Cauliflower Kuruma

What do you have for break fast or dinner? Bread? Chapathi? Puri or Appams? This goes well with all..



Ingredients
Cauliflower florets 2 1/2 cups
onions 2
tomato 1
coriander powder 2 tsp
chilli powder 1/2 or 1 tsp
turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
coriander leaves chopped few
salt
oil

Grind together to a paste,
garlic cloves 4
ginger 1 " piece
green chilly 1
black pepper corns 1 tsp
fennel seeds 1/4 tsp
cardomam 1
cinnamon stick 1 " piece
cloves 2

Blend together to a smooth paste,
coconut grated 1/2 cup
cashew nuts 3
water enough



How to prepare
Boil water, put cauliflower florets in it for few minutes.
Chop onion and tomato. Heat oil saute onion first, then add the ground paste, saute until the raw smell goes.
Add all the powders and stir. Mash tomato pieces with hand and add it. Add salt and cauliflower florets. Mix well. Add 1/2 cup water and cook the florets well in this. Stir occasionally.
When the cauliflower is cooked, add the blended paste of coconut and cashewnuts. Mix well and let it boil on a low flame. When the oil floats on top, remove from fire, garnish with coriander leaves. Keep this for 1 hour before you serve, it will become thick.

See the Cauliflower varutharacha curry, I posted before one year...In the early days of blogging...

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Cauliflower Vada / Fritters

Ingredients
cauliflower florets 3 cups
onion 1
ginger 1" piece
green chillies 3
garlic paste 1 teaspoon
coriander leaves chopped 1/2 cup
curry leaves few chopped
turmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon
chilly powder 1 teaspoon
cumin 1/4 teaspoon or cumin powder 1 pinch
asafoetida powder 1 pinch
besan / kadalamaavu 3/4 cup
rice powder 1/4 cup
salt
oil

How to prepare
Boil water and soak cauliflower. Drain water after 10 minutes, then chop cauliflower. Chop onion, green chillies and ginger . Mix all the ingredients together except oil. Sprinkle little water and mix again. Make small vadas. Vadas must not be thick. If thick, inside of vadas will remain raw. Deep fry vadas. Have with hot sauce.

Other Cauliflower recipes here,
Chilly Cauliflower
Cauliflower Varutharacha Curry
Mixed Vegetable Curry

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Chilly Cauliflower

Ingredients
Cauliflower 1 medium size
onion 1
ginger 1/2 inch piece julienned
green chillies 2 slit
pepper powder 2 tea spoons
garam masala 2 pinches
tomato sauce 2 table spoons
soya sauce 2 1/2 table spoons
chilli sauce 2 tea spoons
garlic and ginger paste 2 teaspoons
coriander leaves few chopped
egg 1 optional
cornflour 1/4 cup
salt

How to prepare
Remove cauliflower florets and soak them in boiled water for ten minutes. Mix cornflour,egg, garlic ginger paste, 2 table spoon soya sauce, chilly sauce, pepper powder, salt and garam masla in a bowl. Add little water to make a thick batter. Put the cauliflower florets in this and mix very well. Keep this for half an hour. Deep fry them.
Chop onion as big pieces. Take little oil from the remaining oil that we used for frying cauliflower. Heat oil, saute onion for few seconds. Don't saute too much as we do for curries. then saute ginger and green chillies, for few seconds too. Add fried cauliflower, tomato sauce and remaining soya sauce into this. Stir very well. Check salt. Garnish with coriander leaves.You can add capsicum and spring onions too.

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Cauliflower Curry

Ingredients
Cauliflower – 1 medium size
Tomato – 1
Onion – 1
Green chilly - 1
Garlic ginger paste – 1 tsp
Garam masala – ½ tsp
Coriander powder – 2 tsp
Chilly powder – 1 tsp
Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
Coconut grated – 2 table spoon
Curry leaves,
Coconut oil
Salt
Coriander leaves

How to prepare
Heat little oil in a pan.

Fry grated coconut till brown.
Boil water.

Soak cauliflower in this for few minutes.

Remove.
Heat oil.

Saute chopped onions till transparent.

Add chopped tomato, garlic ginger paste, all the powders, salt in to this and stir.

Add cauliflower and mix well.

Let the masalas cover the cauliflower.
Blend fried coconut with little water.

Pour this into the above preparation.

Boil for few minutes, till the curry turns thick.

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