Ingredients:

Unpolished Rice – 2 cup

Coconut milk – 1 cup

Ginger – small piece

Green Chilli – 3

Murungai Keerai or drum stick leaves – 2 cup

Coconut oil – 2 tablespoon

Mustard – 1/2 tsp

Urad dhal – 1 tsp

Raw Ground nut or peanut – 1/2 cup

Asafoetida – a pinch

Grated Carrot – 1 cup

Salt – to taste

Water – 1/2 cup

Method:

1. Break the rice to rava consistency in the mixie.

2. Grind ginger (peel off skin) and green chilli to a fine paste.

3. Now take a thick bottom pan, heat coconut oil and add mustard, urad dhal and groundnut and saute.

4. Add asafoetida, ginger-chilli paste, cleaned drumstick leaves and saute.

5. Now add the grated carrot and allow it to cook for few seconds and add half cup water and coconut milk. Allow it to boil.

6. Add broken rice and mix well and add salt and allow it to cook for few mins.

7. When the mixture thickens turn off the stove and allow it to cool.

8. Now make small kozhukattai’s and steam cook it.

Our Murungai keerai Kozhukattai is ready.

Note: Unpolished rice is rich in fibre, protein and B-complex. Drumstick leaves are very good for anemic people. Hence you serve your family with a healthy balanced diet.

Ingredients:

Oats – 1 cup

Moong dhal – 1/2  cup

Pepper – 1 tsp

Jeera – 1/2 tsp

Ginger – a small piece

Green chilli – 2

Salt – to taste

Cabbage, beans, carrot – 1 cup

Garlic – 2

Oil – 2 tsp

Coriander leaves – to garnish

Method:

1. Soak the oats in water mixed with little salt.

2. Chop the vegetables finely and keep them ready.

3. Get the moong dhal cooked.

4. Take a tawa, add oil, pepper, jeera, ginger, garlic, green chilli and saute.

5. Now add the vegetables, cooked moong dhal and mix well.

6. Allow it to cook in low flame and add the oats and mix well.

7. Garnish with coriander and serve hot.

Healthy and good fibre rich breakfast ready.

Ragi (also spelled as Raagi or Kelvaragu) or finger millet koozh or a kind of porridge that is a special dish meant for Tamil month Aadi where this porridge is offered to God. This ragi itself is a good ingredient for those dieting and also a rich fibre food good for ladies specially. This dish is the breakfast in the country side in India where they serve this with raw green chilli or pickles or they take it with raw onions.

Raagi or Kelvaraghu Koozh Recipe:

Ingredients:

Ragi (Finger millet) flour – 4 tablespoons

Salt – as required

Butter Milk – 3 tumbler

Water- 3 tumbler

Chopped onion – handfull

Cooked rice – 1 tablespoon

Method:

1. Mix Ragi flour in 1 cup of Water without any lumps.

2. Heat remaining Water in a vessel.

3. Once it started to boil, add mixed Ragi flour in medium flame.

4. Allow the Ragi flour mix to boil until it thickens.

5. Finally add cooked rice, salt, chopped onion and remove from flame.

6. Allow it to cool for some time and add butter milk while serving.

Ingredients:

Ragi – 1 cup(ragi grain)

Oats -1/2 cup

Green Chilli – 2

Badam and cashew scrapings – 2 tablespoon

Salt – to taste

Water – as required

Oil- little

Method:

1. Soak the ragi grain in water overnight.

2. Grind ragi along with oats, chilli and salt into a fine paste by adding little water.

(Dosa batter consistency)

3. Spread the dosa batter in dosa pan and sprinkle cashew and badam scrapings over it.

4. Do not cook it on both sides.

5. When the lower side is cooked, then fold it in such a way that scrapings do not fall as well the dosa is finely cooked.

Note: If you want to prepare this dosa instantly, you can use ragi flour. but using the whole ragi grain or sprouted ragi is more healthy.

This dosa can be had by anyone irrespective of age group. Even dieting people can have this dosa.

The taste of this dosa is enhanced when you add the badam and cashew scrapings.