Dosa / Pancake

Dosa is a very well known breakfast item in South India that is relished by people of all ages. The recipe contains all the nutrients including Carbohydrates, proteins, fat, mineral salts such as calcium and iron as well as the necessary vitamins.Dosa is made from fermented batter of Rice and black Gram.

INGREDIENTS:

• RawRice -1 ½ cups
• Urad Daal - ½ cup
• Water - as required
• Salt - 1 tsp

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Soak rice and Urad daal separately for 5 hours.
• Grind rice and daal separately with water very finely.
• Mix together rice, dal and salt.
• Add water and stir well to form a loose batter.
• Keep it overnight to ferment.
• Pour one spoon full of batter on a frying pan as thin as possible.
• Pour some oil on it.
• When one side is golden brown and turn the other side . 

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Sambar or Chutney.

Tomato Uthappam

Uthappams are one of the South Indian breakfast. It can be make with left over idli or dosa batter.
Tomato Uttapam is usually made with chopped Onion,Tomato,Chilli.

INGREDIENTS:

• Dosa batter - 1 cup
• Sliced Onion - 1 nos
• Sliced Tomato- 2 nos
• Finely chopped Green chillies -4nos
• Finely chopped Curry leaves / Corriander leaves -1 tbsp
• Gingely Oil
• Salt to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Heat  a frying pan and smear some oil.
• Spread a spoonful of the batter to a heated frying pan.
• Sprinkle few onions, green chilly, tomato and curry leaves / corriander leaves on top of the batter.
• When the base is golden brown, turn the other side and cook well.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Chutney.

Sooji Upma / Cracked Wheat Upma

Sooji or Cracked wheat Upma is yet another delicious and healthy recipe.
The preparation method is simple and easy to follow.

INGREDIENTS:

• Sooji / Cracked wheat - 1 cups
• Onion - ¼ cup
• Grated Cocount - ½ cup
• Green Chillies - 3-4 nos
• Red Chillies- 2 nos
• Chopped Ginger - 1 tbsp 
• Curry leaves - A few
• Chopped carrot, beans, grean peas - ½ cup
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Channa Daal - 1 tbsp
• Urad Daal - 1 tbsp
• Water - 1 1/2 cup
• Salt - to taste
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PREPARATION METHOD:

• Heat oil in the pan .
• Add mustard seeds, red chillies and wait for them to sputter. 
• Add channa daal, urad daal and fry it.
• Add green chilies, curry leaves, ginger and onion and fry till translucent. 
• Add vegetables and saute for 2 minutes.
• Add salt,water and grated coconut and let it come to boil . 
• Wash sooji and add to it.
• Stir well and low the flame .
• Cover the pan with a lid and let it cook.
• Turn off the stove when the sooji is cooked well and water is dried up.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Chips or Pappadam

Idli Upma

Idli Upma is a tasty dish which can be prepared using left over Idli's.

INGREDIENTS:

• Idli -5 nos
• Chopped Onion -2 tbsp
• Grated Cocount - 1 tbsp
• Green Chillies - 2 nos
• Red Chillies- 2 nos
• Mustard seeds - ½ tsp
• Channa Daal - 1 tsp
• Urad Daal - 1 tsp
• Oil - 2 tsp
• Curry leaves - A few
• Salt - to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Broken idli into small pieces.
• Heat Oil in the pan .
• Add mustard seeds ,Red Chillies and wait for them to splutter. 
• Add channa Daal, urad daal and fry it.
• Add green chilies, curry leaves and Onion and fry till translucent. 
• Add Idli, grated coconut and salt and stir. 
• Low the flame and allow to fry for 1 minute.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot

Semiya Upma

Semia, otherwise known as Vermicelli can be used to prepare delicious breakfast.
This dish can be prepared very easily.

