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Tiffin – Vegetable Adai

Veg Adai with Onion chutney


Ingredients:
Raw rice- 180 ml
Channa dal- 30 ml
Urad dal- 30ml
Toor dal-30 ml
Onion- 1 large- chopped fine
Carrot- 1- grated
Cabbage- chopped fine- 100 ml
Coriander leaves- chopped fine- 2 tbsp
Curry leaves- 10- chopped fine
Grated coconut- 2 tbsp
Green chillies-3- chopped fine
Red chillies (round)- 6 (If long chillies are used, adjust number suitably)
A pinch of hing powder (optional)
Grated ginger- 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil for cooking

Method:


veggies batter
Veggies Batter

Wash rice and dals and soak together with red chillies for 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Drain and grind to a coarse batter- not too coarse. Add the rest of the ingredients (except oil) and mix together. Let it stand for 15 minutes. Add a little water if required. Heat a heavy tava. When it is hot, pour half a spoon of oil and spread well. Sprinkle a little water. This helps spread the oil. Pour a ladleful of batter and spread like dosa. Apply a little oil along the periphery of the adai. Make a couple of holes on the surface of the adai with the spoon and apply half a spoon on the adai and holes to improve the cooking. You can optionally cover the adai with a lid for a minute. When the edges turn brown, turn the adai over and cook the other side.

stir fried onions
chutney


Onion Chutney:
Ingredients:
2 large onions- chop into long slices
4 red chillies (round)
1 tbsp urad dal
Tamarind- the size of a small gooseberry
Jaggery- 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil for cooking

Method:

Heat 2 tsps of oil in a kadai. Add urad dal and red chillies and fry over medium flame. When the dal turns light brown, add the chopped onion and fry for 2 minutes over medium flame. Remove from fire, cool and grind with tamarind, salt and jaggery. Serve with adai.

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Vegetable Noodles

Vegetable noodles


Ingredients:

Plain Wheat noodles 200 gm:
2 medium Onions
2 medium capsicums
2 medium carrots

200 ml Shredded cabbage
30 ml oil
1 teaspoon pepper powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon soya sauce
1 teaspoon green chilli sauce
2 tablespoon tomato sauce
Salt to taste

Prepare the noodles as per packet instruction with salt. Should however not be too soft.
Cut the onion and vegetables into thin strips. Heat oil in a pan and add the onions, carrots, capsicum and cabbage in that order. Saute for 2 minutes and then add pepper powder, sugar and the sauces as well as the salt required for the vegetables. Add the cooked noodles and gently mix. Since the sauces contain salt, take care while adding salt. Serve them alone or with salads- cucumber, tomato and onion rings.

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Paruppu Poli (Dal Paratha) and Carrot Pickle

Paruppupoli

Ingredients:
For the dough:
1 Cup (240 ml) Wheat flour
½ Cup maida
3 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp salt or to taste
water

For the stuffing:

1/3 Cup Channa dal
3 green chillies
¾” ginger
1 tsp oil
salt to taste

Method:
Dough:
Mix the flours and salt. Add the oil and blend well. Add water little by little until the dough is of usual roti dough consistency and keep aside.

Stuffing:
Soak the channa dal for 20 minutes and then pressure cook with very little water until soft. Drain the water (Can be used to make the roti dough or as stock) and grind to a paste with chillies, ginger and salt. Heat oil and cook this dal mixture on low heat until all water is evaporated. Cool and make into balls the size of a small lime.

Poli:
Divide the dough into small balls, the size of a normal lemon. Roll one ball into a circle of about 3.5” diameter. Keep a ball of stuffing and flatten the same. Fold the ends of the poli and seal well. Roll again into a circle of about 6” carefully, using dry flour to roll. Cook on a griddle using a little oil until both sides are cooked and form brown spots. Repeat with the remainder of dough and stuffing. Serve hot with carrot pickle or any other regular mango or lemon pickle and curd.

Quick Carrot Pickle

Ingredients:

1 Cup (240 ml) carrots cut into juliennes.
2 tsps Methi Dal*
2 tsps Mustard Dal*
1 ½ tbsp Mustard oil or Vegetable Oil
1 tsp Chilli powder
1 tsp Salt
½ tsp Nigella seeds
¼ tsp Turmeric powder
¼ tsp asafetida powder

Method:

Mix all the above ingredients except oil in a dish. Heat oil and add to the mixture. Mix well. The pickle is ready for eating. Stays fresh upto a week with refrigeration. This goes well with different rotis, puris and chappathis.

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