Sunday, December 20, 2009

SABBASIGE ROTTI


Sabbasige is one of my all time favourites. Anything made using it would delight me. It has great medicinal properties. Its called as Sowa in Hindi. Shatapushpa in Sanskrit.

Finely chopped Sabbasige or Sowa - 2 cups
Finely chopped Onions - 1 cup
Rice Flour - 4 cups
water - 4 cups
Red chilly powder - 1 spoon
Salt - 1 spoon
Sugar - 1 spoon
Asafoetida or Hing - Pinch of powdered Hing
Cumin seeds (Jeera) - 1 spoon
Oil - 1 spoon for seasoning
and oil for making rotis as desired by you.




First in a cooking pan, Put one spoon of oil and add Jeera,Hing and onions once it is hot.
Add Sabbasige and fry for 1-2 minutes.
Now add  Chilley powder,salt,sugar and water.
Once it starts boiling, simmer the heat add rice flour and mix thoroughly. Switch off the flame.
Let this cool for a while. Then take it into a different bowl, and make it to small balls as shown in the picture.
Then take a clean thick cloth, immerse it in water and squeeze it. Then spread it on a platform. Put this rice ball on it, and you can flatten it with wet hand.
Else you take a thick plastic sheet, smear it with oil. Keep it on this ball, and press it using chapati roller.


Now you have to take a Kadai, and pick the rolled roti, along with cloth and put it on hot kadai.
Remove cloth.
Now put one spoon of oil around roti and close the kadai.
Then after few minutes open the lid, and turn the roti to other side. Now you can keep on high flame for half minute, and take out the roti from Kadai.



This will taste good as it is. You can have it with ghee/pudeena chutney/coconut chutney/chutney powder or any other gravy.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Garlic Dal

oil - 2 spoons
mustard seeds - 1 spoon
cumin seeds - 1 spoon
green chilly - 1
red chilly - 1
garlic cloves - 8
Karibevu - few leaves
onion - 1
tomato - 1
turmeric powder - 1/2 spoon
Tuvar dal - 1 cup
water - 4 cups
tamarind paste - 1 spoon