Masala Dosa with Chutney

Best breakfast you can ever have, ofcourse you will be thirsty for atleast 5 hours after eating it:-)

Ingredients:

1. Urad dal/Minappappu - 1 cup

2. Rice - 2 cups

3. Green Chillies - 2

4. Cumin seeds - 1/4 teaspoon

5. Salt - 1/4 teaspoon or according to your taste

6. Ginger - 1/2 teapoon of small pieces

7. Oil

Preparation:

Dosa prep begins one day before your breakfast day. Soak urad dal and rice early in the morning (this is one day before your dosa eating plans). In the evening, grind urad dal and rice to a smooth paste. Make sure it has a batter like consistency, don't add too much of water. Grind cumin seeds, salt, ginger, green chillies into a coarse mixture. Add this mixture to the dosa batter and let it sit overnight.

Next day morning, when you are ready for the dosa, heat the pan and pour 1/2 cup of batter on the pan, spread it and add oil to the edges of the dosa. Fry it for 1/2 minute or until it is golden brown, turn it and again fry it for 1/2 minute. Now fill it with masala or stuffing (Preparation shown in next step) and fold it into half like a semi circle and serve it hot with Chutney.

That's it, you first part of dosa is ready.

Masala or Stuffing for Dosa:

Ingredients:

1. Potato - 1 big, boiled and cut into small cubes

2. Onion - 1/2 cut into small pieces

3. Green chillies - 8-10 cut into half

4. Cumin seeds and mustard seeds - 1/2 teaspoon

5. Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon

6. Green peas (frozen) - 2 tabelspoons

7. oil - 1 tablespoon

8. Salt - as per your taste

Preparation

Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds and mustard seeds. Wait until they sputter and then add onions and fry until golden brown. Now add turmeric powder and green chillies and fry for 2 minutes. Add boiled potato cubes and green peas and salt and mix well with a spatula, so that all the ingredients are mixed well. Cover the pan with a lid and reduce t0 low heat and let it cook for 10 minutes. Stuffing is ready.

Chutney:

Ingredients:

1. Peanuts - 1 cup (roasted, unsalted, available at Walmart)

2. Green Chillies - 10 - 12

3. Tamarind paste - 1/2 tablespoon (store bought, available in Indian stores)

4. Salt - as per your taste

5. Water - 1 cup

Heat a pan and put the green chillies and fry until the green chillies loose their rawness and start forming a white color on their skin. (Easier way to do this instead of using a stove, take a microwave safe plate, put the green chillies in it and pop them in the microwave for 2-3 minutes.... easy) Now, add all the ingredients including the green chillies in a mixer and make a smooth paste. Chutney is ready.

Enjoy, your masala dosa with chutney.... and dont forget to thank me once you make this yummy breakfast ;-)

Pav Bhaji

Today, I spoke to one of my best friends in India and guess where she was??? The famous "Gokul Chat" in Koti.

That's it, at that very moment all the memories of India flashed in front of my eyes. And especially the tasty and savoury chat we used to eat at Gokul.

Hmm, can't get those days back now but I've decided to revive atleast few memories and the first step towards this was to eat "Pav Bhaji". This is one of my favourite snacks. I can eat it any time and anywhere, even if my stomach is full.

So, let's see the way to prepare it.

Ingredients:

1. Potato - 1 big, boiled and cut into small pieces

2. Tomato (canned and diced) - 1/2 cup

3. Butter - 4 tablespoons

4. onions - 1, cut into small pieces

5. Green Peas (frozen) - 1/2 cup

6. Chilli powder - 1/2 tablespoon or according to your taste

7. Salt - according to your taste

8. Chaat masala (store bought) - 1/2 tablespoon

9. Pav Bhaji Masala (store bought) - 1 tablespoon

10. Bread - 2 slices

Preparation:

Heat butter in a pan, add onions and fry until they are golden brown. Add tomato and mix well and let it sit on medium heat for 3-4 minutes. Once the butter starts oozing on top, add chilli powder, salt and green peas and mix well. Now let it simmer on medium heat for 5 minutes and use a spatula to mix occaisonally in order to stop it from burning.

Add boiled potato cubes and mix well so that masala is well coated on the cubes and now add chaat masala, pav bhaji masala and let it simmer on medium heat for 1-2 minutes.

Now, take a potato masher or a spatula and mash the potato cubes in the pan itself until the cubes become a paste like consistency.

Now, mix everything well with the spatula and cover the pan with a lid and let it simmer on low heat for atleast 3-4 minutes.

Add onion and coriander leaves for garnish if needed.

And for the bread, take two slices and toast it in the toaster or on the frying pan and then add a little bit of butter on both sides.

That's it. Pav Bhaji is ready.... Let's dig in. Can't wait to eat.

Sambhar

Aahhh!!! This is my favourite. I can eat alot of rice just with Sambhar.

Ofcourse this is one of the reasons why I'm putting on a lot of weight ;-)))

Ingredients:

1. Toor dal / Kandhi Pappu / Yello pigeon peas / Lentil - 1 cup

2. oil - 1 tablespoon

3. Mustard seeds - 1/4 teaspoon

4. Cumin seeds - 1/4 teaspoon

5. Drumsticks - 4 pieces (frozen, store bought)(available in Indian Groceries)

6. Tamarind - 1 pod soaked in 1 cup of water

7. carrots - 1 cut into bite size chunks

8. salt - as per your taste

9. chilli powder - 1 tablespoon

10. Sambhar Powder - 1/2 tablespoon (store bought, available in Indian Groceries)

11. Water - 5 cups

12. Onion - 1 cut into 4 big chunks

13. Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon

Preparation:

Wash and pressure cook Toor dal for 3 whistles and then mashed to make a paste like consistency.

Take another pan, pour oil and let it heat. Now add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and wait until they sputter. Add onion chunks and turmeric powder and mix well. Fry the onions until they turn golden brown. Add drumstick pieces and carrots and fry for 2-3 minutes.

Now add the tamarind water, salt, chilli powder, sambhar powder, water and let it boil.

After 7-8 minutes of boiling, add the cooked dal. Mix well. Let it simmer for 15 minutes.

Your sambhar is ready.

Server it with Rice. Enjoy!!!!!!!