Missal Pav

Ingredients:

Sprouted Matki 1/4 Cup
Moong Sprouts 1/4 Cup
Onion 1
Green Chiles 2
Ginger Garlic Paste 1/2 tsp
Coriander Seeds Powder 1/2 tsp
Cumin Seeds Powder 1/4 tsp
Turmeric Powder 1/4 tsp
Red Chilli Powder 1/4 tsp
Garam Masala 1/2 tsp
Tamarind 1 inch Sized Ball
Cumin Seeds 1/2 tsp
Mustard Seeds 1/4 tsp
Asafoetida a pinch
Curry Leaves 4
Cilantro few Sprigs
Salt to taste
Farsan 1 tbsp
Pav 2
Lemon Juice 1/2 tsp
Oil 1 tsp

Method of preparation:

Remove stems, wash and slice the green chiles.
Peel, remove ends and finely chop onion.
Clean, wash and finely chop cilantro leaves.
Soak tamarind in few tablespoons of hot water and extract all the thick pulp.

Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves and fry for few seconds.
Then stir in chopped onion and cook till onion turns translucent.
Now add ginger garlic paste, green chiles and fry for few seconds.
Add coriander seeds powder, cumin seeds powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, and salt.
For for few more seconds and add sprouted matki, sprouted moong and tamarind extract.
Pour half a cup of water and cook covered till the sprouts turn soft.
Finally stir in garam masala, cilantro and cook for another 5 minutes.
Garnish a cup of cooked sprouts with chopped onion, cilantro, farsan, sev and lemon juice.
Immediately serve prepared missal with toasted pav.
Notes:Make sure matki and moong is cooked well before removing from heat.

Suggestions: If the sprouts are not cooked properly, add another half cup of water and cook till done. Adjust with water for desired consistency.
Variations:Few tablespoons of ground coconut paste can also be added for much thicker version. Sprouted moong or sprouted chana or dried peas etc can also be used for making missal. Dahi misal (with a huge splash of yogurt layered on missal).

Sabudana Dosa

Ingredients:

Sabudana / Sago 1/2 Cup
Yogurt 1 1/4 Cups
Rice Flour 3 tbsps
Green Chiles 5 – 8
Cumin Seeds 1/2 tsp
Cilantro few Sprigs
Salt to taste

Method of preparation:

Remove stems, wash and finely chop the green chiles.
Wash and finely chop the cilantro.

Refresh sabudana in fresh water.
Soak sabudana in yogurt for 4 – 6 hours.
Add water to the soaked sabudana if necessary.

In a mixing bowl, add soaked sabudana, rice flour, green chiles, cumin seeds, cilantro and salt.
Add enough water (around 1 1/4 cups) and make it into a somewhat thick batter.

Heat a flat pan on medium high heat, apply quarter tsp of oil with back of a spoon.
When pan gets hot, pour a big ladle full of sabudana dosa batter on to the pan in one go.
Make sure batter is thin enough that it spreads by itself into around 6 inch diameter dosa.

Fry till bottom side starts to turn light golden brown.
Pour 1/8th tsp of oil on saggubiyyam dosa and turn on other side.
Reduce the heat to medium and cook on this side for a minute before removing from heat.
Repeat the same with remaining sabudana dosa batter.
Serve sabudana dosa immediately with any chutney of your choice.
Notes: Make sure to soak the sabudana well.

Suggestions: If the dosa is too soft and sticks to itself, put it on the flat pan and cook on low heat for couple of minutes to crisp it up. Or add more rice flour to the batter to crisp up the dosa.
Variations: You can also soak sabudana for longer time period and grind the soaked sabudana into fine paste before adding the rice flour.

Crispy Dosa

Ingredients:

Idli Rice 1 Cup
Urad Dal 1/3 Cup
Poha 1/2 Cup
Fenugreek Seeds 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil as required

Method of preparation:

Soak idli rice in fresh water for around 6 hours or overnight.
Soak urad dal, poha and fenugreek seeds together for around 3 hours.
Refresh the rice with fresh water and grind it into fine paste adding minimum amount of water.
Then add the remaining soaked ingredients, salt and grind again into fine smooth paste.
Take the ground dosa mixture into a bowl and keep it covered in a dark warm place to ferment for around 5 – 8 hours.
Adjust the fermented mixture into dosa batter consistency with sufficient water if required.

