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Showing posts with label Semolina. Show all posts

10 minute Plantain Chips | Balekayee Podi | Kelyachi Kapa


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Crisp on the outside, soft on the inside. Coated with fine semolina and coloured yellow by Turmeric. A dash of heat and seasoning. Sounds fancy doesn't it? 
I'm only describing these awesomely EASY to make 10 minute quick Plantain Chips. Yup! that's all it takes to make them. 10 minutes. And did I mention, they are pan fried? YES! They are NOT deep fried. That just made them healthy, did it not? Healthy chips - that's the way we roll....

And the ingredients are even lesser in number than the time- Just 6. And that includes salt and oil. Now isn't that economical.

Balekayi balekayee podi kelyachi kapa raw banana fry vegan snacks indian goan maharashtrian

This recipe comes from Goa - the tiny state on the west coast of India is extremely popular for its heavenly beaches and with the beach, comes the amazing seafood (or so I've heard). I'm a vegetarian, so I haven't sampled any of this amazing seafood, but I believe my friends when they say it. On certain days, even the most hard core non vegetarian craves Vegetarian food. On those days, comes out the fish fry substitute - Plantain chips. Sometimes it is made with Potato or Brinjals too. For us vegetarians, this is just daily food.

These chips are a very common side dish / accompaniment to a rice and dal meal. It goes amazingly well with the starchy soft white rice and the mild yellow dal. These chips just add a bit of texture to the meal. They are crisp, they are soft, they are yellow and they are just slightly hot.

Some days I don't even make the rice and dal, I just have them as a snack in the evenings. 

I ate it differently this time. I had my last week's Olive Hummus in the fridge and I baked a few whole wheat pita breads, and instead of stuffing my Pita Pockets with falafels, I stuffed it with my Plantain chips. Soooo QUICK  to make. Did I mention they hardly take 10 minutes? So what are you waiting for? Get set go...

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10 minute Plantain Chips | Balekayee Podi | Kelyachi Kapa


Quick and easy pan fried semolina coated plantain chips. A famous accompaniment to rice and dal in Goa

Balekayi balekayee podi kelyachi kapa raw banana fry vegan snacks indian goan maharashtrianRecipe Type:  Snacks
Cuisine:          Indian / Goan
Prep Time:     10 minutes
Cook time:     10 minutes
Yield:              20-25

Ingredients:


1 Raw Banana / Plantains
1 tsp of Turmeric Powder
1 tsp of Red Chilli Powder
1/2 cup of fine Semolina / Chiroti Rava
Oil to fry
Salt to taste

Method:


Peel the raw banana and slice into discs. I usually keep them at least 3-4mm in thickness.
Toss the slices with turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt.
Heat up a griddle or a flat bottomed frying pan.
Dip the slices one by one in the fine semolina and place on the hot griddle.
Spoon over oil so that each one is coated in oil.
Once the first side browns a little, flip them and cook until done.
Insert a knife to check if done, if the knife goes in smoothly and there is no resistance, the chips are done.
Serve hot.
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Vegetable Cutlets with Coriander Mint Chutney | Indian Veg Cutlet Recipe [Video]


Vegetable Cutlet Recipe with step by step video instructions. Indian veg cutlet is a shallow or deep fried patty made of potatoes, mixed vegetables and spices. Vegetable cutlet may be coated in semolina or breadcrumbs. This recipe of vegetable cutlet is vegan.


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I’m free I’m free… from those hectic schedules to those late night calls. I’m finally free, for a short while, but I know to appreciate the smaller things in life.

So what did I do? Well, I actually went to the mall on a weekday evening. Really!! With no laptop to burden me, I happily went to the happiness sale at Bangalore Central. And then I went to my sister’s house and had her cook me dinner. I know, could I get any lazier? I like laziness :D. And then I actually started reading my library book. Oh my dear books have been neglected this entire time. I issued booked, renewed them and then returned them. But finally, I’ve started on “Gone Girl” and am liking it till now. I even went out and watched Minions. Acche din (Good days).

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I’ve been trying to cram all the good things in these 2-3 weeks I’ll have before the next project and the next grind starts. So Saturday night, I made my childhood favorite – Vegetable Cutlets, to celebrate. It is still my favorite, but I don’t like what I get in Bangalore. I miss my Goan cutlets with little pieces of red beetroot in them. That’s something special to Goa I think, beetroot is added to cutlets and samosa’s there, and believe me, it just makes them extra special. Tasty, yummmm. 

