Breakfast recipe : Rava dosa

 Rava dosa is easy and instant South Indian breakfast dish. Very tasty dish and comes out very crispy than ordinary dosa.

Ingredients:

(for 8 dosas)

Rice flour : 1 cup

Rava : 3/4 cup

Butter milk/ curd : 1/2 cup

Green chili : 1

Coriander leaves - few

Curry leaves - few

Ginger grated - 1/2 tsp

Black pepper - 1tsp

Jeera - 1tsp

Hinge - 1/4 tsp

Onion (small) - 1 (optional)

Salt - as required or 1tsp

Water - 2 and 1/2 cup

Cooking oil for making dosa.

Method:

1. Add rice flour, rava, salt, hinge, grated ginger, water and butter milk in a vessel. 
2. If you are using curd, churn well and then add. Mix the batter thoroughly. 
3. It should be soaked for minimum 20 mins. 
4. Meanwhile cut the onion into very small bits and add to the batter. I didn't use onion.
5. Chop curry leaves, coriander leaves and green chili into very small pieces and add to the batter.
6. Make black pepper and jeera into coarse powder and add to the batter.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Making dosa:

• After soaking 20 mins heat the dosa pan and spread 1/2 a tsp of oil evenly. 
• Mix the batter thoroughly every time before making each dosa.
• Pour the batter on the pan in a circular way and then filling the gaps here and there using a ladle without touching the pan. You will get gaps and holes in between.
•  you should not spread the batter as you do it for normal dosa.
• Slightly pour 1/2 tsp of oil on the edges and gaps. Keep it in medium flame.
• Wait for 2mins. the corners will turn brown and you can see the batter on the top surface is also cooked by the change of color.
  
  
  
• Just remove carefully from the pan. Do not flip the dosa.
• Repeat the process for the rest of the dosa.
• It will take more time to get cooked than the ordinary dosa.
• If the dosa doesn't come out of the pan, simmer the stove add little more oil. Remove slowly.
• If the proportions are as mentioned and butter milk or churned curd is used, definitely it will come out well. But definitely it will take more time to get cooked.
• You can use the sour left over dosa batter around 1 cup instead of curd or butter milk.
• Yummy crispy dosa is ready. Serve hot with coconut chutney or idly milagai podi

Rava idli

Rava idli is an instant breakfast menu. Simple, delicious and easy to cook.

Ingredients:

Rava (sooji rava) -1cup
Curd - 1 cup
Cashew (broken) - tbs
Coriander leaves - few
Grated carrot - 1/4 cup
Fresh green peas - 1tbs (optional)
Salt - as required
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp (optional)
For seasoning:

Mustard seeds - 1tsp
Urid dal - 1 tsp
Channa dal - 1tsp
Green chilli - 1
Ginger (grated) - 1tsp
curry leaves - few
Hinge - a pinch
Ghee or cooking oil - 1tbs
Method:

1. Heat the oil or ghee, add mustard seeds and add hinge, channa dal and urid dal after mustard seed splutters. 
2. Roast till the dal turns brown. Add cashew and roast. 
3. Add chopped ginger, green chili, coriander and curry leaves. 
4. Add sooji and roast till you get the aroma. Do not allow it to turn brown.
5. Mix all the roasted items with salt, baking soda and curd. 
6. Leave it for 20 minutes. The consistency of the batter should as that of the  normal idly batter.
7. Grease the idly plates and pour the better. Steam cook for 20 mins.
8. Serve hot with tomato chutney or tomato and onion chutney.