INGREDIENTS:

• Semiya - 2 cups
• Onion - 1 small
• Grated Coconunt - ½ cup
• Green Chillies - 3 - 4 nos
• Red Chillies- 2 nos
• Curry leaves - A few
• Mustard seeds - ½ tsp
• Turmeric Powder - pinch
• Channa Daal - 1 tbsp
• Urad Daal - 1 tbsp
• Cashew nut -10 nos
• Oil / Ghee - 1 tbsp
• Water - 2 ½ cup
• Salt - to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Heat ½ tsp oil or ghee in the pan and roast semiya till light golden colour. 
• Remove it from the fire and keep aside.
• Heat remaining oil or ghee in the pan .
• Add mustard seeds, red chillies and wait for them to sputter. 
• Add channa daal, urad daal and cashew nut and fry it.
• Add green chilies, curry leaves and onion into it and saute till translucent. 
• Add salt, water, turmeric powder and grated coconut and let it come to boil . 
• Add semiya gradually into it and stir well.
• Low the flame and allow to cook .
• Turn off the stove when the Semiya is cooked well and it dries up.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with chips or pappadam

Rava Upma / Semolina Upma

Rava upma is a South Indian dish. .It is very easy to cook.

INGREDIENTS:

• Roasted Rava (Semolina) - 1 cups
• Finely chopped Onion - ½ cup
• Grated Cocount - ¼ cup
• Finely chopped green chillies - 3 nos
• Chopped Ginger - 1 tbsp
• Red Chillies- 2 nos
• Curry leaves - A few
• Mustard seeds - ½ tsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Water - 1 ½ cup
• Salt - to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Heat Oil in the pan .
• Add Mustard seeds, Red Chillies and wait for them to splutter.
• Add green chilies, curry leaves , ginger and onion and fry till translucent.
• Add Salt, water and grated coconut and let it boil .
• Add rava gradually into it.
• Keep stirring to avoid lumps forming.
• Low the flame and cover the pan with a lid.
• Cook for 5 minutes.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Pazham(banana), Kadala(channa)  curry

Poori

Poori is made from a dough of Wheat flour, Water and Salt by rolling it out into discs and
deep frying it in ghee or vegetable oil.Puri is often served potato masala.

INGREDIENTS:

• Wheat Flour - 1 cup
• Water to make dough
• Salt to taste
• Oil for deep frying

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Mix Salt and Flour.
• Slowly add warm water
• Knead the dough with hands gently until it becomes soft and keep aside for 30 minutes.
• Make the dough into small balls.
• Roll out the dough in to small rounds.
• Heat Oil in a Pan.
• Fry the puri one at a time.
• Turn each side and fry till light brown

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Potato Masala, Podimas, Parippu, Vegetable Curry, Egg Curry, Chicken Curry.

Pathiri

Pathiri is made with rice flour and water. It is also called rice chappathi..

INGREDIENTS:

• Rice flour - 1 cup
• Water - 1 cup
• Oil - 1 tsp
• Salt - As required

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Boil water with salt and oil.
• Add rice flour into it and stir well.
• Roll into small balls; flatten them smearing rice flour.
• Heat pan and place the pathiris on it.
• Cook on both the sides

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Egg Curry, Egg Roast, Chicken Curry.

Paalappam / Appam.

Appam made with ground soaked rice and cooked rice, mixed to a batter with coconut milk and water then left in a warm place to ferment for a number of hours. Appam is thin and crisp round the edges and fluffy and thick in the centre.

INGREDIENTS:

• Raw rice – 1 cup
• Cooked rice(parboiled) – 2 tbsp
• Scraped coconut – ½ or coconut milk -½ cup
• Yeast -¼ tsp
• Sugar -1 tbsp
• Salt - As reqd

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Soak rice for atleast 4 hrs
• Make a batter of rice, coconut( or coconut milk)and cooked rice(batter should not be too watery)
• Add yeast and sugar to warm water and dissolve.
• Add this to the batter and keep for about 6 hrs.
• Before making appams, add salt and little sugar.
• Heat a Pan(Appachatti).
• Pour a spoonful batter into the appa chatti and rotate the Chatti.
• Cover the pan and cook in medium flame till the edges of the Appam turn golden colour..

