Return to Blogging

Writing after a long hiatus.. 

 

2011 was my last post. Got a lot busy and blogging took a back seat. Though I have been taking a lot of pictures, both travel and food, it never made it to the blog. I used to post pics on Facebook, but that too stopped about a year back. Off late I have been posting a few pics on Instagram. 

https://www.instagram.com/madhura_ramachandra

A couple of weeks back a friend of mine started her new food blog. That reminded me of my own blog which I had literally abandoned. Well I am inspired at the moment to start blogging again.  Not sure how long I will continue on this. 

Owing  to current times, travel is restricted and we hardly go exploring new places. Though we did steal a few short outings. Plans are to write about the trips that we have made in the last few years. I have a backup of a whole lot of pictures capturing our trips and a collection of food pictures which I had planned to post. 

The lock down and work from home kindled the old love for gardening and sketching. Been taking a lot of pictures and posting a few on Instagram. High time I get back here. 

So all the best to myself and hoping I keep this momentum going. 

Closing this post with a picture of my plant collection that I collected for over a year since work from home started.

Masala Akki roti

Saturdays and Sundays we have our breakfast menu fixed. Saturday is masala akki roti while sunday its bread with omlette or scrambled egg.

Herez how I make my masala rotis. You could increase or decrease the quantity of the ingredients to suit your taste. U could add or skip soem of the ingredients as well :)

U will need :

1 cup rice flour

1 cup chopped onions

1/2 cup of roasted and corasely ground peanuts

1 tspn jeera

finely chopped curry leaves

finely chopped corriander

finely chopped green chillies

garlic crushed and chopped.

salt to taste

oil

boiling water.

mix all the ingrdients (except water) with 1 tbspn of oil. Once all the ingredients come together add soem boiling water to make a soft dough. Be careful while adding the water as only little water is required.

On a plastic sheet apply oil and pat a portion of the dough into a roti. Invert it onto a hot tawa and cook well on both sides. Spread some oil over it while cooking.

Fluffy Dosa

Fluffy dosa as the name suggest is a super soft dosa with a crisp under layer to it.

I had a lot of left over rice from the previous day, so remembered my mom making these soft dosas and tried it out. Herez how u make it.

U will need :
2 cups cooked rice
1 cup raw rice
1 tspn meethi seeds
salt to taste

How u make them:

soak the cooked rice for a couple of hours in water. Wash and soak the uncooked/raw rice along with meethi seeds for atleast 8 hrs. Grind them to a fine paste and mix it well together to get a dosa/pancake consistency. Let it ferment overnight or for about 8 hrs.

This Dosa is cooked on only one side. Heat a tawa and pour some batter on to it. spread lightly. This dosa will be thick. spread some oil or ghee and let cook over medium flame for about 2 to 3 mins till u get a nice golden crust at the base. For best results cover the dosa while cooking with a dome shaped pan cover. The steam trapped in the dome will help the dosa cook better.

Server hot with some chutney. The dosa will have a crispy golden layer at the base and a soft cushiony layer on top.