VEGETABLE RECIPES

ERISSERY

 Pumpkin,raw banana,elephant yam                   2 cups

(sliced)

Turmeric powder                                               ¼ teaspoon

Chilly powder                                                    ½ teaspoon

Coriander powder                                              ½ teaspoon

Cumin seed                                                        ¼ teaspoon

Garlic                                                                 2 pieces

Grated coconut                                                   ½ cup

Oil                                                                      2 desert spoons

Mustard                                                              1 teaspoon

Onion                                                                 1 teaspoon

Red chilly                                                           2 (cut each into 3 pieces)

Grated coconut                                                   2 desert spoon

Curry leaves                                                        accordingly

Salt                                                                      accordingly

Cook sliced pumpkin,raw banana and elephant yam with salt & water. Grind turmeric powder, chilly powder,coriander powder, cumin seed, garlic & ½ cup grated coconut. Add this mixture to cooked vegetable and boil. Add some boiled water to make enough gravy. Heat oil. Add mustard. Add red chilly, onion, grated coconut, curry leaves. Roast till it becomes golden brown. Add this to pumpkin mixture. Serve hot.

Kalan

  Kalan

Ingredients:

Raw banana.             1

Curd                             ½  lr.

Grated coconut          2 desert spoons

Green chilly                2

Cumin seed                 ½ spoon

Turmeric powder       ¼ spoon

Chilly powder              ¼ spoon

Oil.                                  1 teaspoon.

Mustard                         ½ spoon

Red chilly                     2

Curry leaves                accordingly

Salt                                 accordingly

Slice banana into small pieces and cook with water and salt.

Beat curd. Grind grated coconut, green chilly, cumin seed, turmeric powder and chilly powder. Add this to cooked banana.Stir to boil.Add curd. Heat oil.Fry mustard, red chilly and curry leaves.Add this to the cooked banana.Remove from heat.

Ginger Curry

GINGER CURRY

1. Ginger                     200gm

2. Green chilly           20 gm

3. Curry leaves           some

4. Coconut oil            50 ml

5. Turmeric                1 teaspoon

    powder

6. Chilly powder       3 teaspoon

7. Salt                                    some

8. Tamarind              100 gm

9. Jaggery                  50 gm

10. Mustard               50 gm

11. Fenugreek

      Powder                1 teaspoon  

12. Asafoetida

         powder.             1/2 teaspoon.

Method

Grate ginger. Slice green chilly into small pieces. Fry grated ginger in coconut oil until it becomes golden brown and grind. Mix salt and tamarind juice. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder, asafoetida,fenugreek powders and jaggery.Keep aside.Heat a pan, add coconut oil, fry mustard, onion,green chili, curry leaves,add fried ginger, tamarind mix and boil. Stir to make a slightly thick consistency.Remove from heat.

Sambar

SAMBAR

1. Ladies’Finger                    100 gm

2. Potato                               100 gm

3. Onion                                100 gm

4. Green chilly                      20 gm

5. Brinjal                               100 gm

6. Drumstick                        100 gm

7. Tomato                             50 gm

8. Coriander leaves             some

9. Curry leaves                     some

10. Dhal                                250 gm

11. Turmeric powder          1 teaspoon

12. Salt                                  some

13. Red chilly                       5

14. Chilly powder                30 gm

15. Fenugreek powder        ½ teaspoon

16. Coconut oil                     50 ml

17. Tamarind                        50 gm

18. Mustard                          50 gm

19. Asafetida                         20 gm

20. Coriander powder         50 gm

Method

Cut ladies’ finger, brinjal and drumstick.Cook dhal. Add sliced onion and potato to cooked dhal and cook again. Add the other sliced vegetables and turmeric powder and cook. Boil adding tamarind juice, salt and asafetida. Add coriander powder, chilli powder, and fenugreek powder. Boil adding tomato pieces. Roast mustard and curry leaves in oil and add to the curry. Decorate with coriander leaves and serve.

Aviyal

Aviyal

Ingredients:

1. Elephant Yam                       100gm

2. Kumbala Fruit            100gm

3. Pumpkin                               50 gm

4. Banana                         1

5. Snake guard                 1 piece

6. Drumstick                    1

7. Green gram                  50 gm
8.Carrot                            1

9. Tamarind juice            2 spoons

10. Grated coconut          1 cup

11. Green chilly                5

12. Salt                               1 spoon 

13. Coconut oil                 2 Teaspoons

14. Curry leaves                some

15. Cumin seed                 1 teaspoon

16. Chilly powder             1 Teaspoon

17. Turmeric powder       ½ Teaspoon

Method    

Cut vegetables into 2-3 inch pieces. Heat oil in a pan. Add green chilly and cumin seed and roast. Add vegetable pieces, salt, chilly powder and turmeric powder. Stir well. After half cooked, add tamarind juice. Mash grated coconut with remaining cumin seed and add to the vegetables. Cook well. Remove from heat. Add 1 teaspoon coconut oil and curry leaves. Mix well and serve.    

