JOWAR ROTI/BHAKRI

Jowar or Sorghum it is known as has higher content of calcium.  Besides calcium, it is also rich in iron, protein and fibre.  In Maharashtra, Bhakri a kind of roti is made with this flour and served  hot with chutney and a blob of butter.  It is quite healthy and filling too.  We can make jowar methi thepla, jowar paratha, jowar ka uttappa out of this.

Let us have a look at the recipe now:

1/2 cup jowar flour
Lukewarm water
very little salt (optional)

Method:

take the flour in a wide bottom vessel.  add the lukewarm water slowly and make a dough out of it.  divide into equal portions (i made two out of this).  Heat a non stick tava, place one ball of the dough on the tava when it becomes hot. apply little water on your palm and pat the same and spread it on the tava.  after spreading the same, apply water on top of it.  allow to cook the same and flip to cook the other side too.  when the black spots start appearing, directly cook on the flame as you cook the phulkas.  serve hot with a blob of butter, green chutney,     dry lasoon chutney etc.

ORANGE PEEL CHUTNEY

Orange peel chutney is made out of orange peel with fried urad dal as main ingredient.   To be frank with you, the taste may not be liked by everyone as it has got bitter taste but since we are adding little jaggery in it, you will forget the bitterness.   I had it with dosa and dal rice today and liked it very much.  If your taste bud is used to bitterness, then it will be liked by you.

 I have also made orange peel thuvayal  &  OrangePeelSweet Chutney.aspx and the said recipes were  shared with Ms. Dahlia Twinkle of www.simpleindianrecipes.com.  I have shared more than 100 recipes with her before starting my blog.  It is a lovely site.

DAL ROTI UPMA IN CABBAGE LEAF (left over recipe)

We all make normally make paratha if dal is left over.  when dal and roti is left over what to do?  do not worry, here is a lovely recipe with this dal and roti.  I made upma out of it and was really tasty.  Actually you will be able to enjoy the same if it is little punchant.

CORNFLAKES COOKIES l Cakes/bakes

Cookies are any time snacks.  It is useful for fillling the tiffin box of children too.  various kinds of cookies can be made, here I am presenting plain as well as corn flakes cookies which will be definitely liked by the children especially.

GUAVA SOUP (KHATTA MEETHA GUAVA SOUP)

Winter has started and are craving for some hot soup.  Guava is also available plenty and I love to eat guavas even though it does not suit me.  I wanted to have some soup and thought of trying with guava as I was tired of the regular tomato, vegetable, corn soups etc.

THIRUVATHIRA KALI

Thiruvathira Kali is made out of rice, moongdal  and jaggery as main ingredients by Tamils along with thalagam or kavathu puzhukku. In Kerala, Koova kali is made  along with puzhukku.   Koova means arrow root.  this kali is served along with a vegetable viz. thalagam or puzhukku which is made out of 5 or 7 vegetables like Potato, sweet potato, yam, raw banana, avarakka (broad beans, papdi), carrot, pumpkin, colacasia, & Asiatic yam in English and Perumvalli Kizhangu in Tamil.

Thiruvathira is cleberated on full moon day in the month of Dhanu Masam as per Malayalam calendar and also as the birthday of Lord Shiva on the day of star Thiruvathira.  This festival is celeberated in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Ladies get up early morning, take bath, prepare the kali and kootu or thalagam and offer this as Neivedyam to the Lord. They visit the temple for ardra darshanam.  Girls and ladies enjoy the swings, a dance known as "Kai kotti Kali" is also  performed by ladies by certain  community in Kerala.

THALAGAM (mix veg curry)

Thalakam, mix veg curry is made with various vegetables in coconut and white seasame seed paste gravy.  This is served along with roti, rice and also with Thiruvathira kali a sweet dish made out of rice powder with jaggery during Thiruvathira.

KAVATHU PUZHUKU (ASIAN YAM SUBZI), KAVATHU KOOTU

Kavathu puzhuku, kootu  or asian yam subzi is very simple and easy to make.  My mother used to make this during Thiruvathira festival along with thiruvathira-kali.  Normal days also, she used to make to have it with rice.  During thirvathira, along with kavathu, we also put some other vegetables and it goes well with rice, chapati too.

JOWAR METHI THEPLA, SORGHUM METHI THEPLA

Winter season has started and it is the time to serve anything hot specially, soup, paratha, thepla etc.  Here I have made the methi thepla with jowar  and wheat flour as main ingredient.   It is quite healthy as we are incorporating jowar flour, wheat flour and methi leaves. 

As compared to rice and wheat, Sorghum or Jowar has a higher content of calcium.  Besides calcium,  it is also packed with iron, protein and fibre.  It also helps in lowering cholesterol. 

Methi leaves helps in reduce the cholesterol, diabets.  It is an excellent source of potassium and controls heart rate and blood pressure.  .   

Jwari or Jowar or Sorghum methi thepla

Ingredients:

¼ cup jowar flour (Sorgum)

¼ cup wheat flour

¼ tup chopped methi leaves

2 tbsp gram flour (besan, chickpea flour)

½ tsp chaat masala

½ tsp chilli powder

½ tsp coriander powder

¼ tsp cumin powder

¼ tsp turmeric powder

Salt

Oil for cooking

Method:

In a wide vessel or parat, mix the flours, methi leaves.  Now add all the masalas, salt and mix well again. Add water little by little and knead a pliable dough.  Divide the same into three equal parts.  Roll out the same carefully as it is likely to break if you put pressure. You cannot make it thin like the normal methi thepla, it will be slighly on thicker side.   

  Heat a non stick tava and cook the same till brown spots appear on it or till it is cooked.  Serve hot with green chutney, tomato ketchup.

 

Variation:  You can also make thalipeeth out of this by adding onion in it.  Thalipeeth is made little thicker in size like burger.

MOONG DAL VADA

Yet another post of Rajasthani (Marwari) cusine made out of Moongdal as main ingredient with onion, coriander leaves.  A tasty evening tea time snack.  You can make kadhi /sambar out of this.  I have already posted some kadhi and sambar recipes.  Thanks to Manjuala and linking this recipe to her site.  desifiesta.blogspot.com