Ompodi

I got this recipe from my Anni . Easy and was tasty too!. I made this for Diwali but didn't get time to post. Few handy ingredients and here you go.

Ingredients

Bean flour / kadalai maavu - 1.5 cups

Rice flour - 3/4 cup

Ajwain / omam - 1/2 table spoon

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Water - 2/3 cup + 1 table spoon

Method:

Dry roast ajwain until nice aroma comes. Switch off the flame and add little water and let it soak well for atleast 15 minutes.

Seive both the flours well.

Meanwhile heat oil in a pan for deep frying.

Add in salt, chilli powder, drained water from ajwain . 

Add 3 to 4 table spoon of hot oil. 

Slowly add the water and knead the dough .

It would be slightly a sticky dough.

Using the murukku press , make the ompoodi. It takes only a minute or so for each side to fry.

Drain the excess oil in the paper towel.

Once it cools , store in air tight container.

Avocado Milkshake

If i say its avocado milkshake, no one would drink at home. To them its Pistachio milkshake :).Shhhhhhh

These days i make it quiet frequently and they all like it too!

Ingredients:
Avocado - 1/2
Milk - 2 cup ( I used 2% )
sugar - 3 Table spoon
Vanilla extract - 1/8 tsp or Vanilla essence - few drops
Ice cubes - few

Method:

Remove the skin and seed from the avocado. Roughly chop them.
Blend avocado, sugar with little milk until they become fine paste.

Add the remaining milk, vanilla essence or extract and ice cubes. Blend well until combined.
Adjust Sugar and Milk to taste, if you want it thin add more milk.
You can add a scoop of Vanilla ice cream, its purely optional and its up to you. ( If adding ice cream, decrease the amount of sugar ).
Creamy, Yummy and healthy drink is ready!
You could serve with some chopped pistachios on top!!!

Multi lentil Adai

Does this sound new to you, yes or no, but it did sound new to me when i heard it from my buddy in St.Louis. Its a very healthy dosa.  Its good to make once in a while, when you consider the proteins in the dosa.  Make sure your side dish is too good, to avoid hearing complaints.  The proportion of dhal and rice should be same . ( 1 cup of mixed dhal : 1 cup of mixed rice).

Ingredients:
Kidney bean - 1/8 cup
green mung bean - 1/8 cup
urid dhal - 1/8 cup
white channa - 1/8 cup
black channa - 1/8 cup
masoor dhal - 1/8 cup
dried green peas - 1/8 cup
channa dhal - 1/8 cup
thoor dhal - 1/8 cup
moong dhal - 1/8 cup

brown rice - 1/2 cup
raw rice - 1/2 cup
idly rice - 1/4 cup

other ingredients:
salt - to taste
coriander - finely chopped 1 hand
onion - 1 finely chopped
coconut - grated 2 table spoon

Method:

soak all dhals over night.

soak all rice for 2 hours.
Grid them a little fine batter in the grinder with the needed salt.

This batter doesn't need fermentation. You can make it right away.
Just before making add the coconut, onion and coriander leaves.

Heat the griddle, pour a ladle full of batter, sizzle some oil. cover and cook both sides until they are done.
serve hot! Tada..healthy dosa is ready!!!

Pasiparupu dosai / Moong dhal dosai

                This recipe was from an other friend here. Her version is just moong dhal, but one of my other friend A,  tried it by adding split green gram. When i tried at home, people had with no complainants. I make it quiet frequently for the reason of proteins packed in this dosa.

Ingredients:
To soak:
Moong dhal - 3/4 cup
split green gram - 1/4 cup
idli rice - 1/2 cup

To grid:
Green chilly - 1
ginger - small piece
curry leaves - 1 spring
Jeera - 1/4 tsp

Method:

Soak dhal and rice together for 3 hrs.

While grinding add the other ingredients and grind to a dosa batter consistency. Neither  too coarse like adai nor too fine.

No need to ferment, heat a griddle and take a ladle full of batter and spread it , sizzle some oil , cover and cook for few minutes on both the sides.

serve with chutney!

Avocado chapati

Wanted to include avocado into our meal, but except me no one likes avocado at home. I have tried this avocado chapati at a friends place long time back. so made this and believe me it was super soft and all liked at home . Still a small punch of avocado is coming from the chapati's , to overcome that make sure your gravy is super good .
Ingredients:
Wheat flour - 1.5 cups
water - 1 table spoon or as per your need
salt - to taste
ghee - 1/2 tsp
avocado - 1 ( big)

Method:

Remove the skin and the seed from the avocado

smash it really well with hand .

Add the flour and the needed salt. Don't add water at this time. Keep kneading it and it will form a thick dough.

based on the consistency add the water .Mix well. Add in the ghee as well.

cover it tightly and let it sit for at least an hour.

Make small size ball , dust with the flour and start rolling them.

Heat the tawa and cook the chapatis with some oil on both sides.
serve with any side dish..
super soft and healthy chapati's are ready!!

Simple Mutton soup

Today i made mutton gravy. Just thought of making soup. Back in India i have seen my M-I-L pressure cooking all the mutton, then she takes just takes the water to make the soup and the mutton for other recipes. But i tried the same and the mutton got over cooked. So this time took few mutton pieces just for soup.

Ingredients:

Mutton - 4 small pieces.

shallot - 1 finely chopped

Tomato - 1/4 ( Medium size)

garlic - 1 ( Very small grated)

Green chilly - 1 slit

Pepper Jeera powder - 1/2 tsp

salt - to taste

cilantro - 2 spring

water - 1.5 cup

Method:

Pressure cook Mutton, shallot, tomato, green chilly, salt with 1.5 cups of water for 5 to whistle, or until the mutton is cooked.

once the pressure is released, add pepper powder and grated garlic.Boil for few minutes.

add cilantro and turn off.

Serve hot!

Yogurt rice / Curd rice / Thaiyr sadam

                        Made this for a pot luck. I have never tried my hands in yogurt rice, this is my first attempt to make it for a big group. Good dish for summer to beat the heat! here you go with the recipe, all the measurement are purely to taste.

Ingredients

rice - 1.5 cups ( I used sona masoori)
Milk - 3 cups ( I used 2% )
Thick plainYougurt - 1.5 cups
sour cream - 6 table spoon
Carrot grated - 6 table spoon
cucumber chopped - 6 table spoon
raw mango - 6 table spoon
curry leaves - 1 spring
cilantro - 1 hand  finely chopped
Green chilly finely chopped - 1
salt - to taste

To Temper:
Oil - 2 table spoon
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Urid dhal - 1 t sp
Curry leaves - 1 spring
Ginger chopped - 1 table spoon
Hing - 1/8 tea spoon

Method:

Pressure cook rice with 4.5 cups of water.

Mash the rice with the back of the spoon well, when it is warm add the milk.
Let it cook for a while, now add yougurt and the sourcream.
Add all the other ingredients and mix well.

Heat oil in a pan, when it is hot temper with the ingredients under 'to temper' and pour it on top of the rice.

Mix well and serve it with pickle !

Note: Adjust the Yogurt based on the sourness, if you are going to make it well ahead increase the milk and reduce the yogurt. Make it little watery as it tends to thicken up slowly.