Year: 2011

Plantain Dosa / Balekayi Dosa

Plantain Dosa / Balekayi Dosa

In our grocery we get good plantains all year around and so we buy it often. I usually make Raw banana fry, Banana curry or add it in sambhar most of the times. But recently I have leant making dosa from the green bananas. If 

Vegetable Utthappam/Oothapam

Vegetable Utthappam/Oothapam

I would like to kick start the Dosa Month @ RedChilllies with the famous and tasty pancake from South India. These are savory pancakes that are topped with vegetables and made using left over dosa batter. These are soft and spongy but crispy around the edges 

Dosa Month @ RedChillies

Dosa Month @ RedChillies

Dosa is a perennial favorite, a star of all the seasons and a choice of young and old alike.   It’s a savory pancake, usually made of lentil and rice and is a staple food in South India. Typically they are crisp and golden brown on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside. It is usually served for breakfast along with chutney and hot sambhar. 

Having grown up in the South of India (Bangalore), these crepes are a part of our lives. So much so that Dosa is a comfort and a go to food for us. I mostly prepare the regular dosa, but along with that try other variations as well; after all there is no dearth of the varieties. 

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The other day I was going through my list of to-try Dosa recipes and it was a pretty long list.  This comes as no surprise as there variations of dosas as there are lentils, beans, whole grain, vegetables and also their combination. 

I was thinking of a good way to post these recipes; of course I could have stuck to the usual and post them randomly. But somewhere along I got the idea of posting Dosa recipes for the month.  Needless to say I liked the second idea better and decided to implement it. 

So folks announcing the Dosa Month here at Redchillies and that means through out the month of March, I will be posting only Dosa related recipes. 

These Dosa recipes will include

  • Recipes tried from various blogs
  • Sweet Dosa
  • Vegatable Dosas
  • Instant Dosas (no fermenting required)
  • Dosas with beans/lentils

No I will not be posting every day, but I will try to keep up with the pace which I usually do and post 7-9 recipes a month.

Readers/ Food Bloggers are welcome to join me and post Dosa recipes on their blog and link it to me here.  Hope to see you join me and share your wonderful creations. I am really excited to do this, so wish me luck folks!

Avocado Chocolate Loaf

Avocado Chocolate Loaf

Avocado in a cake? Sounds strange right? Even I had felt the same when I had initially seen the recipe.  I was searching the web for different ways of using avocado when I chanced on this recipe here. I have pretty much followed the recipe 

Fresh Coriander Chutney/ Dhaniya Chatni

Fresh Coriander Chutney/ Dhaniya Chatni

Chutney is a must in our house the day Idli or Dosa is made. Even if I have curry of some sort, to go along I still have to resort to making chutney as we cannot imagine eating them without chutney. Since Idli or Dosa 

Semiya/ Vermicelli Dosa

Semiya/ Vermicelli Dosa

semiya dosa vermicelli dosa

I am so used to using Semiya/Vermecelli in either Yogurt Semiya or Vermecelli Kheer and the usual Semiya Upma that the idea of making Semiya Dosa intrigued me.

I learnt this Dosa recipe from a colleague of mine at work who had got this for her lunch. I loved the variation of using vermicelli in Dosa and got the recipe from her. 

I tried this last week and the kiddo loved it as well along with ketchup. If you want to make it kid friendly then reduce the quantity of green chillies in the recipe. We loved it along with mango pickle.

Ingredients: 

  • 1 cup Semiya/ vermicelli ( I used roasted vermicelli)
  • ½ cup Rice flour
  • 1 cup yogurt/ curd
  • 1 green chilli finely chopped
  • 2- 3 Curry leaves (chopped)
  • 1 Tbsp Coriander leaves
  • Salt – to taste
  • (Chopped onions + grated carrots )optional
  • oil
     

Method

  • In a bowl add the yogurt and thin it out with ½ cup water. Stir and add salt, curry leaves, green chillies and coriander leaves.
  • Add the vermicelli and rice flour and mix thoroughly. It might be difficult to mix with the vermicelli, but mix it in intervals.
  • The batter at this point might not be thick. Keep the mixture aside for 30 minutes and now the yogurt gets absorbed by the vermicelli and becomes thick.
  • semiya_dosa_batter
  • Heat a tava and pour a laddle full of the batter in the center. Using the back of the ladle spread from center in form of circle. This dosa will be thick compared to the regular urad dosa. (Add chopped onion and grated carrot in the middle)
  • Spread some oil around the dosa and at the center. After the dosa has cooked, flip it over and cook on the other side.
  • Serve hot with some chutney or pickle.

 

Eggless Cardamom Cake Recipe

Eggless Cardamom Cake Recipe

Cardamom is a spice that brings warmth and depth to desserts, and this eggless cardamom cake is no exception. With its delicate aroma and soft texture, this cake is perfect for tea-time indulgence or special occasions. The absence of eggs doesn’t compromise its richness—each bite