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Crispy Masala Dosa Recipe - Tricks & Tips For Home Made Dosa | Popular South Indian Food

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Crispy Masala Dosa Recipe - Tricks & Tips For  Home Made Dosa   Ingredients: For Dosa : Raw rice – 1 ½ cup Urad dal-1/2 cup Cooked rice- 2 tbsp Salt –to taste For coconut chutney Green chilli -2 nos Grated coconut -1/2 cup Shallots -6 or 7 nos Mustard seed-1/2 tsp Dry red chilli-3 nos Curry leaves -3 sprig Salt –to taste Oil 2 tsp Dry red chilli chutney: Dry red chill-7 or 8 nos Shallots- 5 or 6 nos Mustard seed -1/2 tsp Salt to taste Oil-3 tsp Method: For dosa Firstly we add urad dal and raw riceto a large bowl.rinse them very well and discard the water.soak it in enough water for 3 or 4 hours.  Drain the water ,add cooked rice and blend in a mixer to a smooth paste using 1 cup of water.  Transfer the mixture into a bowl ,add the salt and mix well.  Cover and ferment in a warm place for ½ day  Grease a tawa with few drops of oil  Pour a ladleful of batter on it and spread it in a circular motion  Then one side is ready, cook on the other side...

Chilli Chapathi Home Cooking Recipe

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Chilli Chapathi Home Cooking Recipe This dish is one of my favorite recipes in their menu. I knew about the extra calories am gonna get from that. But still I can’t even control myself from ordering it whenever I visit there. mon always make this chilli chapathi instead of parotta with the left over chapathis. I sometimes prefer to have this as my lunch box special goody.   Try the same recipe with Parotta for Chilli Parotta.  Ingredients: Chapathi  – 6 Cumin seeds – 1 tsp Green chillies – 4  Onion – 2 cup  Ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp Tomatoes – 1 cup  Red chilli powder – 1 tsp  Coriander powder – 1 tsp Garam masala – 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp Lemon juice – 2 tsp Oil – 2 tbsp Salt – to taste Method of Preparation: Heat oil in a pan and add the cumin seeds. Then add the green chillies followed by the chopped onions. Fry till they become translucent and add the ginger garlic paste. Fry for 5 minutes and then add th...

Chilly-Garlic Potato Roast

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Chilly-Garlic Potato Roast  This is a flavorful and delicious recipe which is best with South Indian meals or can also be served as a snack. This recipe contain only few ingredients and easy to prepare. If you are trying out this recipe then please let me know how it has turned out for you ! To boil potatoes: Boil the potatoes with the below ingredients in pressure cooker for 2 whistles. I cooked potatoes in Instant pot in medium pressure cooker mode for 15 minutes  Potato 5  Salt to taste Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp Water  To coarse grind  : Take the below ingredients in a mixie jar and pulse it twice or thrice to make it coarse paste. Red chillies - 5 Garlic - 5 or 6 pods Oil - 1 tsp Salt - 1/2 tsp To Roast: Oil - 3 tbsp  Boiled potatoes - cut into cubes Coarsely ground paste  Method: 1) In a pan, add oil. Once heated, add in cubed potatoes and roast until it turns golden. 2)...

Sweet Pongal

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Sweet Pongal  sweet pongal, is often made as a prasadam for various festivals in South India. However, it is a recipe which must be included in the Pongal menu. You can easily make this mouth-watering dessert recipe at home with simple ingredients like jaggery, moong dal, coconut milk, rice and dry fruits. This delectable recipe is perfect for serving to the guests on special occasions or on get-together like party, potluck, game night, birthday, anniversary. Ingredients (for four people) :- Moong dal - 1cup. Rice - 1cup. Milk Coconut cashew jagerry raisins (dry grapes) cardamom ghee. sweet pongal preparation: Fry the moong dal (before washing) till it becomes little light brown (it will start smelling).  Then soak rice and dal separately for 10 minutes. Thoroghly wash and keep it in cooker with the right water (lesser is o.k)and cook it seperately (in two different containers).  Meanwhile cut coconut invery small pieces and fry in ghee....

Bread Uthappam(Breakfast recipes)

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Bread Uthappam( Breakfast recipes ) Ingredients: White/brown bread slices-10 Rava/sooji-1 tbsp Rice flour-1/2 tbsp Thick butter milk-1 cup Salt-1 tsp more or less Grated carrot-1-1/2 tbsp Capsicum-2 tsp- finely chopped Tomato-2 tsp- finely chopped Ginger-1/2 tsp - grated Green chilli-6- chopped To temper: Oil-1 tbsp Musturd-1/2 tsp Urad dal-1/2 tsp Jeera-3/4 tsp Coriander leaves- chopped-1 tbsp Method: Tear the breads and grind along with Rava, salt, rice flour and butter milk. In a mixing bowl add this along with 1/2 cup of water and whisk well. Add grated carrot,ginger, green chilli, capsicum a and tomato to this. Heat a kadai with oil and temper with items ,once done pour it over the batter. Now take a non stick pan grease with little oil and pour the batter in small circles. Sprinkle coriander leaves on top let it cook one side wait, flip over the other side drizzle again with oiland cook over a medium flame until golden.

Chicken wings (Indian style)

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Chicken wings (Indian style) This recipe is inspired from a famous restaurant. This recipe is known as Hyderabadi chicken at restaurant’s and it is one of their signature dish. This is such a mouth-watering recipe which my family loves it. Hence decided to try this at home after some research and turned out same as what we have it in restaurant. This can served as a starter or a side for fried rice or noodles. You can also try this recipe with boneless chicken strips. If you are trying out this recipe, then please let me know how it has turned out for you. For marination: Chicken wings - 1 kg Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp Lemon juice - 1 tbsp Salt to taste Pepper powder - 1 tsp Red chilly powder - 2 tbsp Egg - 2 Corn flour - 4 tbsp Rice flour - 3 tbsp Garam masala powder - 2 tsp Cumin powder - 1 tsp Kasturi methi crushes - 1 tbsp Ghee - 2 tbsp Final preparation : Fried chicken  Onion - 3 to 4, sliced Curry leaves - 2 sprigs Cashews - 10 (optional)...

Cauliflower 65

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Cauliflower 65  Gobi 65 is one of the famous dish we prepare at home more often. This one is many of us famous recipe. I made this recipe little different as I added Kasturi methi so that it adds extra flavor to the Gobi 65. if you are trying out this recipe, then please let me know how it has turned out for you! Ingredients: Cauliflower - 1, cut into small florets Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp  Corn flour - 2 tbsp Besan flour - 2 tbsp Rice flour - 2 tbsp Kashmiri chilly powder - 1 tbsp Salt to taste Garam masala powder - 1 1/2 tsp Salt to taste Kasturi methi - 2 tbsp, crushed Oil for deep frying  Blanch the cauliflower : Heat water with some salt and turmeric powder. After it comes to a boil, blanch the cauliflower in hot water for 5 minutes. Once done, drain it and wash cauliflower florets in cold water. Set aside. This step will remove the dirt in cauliflower. Method  Add all the ingredients except oil in the cauliflower and ...