Akki rotti

Day 3 : Akki rotti

Akki rotti is a crunchy, spicy flat bread made of rice flour . It is one of my fav breakfast item. Hope you like it too:)


Ingredients:

Rice flour (akki hittu) : 1 cup
 Jeera - 1 tsp
Green chilli - 1-2 chopped
coriander leaves - a handful chopped
water - as needed
Carrot - 1 small grated
Cucumber - 1/2 grated
Coconut - 1 tsp grated
salt - as per taste
onion - 1 small chopped
Oil - 1 tsp per rotti

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients with water and prepare a semi solid dough.
2. On non stick pan or iron kada apply one 1 tsp of oil put it on medium flame.
3. Divide the dough into 4-5 parts depending on the size of pan.
4. Take one part of the dough and apply on butter paper and spread evenly into a thin rotti.
5. Hold the paper at the edges and flip the rotti over to the pan.
6. Cook for 5 mins and then flip it over.

Serve with coconut chutney or chutney powder.

My notes:

1. Veggies are optional but I like them in
2. If you want soft rotti close pan while the rotti is cooking. If you like it crisper do not close it.

Spagatti in tomota sause

Day 2 - Spaghetti in tomato sauce

There are many ways of preparing spaghetti. Here is my version. This is very easy and cooks real fast.

Ingredients:

Spaghetti : 100 gms
tomatoes : 1 small chopped
Onion : 1/2 chopped
Garlic : 1 clove minced
Tomato sauce : 1 cup
salt - as per taste
Extra virgin olive oil - 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Boil water in a vessel and add little salt. Cook the spaghetti for the time specified on the packet. Once cooked put the spaghetti into a stainer to remove extra water.
2. While spaghetti is cooking, heat olive oil in a sauce pan and add the minced garlic.
3. Add onion and cook for a min and then add tomato and cook till it is slightly mushy.
4. Finally add tomato sauce, basil and simmer the heat and cook for 8-10 mins.
5. Place back the spaghetti in vessel and add little sauce and mix well.
6. In the serving plate put this spaghetti and serve with some more sauce and basil.

My Notes:

1. I saw in a Italian video that we should not mix the entire sauce at once with pasta.
2. You can also garnish with some Parmesan cheese.

Kuttu avalakki

 It's been a while since I last posted..Better late then never.I an planning to blog this whole week so that I could get into the mode again.

So here is the first recipe of the week : Kuttu avalakki (Day 1)

Kuttu avalakki is a sweet, salty and tangy dish. On a whole it is yummy...

Ingredients:

Avalakki (Poha) :1 Cup
Saarina pudi(Rasam powder) : 1 tsp
Salt : 1 tsp/ to taste
Jaggary : 1 tsp
Tamarind : 1 small lemon sized
Dried coconut : 1 tsp(grated)
Coriander leaves : 1 tsp
Water : as needed

To roast:
Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp
Jeera - 3/4 tsp
sesame seeds - 1 tsp

To Temper:
Mustard seeds : 1/2 tsp
Groundnuts : 1 tsp
Oil : 1 tsp
Urad dal : 1/2 tsp
Hing : a pinch

Method:

1. Wash and soak tamarind in warm water. After a while squeeze out the pulp and discard the fiber.
2. In a wide container add rasam powder, powdered jaggery, salt and the tamarind pulp and set aside.
3. Roast the fenugreek seeds, jeera and sesame seeds until you have nice aroma.
4. Grind this with poha in a mixer into a coarse powder.(dry grind)
5. Now mix poha with the rest of the masala in the container. Sprinkle little water if the mixture gets too dry. Leave this for 10- 12 mins
6. Heat oil add mustard seeds. After it splutters add hing, groundnuts and urad dal.
7. After they are done, add the poha and mix well for 1-2 mins. Turn off the heat
8. Garnish with some grated dried coconut and coriander leaves and serve with some curd!!

Apple cinnamon milkshake

This is the easy way of consuming apples for those who does not like the fruit like me :-) . I made this with few changes from the original recipe.

Source : Tarladalal
Serves : 2

Ingredients:

Apples : 1 cup (peeled and chopped)
Honey : 2 tbsp
Almonds : 4
Cinnamon powder : 1 tsp
Milk : 2 cups (Boiled and chilled)

Method:

1. Blend chopped apples, honey, almond with little milk.
2. Add cinnamon powder and rest of milk and blend to a smoothly.
3. Serve chilled.(If needed add few ice cubes)

Notes:

-You can replace honey with sugar.(I added honey to make it more healthier)
-Can even try with cardamom powder instead of cinnamon.

Black eyed peas(Alasande Kalu) curry

Black eyed pea (Alasande kalu) is high in proteins. Here is the recipe of black eyed pea side dish. It goes well with roti,chapathi or even steamed rice.

Ingredients:

Black eyed peas - 1 cup
Onion - 1 big, chopped
Tomato - 2 , chopped
Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp or to taste
Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
salt - to taste
Oil - 2tsp
Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Coconut - 2tsp (optional)
Coriander leaves - few

Method:

• Soak black eyed pea for any hour and pressure cook it for 3 whistles(depends on cooker) or on stove top. Don't over cook. Peas should retain their shape.
•  Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, Jeera and allow them to splutter.
• Add Onion and cook till they are transparent and then add tomato and cook till they are done.
• Now add cooked black eyed peas. If u want gravy add little water and mash few peas. Cook for few mins
• Add salt, chilli powder,coriander powder and garam masala and grated coconut and cook for 2 mins.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

Chocolate chip cookies with dry nuts

Whats better than a chocolate?? I love chocolate in any form.Be it a chocolate,cake or a cookie.I found this eggless chocolate chip cookie recipe from this site. I made it with few modifications. I added cocoa powder for rich color and also added almonds.

Ingredients:


All purpose flour - 1 cup
Butter - 1/2 cup
Cocoa - 1/4 cup
Walnuts - 1/2 cup chopped
Almonds - 1/4 cup chopped
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Chocolate chips - 1/4 cup

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 150 C. Sift all purpose flour,cocoa, baking powder and keep aside.
• In a bowl add softened butter and sugar and mix until it become creamy.
• Now add flour mixture, almonds, walnuts, choco chips and knead into a dough. If dough is dry add few drops of milk. 
• On the baking tray line a baking sheet or apply butter
• Now divide dough into small balls (roughly in the size of a lemon) and place them on tray and flatten a bit.(If you need a crunchy cookies flatten the dough more).
• Bake this in the pre-heated oven for 20 mins and after that allow it to cool completly on a wire rack.

Tomato tovve/pappu (tomato dal)

This is the one of the simplest and wholesome meal with minimal ingredients. Here is the recipe for tomato tovve/pappu.

Ingredients :

Tomato - 3
Toor dal - 1/2 cup
Rasam powder - 1 teaspoon
Coriander leaves(chopped) - 2 tablespoons
Salt  to taste

Tempering:
Oil - 1 table spoon
Jeera - 1/4 table spoon
Mustard seeds - 1/4 table spoon
Dry red chilli - 1
Hing - pinch

Method:
Cook the toordal in pressure cooker. In a thick bottomed pan cook tomatos.
Add cooked cooked toordal, rasam powder,salt and cook for 8-10 mins occasionally stirring.
Now add corriander leaves to above.

Tempering:
In a small pan add oil and allow it to get hot. Add red chilli,jeera and mustard seeds. After the spultter add hing to this.

Add the tempering to the tomato tovve. Enjoy this with hot rice and  ghee!!