Gattibajje

 Gattibajje

The other day I was to meet Sharmila Rao as I was to pick up some books from her. Actually I think that books is just an excuse, I like to meet her.

We decided to meet at Carasid, a local joint for yummy food. I still have to get over the omellete pav stuffed with cheese and smoked chicken, not to forget the delicious Alsande Xauti Biryani that Sunil packed for us.

See start talking about food and I digress…

I happened to mention to Sharmila that I wanted a traditional fitter recipe, she is a traditional specialist by the way and  she rattled this yummy recipe off. She mentioned that she was going to pack some of these for her kiddo in the hostel.

Was it yum?  Well try and then you will know.

 Gattibajje

 Gattibajje

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cups rice flour
• ½ cup maida
• ½ cup butter
• The oil from pickle (optional)
• Salt to taste
• 1 spring curry leaves
• Oil to fry 

Method:

• While this is mixed heat oil in a kadhai/wok.
• Mix the rice flour, maida, butter, curry leaves and oil from the pickle if using. Check the salt use if needed.
• Knead to a soft dough. Use water only if needed.
• Pinch off small bits of dough in the hot oil.
• Fry till light golden.
• Store in a air tight container.

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Moong Vada/ Fried Moong Vada

Moong Vada/ Fried Moong Vada

While I am on my memories trip let me share with you what my MIL made many times these vadas and they were something she served with sauce. She also made some with rava but I just cannot remember them.

After a long time, in fact one Hindi movie with Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor reminded me of these vadas. I was on a look out to make them, as I said I could not remember how she made them for I was never in the kitchen when we fried stuff as I would start coughing.

She would fry them when I was away and keep some for me in the casserole. It’s been 18 long years since she has left for her heavenly bode but her memories still linger.

Then I found an old e-cookbook which had the recipe. Of course I have made adjustments in the ingredients to suit our taste. Needless to say these were first to disappear.

Moong Vada

Making time: 20 minutes (excluding soaking time)

Ingredients:

1 cup moong dal

 ½ cup coriander finely chopped

2 cloves garlic

3-4 green chillies finely chopped

Oil to deep fry

Method:

Wash and soak dal for 3-4 hours.

Keep 2 tbsp. dal aside, grind the rest, coarsely.

Mix all other ingredients, including whole dal.

Add 2-3 tbsp. hot oil to the mixture.

Heat oil.

Make small balls   drop carefully into the hot oil.

Fry first one side then the other till golden brown.

Serve hot with green chutney, tamarind chutney, or ketchup.

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Masala Vada/ Chana Dal Vada/ Chattambade

Masala Vada/ Chana Dal Vada/ Chattambade

Childhood memories are these hot vada and tea and rains! Added to Ajji or Grandmother admonishing us,” enough now! You will get a stomach-ache if you eat any more of these.”  Why she made them as snack when it rained I don’t know...

Else it used to be traditional meal served on the banana leaf when there were too many attractions to concentrate only on these beauties. Either way we hardly ate any...

Coming to Dal or pulses that we eat ...

Dal is a dried pulse (lentil, pea or various types of bean) which has been split.

Dal goes by various names called bele in Kannada and pappu, paripu or paruppu in Telugu and Tamil, daal in Marathi. Dal is a ready source of proteins for a balanced diet containing little or no meat.

To make the dal usually the outer hull is usually stripped off; dal that has not been hulled is described as chilka (skin), e.g. chilka urad dal, mung dal chilka.

The variety of dal we have are numerous we have chana dal, urid dal, toor dal, moong dal, masoor dal to name a few common ones…   

Masala Vada/ Chana Dal Vada/ Chattambade

Making time: 20 minutes (excluding soaking time)

Makes: 15 vadas (approx.)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup yellow gram (chana) dal
•  ½ cup coriander finely chopped
• 1 spring curry leaves
• 3-4 green chillies finely chopped
• Oil to deep fry

Method:

• Wash and soak dal for 3-4 hours.
• Keep 2 tbsp. dal aside, grind the rest, coarsely.
• Mix all other ingredients, including whole dal.
• Add 2-3 tbsp. hot oil to the mixture.
• Heat oil;
• Make small balls and flatten to with moist palm.
• Let carefully into the hot oil.
• Fry first one side then the other till golden brown.
• Serve hot with green chutney, tamarind chutney, or ketchup.

Masala Vada/ Chana Dal Vada/ Chattambade

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Fruity Popsicles

Fruity Popsicles  

So I have taken you through all my failures of making an ice cream that will be acceptable after the Chocolate and Coffee Ice Cream I made yesterday.

I was desperate to make a simple ice cream that met the expectations.

That was no problem as I had bookmarked some ice creams made by others, but time …
I need it by tomorrow.  

So I used Rajani’s recipe which she had copied from Vaishali !!!!

Fruity Popsicles  

Recipe Source: My Kitchen Trails and Ribbons and Pasta

Ingredients:

• Sprite /lemonade, as needed 
• Fruits of your choice, chopped (I used kiwi, peach)

Method:

• Slice the fruits. Fill the ice pop mould with the sliced fruits.
• You can add as many or as little fruits as you want. The more fruits you have in, the more packed it is and the better it looks. I was short on fruits, so I put only 3 pieces in each.
• Fill the mould with the liquid of your choice. Any see-through liquid is fine. 
• Freeze overnight. 
• Enjoy!

Fruity Popsicles  

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