30.BEING A CANDLE

If I were the Venus in heavenly height,

In the sky, I would have shone, a glorious light;

If I were a lovely bud ready to bloom,

In the plant, I would have spread in doom;

If I were a glistening butterfly, colourful,

In petals, I would have sucked honey full;

If I were a sweet little diving loon,

In the infinite horizon, I would have flown;

If I were a cool garden breeze, mild,

I would have blown as fragrance aside;

If I were a wave of milky moon beams,

I would have been a lake of glow worms;

If I were a cloud, wandering in the sky top,

In the earth, I would have drizzled a drop;

If I were a murmuring stream flowing unfold,

In the blue sea, I would have dissolved;

If I were a little blowing conch in shore,

In the sand, I would have slept in pleasure;

If I were a celestial enchanting flute, I long,

In your lips, I would have been a song;

If I were an em-purpled dream in your heart,

I would have travelled hand in hand a lot;

But a tiny grass I was, being nothing,

Except a never warbling lark, silently singing;

A burning candle, a martyr, the smiling face,

Under the Calvary cross, a sacred sacrifice….

29.SKYLARKS TO SKYLARKS

From the green hills, chant skylarks to skylarks,

The sweetest of the hymns from dawns to dusks,

From hillside to hillside flocking in the sky,

From dales to dales, floating in high!

“In the heart of your heart who still sings?

Still glows? Still blooms? Swings and swings??

Who travels with you unseen, unseen?

Making to smile back to sweet seventeen??

Who sprays the fragrance of yester years?

Echoing the fair flute in your ears?

While waterfalls rush from the lofty hills,

Changing pearls gently sing which ever thrills?

Hearing the marvel, the imprinted grace,

Who whispers among olives, the melodious peace?”

From the green hills, chant skylarks to skylarks,

The sweetest of the hymns from dawns to dusks,

From hillside to hillside, flocking in the sky,

From dales to dales, floating in high!

“Who plunges you in the memory pool?

Gracious, radiant, gentle and cool?

Awaking the soul towards the sunny day,

Where the youth waited the footsteps gay....

Passing the ray, the merriment evergreen,

While in the sky a star seemed queen…

Who plays the harp, in the core of your heart?

Lingering the withered, never wanes the part,

The moon who lights the luminous lamps,

Anonymous ! Anonymous among clouds like lambs !!”

28.THE RHYTHM OF LIFE

Oh! My beloved morning star!

Hear the lute from afar, afar!

The spring has again brightly sprung,

The larks their songs have sweetly sung,

Butterflies flutter in tiny wings,

Pattering squirrels in palm leaf swings,

Glistening dewdrops in thin grass smile,

Blue-bells, lilies and laurels bloom awhile,

Hear the giggles of shallow streams rush,

Feel the chill of fresh oasis gush,

Listen the rain clouds drizzle with fun,

 Sunflower’s murmur towards the rising sun,

Thrill in lovely rainbow blaze,

The pretty row in horizon, amaze!

Life an ember where memories arise,

Though put in pyre, the phoenix again rise,

Even one travels with a paralyzed heart,

The shadow, the death, accompanies to part,

Everyone has to drink the cup,

The Father has given from the heaven up,

Life, a sea where waves of troubles,

To heal, to heal, one ever, ever struggles,

Fortune, a dream glowing afar,

The vanishing morning star in dawn so far,

A truth? A falsehood? In mind’s palanquin,

Just be pleased in mild moonshine,

Oh! My beloved morning star!

Hear the lute from afar, afar!

Sparrows dive through wind slowly,

Buds bloom to garlands in valley,

Petals of lotus and roses open,

Spreading sweetness to gateways unknown,

Silent stars gaze upon the doves,

Cooing beside the roof with loves,

Lamps are lit to begin the journey,

Towards the pain and pleasures of honey,

Curtains are drawn to life’s new dawn,

Cheer again, cheer again, farewell to mourn,

Enjoy the lost canopy nearby,

Fortune, a cloud roaming in the sky,

Oh! My beloved nightingale!

It rains! It rains! In all mount’s dale!!!

27.I FOUND THE INFANT.......

I found the Infant, sacred, the heavenly grace,

In the virgin’s lap, in manger, the face,

Blazing amidst the angels, the shepherds,

Who sing the praise, the glory with herds.

I found the Infant in that hut,

Dilapidated, broken, shattered which cut

Down in pain their defeated life,

In vulnerable, savage, outpouring grief.

I found the Infant in the faces sweat,

Of the tillers, in their troubled eyes wet;

And in the pale lips of the path maker,

Who toil in the sun, in the rain, in the courner;

In the maid wearing cloaks all torn,

In the eyes of the unknown kids who born

 Orphans, passing the merciless dawn;

In the patients shivering in death bed who mourn,

Disappointed, wretched, in the isolated ward

Aside dark corridors no one to guard;

In the voice, trembling, of the helpless crowd,

The prey of terrorists, amidst blasts aloud,

In the depth of desperate sunken eye,

In all the flesh and blood who weep and sigh;

And in the hands weary, the shelterless beggars,

I found Him, in their life struggles.

