Carrot Dosa

Carrot Dosa

This is the most easy and tasty breakfast which I can think of while I dont have any batter ready at home for idlis or dosas. You don't have to bother for making the dosa mixture by spending time soaking and grinding, and fermenting. This recipe best suits working women and bachelors as well who usually are rushing to office in the morning or reaching home really late and looking for what to eat for dinner. :)

Enjoy making this easy delicious dosas.

Ingredients:
Dosa Batter - 1 cup (I used left over dosa batter) Optional
Rice flour - 1/4 cup
Maida/ All purpose flour - 1/4 cup
Rava - one hand ful (optional)
Wheat flour - one hand ful (optional)
Salt to taste
Green chillies - 2 tspn (Finely chopped) If you don't have green chillies, you can use Chilly powder
Curry leaves - 2 tspn (Finely chopped)
Coriander leaves - 2 tspn (Finely chopped)
Fresh Coconut - 2 tspn (grated) Optional
Jeera - 1 tspn
Sour Yogurt - 1/4 cup (If you are not using Dosa batter)
Onion - 1  no. (Finely chopped)
Carrot - 1 no. (Grated)
Water - enough to mix the batter

Method:
1) Mix all the ingredients into a fine batter. Keep the consistency like dosa batter.
2) Take a flat pan, and once it is hot, take one cup full of dosa batter and pour it in the center of the pan, and spread it in circular motion forming a thin (As thin as you can) dosa.
3) Spread oil around the dosa and allow it to cook/roast well.
4)Take a spatula and try to lift the dosa starting from the edges
5) Server these dosas with any chutney or even chutney powder or eat it just like that :)

Note:
1) You may not be able to make very thin dosa. It would be slightly thick.
2) If you don't like the onion and carrot mixture to be mixed in the dosa batter, you can even spread it on the dosa while its cooking.
- For this, just saute the onion, coriander, carrot curry leaves on the flat pan with 1/2 tspn of oil and salt as per taste and keep it aside. And spread 1 - 2 tspn on this mixture on the dosa.
3) You can add ragi flour as well to this mixture.

Sending this recipe to : http://www.simplysensationalfood.com/2012/01/event-announcement-lets-cook-with-left.html

 
Cheers!
Madhavi

Ragi Dosa

Instant Ragi Dosa

Ingredients:
Left over dosa / idly batter
Ragi flour - 1 cup
Maida / All purpose Flour - 1/4 cup
Jeera - 1/4 tspn
Green chillies - 2 nos. (Finely chopped) You can substitute it with Chilly powder as well
Curry leaves - 1 tspn finely chopped
Coriander leaves - 2 tspn
Onion - 1 no. (finely chopped)
Carrot - 1 no. (Grated)
Ginger - finely grated 1 tspn
Yogurt - 1/4 cup
Salt to taste
Water as required
Oil for making dosas

Method
1) In a vessel, mix all the ingredients by adding enough water to bring the batter to the right consistency. (Make it little more thinner than the usual dosa batter)
2) Now, heat a flat pan, and once its hot, pour this mixture around the pan to form a circle (You may not be able to use the spoon to turn it around the pan). Keep on medium flame.
3) Pour 1 tspn of oil around the dosa, and once its cooked turn it around to cook on the other side.
4) Now dosa is ready to be served with any favourite chutney of your choice

Notes:
1) Make sure you are cooking the dosas on low - medium flame, as ragi need more time to cook.
2) If you have any left over dosa batter, you can add the same mixture and make use of it.
3) Instead of adding raw onions to the batter directly, you can roast the onions along with some grated carrot and coriander leaves with little oil and add salt to it and add this mixture on top of the dosa and serve.

Sending this to http://www.simplysensationalfood.com/2012/01/event-announcement-lets-cook-with-left.html

Cheers!
Madhavi

Onion Rice

ಈರುಳ್ಳಿ ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ

My lunch today.  ನೆನ್ನೆ ಶೇಷ ಇವತ್ಹಿನ ವಿಶೇಷ :)

Enjoyed limited Onion rice. Easy and tasty recipe.

Ingredients:

Rice 1 cup (Previous days rice also will do)
Ground nuts 2 - 3 tbl spn

Chana Dal - 1 tbl spn
Urad Dal - 1 tbl spn

Oil - 2 - 3 tbl spn

Curry leaves 3-4

Onions: 2 nos. (chopped)
Green chillies 3 - 4 nos .
Fresh coriander leaves - 1/4 cup finely chopped.

