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Dec 29, 2014

PURAN POLI

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Recipe Highlights
Tasty and soft poli.
Ingredients Cooking Time : 45 Mins
All purpose flour – 1 1/2 cups
Jaggery – 1 cup
Bengal gram – 1 cup
Cardamom powder – 1/2 teaspoon
Oil –  4 teaspoon
Turmeric powder – 1/2 teaspoon
Salt – a pinch
Ghee – as required

Method
Step :1
Take a bowl and add all purpose flour,salt,turmeric powder and 3 teaspoons of oil and mix it well.Add water little at a time and make a soft dough.finally add a teaspoon of oil over the dough and let it rest for atleast 2 hours.
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Step 2: 

Wash the bengal gram and cook it in a pressure cooker for 4 to 5 whistles .Remove it from the pressure cooker and mash it.
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Step 3: 

Take another pan and add jaggery and very little water.after it dissolves strain the impurities and let it boil for a minute. Then add the cooked bengal gram and cardamom powder and boil it 5 minutes or till it gets thickened.Switch off the flame and let it cool down for some more minutes. Then make small balls.
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Step 4: 

After 2 hours take the dough and make a small ball, half the size of the filling ball.Cover the filling and remove the excess flour and press it gently and roll it like a chapatti. Repeat the same procedure for remaining flour.
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Step 5:
Heat the pan and  place the poli and cook it for a minute and turn over and cook it for another minute.Apply ghee on both sides and remove it from the pan.
Soft poli is now ready.
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Puran Poli is now ready to serve.
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Dec 28, 2014

IDLI UPMA

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Recipe Highlights
This is a simple and tasty dish with left over Idlis.
Ingredients Cooking Time : 10 Mins
Left over Idli – 8 to 10
Onion - 1
Redchilli - 2
Mustard and Urad dal – 1 teaspoon
Oil – 2 teaspoon
Channa dal – 1 tablespoon
Curry leaves – 1 sprig
Idli podi – 2  to 3 teaspoon
Salt - to taste

Method
Step :1
Crumble the idlis coarsely with your fingers.
Heat oil in a pan and add mustard and urad dal.When it starts to crackle,add chana dal and redchilli and fry it till chana dal becomes golden brown in a medium flame.
Then add onions and saute it with little salt.Add curry leaves.
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Step 2:

Now add the crumbled idli and mix it well.Finally add Idli podi and mix it well.
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Idli Upma is now ready to serve.
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