Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Heerekai / Ridge Gourd Tovve




Ingredients:
Ridge gourd - 1( Medium Size)
Red chillies - 4
Moog Dal - 1 cup
Finely choped ginger - 1 tsp
Coriander leaves
Lemon
Termeric
Hing
Salt
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp (Seasoning)
Uradal - 1/2 tsp (Seasoning)
oil - 2 tsp

Method:
1. Cook Dal and Ridge gourd seperately, mash dal to fine paste and keep it aside
2. In a pan add oil,mustard seeds,Hing, cumin seeds, uradal, red chillies, ginger
3. Add dal and cooked ridge gourd to the above seasoning.
4. Add little termeric,salt and coriander leaves to the above mixture and continue boiling for 5- 10 mins
5. Once stove is switched off add lemon juice to this.
6. Tastes good with rice
Note: Instead of ridge gourd other vegetables like pumkin, cucumber can be used.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Plain Rava Dosa





Ingredients:
  1. Rava - 2 cup
  2. Rice flour - 1 cup
  3. coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
  4. cumin seeds - 1 tsp
  5. salt
  6. curd - 1/4 cup


Method:
  1.  Mix all the ingredients and add water to make consistancy slightly thinner than normal dosa   batter
  2. Heat the tawa and spread batter over tawa and put oil
  3. Once its cooked flip the dosa and cook on other side (Note Keep heat in medium low)
  4. Serve with butter and chutney/ chutney pudi

Crispy Masala Dosa




Ingredients:
Sona masuri rice – 3 cups
Uradal – 1 cup
Poha / Puffed rice – 1/2 cup
Channa dal – 1/2 cup
Methi seeds – 1 tsp

Method:
1. Soak the above ingredients overnight and grind it to fine paste.
2. Add 1 tsp of sugar to the batter( Adding sugar makes dosa crispy and brown)
3. Once dosa batter ferments, add salt and spread it on tawa ( Use ghee/butter to make it more tasty)
4. Serve hot with chutney and Aloo subji.

Set Dosa

Set Dosa



Ingredients:
Sona masuri rice – 1 cup
Uradal – 1/4 cup
Poha / Puffed rice – 3/4 cup
Methi seeds – 1/4 tsp

Method:
1. Soak the above ingredients overnight and grind it to fine paste.
2. Add 1 tsp of sugar to the batter
3. Once dosa batter ferments, add salt and spread it on tawa ( Use ghee/butter to make it more tasty)
4. Serve hot with chutney and Vegetable saagu.