Aakura pulla koora / Totakoora pulla koora

Preparation time: 40 minutes
Serves: 3 adults

Ingredients:

1. Amarnath leaves (తోటకూర) : 1 big bunch (Or the cleaned leaves filling 3 litre container to brim)
2. Tomatoes                             : 5
3. Onions                                 : 4
4. Green chillies                      : 10 to 15
5. Tamarind                             : 1 big lemon sized
6. Mustered & sesame             : few for seasoning
7. Oil                                        : 1 tea spoon for seasoning.

Procedure

1. Cleanse the Amarnath leaves bunch and ensure to keep tender stems for nutritious benefits.
2. Slice tomatoes, onions, and green chillies.
3. Soak the tamarind in a tea glass of water.
4. Add the cleansed leaves; sliced onions, tomatoes, and green chillies in the pressure cooker. Pour 2 tea glasses of water to it.
5. Turn on the stove and keep it in simmer for 3 whistles. Meanwhile, prepare seasoning.
6. Whisk the content in pressure cooker, pour the tamarind juice into it in periods by tasting it.
7. Add the seasoning to the cooker and heat it for 5 minutes in simmer. You now excelled in making this curry.

Dry Fruit Cake - in pressure cooker

Serves: 7 people
Preparation time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Dry-fruit cake / plum cake without wine in pressure cooker

Ingredients:

1. All purpose flour (Maida): 1 tea glass
2. Butter:                                 1 tea glass
3. Eggs                                    1 tea glass (probably 3 in quantity)
4. Sugar                                  1 tea glass
5. Dry fruits(dates, raisins etc)1 tea glass
6. Vanilla essence                   1 tea spoon
7. Baking-Powder                   1 1/2 tea spoon
8. Baking-Soda                        a pinch
9. Cardamon(Optional)           3 no.
10. Cinnamon stick(Optional)  1/2 inch 

Procedure:

1. Sieve Maida; grind Sugar,Cinnamon stick, and Cardamon; liquidate Butter by keeping it in room temperature or by exposing it to heat; de-seed and slice the dates into small pieces.
2. Mix and beat Miada,butter, sugar, eggs, Baking-powder, Baking-soda and vanilla essence with a whisk or in a mixer-grinder. Finally add dry-fruits to it and mix them thoroughly.
3. Grease the bowl with butter, which you are planning to keep in pressure cooker, and pour the content to the bowl.
4. Place the bowl in a pressure cooker and place the cooker on stove in simmer for 45 minutes. After 30 minutes, check readiness of cake by poking the sharp object such as knife to the cake. If the knife comes out clean, then you can suppose it to be ready and turn off the stove.
5. Do not try to remove the cake from the bowl for at least an hour. Once cake turned cool, pop it out of the bowl, slice, and eat them.

Note:

• The bowl that you are planning to use in pressure cooker should be wider.
• If you planning to cook in oven: place the pan in the preheated oven at 180 C for 20 minutes.