Ani’s Kids Recipe,South Indian samayal & Tips!

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Cheese sandwich is simple and easy to make in a minute.

For kids

Take two bread slices  toast it with ghee (your wish) buy form grocey store the square shaped slices cheese coming as a pack (eg singles).  This cheese is available in almost all the grocery shops. Keep the cheese slice inbetween the two toasted bread slices.  Cut diagonally and give your kids. They find it easy to hold and eat nicely.

My kid ,she even don’t want to toast the bread.  She is 3 year old .  She used to make her own sandwich and eat it. She will takeout  cheese slice from refrigerator keep the slice inbetween bread slices and she will eat it.

You can aslo make variation in this. Buy hot dog buns. slice the butter stick  ask your kid to open the hotdog bun (which has cut to open) and ask him/her to arrange the sliced butter sticks in straight line and him/her to close the bun and eat it. Since they are making they really enjoy this.  I have seen this  in my kid.

For Grownups

You can make a slight variation to what i have mentioned so that adults also like this sandwich. This is very simple sandwich which can be made in 2 mins. We need 2 mins only for toasing the bread. You can toast  it using toaster or in dosa tava . This can be liked both by adults and kids.

Sandwich

Ingredients

1. Breadslices -2
2. Kraft cheese slice-1
3. onion slices -1 ( take big onion and make a thin slice which willcome as circle)
4. tomato slice-1(take big tomato and make a thin slice like circle,if tomato is small make 2 slices)

Preparation

1. Toast the bread.
2. Take one slice bread on the top of keep stacking cheese slice,tomato slice  and then onion slice ( or in any order). Cover with another slice of bread.
3. Cut in diagnal and make it into two halves.
4. Simple sandwich is ready. Which is good for breakfast.

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This orati is a recipe made of plain rice flour which we get in Indian grocery. This I learned from Rajesh anna’s wife Priya anni. Their native is Nagercoil. Hope this is a nagercovil side recipe since I haven’t heard it in my side and even in chennai side also. This is very simple to make. I can say this as aki roti/ rice roti but this is very thin and have to make like dosa size. This goes very well with Mutton curry mae with coconut milk which is again a Nagerkovil recipe. With that curry it tastes like Parotta. I will post that mutton curry also. This orati and Mutton milk curry is my hubby’s favourite . Whenever we used to go to my brother’s place we will this atleast once. Simple and Delicious Recipe.

Orati Mavu

Spreaded Mavu

How to put  in tava

Ready to Eat

Ingredients

1. Rice flour – as needed
2. salt -as needed
3. little oil

Preparation

1. Mix rice flour and salt. Spinkle /Add little water and mix well and make like chappathi dough.
2. Take some polythene sheet cut it into round shape. (You can use the shees of frozen vegetables cover if you don’t have plain polythene sheets)
3. Apply little oil on the paper and spread along.
4. Take a small ball size dough and keep pressing with hand on the paper and try to spread as thin as you can. (you can make thin like roast).
5. Heat the dosa tava.  Apply little oil and put the paper on the tava with paper on the upper side. With in few seconds you will be able to take out the paper since it will start coming out automatically.
6. Cook both sides until it is done. It goes very well with Mutton curry.

Tips

While spreading the dough on the paper try tp spread the full space you can streach little outside also. By doing this while putting on tava you can avoid the paper getting burnt. If you leave the paper plain and if the  spreaded  size is less than paper size while putting upsie down the plain paper will get heat directly and will start burning.

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Now we are going to see how to make gouthumai rotti. Gouthumai is a tamil word for Wheat so in English we can call this as Wheat Roti. This is good for Diabetic patients. My grandpa was diabetic patient so my granma used to make wheat recipe atleast one time a day. The most common recipes she used to cook are Gouthama dosai and Gouthma rotti. This is very simple recipe and good for health also.

Gothuma roti

Ingredient

1. Wheat flour – 2 cups
2. chopped onion – 1 cup ( more you add ,more it tastes)
3. chopped green chilli -2
4. chopped curry leaves and corriander leaves – little
5. oil and salt – as needed

Optional items

These are not necessary but if you want to can add these. Pinch of turmeric powder & 1/4 tsp of  chilli powder

Preparation:

1. Mix all the ingredients by adding very little water make like chapathi dough.
2. Take butter paper or thick glossy paper. Pour 1 tsp oil on it and spread it with your hand. Take a lemon sized ball of the dough and pat it on the paper with hand like roti.
3. Then carefully place the prepared roti on the tawa(butter paper on the upper side) and immediately remove the butter paper slowly.  If you feel uncomfortable with it, then make thick rotis and take it on your palm and place it on the tawa. 
4. Cook well on both sides till golden brown. Rotti is Ready.

Tips

Instead of Wheat flour add Raggi flour/ Ragi flour and make Ragi roti.

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You might have tasted roti (different from chappathi) made of  ragi, wheat etc. You can make such roti with rice flour too. Unless chappathi otherwise called as rotis this is thick and we don’t roll them instead we used to flatten with hands.

Ingredients

1.   Rice flour – 2 cups

2.  Big Onion – 1 (chopped)

3.  Green chillies – 3 (fine chopped)

4.  Coriander leaves,curry leaved (fine chopped)

5.  Salt – As required

6.  Chilly powder – 1/2 tsp

7.  Cumin seeds (Jeerakam) – 1 tsp

8.  Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp

9.  Oil for roasting

Preparation

1. Mix all the ingredients (except oil) in warm water and knead well to make soft dough.  (like chappathi dough)
2. Take butter paper or thick glossy paper. Pour 1 tsp oil on it and spread it with your hand. Take a lemon sized ball of the dough and pat it on the paper with hand like roti. Spread little oil on top of it. 
3. Then carefully place the prepared roti on the tawa(butter paper on the upper side) and immediately remove the butter paper slowly.  If you feel uncomfortable with it, then make thick rotis and take it on your palm and place it on the tawa. 
4. Cook well on both sides till golden brown.

TIPS: 

1. Peanut chutney goes very well with this.

2. Repalce rice flour with Ragi flour to make Ragi Roti

3. Replace rice flour with Wheat to make wheat Roti

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Red pumpkin masala puri is a different kind of poori made with grated red pumpkin.This is a colorful poori too.

Red Pumpkin Masala poori

Ingredients

1. Pumpkin Piece (grated) – 1/4 cup2. Chilli Powder – 1/2 tsp3. Salt to taste

4. Sugar – 1/4 tsp

5. Ajwain (Omam) – 1 tsp

6. Chopped Coriander and Mint leaves

7. Turmeric Powder – 1/4 tsp

8. Oil for Kneading – 2 tsp and for frying.

9. Wheat flour 1 cup

10. Water to knead

Preparation

1. Mix Grated Pumpkin, Mint and Coriander leaves, Salt, Sugar, Chilli powder, Ajwain , Turmeric Powder, Oil and wheat flour.

2.Knead into thick dough sprinkling some water. (here water consumption will be less)

3. Keep aside for 15 minutes and Roll into small size Pooris

4. Fry in Hot Oil.

5.Serve hot with potatomasala /Raita /Pickles