Oats dosa

A BIG Thank You to all your positive feedback on my first blog. Special thanks to those who tried the dish :)

Today's recipe is a breakfast menu.

Oats Dosa

Oats dosa is a simple, easy to make nutritious dish. Oats has lots of fibre and very less cholesterol. Yet not many like oats in its usual porridge form. This is a tasty alternative.

Ingredients

Oats
Rice flour - 2 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds (Jeera) - 1 tsp
Black pepper - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp (optional)
Curry leaves - few
Salt - 1/2 tsp (optional)
Oil - as required to make the dosa

Time to prepare : 30 - 40 mins


Take desired quantity of oats. I used Quaker Oats. Soak it in hot water for 10 - 15 mins. I had 1 box full of soaked oats which gave 2 boxes full of batter.

Once the oats softens, grind it in a mixer to a batter consistency. Add little water if required.

In a teaspoon of ghee, fry the jeera and pepper. You can add mustard seeds and curry leaves too. Today I only added jeera and pepper.

Coarsely crush the jeera and pepper and add to the batter. I was in a hurry today. So added them whole.

Add the rice flour and salt to the batter. Mix the batter well and set aside for few mins. Personally I would not add salt. It is only a preference. If you do not have rice flour readily available, you can skip this step.

Take a tawa, and spread the dosa batter in a thin layer

Make sure the center has cooked well before trying to turn the dosa. Otherwise the dosa will come apart. On medium to med-high flame, it takes 2 - 3 mins to cook each side.

This dosa comes out really thin and soft. Yet it takes quite some time to cook.

The dosa tastes good with onion chutney which is what I made today. You can have it along with any chutney or sambhar of your choice.

Feel free to make it a masala dosa or with any other filling.

A sweet beginning

A long time dream takes shape today. This is an effort to record all the traditional recipies that have been passed down the generations from my grandma to my mom and now to me. My love for home made food - from the simple milagu rasam and thengai thuvayal to the kai murukku and seedai - has driven me to share my passion with all those like me.

With a sweet beginning to my blogging journey - my first recipe is the traditional Thirattippaal.

Thirattippaal takes its place in all occasions in our custom. A simple, delicious with just 2 ingredients.

Milk - 4 cups
Sugar - 1/2 cup ( 1 : 8 is the proportion of sugar : milk)
Time to cook - 1 - 1.5 hrs

Take milk in a thick bottomed pan or kadai.

Boil it in a medium flame stirring gently. Constantly scrape the sides of the pan and add it to the boiling milk. Do not cook in high heat as it will burn the milk.

As the milk continues to thicken, you will see the colour turning to a light yellow and the smell wafting across the kitchen.

Once the milk thickens and reduces to about a quarter of the original quantity, add the sugar. Once sugar is added, the mixture will get diluted.

Keep stirring and scraping and stirring until the sugar blends into the milk and it turns to a light pink colour. The mixture will by now turn into a nice thick gravy. Turn off the flame now and transfer to a bowl.

Yummy thirattippaal is ready to devour :)

Note: Once the sugar is added, do not cook for very long. If you do so, the sugar syrup will thicken the mixture and once cooled, the thirattippal will become hard.

If you have left over thirattippaal, do not fret. You can turn it into a delicious carrot halwa :) More on that later.