Coconut chutney

Grind together coconut scrapings, green chillies, a piece of ginger and salt. Mix a teaspoon of curds and season with mustard seeds, red chillies and curry leaves.

Wheat flour Dosa..

When I feel lazy, this is the easiest food I can make…..

Ingredients

Wheat flour 2 cups

Rice flour 1 cup

Onion 3 big

Green chillies 2

Ginger 1 inch piece

Corriander or curry leaves

1 tbs curds.

Method

Mix the flours, salt and curds, adding enough water to make a thick batter. Chop all other ingredients finely, and add to the batter. Keep for 10 minutes and make Dosas. Serve with coconut chutney….

Uppuma, an easy breakfast..

Uppuma is very easy to make.. It is a quick breakfast item or an evening snack. South Indians add innovative ideas to make an ordinary uppuma more delicious and presentable . Here is the recipe for the ordinary traditional uppuma.

Ingredients

Rawa (sooji) 1cup
Ghee or oil 2 tablespoon
Green chillies 2
ginger a piece
3 small onions
curry leaves
salt
Cashew nut and raisins
coconut scrapings

Method.
Fry the cashew nuts and raisins and keep aside. Heat a non stick pan, add ghee. For seasoning, add a tsp urad dhal, (uzhunnu) chans dhal (kadala parippu), mustard seeds, and 2 split red chillies. When it is fried, add finely chopped green chillies, ginger, curry leaves and onions. When they turn red, add rawa and fry till it changes color slightly. Add salt.

Meanwhile keep 2 cups water boiling. Add enough water to soak the rawa. Never add more than 2 cups water for 1 cup rawa. Keep on stirring well without forming big lumps.

Garnish with cashew nuts and raisins and lots of coconut scrapings (optional).

We can eat uppuma adding sugar or curds and pickles.

Ammoomma’s recipes……Ada Dosa

As far as I can remember, Ammoomma was a great cook. We had the same menu every day, boring. But whatever we got was delicious. The breakfast was a bit colorful with idlis, dosas etc. One of the favorite item she used to make was Ada dosa.

The recipe follows….

Ingredients

1 cup raw rice

¼ cup boiled rice

¼ cup split black gram (uzhunnu)

1 cup Tuvar dhal

A pinch of Asafoetida

2 big onions

4 green chillies

A piece of ginger

Few dry red chillies

Corriander leaves

Method

Soak rice and black gram together for 4 or 5 hours. Soak Tuvar dhal separately.

Grind the rice dhal mixture coarsely adding little water.

Then grind the tuvar dhal and all other ingredients together very coarsely and add to the rice mixture.

Add salt and mix well. Make thick dosas on the hot tawa adding oil all around and on the dosa.

This can be served with a variety of chutneys….Even without chutneys Ada Dosas are so yummy…..

Onion Chutney

Cut three big onions into big pieces, a few red chillies too and fry them lightly in half a teaspoon oil. Grind them together with salt and tamrind. Transfer the paste into a dish and pour some oil on it. Ready to eat….