Ever since I started using avrekalu in my cooking, I have been hooked to it. I have at least 2 frozen packs of these all the time in my freezer. This is packed with nutrition due to so many vegetables in it. It does not require fermentation, so it is fast to make on weekends (may be a bit too much work on a weekday). It can be served with or without a side dish since this has green chilies, ginger in it. Make these thick/thin according to your taste.
Ingredients: 1/2 cup avrekalu 1/4 cup grated carrot 1/4 cup finely chopped onion 3-4 green chilies 1/2 cup moong dal 1/2 cup urad dal 3/4 cup rice flour 1/2 tea spn finely chopped ginger Oil/ ghee Salt
Method: Soak moong dal and urad dal in water for around 2-3hrs. Grind along with green chilies and ginger to a smooth batter adding required amount of water. Cook avrekayi till soft. Grind to a coarse paste, (there should be some small pieces after grinding) and add this to the batter. Add onion, carrot, salt and mix well. Add rice flour to batter, mix well. Make dosas of desired thickness.
Serves : 4-5 Preparation time : 15mins
This year, I had decided to post something at least for one of the American festivals. Even though the lighting around my house, painfully reminds me of Diwali (which is just round the corner), and I terribly miss being at home in India. Although I could almost feel the fireworks of Diwali, I am just trying to enjoy the festivities of Halloween . All my colleagues seem to be so excited about it. So I thought of making something on this occasion just for my readers.
Last year is when I came to know about Halloween. I didn’t know it was so popular. I still remember the days when we saw all the festivities going around us. One of our friends explained the significance of this and about “ trick or treat “. Then I read about it in all the different food blogs (my first stop was of course at my favorite blog ).
So this year, I thought I would make something for Halloween. I initially started with an idea of some cake with white ghosts – something similar to “ Chandamama ” bhooths . Did I say I was crazy about Chandamama while growing up? But I was always scared about the white bhooths (ghosts) pictures. I would never read the first page of Vikram-Betaal . I would flip that page as fast as I could. But now when I wanted to have ghosts on my cake, they were the first things that came to my mind.
I wanted to make these ghosts with Colorflow icing and stick them to cake like I had created birds in this cake . But I was feeling so lazy to mix this icing, I decided to give up the idea. But then I decided to make the bhooths just with normal icing with white color. I asked my husband (who is a huge fan of Chandamama) to draw few of these on a paper so that I could copy them on cake. Following was the outline he drew for me.
This is a pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting sent to me by Deepa Raj last year.
