Kadala Curry(Brown Channa Curry)

Ingredients:
1. Soaked black Channa -- 1 1/2 cup
2. Onion - 1
3.Tomato - 2
4. Grated Coconut - 5 tbp
5. Ginger - 1/2 tsp
6. Green Chilli - 2 small
7. Curry leaves - 5
8. Red Chilly powder -1/2 tsp
9. Coriander powder - 1 tsp
10. Turrmeric - 1/3 tsp
11.Pepper -1 pinch
12. Garam Masala -1/2 tsp
13.Salt - as per taste
14.Oil -1 tbp
15.Musturd seeds-1 pinch
16. Red Chilly - 2
17. Water - for gravy 

Preparation:

1.Cook soaked channa in a pressure cooker. 2 whistle in high flame and one whistle in low flame is enough.
2. Take a pan,heat it, and add 1/2 tbp of oil, add  finely chopped onions, fry it for sometime, add chopped  tomato's,  and add ingredients 5,6,7,4. When the tomato's are cooked add ingredient 4, fry it for 5 mins.Add 8,9,10,11 and mix well, Fry it for 5 more mins.
3. In a mixer put the roasted mix from Step 2 and 2 tb of cooked channa, and grind well.
4. Mix the cooked channa and grinded mixture well, and add ingredient 12 and add half cup water for gravy.Add salt as per taste.Cook this for 10 - 15 mins in low flame.
5. For tadka, take a pan, heat it and add oil, add red chilles(16 th ingredient), add musturd seeds, let it splutter, and then mix it with the channa curry.

Purple Burji

Purple Burji (Purple Cabbage Burji)

Ingredients:

1. Purple cabbage - 1/2
2. Egg - 2
3. Ginger - 1/3 tsp
4. Green Chilly -1
5. Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
6. Pepper - 1/3 tsp
7. Coconut(grated) - 1/3 bowl (small)
8. Shallots - 2
9. Mustard seeds - a pinch
10.Oil - 1 tb
11. Salt - as per taste.
12.Curry leaves - 4

Preparation:

1.Chop cabbage in to fine pieces.
2.Heat a pan, for tadka - add oil, curry leaves, mustard seeds and let it splutter.
3. Add finely chopped cabbage, turmeric and salt, mix well and keep in low flame.
4. After 5-10 mins, add eggs(white and yellow) to the center of pan, sprinkle pepper over it, keep it for sometime, for it get half cooked.

5. Scramble the eggs and mix well with cabbage (keep the mixture in low flame for 3-4 mins).
6. In a mixer, add coconut along with roasted ingredients 3,4,5,8 and mix well (don't grind the coconut, just a pulse in mixer will be enough).
7. Add the mix along with cabbage and egg and keep in min flame(5 -7mins) for sometime.

Tips: Half cooked cabbage (especially purple one's) tastes better.

Palak thoran/upperi

Ingredients :

1.Palak - 1 medium sized bundle (This eventually will give only 1 normal bowl of cooked palak along with other ingredients)

2.Garlic - 3 piece
3.Red chilly - 2 (big)
4.Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
5.Salt  - 1/2 tsp(as per taste)
6.Grated coconut - 1/3 bowl(Normal bowl)
7.Oil - 1-1/2 tb

Preparation:

1.Clean and wash palak(both leaves and stem) with salt water 2-3 times, and chop them in to small pieces.
2.Keep a kadai in stove, when it is hot add coconut oil(ingredient 7), add musturd seeds, let it spluter.
3. Add the finely chopped palak.
4. Add 4 and 5 to the palak, mix well and keep in maximum flame for first 5 minutes and then keep in minimum flame.
5. Meanwhile grind the ingredients 2 and 3 in mixer, add grated coconut to it and mix well (don't grind the coconut, just a pulse in mixer will be enough)
6. Add the mixture in to palak , mix well, keep for 5-10 minutes in minimum flame.
7. Palak thoran is ready to be served with rice.