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Jul12

Ragi Dosa / Finger Millet Dosa

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Ragi Dosa is one of the most common dish I cook very often for breakfast, as ragi/finger millet comes with loads of health benefits. Using this batter you can make plain dosa, onion dosa, onion and green chillies dosa and even uttapam. Let me share the recipe…

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Ragi/FingerMillet Dosa
Ragi/FingerMillet Dosa

Ingredients:

Making of Ragi Dosai / Finger Millet Dosa –

Preparation:

  • Mix the batter well, check for salt in the batter, if needed you can sprinkle little.
  • Heat tawa, rub with little oil.
  • Spoon the batter with ladle in the center of the tawa, spread it all over the tawa (circle shape).
  • Drizzle little oil or ghee along the sides and center of Dosa.
  • Wait for 3 mins or until till the dosa starts turning golden brown. Swap the sides and cook for another min.
  • Remove from fire.
After fermentation – Ragi / finger Millet Batter
Dosa getting cooked
Dosa getting cooked
Ragi/FingerMillet Dosa
Dosa with onions and curry leaves
Onion Ragi Dosa
Ragi/FingerMillet Dosa

Serve Dosa with Sambar and Chutney.

Note: For Onion Ragi Dosa – chop the onions to fine pieces and sprinkle onion over the batter once got spreaded and wait until it gets cooked.

Jan7

Apple Pancake (Sugar-Free)

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Apple Pancake is one among the most delicious breakfast recipes, but here I used powdered jaggery instead of Sugar. And so this could come under the Diabetic-Friendly recipe.

A very simple, easy, healthy, and a less time consumption breakfast. Not only for breakfast, this can also be served as tea-time snacks along with a cup of milk or coffee or tea. Let us move on to the recipe…

Apple Pancake

Apple Pancake

Ingredients:

  • Apple – 1 no (big one)
  • Wheat flour – 1 ½ cups
  • Powdered jaggery – 1 ¼ cups
  • Egg – 1 nos
  • Milk – 1 ¼ cups
  • Baking soda – ½ tsp
  • Salt – a pinch
  • Butter – 4 tbsp

Preparation:

  • In a bowl, break the egg, add in the milk and powdered jaggery. Stir it well until the sugar dissolves or it becomes fluffy.
  • Add in the wheat flour, baking soda, a tsp of butter and a pinch of salt. Continue stirring all these together (be sure no lumps are formed).
  • Peel and grate the apple, add in the grated apples and mix all these together. Rest it for 5 mins.
  • Heat a tsp of butter in pan, spoon the batter and spread it lightly on the pan.
  • Drizzle a tsp of butter along the sides of the pancake.
  • Swap the side and cook until it starts turning golden brown.
  • Remove from fire.

Serve hot with Jaggery syrup or chocolate syrup and a cup of milk. I have served it with chocolate syrup for my kids.

Sep24

Ragi (Finger Millet) Idly / Dosa Batter

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Nowadays ragi/finger millet is commonly used among all of us, as they help in managing Diabetics and helps in weight loss. Since my hubby is diabetic, I always look for Ragi recipes, I used to prepare ragi porridge daily for him. But even I was bored in preparing ragi porridge daily and then I tried out this batter, idly was very soft and Dosa was Crispy. So I prepare this once in every week.

Health Benefits: It helps in weight loss, because of the bulkiness of fibers and the slower digestion rate. It is the richest source of calcium among plant foods and so it helps in strengthening and developing the bones. It also helps in diabetics and helps in lowering high cholesterol level and so on. Being low in fat and gluten free, ragi is easy to digest. It is also even to babies in the form of porridge.

It would highly recommend this recipe for Diabetic people, because both Ragi/Finger millet and Ulundam paruppu/Blackgram are good source in helping Diabetic.

Let us move on to the recipe…

After fermentation - Ragi / finger Millet Batter

After fermentation – Ragi / finger Millet Batter

Ingredients:

  • Ragi / Finger Millet Flour – 3 cups
  • Whole Blackgram / Urad dal / Ulundam Paruppu – ¾ cup
  • Salt to taste

Making of Keppai / Ragi / Finger Millet Idly/ Dosa Batter –

 

Preparation:

  • Soak urad dal/black gram in water for about 3 hrs.
  • Drain the water and grind the black gram along with little water (add water little by little while grinding).
  • In a wide mouth bowl, take ragi flour, pour water little by little and mix it with your hands, be sure no lumps are formed.
  • Pour in the ground urad dal batter to the ragi flour and mix it well with your hands.
  • Add in little salt (a tsp) for taste, cover with the lid and let it ferment for 6 hrs.
Ragi / finger Millet Flour with salt
Grounded whole blackgram / ulundam paruppu / urad dal
Ragi (finger millet) flour getting with urad dal (blackgram)
All together ready for fermentation
After fermentation – Ragi / finger Millet Batter

After fermentation, you can make idly or dosa or kuzhipaniyaram as you wish. Refrigerate it immediately after fermentation, else it would the batter would turn sour. Stays fresh in refrigerator for almost 4 days.

For Ragi Idly recipe, check out this link: https://madraasi.com/2015/09/24/ragi-finger-millet-idly/