Recipe for Rava Dosa -

Ingredients -

All purpose flour - 1 cup

Rice flour - 1 cup

Suji rava - 1 cup

Onions - 1/2 cup cut into small pieces.

Jeera seeds (cumin) - 1 tea spoon.

Green chillies, optional - 1 or 2 cut into small pieces

Salt to taste.

Procedure -

Mix equal proportions of all 3 flours in a bowl, gradually add water and make it like a dosa batter. Add salt to taste.

Keep it on the counter for overnight to ferment.

Next day add onion, green chilli pieces, Jeera seeds and mix well. The batter should be very thin. Add water, if necessary.

The dosa batter is ready now.

Heat a tava, make dosa and serve it with any chutny. Typically served with coconut or peanut chutney.

Sambar

12/10 Sambar

by Sree Devi

Ingredients

Toor Dal – ½ cup

Vegetables – 2 cup

Onion -1

Tomato – 2 or 3

Tamarind – 1tsp

Sāmbhar powder – 2 or 3 tbsp.

Salt – 1 ½ tsp.

Seasoning

Mustard – ½ tsp.

Urad dal – ½ tsp.

Cumin – ½ tsp.

Red chillies – 5

Curry leaves

Hing – ¼ tsp.

Methi seeds – 5 count

Garlic – 2/3 pods

HOW TO:

1. Soak the tamarind; squeeze the tamarind juice; add Sāmbhar powder and keep aside

2. Boil the Toor dal with turmeric, preferable pressure cooker, mash it and keep aside

3. Season with all the ingredients and crushed garlic, then add chopped onions and fry them for

couple of minutes

4. Add chopped tomatoes

5. Add vegetables, and cook till they are 3/4 done

6. Add the dal and once it starts to boil, add the tamarind juice

7. Add salt and chilli powder(optional) as per the taste

8. Optional seasoning(mustard, urad dal, cumin, red chillies, curry leaves, onions) can be added to

the Sāmbhar at the end