Mini Set Dosa

Ingredients:

• Set Dosa Batter
• Onion ( finely chopped)
• Tomato (finely chopped) (optional)
• Few green chilies (finely chopped)
• Few tsp cumin seeds
• Salt to taste
• Oil for roasting
• Few coriander leaves.

Method:

       Add the salt, cumin seeds to dosa batter and give a nice mix. Heat the tava/griddle and pour the batter into small and thick in size. Sprinkle the onion green chilies, coriander leaves. Cook it from the both side with generous amount of oil.

Serve hot with Coconut chutney.

Madeli & Happy Makar Sankranti

Happy Makar Sankranti to all my blogger friends and readers. This is a sweet dish made from wheat flour and consists no oil, no ghee. Its healthy and filling. It's very old and authentic dish from Karnataka & Maharashtra.

Ingredients for dough:

• 1 cup Wheat flour (chapati hittu/atta)
• 1/2 cup Besan 
• 2 tsp Rice flour
• Little salt

Other ingredients:

• Jaggery as per taste
• Cardamom seed powder
• 2-3 tsp Daliya/ Putane (dry roasted)
• 2-3 tsp Dry coconut (dry roasted)
• 1-2 tsp Sounf / Aniseed (dry roasted)
• Dry fruits -Cashewnuts, Raisins.(optional)

Method:

    Mix the wheat flour, besan, rice flour, salt and knead the dough.(not too soft dough). Immediately start rolling like chapati but no folds,just a big circle and little thicker then normal chapti. Dry roast on tava both the side. Let them sit for a while.

Make small pieces chapti and put into mixer and make coarse powder. In a bowl add above made coarse wheat flour, add jaggery, cardamom powder, daliya/putane, sounf / aniseed and dry fruits. Give an nice mix to it.

Serve with ghee or with warm milk.

Notes:

• This can stay for 4-5 days.
• As per original recipe, Use whole wheat grains, split bengal gram and raw rice which  is floured in the flour miller then its used. Or you can you the flours as I have used.

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Veg Hakka Noodles

Ingredients: 

• 1 Packet Noodles 
• 1 Carrot (sliced)
• 1 Capsicum (sliced)
• 1/2 cup Green beans (chopped)
• 1 Onion (sliced)
• 1 tsp Ginger & garlic paste
• Salt and pepper as per taste
• 2-3 tsp oil

Method:

     Cook the noodles as per the instruction and keep it a side. Heat the shallow pan with oil, add ginger garlic paste, onion and fry till they tun light brwon. Add all veggies and cook till they are tender. Add cooked noodles, salt and pepper and cook for a while.

Serve hot.

Shrikhand & Happy New year !

Wish you all my blogger friends a very Happy New Year.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups Yogurt
• 3 Tbsp Dry fruits (pistachios, almonds)
• 1 tsp Cardamom powder 
• 1-2 tsp milk
• Few Saffron threads
• Sugar as per taste.

Method:

       In a cotton towel or cheese cloth put the yogurt , squeeze water and hang the bundle of yogurt for 12 hrs. In a blow add this strained yogurt which thick and soft yogurt. In a small bowl add milk and saffron and let dissolve  for 10 minutes. Add sugar, cardamon powder, dry fruits to  strained yogurt and mix it well.

Add saffron milk and gently mix everything till you get creamy texture. 

Keep in in the refrigerator  for 2-3 hrs.

Serve amrakhand chilled or room temperature . Garnish dry fruits and serve with Poori or just have like desert!