Arbi Tawa Fry

Ingredients :

• Arbi [ sapakezangu ] - 250 gms [ boiled peel and cut into round pieces ]
• Green chillies - 2 to 3 [ chopped ]
• Onion - 2 [ peel and chopped ]
• Salt - as required
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Red chillie powder - 2 tsp
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp
• Rice flour - 1/2 cup
• Oil - 1/4 cup

Method :

Take one bowl, mash the arbi, add salt, turmeric, red chilli, chopped onion, green chilli and lemon juice. Mix well, make tikkis and keep aside. Dust the tikkis on the rice flour,  (  the tikkis should completly coat with rice flour ) Then keep tava on the gas, arrange the 4-5 tikkis on the tava,  pour the oil  round the tikkis and  shallow fry . When both the sides becomes golden brown, remove from the tava and arrange in the tissue plate. Garnish with chopped coriander. Serve with tomato sauce or green chutney.

Karnataka Thuppa Dosa

Ingredients :

• Urad dal - 1 cup
• Maida or Plain white refined flour - 2 cups
• Rice flour - 1 tbsp
• Salt - 2 tsp

Method :

Soak Urad dal in the morning in twice the amount of water and leave aside. In the evening or after atleast 4 hours, grind the urad dal with 1 or 2 cups water to a smooth batter. You can use grinder or mixer to grind this. Grind the batter for extra 5 minutes than usual to make the batter very airy. Now transfer the batter to another vessel and cover and allow to ferment in warm place in the kitchen.

[ During winter, Option 1 : Take a cooker which will fit this vessel.Heat the cooker with some water for about 5 minutes.Then switch off the stove and then keep the vessel with the urda dal batter inside. Allow to stand overnight.

Option 2 : Switch on oven / mircowave for about 5 minutes with a cup of water, switch off and keep the vessel with the batter overnight inside, closing the door of the oven /microwave oven. Allow to stand overnight ].

Next morning, open the vessel with the batter, mix in the maida, rice flour and salt well into the urad dal batter. Consistency of the dough should be semi thick [ like idli batter or cake batter ].

Now take a griddle or tawa, allow to heat well with atleast 3-5 minutes, take a big laddle full of batter, put on the tawa as shown and make the dosa in round shapes [  like pancakes ]. Allow the top of the dosa to form bubbles [ as shown in image 1 ]. Now put ghee on all sides and smooth lightly [ as shown in image 2 ]. Cover for about 1 minute. Now turn the dosa on the opposite side and put 1 tsp ghee and again cover and cook for 1 minute.

Now you will get a golden crispy dosa or pancake. Serve with coconut chutney and shambar.