Papaya Dosa

Usually,ripe fruit of papaya is eaten raw or cooked.For a change, I have tried a different recipe with the fruit papaya and it turns out good . And Iam happy to share it with my blog friends.....

This fruit dosa which is packed up with vitamin C along with the benefits of ragi combination really worked well. Who have tried curries and sabji with papaya so far,for them ....it's a different recipe to be tried out.


Ingredients:

Ragi Flour - 1 1/2 cups
Rice Flour - 1/2 cup
Papaya chunks - 1 cup
Shredded Coconut - 4 tbsp
Green chillies - 3
Ginger -1" piece
Salt to taste

Method:

1.Grind coconut, ginger, green chillies and papaya chunks in the food processor
2. Then add ragi flour and rice flour into the processor and give one more round to mix well.
3. Add salt and little water and bring it to a dosa batter consistency.
4. Heat the tawa and spread the batter on it (as a thick layered dosa).
5.Pour oil on it sides and flip it to cook on other side.
6.Serve hot along with spicy dal powder / tomato chutney.

Note: It tastes good when it is hot.

Bitter Gourd Rice

Bitter Gourd also known as balsam pear or bitter melon is one of the popular vegetables in Indian and Chinese cooking. For our surprise, Chinese use bitter gourd in tea preparation. Always young immature bitter gourds are best for cooking in which the skin is bright green in color. The bitter gourd has excellent medicinal virtues. Even capsules are prepared from bitter gourd for the treatment of diabetes.



This is another simple and yummy recipe from my mom's kitchen.
No body likes bitterness...........But my mom's preparation tempts us to say "yes" to bitter gourd.



Ingredients:
Rice - 1 cup
Bitter Gourd - 2 (small)
Onion - 1 (Medium)
Tomato - 2 (Medium)
Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
U.dal - 1/2 tbsp
Curry leaves - few
Coriander leaves - few
Turmeric powder
Chilli powder
Salt.

Method:

1.Chop the vegetables and keep aside.(Remove the seeds from bitter gourd)
2.Heat a tbsp of oil and fry the bitter gourd(at a low flame) to offset its bitterness.
3.When it becomes soft ,remove it from the flame .
4.Add a tbsp of oil to the pan and make seasoning.
5.Now,add onion and fry till it become translucent, then add tomato.
6.When tomato gets cooked add fried bitter gourd and add turmeric,salt and chilli powder after few minutes.
7.Finally add curry leaves and coriander leaves.
8.Add rice and mix well.( you can use basmati too).

Note: Don't eat bitter gourd if you are pregnant .