Chatpati Chapathis

Ingredients
4 chapathis
2 boiled potatoes, peeled & grated
1/2 cup grated paneer
1 carrot, peeled & grated
1 cheese cube, grated
2 tsp. chat masala
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tomato, cut into strips
1 capsicum, cut into strips
salt to taste

Method
In a mixing bowl, add potatoes, paneer, carrot, cheese, 1 tsp. Chat masala, lemon juice,
salt and mix well.
Divide the mixture into four equal parts and roll each part into a long roll of the size of
chappaties. Keep aside.
Warm the chappaties and place on a serving plate. Put one roll of potato & paneer mixture
in the center of a chapati.
Also add some capsicum and tomato strips, sprinkle chat masala on the top and roll up the
chapati.
Repeat the same procedure with the other chappaties and serve hot.

Cabbage Paratha

Ingredients
1/4 cabbage
salt
3-4 cups wheat flour
any garam masala 1 tsp.
ghee
green chillies
coriander

Method
Shred the cabbage (with sharp knife,) finely.
Put it in a large bowl, sprinkle some salt over it and keep aside.
Chop chillies and coriander very fine and add to cabbage.
Put garam masala, wheat flour, add little water and knead well. (Try to use less water, as
cabbage will leave some juice.) you can add more flour if necessary.
Heat tava, roll out paratha of kneaded flour, use ghee for roasting. Roast well.
Eat with pickle, dahi or lasanachi (garlic) chutney.

Bread Upma

Ingredients
5 dry bread slices
(each cut into nine squares)
1 big onion (finely chopped)
1/2 tsp dhania-jeera powder
a pinch of red chilli powder
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp urad dal
3 tsps of oil
salt to taste
a pinch of turmeric powder

Method
In a hard bottomed pan, add oil. Add mustard seeds and after it starts spluttering, add
urad dal.
Add the onions and fry till it changes colour. Add the bread pieces and sprinkle a little
water to soften the bread.
Add salt, turmeric powder, dhania-jeera powder and chilli powder. Mix well in a low flame.
Notes:
This requires very little salt as the bread already contains salt.

Bombay Toast

Ingredients
bread : 5 slices
milk : 1 cup
egg : 1
sugar : 2 tbsp
butter : 1 tbsp

Method
Beat together egg, milk and sugar to a batter.
Heat a pan and spread a little butter.
Dip a slice of bread in the batter and fry till golden brown turning it once on either side.
Careful not to break the bread.
Can be used as breakfast or evening snack.

Aloo Paratha

Ingredients
chapati atta - 200 gms
jeera - 1 tsp
chilli powder - 2 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
yoghurt (dahi) - 3 - 4 tbsp
cooking oil - 2 tbsp
potato - 2 - 3 medium sized
salt to taste

Method
Boil 2 - 3 medium sized potato, remove skin and mash it.
In one bowl take 200 gms chapati atta. Add jeera, chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt.
Mix it well.
Add mashed potato, mix it with 3 - 4 tbsp yoghurt, 2 tbsp cooking oil. Add little water to
make a soft dough. Keep a side for about 15 to 20 minutes.
Make frying pan (tava) hot on medium heat.
Take small ball from dough and roll it for a while. Then just apply a little oil by four fingers
and fold it into half. Again apply little oil and fold it. It will get triangular shape.
Roll it in triangular way.
Place it on hot tava. When it gets little brown, apply oil or ghee. Turn it and again apply oil
or ghee on other side. Keep turning simultaneously until it gets golden brown.

Masala Dosa

Ingredients
1 cup plain rice.
1 cup parboiled rice.
1/4 cup white urad dal.
1/2 tsp. methi (fenugreek) seeds
1 /2 tsp soda bi carbonate
1/2 cup curds the batter.
10-12 tsps. ghee
or oil as preferred
water for grinding

Method
For masala:
2 large onions in vertical slices 2 large potatoes boiled and peeled 4-5 green chillies 1
tbsp. Chopped coriander 8-10 cashews halved 1/2 tsp. Each urad dal, cumin & mustard
seeds 2 tbsp. Oil 1/4 tsp. Turmeric salt to taste
Wash the rice and dal together. Add plenty of water and methi seeds. Allow to soak for 7-
8 hours or overnight. Re wash the rice by draining the water 2-3 times. Grind to a paste.
Rawa-like grains should be felt in
Add soda bicarb and salt and mix well. Keep aside in a warm place for 8-10 hours. Beat
the curds well. Add to the batter, add more water if required. The consistency of the batter
should be enough to thickly coat on a spoon when dipped.
Heat the iron griddle or non-stick tawa well. Pour a spoonful of batter in the centre, spread
.with the back of the spoon to a thin round. Pour a tsp. Of ghee or oil over it. Spread
chutney spread over dosa.
Place a tbsp. Masala in the centre. Fold into triangle to cover masala. Remove with spatula
when crisp. Serve hot with chutney and/or sambar. Chop potatoes coarsely. Chop green
chillies. Heat oil, add cashews and brown lightly.
Add dal, seeds and splutter. Add chillies and onions. Fry till tender. Add turmeric, salt,
otatoes, coriander. Mix well.

