Dal roti

Makeover Recipe – 9

Dal Roti

As I told you, I don’t like to have Roti & dal ... So most of the times dal remains. Here is one more thing that you can do with leftover dal.

Ingredients :

Leftover Dal – 1 cup

Wheat flour – 2 cups

Ginger ,garlic & green chilli paste – ½ tsp

Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

Salt as per taste

Oil – ½ spn

Water to knead the dough

Oil for making roti

 

Method:

1)    Mix the dal with wheat flour, add salt, turmeric pwd, ginger garlic paste & knead to make a soft dough

2)    Cover the dough & let it rest for atleast 15 minutes.

3)    Now take a portion of dough & roll to a round disk (or whichever shape it comes to ;)

4)    Put this roti on hot tawa. When one side is cooked ,flip the roti & sprinkle some oil.

5)    Let the roti cook fully. Remove from tawa & serve hot with Pickle & raita.

You would get a nice & soft roti which will be nutritious & yummy at the same time J

Rice Pakoda

Makeover Recipe – 8

Rice Pakoda

As delicious as any other pakoda J Just try them out...

Ingredients :

Cooked rice – 1 cup  

Gramflour  –  2-3 tbsp

1 big onion chopped finely

Fennel seeds – 1/4tsp

Chilli Powder – ¼ tsp

Turmeric Powder – 1/8 tsp

Salt for taste.

Curry leaves

Oil for deep frying

Method :

1)    Take the rice in a big bowl. To it add the chopped onions & curry leaves, spices, gramflour , salt & 2 tsp of oil & mix them

2)    Now slowly add some water to make the pakoda batter. Should be thick & of falling consistency

3)    In a frying pan add oil & heat it.

4)    Drop the pakoda batter in oil using your hand.Deep fry the pakodas till golden brown in color.

5)    Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

 

Note : 1) You can add green chillies instead of chilly powder

2) You can mash & add some paneer to the pakoda batter. It will taste good.

3) You can add spinach,fenugreek leaves etc to the batter to make pakodas.

4) Add enough gramflour to bind the rice with onion & other spices.

Dal dhokli

Makeover Recipe – 7

Dal Dhokli

I never liked having dal & roti ...So most of the time i would just skip having my dinner.. Then my mom started making this dal dhokli just for me..Though i didn’t like to have roti & dal i definitely loved this dal dhokli. Usually my mom makes this with the leftover dal from the lunch. My nephew named this dish as Indian Pasta J

 Ingredients :

Dal – 1 cup

Chapati Dough – for 3 chapathi

Water – 3 cups

1 onion

Ajwain – 1 spoon

Hing a pinch

Chilli Powder – ¼ tsp

Cumin Powder – ¼ tsp

Salt for taste.

Butter / ghee for serving

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Method :

1)    In a big kadai / saucepan add a tsp of oil. Let it heat then add the ajwain.

2)    After ajwain splutters add the onion & fry till translucent. Add hing & sauté.

3)    Then add the dal & all the spices & water & let it cook on simmer.

4)    Meanwhile roll the chapatti dough into a round disk & cut them into 1 inch squares & put then in to the dal.

5)    Let them cook till the mixture turns into thick consistency & the chapati dough is cooked with the dal really good.

6)    Take this dal dhokli in a bowl , add a dallop of ghee & garnish with coriander leaves & serve hot.

Note

1) Instead of Ajwain you can add cummin seeds. It will still taste as good.
2) My mom used to  add some sambhar powder too. But i like it without them.
3) You can add some ginger - garlic paste while sauteing onions.

Khuskura / chapati upma

Khakra / crisp chapati

Makeover Recipe – 6

Khakra / Crisp Chapati

You can transform your dinner/lunch to your snacks. This is how you can make it happen..

Ingredients :

·         Chapati / Paratha (whichever is left)

·         Oil a few tsp

Method :

1)     Heat chapati pan on slow flame.

2)    Put the chapati/paratha on the pan ,add few drops of oil & let it get crisp on both the sides.

3)    Keep pressing the chappati with cloth or any flat spatula continuosly to avoid it puffing up.

4)    You can store this khakra in air tight container for a week.

Serving suggestion

1)    Apply little ghee all over the khakra & sprinkle salt & chilli powder/chat powder & serve.

2)     Top it with tomatoes ,onions ,sev & freshly cut coriander leaves & maybe some chutney of your choice to make a masala khakra.

3)     Serve with pickle of your choice.