Wishing you a happy new year

Happy New Year 2012

Today's Tiffin : Puffed puries and potato gravy

Puries are perfect tiffin on sundays.
Tips for puffed puries:

• mix wheat flour with salt and little water. dough has to be little tight.
• dont give standing time for puries like chapatis
• Add a pinch of sugar, soda bi corbonate and suji(rava) for puffiness.
• roll it little thicker than chapatis
• roll it and keep on a paper/magazines to dry till you finish rolling all the puries and fry finally

Channa masala

Channa masala

Ingredients
White channa- 2 cups
ginger-1 inch piece
garlic- 5 pods
cumin seeds- 1 tsp
onion- 1 chopped
tomato - 1 chopped
oil - 1 tbsp
garam masala items each  1 piece
lemon - 1
chilly powder- 1 tbsp
dhaniya powder - 1/2 tbsp
channa masala powder - 1 tbsp (optional)
cumin powder- 1 tsp

Preparation
Wash and Soak channa overnight.

Pressure cook channa for 2 whistle.

Heat oil in a pan,add cumin seeds and allow it to splutter.

Add ginger, garlic to this and saute

Add onions and saute

Then add tomatoes and salt and saute

Add chilly powder, dhania powder and channa masala powder

Add cumin powder also and saute till raw smell disappears.

Allow the content to cool;Add few channa also and grind it into paste.

Keep a pressure cooker, and add oil to it and temper garam masala items.

To this add the ground mixture and saute for 1 minute

Add the cooked channa dal and water to this and enough salt and cook for 1 whistle.

When the pressure is down, open the cooker, mix the channa masala and add lemon juice, garnish with cliantro / corriander leaves and serve it with chapati, roti and baturas

Bhaturas

Batura

Ingredients
Maida- 2cups
Sooji/White rava-1/4 cup
yoghurt-3 tbsp
water/milk/buttermilk-1/4 cup
sugar-1 tsp
salt-1/2 tsp
oil-1 tbsp for mixing
oil- 1 cup for frying baturas

Preparation
Mix maida, sooji,yogurt,sugar,salt together.

Sprinkle water/milk/buttermilk to make the dough to chapati dough consistency.

Atlast add oil and allow it to sit for atleast 2 hrs by covering it with damp cloth.

Divide the dough into small dumplings.

Take a dumpling, dust it in plain flour and roll it evenly.Dont roll it too thick but roll it larger than puri size.

Heat oil in a pan; When hot place the batura carefully into the oil and allow it to fry for 1-2 minutes in medium.
 Press the batura with laddle so that it puffs up. Pour oil on top of the batura while frying using the ladle.

Turn it to the other side and fry in low flame.

Serve it hot with Channa masala

OatsEgg Dosa

OatsEgg Dosa(serves for 3)

At times we may face a situation where dosa batter is little enough to serve for the family's breakfast.So, to make up the situation, we usually go for wheat dosa or rava dosa. This recipe is also one another type, where oats and eggs fulfills the family's breakfast with extra nutrition.


Ingredients
dosa or idli batter - 1 cup
oats - 1 cup
onion chopped - 1
green chillies chopped - 3
cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

crushed black pepper- 1/2 tsp
cumin powder-1/2 tsp
turmeric powder-1/4 tsp

eggs - 2 

salt to taste

Preparation
Dry roast the oats in a pan and powder it in mixer.

Add the powdered oats to the idli or dosa batter.

Add onions, chillies, cumin seeds,cumin powder,crushed pepper,turmeric powder and salt.Mix well.

Add eggs to the batter and whip it well

Pour it in a dosa pan and cook both the sides with little oil.

If you are a vegetarian, you can avoid egg and do the same. Very tasty and nutritious breakfast.

Spicy Egg Dosa

Egg Dosa(serves for 2)

This dish is similar to egg poriyal. Instead of having egg as chunks, it is like roti or dosa Which can be eaten with rice or with bread.Very easy to cook.

Ingredients
oil 1 tbsp
egg - 2 nos
green chillies - 2 nos(here i used red chilly)
onion - 1 finely chopped
chilly powder - 1 tsp (optional for increasing spiceness)
cumin powder - 1/2 tsp.
salt to taste

Preparation
Heat oil in a pan and  add green chillies.
Then add onions and saute.

Add  cumin powder, chilly powder and salt and saute till onions turn golden brown. Remove the pan from fire.

Mean while break 2 eggs in a bowl and whip it thoroughly.

Add the sauted onion mixture to the whipped eggs and mix nicely.

Heat a dosa pan, and pour 1 to 1 1/2 ladle of egg mixture and cook for 2 minutes.

Flip the egg to the other side and cook for couple of minutes.You can see, egg mixture puffing up. This means egg is cooked.

Serve it hot.

Baby Corn 65

Baby Corn-65

This is an excellent snack which can be done in few minutes. Everyone tries to make crispy fries, but some times it turns out to be soggy. Mostly the ratio of the flour we mix is the key to make the fry crispy for little longer time. The ratio of flour can be used and prepared for both vegetables(potatoes, mushroom, cauliflower,paneer,tofu and non-veg 65(chicken) items.Making 65 is the first step and Manchurian is the next step, but both have to be eaten hot; only then you get the real taste.

Ingredients
Corn flour - 3 tbsp
Maida/All purpose flour - 1 tbsp
crushed pepper - 1/2 tsp
chilly powder or chilly sauce - as per spiceness
soy sauce - 1 tbsp or lemon juice - 1 tbsp
ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
egg white - 1 no.(optional, here i didnt use; if used it is much crispy and tasty)
salt to taste
oil for frying
Baby corns-5-6nos

Preparation
Clean and cut baby corns diagonally

Mix corn flour, maida, crushed pepper,chilly, soysauce, ginger garlic paste,egg white , salt and water to a thick batter consistency.At hotels and fast food restaurants, they add red food colour to the batter. Though it looks colourful, it is not advisable to used food colour; I didnt use it here.

Heat oil in a pan. When hot, dip the corn slices and drop it in the oil carefully.

When the corn turns in golden brown, turn it to the other side and fry.

Place it on a tissue to remove excess oil.Serve it hot with chilly sauce and tomato sauce.Tastes excellent especially on a rainy evening.