Heat a flat pan on medium high heat, apply half tsp of oil with back of a spoon.
When pan gets hot, pour a ladle full of dosa batter in middle of pan and spread it in circular motion with back of the ladle into thin dosa (around 7 inch diameter).
Cook covered for a minute if desired.
When edges of the dosa start to turn light brown, carefully turn the dosa on other side.
Cook on this side for a minute and turn and crisp the other side again before removing from heat.
Repeat the same with remaining dosa batter.
Serve crispy dosa with besan chutney or with any chutney of your choice.
Notes: Make sure to grind the rice into fine paste for the dosa to come out thin and crisp.

Suggestions: If the dosa doesn’t come out crisp, make sure to pan is hot all the time. Try to spread the batter on the pan as fast and as thin as possible. If the dosa doesn’t come out, make sure dosa batter is not too thin, mix in some rice flour to thicken the batter. If dosa comes thick, make sure batter is not too thick.
Variations: Rice flour can also be used in place of the idli rice. The taste and texture obviously differs in such a case. Sabunda is soaked and is also ground along with others. Cooked rice is also added at times

Paniyaram

Ingredients:

Sago 1/2 Cup
Rice 3/4 Cup
Urad Dal 1/4 Cup
Fenugreek Seeds a pinch
Yogurt 3 tbsps
Chana Dal 1 tbsp
Green Chiles 2
Ginger 1 inch Piece
Cilantro few Sprigs
Salt to taste
Oil to grease the moulds

Talimpu:

Cumin Seeds 1/4 tsp
Mustard Seeds 1/4 tsp
Curry Leaves 4
Oil 1 tsp

Method of preparation:

Remove stems, wash and finely chop green chiles.
Peel, wash and mince the ginger.
Wash and finely chop the cilantro.
Soak chana dal for 4 – 5 hours in enough water.

Soak sago, rice, urad dal, fenugreek seeds in enough water for 4 – 5 hours.
Strain the water and grind all of them together into paste adding yogurt and sufficient salt.
Add water if necessary while grinding.
Remove the ground paniyaram batter into a vessel and let if ferment for good 6 – 8 hours.
Then, stir in soaked chana dal and cilantro to the fermented batter.

Heat oil in a pan, add all talimpu ingredients in order along with ginger and green chiles.
When mustard seeds start spluttering, remove from heat and add to the paniyaram batter.

Heat aebleskiver pan or ponganalu pan on medium heat.
Grease the moulds with few drop of oil and let the pan heat a bit.
Fill each mould of the aebleskiver pan with a tbsp or more of the paniyaram batter.
Once edges start to change color, carefully turn paniyaram on other side and let it cook for a another minute. Carefully remove paniyaram from the pan onto a plate.
Repeat the same with remaining ponganalu batter.
Serve paniyaram with coconut chutney or with any other chutney and sambar.
Notes: Make sure to cook the paniyaram on medium heat for insides to cook.

Suggestions: If the ponganalu is not cooked properly inside, put them back on the pan and cook on low heat till done.
Variations: You can also use the leftover dosa batter and mix in soaked sago along with other ingredients for a quick fix.
Other Names: Paniyaram, Guntha Ponganalu, Gunta Pongadalu, Appe,

Black Eyed Beans Dosa / Alasanda Dosalu.

Ingredients:

Black Eyed Peas 1 Cup
Onion 1
Ginger 1 inch Piece
Cumin Seeds 1 tsp
Green Chiles 2
Salt to taste
Oil as required

Method of preparation:

Peel and mince the ginger.
Peel and finely chop the onion.
Remove stems, wash and chop the green chiles.

Soak black eyed peas in water for 4 – 6 hours.
Refresh in water and strain the soaked black eyed beans.
Grind the black eyed beans into smooth paste with least amount of water.

Thin out the batter if required with water to make a pour-able somewhat thick batter and stir in required amount of salt.

Heat a flat pan on medium high heat, apply a tsp of oil with back of a spoon.
When pan gets hot, pour a ladle full of black eyed beans batter and spread it with back of the ladle in circular motion into thin dosa.
Immediately, sprinkle a big pinch of cumin seeds, a pinch of minced ginger, few chopped green chiles and a handful of chopped onion.
Lightly press all the toppings into the dosa.