Recommended combination: Serve hot with Egg Roast or Stew or Chicken Curry.

Idli

Idli is a popular food throughout South India.
Idli is a fermented food which is prepared by steaming fermented black gram (Urad Daal) and rice batter. It makes an important contribution to the diet as a source of protein, calories and vitamins, especially B-complex vitamins, compared to the raw unfermented ingredients.

INGREDIENTS:

• RawRice -2 cups
• Urad Daal - 1 cup
• Water - as required
• Salt - 1 tsp

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Soak rice and Urad daal separately for 5 hours.
• Nicely grind rice and Urad daal separately in water.
• Mix together rice, daal and salt.
• Keep it overnight to ferment.
• Spread oil on the idli mould.
• Pour the batter in the mould .
• Steam the vessel for about 8- 10 minutes.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Sambar or Chutney.

Idiyappam / Noolputtu / Rice Noodles

Idiyappam is a popular breakfast in kerala. It is also called Noolputtu made of rice flour,salt and water.

INGREDIENTS:

• Roasted rice flour (idiappam podi) - 2 cups
• Boiled Water - 2 cups
• Grated coconut - 1 cup
• ghee 1 tsp
• Salt - as required

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Add boiled water, ghee and salt to the flour and knead to a soft dough.
• Divide it into small balls and keep aside.
• Put some grated coconut into the idli/I diyappam stand
• Put one portion of the dough into idiappam press.
• Press out the dough to each of the iddiappam/idli stands.
• Steam for about 10 minutes till the idappam is cooked.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Mutta Roast,Potato Stew

Rava puttu / Semolina Steam Cake

Yet another flavour of the deliciuos Malayalee breakfast. The main ingredient is Rava, otherwise known as Semolina. The preparation method is similar to Rice Puttu.

IINGREDIENTS:

• Roasted Rava -1 cup 
• Grated Coconut -¼ cup
• Salt - to taste
• Water- as required to make the powder wet .
• Chiratta/ Chirattu Puttu mould

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Add salt to the roasted Rava gently to make a mixture.
• Sprinkle water on the Rava, little at a time and mix the flour.
• Repeat sprinkling water till the flour is wet.
• Place a pot shapped utensil on the stove. 
• Fill half the utensil with water and boil the water.
• Put a hole in the coconut shell (chiratta) and place it on the top of the utensil .
• Put some grated coconut in it, and fill the shell with the flour and put some grated coconut on the top .
• Steam in a vessel for 10 minutes and serve hot.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Kadala Curry / Pazham /Pappadam.

Chiratta Puttu / Rice Steam Cake

Puttu is a speciality of kerala cuisine and a favourite breakfast of keralites.This is considered as a healthier breakfast .It is rich in Nutrients & Vitamins.
Puttu is made of Rice Flour and Grated Coconut in steam.

INGREDIENTS:

• Raw rice flour -1 cup
• Grated Coconut -¼ cup
• Salt - to taste
• Water- as required
• Coconut Shell or Chiratta

PREPARATION METHOD:

• In a pan, add rice flour and dry roast lightly. Stirring continuously. The white color of the rice flour should change very lightly.
• Allow the powder to cool.
• Add salt to the roasted flour gently to make a mixture.
• Sprinkle water on the rice flour, little at a time and mix the flour.
• Repeat sprinkling water till the flour is wet.
• Place a pot shapped utensil on the stove. Fill half the utensil with water and allow to boil .
• Put a hole in the coconut shell (chiratta) and place it on the top of the utensil .
• Put some grated coconut in it, and fill the shell with the mixture and put some grated coconut on the top .
• Steam in a vessel for 10 minutes and serve hot.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Pazham, Payar and Pappadam , Kadala Curry

Chappathi

Chappathi is the traditional Indian bread, It can be eaten at any meal of the day usually eaten with curries or cooked vegetables. It is made from wheat flour, cooked on a tawa.

