മത്തങ്ങാ എരിശ്ശേരി (Pumpkin & red gram )

Ingredients

Mathanga/ Pumpkin- 250 gm

Vanpayar ( Red gram)- 100 gm

Coconut grated- 1 cup

Green chilli- 4 nos

Cumin seeds- 1 pinch

Shallots- 6 pieces

Turmeric powder- 1/2 teaspoon

Sliced coconut- 2 tablespoon

Coconut oil- 1 tablespoon

Mustard seed, Curry leaf, dried chilli & salt

Preparation

Cook vanpayar/ redgram in a pressure cooker with enough water and salt. Cook pumpkin cut into square pieces in a pan with one cup water. Grind together grated coconut, green chilli, cumin seed, shallots and salt in a grinder. Add together cooked vanpayar, pumpkin and the grinded mixture in a pan , mix well. Add enough water to make the curry little loose and boil for 5 minutes. Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, add curry leaf, sliced coconut, dried chilli. Fry it and add to the cooked curry. Mathanga erussery is ready to serve now.



Egg Fried rice ( Egg ഫ്രൈഡ് റൈസ് )



Ingredients

Biriyani rice/ Basmathi rice - 2 cup

Carrot- 2 Nos

Beans- 12 Nos

Onion- 3 Nos

Spring Onion- 3-4 leaf

Nuts- 100 gm

Raisin / Dried Grapes /kismis- 100gm

Ghee- 4 table spoon

Egg-2 Nos

Coriander leaf- 5-6 leaf

Salt

Oil

Preparation

Boil 4 cup water in a big vessel and add rice to it boil. Add some pieces of cinnamon and 2 cardamom and 2 cloves along with rice and boil it until rice cook. Keep on observing to avoid rice get over cooked. Add the juice of one lemon to it before removing from flame to avoid sticking of rice between each other. After remove vessel from flame and drain out excess water. Spread rice in a flat surface over a cloth to avoid over cooking in its own steam.

Fry cashew nuts, kissmis in a frying pan with little ghee.

Fry onion in a pan with oil until it become brown. Keep it aside.

Cook carrot and beans in a pressure cooker for 3 minutes and then fry it with little ghee in a frying nonstick pan.

Heat oil in a frying pan and scramble properly 2 eggs white and yellow together with some salt and little pepper powder.

Also make ready chopped spring onion and coriander leaf.

Take a deep pan and make it hot, put 1 teaspoon ghee to it and spread completely on the bottom of the pan.

Then add cooked rice to it as fist layer.

Then add the fried, beans, carrot, egg, coriander leaf, spring onion, fried cashew and dried grapes to make it as the second layer.

Again add cooked rice as the third layer. Like wise repeat the two layers until complete rice used.

Then keep the pan in medium flame for 2 minutes with closed lid. Then take out of flame, mix all together and serve hot. Delicious fried rice is ready.