Masala Dosa

 

Kambu Dosa ( Pearl Millet Dosa)

Ingredients:

Kambu (Pearl millet) – 1 1/2 cups
Rice - 1/2 cup
Urad dhal – 1/2 cup
Fenugreek seeds – 1 tsp
Salt – As required

Recipe:

Soak kambu+rice+methi and Urad dhal seperately in water for about 6-8 hrs. I usually soak them overnight and grind it in the morning. Grind kambu+rice and urad dhal seperately and mix both the batter thoroughly to combine. Add salt while mixing. Keep it at room temperature for about 8 hrs to ferment. Make sure the vessel size to store the batter is bigger than the batter amount as the latter will rise once it ferments. Pearl millet batter gives a unique flavor once it ferments. The batter will tend to become watery if it ferments too much. Refrigerate the batter, if you are not making dosas immedietly. Heat a non-stick tawa and pour a laddle of batter in the centre, spread out with the back of the laddle to a thin round. Pour a tsp. of oil over the dosa. Loosen the dosa with a spatula at the edges, turn and cook the other side.. Serve with chutney .


Tips: Use ice cold water while grinding urad dal.

Easy Kuzhi Paniyaram

Ingredients

Dosa Batter - 1 1/2 cups
Onion - 1 medium finely chopped
Green chillies - 2 finely Chopped
Ginger - 1/2 Inch grated
Corriander Leaves - 2 tbs chopped
Curry Leaves - few
Cooking Soda - a pinch(optional)

Tampering

Mustard seeds
Urad Daal
Hing

Method

Combine all the Ingredients with the left overdosa batter and mix well. Tamper the mustard seeds and add it to the batter. Grease the Panniyaram pan which is similar to the Aebleskiver pan available in Target Stores. Fill up the
moulds in half. Cook in Slow heat . Flip the panniyaram with a stick (I used the grill stick). Serve hot with Chutney.

Note: I used the leftover dosa batter. But my mom makes Paniyaram with a batter specially ground for it. I guess it has more urad dhal proportion to make it spongier.

Cracked Wheat Upma

My mom makes Cracked wheat upma at least once in a week for breakfast/dinner for my dad. Cracked wheat was one among the item in the untouchable list when I was young. So she used to make different items for me and my sisters whenever she made this. Now being mom of two, I don't have any untouchable list (to be a role model to my kids). Cracked wheat is available in most of the Indian stores in USA but I couldn't find the finely ground sambha rava which is available back in INDIA. You can also pressure cook the samba rava (1:3) like you do for rice and have with sambar and vegetable. This is a very nice alternative to rice.





Ingredients

Crack Wheat (Samba Rava) 2 Cups
Cut mixed vegetables 1 cup
Green chillies 3
Red chillies 2
Ginger 1 inch piece
Curry Leaves few sprigs
Mustard Seeds

Method

Dry roast the cracked wheat in a pan and keep it aside. Break the red chillies into two and slit the Green Chillies lengthwise. Heat the oil in a pan. Put urad dhal and mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds start to splutter , add green chillies, red chillies, onions, ginger and curry leaves. Sautee them until the onions turn into golden brown. Add the mixed vegetables. Sautee till the vegetables becomes soft. Add water and cover the pan with a lid. Once the water comes to rolling boil, add the cracked wheat slowly to avoid lumps. Keep stirring and cover the pan with a lid . Let the sambha rava gets cooked in reduced heat for 5 mts. Garnish with freshly grated coconut on top if needed.

Serve with Chutney or pickle.

Tapiaco and Lentils Adai