Rava-coconut dosa

The recipe of a very easy snack that my mom shared with me today ...
Ingredients:
Rava (sooji) - 1 cup
Coconut grated - 1/2 cup
Green chillies - 1 or 2
Ginger - 1/4 inch piece
Turmeric - a pinch
Salt - to taste
Ghee - 2tsp
Mustard seeds, curry leaves - for seasoning
Water - as needed

How to:
- Soak rava in adequate water for 10 minutes
- Grind coconut, chilles, ginger and rava to a smooth paste
- Add water to get the dosa batter consistency. Add salt.
- Prepare seasoning with mustard and curry leaves in ghee
- Pour the seasoning in the rava mixture
- Mix well and prepare dosa.
- Serve hot with coconut-mango chutney

Grilled Vegetables

A crunchy and healthy snack that I tried today ...

Ingredients :

Any vegetables diced - I used carrots, cucumber, zucchini, mushrooms, thawed frozen green peas, cauliflower, cabbage, green tomato, onion, capsicum
Salt, Pepper - to taste
Olive Oil - 1 tbsp
Vinegar - 2 tbsp
Mixed herbs for seasoning - to taste

How to :

- Mix the seasoning, oil and vinegar well and toss the vegetables in it. Add salt and pepper and mix well.
- Keep aside for a few minutes
- Spread the vegetables in a tray and grill in microwave for 2 minutes

Punukulu

Here is a very quick snack that I tasted at ISB canteen ...
Ingredients:
Dosa/Idly batter - 1 cup
Onion - 1/2 (chop finely)
Green chillies - 1-2 (chop finely)
Salt - to taste

Oil for frying
How to:
1. Mix all ingredients together except oil
2. Heat oil in appakkara (the vessel used for making kuzhi paniyaram/ unniyappam)
3. Pour the batter in the appakkara and turn the punukulus when golden on the lower side
4. Take out when the other side is also doen and drain oil on a tissue paper
5. Serve hot with coconut chutney

Raw Mango Salad

Here is a traditional kerala recipe for very simple and yummy salad made of raw mango.

You need :
Raw mangoes - 1 big (should be very sour - the 'moovandan' variety available in kerala would be the best for this salad)
Red chillies - 2
Coconut oil - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste

How to:
- Chop the raw mango very finely (Remove the peel if it is bitter, else leave it on.)
- Crush the chillies
- Mix well the mango, chillies, salt and coconut oil and serve immediately

Soya chunks cutlet

I tried this over the weekend and my family loved it. It goes very well with tomato ketchup.

Ingredients:
Soya nuggets - 1 cup
Potato - boiled and peeled, 1 large
Thawed frozen green peas - 1/2 cup
Grated carrot - 1/4 cup
Chopped Onions - 1/4 cup
Chopped green chillies - 2 tsp
Amchoor powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Chilli powser - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste
Bread slices - 2

How to make:
- Soak the soya chunks in very hot water for avout 15 minutes. (Keep it covered).
- Drain the water completely and mince in a mixer
- Mash the potato and add to the soya.
- Add all vegetables, salt and masalas
- Dip the bread slices in water and remove quickly. Press the pieces to remove excess water
- Add the bread to the soya and mix everything thoroughly.
- Form cutlets and deep fry in oil
- Serve hot.

Dosa pizza

Kids like this yummy snack :)

Ingredients:
Dosa batter - 1 cup for two small pizzas
Pizza sauce - 2 tablespoon
Capsicum - 1/2 (cut into thin wedges)
Black olives - 4 or 5 (cut into thin rings)
Tomatos - prefereably cherry tomatos, cut into small discs
Cooked Corn kernels - as required
Pizza cheese - as required
Oregano - as required

How to make:
- Keep the dosa tawa on very low heat and when it is slightly warm spread about 2 tablespoons of batter with medium thickness (similar to Oothappam).
- After a few seconds, spread a tablespoon of pizza sauce on the dosa when the batter is still not cooked.
- Spread the vegetable pieces and grated cheese on top of the dosa and close the dosa with a lid.
- Keep the stove on very low heat
- Remove the dosa pizza after 5-7 minutes when the pizza cheese has melted.
- Spread oregano on top of the pizza and serve hot

Note: If you don't like the raw taste of capsicum ,you may saute it beforehand.

Aval Moru Kuzhu (Snack from Tamilnadu)

We got the recipe of this yummy snack from Jayashree, another colleague of ours.
Ingredients:
Thick Avalakki - 1 cup
Green chillies - to taste
Thick curd - 1 to 2 cups
Asofotedia, salt - according to taste
Grated coconut - 1 to 2 cups
Coconut oil - 1 table spoon
Mustard - 1 t spoon
How to:
Wash the avalakki thoroughly else the stuff will taste raw.
Soak the avalakki in water for 5 min
Grind all the above things till it becomes like idli batter… Let the batter be thick.
Take coconut oil in a kadai. Spread it around the kadai… add mustard seeds. Once they pop, add the ground mixture and add a few spoon of coconut/gingelly oil on the mixture… Stir the mixture till the mixture stops sticking to the kadai. Pour this mixture on a plate which has oil smeared on it… cut the thing into pieces… Leave it to set for 10 minutes.. And u r done…

Note: the thicker the ground paste is, the earlier the thing cooks. Also pls don’t add thin curd/butter milk. The word "moru" can be misleading :-))