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Ingredients:
- Channa dal - 1/2 cup
- Toor dal - 1/2 cup
- Idli rice - 1 cup
- Urud dal - 1/2 cup
- Asafoetida - a pinch
- Onion - 1
- Red chillies - 3
- Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
- Curry leaves - few
- Salt to taste
Method:
- Soak idli rice, channa dal, toor dal, and urud dal for 2 hours.
- Grind the soaked items along with red chilllies, asafoetida, and salt to a smooth batter
- Now to the ground mixture, add chopped onions, grated coconut, and curry leaves.
- Heat the dosa tava and pour ladleful of this batter and spread it in the form of circle( similar to dosa, but thicker than that).
- Add oil on its sides, flip the dosa and cook it on both sides.
- Serve with coconut chutney or avial.
Cooking time: 2 or 3 minutes.
Very healthy recipe.
Ingredients:
- Whole wheat flour - 2 cups
- Left over parupu sambar - as required
- salt - as required
- oil - small amount
Method:
- Knead the wheat flour with the parupu sambar and salt [add salt only if required because parupu sambar alreasy has enough salt].
- Coat this with little oil and keep it aside for fifteen minutes.
- Make golf-ball sized balls from the dough and roll it over the rolling pin.
- In a hot tawa or skillet, cook the rotis.
- Your hot rotis are ready and it taste wonderful with any side dishes.
Alternate Option:
Ingredients:
- Cooked and mashed dal - 1 cup
- Whole wheat flour - 2 cups
- Cumin powder - 1 tbsp
- Garam masala - 1/2 tbsp
- Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
- Salt - as required
Method:
- Add all the above said ingredients and knead it well.
- Coat the dough with little oil and keep it aside for few minutes.
- Make golf-ball sized balls and roll the balls on the rolling pin.
- In a hot tawa, cook it until bubbles start to forms.
Preparation Time: 20 minutes.
Dal roti is the healthiest option and kids will surely love this roti. Also, this is one of the easiest way to feed children with dals.
Ingredients:
- Toor dal - 1 cup
- Shallot onions/ Sambar Onion- 3 to 4
- Garlic Pods - 2
- Tomato - 1
- Green Chilli - 1
- Turmeric powder - 1/2 tbsp
- Salt - as required
Garnishing:
- Mustard seeds: 1/2 tbsp
- Red chillies - 3
- Curry leaves - few
- chilli vadagam - few [you can easily get this vadagam in most of the supermarkets]
Method:
- In a pressure cooker, add toor dal, sliced onion, sliced tomato, finely chopped garlic, chopped green chilli, turmeric powder, and salt.
- Pressure cook this ingredients, let the whistle blow for at least 4 or 5 times, so that the ingredients are nicely cooked and blended.
- In a frying pan, add mustard, curry leaves, red chillies, and chilli vadagam.
- Add this to the parupu, now your sambar is ready.
Note: If you don't have vadagam, don't worry, leave it and add the other garnishing items.
Preparation Time: 15 to 20 minutes.
This is the simple version of sambar and you can prepare this very easily. Add ghee to the rice before adding sambar, it tastes yummy. Nothing can beat this taste.
