Bendekayi(Okra) Dose

Ingredients:
4 - 5 cups chopped Okra / Ladies Finger / Bendekayi
4 cups White Rice
1/2 cup grated Coconut
4 - 5 Green Chillies
Small piece of Ginger (Optional)
3 - 4 strands of Curry leaves (Optional)
1.5 cups of fresh Buttermilk
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.
Chop the okra into medium sized pieces as shown in the picture. Put chopped okra, green chillies, grated coconut, curry leaves, ginger in a mixer and crush.

Grind soaked rice into medium smooth paste by adding required amount of water. Add crushed okra and grind them together into smooth paste. Add salt, buttermilk, water(if required) and mix well. (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 around 25 Dosas.

Mango Ginger (Kukku Shunti) Tambli

Ingredients:
1 inch long Mango Ginger / Kukku Shunti / Manganari
3/4 - 1 cup grated Coconut
2 Green Chillies
1/2 - 3/4 cup fresh Buttermilk / Yogurt /Curd
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
1/4 tsp Fenugreek seeds
1 - 2 broken Red Chillies
4 - 5 Curry Leaves
1 tsp Oil

Recipe:

Wash the mango ginger, chop them into medium sized pieces as shown in the picture below.

Grind grated coconut, green chillies into smooth paste by adding sufficient amount of water.(If it is frozen coconut, use hot water while grinding.) Add mango ginger and grind them together for about 2-3 mins.  Add this ground coconut to a vessel. Add buttermilk, salt to the same vessel and mix. (If it is yogurt/curd, put it in a mixer for few seconds before adding it to Tambli.)

Put mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds and oil in a pan. Once it starts spluttering, add curry leaves and add it to Tambli. Mix well before serving. It goes well with rice.