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Carrot Rava Adai

One of my quick inventions for breakfast. This is a filling and delicious adai.

Ingredients :
1 cup carrot ( grated)
2 cups rava/semolina/sooji
2 green chillies ( chopped)
3-4 tbsps corriander leaves ( chopped) 
1/2 cup grated coconut
1/4 tsp red chilli pwd.
salt to taste.


Method :
Mix all the ingredients (except oil) with water. Add the water, little by little to make a thick batter. 

Make sure the tawa is hot, before pouring a ladle of batter onto it. This adai, will not be thin like a dosa, it will be slightly thicker. 

Hence to ensure even cooking, after spreading the batter ;drizzle a little oil around the adai and in the center. Shut the dosa with a lid till the upper portion gets cooked properly .

Once it is cooked, remove the lid and turn the adai, to make it crisp like the other side. 


Serve hot, with pudina chutney. 

Quick Bread Crumb pudding..

The idea for this recipe came from some bread crumbs that I had made. My husband refuses to eat the brown sides of the bread slice and instead of throwing them, I stored them in the freezer and then later toasted and ground them into fine bread crumbs.
This recipe is a nice way to use the breadcrumbs.
I hope you enjoy it.

Ingredients :
Bread Crumbs - 1 cup
Milk : 1 1/2 cup
Sugar : 3/4 cup
Ghee - 5 tbsps
Cashewnuts and raisins - 1tsp each.
Condensed milk - 4 tbsp
Chopped strawberries -for garnishing.


Method:
-In a pan, take 2 spoons of Ghee and fry the cashews and raisins and when done add the bread crumbs and fry for a few minutes. 
- Add milk and cook for 10 minutes in a low flame, in the meanwhile also add the condensed milk. 
- When this mixture is half cooked add the sugar.
-When the sugar had dissolved fully, add the rest of the ghee.
-Garnish with the chopped strawberries. Serve chilled.

Neer dosa with Tomato Chutney

Neer Dosa is a special kind of dosa from Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada) prepared from rice. Neer in Kannada means ‘Water’. Neer dosa is prepared by grinding soaked rice into a thin watery batter and then made into pancakes (thin) on hot griddle. Neer dosa is very easy to prepare as you can make it without much planning and is easy to make and tasty too. The best part is this dosa does not require any fermentation. This dosa comes out lacy thin and white

Ingredients

2 cups Raw rice (Sona Masoori)
Salt to taste
Water (to grind)

Oil to make dosa

To prepare Batter

Wash 2 cups of rice and soak it in water for around 3-4 hours, I usually soak it overnight.
Grind soaked rice to a fine paste with 1 cup water. Shift the batter into bowl and then add, salt, enough water to make a thin batter (a little thicker than water approx 2- 2 ½ cups). Keep aside for sometime, usually they say it should sit for couple of hours but it’s optional. I generally leave it for an hour or so in a warm place.

To prepare Dosas
Heat a dosa tava (hot) pour 1 ladleful of mixture in centre. Spread to make a round flat pancake shape, tilt griddle in all directions to allow batter to spread thinly. Or else you can splash the batter from little above on the hot griddle (like ravva dosa), drizzle little oil around the edges. After a minute or so you will see the dosa’s edges will start to separate from the pan. When done flip over, drizzle a little oil, cook for a minute. Fold in half and then quarter like a kerchief.

For the roasted tomato chutney... 

Ingredients : 

-8 tomatoes ( Ripe)
-5-6 red chillies
- Methi seeds - 1 tsp
-2 onions - Chopped in 2 halves
-5-6 cloves of garlic
-ginger paste
- Jaggery - 5 tbsp
-mustard seeds - 1 tsp
-Salt ( to taste)
- Oil - 2tbsp


Method 
Roast all the ingredients except the Mustard seeds in a nonstick pan or kadhai. 
2. Once the tomatoes have become pulpy ,mashed and give out a good aroma , take it off the gas.( don't keep it too long, or it will burn)

3. After it has cooled grind it to a fine paste ( you can add a little water if the paste is too thick  along with salt. 

4. Temper the chutney with mustard seeds. 

Paneer Pudine ka Paratha

Ingredients:-

Wheat Flour - 250gms

Pudina 1 cup (chopped finely)

Panner 1-1/2 cup (grated)

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tblsp

Jeera powder - 1 tsp

Green Chillies ( finely chopped) - 3

Lemon juice- 3 tbsp

Salt as per taste

Oil/ghee

Method:-

-Combine wheat flour and salt into a smooth dough.

- Mix crumbled paneer,pudina ,salt, Jeera powder, ginger-garlic paste,green chillies & lemon juice.

-Roll out small disc, place 2tbsp of the stuffing and close the edges

-Flatten it and dust it with more flour and roll out until the stuffing is not seen

-Fry on non-stick tawa with oil.

(TIP : I put the paneer in some hot water before i crumbled it. It makes it very soft and supple.)