Spring Rolls

 Time 45 min

Ingredients

For wrapper

Maida/ All purpose flour 1/2 cup

Salt 1/4 tsp

Water 1/2 cup (1 tsp less)

For the filling

French beans , cut into small pieces 1/4 cup
Carrot , cut into long thin strips 1/4 cup
Shredded capsicum 1/4 cup
Chopped onions lengthwise 1/4 cup
Chopped spring onion greens 1/4 cup

Soy sauce 1 tsp

Chili sauce 1 tsp

Crushed garlic 1/2 tsp

Red chili powder 1/4 tsp

Oil 1 tbsp
Salt to taste

Paste

Maida 1 tbsp + 2 tsp water

Oil  for frying

Method
For making wrapper

Mix all ingredients and make batter like dosa. Keep it aside for 1 hr.

Heat non stick pan, (it should be medium hot). Add 2-3 drops of oil now with the help of cloth spread oil all over tawa. Now add one spoonful of batter at the center then spread in a round shape. Let it be for 2 min till the edges curl sightly. Remove from tava and keep it on the plate. Continue till you make wrapper from the rest of batter. You can spray oil on every wrapper so that u can stack on each other. Same you can freeze them for the recipes which requires wrappers.

For the filling

Heat the oil in a pan, add garlic, after becomes golden, then add all vegetables and sauté over a high flame for 5 to 6 minutes till the vegetables soften and water from vegetables is evaporated. 

Then add soya sauce, chili sauce, sauté for 2 minutes. Make sure it becomes dryso that spring rolls will get crunchy for long time. Switch off the flame. Allow it to cool.

Instead of this you can boil the vegetables remove entire water content, mix with other ingredients. Use this stuffing. I prefer cooking so the nutrients are remained in the vegetables instead of throwing the vegetable stock.

Actual method

The wrapper should be of square size. At one end add stuffing then roll till it reaches at the center. Now apply maida paste on sides, then fold the right and left side onto the roll. Now again apply maida paste on the other corner, again fold to make spring roll.

Deep fry till golden in colour. 

Neer Dosa

Time 15 min
Ingredients

Rice 2 cups
Coconut grated 1/2 cup
Cumin 1/2 tsp
Water  3 -4 cups
Oil for making dosas
Salt as taste

Method

Soak rice overnight.
Grind with coconut to thin paste, add water, salt make watery like milk.
With a ladle pour the batter on sides of non-stick pan, then spread batter by rotating pan. 
Pour from little height so plenty of holes will appear on dosa.
Do not use spoon to spread. Then spread 1 or 2 tsp oil.
Cook dosa on one side only taking care to see that it does not turn brown.
Serve dosa hot with coconut chutney/sambar/potato bhaji.

Tip

you take less batter and pour fast on sides if you take more batter and pour at one shot then it gets thicken and then dosa will be thick.
I use Kani rice that makes perfect soft sticky dosa and it doesn't get crack

Palak Dal Khichdi

Time 30 min

Ingredients

Basmati rice 1.5 cup

Whole moong daal / golden gram 1/2 cup

Spinach chopped 2 bunch

Buttermilk 1/2 lit

Green chilies slit 3

Ginger garlic paste 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp

Ghee 1 tbsp

Salt to taste

Method

Soak daal and rice for 1 hour.

In a small pressure cooker around 3 liter, heat ghee, add whole garam masala, then add green chilies, ginger garlic paste fry for 1 min, then add spinach fry for 2 min. Then add moong daal and rice. Mix well. Add turmeric powder and salt, again mix well. Then add buttermilk. Mix well. Cook on high flame till 2 whistles then lower the flame and cook for another 2 whistles. Switch off serve hot with fried papad and ghee. 

Mango Idli

Time 15 min
Ingredients
Dosa batter 1/2 cup
Mango pulp 1/4 cup
Grated fresh coconut 1/4 cup
Sugar 2-3 tsp
Butter 2 tbsp 
Salt to taste

Method
Mix well all ingredients. 
Grease idli patra with ghee, pour idli batter, steam for 15 min. Serve hot with lemon flavoured coconut chutney or coconut milk.

Mango Moong Sheera

Time 20 min  
Ingredients
Yellow split lentil/moong dal 1 cup
Mango pieces 1/4 cup
Ghee 1/4 cup
Kismis 1 tsp
Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp
Powdered sugar 3/4 cup 

Method

Microwave moong dal on high power for 3 min. till it turns medium brown in colour. Then allow it to cool. Grind in grinder to make powder. 

Now transfer this mixture to microwave safe bowl, add melted ghee, pinch of salt, mix well, again keep bowl on high power for 1 min only. Then mix the contents using spoon, so that rava should not get burn. Now to this add hot water, keep it again in microwave on high flame for 2 min. Then add sugar. Mix well. Again microwave it for 2-3 min. Then add mango pieces mix well. Keep it on high power for 2 min. Serve hot.