Coconut Poha N Peanut Thuvaiyal / Chutney + Awards

             Hello Folks, hope you all had a great weekend. Here was not as good as previous, windy and cold weather not willing to go out :( and also not feeling well. Suffering with severe neck pain n took medicines n feeling better now. As i was advised not to do any work n do not blog any post today by my H but i couldn't stay way, yes i am addicted more and impressed and boosted by all your lovely words at my space for all my recipes :) Once again Thanking  you all ....
           Today's recipe was Coconut Poha, simple and my fav breakfast. I made this long back and was in my draft for long time, And today when i saw Indian Cuisine's post ,came to remember about this and now presented to you along with my grand mom's Peanut Thuvaiyal...I like this tangy spicy peanut thuvaiyal for my lemon rice / Tamarind rice / curd rice.
Ingredients 

1. For Coconut Poha
2. Thick Poha/ Flattened rice    1 cup
3. Fresh shredded coconut    1/2 cup or less.
4. Dry red chillies      3 no.s
5. Ginger     1 tsp(finely chopped)
6. Curry leaves    1 sprig
7. Cilantro    few finely chopped
8. salt    to taste

To Temper

1. Oil     1-2 tsp
2. Mustard seeds    1/2 tsp
3. Chana dal     1 tbsp
4. Urad dal     1/2 tbsp
5. Cashew nut    1 tbsp or more

Method

• Wash and soak poha for 2-3 minutes and then drain completely and keep aside.

• Heat oil in a kadai, add the tempering ingredients one by one and fry lightly till the dal n nuts get fried golden brown.
• Then add ginger,red chilli and curry leaves n fry lightly.

• Now add shredded coconut, enough salt and fry the coconut for a minute.
• After that add, drained poha and mix well and stir fry for a minute and alstly add some cilantro and turn off the stove.

• That's it Simple and Tasty Coconut Poha is ready to serve.

• To suit this i made Peanut thuvaiyal, which is mild spicy and best for all kinds of variety rice like Lemon rice, Tamarind rice, Tomato Rice, Coconut rice/poha. and also you can make it to peanut chutney with tempering for Idly/Dosa/Pongal.

Ingredients 
For Peanut Thuvaiyal/Chutney

1. Peanut    1 cup
2. Dry Red chilli    6-7 no.s
3. Tamarind    small gooseberry size.
4. Coconut    2 tbsp(shredded)
5. Salt  to taste
6. oil    1/2 tsp

Tempering

1. Oil   1 tsp
2. Mustard seeds   1/2 tsp
3. Urad n Chana dal   1/4 tsp each
4. Curry leaves     few

Method

• Heat 1/2 tsp oil in a pan, roast peanuts till it tunrs light golden brown n flavor comes.
• Then add dry red chillies n tamarind and fry for a minute.
• Then allow to cool it for a while and grind to a coarse paste with salt using very little water.
• In case of chutney, grind with enough water like we do for coconut chutney and transfer it to a bowl.

• Heat oil in a tempering pan, add all the tempering ingrdients fry well and add it to the chutney.
• Serve with hot Idly/Dosa.

         And now its Awards time again, Long back i got two lovely awards from Roshu of  World of Tastes.

A new blogger friend, so sweet of her to remember me in her list and thanks a ton dear for those lovely awards.She have a wonderful blog which proves her blog name :) please do visit her space.Due to my memory loss :(  i totally forgot about this and now when i received another wonderful award from three of my dear friends' Julie , Kaveri and Alpana. So thought to post it in my blog without any further delay.Thanks you dearies for this lovely award and it means a lot to me. And i am on cloud Nine !!

'Liebster'means favourite or dearest in German.In accepting the award,the recipient agrees to :

• Thank the person who gave the award and link back to their blog.
• Copy and paste the award to your blog.
• Reveal the 5 blogs you have chosen to award and let them know by commenting on their blog.
• Hope they pass it forward by accepting and awarding it to bloggers they would like to honor.

I would like to pass it to all my dear blogger friends but here i have to choose only 5 out of many and keep them rolling. The  following friends were very supportive and encouraging me from the beginning to till date. because of them only now you all know me and i m here to reach my 300 th post ...so in honor to thank them for their love n support I would like to share this with them. 


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