Ganesh Chaturthi Menu
- Khara Kadabu
- Hirekai Chutney
- Kosumbari
- Hoornad Saru
- Cucumber Majjige Huli
- Sweet Kadabu
1. Khara Kadabu
For the rice dough:
1 cup water
1 tsp oil
A pinch of salt
1 cup rice flour
- Boil water with oil and salt.
- When the water boils, add the rice flour, stir to make a dough and turn off the heat.
- Allow to cool.
- Shape the dough into little balls and roll it out into a circle.
Stuffing
There are several options for the stuffing, here is one that we tried.
1 cup channa dal
4 green chilles, chopped
half a bunch of coriander leaves
1/2 onion, finely chopped
- Soak the channa dal in water for 3 hours.
- Drain the water from the channa dal entirely.
- Grind the channa dal with the green chillies and coriander without adding any water. The consistency of the ground channa dal should be coarse.
- Mix the onions and add salt to taste.
Assembling and cooking the kadabu.
- Roll out the dough into a little circle.
- Place the stuffing in the centre , fold over and seal. Use a dash of water to seal the kadabu if needed.
- Wrap the kadabu in parchment paper or banana leaf.
- Steam. We used the following pressure cooker settings for an electric cooker. High pressure for 10 minutes and used quick release of pressure.
2. Hirekai Chutney
Peel of 1 ridge gourd
1 onion sliced (optional, we didn’t use it)
1 tbsp channa dal
1 tbsp urad dal
4-5 dry red chillies
1/8 tsp tamcon paste
few curry leaves
- Pressure cook the ridge gourd peels.
- Roast channa dal, urad dal and red chillies
- Fry onion.
- Grind roasted dals, red chillies, onion, ridge gourd, curry leaves, tamcon paste together.
- Season with mustard seeds
3. Kosumbari
1 cup moong dal
2 tbsp coconut
1/2 cup grated carrot
seasoning
4-5 green chillies
mustard seeds
- Soak the dal in water for an hour. Then, drain the water completely.
- Mix grated carrot.
- To prepare the seasoning, heat oil, add mustard, green chillies and curry leaves. Add the seasoning to the dal and carrot mixture.
- Add grated coconut to the mixture.
- Squeeze lime over the kosumbari.
4. Hoornad Saru
To prepare the hoorna:
1 cup kadale bele (channa dal)
1 cup powdered jaggery
2 tablespoon grated coconut
- Wash the kadale bele and cook in pressure cooker.
- Melt jaggery, until it appears frothy.
- Add coconut, dal, cardamom and clove to the jaggery. Stir and continue heating until a thick consistency is reached. (i.e. until the water has evaporated from the dal mixture)
For the rasam:
2 teaspoon rasam powder
1/2 teaspoon tamarind paste
- To the above hoorna mixture, add 4 cups water, rasam powder, salt, curry leaves and tamarind paste.
- Let the mixture boil and then simmer for 15 minutes.
5. Cucumber Majjige Huli
1 cup sour curds
1 cup cucumber (the round variety)
1/4 cup channa dal
1 teaspoon coriander seeds
2 teaspoons jeera
6 peppercorns
a pinch of turmeric
1/4 cup grated coconut
4 green chillies
small piece of onion (approximately an eighth of an onion)
2 pods garlic
1 inch piece of ginger
4 curry leaves
- Grind channa dal, coriander, jeera, peppercorns, turmeric, grated coconut, green chillies, onion, garlic, ginger and curry leaves together to a fine paste.
- Boil the cucumber.
- Cook the vegetables with the ground paste.
- Add sour curds and seasoning. To prepare seasoning, heat oil, add mustard and curry leaves.
6. Sweet Kadabu
Stuffing
1 cup grated coconut
1 cup jaggery powder
4 cardamoms
- Heat the jaggery and melt it.
- Add the cocounut to the melted jaggery, constantly stirring until them mixture thickens.
- Mix in the cardamom
For assembly and cooking, follow the same procedure as the khara kadabu.
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