Spicy Roti

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups wheat flour
1/2 cups gram flour
1 1/2 tsp chilli powder
1 tbsp oil
salt to taste
1/2 turmeric powder

2-3 pinches asafoetida
1/2 tsp each cummin
oregano seeds
finely chopped coriander
1 tbsp water

Method
Knead a slightly stiff dough, adding all above ingredients, cover with wet cloth.
Break off bits and make small potato sized balls. Roll to 3-4 mm thickness.
Roast on griddle (tawa) as for phulka.
Or after brown spots appear place direct on gas flame and puff, with help of tongs.
Phulka also may be done similarly if puffing with cloth, feels difficult.
Apply ghee or butter and serve hot with sweetened mango preserve (chunda) or curds or
jam.

Spicy Puris

Ingredients
1 raw mango chopped
1/2 cup green coriander paste
1 tbsp mint paste
10-12 green chillies
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2-3 cups wheat flour

Method
In a mixie bowl, put chopped raw mango, chat masala, coriander paste, chopped chillies,
mint paste, cumin seeds, salt, garam masala and anardana. Switch on the mixie and make
a thick paste.
Sieve the flour. Add curd, ginger-garlic and onion paste and oil. Mix them, add mango
mixture and knead well to make a dough.
Cover for 1/2 hour with a damp cloth. Divide the dough into equal parts. Make balls.
Flatten and fry poories in hot oil. Serve these chatpati poories with curd or tea.

Rice Roti

Ingredients
2 cups rice flour
1 cup overcooked soft rice
salt to taste
water

Method
Blend the cooked rice to a smooth paste in a blender. Use water as required. Add salt to
the flour.
Add blended rice paste, knead into a soft dough. Take a ping pong ball sized dough. Roll
in some dry flour, pat into a thin chappati.
Do the above with your palm or with a rolling pin. Place on a warmed griddle, apply water
with hand on upper side.
Invert and roast on wetted side till cooked. Invert again and puff up like chappati or on
direct flame.
Serve hot with saag, or other gravy vegetable.

Rawa Dosa

Ingredients
sooji / rawa - 1 cup
green chillies - 5
(increase or decrease the
quantity depending on your spice level)
jeera - half a tsp (optional)
onions - 2 medium
cilantro - a small bunch
curry leaves - a few
coconut grating - about two tbsp.
salt to taste.
water.

Method
Fry rawa like you would for upma. (I fry rawa in big quantities and store for ready use. In
fact, this prevents the rawa from getting spoilt/worms too.) allow it to cool a bit.
Finely chop onions, green chillies & cilantro (coriander leaves) and add it to the rawa.
Add salt, jeera, curry leaves and required amount of water for dosa consistency & mix
really well. After a few minutes you will notice that the batter absorbs water and becomes
thicker. Add little more water and mix well till you get the right consistency. When the
consistency is okay, start making dosas.
Grease the griddle / tawa well. Add oil droplets to the dosa to cook it well on both sides.
When the dosa starts browning faintly in patches, you know it's done. Smear a little ghee
on the dosa(sometimes it's okay to forget the calorie-count!).

Rava Dhalia

Ingredients
250g wheat sooji
100g carrots, cut into 1" pieces
50g potatoes, cut into small cubes
10g mustard seeds
5 sprigs curry leaves
30g refined oil
1 onion, chopped
4 green chilies, sliced
salt to taste

Method
Heat oil in a pan, fry mustard seeds and curry leaves until the mustard seeds splutter.
Then add chopped onions, green chilies, carrots and potato pieces to the pan and fry
them for few minutes.
Now, add 3 glasses of water to the vegetables along with salt, cover the pan and boil until
the vegetables gets tender.
Add wheat sooji to the above boiled mixture and mix well, so that no lumps should be
formed.
Cook for 5-6 minutes and remove from heat.
Serve hot with any chutney.

Puffy Puris

Ingredients
2 cups wheat flour
1 tbsp ghee
salt to taste
1 tbsp curds
1 tbsp milk
water to knead dough
ghee or oil to deep fry

Method
Make soft pliable dough using all ingredients. Make some rounds rolling to about 3" - 4"
diameter.
Make 8-10 at a time, then fry in hot ghee or oil, till light brown.
Turn once and fry other side.
Drain with strainer and serve hot with either spicy vegetables curries, or curds.
Or with sweetened mango pulp.
Variations:
Use few seeds of oregano in the dough
Use paste of spinach instead of water to get green puris. (Boil one bunch washed
spinach, drain. Add one green chilli and blend in a mixie)
Add red chilli powder chopped coriander and turmeric to dough for masala puris
Boil jaggery water (strained) to dough for sweet puris.
Grind a handful of boiled peas + 1 chilli & add to dough.

