NACHNI RAVA ROTI

Rotis or flat bread it is known as is part of Indian Food.  Now it has become a part of the food in certain foreign countries too. Of course, wherever, Indians are there, there has to be a restaurant somewhere.

We make various types of rotis.  I wanted to try the rava roti since long as I was bored of making the usual ones and the dished made out of rava viz. upma, kesari, sheera, uttappam, pongal etc.

It is an easy preparation and very tasty too for breakfast or dinner or lunch.  To enhance the taste of it, I added the kalathu podi in it and it was awesome.  Since I liked the taste of it, I tried it with bit nachni i.e. ragi and that too was very tasty.

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Author: Raji Ramakrishnan

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Roti, flat bread

Serves: 2

Time taken: 1 hour totally.

Ingredients:

½ cup	Suji, rava, semolina
¼ cup	Nachni flour, ragi flour
1 -2 tbsp	Mix kalathu podi*
Salt	Adjust
	Generous pinch of saunf powder
2 tbps	Oil
1 tbsp	Finely chopped coriander and mint leaves.
¼ tsp	Kalonji, onion seeds (optional)
1 cup	water
2 tsp	oil
	Nachni flour for dusting
	Ghee or oil for cooking

Method:

1.        Boil water with little salt and oil.  When the water comes to rolling boiling stage, add the flour and mix well till the water is absorbed.  Cover and keep for 30 minutes. Switch off gas.

2.      After 30 minutes, put the dough on a plate and add 2 tsp oil and knead well.  Add the kalathupodi, mint, coriander leaves, kalonji etc. and knead again.


3.      Divide equally into 6 balls.  



Take one ball and flatten bit with your palms.  Apply the nachni flour and roll out the roti.



4.      Heat a tava, drizzle some oil.  Put the roti on the tava and cook both the sides.  Drizzle some oil or ghee.  Your rava nachni roti is ready.


How to serve:

Serve hot with any kind of curry, pickle, curd etc.

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RAVA IDIYAPPAM, SEMOLINA IDIYAPPAM

Idiyappam is the speciality of Kerala Cuisine which is served with Vegetable kurma and sweetened coconut milk.  Normally it is made with rice flour but can make use of other flours viz. millet flours and wheat flour too.  I had made it with bread also.

In our house it is served with morukootan and papad.  We can also make limbu sevai, coconut sevai, puli sevai and other flavourful sevai of your choice.

Since so many days, I wanted to try with the suji,semolina, rava and was asking my friends to give some recipes other than the normal upma, cake, dhokla, uttappam etc. which is made out of this and thought of trying this in the night itself yesterday.

If I am trying something new, I always make very less quantity hence I tried with ½ cup of suji and it came out well and liked by all at home.

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CURD RICE WITH AAM RAS

During the mango  jack fruit season, in almost all the South Indian house specially in Kerala, one dish will be with these ingredients.  For dinner, I prepared the curd rice and mango puree.

My father was fond of curd rice and aam ras.  The aam ras prepared by him in a very simple method is a mouth watering dish for us as we also would love to eat it along with him.  You must be wondering how can you eat mango ras with curd rice.  Just try and you will love it.

Aam ras poori is another variety of dish we serve in our house during the mango season in Mumbai.

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MANGO CHUTNEY

The season of Mango is on and varieties of pickles and chutneys are made with mango.  I prepared a simple chutney without coconut  to have it with only plain rice and ghee.

I am not giving you  much explanation about this chutney as you will be waiting to taste this after reading the recipe.

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MIX DAL KALATHU PODI SADAM

Mix dal kalathu podi sadam is a very delicious variety of rice prepared by South Indians.  The Kalathu podi is prepared with various kinds of dals or with single dal and spices.  When you ran out of vegetables at home or left over rice at home, you can heat it up and mix with this powder and gingelly oil, preferred or with ghee.

Easy to make and healthy too rice variety.  I made and posted Kollu kalathu podi, parippu podi, flaxseed kalathu podi today and already posted.  Since I had the curry leaves podi also with me I thought of mixing up all the powders which I made today and prepared this Mix Dal kalathu podi and made the rice too.

