I grew up playing around moringa(maskasangi) trees. Everyone has atleast one tree in their garden in our place. My parents always told us how maskasangi was full of iron and slightly nudged us to eat it. But I had never tasted the leaves(pallo). Aayi would make phodi (which is still one of my all time favorite dishes) out of the flowers and the pods were used in many dishes. Few years ago, I started reading about leaves being used in many dishes and when I asked aayi, she also confirmed it. So I started buying it here and made up my own recipes. This Moringa leaves rotti is one such dish that I tried and we all enjoyed it very much.
The first time I tried it, I prepared this with only rice flour. But then I started adding the other flours. These days I have started using almond flour a lot in my cooking. So this time, I used it in this rotti. Adding warm milk to the flours cooks them slightly and gives a very soft rotti compared to using normal milk.
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Moringa Leaves Rotti (Maskasangi Palle Rotti)
Ingredients
- 2 cups rice flour
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1 cup oats flour
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 1 tea spn butter
- 1 and 1/2 cups hot milk
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 1/2 cup finely chopped carrots
- 1 cup chopped moginga leaves
- Ghee/Oil for frying
- Salt
Instructions
- Heat milk till it is hot (No need to boil it).
- Take all the flours in a bowl, add butter, then pour the hot milk over it and mix well.
- Add salt, chopped onions, carrots and chopped leaves (after removing all stems). Mix everything.
- Heat a cast iron tava (cast iron gives very nice crispiness to rotti).
- Spread little oil or ghee and then spread a half inch thick layer of the mixture on the tava with your fingers(Dip the fingers in water before handling the mixture to make it easier to spread).
- Cover the tava and let it cook, after couple of minutes, turn it upside down and cook on other side.
- For a crispier texture, spread ghee/oil on top while cooking.
- Serve hot.
Moringa Leaves Rotti (Maskasangi Palle Rotti)
Ingredients
- 2 cups rice flour
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1 cup oats flour
- 1 cup wheat flour
- 1 tea spn butter
- 1 and 1/2 cups hot milk
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 1/2 cup finely chopped carrots
- 1 cup chopped moginga leaves
- Ghee/Oil for frying
- Salt
Instructions
- Heat milk till it is hot (No need to boil it).
- Take all the flours in a bowl, add butter, then pour the hot milk over it and mix well.
- Add salt, chopped onions, carrots and chopped leaves (after removing all stems). Mix everything.
- Heat a cast iron tava (cast iron gives very nice crispiness to rotti).
- Spread little oil or ghee and then spread a half inch thick layer of the mixture on the tava with your fingers(Dip the fingers in water before handling the mixture to make it easier to spread).
- Cover the tava and let it cook, after couple of minutes, turn it upside down and cook on other side.
- For a crispier texture, spread ghee/oil on top while cooking.
- Serve hot.
If you know me, you know how I plan ahead for kids birthdays. I get so excited about them and plan everything well. But this year was completely different. It has been a very busy year and I did not plan anything till last moment. I had plans for inviting his friends from school since it is his last year at that school. But I did not book anything till last moment. Then I stumbled at last moment to get everything ready. I asked Ayaan which cake he wants, he kept changing it (I always prepared themed cakes for both my kids based on the things they liked entire year). This year the decision was a little difficult since we had a Flash cake last year and tennis cake the year before – those are the things he is currently crazy about. Then he came to rescue and said he wants Hulk cake or may be a spiderman. I combined both and made this Hulk Smash – spiderman cake which the kids thought was super cool – what is not to like about M&Ms and KitKats.
During the party, there were kids who requested a piece of either Spiderman or Hulk. I took some extra M&Ms and Kitkats and served them with cake piece – yeah, for once gave them too much sugar!!. I have to admit, this is one of the easiest birthday cakes I have ever prepared since the candies cover most of the cake and there was no need to work too much on smoothing out the cake. We ordered pizza and got some chips and dips. So it was very simple affair. We had the party at a kids gym which they loved. It was a chocolate cake with buttercream icing.
