Avacado oatmeal

Plain rava idly

Ingredients:

urud dal - 1 cup
idly rava - 2 cups

salt - 2 tspn as per taste

procedure:

soak urud dal and idly rava separately for 4-5 hours.
grind the urud dal into smooth paste and keep in a bowl.
drain the water from idly rava and squeeze water and add rava to urud dal paste .
mix them well and keep it for fermenting for 5 hours.

once fermented it will raise to double the size. add salt and mix it well. the raising dough will come down to normal size.

grease idly plates with slight oil and add a dollop of idly mix in them and steam it for 10-15 mins in high flame.

can be had with any chutney or idly podi.

better to soak in the morning and grind in evening and keep outside for fermenting and use the next day morning.

Cherry tomato and roasted garlic spaghetti

We love pastas and have tried to prepare a variety of them from many years. Though I favourite being a simple aglio olio. In India you get good vegetarian options of pasta but you cannot say the same in other countries. Most of them will be seafood or meat. 

But at home atleast we can prepare a sumptuous vegetarian pasta. You can except lot more pasta recipes from VegCookHouse .

Cherry tomatoes are ignored in Indian cooking. The sweet yet sour taste of cherry tomatoes makes it a good candidate to use in other cuisines. Guess we should experiment with cherry tomatoes in South indian cuisine. 

We use garlic a lot in our food but never roasted it much. The roasted flavour of garlic is mouth watering.

A unique pasta with these two ingredients. We used spaghetti but can also use fusilli, penne  , angel hair pasta

Ingredients:

spaghetti pasta - 200 gms
cherry tomatoes - 100 gms
garlic pods - 15
butter - 2 tbspn
olive oil - 3 tbspn
green chillies - 2
salt - 1 tspn to taste

Procedure:

Take a pot and add water to it. add 1/2 tspn of salt to it and bring it to boil. Add the spaghetti to it. cook it for 3 mins until the pasta is almost cooked (dont cook it completely).

Drain the water ,rinse it with cold water along with a few drops of oil. once completely drained add a drop of oil to the pasta and spread it across. This will avoid stickiness.

Take a pan and add butter and 1 tbspn of olive oil. Chop green chillies to fine. add green chillies and garlic to the pan and fry it till brown.it should be roasted well almost like burnt garlic.

Cut the cherry tomatoes to half. add the tomatoes to the pan and fry it. add salt and cook with closed lid for 1 minute. cherry tomatoes cook very quickly.

once cooked add the spaghetti and mix well. add 2 tbspn of olive oil and mix it well till the pasta is blended.

If you dont want to use butter can replace it with olive oil only.

Carrot cauliflower porridge

broccoli multigrain porridge

Sukhi

My mother makes these especially on festivals and we look forward to hogging on these everytime. Simple and delicious Sukhi (sweet dish) recipe is here for you all.

Ingredients:

Jaggery - 1 cup
channna dal (Chickpeas) - 1 cup
oil - to fry

batter:
Rice 3 cups
Urad dal 1/2 cup

Procedure::

To Prepare batter:

Soak Rice and Urad dal for 3-4 hours. Wet grind it. Can be used after grinding instantly or can be fermented for 3-4 hours for better taste.
(As dosa batter but dont add water to make it runny)

boil the channa dal till almost done. remove the excess water and dry it for 5 mins.
Mash the jaggery to fine paste.
Put the channa dal into blender to get fine powder.Since we removed excess water it will not become a paste.
 Mix the jaggery and channa dal powder well. Too much jaggery might make the mixture runny. The mixture should be solid enough to make balls.

Once its mixed well,make small balls out of the  mixture and keep aside
Take a wok and add oil.
Add little salt to the dosa batter. Make sure the batter is thick enough.

dip the balls in the batter and fry it in oil till golden brown.

Some people make this with maida or besan..but I think this dosa batter will make it interesting as it'll be crispy outside and soft filling inside.