Ragi Dosa Recipe-Ragi Adai-How to make Ragi Dosa with Onion

Ragi Dosa Recipe or Ragi Adai or Nachni Dosa is a healthy easy breakfast recipe.Ragi grain or Finger Millet is a wonderful cereal, which has numerous health benefits. It is rich in iron, calcium and dietary fibre. It gives a feeling of fullness, so this is a smart way of consuming ragi for weight loss garnished with loads of onions.

An awesome nutritionally healthy Indian crepe also called Ragi Attu or Ragi Kambu. 

Ragi (Finger Millet) is also Gluten free. It is good for diabetics. It is called as Keppai Dosai in Tamil and Nachni Dosa in Marathi. Do check my Ragi Laddu recipe also.

Ingredients for Ragi Dosa recipe :

1. Ragi Flour - 1/4 cup
2. Rice - 2 cups
3. Urad Dal - 1 cup
4. Salt - To taste
5. Water - As needed
6. Oil - As needed


Garnishing (for each Dosa):

1. Onion Pieces - 4 tps
2. Green Chilli Pieces - 1 tsp
3. Ginger Pieces - 1/2 tsp (Finely grated)
4. Carrot - 1 tsp (Finely grated)
5. Coriander Leaves - 1 tsp

Procedure: How to make Ragi dosa

1. Wash and soak Urad dal and rice for about 6 hours
2. Drain water and grind to a fine batter using water as needed
3. Add salt and ragi flour to the batter and mix nicely.
4. Heat a gridle and drizzle a spoon ful of oil, pour a laddle full of dosa batter and lay dosa

5. Flip over and cook on both the sides
6. Take into a plate and garnish with onion pieces, green chilli pieces, ginger pieces, grated carrot and coriander leaves
7. You can serve Ragi Dosa with sambar and any chutneys.

Uggani-Borugula Upma-Puffed Rice Upma-Mandakki Oggarne-Pori Upma Recipe

Uggani or Ugrani or Maramarala Upma is a quick and easy south indian breakfast recipe popular in Rayalaseema region of Andhra. It is called as Mandakkai Oggarne in Karnataka, Pori Upma in Maharashtra.It is also a popular snack being sold by roadside vendors using puffed rice. Puffed rice is called as borugulu or maramaralu or pelalu in Telugu.

 

Mirchi bajji is a great combination with uggani. Papads and fryums also suit as sides for uggani.

Ingredients:

1. Puffed Rice - 5 cups
2. Peanuts or Roasted Channa Dal - 1/2 cup
3. Onions - 1 
4. Tomato - 1
5. Green Chilli - 3
6. Curry Leaves - 2 to 3 strands
7. Coriander Leaves - 2 to 3 tbsps
8. Spring onion leaves - 2 to 3 tbsps
9. Lemon Juice - 1 to 2 tsps
10. Salt - To taste
11. Red Chilli Powder - 1 n 1/2 tsps
12. Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
13. Rasam Powder - 1 tsp (Optional)
14. Oil - 3 tbsps
15. Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
16. Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp

Procedure:

1. Take puffed rice in a strainer and run water over it by stirring it gently
2. Run water till each Puffed rice grain becomes moist, and the ssshhh sound subsides. Take care the rice should not become mushy as shown in the below pic

3. Dry roast peanuts and coarsely grind it (If using roasted channa dal, no need to roast it again, directly grind channa dal to a coarse powder). Grinding coarsely gives a great taste while eating instead of grinding to a fine powder
4. Heat Oil in a kadai, add mustard and cumin seeds, when they splutter add green chillies, onions, curry leaves and spring onion leaves

5. Fry for a minute, add tomatoes, turmeric powder, salt, red chilli powder, rasam powder and mix well
6. When tomatoes turn mushy, add puffed rice and mix gently

7. Add peanut or channa dal powder which ever you use and give it a gentle stir
8. Finally add lemon juice and coriander leaves
9. Fuming Uggani with mirchi bajji or papads or fryums tastes awesome

You might also like my other Breakfast recipes : Breakfast Recipes

Mushroom Matar Masala-Mushroom Green Peas Gravy Recipe-Peas Mushroom Curry

Mushroom Matar Masala is a combination of mushrooms and green peas cooked together using freshly ground spices and different pastes to get the gravy. For getting gravy we can use tomato paste, cashew paste, poppy seeds paste, groundnut paste etc. I used tomato paste with a hint of fresh cream.

