Ragi Upma-A nutritious breakfast

Ingredients:

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Ragi flour - 3 cup

• Urad dal - 3/4 cup
• Rice flour - 2 tbsp
• fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp
• salt - 2 tsp
• onion - 1,chopped
• Green chillies - 2 ,slit open
• curry leaves - 2 sprigs
• mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• chana dal - 1/2 cup(soak in water for an hour)
• oil - 2 tsp
• lemon juice - 1 tbsp
• shredded coconut - 2 tbsp
• asafoetida - a pinch

Method:

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Batter:

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• Wash and soak urad dal,fenugreek seeds for half an hour.
• Grind into a smooth paste with little water.
• Mix ragi flour and rice flour with water into a smooth batter without lumps.
• Add urad dal paste,salt into it and mix well.
• Keep overnight to ferment.

Idly

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• Mix the batter well and make idlies as shown.(Steam fo 15 to 20 min)
• Set aside to cool completely and tear off into small pieces.
• Add the pieces into a mixer and pulse twice /thrice to get fine crumbs.

Upma:

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• Cook soaked chana dal in sufficient water for 10 min.
• Drain the excess water.
• Grind green chillies and coconut.(julse pulse once)
• Add oil in a kadai .When hot add mustard seeds,curry leaves,asafoetida,onion and saute for 3 min
• Add chilli-coconut mixture and cooked chana dal.
• Saute for 3 to 5 min,add little salt(as its already there in idly) and add the ragi crumbs.
• Mix well for 2 min and switch off.
• Squeeze lemon juice and keep closed for 5 min.

Mix well and serve hot with sugar/chutney.

Aloo-Sabudhana tikki

Ingredients:

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• Potato , boiled and smashed - 1
• Sabudhana/sago/javarisi - 1 cup ( soaked in water for 3 hours)
• Roasted peanut powder - 1/2 cup
• rice flour - 2 tbsp
• Salt - to taste
• Ginger-green chilli paste - 2 tsp(add more if you prefer spicy)
• jeera,crushed roughly - 1 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1 tsp
• Roasted til/sesame seeds - 1 tbsp

Method:

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• Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and make a dough.Do not add water.
• Reserve little sago .
• Make a flat round shape with the dough and smear it in remaining sago as shown.

• Deep fry in oil and drain excess oil in a tissue paper.

• Serve medium hot with green chutney or sauce
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Lemon Rasam

Serves : 2

Time taken : 10 min( pressure cook) + 10 min preparation

Ingredients:

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• Lemon - 1
• Tuar dal - 1/4 cup
• Tomato - 1
• curry leaves - a sprig
• turmeric powder - a pinch
• salt - to taste
• ginger - 1 tsp , finely chopped
• green chillies - 2 ,slit open
• rasam powder - 1 tsp
• asafoetida - a pinch
• ghee - 1 tsp
• coriander leaves , finely chopped - 2 tsp
• mustard seeds , jeera - 1/2 tsp each

Method:

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• Pressure cook the dal.
• Add chopped tomatoes,green chillies,ginger,curry leaves,asafoetida,salt,rasam powder,turmeric powder to the cooked dal with 1/4 cup of water.
• Cook covered for 5 min.
• Dilute with 1 cup of water.
• In 5 min,when it starts to lather on top,switch off the flame.
• Temper with mustard and jeera in ghee.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.
• After 10 min,squeeze in the lemon juice.

Serve hot with rice and papad,