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Bisibelabath powder

This is variation the previous post

Ingredients
“Varali” turmeric – 7-8
Red chillies – 2 cups
Coriander seeds – 1 cup
Peanuts – 1 cup
Chenna Dal – ¾ cup
Urad dal – ½ cup
Dry tamarind – ½ cup
Fenugreek seeds – 1 cup
Dry curry leaves – a little
Sesame seeds – 2 tbsp
Dry coconut grating – 1 cup

Get Grinding!
1. Sun dry the peanuts and powder them with the curry leaves.
2. Dry roast the sesame seeds really well and powder.
3. Sun dry all other ingredients. Powder all
4. Mix all the powders together.

Get Cooking!
1. Take a mix of oil and ghee in a cooker, add the vegetables, the bisibelabath powder and roast.
2. Add rice-tuvar dal, salt, water (1 rice-dal:4 water)
3. Pressure cook this well.

Tips
You could use turmeric powder instead of the whole turmeric suggested.
One could avoid the tamarind and make the powder otherwise and follow the recipe for bisibelabath given earlier using this powder too :)

Cracked Wheat Dosa

This is a variation to the cracked wheat dosa previously posted

Ingredients
Cracked wheat – 1 cup
Urad dal – ¼ cup
Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
Pearl onions – 5
Green chillies – 2
Salt to taste
Oil

Get Cooking!
1. Soak the cracked wheat and the urad dal separately.
2. Grind the urad dal like one does for idli
3. Mix in the onions, jeera, green chillies, , curry leaves, cracked wheat and grind to a thick batter.
4. Mix both the batters. Add salt and forment for about a couple of hours or 3.
5. Add in water to bring the batter to dosa batter consistency.
6. Pour the batter onto a pre-heated tawa and spread it around to make a dosa.
7. Cook till it turns lightly brown on both sides adding a few drops of oil if needed. (generally not required if cooking on a non-stick tava)