Quick Tomato Dosai with Spinach Potato Filling

Quick Tomato Dosai with Spinach & Potato Filling

This is a fairly common dish in many hotels in Karnataka, and goes by the name Tomato Omelette. Anything called "omelette" is not very appetising to many of us, and so I just call it Tomato Dosai!  I have made it a bit differently, and used ground tomato instead of chopped or sliced tomatos, and in addition given it a filling as well, to get in some greens! In minutes Sunday breakfast was ready!

For the Dosai

Ingredients

Besan / Kadalai maav / chickpea flour - 1 cup

Tomato - one large

Garlic - 1 clove

Ginger - a small piece

Green Chillie - 1

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Asafoetida - a pinch

turmeric powder - a pinch

Curds - 1 tbsp

Water - (about a cup) to make the batter
Oil / Ghee - to fry the dosais

Method

1. Grind tomato, garlic, green chillie into a paste.

2. Add the paste to the flour, along with salt, turmeric powder and asafoetida

3. Now beat the curds and water and blend it well with the tomato - besan mixture, to form a smooth batter.

4. Heat a non stick pan and wipe on a little  oil or ghee. (You can use a halved onion or potato to coat the pan evenly with  the oil)

5. Pour a ladel of batter and spread it out like a dosai, as thin as possible.

6. When you see a few light brown spots appearing, place a spoon of filling one half, and fold over the other half.

7. Serve hot as is or with your choice of chutneys or podis.

For the Spinach Potato Filling

Ingredients

Chopped Onion - 1 Tbsp

Potato - 2 medium sized, boiled and cut into cubes (you can remove the skins or keep it on as per your taste)

Spinach - 1 bunch, washed, cleaned and chopped

Green Chillie - 1 sliced

Grated Ginger - 1/2 tsp

Jeera - 1/2 tsp

Dhania Powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt - 1/2 tsp or to taste

Oil - 1 tsp

Method

1. Heat the oil and add the jeera seeds.

2. Next add, onion, ginger, green chillies and onion, and toss together on medium flame.

3. Once the onion turns pinkish brown, add dhania and stir.

4. Next add the chopped potatos, followed by salt and lastly the add the spinach.

5. Mix well and shut the pan with a lid for a minute or two, and then switch off the flame.
Potato Spinach Filling is ready!

Bread Upma | Upma Recipes

When we met my friend last month in a get-together, he asked if my blog is focused on women or people who are experts in cooking. I said "No, it is for everyone". He then suggested me to post some recipes which are easy so that bachelors or newbies can try. So I decided to tag/label my easy-to-cook recipes as "Quickies/Bachelor(ette) cooking" per his request and here it goes.
Bread upma is my

Chicken, Spinach and Artichoke Rice

Today I got some fresh baby spinach from fresh food market. I usually wilt the spinach down cool it and freeze it after putting it in a freezer bad. This is how I store spinach and use it later if I am not going to use it the same day, else it will stay in my fridge unused and get spoiled.

I had leftover rice from last night and wanted to use that up instead of cooking rice today and make another batch of leftovers. So I got a new idea to make a new recipe out of the leftovers. I remembered that I had put some of the Oven Fried Chicken in my freezer which I made the day before yesterday. So why not come up with new recipe??

Anush loved this rice because it was not spicy and it had chicken in it. :-)

Ingredients:

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1 can Artichoke hearts drained and chopped  lightly

1 breast piece of the Oven Fried Cicken (you can click the link to see the recipe) chopped

1 bag of spinach (chopped coarsely)

Salt and Pepper to taste

1/4 cup grated Parmesan Cheese

1 small Onion chopped

1 cup Cooked Rice (I used Basmati Rice or you can cook rice with 1 cup of rice and 1 1/2 cups water)

1/4 tsp Garlic powder or 1 pod freshly chopped garlic

1 tbsp Butter

1 tsp Olive oil

Method:

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1. In a pan add olive oil and butter, add the garlic powder and onions and saute it until the onions turn transparent.

2. Add the spinach and artichokes, salt and pepper and cook for another minute.

3. Add the rice and chicken and mix well.

4. Off the flame and add the cheese and mix again and serve hot or warm.

Note: you can add scrambled egg or any other choice of meat to eat and also can top it with more cheese or crushed bacon.