Pudina Puris

Ingredients
2 cups plain flour (maida)
1/2 cup mint leaves (pudina)
1 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
2 green chillies, chopped
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon sugar
salt to taste
oil for deep frying

Method
Pound the mint leaves, cumin seeds, green chillies, lemon juice, sugar and salt together.
Combine this mixture with the flour, add enough water and knead into a firm dough. Divide
into small portions
Roll out on a lightly greased surface into thin circles
Deep fry in hot oil till golden brown and drain on tissue paper

Plain Dosa

Ingredients
250g black gram
500g rice
salt to taste
100g oil
 

Method
Soak the rice and black gram in water for 4 hours and grind to a smooth paste for 2-3
minutes. Keep aside for overnight.
Add salt and water to the batter and spread on a flat pan with a spoon.
Add 2 tbsp of oil and fry until golden color.
Remove from heat and serve hot with any chutney.

Phulka

Ingredients
2-1/2 cups wheat flour
salt
thin buttermilk or water.
 

Method
Knead soft dough with above ingredients. Break off to a table tennis - ball sized (even
smaller) bit of dough.
Roll with help of dry flour to a thin round. Roll as thin as possible (about 2 mm thick).
Heat griddle (tawa) and place phulka it.
When dry on one side, turn. When brown spots appear on second side, turn again. Use a
kitchen towel and lightly press and phulka, rotating at same time. It will puff. Make as crisp
as desired.
Apply ghee on crisp side and serve hot. Practice is required to make the phulka puff fully,
so don't lose heart. Serve hot with vegetable curries.

Pesara Vada

Ingredients
250g green gram
25g ginger
5 green chilies
1 tsp cumin seeds
2 onions, chopped
2 sprigs curry leaves
oil for frying
salt to taste

Method
Wash the green gram and soak in water overnight. Drain all the water and blend them for
25-30 seconds. These should not be blended to fine paste.
To this batter, add chopped green chilies, onions, ginger pieces, cumin seeds, curry
leaves, salt and mix well
Heat oil in a pan, place the batter on your palm, form an oval shape, insert your finger to
form a hole in the middle of the batter and drop into the oil.
Fry them on both sides until golden brown in color and crispy.
Serve hot with any chutney.

Medhu Vada

Ingredients
4 cups urad dal
1 cup ordinary rice
1 tsp. ginger grated
1 tbsp. coconut grated coarsely
8-10 whole pepper corns
1 tsp. cumin seeds
salt to taste
oil to deep fry

Method
Wash and soak dal and rice together in plenty of water overnight. Drain, grind to a soft
batter, a fine grain should be felt in it.
Do not make the batter thin. It should be thick enough to shape vadas.
Add all ingredients and beat well with hand to incorporate air.
Heat oil, wet palm and take an idli sized lump on fingers palm side up.
Make a hole in the middle with thumb.
Slip gently into hot oil, repeat for more.
Or use a medhu vada press.
Fry 5-6 at a time on medium flame.
Drain, serve hot with chutney and sambar, or accompany with idli.

Masala Idli

Ingredients
2 idlis, cubed
1 cup mixed vegetables of your choice
2 onions, chopped
1 small piece ginger, finely chopped
2 green chilies, chopped
1/2 tsp. red chili powder
1/2 tsp. coriander powder
1/4 tsp. turmeric powder
2 cinnamon sticks
2 cloves
2 cardamoms
1 tbsp of fresh coriander
mint leaves
(for garnishing)


Method
Heat oil in a pan and add the cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. Then add the chopped
onions and stir for few minutes till they turn golden brown.
Now add the vegetables and saute for few minutes. Then add the ginger, salt, chili powder,
turmeric and coriander powder.
To this add the idlis and stir till contents are thoroughly heated. Transfer into serving dish
and garnish with mint and coriander leaves.
Tip: Garlic can also be added. Add few tomatoes if desired. The idlis can be made to very
small pieces using your hands instead of cutting into cubes for this dish. Try out the
masala idli instead of the usual fried rice or biryani for a change.

