INGREDIENTS FOR EGG PLANT CHUTNEY
1. Egg plant - 6 medium size egg plants(do not use the green ones or the long ones,cut them into medium size pieces)
2. Small/Pearl onions - 10 to 12 nos
3. Wine ripe tomatoes - 5 chopped tomatoes
4. Dry red chillies - 9 nos (you can add more or less depending on your spice level)
5. Curry leaves - for seasoning
6. Mustard seeds - 1 tea spoon
7. Oil - 2 tb spn
8. Salt - to taste
METHOD
1. Take a pressure cooker add 2 tbspn oil,once when the oil gets heated add small onions and red chillies and saute them well.Once when the onions turn transparent add chopped tomatoes and cook them .Once when the tomatoes are cooked ,add the egg plants and pour around 1 and 1/2 cups of water(rice cooker cup measurement)and add salt ,pressure cook them (just for 1 whistle).Wait for the steam to go .Now open the lid of the cooker and see if the egg plants are cooked ,if not cook for 5 more minutes .Now mash the egg plants with a masher or cool them down and then pour the entire contents in a mixie and pulse it.Do not grind them into a fine paste.
2. Take a small pan for seasoning and season them with mustard seeds and curry leaves.
INGREDIENTS FOR JAGGERY AAPAM
1. Sona masoori - 2 cups.
2. Idli rice - 2 cups
3. Thick coconut milk - 5 cups
4 Baking soda - 1 /2 tea spoon
5. Jagerry - 1 cup (melt the jagerry by adding very little water)
6. Salt .to taste
METHOD
Soak the sonamasoori and idli rice together in water for about 3 hours .Grind them in to a paste by adding little amount of water. If you are using grinder the aapams would turn out to be softer so use a wet grinder for grinding,if not a mixie.After grinding ,it has to be fermented for at least 6 hours .
Add coconut milk,jaggery,baking soda and salt just before preparing the aapams.Take a aapam pan and pour the aapams (do not add oil for the aapams).Close the aapam with a lid and cook them for about 2 minutes.
NOTE
These jagerry aapams are little bit sweeter so serve them with spicy and hot kathirikai/egg plant chutney.So make the chutney little bit spicy
If you dont have an aapam pan use the dosa pan for preparing the aapams.
1. Egg plant - 6 medium size egg plants(do not use the green ones or the long ones,cut them into medium size pieces)
2. Small/Pearl onions - 10 to 12 nos
3. Wine ripe tomatoes - 5 chopped tomatoes
4. Dry red chillies - 9 nos (you can add more or less depending on your spice level)
5. Curry leaves - for seasoning
6. Mustard seeds - 1 tea spoon
7. Oil - 2 tb spn
8. Salt - to taste
METHOD
1. Take a pressure cooker add 2 tbspn oil,once when the oil gets heated add small onions and red chillies and saute them well.Once when the onions turn transparent add chopped tomatoes and cook them .Once when the tomatoes are cooked ,add the egg plants and pour around 1 and 1/2 cups of water(rice cooker cup measurement)and add salt ,pressure cook them (just for 1 whistle).Wait for the steam to go .Now open the lid of the cooker and see if the egg plants are cooked ,if not cook for 5 more minutes .Now mash the egg plants with a masher or cool them down and then pour the entire contents in a mixie and pulse it.Do not grind them into a fine paste.
2. Take a small pan for seasoning and season them with mustard seeds and curry leaves.
INGREDIENTS FOR JAGGERY AAPAM
1. Sona masoori - 2 cups.
2. Idli rice - 2 cups
3. Thick coconut milk - 5 cups
4 Baking soda - 1 /2 tea spoon
5. Jagerry - 1 cup (melt the jagerry by adding very little water)
6. Salt .to taste
METHOD
Soak the sonamasoori and idli rice together in water for about 3 hours .Grind them in to a paste by adding little amount of water. If you are using grinder the aapams would turn out to be softer so use a wet grinder for grinding,if not a mixie.After grinding ,it has to be fermented for at least 6 hours .
Add coconut milk,jaggery,baking soda and salt just before preparing the aapams.Take a aapam pan and pour the aapams (do not add oil for the aapams).Close the aapam with a lid and cook them for about 2 minutes.
NOTE
These jagerry aapams are little bit sweeter so serve them with spicy and hot kathirikai/egg plant chutney.So make the chutney little bit spicy
If you dont have an aapam pan use the dosa pan for preparing the aapams.
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