Vangi Bath Type - 2

Ingredients:
4 - 5 medium sized Brinjal/ Eggplant / Badanekai (Long brinjal preferred)
2 cups White Rice(Preferred: Sona Masuri)
1.5 cups fresh Green Peas / Soaked Green Peas
1 large Onion
2 medium sized Onion
1/2 - 3/4 cup Drumstick flowers
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
2.5 - 3 tsp Vangibath Mix
1 tsp Mustard seeds
1/2 tsp Blackgram seeds
1.5 - 2 tsp Bengalgram seeds
1/2 inch sized piece of Cinnamon Stick / Chekke
1 - 2 Cloves / Lavanga
1/2 - 3/4 tsp Sugar(optional)
4 - 5 strands of Coriander leaves
3-4 tsp Ghee

Recipe:
Chop brinjal into long(1 inch sized) thin pieces and put it in a vessel containing buttermilk water for about 5 mins.

Chop Onion, tomato into medium sized thing pieces as shown in the picture below.

Wash and pressure cook the rice, green peas by adding around 4.5 - 5 cups of water for 3 whistles.

Add mustard seeds, bengal gram seeds, black gram seeds, cinnamon stick, cloves ghee in a pan and heat.

Once it starts spluttering, add curry leaves, chopped onion, turmeric powder, little salt and fry them for about 3-4 mins in low/medium flame until it turns light golden in colour.

Add chopped tomato, drumstick flowers and fry them for about 2-3 mins.

Add chopped brinjals, salt and cook them well. Add vangibath powder, mix and keep it for about 2-3 min in low/medium flame.

Add cooked rice, chopped coriander leaves and mix well for about 2-3 mins and serve hot.

Sweet Potato (Genasu) Sonte

Ingredients:
3 - 4 medium sized Sweet Potatoes / Sihi Genasu
3/4 cup Corn flour
3/4 - 1 cup Rice flour / Akki hudi or Rice Batter / Akki Hittu
1.5 tsp Chilly powder
Big pinch of Asafoetida powder / Hingu
Salt to taste
1/4 tsp Cumin seeds / Jeerige
1 tsp Sesame seeds / Ellu
15 - 20 Carom seeds / Ajwain seeds / Oma
Oil

Recipe:
Peel the skin of sweet potato and cut it into 1 inch long medium sized thin pieces as shown in the picture below and put it in a water. Remove the sweet potatoes pieces from water and put it in a vessel.

Add rice flour/batter, corn flour, asafoetida, cumin seeds, carom seeds, sesame seeds, salt, chilly powder in a vessel. Mix them well by adding sufficient amount of water. (Don't make the batter too thin.)

Keep oil in a thick bottomed vessel and heat. Take the pieces of sweet potato and put it in oil.

Fry this in medium flame until its crisp and done.

Store it in an airtight container and serve it along with tea/coffee.