Kokam Sarbat

Kokam Sarbat

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

One of the most refreshing and healthy drink that my mom makes. I had been making this for a while but today got chance to click some snaps and hence posting the recipe.


Ingredients
10-12 Kokam
3 Spoon Sugar
1/2 Spoon Jeera Powder
1/4 Spoon Corriander Powder
Salt to taste

Method

• Soak kokam in 1/2 cup of water for an hour
• Add it to the mixie. Add 3.5 cups of water, sugar, jeera powder, corriander powder and salt to taste.
• Pulse the mixture till kokams are very fine.
• Strain through and serve.

Notes
You can serve it on ice, but then use 1/2 cup less water so that the taste of the sarbat itsn't diluted.

Samak Rice with Groundnut Curry

Samak Rice with Groundnut Curry

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

When I was small mom use to cook this on all fasting days and I use to be waiting for such days as I just loved this amazing taste of rice with groundnut curry. Today when i heard from so many people that its shivraatri i couldn't resist fasting and eating this.

Samak Rice


Ingredients
1 cup Samak (Varyacha tandul)
2 cup Water
1/2 spoon Jeera
2 spoon Ghee
Salt to taste

Method

• Heat ghee in a pan
• Add jeera and let it sputter
• Add samak in it and fry till its pinkish
• Mix water, salt and cook on medium flame

Notes
You can add little ground nut powder as well while frying the rice. That will give nice taste and then no need to prepare groundnut curry. But i like groundnut curry so i didn't add it :)

Groundnut Curry


Ingredients
1 cup Groundnut
3 cup Water
2 spoon Jaggery
3-4 Green Chillies
3-4 Kokam
1/2 spoon Jeera
Salt to taste
1 spoon Ghee

Method

• Roast the groundnuts and remove the cover
• Grind the groundnuts by mixing water
• In a pan heat this grinded mixture
• Add jaggery, crushed green chillies, kokam and salt to it and boil
• In another pan heat the ghee, add jeera to it and let it sputter
• Mix this heated ghee and jeera with the boiling curry

Notes
One must grind the groundnuts to very fine paste otherwise water won't mix well with the curry and curry will have the groudnut paste at bottom and watery curry on top which doesn't taste nice at all

Sol Kadhi

Sol Kadhi

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

This is very famous item from konkani cuisine and it tastes awesome.. And above all its very digestive and also helps a lot in acidity.. You can drink it like it or can eat it with rice.. in all combinations it tastes awesome :) So here is the recipe


Ingredients
8 kokams
1 coconut
1-2 cloves of garlic
salt to taste
corriander for garnishing

Method

• Soak the kokams in 1/4 cup of water
• Preapare milk from coconut, while preparing it add garlic cloves as well so that only its falvour is in coconut milk and not the pieces
• Add this coconut milk to the soaked kokam water
• Add salt to taste and garnish with the corriander

Notes
If you do not like garlic taste you can prepare coconut milk without garlics, but garlic gives it nice taste
You get very good kokams in goa, they are red and sour which give nice red colour to the kadhi
You need to customize number of kokams according to their sourness. I have very old kokams so i need to add them in little extra quantity and even then it doesnot give the colour to the curry though it tastes good. you might need 1-2 kokams less if your kokams are red, sour and new.