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Hello readers🙏 Welcome to today's blog.We all love dosas right?

South indian food in itself is nutritious and healthy. It can be steamed or less oil. Dosa, idly, uttapam, appe. We all love these breakfast ideas.. Let's make dosas with murmura( kurmura/puffed rice). I tried it for first time and it came out perfect. Let's begin the recipe.. Let's get started..

Ingredients needed:

1.Puffed rice / murmura-1 cup

2.Raw rice ( short grain)-1 cup

3.Urad dal-1/4 cup.

4.Methi seeds( fenugreek)-1 tsp

5.Oil for applying on dosa.

6.Salt- as per taste.

Procedure :( Serves -3-4 people)Time taken: 5-6 hrs for soaking and overnight for fermentation.

1.Take 1 cup murmura, raw rice and 1/4 cup urad dal and wash it for 2 times well.

2.Soak it with 1 tsp methi seeds.

3.Now grind the mixture finely.

4.Add in a big utensil and add salt and 1 tsp oil. First mix it with hand as it helps with natural fermentation.

5.Now cover and keep it for overnight and let it ferment.

6.Now heat the nonstick tawa and sprinkle some water+ oil and let it crackle. Now wipe it with a cloth.

7.Now spread the batter on the tawa evenly and apply oil. Now flip it after it leaves it sides.

8.Cook from other side till brown. Our murmura dosa is ready.

Kara chutney recipe:

1.Tomatoes -2( big size),onion-1,garlic pods-6-7,ginger-1 inch.

2..Urad dal-1 tbsp, chana dal-1 tbsp, dried red chilli-1-2,Cumin seeds-1 tsp.

3.Oil- as reqd, tamarind- lemon size

Steps:

1.Take a pan,add oil, heat it well and add 1 tsp cumin seeds, and dals and roast it till golden brown.

2.Now add onion, tomato( roughly chopped).

3.Add dried red chilli, salt and tamarind and cook them till tomatoes are soft.

4.Now cool off the mixture and grind it finely.

5.For tempering: Add oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves and asafetida( heeng) and let it crackle and add to the chutney.

Our kara chutney is ready.

Trust me the dosa+ chutney combination is awesome.

You can add poha also ( 1-2 tbsps) to the batter for extra crunchiness.Add 1-2 tsp oil in batter so that the batter doesn't become dry after 2-3 days.

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Take care and always stay beautiful🙏

Hello readers 🙏I am going to share an easy n instant recipe. Today I am sharing beetroot and bottlegourd idly which is made of rava/ sooji and rice flour. Its yummy and healthy too. So lets begin the recipe. Lets get started...

Source: simplytadka.com

When I made this, light went off and then we ate it.😅

Ingredients needed:Time taken( max. 1.15 hrs and min:30 mins)

1.Sooji/ rava/ semolina-1.5 cups

2.Rice flour-1/2 cup

3.Veggies: Beetroot-1/2, bottlegourd( lauki)-1/2,capsicum-1/2[all grated], green chilli-1( finely chopped), onion-1/2(finely chopped), ginger( finely chopped ), curry leaves-7-8,coriander + mint leaves for garnishing

4.For tempering in masala:

Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp, mustard seeds-1/2 tsp,cashews -4-5( broken), Curry leaves-7-8, urad dal-1/2 tsp, chana dal-1/2 tsp, oil, heeng-2 pinches.

5.Curd-1 cup( sour)

6.Sugar-1/2 tsp

7.lemon juice -1 tsp

8.Salt as per taste.

9.Eno-1/2 tsp

Procedure:

1.Take a big bowl, add 1.5 cup sooji/ rava, 1/2 cup rice flour, curd, sugar, salt and lemon juice and mix it well. If you have time soak it for 1 hour, if you dont have much time, soak it for 15 mins.

2.For tempering :

1.Add oil in a pan, when hot add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, heeng, curry leaves, green chilli and chopped ginger. Add the dals( urad dal, chana dal). Roast them till brown. Now add the veggies( onion, capsicum, beetroot and bottlegourd( lauki)).

2.Add salt and let it cook until soft.

3.When masala is done and on room temperature, add it into the batter and let it sit for sometime.

4.Now after 1 hr or 15 mins( acc to your time), Heat the idly cooker or a big utensil, add water and 1/2 lemon and let it steam.

5.Now comes the fast part, check the batter's consistency, it will be not flow, add water and make it flowy. Add 1/2 tsp eno and add some water and mix it in one direction and pour the batter into idly moulds.

6.Place it in cooker and let it steam on medium flame for 7-10 mins.

7.Our idlies will be done.

8. Serve it with coconut chutney or mint peanut chutney.

Mint peanut chuteny:

1.Take a pan, add oil,cumin seeds-1/2 tsp,let it crackle. Add peanuts and roast it till brown.Add1 tsp chana dal and 1 tsp urad dal.

2.Peanuts should be 1/4 cup.

3.Mint+ coriander leaves should be a handful or acc to your wish.

4. Add 1/2 inch ginger and saute the peanuts well. Now add the washed mint+ coriander leaves and cover it with lid.Add lemon size tamarind, salt ( as per taste)

5.Now cool the mixture and grind it.

6.Our chutney is done. Its easy and quick. Temper it with mustard seeds and curry leaves and dried red chilli.

So you can add veggies like carrot, boiled corn, spinach puree.

Its healthy breakfast recipe. Thanks for reading the blog and giving your precious time.

Do try the recipe and always stay beautiful till then take care.

You can read my pink cutlet recipe which will be there in the last blogs.