Watermelon Dosa

Ingredients:

5-6 pieces of white part of watermelon

1 cup White Rice

Salt to taste

Oil/Ghee

Recipe:

Soak rice in water for about 4-5 hrs. Wash soaked rice 2-3 times and keep it aside.

Grind soaked rice along with sliced watermelon pieces into smooth paste.(Only white part of the watermelon as shown the picture below.) Add salt, water if required. (Consistency of the batter should be like that of milkshake)

Heat the Tava(Iron Tava preferred). Pour a spoonful of batter at the centre, spread it with the back of the spoon to a thin round. Add 1 tsp of oil/ghee on top of dosa, cover it in a lid and cook it for a minute in medium flame. Cook other side of the dosa as well for about 1 min. Serve hot with any chutney or sambar.

The ingredients mentioned above will serve 6-8 Watermelon Dosas.

Rasam

Ingredients:

1 large Tomato

1 Green Chilly

Pinch of Turmeric powder

1- 1.5 tsp Rasam Powder

5-6 strands of Coriander Leaves

1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds

Pinch of Asafotida

Salt to taste

1 tsp Oil

1-1.5 cup cooked Yellow Lentils/Toor Dal

Recipe:

Chop tomato into thin longer pieces and add it to a vessel. Cut green chilly into two pieces and add it to the same vessel. Add sufficient amount of water, salt, turmeric powder and cook them well. Once the tomato is cooked, add rasam powder, cooked yellow lentils/toor dal and bring it to boil. ( You can cook yellow lentils and keep it in fridge, it won't be spoilt for 10 days). Keep the Rasam in low flame for about 3-4 mins. Add chopped coriander leaves and stir it.

Add Mustard seeds, oil in a pan. Once it starts spluttering, add asafotida powder and keep it for few seconds. Add this to Rasam. Mix well before serving. It goes well with rice, ghee and papad.