Sweet Khichidi

I was surprised to see everyone having this khichidi for breakfast at my MIL's place. This surely is a good dish but sweet for breakfast??? I dont think I can ever have such dishes early in the morning. Even today my hubby had this with urad dosa !!!


Ingredients:
1/2 cup chana dal
1/2 cup broken wheat
10-15 cashews
raisins
cardamom
2 cup sugar
1/2 cup grater coconut
2 table spoons ghee (optional)

Method:
Cook chana dal, broken wheat and cashews in a pressure cooker for 7-10 mins.
In a kadai, add little water to sugar and make a syrup. The consistency of this syrup should be thick.
Add cooked dal and wheat to this syrup. Keep stiring.
You can see this mixture becomes thicker and sticky, add raisins, cardamom and grated coconut.
Pour ghee on top and serve hot.

Serves: 3
Preparation Time: 25 mins

Note: This is typically eaten with neer dosa or any other dosa. But for me, this is equivalent to a dessert after lunch/dinner.

Banana Roti

My grandmother had very unique recipes like sugar cane juice roti, banana roti, papad sambar and many more. She had few specific items prepared during particular fest or season in a year. She never used to let me go without tasting all the food which was prepared at home. This is one among those special recipes which reminds me of those good old days terribly.


Ingredients:
1 ripe large banana
1 tea spoon sugar
1 tea spoon oil
3 large table spoons rice flour
2 large table spoons maida
1/2 luke warm water (if required)

Method:
Mash the banana.
Knead a dough (just like chapathi) with mashed banana, rice flour, maida, salt, sugar and oil. If banana is well ripe you will not need water, else just add a little luke warm water for dough.
Make small balls and roll them.
Fry it on hot tava.
Serve hot with sabji or chutney.

Serves: 2
Preparation Time: 20-25 mins

Note: This roti is sweet. If you do not like sweet, you can skip sugar and this needs to be fried dry without ghee or butter.

Urad - Rava Dosa

This is surely not an authentic rava dosa. Since I always have urad batter ready, I try preparing dosas with different flour and also rava. This dosa becomes slightly thicker than usual urad dosa.


Ingredients:
1/2 cup urad
1/4 cup fine sooji
salt
ghee to fry

Method:
Soak urad for 2 hours and make a smooth batter in a grinder.
Add sooji and salt to this batter.
Spread on a hot tava and fry with ghee.
Serve with chutney or sabji.

Serves: 2
Preparation Time: 10 mins (does not include soaking time)