INDIAN FOOD

MASALA OATS PANCAKE

2009-11-08T04:33:00.001+05:30

This recipe is adapted from Nita Mehta's Oats breakfast recipes book with minor changes.

Ingredients

1 cup oats (grind to coarse powder)

Salt to taste

1 each of tomato, onion, green chilli chopped finely

1 tsp kasoori methi crushed

Finely chopped coriander leaves

Red chilli to taste

1/2 tsp garam masala powder

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

1 1/2 cups of water

Oil

Mix all the ingredients except oil. Spread 1 tsp oil in a tava and heat it. Take it off the fire and spread the batter gently to get a pancake. Now heat it and add little more oil. Cook till it gets brown and then slowly turn it and cook on the second side.

Repeat for rest of the batter. Serve hot with chutney/ tomato sauce.

KUTTU BASAN DOSA

2009-11-08T04:30:00.000+05:30

Ingredients

1 cup buckwheat flour (kuttu)

1/2 cup gram flour

1/4 cup rice flour

Salt to taste

1/2 tsp cumin seeds powder

1/4 cup beaten curd

1/2 tsp ginger paste

3/4 cup water

1 medium onion finely chopped

Finely chopped coriander leaves

Oil/ghee as required.

Mix all the dry ingredients first and then add water and beaten curd. Mix well and let it stayed covered for 15-20 minutes.

Grease the tava with oil/ghee and pour a ladle full of batter and spread it into a thick pancake. Add a little more oil/ghee around the corners. When the bottom side is cooked and browned, turn over and cook on the other side as well.

Serve hot with chutney/sauce.

RICE SEVAI TIKKI

2009-11-08T04:26:00.000+05:30

Ingredients:

1 cup cooked MTR rice sevai or homemade sevai

2 boiled and mashed potatoes

2 slices of bread

Bread crumbs

Salt to taste

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp red chilli powder

1 tsp garam masala powder

Finely chopped coriander leaves

Oil

Mix all the ingredients except oil and bread crumbs. Before adding the bread slice, dip for a second in water and squeeze out all the water. Now make balls of these mixture and flatten it to tikki shape. Coat with bread crumbs.

Cook with few drops of oil on a tava till crispy brown on both sides. Serve hot with sauce/sweet chutney

PALAK VADA

2009-11-08T04:21:00.000+05:30

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Ingredients:

2 cups blackgram dal

Salt to taste

2 green chillies

Piece of ginger

1 cup cleaned and chopped palak/spinach

Oil to fry

Soak the dal for 2 hours and grind to smooth paste with ginger and green chillies without adding water. Add salt and chopped spinach and mix well.

Make vadas and fry in hot oil till crisp and done.

Serve hot with chutney/sambar.

KUTTU PAKORE

2009-11-08T04:14:00.000+05:30

Ingredients:

2 big potatoes (boiled and sliced into rounds)

Salt to taste

1 cup buckwheat flour (kuttu atta)

1/2 tsp pepper powder

2 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves

Bit of asafoetida

Oil to fry

Make a thick batter of the flour, salt, asafoetida and coriander leaves. Keep aside for 10 minutes. Dip the potato pieces and coat it with the batter. Fry in hot oil till done on both sides.

Serve hot with chutney.