Thai style potato fried rice (vegetarian).
Cut two potatoes into thin long stripes, fry in batches till crispy, remove and keep aside.
Leave abt 2 tbsp of oil in the same wok.
Fry 5 sliced shallots, 1 smashed lemongrass and 1/2 inch smashed galangal/lengkuas.

Add 3 cups rice,
pour 1 tbsp sweet soy sauce and season with salt (taste first).
Stir, add one handful of salad leaves or green veg,
3 sliced lime leaves and add back fried potatoes.
Stir on high heat a couple of times and remove from heat.
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Takkali keerai kootu (type of spinach in thick mixture).
To make:
add 1 sliced tomato,
1 sliced potato,
1/2 cup soaked and rinsed dhal,
4 smashed garlic,
4 smashed shallots,
1 tsp turmeric powder and enough water in a pot.

Simmer to soften and lightly mash.
Add 1/2 tbsp coriander powder,
1 tsp cumin powder, and
1 tsp fennel powder.
Stir,
add leaves and season with salt. Cook to soften leaves and pour in 1 cup coconut milk.
Stir,
heat through and remove from heat.

In another pan, heat ghee/oil, fry 1/2 handful of curry leaves till crispy,
add 1 tsp halba/fenugreek seeds and 2 sliced dried red chilies.
Stir and tip into veg mixture.
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Fried Brinjal With Spicy Sweet Sambal/Gravy (Vegetarian)
http://www.nava-k.com/2015/06/fried-brinjal-with-spicy-sweet.html
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Let’s Cook.
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Into oil, crushed or smashed garlic & Bay leaves.
Sliced long beans.
Turmeric powder, plain chilli powder, salt and a tiny bit of lime juice.
Stir and cook to soften beans. Add some water, if you want to, to soften beans.
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Watermelon Cheese 🧀 Savoury Salad.
Ingredients -
Salad leaves + Yellow Watermelon + Roasted White Sesame Seeds + Roasted Sunflower Seeds + Chilli Sauce + Cheddar Shredded 🧀 Cheese

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Katrikai Poriyal/Brinjal Stir Fried.
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#navaslife
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Two Brinjals - sliced,
mix with some turmeric powder, some rice flour and. salt.
Fry in batches, remove and keep aside.

A little oil to fry green chillies, onion and curry leaves.

Add brinjal, a little salt and a little lime juice. Stir and dish out.

Nyonya Vegetarian Pineapple Curry.
#recipe is up on our #blog #blogpost - www.nava-k.com

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Easy Vegetarian Tauhu sambal.
To make:
Heat 2 tbsp of oil.
Sauté 1 sliced tomato,
5 smashed shallots and
I sliced green chilli.
Pour in 2 tbsp chilli sauce. Season with salt.

Add 2 sliced tauhu.
Gently stir to cook.
Off the heat and combine in some sliced spring onion.
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Snake gourd kootu (cooked with peas).
To make:
cut one gourd, remove seeds and slice.
Add with 1 sliced tomato
1/3 cup green peas without skin (soaked for 10 mins)
4 sliced shallots
1/2 inch sliced ginger
4 sliced garlic
1 tsp turmeric powder
salt and enough water.

Simmer till soft and tender. Temper/fry 5 sliced shallots
1 tsp fennel seeds and
2 sprigs sliced coriander leaves in 1 1/2 tbsp ghee or oil.

Combine into gourd mixture.
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Green brinjal parathal/stir fried. To make:
simmer about 13 small green brinjals to soften.
Remove, cool down and sliced/cubed.
Add in a bowl with
1 tsp plain chilli powder,
1 tsp turmeric powder,
1 tsp cumin seeds,
5 sliced shallots,
3 sprigs curry leaves and
salt to taste.
Gently mix together.

Heat 2 tbsp of oil, add brinjal mixture, stir over high heat for a couple of minutes and off the heat.
Combine in a little lime juice.
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Spring onion potato sambal (vegetarian)

To make
For the sambal paste
6 red chillies
1 tomato
1/2 handful spring onion (only the white part)
**blend/pulse these ingredients with some water

Other ingredients
4 potatoes - boil till tender, cool down and slice
Palm sugar - per taste
6 shallots - slice
Some sliced spring onion
Oil and salt

Method
Heat enough oil.
Fry potatoes, remove and keep aside
Leave about 5 tbsp of oil in the same wok.
Add sambal paste and shallots.
Fry till aromatic and oil splits
Season with palm sugar and salt.
Note - pour some water for more gravy (optional).
Add potatoes, stir, off the heat and combine in some spring onion.
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Kerala style drumstick aviyal
To make
add sliced drumsticks (7 sticks, remove string and sliced to 1 inch)
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
1 1/2 tsp turmeric powder and enough water for gravy.
Simmer to soften sticks.
Add 1/4 cup lightly pounded fresh coconut.
Season with salt.
Stir.
Off the heat

Temper
1 tsp mustards seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 sliced red chilli
1 sliced green chilli
2 sprigs curry leaves
in 2 tbsp ghee or oil.
Tip into gravy and combine in 1/4 cup whisked yoghurt.

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Ghee Spicy Scrambled Tofu.
Follow the pictures and the ingredients are (as needed)
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French beans stir fried with coriander seeds.
To make: remove strings and slice beans (1 packet) to 1/2 or 3/4 inch length.
Add in bowl with 1 tsp ginger paste, 1 tsp garlic paste, 1 tsp coriander seeds, 1 tsp turmeric powder and 2 sprigs curry leaves. Keep aside.

Heat 2 tbsp of oil, tip beans inside, season with salt and stir fry over high heat.
Dish out.
Sprinkle some water while frying to further soften the beans.
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Cumin saffron rice.
Ingredients:
2 cups rice (rinsed)
1 1/2 tbsp ghee
1/2 tsp saffron strands (alternatively 1 tsp turmeric powder)
salt.

Heat ghee in rice cooker, fry cumin seeds for 2 to 3 mins, add rice, stir, pour 3 cups of water, saffron, season with salt and stir. Let it cook and fluff up.
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