Mushrooms are a good source of fiber, protien, Vitamin C, D, B6 and B12. They are also cholestrol-free. Whereas green peas is a good source of Vitamins B1, B2, B6, C and K. This mushroom gravy tastes better with chapathi, paratha, naan or any flavoured rice. I served it with Jeera Rice.

Ingredients:

1. Green Peas - 1/2 cup
2. Mushroom - 7 to 8
3. Tomato Puree - 3 tomatoes
4. Green chillies - 2
5. Ginger garlic paste - 1/4 tsp
6. Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
7. Dry Fenugreek Leaves (or Kasuri methi) - 1 tsp

For Garam Masala Powder:
8. Cardamom - 2
9. Cinnamon Stick - 1/2 inch
10. Cloves - 2
11. Black Pepper corns - 5 to 6

12. Hing - A Pinch
13. Salt - To Taste
14. Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
15. Red Chilli Powder - 1/4 tsp
16. Coriander Powder - 1 tsp

17. Oil - 2 to 3 tbsps
18. Coriander Leaves - 2 to 3 tsps
19. Cream - 2 tsps
20. Onion Paste - 2 onions (Instead of onion paste, you can use peanut paste, cashewnut paste, poppy seeds paste, sesame seeds paste etc)
21. Water - 1/2 cup


Also Read:  How to make pattani sundal fry recipe or Matar ki Ghugni Recipe a yummy snack item during tea time.

Procedure:

1. Heat oil in a pan, add hing, cumin seeds, green chillies, ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, garam masala powder, kasuri methi, onion paste, tomato puree and cook till oil oozes out
2. Don't wash mushrooms, just Wipe mushrooms using wet cloth and chop to half, keep aside
3. Add peas and cook for a while
4. Add mushrooms,salt, red chilli powder, water and cook till mushrooms turn soft
5. Dishout and garnish with cream and coriander leaves

Egg Frankie Recipe-Chapati Egg Kathi Roll Recipe Indian Style-Egg Wrap

Egg Frankie Recipe also popularly known as egg wrap, I have homemade this hot Chapati Egg Kathi Roll Recipe indian style for a quick dinner and it tasted great. Frankie is one of the most popular recipe in indian street foods, apart from Golgappe(i.e. Pani Puri), Chaat and many more. Egg is rich in its nutritional values. Egg is a protein rich food which is necessary for growing kids. 

 
There are many varieties of rolls or wraps available as a street food. Veg Roll, Paneer Roll, Egg Roll, Chicken Roll etc are some of the varieties. Let us learn how to prepare Egg Roll Recipe Indian Style with Chapati or Egg Frankie Recipe aka wrap. Whichever the name you call, it tastes awesome and its healthy too.

Egg Frankie Recipe - Ingredients

1. Atta - 1 cup
2. Eggs - 2
3. Onions - 1
4. Tomatoes - 2
5. Carrot - 1
6. Green Chillies - 3
7. Coriander Leaves - 1 tsp
8. Curry Leaves - 1 tsp
9. Pepper Powder - 1/2 tsp
10. Salt - To taste
11. Red chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
12. Turmeric Powder - 1/8 tsp
13. Oil - As needed

Procedure:

How to make Egg Roll Recipe indian style with chapati

1. Knead atta to a nice dough and keep aside
2. Heat 2 tsps oil in a small pan, add finely chopped onion, green chilli, carrot, tomatoes, curry leaves and coriander leaves and cook nicely

3. Add turmeric powder, salt and red chilli powder to this, keep aside
4. Beat eggs in a bowl, add salt and pepper powder to this, keep aside
5. Prepare chapatis using dough

6. Heat a tawa, add 1/2 tsp oil, place chapati and heat it lightly on both sides
7. Once the chapathi is half cooked, pour egg mix on top side and spread carefully
8. After a min egg on chapati gets cooked you can see bubbles, drizzle some oil
9. Flip it over and cook on the other side, now egg spread also gets cooked properly

 

How to make egg roll filling:

10. Take out the chapathi and fill one table spoon of cooked veggies and roll as frankies
11. Egg Frankie recipe is ready, relish its taste when its hot, tomato ketchup or pickle can be used as dip

Chapati Egg Kathi Roll Recipe Indian Style

Do visit my Veg Frankie Recipe too.

Mint Medu Vada - Garelu - 3 Tips to make perfectly shaped cripsy Pudina Vadai recipe

Mint Vada or Pudhina Vada or Garelu is crispy, tasty and delicious vadai made with mint leaves/pudina. It is nothing but our regular Medu vada but with loads of mint leaves. Mint leaf increases appetite, gives instant energy, it is a great soothing agent. 

