Vazhaipoo Roti

Here is another recipe with vazhaipoo (banana blossom) came out from my mom's cookbook. I purposely bought two blossoms this time for making Vazhaipoo Kootu and roti. This is little modified version of Akki Roti which tastes great along with banana blossoms. As it takes little extra time for preparation, its better to have this as a weekend breakfast. You can clean the flower and chop them one or two days in advance to make this work much easier. But don't forget to soak them in buttermilk and refrigerate it.

Clean the flower, rough chop it and soak it in buttermilk for atleast 30 minutes. For cleaning procedure, please click here.

All you need:

Rice flower - 2 cups
Banana blossom - 1 cup (rough chopped)
Onion - 1 (medium)
Curry leaves - few (finely chopped)
Chilli pwdr - 1 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Salt, Water as reqd.

Method:

1. Mix all the above ingredients in a bowl to make a soft dough.
2. Grease the tissue paper.
3. Take a handful of dough and spread on the tissue paper like chapathi by using your fingers or you can directly do it on tawa.
4. Grease the hot tawa and transfer the spread dough on it.
5. Cook for 1 minute and flip it to cook for 2 minutes.
6. Now flip again to cook for another minute.
7. Serve hot with spicy tomato / onion chutney.

Akki Roti

Akki roti is nothing but roti made up of rice flour. Its a very tasty and great Karnataka dish. I have a strong liking for this dish from my childhood. There is no specific timing for making this dish. I prepare, whenever i want to eat it. I like all rice flour recipes say, Puttu, Kadubu, Akki Vada, Appam, Idiappam, etc. which have an excellent taste when prepared using fresh flour.

You can prepare Masala Akki roti by adding some veggies to it. But, I like the pure white akki roti with finely chopped green chillies and karipatha. It tastes great along with onion/red chutney.

All you need:

Rice flour - 1 cup
Red onion - 1 medium (finely chopped)
Green chillies - 3 (finely chopped)
Curry leaves - 3 (roughly chopped)
Jeera - 1/2 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Salt and Oil

Method:

Combine all the above ingredients except oil. Mix the flour thoroughly after adding salt. Now add water little by little and make a soft ball like a chapati dough. You can add a tbsp of oil while preparing the dough. Now, heat the tawa in a medium flame and grease it. Take a portion of dough (which must be bigger than the size of a lemon) and make a ball out of it.

Now, spread the dough directly on the tawa by touching water in your fingers and make sure, it is not too thin. Now add little oil over the edges and slightly increase the heat. Cook for 1 minute and flip it on the other side. It's done when you can see light brown spots on the roti.



If you are not comfortable in spreading the dough directly on the tawa, try spreading it on a grease paper or on a plastic sheet. Grease the sheet and then spread the dough by pressing using fingers touched in oil and then slowly transfer the roti onto the tawa. Be cautious, if tawa is too hot, it will burn the sheet.


For Red Chutney:

All you need:

Red onion - 4 (medium)
Tomato - 2 (medium)
Red Chillies - 4
Tamarind paste - 1/2 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tbsp
Urad dal - few
Curry leaves - few
Salt

Method:

Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan. Add red chillies and roughly chopped red onions. When they become translucent, add chopped tomatoes and fry till the tomatoes get mashed. Let them cool and grind it along with salt and tamarind. Now heat the tadka and add mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves. Transfer them into the red chutney. Serve Red/onion chutney along with hot akki rotis.



Note: Heat one tbsp of ghee and then add it to the flour which gives a nice and fresh aroma over the flour. Adjust the salt and chillies acc. to your taste. Akki roti tastes great when served hot.

Garlic Naan

Naan is an leavened indian flat bread which is common in most of the indian cuisine.It tastes great when you eat hot.Still,I can remember those days when I ate naan with Paneer butter masala ,for the first time ...with my sister.I surfed a lot in internet and find this recipe as perfect for making best naan.Breads are really too soft and tasty and to make garlic naan, I just brush the top side of the bread with some olive oil and topped with some chopped garlic and coriander leaves for its richness. Serve this delicious bread hot with some spicy gravy.I made palak paneer as a combination,for a perfect balanced diet.



All you need:
2 cups of white or all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp dried active yeast
2 tbsp of milk
3 tbsp yogurt
1 tbsp ghee
1 tbsp of veg.oil
2 tbsp of olive oil
1/4 cup chopped coriander
2 tbsp of minced garlic
( From this you can make 6 Naans).


Method:
1. Mix 2 tbsp of warm water with the yeast and sugar until the yeast dissolves.
2. Put the bowl in a warm place, and leave it for 5 minutes, until the yeast is covered with froth.
3. Mix flour, salt and baking powder.
4. Make a well in the center of flour mixture and add yogurt, ghee, milk and yeast mixture.
5. Knead well until it forms a smooth dough. Now add a tbsp of veg. oil and continue kneading until the dough fully coated with oil.
6. Cover the mixing bowl with a damp cloth and leave it in a warm place to rise. This would take around minutes.
7. Now the dough will be double in size.
8. Knead the dough and divide into around 6 equal portions.
9. Flatten each portion to 1/2" thick with a rolling pin by sprinkling little flour on it.
10. Preheat oven to 450 degrees .
11. Brush the top side of the bread with some olive oil by using pastry brush and sprinkle a little bit more minced garlic and chopped coriander.
12. Now bake them for about 10 minutes in oven or heat the grill pan in medium and keep the flattened dough over it, wait till it unevenly puffs up which will take approx. 2 minutes.
13. Cook on both sides and serve hot with your favorite curry.

Pudhina Roti

Easy and Healthy breakfast recipe for your family.............



Ingredients:
Pudhina / Mintleaves - 1 cup
Wheat flour - 2 cups
sugar - 1 pinch
Salt



Method:
1. Wash and drain the mint leaves.
2. Then add sugar and salt to chappathi /wheat flour.
3. Adding a pinch of sugar will not change the taste of flour.Instead ,it will give more softness to roti.
4. Now, by adding warm water prepare soft dough and keep aside for about 1 to 2 hours in an air-tight container.
5. Then finely chop the mint leaves.
6. Make small balls from the dough and roll it on the chopped leaves,so that both sides of the balls should be covered by mint leaves.
7. Dust each ball with flour and spread it into large sizes.
8. Put the roti on the hot griddle and apply some oil on its top .
9. Then turn around in less then 1 minute and grease the other side.
10. Serve hot with any of your favourite side dish.