Garelu

Ingredients:

Urad dhal: 2 cups

Green chillies: 4

Ginger: Small piece

Salt: to taste

Onion: 1 small chopped

Oil: To deep fry

Method:

Wash and soak urad dhal for atleast 4 hours.

Drain all the water and grind urad dhal into smooth paste along with ginger and chillies using very little water.

The batter should be thick to hold the shape.

Add salt to taste, and onion

Heat oil in a pan for deep frying.

Take a ziploc bag and wet it with little water.

Take a small ball of batter and spread it on the ziploc like a circle, make a small hole in the middle and slowly add it to the oil.

Deep fry until golden brown. Repeat until all the batter is done.

Makes around 15 garelu.

Tastes great with coconut chutney.

Eat when they are still hot.

Enjoy.

Poornalu For Indian Cooking Challenge

Ingredients:

Oil: to deep fry

For filling:

Channa dhal: 1 cup

Jaggery: 1 cup

Water: 1 cup

Elachi pwd: 1/4 tsp

For Cover:

Use dosa batter.

Method for filling:

Soak the channa dhal for about an hour.

Pressure cook it with 1 cup water untill soft.

Remove from heat and let it cool.

Add the jaggery and elachi pwd and mix well.( Grind the mixture to make it soft if necessary).

If you think the mixture is too watery put it back on medium heat and keep stirring untill it becomes thick and let it cool.

Make it into small balls.

Method for poornalu:

In a pan heat oil for deep frying.

Add little salt to the dosa batter.

Take one ball at a time, dip it in the dosa batter and deep fry it in the oil.

Continue untill all the poornalu are cooked.

Enjoy.

Upma

Ingredients:

Sooji or upma rava: 1 cup

Water: 2 cups

Onion: 1/2 of a Small onion (cut into long stips)

Carrots: 1 chopped into small pieces

Tomato: 2 small chopped

Green chillies: 2 cut into long strips

Salt: to taste

For seasoning:

Oil: 4 tbsps

Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp

Urad dhal: 1 tsp

Channa dhal: 1 tsp

Ginger: 1 inch piece

Curry leaves: 4 leaves

Method:

In a pan heat oil and add all the seasonings. Once they started to pop add onions and fry untill golden brown.

Now add chopped carrots and tomatoes and fry for about 5 minutes.

Now add water and salt, cover the pan and let the water boil. Adjust salt to taste.

Once the water starts to boil remove the lid and slowly add rava to the water, keep stirring to avoid lumps and untill the mixture starts to thicken.

Remove from heat and let stand for 10 minutes.

Enjoy when it is still hot.

Instant Rava Idli

Ingredients:

Sooji : 1 cup

Yogurt: 1 cup

Water : 1/2 cup

Salt : to taste

Baking soda: A pinch

Method:

Roast the sooji untill golden brown without oil.

Let it cool and add the remaining ingredients.

Grease the idli moulds with oil or water.

Add the batter to the moulds and pressure cook just like idlis for 20 minutes or until done.

Remove from heat and wait for 5 minutes before removing from the moulds. 

You can also add grated carrots and tomatoes to the batter.

These idlis tastes great with ginger chutney or coconut chutney.

Enjoy.

Wheat dosa

Ingredients:

Wheat flour: 3/4 th cup

Rice flour: 1/4 th cup

Salt : to taste

Cumin seeds: 1/2 tbsp

water: as needed

Oil

Method:

Mix all the above ingredients except water into thin batter like dosa batter.

Heat the dosa pan.

Take the batter with a small glass and pour the batter on the pan.

Add oil to the dosa and let it fry till golden brown.

It takes some time to fry this dosa.

You can add onion, grated carrot on top of the dosa while frying.

Enjoy with coconut chutney.

Instant rava dosa

Ingredients:

Sooji : 1 cup

Maida flour: 1/2 cup

Rice flour: 1/2 cup

Salt : to taste

cumin seeds: 1/2 tbsp

Water

Oil

Method:

Mix all the above ingredients except water into thin batter like dosa batter.

Heat the dosa pan.

Take the batter with a small glass and pour the batter on the pan.

Add oil to the dosa and let it fry till golden brown. 

It takes some time to fry this dosa.

You can add onion, grated carrot on top of the dosa while frying.

Enjoy with coconut chutney.

Crispy Rice Breakfast Bars

Ingredients:

Oil: 2 tbsp

Miniature Marshmallows: 16 oz 

Crisp rice cereal: 16 oz

Vanilla essence: 1/2 tbsp (optional)

Method:

Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan on a low heat.

Add marshmallows and cook, stir constantly, until marshmallows are melted and mixture is smooth.

Remove from heat immediately.

stir in vanilla essence, and add crisp rice and stir to coat evenly.

Take a pan  and evenly coat it with oil. 

Add the mixture to the pan and spread evenly with a spatula.

Let it cool and cut into bars.

Makes 20 - 25 bars.

Oat Meal Dosa

Ingredients:

Urad dhal: 1 cup

Rice: 1 1/2 cup

Oat meal: 1 1/2 cup (I used oven toasted quick cooking oats)

Channa dhal : 1 fist full

Methi seeds: 1 tbsp

Atukulu: 1 cup

Method:

Wash and soak all the Ingredients(you can add the oat meal along with the other ingredients, or add the oat meal just before grinding) in cold water for about 8 hours.

Grind them with water into a thin dosa batter.

Let the batter rest for overnight or untill it raises. 

Heat the dosa griddle, and add one big spoon of batter on the griddle.

Spread the batter with the spoon, add some oil.

Enjoy the crispy and yummy dosa's.