Never found Him, the Holy Infant,

Though I searched in palace in front-

Of luxury, in mansions of richness;

In the faces fat, in cheeks of happiness;

In the lips crimson with poisonous blood;

In the tongues of spears and sharpened sword;

Which stretch to utter just flattery pomp,

And explode to mangle with words of bomb.

Neither in the altars of temples or church,

Where only battles of powers do march,

Nor in the kingdoms of world, in the siege;

Nor in the artillery from where no refuge;

Nor in the hearts proud, so jealous,

Storming towards the humble, the gentle, the pious;

Nowhere in the flashes of gunfire sound

The grace, the glorious face never I found.

I found Him, the humility, in every manger simple,

In all the hearts humane, ardent and humble,

In the virgin’s lap, joyfully with heavenly grace,

Showering the blessings of eternal peace,

To send the rich away, their hands empty,

To bring down the kings, strong and mighty,

To fill the hungry well, to lift up the lowly,

Smiling the Infant in the manger lovely!!

26.DEATH - PHYSICAL,SPIRITUAL AND ETERNAL.

              (1)    

      Falls the golden lamp, the brain,

      Snap the nerves, the silver chain,

      Breaks the rope of cords at the well,

      The water jar, the liver shatters, the knell,

       Arms tremble, turns hair white,

       Ears deaf, legs weak, disappear teeth bright,

       Grow dim the sun, the stars, the moon,

       In the streets hears the cry, the mourn,

Comes the ruler of all mankind,

The crown less king, the icy hand,

Where the clock of life stops to wind,

To go back to soil, the curtain behind.

Wisdom or madness burns in wood,

Where laughter and pleasure do no good,

Knowledge and foolishness never shine,

None can cheer himself with wine,

Rich and poor face the same lot,

The wings of death break earthen pot,

Can anyone chase the wind ever?

Asks David’s son, the philosopher.

To the dust mortal bodies return,

Go back to God the breath, no turn,

Sin, the sin of Eden brought the death

To the whole race who takes birth.

(ii)

           

            Alas! The people! Dead spiritually!

         Who do actions filthy, immorally,

            Worship idols, fight, being jealous,

Angry, envious, and ambitious,

Separate into groups, forming parties,

Get drunk, boundless, become enemies,

Have orgies, do witchcraft, fraud,

Will never possess the kingdom of God.

Put to death, the nature, human,

With all its desires and passion,

Let the spirit direct life always,

Who has given it with immense grace,

Who does produce joy and patience,

Self control, kindness and peace,

The blooms of humility and goodness,

The fragrance of love and faithfulness.

Wants of human nature; of the spirit,

Two enemies in one’s soul, which fight,

Let the spirit control, no doubt,

Let the spirit lead, do not wait,

To a death, spiritual, it may lead

Doom of the soul, its good deed.

Spiritually dead, arise, awake,

Belong to Christ to your own sake.

(iii)

Sat the faithful, the true heir,

With eyes, a flame of glowing fire,

Wearing many crowns on His head,

Robe, His robe, covered with blood,

To the final judgement, the fight,

From the throne great and white,

With justice, judges, The Word of God,

The Truth, the Almighty, the Lamb, the Lord,

Followed the armies, the angels of heaven,

Him who dressed in clear white linen,

On white horses, triumphantly, He rode,

Out His mouth came the sharp sword,

            To rule with the iron rod, to defeat,

            The beast, the armies, the false prophet,

            From His presence suddenly fled,

            The earth, the heaven but the dead

            Great and small alike stood,

Books of Living were soon opened,

To judge the deeds of all those dead,

The sea, the world gave whom they held.

Into the Lake of Fire were thrown,

The death, the names those not seen...

In the Lake of Fire, the second death,

If not in the book, the eternal death.

(iv)

Set the hearts in holy heaven,

In Christ, on His magnificent throne,

At the right-hand side of the God

There, keep minds in His abode,

Take off old self, desires of earth,

Things here, human, put to death,

Put on bravely the new pure self,

Realize Christ, the sole real life.

Clothe yourselves with the best kindness,

Compassion, humility and gentleness,

Patience, the lantern, the light may give,

Tolerance with one another to forgive,

Add love which may gracefully bind,

In perfect unity, the people, all kind,

Let the peace of Christ alone guide,

In all decisions far and wide.

Sing! Sing! Psalms and holy hymn,

The sacred songs of thanks to Him!

The King of Kings! Be yourselves proud!

The Lord of Lords!  Birds, Praise aloud!

The people of God, the righteous, the chosen,

The loved, the fortunate to be His own,

Will rejoice with Him, the jewel gaudy,

When He appears in His glory!!

Obliged to: Genesis, Ecclesiastes, Galatians, Revelation & Colossians.