This time 27th June, our anniversary was on a Monday and the girls being girls, who want to eat out at the drop of the hat, were taken out on Sunday, for lunch and ice cream in the local restaurant.
The next day they wanted me to make something different for dinner.
Now since both of them are not there for food during the day and I, good mamma that I am want them to eat something healthy without complaints I made what the girls call tikkas.
So we had paneer tikkas, baby corn and elephant’s foot / Suran / Surangaddi tikkas. We have had paneer tikka in the past I was wondering how they will take to elephant's foot. To say I was needless worrying was an understatement. They loved them!!but I feel they could have done with a little more marination and I should have pricked it with a fork before marination.
Without much ado let’s get down to the ingredients and the methodology---
O !for convenience sake I have divided the recipe as in the morning and evening you may or may not do the same.
Here is a picture of the baby corn hater.
Ingredients:
½ small elephant’s foot / Suran / Surangaddi (about 250 grms)
10-15 baby corn
½ kg paneer
A small ball tamarind
Salt
1 large capsicum, cut to 1’ pieces
1 onion cut to 1’ pieces
1 onion sliced fine
Chat masala
Lime
For the marinade:
5-6 cloves of garlic
½ inch ginger
¼ bunch of fresh coriander
15-20 leaves of pudina/mint
1 green chilli
1 onion (optional)
½ teaspoon red chilli powder
¼ teaspoon haldi/turmeric
½ teaspoon amchoor powder
Salt to taste
2 cups of curds
Method:
In the morning:
1. Cut the elephant’s foot to cubes .If your hands itch rub the tamarind first on the affected part. Then add enough salt, water and the rest of the tamarind and cook for 2 whistles in the cooker. Let the cooker cool naturally.
2. Meanwhile chop the paneer to cubes. Wash the baby corn. Put them in separate bowls
3. Grind all the ingredients in the marinade to a fine paste. Do add the curd in the end and run the mixer.
4. Take about ¾ a cup of the marinade and add it to the paneer and about ¼ cup to the baby corn.
5. Now that the elephant’s foot / Suran / Surangaddi cubes have cooled down a bit add the rest of the marinade to the elephant’s foot / Suran / Surangaddi.
In the evening:
6. Since the toothpick I wanted to use were plastic arranged the elephant’s foot on the grill directly.
7. The marinade that was left over from the elephant’s foot, I transferred to the bowl containing the onion pieces and capsicum pieces.
8. Apply chaat masala to the sliced onions.
9. By now the aroma drew my elder daughter to the kitchen. She started getting the dishes with the salad of onions.
10. When both the sides of the elephant’s foot were done the baby corn went in & lastly the paneer.
11. Then the onions and the capsicum went on the grill.
12. The smells emerging from the kitchen was like flies attracted to a pot of honey and my kitchen was too crowded and I had lots of help threading the tikkis on the tooth picks.
We enjoyed our dinner a lot! I will make tikis soon only this time I will use cauliflower, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, tofu too!! I ma open to suggestions of course!!
Sending this to Just Grilled Event at Kirti's Kitchen !!
Authenticoriyafood says
Wow....this looks interesting!!!! I feel like trying this out at the earliest!!
Archana says
Thanks dear!
kitchen queen says
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revathi says
Awesome platter of grilled veggies... Delicious blend of spices:)
Reva
Now Serving says
Perfect for the summer grilling that happens plentifully in this country! love all the ingredients too!
Priya Sreeram says
belated anniversary wishes archana- must say this is one nice platter 1 loved the detailed morning/evening explanation !
Ramya says
Looks soo yummy..Wud love to give it a try:-)
Hari Chandana says
Looks absolutely gr8.. perfecttttt !!
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Archana says
Thanks kitchen Queen,Revati Priya and Priya, Ramya and Hari Chandana. Love you gals!
Kadhyaa... says
Thats a lovely grilled veggies..looks great
Pushpa says
Happy anniversary grilled corn suran and paneer is interesting and delicious.
divya says
Perfect and tempting snack.. looks absolutely inviting..
Amritha Kalyani says
looks delicious. i love grilled veggies. looks yummmm...
DD says
they look really good and healthy can you link to event going on in my blog!!!
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Sobha Shyam says
very interesting recipe..looks simply great..
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ushaprashanth says
Hi!
Grilled veggies looks lovely!
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal says
That is a great way to grill it for someone who doesn't like a veggie otherwise. Belated anniversary 🙂
Florentina says
you might laugh reading this comment, but I actually thought you cooked an elephant foot :))) I had to Google the Indian name to figure out what you cook :))
Roxana GreenGirl says
You might laugh but I thought you cooked an elephant foot :)) I had to Google the Indian name to figure out what you cooked :))
Archana says
Thanks all of you!
@Florentina and Roxana:I am sorry! since we call it Suran locally I assumed no one will know about it and used the english name. I am truly sorry. Will take care in future.