Methi Chappathi

From the below measurement you can make 10-12 small chapathis.
Methi is extreme source to heal and cool your body.

Ingredients:
Methi ke pathe/Vendhaya Keerai/Fenugreek leaves - 1cup
Atta/Wheat flour/Godumai mav - 2 cups
Turmeric powder - 1/2tsp
Clarified butter - 1/4cup
Salt to taste
Til oil - 1tbs
Jeera powder - 1/2tsp
Amchoor - 1/4tsp
Water  - 2 1/2cups

Method/Vidhiee:
1. First step is to chop of the roots and clean the leaves and chop them well.
2. You need not chop them so finely it can be coarse.

3. In a small pan add til oil. When it heats up add the methi, jeera powder,turmeric powder,amchoor powder and 1/4tsp salt from the whole measure of salt that you have kept.
4. Saute them for 1min and transfer on to a bowl and cool them.
5. Now add the atta above the mixture add the remaining salt and mix them well.
6. Add few drops of ghee and mix well.
7. Now add the water and make them into a soft dough. Remember that methi also contains water. If the dough is turning bit soggy dont pour more water. Keep adding water enought to make dough tight and soft
8. Keep them for 10mins. Add few more drops of ghee and cover them.
9. Make small balls of the size you can roll on flat.
10. Now heat a tawa and minimize heat.
11. Now flatten each dough into a chappathi and put on to the tawa.
12. Wait till one side gets cooked and turns light brown.
13. Turn it and add ghee drops.
14. Once ghee is added do not keep it for long time.

Serve hot with Peas sabzi !!

Vegetable Godumai / Aatta / Wheat flour Dosai

It's one of the instant dosai that is made down south. Its not always you soak the lentils and rice to make dosas. Alternates are there like this Aatta / Godumai dosa, Rawa Dosa, Ragi dosa etc..


Ingredients:
Atta/Godumai mav/ Wheat Flour - 2cups
Rice flour/Arici mav/ Chawal ka atta -1 cup
Jeera - 1tbs
Pepper crushed - 1/2tps
Mustard seeds/Kadugu/Sarson - 1/2tbs
Curry leaves
Green coriander leaves
Green chilly -2
Salt - 1 to 1 1/2 tbs (If u are adding the left over salted veggies take care to add less salt)
Refined sunflower oil - for making dosas
Water - 4cups

Generally with above ingredients the batter is made. For a twist i have added the below.
Amchur - 1/4tps
Vegetables - You can take any vegies like shreddred /finely chopped carrots,green peas,french beans, cauliflower,capsicum,tomatoes, shredded cabbage,sweet corn. This time i have used the veggies that were left over as sabji. It can always be added to these batters

Method/Vidhiee:
1. Mix Aatta,Rice flour, Salt, Jeera, Mustard, Curry leaves, Coriander leaves, Pepper crushed, Salt.
2. Now add the veggies that are left over or chop and grate fresh ones and add to it.
3. Add water and mix well the batter. To make the batter pourable on tawa.
4. Dont make it too much liquid. Be careful of lumps. Its better to mix batter with hand.
5. Heat a tawa spread a spoon of oil. Grease it.
6. Pour one scoop of batter and spread well. Remember as this has vegies you cant make a thin dosa.
7. Spread as much you can and pour oil on sides.
8. Once one side is done turn the next side.

Serve hot. This dosa doesnt require any chutneys but if required you can serve soo.

Sakkara Pongal / Sweet Pongal

Pongal one the major harvest festival of south India. Especially in tamilnadu farmers celebrate it with great joy as its their earning which comes out of an year hard work. They make dishes out of new harvested rice.
One such dish is SAKKARA PONGAL or Sweet Pongal.
As a tradition at villages they make in MANN PANNAI (mud pot) tieng  yellow banana, turmeric leaves, flowers, sugarcane around pot. At my home we have tradition to tie the same thread with all the materials above around a VENGALLAI PANNAI (Bronze Pot).

Well there is no occasion needed to make this Pongal!!!

Ingredients:
Raw White Rice - 1 cup
Split yellow moong dhal/ Paytham parupu/ Moong dhal - 1/2 cup
Channa dhal/ Split gram dhal/Kadalai Parupu - 100gms
Gudd/Jaggery/Vellam - 1cup
Ghee/Clarified butter/Nei - 1/4cup
Kaju/Cashewnuts/Mundhiri parupu - 20gms
Kanja drakshai/Kismis - 10gms
Elaichi powder/Elakai powder - 1tsp
Milk - 1cup
Water - 3cup (for boiling)

Mehtod/Vidhiee:
1. Soak dhals & rice for 1/2hr in water.
2. Take a heavy bottom vessel/pressure cooker.
3. Add water and then milk. Bring them to boil.
4. During Pongal days when the milk boils and the froth falls out of the pot people say PONGAL O PONGAL (PONGAL name generally is derived from this froth which falls out of pot).
5. Once the froth falls add the rice and the dhals.
6. Keep stirring till the rice and lentils cook.
7. Keep adding water as and when required sot that the rice & lentils cook.
8. Once they are cooked (means you get to smash them well) time to add powdered jaggery.
9. Stir them well. Let the jaggery melt.
10. Add ghee to the rice mixture and keep stirring without taking out the hand.
11. Meanwhile in another small pan fry the cashewnut,coconut pcs and kismis in ghee.
12. Once the rice, lentils and jaggery becomes like a poridge add the cashew and kismis.
13. Keep a note the Pongal has to be semi solid as when they cool it would become thick and hard.
14. So its ok if the pongal is bit watery.
15. Add elaichi powder and stir well.
Serve hot or cold. Enjoy it!!

Note: You can make the same in pressure cooker. Add 1 portion of water and 3 portions of water to 1 cup rice and 1 cup lentils. Bring them to pressure cook (4 Whistles). Once the pressure is released add jaggery mash and mix well. Add ghee, nuts, kismis, coconut pcs, elaichi powder.

Mixed Fibre Adai

Its a slight varition from the normal adai where in i have added corn and oat meal.
So those kids or elders who dont like would like this adai definitely.

Ingredients:
Channa Dal/Bengal Gram - 2 cups
Raw rice - 1 1/2 cup
Sweet corn kernels - 1cup
Oats - 2 cup
Dry Red chilly - 4-5
Pudina - hand full
Salt to taste
Curry Leaves
Oil to make adai

Method/Vidhiee:
1. Soak Channa dal and raw rice for 6-7 hours
2. Along with them soak the dry red chillies.
3. After 7hrs drain the water and grind them well to a paste. If needed add water.
4. Pour the paste on to a bowl.
5. In a mixer now grind the corn kernels to a powder and and pour them to the same bowl.
6. Also grind the oat meal into powder and pour on to the bowl.
7. Now mix the pastes and add salt as required.
8. Add curry leaves as required.

9. Mix well add water to make it semi solid to make as a batter and pour as a dosa.
10. Now as you pour for dosa pour the batter and add oil.
11. When onside turns brown turn another side and your Adai is done.

For slight variation you can add grated carrot, green chillies, cabbage...
Serve with jaggery, mellagai podi, avial..