Good Friday - Rice Gruel/ Rice Kanji

Good Friday is the victory over man's failure to death and sin; while Jesus exchanged sin and death for redemption and grace.

Rice Gruel is the typical Keralite lunch on Good Friday accompanied with greem gram, spiced buttermilk, pappad and pickle....

Greem Gram Thoran

Ingredients:

Green Gram - 1cup

Coconut Gratings - 1/4cup

Button onioins - 5sliced

Garlic - 2 cloves crushed

Cumin powder - 1/2tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4tsp

Salt to taste

Mustard seeds - 1/4tsp

Curry leaves - 2sprigs

Dried Red chillies - 2 broken

Cook the greem gram in 2 cups of water until it becomes soft and the pan juice dries up (If additional water is required add water inermittently to cook the dal). Grind the coconut gratings, cumin powder, garlic, a couple of button onions to a coarse paste and place into the cooked gram. Cover and cook until the masala is cooked through. Temper the mustard seeds, curry leaves and button onions to a golden colour. Fry the red chilli and turn the tempering into the cooked dal. Stir well and serve.

Spiced Buttermilk

Ingredients:

Yogurt - 1cup

Water - 1cup

Green chilli- 2 thinly sliced

Button onions - 2 thinly sliced

Ginger - 1/4tsp

Few curry leaves 

Salt to taste

Blitz yogurt in a bowl until smooth, add water and rest of the ingredients and stir well. Chill until serving time.

Mango Chutney

Ingredients:

Raw mango - 1 whole peeled, de-seeded and cut into smal pieces

Coconut gratings - 1cup

Button onions - 4

Green chilly - 2

Cumin powder - 1/4tsp

Salt to taste

Grind all the ingredients to a paste adding water little by little. Serve immediately with the kanji.