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.

Quick Potato and peas gravy

This is another of quickies. Even quicker if u make the curry paste n refrigerate it. All you is grind the curry paste, fry it in oil for a while, cool and refrigerate. When u are need for a quick fix meal.. microwave ur veggies, and saute them with ur curry paste and season it, and u are ready to serve in 5 mins. :)

 :D  that is what the hot steaming gravy did to my camera lens while I tried to get the right angle to take a pic.

Herez the recipe:

For the curry paste:

1 tomato

1 large onion

4 to 5 red chillies.

grind all of the above to a smooth paste. In a pan heat 2 tbspn of oil and add the paste. Fry until the raw smell goes off and the oil starts separating at the edges. U could also add salt while frying.

For the gravy :

1 large potato cut into small cubes

a small cup of fresh green peas.

1 small onion finely chopped.

1 tbspn of ginger garlic paste.

salt to taste.

2 tbspn oil.

microwave the potato cubes and green peas until almost done. It took me about 3 mins. Mean while in a pan heat oil and fry chopped onion until done. Add ginger garlic paste and fry. Add the microwaved potato n peas and fry. Add salt to taste. Add the curry paste and mix well. Add water to get the desired consistency. Let it simmer for a couple of mins or until the potatoes are cooked. garnish with some fresh corrainader. Serve hot with rice or roti.