Simple and Delicious !

Ingredients
Chana dal or tuar dal 3/4 cup
raw rice 1 cup
shallots 4
green chillies 3 or 4
curry leaves 1 sprig
cumin seeds 2 pinches
salt
ghee



How to prepare
Soak rice and dal for 4 or more hours.
Peel shallots. Grind all the ingredients together with enough water just to cover the ingredients. The batter should have the thickness of the normal dosa batter.
Heat griddle, pour a ladle full of batter. Spread like you make uzhunnu dosa. When one side is done, dosa separates itself from the griddle , then apply little ghee on it and turn.
Serve when the other side is also done. Enjoy with usual chutneys or chammanthis.

My contribution to Srivallis's Dosa Mela...!

Chappathi and parippu Curry

For making chapathi
whole wheat powder / Atta
warm water
oil or ghee little
salt

Make a dough using the above ingredients. Divide the dough into small balls. Sprinkle little wheat powder on the wooden board and place the ball over it. Roll each ball to make chapathis using the rolling pin. Heat a griddle / tawa. Place the chapathi over it. When steam comes, soon turn over it. (it takes only few seconds for the steam to come out). Then wait until one side of the chapathi cooks well. You can see some parts of the chapathi puffs up. So flip over again , wait, it will puff up wholly. Remove from griddle. Apply 1/4 teaspoon of ghee over the sides of chapathis if you like. Don't forget to wipe the pan with a tissue paper or cloth in between to remove the burned powder.



Dal / parippu Curry
masoor dal / red lentils/ chuvanna parippu 1 cup
onion 1
tomato 1
green chillies 2
garlic cloves 2
turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon
red chilly powder 1 or 2 teaspoons
mustard seeds 1 teaspoon
cumin seeds 1/4 teaspoon
curry leaves
coconut oil
salt

Wash dal. Add chopped onion, tomato, green chillies and all the powders to dal. Add salt and enough water to cook. (Take water enough to cover the ingredients and later if you find the water is not enough add little more.) Cook on medium flame. When it is half cooked add the crushed garlic cloves. Cook until done. Heat oil, splutter cumin seeds, mustard seeds and add curry leaves. Pour them into the curry.

Other curries for Chapathi.
See the chapathi making video here.

My friend Jeena of Jeena's kitchen tried out this recipe, Pls check her blog here!

Ingredients and method
Toor dal / tuvara parippu 1/2 cup
Ash gourd pieces 2 cup
tomato 1
onion 1
green chilly 2
turmeric powder 1 tea spoon
chilly powder 1 teaspoon or more
salt

for seasoning
coconut oil
mustard seeds
curry leaves
red chillies

We can cook this in three ways.For this, first soak dal for 1 or more hours.Chop onion,tomato and green chillies.

method 1
Soak dal for 1 hour. Wash and cook with chopped ash gourd, onion, tomato , green chilly, salt and all powders. Use water just enough to cover the vegetables.When it is done, heat oil, splutter mustard seeds, add red chillies broken, curry leaves , stir, and pour into the curry.

method 2
Cook all the ingredients together as in the method 1. Put 4 table spoons coconut milk powder in this(Or use thick coconut milk approx. 1 cup). Mix well.Then do seasoning.

method 3
Grind 1 cup coconut grated with 4 small onions and 1/2 tea spoon cumin seeds in little water. Cook dal, ash gourd and green chillies with salt and powders. Onion and tomato not needed in this. Pour the blended coconut solution in to this. When it begins to boil, remove from fire. Do the seasoning.

For non vegetarians this curry is very good with rice to take with fish fry or red fish curry.

Submitted to JFI hosted by Linda of Out of the Garden.

INGREDIENTS
Red gram(Thuvaraparippu/Sambar parippu) - 1 cup

Small onion(Kunjulli) - 10 nos

Tomato(small) - 1 no

Curry leaves - A few

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Coconut oil - As reqd

Green chillies - 2 nos

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt - As reqd


METHOD
1)Soak dal in water.
2)Cook dal along with chopped tomato, salt, 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder and green chillies.
3)Heat oil in another pan.
4)Splutter mustard seeds.
5)Add curry leaves, broken red chilly and stir fry crushed small onions.
6)Pour this mixture into dal.:- Serve with chappathis, ghee rice.