Veg potato vegan snacks Cutlet patty fritter Coriander cilantro kothmir Mint pudina hari green Chutney


Cutlets are so easy to make. All you need are mashed vegetables and desire to make something of them. For most non vegetarian cutlets, egg is used as a binding agent to bind the breadcrumbs, but this is a Vegetarian blog, so not eggs here mister. Just use a mixture of milk and flour and dip the cutlets in that before dipping it into semolina or bread crumbs. You can use bread crumbs, but cutlets always have semolina or rava coating on them. If you skip this, the rava coating just disintegrates once it is in the pan and you are left with a shapeless cutlet and oil full of rava. I am speaking from experience here.

Veg potato vegan snacks Cutlet patty fritter Coriander cilantro kothmir Mint pudina hari green Chutney

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I decided to go an extra step and I made this nice green chutney to go along with the cutlet. It tastes just as delicious with ketchup or just like that. But then, I am a chutney girl. Always been one. So I made this chutney, bought some Pao, stuffed some sliced onions and tomatoes and made my local burger. Skip all this and enjoy it just as it is, or go full gourmet and add sliced avocado, cheese or anything else you fancy. It  is all upto you and your family’s taste buds.

Veg potato vegan snacks Cutlet patty fritter Coriander cilantro kothmir Mint pudina hari green Chutney


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Vegetable Cutlets with Coriander Mint Chutney


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Recipe Type:  Snacks
Cuisine:          Indian
Prep Time:     30 minutes
Cook time:     30 minutes
Yield:              8-10 Cutlets

Ingredients:


For the cutlet:



3 to 4 Potatoes, medium sized
0.5 cup mixed vegetables (carrot, green beans, green peas)
0.5 Beetroot
2 Tbsp Coriander leaves
1 tsp Red chilli powder
0.5 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Garam masala
2 Tbsp Flour (maida)
3-4 Tbsp Fine semolina (Chiroti rava)
Oil to fry
Salt to taste
Water as required

For the chutney:


0.5 cup Fresh coriander leaves 
0.5 cup Fresh mint leaves
1 Green chilli
1 clove Garlic
Salt
Water

Method:


To make the Cutlet:


1. Boil the potato until done. Peel and mash them.
2. Chop carrot and beans finely. Boil them along with the peas until done.
3. Peel and chop the beetroot and boil until cooked.
4. Drain and add the vegetables along with chopped coriander leaves to the potato.
5. Add all the spices and salt to the potato and mix well. If the cutlet mixture feels wet, add either bread crumbs or dip a slice of bread in water and immediately remove it out, squeeze out the water and crumble the bread into the mixture.
6. Divide the mixture into 10 equal parts and roll them into balls. Gently flatten the balls to make a patty. You can be creative and make fancy shapes too with a cookie cutter.
7. Heat oil in a pan. You can either shallow fry or deep fry the cutlets.
8. Take the flour in a shallow plate and add 0.25 to 0.5 tsp salt to it. Add water by the spoonfuls and whisk until you have a smooth slurry.
9. Dip the cutlet in the slurry and dip in semolina and place it in the pan.
10. Cook on each side until it is golden brown. Remove from heat once both sides are cooked.
11. Serve hot with Ketchup or Chutney

To make the Coriander Mint Chutney:


1. Grind everything in the mixer/blender with 1 tbsp of water


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Uppit / Upma

Uppit is easy breakfast to make in large quantities. I never liked uppit as a kid, but I think eating the breakfast available in my hostel mess, made me crave for things like uppit. As of most south Indian recipes, the taste of uppit can be altered by the addition/deletion of certain ingredients. You may add capscicum, dill leaves etc, to enhance the taste. You may also exclude vegetables mentioned below to get a different taste.


