Aama Vadai/Lentils Vada

Vada or Vadai is a South Indian snack made up of mixed lentils.Ive not added onions in this vadai because I made these for Aadi Festival.A little bit of fennel seeds can be added while grinding and chopped onions can be added to the paste for making Masal vadai.

Ingredients:

Toor dal - 1/2 cup

Channa dal - 1/2 cup

Urad dal - 2tbsp

Dry red chillies -4 or 5

Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves - few (chopped)

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying the vadai

Method:

Soak all the dals together along with the dry red chillies for 2 hours.

Drain and keep them for about an hour.

Then grind along with rechillies,required amount of salt,asafoetida into a coarse paste.Add only 2tbsp or 3tbsp of water while grinding.

The paste should be coarse and should not be watery.Add the chopped curry leaves.


Heat 3 cups of oil in a wide pan.Make small balls and gently pat to make into a disc shape.When the oil is hot enough,drop the vadai and fry in high heat for 2 minutes.Then reduce the heat and fry for few more minutes until the vadai turns golden brown in color.

Sending this over to MLLA - 13 hosted by Harini of tumyumtreats.This event was actually started by Susan

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My first ever award

Ive just been given my first award by Nithya of 4th sense samayal for "AHEM" intelligent blogger chef for correctly guessing the name of the dish.

Thank you soo much Nithya!!

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Blueberry Muffin

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Unsalted butter -1/2 stick or 1/4 cup

Sugar - 3/4 cup

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Egg - 1 large beaten

Milk - 3/4 cup

Fresh blueberries/frozen blueberries/Dried Blueberries - 1 cup

Method:

Preheat the oven to 375 def F.Line muffin tray with liners or grease the pan with a non-stick spray.

Sift the flour along with salt and baking powder.Melt the butter and allow it to cool.

In a wide bowl,slightly beat the egg and add butter,sugar and milk and mix.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and gently stir.Don't overmix.Fold in the blueberries.

Spoon the batter upto three-fourths full.

Bake for about 15 to 20 minutes or until the top of the muffins are slightly brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffins comes out clean.

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Cool on a wire rack and serve warm.

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some more reposts..

Iam digging up my old posts and reposting them for EFM- Breakfast series hosted by Sri..

Sending the following breakfast recipes..

1)Bulghur wheat Upma

2)Tomato dosa with kadapah

3)Upma Kozhakattai with Brinjal Gothsu

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Set Dosa and Sagu

Set Dosa is a speciality of Karnataka.It is usually smaller in size than the regular dosa and is served in a set of 2 or 3.The ideal side dish is sagu.

Ingredients for Set Dosa:

Raw rice - 2 cups

Poha/Aval - 1/4 cup

Urad dal - 4 tbsp

Curd- 1/2 cup

Salt to taste.

Method:

Soak the raw rice along with Urad dal in water for 4hrs.

Soak the poha in curd for about 1 hour.

Grind the rice along with urad dal.Grind the poha with curd separately.

Mix both well and add required amount of salt.

Allow it to ferment it overnight.

Heat a nonstick pan.Pour 2 ladles of batter and spread it into smaller circles than regular dosa.It will be thicker than the regular ones.Drizzle oil around the dosa.Cook on only 1 side.Don't flip the dosas.Cover with a lid for sometime and cook till the side which is down is slightly brown.

Ingredients for Sagu:

Combination of vegetables like potato,carrot,chow-chow(chayote squash),cabbage,beans - 2 cups

Tomato - 1

Onion - 2

Green chillies - 4

Grated coconut - 1 /2 cup

Poppy seeds - 2 tsp

Fried gram dal/Pottu kadalai - 2 tbsp

Ginger - 2 inch piece

Cinnamon - 1 inch

Cloves - 2

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Oil for tempering

Method:

Pressure cook all the vegetables until soft.

In a pan heat 2 tbsp of oil.when it is hot add the cinnamon,cloves and ginger and saute till a nice aroma comes.Then add the finely chopped onion and green chillies and saute till the onions turn translucent.

Grind the sauteed ingredients along with coconut,fried gram dhal and poppy seeds into a fine paste.

Heat oil in a pan.Add the mustard seeds.When they splutter add the tomatoes and saute till they become mushy.

Then add the pressure cooked vegetables and the ground paste,required amount of salt and 1/4 cup of water.Allow it to boil for sometime.When they become thick,switch of the stove.

Serve with set dosas.

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