Food of the Month - Contest

‘Food of the Month’ contest was started in June 2011, and we have completed few rounds successfully.

Even we had few rounds of ‘Food of the Week’ contests to select qualified pictures to the final round.

I am really happy with all of your participation & I never expected this much support from you all at the time of starting. Even I was very new to this blogging world.

I thought of doing some changes to the contest rules. Nothing much. Basically,we do not have‘Food of the Week’ contests. All the submission will go to the Month end contest.

I thought of having a simple theme for the contest. Anyway I will select the theme in a way everybody can participate easily.

Above  are the few changes to our contest.

Other general rules are as below.

1. How to Enter: 

Simply post a photo of a food (matching with the theme) to ‘Food corner’ page wall or email to slfoodcorner@yahoo.com  with following details.

Name of the dish:

Your name or your Blog/page name:

Link/URL for the recipe:

Then I will upload to the album & it will be opened for votes.(votes will be counted from the competition album only)

Pl Check our page wall or Contest-Food of the Month page in our Blog for the ongoing event details.

After that I will publish the album at once.

Voting is via face book page, you can add ‘like’ as a vote

2.Theme for this month

Pl Check our page wall or Contest-Food of the Month page in our Blog for the ongoing event details.

3. Number of Entries: 

You can add up to 3nos of photos

 4. How to win: 

The photo which gets most ‘like’s will be the ‘Food of the Month’.

We will select 5 winners.

 5. Closing date: 

Check our page wall or Contest page in our Blog for the ongoing event details.

6. Award

Actually no monetary value awards yet. (Hope to do in future :) )

But you will gain publicity, recognition and excitement for your work.

Of course you will be featured in my Blog or Face book page with a back link to your Blog or page if any.

And this is the good way to meet foodie friends.

 7. Other Rules:

By submitting a photo, it is assumed that you agree to publish your name in the page wall if you won.

By submitting a photo, it is assumed that I have permission to upload the  photos in my Blog & page, But with your/your Blog/your page name

Hope you all will join to the competition!!!

And make this event fun full & successful!!

Cheers!!!!

Fried Coconut Sambola (Fried Pol sambola)

This is another way of preparing coconut sambol in Sri Lanka.Anyway for this sambol, we use red chili.


Ingredients:

1 cup grated coconut
5-6 small red onion
1 tbs Chilly pieces or 2-3 dried chilly
1 tsp salt
Juice of a lime

For the seasoning
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 sprig curry leaf
½ onion sliced
1 dry red chili crushed into pieces
1 tbspn oil


Directions:

Grind all ingredients except lime  to a fine paste with a mortar and pestle or use a grinder.
Then add lime juice & mix well.
Taste for salt.
Now coconut sambol is ready to serve if we like to eat it fresh. (here is the recipe for fresh Pol Sambola)
Here we are going to season it.
Heat 1tbspn oil in a pan.
Once it starts splutter, add sliced onion, curry leaves & chili pieces.
Sauté for about 1 minute.
Then add the grinded coconut mix above
Mix well.
Let it simmer few minutes in low flame.
Remove from the flame & serve.
Matching well with string hoppers.(Indi appa)

Sharing with the event Veggie/Fruit a month -Coconut 

Pol Mallun(Coconut Mallun / coconut chutney)

Pol mallun or some say Pol mallum is a tasty dish from Sri Lanka.It is some sort of coconut sambol, but cooked in low flame.Pol mallun goes well with string hoppers(Indi appa).May be that’s why some call this ‘String hopper mallun’.

These pictures were taken sometime ago even before starting this blog. But I wanted to share the recipe, as it is a delicious dish from Sri Lanka.(I will change the pictures later :)  )

Here is the recipe

Ingredients (3-4 servings)

2 cups grated fresh coconut

1 Onion sliced
1-2 fresh green chili sliced
1/2 tspn  Turmeric Powder
1 inch piece of cinnamon stick
1 sprig Curry leaf
1/4 tspn Fenugreek Seed
juice of1 small lime
1 piece Goraka or instead use 1-2 tspn of Tamarind paste
Salt to taste

Directions:

Mix all ingredients together. If possible mix with hand, so that all the spice taste will be absorbed by grated coconut

Add about 3-4 tbspn water

Place all the mix in a pan & cook until onions are soft. But you need to stir it time to time.

Adjust salt

Remove from the flame

(Hint: It is tasty if you add 1 tbspn of some maldive fish or pieces of dried fish )


We prepare this dish mostly with String hoppers (Indi appa)

Sharing with the event Veggie/Fruit a month -Coconut