Balekkayi Palya/Kacchhe Kele ki Sabji/Raw Banana Stir Fry

I'm used to eat any dish that my mom makes. May be out of veggies that we get from farm at my grand mom's place or store brought ones. She knows all traditional dishes may be because of the lifestyle they followed when she was a kid. And I very much love those dishes when compared to modern ones. One such favorite dish of mine is using raw banana, balekkayi palya as we call in our language. Whenever I used to ask what are the variations in certain dishes that she brings which make the dish more tasty, she clearly explains me saying the reason behind of adding or not certain ingredients to a curry. It is individual taste which matters but in case of dishes almost me and my mom used to share similar. So never got bored of what she prepares. She tells, for balekkayi palya the seasoning given should be generous else it doesn't taste good. I followed the way she used to prepare and I was very happy with the outcome. It tastes fabulous with rice, I can even eat them as filling for sandwiches replacing potatoes. Anyways lets move on to the recipe.

Olan

If you are my regular reader you would have been definitely waiting for me to finish up writing the Onam delicacies. If you have noticed I had left out Olan recipe and hence the post is up today. I had never ever prepared this olan prior to Onam till date. This was my first try and had got the recipe from a malayali friend of mine. I tried this with Cowpeas and Schmorgurken/Braised cucumbers (a type of cucumber we get here) I started using this type of cucumber lately and started enjoying them in my diet. I hence tried them in Olan on the day of Onam. It was awesome and with minimum spices I could offer this curry with rice to my kid happily. Here I share the recipe.

Shahi Paneer restaurant style

At times I like to pamper myself by visiting restaurants especially Indian restaurants and eat tummy full of meal, starting from soups till desserts. I love the way I get hot curries to eat with Indian flatbreads, all hot. This is just because I never get to eat anything hot especially after I cook as I spend time either taking snaps or serving family. Finally I will end up eating as it is without even warming it up again. Well, not only me, I know all my co-bloggers too would be facing the same. Germany we do get Paneer in supermarkets called as 'hirtenkäse' meant for salads, but I tried it here and it worked like a wonder for me. Yesterday I prepared Shahi Paneer in restaurant style. This time I tried with store bought paneer. In  But I usually make use of home made ones. I had already shared Home made Paneer cubes recipe. Do try this recipe. I bet you would be licking your fingers for sure. I loved it and here goes the recipe.

Cabbage Thoran

I usually prepare cabbage stir fry with chopped cabbage which are not too fine.I have already in my space a way to prepare palya/sabji from cabbage, i.e. Cabbage Palya. For thoran, as the Keralites prepare requires us to chop the cabbage very fine, or grate them or even make use of a food processor to serve the purpose. I grated the cabbage. As grating is involved, it requires no extra water to cook not it takes much time to get cooked. In cabbage thoran usually shallots are used. Even they are chopped fine as the cabbage. But since I'm no to onions on festival days, I avoided onions/shallots in thoran. I prepared it in a very simple way as below.

Puli Inji

A must part of Onam Sadya is an appetizer made out of tamarind and ginger known as Puli Inji. I somehow fell in love with this when I got to eat Onam Sadya for the first time when I was a 3rd standard student in a place called Kanjangad where I did my initial schooling. In a temple nearby we were offered Onasadya meal during Onam. I came home and did enquire my mother about this appetizer as it was very new one for me. For me and my family Onam is just the Onam feast we enjoy may be because though our hometown is in Kerala, we are not Malayalees and hence never knew its significance other than the feast part. Well from past one week I was really not in a mood to blog for my kid was not keeping well. Now that she is getting well I, as promised, writing up for you the puli inji recipe. I apologise for having not updated it one by one then after displaying my onam thali in my previous post of pazham pradhaman. Here goes the recipe for puli inji.