Amitabha's Kitchen Chronicles

Rawa idlis with coupled with my red chutney or Podi is one of the favourite items on the breakfast at home. The recipes goes thus....  Ingredients for about 20 idlis : - rawa / sooji - 2 cups - sour curd - 1 cup - 2 teaspoons each of mustard seeds, urad dal, chana dal - half a teaspoon of asafoetida (hing) - few curry leaves (4-5) broken into half - a tbsp of chopped cashew (optional) - one inch ginger grated - a carrot about 6 inches, grated (optional) - fresh sprig of coriander leaves - salt to taste - fruit salt - 2 teaspoons (eno / Alka seltzer or the like) Process : Dry roast the rawa and take it out and let it cool Take about 2 tbsp of white oil and once hot, add the mustard seeds and dal Once the mustard seeds starts crackling, lower the flame and add the curry leaves and cashew. Turn off the flame after 30 secs. Add to the roasted rawa. Add the curd, other ingredients and salt and mix the entire mix well. Now add water little at a time and keep mixing till you get the right...

This morning while scourging the refrigerator for ingredients for a quick breakfast, found that we had little bit of soaked sabudana from the Shivratri. Luckily there was also chopped veggies kept for making breakfast. D got the idea to make an experiment and used the veggies to make a sabudana khicdi a la poha and it turned out amazing. Ingredients: Soaked sabudana, chopped veggies- beans, carrots, capsicum, tomatoes and potatoes. Onion sliced. For the spices : cumin and curry patta and green chillies For garnish: lemon juice and  chopped coriander leaves. Process: Boil the potatoes, peel and cut it into small cubes and keep aside. Chop all the vegetables and keep aside. Heat oil in the pan and then add the cumin seeds followed by the chopped chillies and curry patta. Add the carrrots and fry for about 3 - 4 mins and add the beans and sliced onion. The veggies should be soft after about 5 mins of frying. Add the tomatoes and cubed potatoes and fry for about 3 to 4 mins....