When it comes to lazy weekends vada is one of my husbands favorite breakfast but he trys to avoid this because of gastric trouble and it bloats his stomach, so i came up with an idea to add loads of mint herbs/leaves as it is a good soothing agent and relieves acidity and gas. Mint also increases appetite.

Ingredients:

1. Urad Dal - 1 cup (I used Urad dal with skin so the vada is black)
2. Pudhina(Mint) leaves - 1 cup (loosely packed)
3. Green chillies - 4
4. Coriander leaves - 2 to 3 sprigs
5. Curry leaves - 1 sprig
6. Pepper corns - 6
7. Salt - To taste
8. Coconut Pieces - 2 tsps
9. Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
10. Oil - For deep frying

Procedure:

1. Soak urad dal in water for 1 hr
2. After an hour drain the water and grind urad dal to a fine paste without adding water
3. Batter should be thick, take a small roundel of the batter and drop it in a small bowl with water
4. The batter roundel should immediately float on the water, it should not sink to the bottom
5. If it floats on top then it means this is the right consistency of the batter
6. Now dish out the batter into a bowl, add finely chopped mint leaves, coriander leaves, curry leaves, green chillies, coconut pieces, salt, cumin seeds, crushed pepper powder and mix well

7. Heat oil in a pan, make vadas using the batter and fry in hot oil

8. Tasty, yummy and healthy Mint Masala Vada are ready to serve
 

3 Tips on how to make Medu vada perfectly shaped and crispy :

1. If the vada batter becomes watery then add some Bombay Rava and rest for 5 mins. Bombay rava sucks all the excess water in the batter.
2. Bombay Rava also helps the vada to become more crispy after frying
3. Points 4 & 5 of above Procedure

Do checkout my other vada recipes:

  - Urad dal vada | Medhu vada Recipe  

  - Pesarapappu Vadalu | Rubbudu Garelu recipe

Chicken Tikka-Murgh Tikka-Yogurt chicken recipe-How to make dry chicken tikka recipe

Chicken Tikka is basically a boneless version of Tandoori Chicken. It is one of the yogurt chicken recipes where boneless chicken and Yogurt with some spices are marinated, hooked up to skewers and grilled in Tandoor. It is popular in India, Pakistan and Arab countries. It is also a part of Punjabi Cuisine.

 

It can be consumed directly as a starter or the Chicken Tikka can also be made into Chicken Tikka Masala, a tasty gravy version of it which can be served with Naans.

 Murgh Tikka is usually served with green chutney, tamarind chutney, lemon and onion slices.

Ingredients:
1. Hung Yogurt - 1/2 cup (i.e. take yogurt in a cloth, tie edges and hang the yogurt to any rod till all the water in it is drained out)
2. Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
3. Red chilli powder - 3/4 tsp
4. Salt - To taste
5. Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp
6. Garam masala powder - 3/4 tsp
7. Lemon juice - 1 tsp
8. Red food colour - A pinch (Optional)
9. Oil - 1 tsp
10. Gram flour - 1 tbsp
11. Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Ingredients to marinate chicken:
12. Chicken - 250 gms
13. Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
14. Red chilli powder - 3/4 tsp
15. Salt - To taste
16. Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp

For Garnishing:
17. Skewers - As needed
18. Coriander - 2 to 3 sprigs (finely chopped)
19. Onion slices - 4 to 5
20. Lemon slices -2 to 3

Procedure:
1. Marinate chicken using ingredients from 12 to 16 and keep aside

2. Mix all the ingredients from 1 to 8 in a bowl and make a nice paste

 3. Heat oil in a small pan, add cumin seeds, once they splutter add gram flour and fry on a slow flame till flour slightly changes colour and till nice aroma comes from it
4. Mix this fried flour with the above paste
5. Now add marinated chicken to this paste mix well and refrigerate for about 1/2 hr to 1 hr
6. After 1 hr take out the chicken and cook it using oven or on pan(stove top) by greasing each piece with some oil

7. Roast till the chicken is nicely cooked, crispy chicken tikka is ready to serve
8. I pierced each tikka piece to a skewer and served it along with finely chopped coriander and onion, lemon slices

Do check out my other delicious chicken recipes:

Chicken Dum Biryani

Spicy Chicken gravy

Chicken 65

Chicken Roast

Chicken Do Pyaza