INGREDIENTS:

• Wheat Flour - 2 cups
• Hot Water - 1 cup
• Ghee or oil - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Mix Oil or Ghee, Salt and Flour.
• Slowly add warm water.
• Knead the dough with hands gently until it becomes soft and keep aside for 30 minutes.
• Make the dough into Small balls.
• The dough is rolled out into thin discs with help of dry flour .
• Heat a flat pan or Tava
• Place the chappathis in the hot tava and cook until both the sides turns to golden brown.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Podimas,Parippu,Vegetable Curry,Egg Curry, Chicken Curry.

Battura

Battura is made of Allpurpose flour, Curd, Sugar knead to make a soft dough and deep fried in oil.

INGREDIENTS:

• All Purpose flour/ Maida - 2 cup
• Baking powder - pinch
• Sugar - ½ tsp
• Rava / Semolina - ¼ cup
• Curd / Yogurt- 3/4 cup
• Oil -for frying
• Salt to taste

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Mix Flour, Salt, Baking Powder and Sugar.
• Add Rava/ Semolina and Curd to it and mix well.
• Knead flour mix into a soft dough by adding little water.
• Cover the dough with a wet cloth and keep aside for 2 hours.
• Make the dough into Small balls and roll into a flat round shaped Battura.
• Heat Oil in a pan.
• Fry Battura till it turns golden brown on both sides.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Channa Masala

Egg Fried Rice

Fried rice is a popular food which comes in a variety of flavours.
One of them is Egg Fried Rice, which is prepared by mixing scrambled egg and Vegetables in rice.

INGREDIENTS:

• Basmati rice - 2 cup
• Eggs - 3 nos
• Thinly sliced carrot, string beans, cabbage  - 1 cup
• Thinly sliced onion – 1 small
• Thinly sliced capsicum - ¼ cup
• Green peas- ¼ cup
• Thinly sliced garlic – 1 tsp
• Pepper powder - 1½ tsp
• Soy sauce - 1 tsp
• Olive oil / vegetable oil
• Salt to taste
• Chopped green onion

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Cook the rice and let it cool.
• Beat the eggs with a pinch of salt.
• Heat oil in a pan, add 1 tsp onion and saute well.
• When the onion turns pink colour add beaten egg stir well.
• Sprinkle ½ tsp pepper powder into the scrambled egg, mix well and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a pan and add onion, garlic  and saute well.
• Add all the vegetables and sauté it for 2 minutes.
• When the vegetables are cooked add salt and 1 tsp pepper powder.
• Finally add cooked rice, soy sauce, scrambled eggs and mix well.
• Remove from fire and garnish with chopped green onion.

Chicken Fried Rice

Chicken Fried rice is a popular food.
Chicken Fried Rice is prepared by mixing scrambled egg, Vegetables and chicken in rice.

INGREDIENTS:

• Basmati rice - 2 cup
• Small Chicken pieces -½ cup
• Eggs - 2 nos
• Thinly sliced carrot, string beans  - 1 cup
• Thinly sliced onion – 1 small
• Green peas- ¼ cup
• Thinly sliced garlic – 1 tsp
• Pepper powder - 2 tsp
• Soy sauce - 2 tsp
• Olive oil / oil
• Salt to taste
• Chopped green onion

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Cook the rice and let it cool.
• Mix the chicken pieces with salt and pepper powder .
• Heat oil in a pan .
• When chicken is fried, remove it from oil
• Heat 2 tbsp oil.
• Add onion, garlic and saute till it turns trasparent.
• Then add eggs into it and stir it.
• Add pepper powder, salt and vegetables into it and stir well for few minutes.
• Add fried chicken, soy sauce and salt into it and mix well.
• Add cooked rice and mix well.
• Garnish with Spring Onion.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with raita.

Chicken Biriyani

Chicken Biriyani is a spicy delighthful dish very popular in India. There are different varieties of Biriyani based on the spices added and the main ingredient.

