Adai Dosa

Adai Dosa

Ingredients

1. Rice– 4 cups
2. Red gram/Toor dal/Togri Bele - 2 cup
3. Bengal gram dal/Kadle Bele/Channa dal – 1 cup
4. Moong dal/Heasru Bele/Green gram dal – 1 cup
5. Urad dal/Black gram dal?Uddina Bele – 3 Tbsp
6. Ginger – One inch
7. Red chillies – 2
8. Green Chillies -2
9. Grated coconut (Optional) – ¼ cup
10. Cilantro (Optional)- ¼ of a bunch
11. Salt to taste
12. Water as required for frinding the batter
13. Oil as required for making the dosas.

Method

1. Soak rice and dals ( 1 thru 5) separately overnight in water.
2. Grind the dals and rice separately to a batter of coarse consistency (Like Idli batter) by adding water as required. Add salt to the batter to taste.
3. Grind ingredients 6 thru 10 with water separately and add it to the batter. This is optional. You can just add salt to the batter and make the dosas and omit adding this.
4. This batter does not have to be fermented and can be made into dosas immediately.
5. Before making the dosas add some more water to the batter so that it is not too thick or watery. Should be in-between.
6. Heat the dosa tava/gridle on medium flame.
7. Take the batter in a ladle and pour it on the tava and spread the batter with the back of the ladle starting from the middle going outwards in circles. The dosas do not have to be too thin as you really cannot spread the batter too much.
8. Then take 1.5 tsp of oil and put it along the edge of the dosa and in the middle. Let is cook for 2-3minutes. The edges will start becoming glen brown and it is time to flip the dosa.
9. Cook the dosa on the other side and crispy delicious Adai are ready to be served.

Tip: If you have batter reaming and it becomes sour after couple of days. You can chop onions and add it to the batter and make the adai. Also this is a modified version of the adai that my mom makes. The one she makes back home is the original adai and it is made thick and crispy and just eating one aid will make you full. You can also add grated Carrots, finely chop mint leaves and onions to the addi dosai. When you spread the batter, spread this veg mixture on the dosa and cover with a lid. Then flip the dosa and cook the underside.

Stuffed Bhindi/Okra

It was raining last evening after I came home from work and the damp weather kind of put me in a mood to cook something warm, crispy and spicy and at the same time I did not want to make something healthy and avoid any deep fried dish. . I opened the fridge and saw the Okras and decided to make some crispy stuffed Okras and some Tomato Rasam/Saaru. So I whipped up the ingredients for both the dishes and had them ready for dinner by about 7:30 PM. We enjoyed our delicious dinner watching the monsoon/autumn rain. It was just wonderful! Here is the recipe for both the dishes. Please try it out and post your feedback/opinion on the blog.

Crispy stuffed Bhindi/Okra /Bendekayi

Ingredients

1. Bhindi/Okra – 25 Nos,
2. Besan flour/Kadle hittu - 1 cup
3. Red Chili powder – 2Tbsp
4. Amchur Powder – 3 Tbsp
5. Jeera powder – 1Tbsp
6. Shania/coriander powder – 1tsp
7. MDH Tava fry masala or any Garam masala – 2 Tbsp
8. A pinch of Haldi/Turmeric powder
9. Sugar (Optional)–A pinch
10. Salt to taste
11. Water as required
12. Oil – 5- 6 Tbsp

For seasoning

13. Mustard - 1 tsp
14. A pinch of hing

Method

1. Wash the whole Okra and pat them dry in a towel.
2. Mix ingredients 1 thru 10 by adding water little by little to form a thick paste.
3. Slit the Okras in the middle starting little away from the head thru the end.
4. Use a small spreading knife to take out the stuffing and fill the slit Okras (See Picture)
5. Take a large frying pan/Tava. Put 4-5 Tbsp oil and shake the tava to spread the oil.
6. Add mustard and hing and let the mustard sputter on low heat.
7. Put the Okra in the pan one by one and cook on low to medium heat. You can close the lid and from time to time you can sprinkle little bit of water so that the Okra and the stuffing inside gets nicely steam cooked.
8. The Okras are cooked when they turn golden brown all sides.
9. It takes about 20 -25 minutes.
10. Enjoy the yummy crispy stuffed Okras
11. Turn off the stove and delicious huli avalakki is ready.

Tip: You can use a non-stick tava or a thick bottomed pan. If you do not like the dryness of this stuffed okra dish you can sauté onion and tomatoes in a little bit of oil and add it to the stuffed Okra. This goes very well with rotis/Chappatis.

Ragi Dosa

Ragi Dosa

I call it the power dosa as it is packed with nutrients and proteins.- Ragi and wheat flour. My kids typically love any kind of dosa and this one is especially very easy to prepare.

Ingredients

1. Ragi flour – 2cups
2. Rava (Coarse/Upittu Rave) – 2 cups
3. Rice flour/Akki hittu- 3/4 cup
4. Wheat flour/godi hittu – 3/4 cup
5. Medium sized onion (Optional) - 2
6. Salt to taste
7. Cumin/Jirige powder – 1 Tsp
8. Pepper Powder - 2 Tsp
9. Green chilies (optional) – 4 or 5 ( I added Banana peppers)
10. Cliantro/Kotmbri soppu - ¼ of a bunch
11. Water as required
12. Oil as required for making the dosas.

Method

1. Mix all the dry flours (from 1- 3) in a big bowl.
2. Add about 2-3 cups water to the flour and mix with hand or a hand mixer and make sure there are no lumps.
3. Add more water as required such that the batter consistency is watery and thin. (like thick soup consistency). You can also add half buttermilk and half water. Refer to the picture
4. Add salt, cumin powder, pepper powder, finely chopped green chilies, onions and cilantro and mix it well into the batter.
5. Let the batter stand for half and hour.
6. Heat the dosa pan on medium flame.
7. Take the batter in a ladle and pour it on the pan starting from outside rim of the pan to inside. You should actually pour it from top and you can see bubbles forming. You do not have to spread the batter with the ladle.
8. Then take 1 tsp of oil and put it along the edge of the dosa and in the middle. Let is cook for 2-3minutes. The edges will start becoming golden brown and it is time to flip the dosa.
9. Cook the dosa for another 2 minutes and take it out of the pan. Crispy healthy, Ragi dosa is ready to be served.

Tip: You can grate carrots and finely chop mint add it to the batter to sneak in some veggies.