Thaliccha idli

I grind for idli every weekend and it covers the breakfast and dinner for atleast 3 days. First day, it would be idli. Next day also idli..and the next few days the rest of the dough will be used for dosa...My son would say .."Enda ma, daily idli"...and DH would give me a sidelook with a sarcastic smile...So i thought let me try something different ..both in the looks and taste..and here we go with the ingredients:

1. Nicely chopped onions - 1
2. finely sieved carrot - 1
3. curry leaves
4. Dry chilli - 1-2
5. Idli dough

Method of preparation:

Heat 1 tbsp oil in a kadai, splutter 1 tbsp mustard seed, 1 tbsp uzhudu dhal seed, 1 tbsp of kadala paruppu and few groundnuts and few pottu (chutney) kadalai (optional..but it taste well and children would like the bite of groundnut here and there). Sim the burner so that these seeds do not get charred.

Add chopped onions, 1-2 broken red chilly and fry it until they are done. Add curry leaves and stir fry.

Add the above mix into the Idli dough and mix it well.

Pour the above dough in the idli maker and steam it till it is done.

The idli will not only tastes divine but also gives a picturesque look.

So how is the new look????? LOL


Enjoy with some spicy tomato chutney/cocunut chutney...

Idli with Tomato chutney

The usual breakfast in any south indian home.....Idli, Sambhar, Cocunut chutney...Emh...Reason being, easy to make, easy to feed the kids...and healthy too.

Tomato chutney
Ingredients:

4-5 ripe tomatoes
2-3 onions
2 green chilli


Method:
Chop all the ingredients above and add a 1 pinch of chilli powder and grind it with little water.
In a kadai, heat some oil and add 1 tbsp of mustard seed and allow it to splutter.
Add 1-2 dry red chilli and lotsa of curry leaves too. The add the above grinded paste to this and let it cook for 5-10 mintues till the raw smell is removed.
Viola the red red tomato chutney is ready.

Enjoy the chutney with Idli/dosa/chappathi...