VERMICELLI PAKORA

Ingredients

Vermicelli 1 cup
Basin flour 2 table spoons
Rice flour 1 table spoon
Baked and smashed potato 1
Onion (cut lengthwise) 3
Green chili (cur lengthwise) 4
Ginger and garlic paste ½ tea spoon
Salt To taste
Mint leaves 2 table spoons
Cashew nut 2 table spoons
Coriander leaves (cut finely) 1 table spoon
Oil and ghee


Put ghee in a frying pan, fry vermicelli till it becomes golden brown in colour. Add little warm water and boil it. Then add cool water into it and filter it nicely. Add potato, green chili, onion etc to vermicelli. Make thick dough without water. Then deep fry the pakoras in oil. Serve hot with sauce or chutney.

RAVA DOSAI

Ingredients:

Suji (Rava) 200 gms
Rice flour 200 gms
Maida 100 gms
Cumin seeds ½ tea spoon
Sour butter milk 100 gms
Green chili 1 cut into pieces
Salt To taste
Oil

Pour the buttermilk in a bowl. Add suji, maida, rice flour, cumin seeds, green chili and salt. Make the batter properly like the regular doasi batter. Keep it for 30 minutes. Heat a tawa (dosaikkal), pour a little oil in it and spread evenly. Take one measure of the batter and start pouring from the corners of the tawa in a round shape and finish in the centre. We cannot spread the batter like regular dosai batter. Put oil in the corners of the doasi. Turn the dosai to the other side. It will be crispy. Serve hot with chili powder, onion chutney.

We can add sliced onions to the batter and prepare onion rava dosai.

STEAMED RICE CUTLET

Ingredients

Boiled Rice 2 cups
Red chili 3
Asafetida 1 small pinch
Mustard seeds 1 tea spoon
Black gram 1 tea spoon
Cabbage 1 cup (sliced nicely)
Carrot 1 cup (sliced nicely)
Coconut scrapped 1 cup
Green peas ½ cup
Curry leaves
Salt to taste
Oil

Soak boiled rice in water for 2 hours. Then grind rice salt, asafetida, red chili into medium coarse mix (like sooji). In a pan put oil and add mustard seeds, black gram. Roast well. Then add green peas and other vegetables with scrapped coconut. Add curry leaves and keep it for 3 to 4 minutes. Boil water and add the rice mix and cook it without oil. Let it cool. Add all the baked vegetable mix in it. Steam cook the entire thing like idlis and after that cut the cooked idlis into pieces. Serve with tomato sauce or pudina (mint) chutney.