INGREDIENTS:

• Basmati Rice - 2 cups
• Chicken pieces - 500g or 1lb
• Sliced Onion - 2½ cups
•  Tomato ( Chopped ) - 1 nos
• Green chillies - 5 nos.
• Chopped Garlic- 1 tbsp
• Chopped Ginger - 1 tbsp
• Cinnamon-4 pieces
• Cardamom-2 nos
• Cloves-4 nos
• Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
• Chilli powder - 2 tsp
• Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
• Garam Masala - 2 tsp
• Boiled Eggs - 2 nos.
• Ghee - 5 tbsp
• Oil -2 tbsp
• Salt as needed
• Chopped coriander leaves - 3 tbsp
• Chopped mint leaves - 2 tbsp

For garnishing

• Thinly sliced onion - ½ cups
• Raisins - 2 tbsp
• Cashewnut - 15 nos
• Chopped coriander leaves

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Wash Rice and drain it.
• Roast the drained rice in ghee for 2 minutes.
• Add 4 cups of water with salt, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves.
• Cook rice(half cook).
• Crush garlic, ginger and green chillies.
• Heat oil in a pan.
• Add 2 cup sliced onion, crushed green chilly,  garlic, ginger, and saute well. 
• When onion turns transparent, add chilli powder, corriander powder, 1 tsp garam masala and saute well.
• When the raw smell goes, add tomato and saute .
• Add chopped corriander leaves and chopped mint leaves.
• Add chicken pieces, salt, turmeric powder, water and allow to cook .
• Once the chicken is cooked, remove it from fire (make sure the gravy is thick).
• Fry Raisins, cashewnuts and 1/2 cup sliced onions in ghee, till brown and keep aside.
• In an tray, spread a layer of chicken, rice, sprinkle corriander leaves, sprinkle garam masala then ghee. 
• Keep repeating the above step and finally spread the remaining rice and corriander leaves on it.
• Sprinkle fried cashews, raisins and fried onion.
• Cover the tray and bake for 20 min at 350 deg celsius in Oven or tightly cover the pan and put it on a heated heavy pan and cook on low fire for 20 mins. 
• Add the boiled Egg in rice and serve it.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Pappadam/Chips and Raita.

Vegetable Pulav

Vegetable Pulavu is prepared by cooking  fresh cut vegetables together with rice and spices.

INGREDIENTS:

• Basmathi rice - 2 cup
• Chopped Carrot,Green beans and peas -1 cup
• Chopped Onion– 1 nos
• Diced Potato – ¼ cup
• Chopped Green chili - 3 nos
• Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Cinnamon -2 inch stick
• Cloves- 2 nos
• Cardamom - 2 nos
• Salt to taste
• Ghee or Oil- 1 tbsp

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Heat Ghee/Oil in a Pan.
• Add Onion, Green Chili, Ginger Garlic paste and saute.
• Add Potatao and saute for 2 -3 minutes.
• Add chopped vegetables and saute for a few minutes.
• Heat 1 tsp of oil/Ghee in a pan and fry Cinnamon Stick,  Cardamom and  cloves.
• Add Rice into it and fry for a minute.
• Add the Vegetables in Rice and mix it.
• Add 4 cups of water and Salt and cook the rice and Vegetables in low flame.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Pappadam/Chips and Raita.

Vegetable Fried Rice

Vegetable Fried rice is a healthy food.

INGREDIENTS:

• Basmati rice - 2 cup
• Thinly sliced carrot, string beans, cabbage  - 1 cup
• Thinly sliced onion – 1 small
• Thinly sliced capsicum - ¼ cup
• Green peas- ¼ cup
• Thinly sliced garlic – 1 tsp
• Pepper powder - 1 tsp
• Soy sauce - 1 tsp
• Olive oil / oil- 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Chopped green onion

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Cook the rice and let it cool.
• Heat oil in a pan.
• Add onion, garlic and saute well, till onion turns transparent.
• Add all the vegetables and saute till they become soft.
• Add salt and pepper powder into it and saute for a minute.
• Add soy sauce and saute for a minute.
• Add the rice and mix with vegetables .
• Remove from fire and garnish with chopped green onion.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with chicken or Raita.