Topic started by Mrs.Mano (@ 194.170.168.237) on Thu Feb 1 11:59:51 .
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Hello! I would like to know the recipes with the vegetable'Tapioca'[which is called as 'maravalli kizhangu' in Tamil].

Responses:

• From: NOV (@ ptl-cache6.jaring.my) on: Thu Feb 1 20:08:24
  
  Mrs Mano - Do you like to bake? Here is a nice dessert.
  
  YOU NEED
  
  Tapioca
  Sugar
  Egg
  Salt to taste
  
  TO MAKE
  
  Cut tapioca into small chucks and ground into a paste without adding water. You can use a grinder or blender. Even an ammi can be used :)
  
  Add all the above items and mix well. (the amount will be according to your taste.)
  
  Apply some butter or margarine on your baking tray and dust with flour. Pour batter and bake in hot oven until the top portion turns to a golden colour.
  
  Cut into pieces and serve warm, lukewarm, at room temparature or even chilled. :)
  
  Would you like a masala preparation next? :)
  
  
• From: NOV (@ ptl-cache6.jaring.my) on: Thu Feb 1 20:09:48
  
  BTW, tapioca is not a vegetable, but a root (like potato, yam etc).
  
  
• From: mrs.mano (@ 194.170.168.244) on: Fri Feb 2 06:34:33
  
  thank you, Mr.NOV for the sweet. But it will be helpful if you mention the correct measurements and correct temp and timing for the baking.Do mail the masala preperation,thank you.
  Do you know the oldest preperations in tapioca like adai[kaaram],paniyaram etc?
  
  
• From: NOV (@ ptl-cache6.jaring.my) on: Sun Feb 4 23:20:10
  
  Mrs Mano - That was an old Malay recipe. Originally, it was baked over hot coals, with embers on top of the cover too, to give it a all-round heating effect.
  
  There are no fixed quantity or measurements, as all these would be according to the required taste.
  
  I have no idea about the baking time, as it is usually gauged by the colour.
  
  Sorry. :)
  
  Here is a masala preparation:
  
  YOU NEED
  Tapicoa
  Onion
  Ginger
  Curry leaves
  Mustard seed (kadugu)
  Salt
  Chilly powder.
  
  TO MAKE
  
  Cut tapioca in cubes and cook in boiling water.
  Set aside when cooked.
  
  In a pan, fry the kadugu and when it splatters, add sliced onion, finely chopped ginger and curry leaves. When onion turns transparent add the cooked tapioca, salt and chilly powder and some water if necessary.
  
  Serve hot with steaming rice. :)
  
  
• From: mrs.mano (@ 194.170.1.132) on: Mon Feb 5 07:14:58
  
  Mr.Nov,thank you very much for the masala preperation
  
  
• From: Vijitha (@ ac1.emirates.net.ae) on: Tue Apr 22 10:36:43
  
  Hi! There is a very nice receipe with Tapioca thats my dad's fav. Tastes very good with Fish or Mutton Curry.
  
  
  Tapioca - 2 large
  
  For Paste:
  Coconut - 1/2 cup
  Jeera - 1 pinch
  Green Chillies - according to taste
  Garlic - 1 clove
  Curry Leaves - 3-4 leaves
  
  For Tempering:
  Shallots - 3 nos
  Mustard Seeds - 1 pinch
  Garlic - 1 no
  Dried Red Chillies - 2 nos
  Curry Leaves - Few
  
  Method:
  
  Peel and cut the tapioca into small pieces they don't have to be even. Boil it in salty water and when cooked drain it. Mash this coarsly.
  
  Grind the cocnut, jeera and garlic together into a paste. Now add the green chillies and grind it, in the end add the curry leaves and grind it. (Take care not to overgrind the chillies and curry leaves as they will give out a raw taste and smell, these two have to just coarsly ground). Add this paste to the mashed tapioca and cook it for 2 minutes on a low flame. ( The tapiocas can be mashed after adding the paste also as this will help the paste to mix well with the tapioca)
  
  Finally, slice the shallots and garlic into thin slices. Heat 2 tbsp of oil and add mustard seed, once they have spluttered add the shalotts and garlic and fry adding the dry chillies and the curry leave towards the end. When the shallots and garlic trun light golden brown add this to the tapioca.
  
  This tastes good with a hot and spicy curry. Also the measurements are not acurrate, variations can be made according to taste.
  
  Try it out and tell me how it was.
  
  
• From: R (@ bgp530486bgs.ebrnsw01.nj.comcast.net) on: Sun Apr 27 10:35:30 EDT 2003
  
  Mrs. Mano, U can do as a curry with or without onion just like we do with potato. How about chips? Have u tried them?
  