Manchurian Dosa

Ingredients
2/1150 gms urad dal (black gram)
500 gms rice
10 gms methi (fenugreek) seeds
50 gms chana dal (bengal gram)
250 gms carrots
150 gms beans
100 gms green peas
5-6 green chilies, chopped
150 gms spring
(green) onions
chopped
50 gms oil

3-4 garlic cloves
finely chopped
a small piece of ginger
finely chopped
2 tsp soya sauce
1 tsp chili sauce
1/4tsp ajinomoto
2 tsp corn flour
few coriander leaves
chopped
salt to taste

Method
Soak urad dal, rice, methi seeds, chana dal in water for 1-2 hours. Drain the water and
grind to a smooth paste. Keep aside for 6-8 hours until it gets fermented.
Cut the carrots, and beans into small pieces and boil until they are tender along with
green peas. Drain the water and keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan and fry the chopped green chilies, ginger and garlic pieces. Also add
boiled carrots, beans, green peas, soya sauce, ajinomoto, chili sauce, little water and
cook for a while.
Mix little water to the corn flour and mix well. Add this to the above carrots mixture and mix
well. Sprinkle green onions and coriander leaves and remove from heat. The manchurian
curry is ready.
Heat non-stick dosa pan and rub the pan with wet cloth. Now make dosas from the above
dosa batter. Add the curry on the top and spread throughout the dosa. Sprinkle little oil,
roll the dosa and remove. Repeat for the remaining dosas.

Layered Roti

Ingredients
2/1/2 cups wheat flour
salt
thin buttermilk or water.
 

Method
Knead soft dough with above ingredients.
Make 4 mm thickness round about 6" diameter. Apply 1/2 tsp ghee and spread all over
with fingers.
Fold into half. Press greasy fingers onto it. Fold again to quarter. Press with fingers.
Roll in dry flour. Now roll out again to a triangle about the size of a roti.
Heat griddle (tawa) and place roti on it. Turn to roast other said.
Now put a little ghee on both sides and shallow fry till crisp. Serve hot with any desired
accompaniment.

Kancheepuram Idli

Ingredients
pepper : 2 tbsp powdered
jeera : 1 tbsp
asafoetida : 1/2 tsp
ginger : 1" grated
urad dhal : 2 tsp
bengal gram : 2 tsp
g.chillies : 8 (finely chopped)
oil : 100 grams
Method
Pour water into the idli vessel and let the water boil.
Place the plate without the idli cloth.
Take small steel cups and pour 1 tsp ghee or oil into it and pour the prepared idli batter
into the cup. Place the cups on the plate in the idli vessel. Steam the idli's for twenty
minutes.
These idli's are best served with ginger kuzhambu.

Dahi Vada

Ingredients
urad dal - 1 cup
moong dal - 2 tablespoon
curd/yogurt - 3 cups
jeera - 2 tablespoon
dry red chillies- 2 - 3
coriander leaves- a small bunch
sugar - 1/4 teaspoon
salt to taste
oil for frying.

Method
Soak both the dals overnight or 6-8 hours, grind it to smooth paste.
Now take the curd and beat it nicely with a spoon along with salt and 1/4 teaspoon of
sugar.
Fry jeera and the red chillies without oil and grind it to powder, add this to the beaten curd
with very little water.
Now fry the vadas in oil, and as soon as you take it out put the vadas in warm water for 5-
10 second, after that take the vadas out and squeeze any excess water with hand and put
it in the curd.
Finally, you can garnish your dahi vada with coriander leaves. If you like you can add
mustard, jeera, curry leaves and asafoetida seasoning to this.
 
P.s. : To make this dahi vada more appealing you can garnish little tomato ketchup and
date and tamarind chutney.

Banana Dosa

Ingredients
250g all-purpose flour (maida)
4 bananas, mashed
1 egg
75g sugar
2g cardamom powder
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 glass milk
50g oil

Method
Beat the egg well and to this, add sugar, milk and mashed bananas. These ingredients
can also be mixed in a blender.
To the all-purpose flour, add the above banana mixture and mix well to form dosa batter.
Now add cardamom powder and baking powder to the batter and mix well.
Heat a flat pan and make thin dosas. Fry on both sides until golden brown in color with
little oil.
Serve hot with any juice.

Coconut Puri

Ingredients
For Dough:
2 cups maida (all-purpose) flour
1 cup wheat flour
2 tbsp oil
1/2 tsp salt
for filling:
1 cup finely grated coconut
1/2 cup gram flour
2 tbsp oil
8-10 sprigs curry leaves
cut into fine pieces
8 green chilies, chopped
1 cm ginger, finely chopped
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
1/4 tsp salt
a pinch of asafoetida

Method
Mix maida, wheat flour, salt, oil with enough water to make a firm dough.
Heat oil in a pan, season with mustard seeds and asafoetida. When mustard splutters,
add green chilies, ginger, curry leaves and fry for few minutes.
Then add coconut, gram flour and fry till roasted. Allow it to cool.
Also add salt, chili powder, little water and mix well. Make into small balls.
Make larger balls of the dough, fill them with the coconut gram flour balls, flatten them and
gently roll them out into small puris. (Be careful that the filling does not come out).
Deep fry in hot oil till puffed, golden and serve hot with any chutney.