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MIX DAL KALATHU PODI

I have posted today Kollu Kalathu podi, Flaxseed Kalathu Podi, Kalathu podi or Parippu podi it is known as which is a dry dal spice powder served along with rice.  Since you all must have got the idea of the kalathu podi after reading the same, I am not explaining here much about it as it is really awesome powder which I love to eat with idli and dosa too.

I had some  kariveppila podi and all the above podis.  I mixed everything together and prepared rice to have with it.  It was really yummy.

Kollu kalathu podi and flaxseed kalathu podi, pairppu podi or kalathupodi

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KALATHU PODI

Kalathu podi is made out of various dals, a dry powder to be served along with hot plain steaming rice and gingelly oil.  We used to have this along with fried papad, vadam, karuvadam etc.  It is also known as Parippu podi.

This is a speciality of Palakkad Tamil Brahmins.  When you ran out of any vegetables at home or bored of making anything, simple plain rice along with this powder and ghee or gingelly oil is sufficient enough to fill the stomach.

It can be prepared with multiple dals or with a single dal.  Here I have chosen the Chana dal.  I have prepared today the Kollu kalathu podi and flaxseed kalathu podi.

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FLAXSEED KALATHU PODI

Today, with the help of my aunty Chembagarm, I prepared the Kollu Kalathu podi.  Similarly, I tried the same with the flaxseed and it was awesome.  other flax seed recipes:

1)  Flaxseed thogayal  2)  pumpkin flaxseed gun powder  3) flaxseed kajur ladoo  4)  Instant flaxseed dosa

Kalthu podi is a dry powder which can be stored for a month if you keep in a airtight container carefully.  If you are bored of preparing any curries with the rice, do not worry, you can use this and will love it.

This is a Palakkad recipe (my mom from Palakkad).  Normally, various dals are used to make this powder but we can choose any one of the item too.

Since flaxseed has got many health benefits, I thought of trying the same with it.

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KOLLU KALATHU PODI

Kollu  (Tamil) means horsegram.  It is also known as Muthira in Malayalam, Kulith or Kulthi in Hindi.  This can be used as sprouts, or as it is after soaking in water overnight.  We can make rasam, thogayal, puzhukku,  etc. out of it.

It is good for health.  In South India various dals are mixed, powdered with red chilli and pepper.  This powder is put in plain rice with little seasame oil and consumed a morsel or two my mother used to give us.  Afterwards, we used to have our regular food.  This is quite tasty.  I have posted :  horse-gram-curry-muthira-curry-kulith.html,  rasam, sharbat.

This morning I was talking to my mother aunty, Mrs. Chembagam, she always encourage me to post various old recipes and also used to share with me, she reminded me about the kollu kalathu podi.  Though my mother used to make this, I forgot about it and my aunty happily shared the recipe. 

Horsegram is or kulith or muthira it is called, is  rich in B-complex vitamins,  proteine and  highly nutritious.  

It is  commonly prescribed in ayurvedic medicine for conditions like difficult breathing, cough, gastric problems, ulcers, worm infections and excessive perspiration. Some alternative medicine experts even consider horse gram as a good remedy to control joints pain. It can be also used as a natural health tonic.    It tones up the digestive system and prevents acidity and flatulence.  

People suffering from spleen enlargement, colic and weak liver can also benefit from this plants medicinal properties. People with kidney stones, hypertension, gall stones also benefit from its intake.  

Similarly, I prepared  Flaxseed kalathu podi today.

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BREAD FRUIT VARUVAL

Breadfruit is one of the highest-yielding food plants, with a single tree producing up to 200 or more grapefruit-sized fruits per season. It requires very limited care.

Breadfruit can be eaten once cooked, or can be further processed into a variety of other foods. A common product is a mixture of cooked or fermented breadfruit mash mixed with coconut milk and baked in banana leaves. Whole fruits can be cooked in an open fire, then cored and filled with other foods, such as coconut milk, sugar and butter, cooked meats, or other fruits. The filled fruit can be cooked further so the flavor of the filling permeates the flesh of the breadfruit.

In South, it is used to make sambar, molagootal, thoran, and bhajia / fritters etc.  Recent visit to Kerala made to to try the varuval which was suggested by my friend's wife.  She never used to eat this vegetable but fried one she likes hence I tried to make this varuval.  She and her children liked it very much and it was finished as soon as we fried the same.  

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