Corn fried rice

This is fave of my kids and again easy to make .

Cook corn and rice separately.  Take oil in a kadai.... Add cooked corn, sauté for a minute.  Add grated carrots and sauté for a minute.  Add salt, chilli flakes and pepper pwd.  Add some pulao masala or garam masala just for smell.   Add rice and mix well.  Check seasoning.  Cover and keep for a couple of minutes on sim.  Then add small paneer pieces and oregano.  (Paneer can be fried and added as well) .  Cover and cook for a minute and serve with any gravy ! 

Phanna polo

Mix oats 1/4 cup, maida  1 cup,  rava 1/4 cup, and a bit of rice flour.  Add green chillies, and salt and a pinch of sugar.  

Prepare a tadka of oil, rai and curry leaves.  Can add red chillies also.  When it cools add the tadka to the batter.

The batter shud be of pouring consistency, thinner than the normal dosa batter.  

Pour the batter on the at the Tawa when it is hot ....

Lauki with chana dal

This recipe is from Suphala Shenoy !  Simple and delicious !

Cook chana dal with haldi and green chilli and lauki separately.  Take oil add jeera and then hing.

Add tomatoes,  dhania pwd and red chilli pwd,  then the cooked dal and lauki. 

Add a spoon of sugar and salt to taste.  Then add garam masala.

Cook till thick and garnish with dhania leaves. 

I used sambhar pwd instead of garam masala and curry leaves in place of coriander leaves.

Biscuit cake

Powder one packet of good day biscuit (100 gms ) and one packet of hide and seek biscuit in the mixie.

Add one tsp vanilla essence,  2 - 3 tsp of pwd sugar ( as per taste ) and 2 - 3 tsp of cocoa pwd and run the mixie again.

Add around one cup of milk and mix.

Finally add around 1 Tsp of plain eno fruit salt and mix. 

Pour into a microwave bowl and micro for 4-5 minutes.

Enjoy.

Can use any biscuits, like bourbon, parle g etc....

Cheese paratha

Chapati dough

Filling : gratEd cheese, salt, chilli flakes, grated carrots, finely chopped dill leaves. 

Or : grated cheese, salt, chilli flakes, chopped cashews, cut raisins, dates etc. 

Moong Dosa

Moong :  2 cups soak for at least five to six hours .... Has to be soft

Rice.     :  1 cup. Soak for 3-4 hours

Poha.    :   1/4 cup soaked I used thick poha

Green chillies as per taste

Salt as per taste 

Grind the above to a smooth paste.  I used a mixie.  Leave for an hour or so ... Not required .  And make dosa.

For filling :  mix grated cheese, salt chilli flakes, grated carrots and finely chopped dill leaves . 

Crispy dosa

This recipe is from the author of the blog Kudpi's Garam Tava.  I made the batter in the moxie and not in the grinder... The doses were crisp and had a lovely colour.....

Raw rice : 4 cups 

Urad dal :  1 1/2 cups

Chana dal : 1/4 cup

Tuar dal : 1/4 cup

Methi   : 2 tsp

Phova ( thick ). : 1 fistful

Sugar :  2 tsp

Salt. : to taste

Soak ingredients 1 -5 for at least 4 hrs.

Wash pho a and grind along with the other ongredients to a thick dosa batter, slightly thinner than idli batter

Allow it to ferment at room temperature for 8-12 hrs.

Add sugar and salt to taste. Mix well and allow it to stand for 15 min and then make yummy dosas !