Rava Iddly

Ingredients:

• oil-2tbsp
• mustard seeds-1/2 tbsp
• dry chilly-3 cut to half.
• ginger chopped-1tbsp
• curry leaves-7
• green chilly chopped-3
• cashewnut chopped-4tbsp
• rava-2cups
• baking powder-1/2tbsp
• Milk-1.5 cup
• Yoghurt-1.5 cup
• salt as per taste

Preparation:

1. Heat a tawa and pour oil,saute mustard seeds,dry chilly,curry leaves,green chilly,ginger,cashewnut in that order.
2. Add rava and fry till its golden color.
3. Remove from the heat and let it cool.
4. Add baking powder,milk and yoghurt to the rava and mix well to get an iddly batter consistency.
5. add salt and pour the batter in iddly maker and steam it for 10 mins.
6. Let it cool and then have it with chutney.

peas stuffed puri

Ingredients:

• green peas-1 cup
• onion-1/2 chopped
• green chilly-1
• salt
• wheat flour-6tsp
• yoghurt-2tsp
• oil for deep fry
• water to make dough

Preparation:

1. prepare a soft dough with wheat flour,salt,yoghurt,water and keep it for 30 mins.
2. grind green peas and green chilly with just enough water.
3. Heat a deep bottom tawa and pour 1tsp oil,fry onion till its golden.
4. Add the ground mixture ,salt and stir well .
5. Cook untill you can make balls from that mixture.
6. keep balls inside the puri balls and roll out like parathas.
7. deep fry the puris in oil.

idiappam/nool puttu/rice noodles

Ingredients:

• roasted rice flour-1 cup
• warm water-1 cup
• salt-1/2 tsp
• grated coconut-1/2 cup

Preparation:

1. mix the flour with warm water and salt to make a soft dough.
2. fill the idiyappam press with some dough.
3. Lightly grease the idly plate with oil and squeeze the dough onto the idli plates in a circular motion.
4. sprinkle 1/2 spoon of grated coconut on each idiappam.
5. Now place the idli plates in a steamer and steam it for 5 mins.Allow it to cool and take each idiyappam from the plates very carefully.
6. I prefer veg stew with this.If I am too lazy to prepare curry it ll go with sugar also.

neer dosa

We had this dosa in coorg with chicken curry.It was a surprising dish for us since we were seeing this first time.

Ingredients:

• Raw rice-2 cup
• grated coconut-1 cup
• salt as per taste
• oil for frying
• water

Preparation:

1. soak raw rice atleast for 4 hrs.
2. grind rice with grated coconut,salt ,water to a batter thinner than dosa.
3. make thin dosas with this batter.since the batter is watery u cant spread like dosa.Lower the heat and close with a lid until dosa gets cooked.

akki roti(rice roti)

First we saw this roti in a coorg trip.Our home stay aunty prepared akki roti and neer dosa with chicken curries.Taste was superb.

Ingredients: for 7 rotis

• cooked rice-1 cup
• rice flour-1/2 cup
• salt-1/2tsp

Preparation:

1. Grind the cooked rice to a paste without adding water.
2. Mix rice flour ,salt to this paste and make a soft dough.
3. take lemon size dough and roll like thin chapathi.
4. In a hot frying pan ,fry both the sides and then show it to the direct heat.
5. your akki roti is ready.

We had taken a photo infront of our home stay in coorg. This place is like kerala,only weather is different.