KARUVAADU(DRIED FISH)

NEYKARUVAADU PORIYAL



Ingredients

Karuvaadu-1/2 kg
Chopped small onion-1/2 cup
Chopped tomato-1/4 cup
Green chilly-2
Sambarpowder-2 tsp
Turmeric powder,salt,oil
Mustard seeds,urad dal and curryleaves for seasoning

Method

Clean the karuvaadu well for 5 or 6 times.

Heat some oil in kadaai,season the ingredients.
Add onion and chilly,sauté well.
Add tomato,sauté lightly.
Add sambar powder,salt and turmeric powder.
Add karuvaadu,mix evenly and cook for 5 mts by sprinkling water.
Cook dryly.

Can serve with plain rice.

Note: karuvaadu cures cold.
It increases milk in feeding mothers.


KARUVAADU GRAVEY

Ingredients
Karuvaadu(nethili)-1/2 kg
Brinjal-2
Potato-1
Small onion-1 1/2 cup
Sambarpowder-2 or 3 tbsps
Chana dal-2 tsp
Tomato-1
Coconut scrapped-1/4 cup
Turmeric powder-1/4 tsp
Tamarind-1 lemon size
Salt
For tempering:
Oil
Mustard seeds, urad dal, methi seeds
Curry leaves, coriander leaves
Sliced green chilly-1
Sliced small onion-1/4 cup
Garlic-8 flakes

Method
Wash the karuvaadu well for 5 or 6 times and squeeze water each time soon,otherwise it will dissolve in water.

Sauté onion, chana dal, little curry leaves together with oil till golden brown.
Add sambar powder,mix.
Off the stove.
Add coconut and tomato (whole), mix once evenly.
Let it cool and grind to paste with turmeric powder.

In oil season mustard seeds, urad dal, methi seeds and curry leaves.
Add onion, garlic and green chilly, sauté it.
Add brinjal and potato,sauté well.
Add tamarind pulp and boil it till medium thick.
Add grinded paste, salt, required water and cook well.
Add karuvaadu and cook for 5 mts.
Sprinkle coriander leaves.


NETHILI KARUVADU KOOTU

Ingredients

Karuvadu-1/4 kg
Turmeric powder-1/4 tsp
Coconut scrapped-2 tsp
Tomato(chopped)-1/ 2 cup
Chopped onion -1 cup
Greenchilly-2
Salt
Oil

To paste:
Dry chilly-6
Garlic-5 flakes
Dhaniya-1 tbsp
Jeera-1 tsp

Method

Splutter mustard seeds in oil,
Add curry leaves,onion,green chilly and sauté.
Add tomato ,sauté well.
Add paste and mix till raw smell goes.
Add cleaned karuvadu and mix well.
Add salt ,coconut and required water and cook till kootu consistency.