Sunday, December 23, 2012

Phali Chutney - Peanut Chutney

Ingredients:
1/2 Cup - Peanuts
2 Table Spoons - Putnalu [Roasted Chana Dal]
2 Tea Spoons- Dry Coconut
6 - Green Chillies, Cut into halves
Grape Size - Tamarind OR [ 1/2 Cup - Sour Curd]
Salt
Turmeric

Tadka:
Oil
Mustard seeds
Urad Dal
Hing
Red Chilli
Karvepak

Procedure:
  1. Soak tamarind and remove the seeds.
  2. Dry fry the peanuts and keep them aside.
  3. Heat some oil and add green chilles, take them out of the oil after a minute and grind along with rest of the ingredients mentioned in list.
  4. Add tadka at the end.
Note: To make it simple - while preparing tadka, add the green chillies in the tadka. Then separate the green chillies from tadka and grind them along with peanuts. This way you dont have to heat the oil twice.

Allam Pachadi - Ginger Chutney

Ingredients
1/4th Cup - Ginger
4 - Green Chillies
4 - Red Chillies
1/4th Tea Spoon - Methi Powder
Lemon Size - Tamarind
1/2 Tea Spoon - Jaggery, Grated/Powder [Adjust as per your taste]
Salt
Turmeric

Tadka:
Oil
Mustard Seeds
Urad Dal
Hing
Red chilli
Karvepak

Procedure
  1. Soak tamarind in water for some time, remove all the seeds.
  2. Grind all the above ingredients. Add water if required.
  3. Add tadka at the end.
  4. This chutney goes well with Idli, Dosa, Upma etc.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Pesarattu - Green Moong Dal Dosa

Ingredients:
2 Cups - Pesalu/Green Moong Dal
2 Tea Spoons - Rice OR RiceFlour
8 - Green Chillies
1 Inch - Ginder
1 Tea Spoon - Jeera
1 - Onion, Chopped [Optional]
Handful Of CorrianderLeaves / Kottimeera, Chopped [Optional]
Salt

Procedure:
1. Soak Moong dal in water for 10 hrs or over night.
2. If using rice for this recipe instead of rice flour, soak the rice along with moong dal.
3. Drain the water and grind the moong along with green chilles, ginger, salt, rice/rice flour. Add water to get dosa consistancy.
4. Take the batter into a bowl and add jeera and mix the batter.

5. Batter is ready to prepare moong dal dosas.

6. Optional: Once the dosa is made, before taking dosa out of the pan you can add chopped onions, kottimeera and few chopped green chillies and fold the dosa into half and serve.

7. Dosa can be served with Ginger Chutney, Green Chutney or Onion Chutney.