recipes

Here are the kolams and rangolis in this page:
  • crispy idly
  • veg-cheese uttapam
crispy idly
Rangoli: crispy idly
Created by Dr.Rekha Shetty on 2011-08-22,

U may laugh on me saying teaching south Indian tamilian about idly. I know we like soft steamed idly .Dear friends one day i could not get my idly vessel(tondur)handy .so i tried to make this crispy idly which i tried when my nephew came from USA last diwali with family for dinner and everybody liked it .

Ingredients for four people
rice ...1 cup
udad daal(black gram)...2 and half cup
Method:
Soak both udad and rice separately for 3-4 hours .Grind udad to very fine and rice to little cores(not very fine).keep little thick as compare to steam idly . mix it and keep it for fermentation for 6-7 hours . Take round bottomed pan (kadai) which we normally use for frying things .Put 1 teaspoonful cooking oil preferably sesame oil .add on cup idly batter (dough) and keep it in very very low flame with the lid .Once the upper surface becomes dry reverse and put little oil from the side and keep it for another 4-5 minutes .serve hot with tomato sauce or samber or /and chutney .it goes very well with tea in the evening with company of our hero(I know u r laughing on my silly receipe yes na....)

veg-cheese uttapam
Rangoli: veg-cheese uttapam
Created by Dr.Rekha Shetty on 2011-08-16,

This modified onion uttapam i make to satisfy my daughters as they like cheese very much.
Ingredients for 8 middle sized uttapam
Simla Mirch-2(big sized)
tomato -2
Onion -1
ginger -1cm
green chillies-2
green coriander-one small bunch
Pottato -1(boiled with little salt)
Method:
cut the vegetables to very fine and mix it with little salt and keep aside
smash the boiled potato and keep aside
Take a dosa pan put litle oil or ghee and spread the dough thinly
make a thin layer of above said vegetable .sprinkle the boiled potato and cover it with lid and let it fry in low flame .Once the dough becomes dry reverse and add little oil from the sides and keep it for another 2-3 minutes and now remove the dosa from the pan and add scrapped cheese or paneer if u like and serve with green chutney and tomato sauce .(the photo given above is without the cheese as my hero does not like it)