Neer Dosa!

This dosa gets its name from ‘Neer’, that means water in kannada,(since the batter for this dosa is very watery.) Ingredients: very simple! 2 Cups Rice/ ½ Cup Grated Coconut/ Salt To Taste/ Oil
Method:
Soak the rice for a few hours preferably overnight. Grind the soaked rice to a fine paste along with grated coconut. Add salt, enough water to make a thin batter. Keep aside for 2 hours.

Prepare dosas:
Apply oil on tawa first & then just put the watery batter on the tawa & spread to make it as thin as possible on the full tawa. Keep it covered on low flame & then once done remove it from tava put it on a plate let it cool for a minute & the fold it thrice to form a triangle.

Enjoy with Green or Red Chutney!!

Green Chutney:
Grated coconutCoriander (cilantro) chopped Green chilies 3-4 (depending on how spicy you want it)lemon juiceChana splits(dalia),Salt To Taste

Method:
Grind Grated coconut, coriander & chilies with little to form a paste. Add half a spoon of lime juice, dalia & grind again. Add salt as per taste.
You can also give a tadka of curry leaves & mustard seeds.

Red Chutney:

Grated coconutRed chillies - 10-12(depending on how spicy you want it)Tamarind - (small ball)Salt - (as per taste) required Seasoning - Oil - 2 tsp, 1 tsp urad dal, mustard seeds, pinch of hing(asafoetida), few red chilli pieces & curry leaves
Method:

In a small pan fry the red chillies. Grind the coconut, red chillies, salt and tamarind adding minimum water required. Heat oil in a pan & add urad dal, mustard seeds, red chillies & a pinch of hing. After mustard seeds starts to splutter, add curry leaves. Fry till crispy & then add this to the grounded coconut chutney.

-Akki.

'Chitranna’

‘Chitranna’ or Lemon Rice Southie dish you can easily make when in a hurry.
You can also make it with leftover rice. :)



Ingredients:

Procedure:

In a kadai heat one tablespoon of ghee/oil. First add peanuts or cashews, fry them until they turn light brown. Remove aside. Then add a little more oil & add cumin and mustard seeds, when they splutter add curry leaves first, split green chillies, chana dal, urad dal & potatoes (optional). Sauté them till golden and crisp. In the end, sprinkle half teaspoon turmeric for that golden yellow color. Mix and then sauté for another one to two minutes. Add the peanuts & cooked rice in the kadai with the sautéed ingredients, add salt (as per taste) & at last sprinkle a spoon or two of limejuice.
Note: Rice absorbs the limejuice & the tanginess you feel during the preparation reduces in intensity after sometime.

-Akki

My Sunday treats

Sunday's incomplete without doing something worthwhile in the kitchen..
Made a batch of Oats ladoo.. this time with jaggery instead of sugar..

And some Eggless choclate cake..

-Naina

Kobi Cha Zunka

Last week, I just saw cabbage in my fridge, and was bored to make the regular sabzi, so took some besan, and thought of creating something innovative..
The gas was occupied, so used the microwave! And here's Kobi cha Zunka
For those who don't know.. To know what is Zunka, click here or here



This one goes to Microwave Easy cooking Potluck Party

You need:
1/2 a cabbage (chopped)
2 cups besan / gram flour
1-2 chopped green chillies
Some chopped coriander (optional)
1/4 tsp Tumeric powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
some curry leaves
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp lemon juice
Salt and sugar to taste

In a microwavable dish, take some oil, add the mustard seeds, and micro on high for 1 min. Add curry leaves, and again micro on high for 1 min.
Add to it all the other ingredients (except lemon juice) and enough water, to make a idli batter type consistency.
Microwave for 10-15 mins (or until done), and keep stirring every 2 mins for the 1st 5 mins, and 1 min for the next 5 mins.
Finally add the lemon juice, and it can be served as a zunka.
Variation: In the pic you see, I cooked it a little more, so that it dried up, and make cutlets of it. Later we even shallow fried it it make it a bit crispy. Good as a snack too!
-Naina

Strawberry Oats Pudding

Made this last weekend.. not bad.. in fact quite good if you don't mind the stickyness of oats..

Ingredients:

300 ml milk

2 sachets of strawberry oats (I used the quacker brand) (you could also use the normal oats, and add cardamom or kesar or any syrup for the flavour)

1 tbsp corn flour

sugar to taste

I roasted the oats a bit, and turned them in the mixie to a fine powder.

Then, mixed the corn fl0ur in 1-2 spoons of milk and kept it aside.

Heated the remaining milk, added sugar. Then added the oats powder and cornflour paste. Kept stirring till it thickened.

Let it cool, and a yummy healthy dessert is ready!!

-Naina

Stuffed Chilli / Capsicum

This one’s my mom-in-law’s recipe for stuffed chilli

The Filling:
2 cups roasted besan
1/4 tsp tumeric powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
2 tsp coriander powder
A bunch of chopped coriander leaves
Sugar to taste (1 to 2 tsp)
Salt to taste
Lemon juice to taste (say, juice of 1/2 a lemon)
2-3 tbsp oil
(We never cook by measurements, always by 'andaaz' as per my mom in law!!.. you can tell the taste by the smell too of the food too!)

Cook the filling in oil, until the masalas get cooked. We generally taste and add anything else required..

Take a few fat green chillies / capsicum, slit and fill them with the filling mixture.

Then cook the stuffed chillies in some oil in a kadhai / pan. Cover and cook and keep stirring the chillies every 2 mins.

Enjoy as a yummy snack or main course!

Tip: You can use the same filling masala andcook chopped capsicum in it!
-Naina

Garlic Bread

Very easy to make Tastes yummmmmmm!!
This one goes for Priya's Sunday Snacks Event


Ingredients
Bread(Wheat bread or normal bread)
Butter
Cream
Cheese
Garlic
Olive oil
Oregano paste

Procedure:


Take 6-7 garlic cloves and grind in a grinder till it becomes smooth paste.


Take some butter and keep it at room temperature so taht it becomes soft.Mix the garlic paste and cream with the butter.


Now cut the bread slices into half.Apply the butter garlic mixture on the bread .Coat the sides with olive oil.


Put some shredded cheese on this and roast in the oven till the cheese melts.Else you may put it on an open tawa and roast it till cheese melts!!


Add the oregano falkes/paste for flavour
Serve in a wooden /straw basket

Enjoy with Soup
You can also have it with pasta
Or if you are crazy like me;) have it for breakfast even with a nice cupppa coffeee !!




Bon Appetit
Ash