Uppit

Fry all the vegetable in oil

Add tomato to the fried vegetables

After the water evaporates, cover and rest until rava is cooked



Add coriander and freshly grated coconut and serve hot




 

Ingredients:

Rava/ Semolina – 1 cup
Water – 2.5 cups
Oil – 1-2 tbsp
Potato – 1 small
Carrot – 1 small
Beans – 8-10
Green peas – ¼ cup (optional)
Onion – 1 medium
Tomato – 2 medium
Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
Jeera / Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Ginger - 1/2" piece
Green chillies – 2-3
Coriander leaves – a handful (optional)
Grated fresh coconut – 2 tbsp (optional)
Salt


Method:

Roast the rava in a kadhai.You can add a tsp of oil while roasting.
Roast for around 3-4 mins until it turns slightly brown. It may take longer. Make sure you don’t burn it.  Generally color and fragrance tell you it is done.
Heat oil in a kadhai. Add mustard seeds and jeera and allow them to splutter.
Add urad dal and crushed ginger piece.
Add finely chopped onion and slit green chillis and fry until the onions are translucent.
Add finely chopped potato, carrot and beans. Add the green peas.
Cover and allow to cook for around 6-7 mins until the vegetables are almost cooked.
Add tomato and cook for another 2 mins until the tomato softens
Add the water to the kadhai.
Add salt and allow the water to boil.
Once the water has boiled, add the roasted rava and cover and cook until all the water evaporates (approximately 3-5 mins)
Once the water has evaporated, cover the kadhai and rest for around 10 mins.
Add coriander and grated coconut and serve hot.
 











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Rava Dosa



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Rava Dosa is like my favorite INSTANT food. It is instant in the real sense. It is truly an example of Indian fast food.

I have it for breakfast, or as a snack in the evenings or as a light dinner at times. 

I've personally struggled to get the right texture. It took a fair number of attempts to nail down the ratio of the ingredients. But once that was achieved, this is a winner every single time. 

Rava Dosa is a crispy crepe made using very humble ingredients - rava or fine semolina, Rice flour, All purpose flour, yogurt or curd, salt and lots of water. All the other mentioned ingredients are optional, but I recommend adding them as they enhance the flavour.

Coconut chutney usually accompanies a Rava Dosa. Sometimes, it is accompanied by Potato Bhaji. Frankly, I can have it just plain. I don't need accompaniments, it tastes awesome just as is.

Some pointers to get it perfect:
  • Use a good tava or griddle. By good, I mean it should be even and flat, not bulging or concave. Non stick works the best. 
  • Don't skimp on the oil. Rava Dosa needs sufficient oil to become crisp and not stick to the tava / griddle. Oil the tava and spread it well so the whole thing is coated in oil.
  • The tava / griddle should be very hot while pouring the batter on to it to get those nice holes on the Rava Dosa. Lower the heat thereafter and continue to cook until it crisps up. I usually crank up the heat after one Rava Dosa is ready and removed to the plate and wait for 30 secs for the tava to heat up again before pouring on the batter for the next one.
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Batter should be the consistency of buttermilk

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Throw spoonfuls of batter on the tava
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Rava Dosa


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Recipe Type:  Breakfast
Cuisine:            South Indian
Prep Time:     10 minutes
Cook time:     20 minutes
Yield:                5-6 Dosa

Ingredients


1 cup Semolina / Chiroti Rava / Bombay Rava / Sooji
0.5 cup Rice Flour
0.25 cup All Purpose Flour / Maida
1-2 Tbsp Yogurt / Curd
3 cups Water
2 tbsp chopped Green Chillis 
2 tbsp chopped Coriander Leaves
2 tbsp chopped Onion (Optional)
5-6 Peppercorns
1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Jeera 
6-8 Curry Leaves 
Salt to taste
Oil to fry

Method:


Mix rava, rice flour, flour, curd and water. The consistency of the batter must be like thin buttermilk. In case the batter is thick add more water and if it is too thin, add a little more rava.
Add salt to taste. Add the onion, chillis, coriander, peppercorns, cumin seeds and curry leaves. These are optional and can be skipped.
Allow to rest for half an hour.
Grease and heat the tava (girdle)
Mix the batter once again as all the ingredients would have settled at the bottom.
Pour on the tava using a ladle. It is more like throw. Do not try to pour batter to cover the tiny holes in the dosa, the dosa is supposed to have holes.
Do not try to spread the dosa like regular dosa.
Keep the stove on a low-medium flame.
Spoon oil on the dosa. Be a little generous if you want it crispy.
Rava dosa isn't flipped generally, so let it remain on the tava until it cooks completely.
Generally once it is cooked, the dosa will rise slightly at the edges making it easier to remove from the tava.
Serve hot with chutney.


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