Cabbage Rotti

Cabbage rotti with butter is very delicious snack. You can try this using other vegetables also. Like cooking banana, Sweet cucumber, Potato, Onion etc. Mothers can try this for kids who dislike vegetables.

Ingredients:-

Cabbage -Small size
Dosa Rice - 1 cup
Grated Coconut -1cup
Coriander seeds - 2 spoon
Cumin seeds -1 spoon
Red chilly - 5-6
Tamarind -lemon size
Jaggery -2 spoon
Salt to taste

Method:-
Soak the rice in a water for one night. Now add coconut, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, red chilly, tamarind, jaggery and salt to rice. Grind it well in a mixie. You can add water to get the right consistency. Do not make it too watery. It should be semi-solid.


Cut cabbage into a small pieces and mix it with the above masala. Pour one big spoon of dough on the pan and spread it. Cover it with a lid. When one side is baked put 1 spoon of oil on it and flip it. Now spicy healthy cabbage rotti is ready.

Subscribe & Savor Udupi dishes

Hayagreeva (Maddi)

In Udupi hayagreeva is called as maddi . Oh! it is the favourite sweet dish of my hubby. It's prepared from bengal gram dal. According to my grandpa who is now 86 year old, maddi should be neither very hard nor very soft. Dal must be cooked in such a way that we should get bits of dal while enjoying the dish. It's preparation is also very easy.

Ingredients :(For 2 persons)

Bengal gram dal - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Dry grapes - 10 -15
Cashew nuts -10
Ghee -1/2 cup
Grated Coconut -1/4 cup
Cardamom -10 (powder them)

Method:

Take one cup of dal in a cooker with sufficient water. Cook it till 7 whistles. Take the cooked dal in a pan and add one cup of sugar to it. Stir it for about 10 minutes till sugar mixes with dal nicely. Take 2 spoons of ghee in a frying pan and add dry grapes and cashew nuts to it. Stir it till grapes swell. Add it to the dal preparation. Add grated coconut, cadamom powder and ghee too. Mix them well. The maddi is ready to savour.

Bun Dosa (Aggu Dose)

The item I want to tell you about, today, is called the Bun Dosa. The dosa is called by this name because it swells like a bun after the dough is poured on the pan.
Ingredients:-
Rice-2 cups
Urad dal-1/2 cup
Pova- 1/2 cup
Curd or butter milk-as required
Green chilly-2
Ginger-half teaspoon
Curry leaves
Salt to taste

Method:-

Soak rice,urad dal and pova in curd or butter milk. After 8 hours grind it to a dough using a mixie or food processor. Allow the dough to ferment for 1 hour. Now add green chilly,ginger, salt and curry leaves to it. You can add water if necessary to get the right consistency for the dosa dough. Now pour one big spoon of dough on the pan.

When it starts to bake at the edges, flip the dosa. Once the dosa swells like a bun or turns golden brown on one side, you can remove it from the pan. TaDa !! Now it is ready to be served with chutney or curry or honey.

Undluka - Rice Balls

Today I will teach you a favorite dish that I remembered my grandmother used to make. I decided to try it out for the first time. I called up mom and got the recipe. I tried it and the photo tells the story. However you won't believe me when I tell you that it was the tastiest snack I had prepared for a long time. Enjoy this...

Ingredients:-

1. Hot water- 1 bowl
2. Red rice - 1 cup
3. Coconut - 1/2 piece in grated form
   
4. Salt- 1/4 spoon

Method:- Soak one cup of red rice in a hot water. After 3 hours, grind soaked red rice with grated coconut, salt and a small portion of water. Now make small balls of this mixture. Take a tava/deep frying pan and spread oil on its surface. Now arrange these balls against the wall of the tava and heat it on medium flame. Sprinkle some water midway during heating. When these balls are baked on one side, roll the balls.

After a few minutes hot Undluka is ready to be savored.