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Rava Khichidi|Vegetable upma|Rava recipe|Sooji Khichdi

January 30, 2009 By: admin Category: Breakfast/Easy tiffin No Comments →

Ingredients:

Rava/sooji - 1cup
chopped onion - 1
vegetables chopped - 1 cup
(beans, carrot, peas, potato, cauliflower)
green chilli - 2
oil - 2tsp
mustard - 1/2 tsp
urad dhal - 1 tsp
salt - to taste
turmeric - a pinch
water
curry & corriander leaves

Method:

1. First get the vegetables cooked by adding water and pinch of salt.
2. Take a tawa, add oil and mustard. Allow it to pop up.
3. Add urad dhal, chopped onion, chillis and cooked vegetables.
4. Add turmeric and salt required. Add water for cooking rava.
5. Now add the rava and stir well.
6. Leave it for few minutes. Garnish with curry and corriander leaves.

Idli Upma|South Indian idli upma|Idly Recipe

January 29, 2009 By: admin Category: Breakfast/Easy tiffin No Comments →

Ingredients:

Idly - 5 nos smashed

Oil - 4 tsp

Mustard - 1/2 tsp

Chilli or idly molaga podi - 2 tsp

Salt-to taste

Sugar - 1/2 tsp

Urad dhal - 1/2 tsp

Channa dhal - 1/2 tsp

Method:

  1. Take a tawa and add oil.
  2. Now add mustard, urad and channa dhal, cook it to golden brown.
  3. Add the smashed idly and sprinkle chilli powder, salt and sugar.
  4. Mix well and serve hot.

Fried Idly|Idly recipe|Spicy idly

January 29, 2009 By: admin Category: Breakfast/Easy tiffin No Comments →

Ingredients:

Idly – 5 nos

Chopped onion-1cup

Oil-3tsp

Mustard-1/2 tsp

Urad dhal-1/2 tsp

Channa dhal-1/2 tsp

Chilli powder-1 tsp

Salt –to taste

Curry leaves.

Method:

  1. Cut the idly in to pieces.
  2. Take a tawa, add oil and mustard seeds.
  3. After mustard pops out, add channa and urad dhals.
  4. Add onion, once the dhal turns golden brown.
  5. Now add the chilli powder and salt and mix well.
  6. Finally add the idly pieces and mix well.

Add curry leaves and serve hot.

Dosai/South Indian Dosai/Delicious Dosai/ Dosa Batter

January 28, 2009 By: admin Category: Breakfast/Easy tiffin No Comments →

Dosai served with sambar
Dosai served with sambar

Ingredients:

Par boiled rice-2 ½ cups

Urad dhal-1/2 cup

Raw rice-1 cup

Fenugreek-2tsp

Salt- to taste.

Method:

  1. Soak both the rice together along with fenugreek for 4-5 hours.
  2. Soak the urad dhal for 1 hour.
  3. Grind the soaked materials into a paste and mix well.
  4. Add salt and allow it to ferment.
  5. After the batter gets fermented, heat the pan and spread little oil.
  6. Then spread the batter(dosa paste) and wait until it turns to golden brown and turn it to the other side.
  7. Serve hot with onion, tomato, coconut or groundnut chutney or sambar.

Idly/Soft Idly/Steamed Idly|South Indian Idly recipe

January 28, 2009 By: admin Category: Breakfast/Easy tiffin No Comments →

Hot idlies served with Tomato chutney

Hot idlies served with Tomato chutney

Ingredients:

Par boiled rice – 3 cups

Urad dhal - ½ cup

Salt – to taste

Water

Method:

Preparation of batter

1. Soak the par boiled rice in water for 4-5 hrs.

2. Soak the urad dhal for a maximum of 1 hr.

3. First grind the urad dhal into a fine paste by adding little water.

4. Next grind the rice finely and mix it with the urad paste obtained.

5. Now add salt and mix well.

Allow it to get fermented at the room temparature.

  1. Grease the idly plate with little oil and spread the fermented batter.
  2. Steam cook it.
  3. After 10 mins, hot idly ready.
  4. The best sidedish for this is chutney, sambar and idly molaga podi.