Showing posts with label chutney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chutney. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Pesarattu/Moong dhal Dosa with Ginger Chutney

Has every one watched the 'Avatar' movie??? if not please watch it soon as this is the must see movie. I watched it the second time with my boy last weekend, I can't believe my boy has grown big to accompany me for a movie and the first time we went as a family ..yes with my 18m old girl and I could not watch the movie peacefully the first time, its a wonderful movie and a woman sitting next to me kept on saying "wow" for each and every scene and its worth it. 
Coming to the recipe, I would say pesarattu with ginger chuttney is the combination and if I don't set a limit say 3 or may be 4 dosas, I would ending eating countless number of dosas, I love it sooo much. The greatness of this dosa is there is NO need for fermentation so as soon as you grind it you make can dosa out of it. Lets get to the recipe of my heartthrob dish.



Pesarattu/Moong dhal Dosa

Ingredients
Green gram dhal - 1 cup
Raw Rice - 1/4 Cup
Onion - 1/2 of 1 chopped
Ginger - 1"
Green Chiles - 2
Cilantro - 1 Cup
Salt to taste

Method
Soak dhal and rice together for 6 hrs and grind to a paste in a mixie with all other ingredients and make like regular dosa and if you want you can aslo add onions in it and it would be more tastier. Enjoy with the ginger chutney.

Ginger Chutney

Ingredients
Ginger - 2"
Urad dhal - 2tsp
Channa dhal - 1tp
Mustard - 1/2tsp
Red chilies - 4 
Curry Leaves - 10
Tamarind - small ball size
Jaggery - 1and 1/2tsp
Salt to taste 
Oil - 2 tsp    


Method
Soak the tamarind in water for 10 mins.
Heat oil in a pan and add the fry the urad dhal and channa dhal till its turns golden brown and add the red chilies and mustard and add the curry leaves and fry for few mins. Grind these fried dhal with oil and with jaggery and ginger to a fine paste and enjoy it with pesarattu.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Coriander Chutney for Chaat

This cilantro or coriander chutney is mainly for the chaat foods like samosa , dhokla , tikkis and much more. So we can say without this chutney the chaat is not a complete one. This chutney will add up a nice spice to the chaat. Here is the recipe for the easy chaat chutney.


Ingredients:
Cilantro - 1 bunch
Green Chili - 4
Cumin seed - 1tsp
Lime juice - 2 tsp
Oil - 1 tsp
Ginger - 2"
Sugar - 1tsp
Salt as required



Procedure:
Cut off the roots from the cilantro and wash well and blend together with the remaining ingredients in a blender to a smooth paste. Serve with the chaat.