Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Rava Dosa

Lesser maida recipe:

Rava (unroasted) - 1/3 cup
Maida - 1/3 cup
Rice flour -1 cup
Add salt, jeera, curry leaves, g chilli, ginger, peppercorns.
Mix with buttermilk.
Make it v dilute

Dosa pan should be very hot.

Other recipe:

1 :2:4 = Rava:Maida:rice  this works perfectly

0.25:0.5:1 cup rava:maida:rice. For this measure 1 tsp salt. 3.5 cups water and 0.5 cup buttermilk.





Thursday, February 20, 2020

Kootu with g chilli

No sambar powder
Mong dal
Toor deal
Kadala parupu
To grind - jeera, g chilli and coconut
Boil vegetable with turmeric, salt, Hing, curry leaves and water.
Add the ground mixture and cooked dal.
Tempering: oil mustard seeds, urad dal, red chilli, curry leaves.

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Pepper Kootu

Boil 3/4 cup yellow mong dal in instant pot for manual 5 mins

Boil Podalanga with water, turmeric, salt, curry leaves, Hing, sambar powder -1.5 tsp.

Roast with oil - 1 spoon jeera, 1 spoon urad dal, pepper - 8 pieces, 1 red chilli, 1 spoon raw rice.
After this cools down, dry grind it without adding water.

Add the ground mixture and boiled mong dal to the cooked vegetable.

Tempering:  in oil, add mustard seeds, urad dal, res chilli -1, curry leaves.



Monday, February 17, 2020

Parupu usili

Soak 1 cup Toor dhal 1/4 or 1/3 cup Channa dhal with 2 red chilli for 2 hours. Drain the water and grind to a coarse thick mix using whipper blade with hing & salt to taste & lill manjal . The dhal mix she be thick not watery. 

Vaazhapoo: wash & clean vazhaipoo. Drain so that there is not much water. Mix with the dhal. Spread on a flat plate . make 5 or six holes & steam for abt 20 mins or till done. A knife should come out clean . cool. Crumble. Make the curry.

Beans: 
Put the dhal mixture in greased idli plate or greased parupu thattu and steam for 10 mins. Once it cools down break it and pulse it 2 to 3 times in blender.

Cut beans into small pieces. In a kadai, add oil, mustard seeds, Hing, curry leaves, water, salt for beans and cut beans. Cover with lid. Once the beans is cooked add usili and saute for few minutes.

Saturday, February 15, 2020

Sweet dosa/Vella dosa

sweet wheat dosa:
1) 1 cup wheat atta 
2) 1/4 cup rice flour (try with 1.5 tbsp rice flour)
3) 3/4 jaggery (break it) 
add 1 cup water and melt jaggery. Filter and add elachi powder.let it cool down.

Mix them together. Batter should be free flowing but not too thin.

Cook with ghee on low- medium flame. 

Ragi dosa

1 cup Ragi 
1/3 cup Rice
1/4 cup Rava;
1/4 cup butter milk. Add water as necessary

Green chilli, Ginger, Curry Leaf - grind without water or add as pieces
Jeera a little; salt to taste;

The pan should be very hot, reduce before adding maavu and flip it after it becomes risps. Don't cover it with lid.

another variation found online - yet to try:
0.5 cup ragi
0.25 cup rice flour
2 tbsp wheat flour

Add one like above.. can add little bit of chopped onions too.