Friday, June 24, 2011

Onion samosa

Ingredients:
onion - 1 big
poha or atukulu - 1 cup
chilli powder - 1 teaspoon
coriander or dhaniya powder - 1 teaspoon
cumin or jeera powder - 1 teaspoon
chat masala - 1 teaspoon
green chillis - 2 nos - finely chopped
coriander - finely chopped - one hand full
salt - as per taste
oil - for deep frying
frozen spring roll pastry sheets - 1 packet (contains 25 sheets, available in indian stores)
maida or all purpose flour - 1 spoon
corn flour - 1 spoon
water - 1 cup

Procedure:

step - 1
Take spring roll sheets from deep fridge and keep it aside for 10 min.







step - 2
Take a bowl and add chopped onions to it







step - 3
Then add poha to the bowl.







step - 4
Now mix onoins and poha well.







step - 5
Add red chilli powder to that mixture.







step - 6
Add coriander powder and cumin powder.







step - 7
Add chopped green chillis.







step - 8
Add chopped coriander.







step - 9
Add chat masala and salt to the mixture.







step - 10
Now mix all the ingredients well, no need to add water as onion it self contains water.






step - 11
Now open spring roll pastry sheet and keep it on wet cloth or paper towel.






step - 12
Now cover the sheets with another wet cloth or paper towel.







step - 13
prepare solution with maida, corn flour and water for closing samosa edges.






step - 14
Now take 2 sheets jointly and place on a flat surface.







step - 15
Now cut the sheet into 3 equal pats lengthwise.







step - 16
take one part and fold it like a cone by applying maida and corn flour solution.
keep the other two parts covered with wet paper towel.





step - 17
now cut the excess left over part while folding the cone.







step - 18
Now it looks like a cone.







step - 19
Fill the cone with onion mixture.







step - 20
Now close the cone with maida solution.







step - 21
Then prepare the remaining and keep it aside.







step - 22
Now take a deep pan and heat the oil in medium falme.







step - 23
when the oil got heated, slowly put the samosas.







step - 24
Fry then till they get golden brown color.






Now remove and place them on to paper towel.
step - 25
serve hot with tomato ketchup.




















Thursday, June 23, 2011

rava dosa

Ingredients:
Rice flour - 1 cup
All purpose flour or maida - 1/2 cup
semolina or suji or upma ravva - 1/2 cup
Green chillis - 2 - finely chopped
Ginger - small piece - finely chopped
Salt - as per taste
jeera or cumin seeds - 1 spoon
water - 1 liter for mixing
carrot - 1 - finely shredded
onion - 1 - medium sized - finely chopped
oil - 50 ml
Ghee - 50 ml
Procedure:
step - 1 


Take big bowl of 2 liter size, Add rice flour, maida, upma ravva, salt, chopped green chilli, chopped ginger, jeera and mix well. now add water slowly to it and mix well without lumps to get a consistency like buttermilk and keep it aside for 5 min.



step - 2
Now take a small bowl and mix chopped onion and shredded carrot.







step - 3 
Now heat a pan, when the pan is hot, sprinkle dosa batter with your hand on the pan as a thin layer.






step - 4
Then immediately sprinkle  the onion, carrot mixture on the top of it and press with spatula.






step - 5
Then sprinkle 1spoon oil around the dosa and roast it one side only. Don't turn it anotherside. Now sprinkle little ghee on it and then fold to half. 





step - 6
Now take dosa into serving plate.


 




step-7
Prepare chutneys (Mango, coconut, coriander, ginger) and podis (kandi podi, karivepa podi)   





 
step -8
Serve hot with all chutneys and podis.