Ragi Utthappam

How about Ragi uthappam and spicy onion chutney.. Drooling???? Me...yes ofcourse.. can resist the taste of uthappams and spiciy onion chutneys.. 

Have made these uthappams using the left over batter of ragi appam (please check the recipe for the same in breakfast/ Kerala breakfast corner).

Ragi Appam

One more experimentation from my rasoi. 

Ingredients:

Ragi seeds - 3 cup
Raw rice/dosa rice -2 cups
Urad dhal - 1/2 cup
Sugar -5 tspn (add while grinding the rice)

Soak rice + ragi and urad dhaal separate for almost 5 hrs.

Grind them to a smooth batter . While grinding add a handful of poha too to get smooth appams. 

In a small katori add some warm water and 1 tspn of sugar and mix well. Add a pinch of yeast to this ..wait till yeast dissolve completely. Add this to the grinded batter and mix well with up/down strokes. Leave it to ferment .once the batter is raised add salt and make appams in normal way.

Serve with the curry of your choice. 

This is an anytime- easy to make carrot cake with the ingredients available at home.. Once again I tried this with my own recipe

Ingedients :

Carrot -2 robust ones grated to small
All purpose flour -1 & 1/2 cup
Sugar powdered - 1 cup
Baking powder -1/2 tspn

Orange red Food colour - less than a pinch
Vanila essence - 1/2 tspn

Eggs -3 nos
Curd (set one) 1/4 cup
Milk -1 cup
Butter  50 gms
oil - 2 tspn

Seive together flour, baking powder and food colour. Leave it undisturbed

Beat powdered sugar and butter to thick foamy layer. Add only egg yolks now and beat. after it is foamy add egg whites. Beat to a foamy mix. Add the essence and mix well. Add milk and beat again.Now fold in the dry powders carefully without lumps. Finally mix the grated carrot and fold in (do not beat now).Finally add 2 tspn of oil on top of the batter and mix. grease a butter paper with some more oil and pour the batter on top of it on a baking mould. garnish with raisins/nuts as prefered

Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes

Idli podi (powder)

It is rightly said that there is no best cook in this world other than our mom. The love and magical taste of her hand made delicacies remains always our favourite no matter at what age we are.. Sharing with you here my mom's recipe for home made idli powder..yummmmmmmm I cant explain the taste of this when she makes.. I have tried here the same recipe but I always feel that her's is the best..

Ingredients :

Raw rice (any raw rice..can use even the idli/dosa rice too) -1 cup
Urad dhaal -1/2 cup
Chana dhaal -1/2 cup
Curry leaves - a big bunch
Dried Red chillies - a hand ful (can reduce the qty if u dont want to make it spicy)
Pepper corns -2 tspns
Asafoetida  (hing) - 1/4 block if it is a solid one  and 1 -2 tspn if it is powdered
Jeera seeds - 3 tspb
Salt -as required

Dry roast all the ingredients separately. Add some oil while roasting hing and curry leaves for better smell to the idli powder. Adjust the flame as per the qty of ingredients and please take care not to charr the ingredients while roasting. Allow all the ingredients to cool and powder it into fine mix in a mixer. 


Mix the idli powder with oil (any cooking oil) while serving.