When bottom and edges of the alasanda dosa start to turn brown, carefully turn the dosa on other side.
Reduce the heat a bit and cook on this side for a minute before removing from heat.
Repeat the same with remaining black eyed beans dosa batter.
Serve hot black eyed beans dosa with upma and ginger pickle or with dalia chutney.
Notes: Make sure to get the consistency of the batter right.

Suggestions: If the black eyed beans dosa doesn’t come out crisp, make sure to pan is hot all the time. Try to spread the batter on the pan as fast and as thin as possible. If the dosa doesn’t come out, make sure dosa batter is not too thin. If dosa comes thick, make sure batter is not too thick.
Variations: Some recipes call for grinding the green chiles and ginger along with soaked black eyed peas.

Vegetable Vermicelli Upma

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Ingredients:

Vermicelli 1 1/2 Cups
Potato 1 Small
Onion 1 Small
Bell Pepper 1 Small
Carrot 1 Small
Green Chillies 4
Fresh or Frozen Green Peas 1/2 Cup
Roasted Peanuts 2 tbsps
Yogurt 1 1/2 tbsps
Cilantro Few Sprigs
Salt to taste

Talimpu:

Mustard Seeds 1/4 tsp
Cumin Seeds 1/4 tsp
Chana Dal 1/4 tsp
Urad Dal 1/4 tsp
Curry Leaves 5
Oil 1 tbsp

Method of preparation:

Peel, wash and finely chop the potato, onion and carrot.
Wash, remove stem, discard seeds and finely chop the bell pepper.
Remove stems, wash and slice the green chillies.
Wash and finely chop the cilantro.

Heat a pan on medium heat, add vermicelli and roast until it turns light golden color.
Bring to boil few cups of water in a sauce pot, add a tsp of oil, few pinches of salt.
When the water comes to a boiling point, add vermicelli.
Boil vermicelli for around 2 minutes or until it is cooked with a slight bite.
Immediately strain the cooked vermicelli and refresh with cold water.

Heat oil in a pan on medium low heat, add all talimpu ingredients in order.
When chana dal turns light brown, add green chillies, potato and onion.
Once onion turns translucent, add carrot, bell pepper, green peas and salt.
When carrot turns soft, add strained vermicelli and yogurt.
Mix carefully and cook for a minute or two to let vermicelli absorb all the flavors.
Garnish with chopped cilantro and serve vermicelli upma.
Notes: Don’t overcook vermicelli.

Suggestions: If vermicelli is overcooked, try not to boil it for so long next time or else don’t overcook it in the pan. Make sure all vegetables are cooked well before adding vermicelli.
Variations: Also add chopped tomato along with vermicelli if you wish. Add your choice of vegetables to the upma.

Tomato Dosa

Ingredients:

Rice Flour 1/2 Cup
Ripe Tomato 1
Green Chile 1 – 2
Cumin Seeds 1/2 tsp
Asafoetida a big Pinch
Curry Leaves 8
Salt to taste
Oil as Required

Method of preparation:

Wash, remove stem and roughly chop the green chile.
Wash and grind the tomato along with green chile into smooth paste.

In a mixing bowl, mix together rice flour, ground tomato green chile paste, cumin seeds, asafoetida, curry leaves and salt.
Add enough water to make it somewhat thin batter.

Heat a flat pan on medium high heat, apply few drops of oil with back of a spoon.
When pan gets hot, pour a ladle full of tomato dosa batter on pan in circular motions.
Make sure batter is thin enough that it makes small holes when it hits the hot pan.
Try to fill up any big holes and form into 6 – 7 inch diameter dosa.
Don’t spread the dosa with back of the ladle.

Fry till bottom side starts to turn golden brown.
Pour few drops of oil on top and turn on other side.
Reduce the heat a bit and cook on this side for around a minute before removing from heat.
Repeat the same with remaining tomato dosa batter.
Serve tomato dosa immediately with any chutney of your choice.
Notes: Make sure tomato dosa is little crisp before removing from heat.

Suggestions: If the tomato dosa doesn’t come out crisp, make sure the pan is hot all the time. Don’t spread the batter once it hits the pan. Let it take its time to cook and crisp up. If the dosa doesn’t come out of the pan, make sure dosa batter is not too thin. If dosa comes thick, make sure batter is not too thick, and adjust with water.
Variations: You can also add finely chopped onion and cilantro to the tomato dosa batter. Finely chopped cashews can also be added