Baale Dindu(Banana Stem) Tambli

Ingredients:

1 cup chopped Banana Stem / Baale Dindu

1 - 2 Green Chillies

Small piece of Ginger

3/4 cup grated Coconut

1 - 1.5 cups fresh Buttermilk

Salt to taste

8 - 10 Fenugreek seeds

1/4 tsp Cumin seeds

1/2 tsp Mustard seeds

1 - 2 broken Red Chillies

4 - 5 Curry leaves

1 tsp Ghee

Recipe:

Make thin round pieces of banana stem by removing its fibre content and 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 chopped banana stem, ginger and grind them together for about 2-3 mins. Add this ground coconut to a vessel. Add buttermilk, salt, water(if required) 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, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, broken red chillies, ghee in a pan and heat. Once it starts spluttering, add curry leaves and add it to Tambli. Mix well before serving. It goes well with Rice.

Avalakki Ragi Ubbu Rotti

Ingredients:
4 cups thin Beaten Rice / Avalakki
3 - 3.5 cups of Millet flour / Ragi Hudi
Salt to taste
40 Banana leaves

Recipe:
Put beaten rice, salt and around 4 cups of water in a vessel and keep it aside for about 15 mins.

Mix the soaked beaten rice so that it is mashed completely. Add the millet flour slowly, mix and kneed the dough as shown in the picture below.

Take one banana leaf and place it over the flat wooden plate. Take lemon sized dough, make round ball shape and place it over the banana leaf as shown in the picture below.

Place another banana leaf over the ball as shown in the picture below.

Press this ball into medium thin round shaped rotti using any flat hard material as shown in the picture below. Make sure that the rotti does not contain any holes in it.

Heat the Tava(Made using clay) and place the rotti along with both the banana leaves. Cook both sides of rotti by frequently alternating the sides.

After 2-3 mins remove the banana leaves and cook both the sides of the rotti as shown in the picture below.

Once it starts puffing up, remove the rotti from the Tava and place it over the charcoal or high gas flame as shown in the picture below.

Serve hot along with any curry. The above mentioned ingredients will serve around 20 Rottis. I tried this recipe from FOODIE group from FB. Thanks Laasya Kishan Gowda for the recipe.