This is again my mom’s recipe. But my anna(brother) did some modifications to it. He used to add garlic which gives more taste. He is a very good cook. He has a lot of interest in cooking & keeps trying some new dishes. Normally though cooking is taken as only girl’s job, my pappa(father – he is a doctor) & brother(he is an s/w engineer) are two very good male cooks I have ever seen. When I was a kid, if my mom went somewhere, my father used to cook very delicious things for me(I was very lazy child, I never used to enter the kitchen). When I grew up, i got interest in cooking. For three years, after coming to Bangalore, I experimented new things on my brother :). Even he used to cook for me whenever I used to go home late from work.
Ingredients: Potatoes 4 Chilli powder 2 tea spns Garlic 4-5 Mustard seeds 1/4th tea spn Turmeric a pinch Salt Oil 2 tea spns
Method: Peel potatoes & cut into thin long pieces. Keep in water for 5 minutes. Heat oil & add mustard. When they start spluttering, add crushed garlic. When garlic turns slightly brownish, add potatoes, chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt. Cover & cook. (Do not add water for cooking). Serve hot with chapathis or rice. Note: Preferably use nonstick pan for preparing this. Add more oil, if the potatoes stick to the pan.
Serves : 4 Preparation time : 20min
My friends used to tease me saying give anything to Shilpa & she will make dosa out of it ;). So I thought twice before even trying this, bcos I did not want them to laugh on me. But this came out well. I saw this in some TV show & modified a little.
Ingredients: Bread slices 4 Rice flour 1 cup Sooji(Rava) 1/2 cup Curd 1 cup Chilli powder 1/2 tea spn Mustard seeds 1/2 tea spn Urad daal 1/2 tea spn Curry leaves 3-4 Ginger cut into small pieces 1/2 tea spn Onion 1 Salt Oil Method: Soak bread in water & squeze out the water. Grind wirh rice flour, sooji, curd and salt. Add chilli powder to this batter. Add enough water to help in grinding. Heat half tea spn oil and fry mustard seeds, urad daal, curry leaves, ginger. Add finely chopped onion and fry till onions turn slightly brownish. Add this to the above batter. Add sufficient water to bring it to dosa consistency. Make dosa. (Dosa should be fried till it becomes brownish from both sides). Serve hot with coconut chutney.
Serves : 2 Preparation time : 30min
