Zucchini Dose

Ingredients:
3 - 4 medium sized Zucchini
2 cups Rice flour
1/2 cup Bombay Rava
1 Tbs Gram flour / Kadle Hudi
1 tsp Sambar powder
1/2 - 1 tsp Chilly powder
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Sugar
Button sized Asafoetida
2 - 3 tsp crushed dried Curry Leaves
1 tsp crushed dried Mint Leaves
2 tsp Dried Fenugreek leaves / Kasuri Methi
Salt to taste
Oil/Ghee

Recipe:

Add all the flours and dried ingredients in a vessel.

Add enough water and mix them well and prepare the batter as shown in the picture below. Don't make the batter too thin.

Cut the Zucchini into thin round pieces as shown in the picture below. Put them in salt water for about 5 mins and keep them aside.

Heat the Tava(Iron Tava preferred). Dip the zucchini pieces in the prepared batter and place it over the tava as shown in the picture below. 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 1-2 mins by covering the lid.

Serve hot along with any chutney/ sambar.  It also goes well along with chutney powders. The ingredients mentioned above will serve around 6-7 Zucchini Dosas.

Chana Dal Fry(Mixture)

Ingredients:
2 cups Chana Dal / Bengal Gram seeds / Kadle Bele
1/4 cup Groundnut / Peanuts / Shenga
1/4 cup broken Cashew nuts
1/4 - 1/2 tsp Chilly powder
8 - 10 strands Curry leaves
1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
1/2 tsp Black Gram seeds
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
Big Pinch of Asafetida powder
Salt to taste
Oil

Recipe:
Soak the chana dal in water for about 3 - 4 hrs. Wash them properly in water and drain.

Spread it in a clean cotton cloth and keep it aside for about 15-20 mins.

Keep oil in a thick bottomed vessel and heat it. Fry the soaked chana dal until they are crisp.

Take them from the oil and put them in a tissue paper to absorb the oil content.

Put mustard seeds, peanuts, black gram seeds,  2-3 tsp oil in a pan and fry them for about 2 mins in medium flame. Add broken cashew nuts and fry them in medium/low flame. Once they turn light golden in color, add curry leaves and fry them for about 1-2 mins in low flame. Add asafetida powder, turmeric powder and fry them for about 5-10 seconds in low flame.

Add fried chana dal, chilly powder, salt and mix them well.

Once it is cooled to room temperature, keep it in an airtight container. Serve along with coffee or tea.