BANANA STEM JUICE KADHI II BANANA STEM JUICE MORU CURRY

Banana stem has got many medicinal values and most of the people don't eat this. This is popular in South Side but in North I have seen very few people making a subzi out of this. It is very good for those who are suffering from Kidney stones. Juice of this consumed in empty stomach helps to control the kidney stones. We can make various dishes out of this and this Kadhi is awesome to drink as it is or with rice.

MORUKOOTAN (YOGHURT CURRY)

Morukootan is a yoghurt based curry goes well with sevai, rice, rice dumplings etc.  In South India, mostly the curries and kootans are prepared with tamarind.  For a change, you can make this morukootan.

I prefer this with the Sevai or Idiyappam.   My mother in law used to make Sevai and specially keep some sevai aside to put in the morukootan and next day she used to have it as it tastes heavenly.

In our house, we always make Thengai Sevai, Elumicha Sevai, etc.  The combination of morukootan and sevai, I learned after my marriage from my MIL.

MILAKOOLAM (CURD BASED CURRY)

MILAKOOLAM


Milakoolam is a simple curry which goes well along with rice, dhalia, kitchadi etc.  It is a simple moru curry (curd curry) with flavour of kala miri  and jeera (black pepper and cumin seeds).  During my childhood, my class mates aunty used to prepare this and i used to love it along with the pulungalarisi chadam (brown boiled  rice).

Easy to prepare, tasty too.  Even if you do not use vegetables, you can use some manathakali vattal, chundakka vattal or lotus stem vattal (tamarakizhangu vattal). vattal is a dried variety of any vegetable viz turkey berry, lotus stem, black night shade or black berry night shade or Mokoi in Hindi.

 

Another variation is to prepare  the same with White and Yellow Pumpkin with little  moongdal in it and temper with crushed Black Pepper and Cumin seeds.