Ragi Chakkuli

Ingredients:
5.5 cups Millet / Ragi or 6 cups Millet Flour / Ragi Hudi
3 cups Black Gram seeds / Uddina bele
2 tsp Chilly powder
1 tsp Cumin seeds / Jeera
2 tsp Sesame seeds
3/4 tsp Asafoetida powder
10 - 12 tsp Butter/ Benne
Salt to taste
Oil

Recipe:
Take 2 cups of black gram seeds in a pan and fry it in a microwave or stove until it gives nice aroma or it turns golden in colour by without adding any oil.

Once it is cooled, make smooth powder by grinding it in a mixer as shown in the picture below.

Soak millet in water for about 5-6 hrs. Wash them properly and grind them into smooth paste by adding sufficient amount of water. (For Millet flour, this step can be excluded.)

Add butter, salt, cumin seeds, sesame seeds, chilly powder, asafoetida powder and mix them well.

Add prepared black gram seeds powder to the same vessel and mix them well. Add water if required. (Don't make the dough too thin.) Kneed the dough properly and keep it aside by covering a lid for about 15 mins.

Fill the Chakkuli maker with this dough and press into round shape in a wax paper or a plastic sheet as shown in the picture below.

Keep oil in a thick bottomed vessel and heat. Put pressed Chakkulis in oil and deep fry until they turn golden in colour.

Once they are cooled to room temperature, keep them in an airtight container. Serve along with coffee or tea.

Deegujje/Deevi Halasu(Breadfruit) Boluhuli

Ingredients:
1/2 medium sized Breadfruit / Deegujje / Deevi Halasu
2 medium sized Onion
3 - 4 Drumsticks / Nuggekayi
1 - 2 Green Chillies
3/4 - 1 cup cooked Yellow Lentils
1/4 tsp Chilly powder
1/2 tsp Rasam powder
Pinch of Turmeric powder
Lemon sized Jaggary
Grape sized Tamarind
1 tsp Mustard seeds
Big pinch of Asafoetida powder
Salt to taste
5 - 6 Curry leaves
2 - 3 strands of Coriander Leaves
1 - 2 broken Red Chillies
1 tsp Oil

Recipe:

Remove outer skin, innermost part of the breadfruit and put them in water for about 3-4 mins. Chop them into medium sized pieces as shown in the picture below. Chop the onion into medium sized pieces as shown in the picture below. Cut the green chillies into two halves. Chop the drumsticks into 1.5 inch sized long pieces as shown in the picture below.

Put tamarind, little amount of water in a bowl. Squeeze and keep it aside.
Put chopped breadfruit, onion, green chillies in a vessel. Add chilly powder, jaggary, salt, turmeric powder, tamarind water, required amount of water and cook by covering a lid.

Once its almost cooked add chopped drumsticks and cook them well.

Once it is cooked, add cooked yellow lentils, rasam powder and bring it to boil. Add chopped coriander leaves and switch off the flame.

Put mustard seeds, broken red chillies oil in a pan and heat. Once it starts spluttering, add curry leaves, asafoetida powder and keep this for few seconds and then add it to Boluhuli. It goes well with Rice.