Rava (Semolina/Sooji) Upma

Semolina / Rava / Sooji Upma is a delicious healthy item for breakfast/snack item.Here is recipe for you to try at home.

Ingredients :

1. Rava/Sooji/Semolina - 1 cup (approx. 200gm)
2. Water - 3 cups ( three times the amount of rava/sooji/semolina)
3. Carrots, beans - chopped
4. Green peas
5. Onions (small)- 1 (chopped)
6.Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
7. Green chillies - 2 -3 nos(chopped)
8. Coriander leaves
9. Roasted Cashew nuts / peanuts
10.Vegetable oil
11. Ghee - 2 tsp

Pour 2tsp oil in a wok.Heat it and put rava to it to fry.Stir it and fry it lightly.Constantly stir to prevent rava getting burned.Once the rava is lightly fried keep aside.Pour little oil in the wok and add mustard seeds to it.Stir it for few seconds and add chopped onions,carrots,beans, green peas(other chopped seasonal vegetables may also be added).Cook till they get fried.Add previously fried rava and stir it.After few seconds add water to it.Add salt to taste.Keep stiring till rava absorbs the water and gets cooked. Add roasted cashew nuts /peanuts , coriander leaves and ghee to it and mix well.

Rava Upma is ready within few minutes.

Dosa with Coconut Chutney

Dosa is a famous food not only in Southern part of India but is also famous in countries like Srilanka , Malayasia  and Singapore. For The North Indians it forms an item for breakfast. Dosa is accompanied by many pastes such as coconut paste, tomato paste , mint paste.Dosa is a fermented crepe or pancake made from rice batter. There are many variations in dosa. 

Here is a simple recipe for the people who could like to make dosa at home.

Ingedients:

For Dosa Batter :

1. Rice
2. Black Gram(Uradh Dal)
3. Purified Drinking Water
Add salt to taste.

Put all the ingredients in a grinder and make a paste(batter). It is advisable to make the batter minimum 18 hrs before making the dosa. It is required for for the rice to get little fermented. Add salt to taste.

                                                                     Rice Batter


For Coconut Chutney(Coconut Paste)

Ingredients:

1. Coconut - cut into pieces
2. Fried Bengal Gram Pulse (Chana Dal)
3. Green Chilly
4. Purified drinking water
Salt to taste

Put all the ingredients in a grinder and make a paste.

Heat ghee / oil in a frying pan. Pour the batter in the pan in a round action of your arm. Put some onions(if you like) and fry the batter. Once the batter gets to golden color remove it from heat.Serve hot with coconut paste/tomato paste/mint paste.