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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Tomato Pickle(Uppinakayi)

Ingredients:
5 cups chopped Tomato
4 - 5 tsp Red Chilly powder
1/2 cup Oil (Preferred: Sesame seed Oil)(1/4 cup while cooking + 1/4 cup for seasoning)
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
Lemon sized Tamarind (Size depending on the sourness of the Tomato)
2 tsp Mustard seeds(1 tsp for Masala, 1 tsp Seasoning)
1.5 tsp Fenugreek seeds (1 tsp for Masala, 1/2 tsp Seasoning)
1 strand of Curry leaves
1 - 2 broken Red Chillies
Big pinch of Asafoetida powder
Salt to taste

Recipe:
Wash the tomatoes and wipe them using a clean cotton cloth. Chop them into small pieces as shown in the picture below.

Put tamarind in a bowl, add little amount of water. Squeeze and keep it aside.
Put tamarind water, chopped tomatoes, salt in a vessel and cook them well by covering the lid.

Add 1/4 cup of oil and cook this in medium/low flame for about 10-15 mins until oil starts separating and almost all the water content gets evaporated.

Once its cooled to room temperature, add turmeric powder, chilly powder, mix and mash them well.

Dry roast the 1 tsp mustard seeds and 1 tsp fenugreek seeds separately in low flame until it gives nice aroma. Once its cooled, put it in mixer and make fine powder as shown in the picture below.

Put 1 tsp mustard seeds, 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds, 1/4 cup of oil, broken red chillies in a heavy bottomed vessel and heat. Once they start spluttering, add asafoetida powder, curry leaves, keep it for few seconds and then add the cooked tomato and switch off the flame.

Once its cooled to room temperature, store it in an airtight container. It goes well with Rice. For longer shelf life store it in a refrigerator.

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Ash Gourd Spongy Dosa (Kumbalakayi Kannu (Mente) Dose) | ಕುಂಬಳಕಾಯಿ ಕಣ್ಣು(ಮೆಂತೆ) ದೋಸೆ

Spongy pancake from Ash Gourd


Ingredients (ಬೇಕಾಗುವ ಪದಾರ್ಥಗಳು):
2 cups White Rice  |  ಬೆಳ್ತಿಗೆ ಅಕ್ಕಿ  (Preferred: Sona Masuri / Broken Steam Rice)
3 - 4 cups chopped Ash Gourd  |  ಬೂದು ಕುಂಬಳಕಾಯಿ
3/4 - 1 Tbs Fenugreek seeds  |  ಮೆಂತೆ
1/2 cup Curd  |  ಮೊಸರು
Small lemon sized Jaggery  |  ಸಣ್ಣ ನಿಂಬೆ ಗಾತ್ರದ ಬೆಲ್ಲ
Salt to taste  |  ರುಚಿಗೆ ತಕ್ಕಷ್ಟು ಉಪ್ಪು
Ghee or Oil  |  ತುಪ್ಪ ಅಥವಾ ಎಣ್ಣೆ 

Recipe (ಮಾಡುವ ವಿಧಾನ):
Soak rice in water for about 2-6 hrs.  Soak fenugreek seeds in Curd for 2-6 hrs. Wash soaked rice 2-3 times and keep it aside. 

Cut the Ash Gourd, peel the skin, remove the seeds from inner part of ash gourd, wash it properly and cut it into medium thin pieces.

Grind soaked rice, ash gourd along with fenugreek seeds, curd, jaggery into smooth paste. Mix well & ferment the batter overnight(For about 8-10 hrs.) 

Add salt and water(if required). The consistency of the batter should be like that of medium thin milkshake.

Heat the Tava(Iron Tava preferred). Pour a spoonful of batter at the centre, spread it little with the back of the spoon as shown in the picture below. Cover the lid & cook for about 1 min in medium flame. 

Remove the lid, apply Ghee (Around 1-2 tsp) & cook other side of the dosa as well for about 1-2 mins.


Serve hot with any chutney or sambar. The ingredients mentioned above will serve 8-10 Dosas.

Tips (ಸಲಹೆ):
 * Make sure that Dosa batter is fermented well, otherwise it wont be soft & spongy as shown in the video
 * If you don't like thick Dosas, you can make thin Dosas from the same Batter
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