Sweet neer dosa

Sweet neer dosa

Saw a discussion of neer dosa in a foodie group recently and I was all tempted to try it after a long time.  I dint have the patience to make the dosa and an accompanying side dish to go with it for a weekend breakfast and  made it sweet, yes my family love anything sweet for breakfast, specially me :). Ok , so here goes the recipe for it.

Ingredients

Dosa rice- 1 1/2 cups

Grated coconut- 1 cup to 1 1/2 cups

Jaggery - 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup ( depending on the sweetness you prefer)

Water- 2 cups

Cardomom powder - a pinch

Method

Soak the rice overnight. 

Melt the jaggery in two cups of water , sieve it and leave it overnight. ( I did this step in the night b'coz it cools down by morning)

Next day morning grind the rice in the grinder  along with the grated coconut, adding the jaggery water in between and grind the batter to a  fine paste. Add the remaining jaggery water and remove the batter from the grinder. Add extra water to make the batter thin. It should be much thinner than the usual dosa batter

To the batter add a pinch of cardamom powder and salt. Mix well

Heat a non stick pan to high heat and then pour a laddle full of batter to the pan and rotate the pan to spread the batter evenly. Close the pan with a lid and remove the dosa when it is cooked. You can fold the dosa and remove it from the pan.

Serve these thin lacy sweet dosas hot!!

Summer drink II

I really dont know what to name this drink , mostly it would be summer drink II :) Its nothing but mixed fruit juice

Ingredients
Oranges- 2
Apple- 1
Med sized cucumber- 1
Med sized lemon- 1
Salt/ sugar- to your taste
Ginger jam - 1/4 tspn

Method
Remove the juice of the oranges and strain in the large sieve
Blend the apples with the lemon juice and cucumber and mix with the orange juice.
Add salt or sugar to your taste and garnish with either ginger chips or quarter tspn of ginger jam and serve.


Enjoy ! :)
 

Coconut choco-chip cookies

Coconut choco-chip cookies

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour- 1 1/2 cup

Fresh grated coconut- 1 1/2 cup

Sugar- 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup

Butter- 1/2 cup

Baking powder- 1/3 tspn

Vanilla essence - 1/2 tspn

Salt - a pinch

Choco chips- 3/4 cup

Method 

Mix all the above ingredients to a soft mixture, the wetness of the grated coconut and butter would be enough to help the mixture come together to form a soft dough.Throw in the choco chips and gently swirl in the dough. Scoop out smal balls and roll it between your palms and place in a greased baking tray and flatten the balls slightly. Repeat the same for the rest of the dough. 

Bake in a preheated oven at 150 degrees celsius for about 10-12 minutes until the top and bottom of the cookies turns brown.

Remove the cookies from the baking tray and let it cool in a wire rack.

Store in airtight containers when cool.

My way of baking cookies in the OTG is as follows

Preheat the oven in bake mode and place the baking tray in the top rack, bake the cookies for some 4-6 minutes or till u feel the bottom would have cooked and then shift it to grill mode so that the top gets cooked and browned for another 5-6 minutes. 

You might get this here

Some gourmet places in Bangalore where you get some unusual grocery stuffs, termed as gourmet stuffs as well 

• Hazel Nuts : MK Retail, Brown tree
• Vanilla beans : Namdhari
• Foxtail Millet : MK Retail
• Sama Rice : MK Retail

Hot cross buns ( whole wheat - wheat bran - amaranth flour )

      Been wanting to bake these buns, and I have little tutti frutti also handy at home.  I am not OK with using white flour and hence gave a twist to the tale. Though it look longer for the dough to proof up, the buns was good enough. I had lost all hopes when I saw dough taking so long to rise, but why not when I experimented it a way too much :) !! but the wait was all worth it !!

Without much delay will share the twisted recipe of mine and it is here.....

 Ingredients :

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 cup wheat bran

1/2 cup rajgira flour ( amaranth flour)

1 1/4 cup all purpose flour ( maida)

15 gms dry instant yeast

3 tbspns sugar

1 1/4 cup - 1 1/2 cup lukewarm milk

2 tbspns butter

1/2 cup tutti frutti

Glaze 

2 tbspn sugar

Method

Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. In a small bowl dissolve the yeast and sugar in lukewarm water and set aside to form a froth, preferably for 15 minutes. Add the yeast mixture to the flour and mix. Add the luke warm milk, a little at a time, till all of it is incorporated into the dough. Add the butter and knead till soft and smooth. Cover with a damp cloth and set aside till it doubles in size ( took over night for me ).

Preheat the oven to 240 degrees Celsius and grease a baking tray.

Knock back the dough and add the tutti frutti. Shae into round buns, marking a cross on the to with knife. Place on a baking tray and set aside to rise for another 15 minutes. Bake for ten minutes  till well risen and golden brown. Remove from the oven.

TO make the glaze, mix sugar with water and heat gently till sugar dossolves and brush the bums with the glaze immediately on taking them out of the oven.

Original source : Sanjeev kapoor's cakes and bakes