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Masala Vadagam

Ingredients:

* 250g rice flour

* 25g sago

* small onion 100g

* green chili 3no

* curry leaves 10no

* sombu 2tsp

* cinnamon 1″

* salt to taste

* Lemon juice 10 drops


Procedure:

1) Wash and soak sago in water overnight.

2) Peel and cut onion into slices, cut green chili into half cm pieces, cut curry leaves, crush coarsely sombu and cinnamon.

3) Take rice flour In another vessel and add 250 ml water and salt to taste. Mix well to a thick batter.

4) In a thick bottomed vessel, bring half litre of water to boil, add soaked sago, stir often, and cook till it becomes a thin gravy.

5) Reduce to medium heat and slowly add rice batter with constant stirring for about 6-8min, add all spices, mix well and switch off heat.

6) Add ten drops of lemon juice and mix well.

7) While medium cool, split into smaller pieces and sun-dry for 2 or 3 days.

Note: For regular Vadagam follow the same procedure with the following variation in procedure 2) Grind green chili into paste, add 2 tsp asafoetida powder, 2 tsp jeera, 2 tsp ajwain. Use star murukku achchu to make regular vadagam.

Rava Dosa

Ingrdients:

  • Rava – 2 cups
  • Rice Flour – 1.5 cup
  • Maida – 1 cup
  • Curd – 1 cup
  • Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Water – 4 cups
  • Big Onion – 1 -cut into thin 1″ slices
  • Green Chillies -2 -cut into thin round pieces
  • Ginger – 1″ – cut into tiny pieces
  • Pepper – 2 tsp – crushed coarsely
  • Jeera (cumin seeds) – 2 tsp
  • Curry leaves – 10 – cut into pieces
  • Coriander leaves cut into pieces – 2 tsp
  • Ghee / sesame oil

Procedure:

  1. Take Rava, rice flour, maida, curd, red chilli powder and salt in a bowl.
  2. Add water to the above, mix throughly and keep aside for 1 hour.
  3. Add onion, green chillies, ginger, pepper, cumin seeds, curry leaves and coriander leaves to the above batter and, if needed, add more water to have a thin consistency so that the batter will flow freely in a hot tava.
  4. When tava is hot, stir the batterwith a ladle and spread a thin layer starting from the outer edge to the centre. Do not press the batter with the ladle. Add a few drops ghee / sesame oil to the dosa. Remove when dosa is crispy and fully roasted. In case the dosa is thick add more water to the batter.
  5. Seve hot with coconut chutney and sambar.

Adai-Alavanthipuram Special

Ingredients:

  • Boiled rice 1.5 cup
  • raw rice 0.5 cup
  • tuar dhal (red gram) 1 cup
  • channa dhal (Bengal gram) 0.25 cup
  • red chili 6
  • red chili powder 1 tsp
  • sombu (aniseed) 3 tsp
  • hing (asafetida) 1 pinch
  • small onion 2 cup-thinly sliced
  • ginger 1”-finely sliced
  • curry leaves 20 -broken
  • oil
  • salt to taste

Procedure:

  1. Wash both rices and soak in water for 2-3 hr. Wash both dhals and soak in water for 2-3 hr.
  2. Grind red chilies, sombu, asafetida, salt into coarse paste. Add soaked rice and grind coarsely. Add soaked dhal and grind again coarsely with adequate water to make a thick batter.
  3. Add sliced red chili powder, small onion, ginger, curry leaves, mix well and keep aside for 1 hr.
  4. Heat a shallow pan; pour the batter into a thick, round layer, a little loosely by spreading it with a ladle. Add drops of oil and turn it when bottom side turns golden brown. When this side also turns golden brown, remove the adai and serve with jaggery/ sambar/coconut chutney.