Turmeric - 1/4 tspn
Salt as per taste
Sugar a pinch.  (Optional)

Method:

1)Cook rice with a spoon of oil, such that each grain is separate and keep aside. I used previous day's rice.

2) Heat oil in a kadai; Temper with mustard seeds, peanuts, chana dal, urad dal, curry leaves, then add the chopped green chillies and fry till done.  Now add chopped onions and add salt immediately (Make sure the groundnuts are roasted just nice not under fryed or over fryed..)

3) Add this mixture to the cooked rice and add chopped coriander leaves and mix well.

4) Check for the seasoning and serve hot...

Sending this to http://www.simplysensationalfood.com/2012/01/event-announcement-lets-cook-with-left.html

Cheers!

Madhavi

Coconut Semolina / Kobbari Uppittu / Upma

Coconut Upma / Coconut Semolina

How many times are you bored to spent hours making dosa in the morning, or making chutney for idly and making it a detailed breakfast.

Today is one of those days, where I ran out of bread and NO Batter in the fridge to make dosas. I was looking to make something quick as I woke up late after a late Sunday night. (I know it is a bad planning) Sometimes its good to get lazy. :)

Yeah, this is a quicky and fortunately one of my husband's favourite breakfast too. So, here you go with this less than 10 min recipe. :)

Ingredients:
Semolina - 1 cup (Pre-roasted)
Ginger - 1 inch Piece finely chopped
Green chillies - 2 nos (Finely chopped)
Coconut - 1/4 to 1/2 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Hot Water - 1 cup
Mustard seeds - 1 tspn
Channa dal - 1 tspn
Urad dal - 1 tspn
Salt as per your taste.
Ghee for garnishing (Optional)
Oil for tempering - 2 tspn

Method:
1) In a pan, add oil, and once hot, add mustard seeds.
2) Once they splutter, add channa dal and urad dal and fry them till they turn golden brown.
3) To this add Water and Milk together and add salt to taste
4) To this add ginger, coconut and bring it to a boil.
5) Add semolina slowing mixing it into the boiling water making sure there are no lumps formed.
6) Once done, close the lid on the pan and let it cook for 1 minute.
7) Now, open the lid and add ghee and close again and let it cook for another minute and turn off the stove.
8) Serve hot with chutney powder / Pickle / even chutney of your choice.

Cheers!
Madhavi

Bread Toast

Bread Toast
There is always a moment during the weekends while me and my hubby gets nostalgic about the easy access bakery items, chats, etc in Bangalore. That is when we start to feel extra hungry and start to crave for those which are not available here.

This is one of them, so we just tried (Coz its the easiest of the lot, and we dont need an Oven). Its easy and delicious. Just nice for evening snacks accompanied with a cup of hot filter coffee..  Hmm ...

Here you go

Ingredients:
Grated carrot - 1 cup
Onion - 1 (Finely chopped)
Fresh Coriander - 3 tbl spn (Finely chopped)
Chilli powder - 1/2 tspn
Oil - 1 tspn
Butter - 1 tspn
Jeera - 1/4 tspn
Tomato - 1/2 (Finely chopped)
Turmeric - 1/4 tspn
Bread  - 4 slices

 Method:
1) In a small pan, add oil, once its hot, add jeera, and onions, salt and saute till onions are done.
2) Once done, add tomato, and grated carrot and saute till carrots are cooked.
3) Now, add chilli powder, turmeric powder and mix chopped coriander and saute for few seconds.
4) Now mix well and keep aside.
5) On a flat pan, toast bread with little butter on both sides and keep aside. (You can also use a toaster if you have)
6) Now, to set the sandwich, take one slice of bread and add 1 tspn of carrot mixture and close the bread with another slice of bread and cut them in the middle / diagonal (As you wish)
7) Now repeat the same for as many pairs of bread slices as you want. ( the above serves for around 2 -3 pairs of bread)
8) And serve with ketchup and a cup of hot coffee / tea

I am sending this as an entry to http://cooking4allseasons.blogspot.com/2011/06/announcing-sandwich-mela.html  hosted by Srivalli


Cheers!
Madhavi