Lauki Peas Tikki

Today is the last day of the blogging marathon. For the last, the participating bloggers are paired and has to choose from the paired blog. I had to choose from Suma's Veggie Platter. Suma has posted quite a few recipes using Lauki and her Lauki-Oats tikki interested me. I tweaked the recipe to suit the ingredients available with me. Now I have another interesting recipe to include lauki. Thanks Suma. Here is how I made it.

You need

• Grated bottle gourd/lauki - 1 cup
• Sprouted white peas - 1 cup
• Aval/poha - 1 cup
• Red chilli powder - 1/2 tspn
• salt to taste
• Saunf - 1 tspn
• Kitchen king masala - 1/4 tspn

Method
Cook the sprouted  peas in MW for 7 minutes. The peas will be cooked and will not be soft to touch. Pulse it coarsely in the mixer. Toast the aval/poha for few minutes till  you see few flakes starts browning. Powder it coarsely like rava/sooji and not too fine.

Squeeze the grated bottle gourd and collect the juice in a bowl.  Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.  The dough will be very soft. If it is not moist enough, add few drops of the juice. I pinched off a small ball from the dough and while shaping into tikkis, I brushed little water to moisten it and proceeded. 

Heat a dosa tawa and shallow fry the tikkis. Drizzle oil around the tikkis and cook both sides till they are brown.

The tikkis were spicy on its own. It had a crisp exterior and soft interior. The coarse peas gave the feel of paruppu vada. This makes a good, guilt free snack to go with a cup of hot tea/coffee.

Check out what my fellow marathoners have cooked for the blogging marathon.
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Kappa (Tapioca) Thoran - New Kerala Recipe

Does this recipe sound new?? Hmm .... New inventions are introduced after accidents, right ?? I believe so after trying this recipe. He he hee....

I bought this Tapioca from a local fresh veggie market and forgot about it. Actually I wanted to make Kappa and Fish curry, which is my husband's favorite. When I removed the outer skin of tapioca, half of it changed color and rest of the part was good. There was no much to do kappa and I didn't know any other recipe to make out of this. So I kept thinking what to make, as I already made the fish curry. I was feeling so bad. Then suddenly I thought of grating it and make like thoran (sabji). It turned out so yummy and very easy, my husband was so happy and liked it very much and he immediately asked whether I already posted this recipe in my blog. I said to him, if he likes then I will post it. His words were too encouraging and so thought of sharing with you all, especially for the people who are from Kerala, India - If you have never tried this recipe - you must now!! :-)

Ingredients:

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1 medium size Tapioca skin peeled and grated

1-2 Green Chilies

1 Red Dry Chili

3-4 Curry leaves

1/4 tsp Turmeric powder

1/2 small Onion sliced

1/4 tsp grated Ginger

1/4 cup grated Coconut (I used the dried/ desiccated one)

1/2 tsp Mustard seeds

1 tsp Oil

Salt to taste

Method:

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1. In a glass bowl ( I choose Pyrex square bowl) add the grated tapioca, salt, turmeric powder, ginger, onion, green chili and coconut. Mix all the ingredients well and keep aside.

2. Preheat the oven/microwave/toaster oven to 350F.

3. In a seasoning pan add oil and when it's hot add oil, add the mustard seeds, and when they start to sputter add curry leaves and dry red chili and off the flame.

4. Add this to the tapioca mixture and mix again gently.

5. If you want to cook this tapioca in oven/ toaster oven (I used toaster oven), cover the glass bowl with an aluminium foil and cook it for about 20 mins and let it stand for another 5-10 mins in oven after you off the oven and then remove the foil to check if it is done. Make sure you remove the foil carefully, as the steam might burn your hand.

6. If you want to cook in microwave, cook it covered with a damp paper towel covered on top for about 15-20 mins, stirring it after every 8-10 mins, making sure that it does not dry, sprinkle some water if needed.

7. Serve this warm with fish curry and steamed rice.

Tomato Sambar for Idli/Dosa | Side Dish for Idli Dosa

This Tomato sambar is an easy-to-make and a perfect side dish for idli and dosa. Always a staple side dish at our home this is a simple sambar which can be done in less than 30 minutes. Made using the freshest ingredients, it is an all-time favorite. This also makes an excellent combo for parotta.




Ingredients:
Tomato - 1 - chopped fine
Onions - Chopped - 1 cup
Oil - 2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2