Balekayi Bajji

Ingredients:

1 Large Raw Banana / Balekayi

1/4 cup Bengalgram flour/Besan flour/Kadle hudi

1/2 cup Rice flour/Akki hudi

Pinch of Asafotida powder/Hingu

Salt to taste

10 Cumin seeds/Jeerige

10 Ajwain seeds / Oma

1/2 tsp Chilly powder

Oil

Recipe:

Take off only the fiber from the outer cover of raw banana as shown in the picture below. Chop it into medium sized thin pieces as shown in the picture below. Put this chopped raw banana in water for about 3-4 mins.

Place this banana pieces in a tissue or clean cotton cloth to dry.

Add rice flour, bengalgram flour, asafotida, cumin seeds, ajwain 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 bottommed vessel and heat it. Take each piece of raw banana, dip it in batter and deep fry it in oil. Serve hot along with Tomato ketchup.

Jolada Rotti / Bakri

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups Jowar flour / Jolada hudi

3 cups of Water

Salt to taste

Butter

1-2 tsp Oil

Recipe:

Put 3 cups of water, pinch of salt, oil in a thick bottommed vessel and bring it to boil. Add jowar flour gently and mix them well, making sure that it doesn't make any lumps.

Transfer the dough to another vessel and keep it aside for about 20-30 mins.

Take little amount of dough and make a round ball. Dip the ball in jowar flour.

Roll this dipped ball to a thin round shape using sufficient amount of jowar flour as shown in the picture below.

Heat the tava and cook both the sides of rotti.

Serve hot along with butter and badanekai ennegayi. The above mentioned ingredients will serve 12-14 Jolada Rottis.