Hi All Here am starting a new thread with Andhra dishes. Typical Andhra food is well known for its spices & taste.I wish ladies from Andhra would join me. Any suggestions and corrections are most welcome. Gutti Vankaya Kura ( bhara baingan)
Brinjals- 1/2 kg(medium sized)
Onions-200gms
green chillies-4 to 5
Turmeric- 1/2 tsp
chilli powder-4 tsp
corriander powder- 3tsp
jeera powder-1tsp
garam masala- 1tsp ( this is optional)
Bay leaves- 2
Corriander leave- accordingly
tamarind pulp- 100gms( according to your required taste )
salt, oil-200ml
Firstly you need to slit the brinjals onto four parts and soak them in water containing 1tsp of salt.( salt prevents brinjals turning into blackish in color)
- Grind onions & green chillies to a fine paste .
- To this grinded paste add turmeric , chillipowder , corriander powder ,jeera powder ,corriander(hara dhaniya) garammasala & salt .
- Now stuff this mixture into the slit brinjals properly.
- Take a pressure pan add oil , after the oil heats add bayleaves and brinjals one after the other.Let the brinjals fry until the color changes,mean while you can add the remaining paste left and fry it.
- when the brinjals are half done add the tamarind paste. you can add little water if required and pressure cook for 3 to 4 whistles.
You can have this curry along with chapathi or any variety of Rice( white rice , coconut rice).
Coconut Rice This is one of the famous recipe of coastal Andhra.
Rice- 1kg
coconuts -3
cardomoms- 5
cloves- 8
cinnamonstick- 2 inch
Bay leaves-4
Turmeric- 2tsp
Oil-100ml
Ghee- 20ml
salt- As required.
For this rice you need to extract milk from the coconuts.You can mix water to the extracted milk to get the proportion.( It is not that only pure coconut milk is used , we can dilute the milk by adding water)
Soak rice for 30 to 40 min.( If its basmati rice).
For 1 glass of rice 1 1/2 glass of water is required, i.e; 1: 1 1/2 is the proportion.
Take a thick bottomed cooking bowl add ghee & oil , let it heat add cloves cardamoms, cinnamon & bayleaves.let them fry for 2 min add turmeric and extracted coconut milk according to the quantity of rice. Add salt and bring it to boil and add rice. when the rice is 3/4th done put on a low flame and cook for another 5 to 10 min.
Hope you would enjoy these recipes.
Anuja