. Once the podi, salt, Oil mixes evenly and Nellikkai also becomes soft.

Step 5:

Put roasted vendhayam and Perungaayam into mixie. and grind it to powder.

Step 6:

Add the perungaayam/vendhayam mix to vaanali. Mix it well. After 2/3 mts., switch off the stove. Allow the mix to be in vaanali for about 10 minutes so that it cools down.

Step 7:

Transfer the contents to some other container for storage.

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