Wednesday, June 15, 2011

OATS DOSA

I am a resident of India staying at Chennai.I looked for spelt but was not available.So i made a healthy breakfast with Oats.
INGREDIENTS:
Oats-1cup
Rice flour-1/2 cup
Rawa or Semolina-1/4 cup
Greenchillies-2
Coriander and curry leaves few
Ginger paste-1tsp
Salt to taste.
oil for making dosa

METHOD:
Soak the oats and rawa for half and hour.
Grind it to a smooth paste with the rice flour.
Add the green chillies,salt,and the coriander and curry leaves also while grinding.
Now spread it on a dosa tawa like a rawa dosa,just smear little oilaround it.  Crispy and lovely breakfast or brunch is ready to serve!!Serve it with some chutney.
This entry goes to WWC Spelt or oats for breakfast.

EGGLESS BANANA BREAD

I am very glad to take part in this event as Banana is a very important fruit which supplies full nourishment, vitamins and lot of carbohydrates.It serves us like a food if sometimes we are hungary.Mostly the young infants are asked to give banana as it gives strength.So i tried a banana bread .
INGREDIENTS:
Wheat flour-11/2 cups
Banana(slightly ripen)-3
Sugar-1cup
Saffola oil-1/2 cup
Baking soda-1tsp
Salt-1/4 tsp
Walnuts and Raisins-1/2 cup

METHOD:
Mash the bananas well either in a blender or with a smasher.
In a pan cream the oil and sugar well.
Mix the flour ,salt,soda well.
Mix all the three slowly and add the nuts to it.
Bake it  in a baking vessel ( microwave oven in a convection mode) for 45 minutes.(Adjust according to your oven) at 240 degrees.
Yummy banana bread is ready to serve!!!
The above entry goes to Krithi's kitchen and Siri's healing food eventshttp://krithiskitchen.blogspot.com/2011/06/healing-foods-event-announcement.html

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

MYSORE RASAM

This is a archieve from http://archguru.blogspot.com/2011/04/mysore-rasampaavakai-kari-day-7.html.I have tried many of your recipes and all turned out to be very good.Today the rasam has turned out to be very tasty.Hope my husband enjoys it in the lunch.Hope to see some more interesting recipes!!!!

INGREDIENTS:
Toor dall-1/2 cup
tomato-1
Turmeric powder-1tsp
tamrind paste-11/2tsp
salt to taste
Jaggery-1tsp(OPtional)

TOgrind:
Coriander seeds-2tsp
cumin seeds-1tsp
pepper-1tsp
Redchillies-2-3
Curry leaves few
Asafoetida-1/2tsp
Dry coconut powder-1tsp
To temper
Mustard seeds -1tsp
Cumin-1tsp
Ghee-2tsp

Method:
Pressurs cook the dall up to 3-4 whistles.Make it a smooth paste
In a pan add all the ingredients to fry and powder it
Add the tamrind paste,turmeric powder,salt and tomato(puree) in a  pan and boil it for 5 minutes.
Add the ground masala and the dall
Add the ghee in a frying pan,add the mustard and cumin till it splutters,
Add this to the rasam
Super and tasty rasam is ready to serve with rice.
This recipe goes to Book marked recipes on tuesday