  Bye
  
  
• From: Mrs.Mano (@ ac1.emirates.net.ae) on: Mon Apr 28 05:49:35 EDT 2003
  
  Hello R!
  I know all these recipes. Just i want to know any kind of different varieties with tapioca like adai, snacks etc.
  
  
• From: Roshini (@ lwl.parexel.com) on: Mon Apr 28 11:43:55 EDT 2003
  
  Hello Mrs.Mano !
  Here is a Maravalli Kizhangu Paniyaram recipe from Revathy Shanmugam (culinary expert & daughter of Late Kavignar Kannadasan )..
  Ingredients:
  M.Kizhangu - 1 kilo
  Coconut scrapings - 1 cup
  dry red chillies - 10
  Sombu / fennel - 1 teaspoon
  salt to taste
  oil for frying
  Method:
  Wash & peel tapioca. Then grate it finely & keep aside. Now take a blender /mixer & grind the redchillies,sombu & coconut without adding water.Finally add the grated tapioca & salt and just grind it for a few seconds until everything blends well.Now heat the paniyaram pan, add required oil . Then fill each kuzhi with 2/3 batter .Cook for a couple of minutes in moderate heat & then allow the next side to cook evenly too.Serve with Chutney or sambhar.
  Hope you enjoy this snack !!
  Cheers
  Roshini
  
  
• From: Mrs.Mano (@ 195.229.241.213) on: Mon Apr 28 14:28:31 EDT 2003
  
  Hello Roshini!
  Really I am delighted to know a different recipe of topioca paniyaram. Thank you very much for giving me this recipe.
  
  
• From: R (@ bgp530486bgs.ebrnsw01.nj.comcast.net) on: Mon Apr 28 21:08:37 EDT 2003
  
  Hi Mrs.Mano,
  
  Heard a few recipes like dosa, vada and a simple sweet from my mom, so would like to share the same.
  
  dosa
  
  Tapioca grated 1 tumbler
  Rice 1/4 tumbler, urad dhal 1/2 of the above rice optional
  
  Grind all the above items, add salt and mix well. After 10 mts or so, make dosas. If u add the dhal, can eat later. Or u have to eat immediately, since the taste wont be nice.
  
  For vada, take 1/4 tumbler urad dhal, and tapioca 1 tumbler.
  
  Grind the above nicely just like urad vada, add salt. do vada, can add pieces of onion. Heard that the taste is really good and soft.
  
  For the sweet, tapioca 1 cup and jaggery less than 1/4 cup.
  
  Prepare thick syrup and cook, mash tapioca. Mix it with the syrup, add 1/2 spn. ghee and cardamom powder. Once it is done, switch the gas off.
  
  The above two recipes were used to make in the neighbourhood, when my mom was young in Salem district. The sweet recipe-she used to do once in a while since it is very good for health.
  
  Bye
  
  
• From: R (@ bgp530486bgs.ebrnsw01.nj.comcast.net) on: Tue Apr 29 08:05:23 EDT 2003
  
  Have u heard about Marchini(made with tapioca) appalam which is very famous in Kerala and also very tasty! Do u know the preparation of the same?
  
  Thanks and Bye
  
  
• From: Mrs.Mano (@ 213.42.2.6) on: Tue Apr 29 14:30:11 EDT 2003
  
  Hello R!
  Thank you very much for the tapioca recipes. I think that the vadai recipe will be a different one. Soon I will try these when I could buy good variety of tapioca here. I dont know about Marchini appalam. Could you post the recipe?
  
  
• From: R (@ bgp530486bgs.ebrnsw01.nj.comcast.net) on: Thu May 1 08:42:31 EDT 2003
  
  Hi Mrs.Mano,
  
  Unfortunately, I too dont know. Whenever I go to Madras, use to buy, that is all.
  
  But, I heard from my mom saying that it is bit difficult to do unlike other appalams. Let us hope that someone will post here.
  
  Bye
  
  
• From: relph (@ d032.wildapache.net) on: Fri Jul 9 20:02:59
  
  I have some dried tapioca and need to know how much water to add and how long to let it set before using
  
  
• From: a (@ 69.0.35.30.adsl.snet.net) on: Fri Jul 9 21:07:24 EDT 2004
  
  WHo's tried the Tapioca at fresh choice?
  
  
• From: KR (@ qrchy0e1.nortelnetworks.com) on: Fri Aug 27 11:46:49
  
  If you are referring to Tapioca pudding at Fresh Choice ? Yes I have. It is very delicious. Top it with toasted Coconut.
  
  

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