Ingredients:
Sona masoori rice 3 cups
Salt to taste
Grated coconut 1 cup
Cucumber peeled chopped 1 big
( I used one big continental cucumber)
Soak rice in water for 3-5 hours
Drain the water and grind with salt,coconut and cucumber
Make a thin batter adding enough water
Batter should be like neeru dosa batter
Heat non stick tawa pour a laddlefull of batter into a thin layer
Cover the tawa with a lid ,cook for 2- 3 minutes.
Take the dosa out of tawa using spatula.
Serve with chutney or curry....
Ingredients:
Wheat flour 2 cups
Salt to taste
Water to make dough.
Oil to deep fry.
In a bowl add wheat flour ,salt and water.
Mix well and add enough water to make pliable dough.
Keep aside for 1/2 an hour
Take a small ball of dough and roll it into small chapathi.
Deep fry in the oil.
Serve with sagu or potato palya... Enjoy.
Ingredients:
Chopped vegetables 3 cups
( I used choko,carrot,beans,peas)
Onion 1 chopped
Tomato 1 chopped
Oil 1 tbs
Mustard seeds 1 ts
Salt to taste
To grind
Coconut grated 1 cup
Coriander seeds 1 tbs
Cumin seeds 1 ts
Dalia( roasted Chana dal) 2 tbs
Cinnamon 1 cm piece
Cloves 2-4
Green chilli 3-5
Coriander leaves 4-5 sprigs
Ginger 1 inch
Grind all the ingredients under to grind into paste
Cook the vegetables adding enough water.
Heat oil add mustard seeds ,when they splutter add onion fry till translucent
Add tomato fry for 3-5 minutes
Add paste ,vegetables , salt and enough water
Bring to boil .
Serve with poori or chapathi,set dosa...
Ingredients:
Sona masoori rice 1 cup
Salt to taste
Grated coconut 1/2 cup
Jaggery 1 cup grated
Cardamom pods powdered 3-4
Water to grind
Method:
Soak rice for 3-4 hours.
Grind the rice adding pinch of salt and water to a smooth paste.
Heat a Kadai add the batter and start stirring
Batter should be like milkshake consistancy.
stir continuously do not let lumps to form.
When it starts to thicken add grated jaggery and cook
Have a little taste ,you should feel batter is cooked
Add grated coconut and cardamom powder ,stir for 2-4 minutes.
Pour on greased plate and cool completely.
Cut into any shapes ,serve and enjoy...
| Ingredients: |
For dough:
Maida 1 cup
Salt to taste
Water as required
for filling:
Grated coconut 1 cup
Jaggery according to taste
Cardamom powder 1 ts
Oil to deep fry
Method:
Make chapathi like dough using maida ,salt and water.
Prepare the filling.
Roll the small ball of dough like chapathi,place a table spoon of filling on centre and close the edges of dough and make the shape of modaka .
Deep fry in oil until golden brown.
This dish is made on Ganesha festival as offering to lord Ganesha.
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| Usha's |
Ingredients:
Okra chopped 500 gm
Onion chopped 2
Tomato puréed 3
Oil 2+ 2 tbs
Cumin seeds 1ts
Ginger and garlic paste 2tbs
Turmeric powder1/2 ts
Salt to taste
Chilli powder 1 ts
Coriander powder 1 tbs
Cumin powder 1 ts
Garam masala 2 ts
Method:
Heat 2 tbs oil add okra and fry for 10 minutes or until sliminess is gone and okra 3/4 cooked.
Keep aside.
Heat oil add cumin seeds,when they crackle add onion
Fry till translucent add ginger and garlic paste, fry for a minute.
Add tomato purée, cook till the raw smell of tomato goes away
Add all the powders and salt.
Fry for a minute.
Add fried okra,gently mix without breaking okra.
Cook for 3-4 minutes and switch off the heat.
Serve with chapathi or rice.
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| Usha's |
Ingredients:
Palak washed and chopped 1 bunch
Tomato chopped 1
Garlic crushed 2-4 cloves
Oil 1tbs
Mustard seeds 1 ts
Red chilli broken 2
Green chilli sliced 3-5
Salt to taste
Toor dal cooked 1 cup
Turmeric powder 1 ts
Method:
Cook toor dal with turmeric powder.
Heat oil add mustard seeds when they splutter add red chilli, green chilli and crushed garlic
Fry for a minute or until garlic gets light brown
Add tomato and fry for a minute.
Add chopped spinach and fry till it wilts
Add cooked dal ,salt. Bring to boil.
Serve with rice or chapathi.
Ingredients:
Cabbage chopped 1/2 head
Oil 2 tbs
Mustard seeds 1 ts
Urid dal 1 tbs
Green chilli 3-4 sliced
Red chilli 2 broken
Curry leaves 1 sprig
Salt to taste
Grated coconut to garnish 2 tbs
Method:
Heat oil add mustard seeds ,Urid dal, and broken red chilli
When seeds crackle add green chilli and curry leaves
Fry for a minute add chopped cabbage ,mix well to coat seasoning.
Sprinkle some water and close with a lid
Cook for 5 mins
Open lid and add salt , cook till cabbage cooked and water dries up.
Add grated coconut. Switch off the heat.
Serve with rice or chapathi.
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| Usha's |
Ingredients:
Apple 2 cut into thin discs
Maida 1 cup
Corn flour 1 tbs
Baking powder 1/2 ts
Yellow food colour 1/2 ts
Water to make batter
Oil to fry
For sugar syrup:
Sugar 1 cup
Water 1 cup
Lemon juice 2 tbs
Cardamom pods 2-3 crushed
Crushed pistachio to garnish
Method:
Cut apple into thin discs ,remove seeds
Make batter using maida,corn flour,baking powder and food colour by adding water.
Keep aside for half an hour.
Meanwhile prepare sugar syrup
Heat oil ,dip apple discs into the batter and deep fry.
Drain on paper towel.
Dip into the sugar syrup for 2 mins
Take out and serve garnished with crushed pistachio nuts.
Enjoy....
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