Crochet Rainbow Mobile

Wish you all a very 2012. May the new year be so colourful like the hues of the rainbow, light, pure and beautiful like the white clouds which sails in the blue sky, a ever beaming face and life full of happiness like the shining sun.

I was busy in the personal front hence could not make any posts for a week. But that has made me come today to wish you all with a colourful post. Presenting the crocheted rainbow baby mobile.

Colourful Oothappam

Oothappam is a thick dosa. Many varities can be created viz., Plain, Onion, Mix Veg, carrot, spinach, etc.

Prepare the batter like you do for idli / dosai.

Here I am sharing the carrot + Onion ootappam.

Ingredients :-

1. Dosa / idli Batter - 1 litre
2. Onion - 1 No. Big
3. Carrot - 2 Nos.
4. Green Chillies - 2 Nos (optional)
5. Coriander Leaves - 3 tbsp
6. Ginger - 1 tbsp

Procedure :-

• Grate the carrots
• Finely chop Onion, green chillies (optional), ginger, coriander leaves
• The ootappa should be thick, so pour one and half laddle of batter into the dosa tawa and spread it in round shape. the layer should be thick.
• Pour 1/4 tsp oil all around it.
• Sprinkle the chopped veggies and grated carrot on top, cover and cook on low flame.
• When one side turns golden brown, (here you can flip & cook if you like, but the veg will get roasted and lose its attractive colour), serve it hot with chutney or sambar.

Pumpkin vegetable / Kaddhu subzi / Mathan Upperi

Pumpkin / manjal poosani (Tamizh) / Mathan (malayalam) is a vine, the fruit is orange in colour. It is rich in anti-oxidant Vitamin-A,  minerals etc. It is believed to be very good for prostate problems.

Sharing with you a simple and easy, dry vegetable dish using pumpkin.

Ingridients :-

1. Pumpkin cubes - 1 cup
2. Grated coconut - 2 to 3 tbsp
3. Coconut Oil - 1 tbsp
4. Mustar Seeds - 1 tsp
5. Urad dal - 1 tsp
6. Hing powder - 1 pinch
7. Red chilli - 1 no. cut into two
8. curry leaves - 5 nos.
9. Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
10. Sat to taste
11. Water

Procedure :

• To the pumpkin cubes, add turmeric powder, salt, water and boil till they are tender.
• Drain and keep aside. (you can drink the water like soup, or check out for my forthcoming easy masala daal recipe for which you can use this water)
• Heat oil in a wok, add hing powder (Asafoetida), Mustard seeds, urad dal and let the seed splutter, the urad turn golden brown.
• Add the grated coconut, curry leaves and red chilli and saute till the coconut turns golden brown in colour (this is optional - enhance the flavour. you can just saute it for a minute too & continue the process)

• Add the cooked pumpkin cubes, saute for two to three minutes on low flame.

• Transfer to a serving dish. Declicious, pumpkin vegetable is ready.

Kutchi Daabeli

Daabeli originated in the Kutch region of Guajarat. It is a salty, spicy, tangy, sweet snack. Aloo masala is stuffed inside the ladi pav, garnished with onion, coriander leaves, pomegrante seeds and sev. Buttered & roasted crispy on tawa top.

Dabeli will not be good in all shops. If you keep hunting, if you are lucky you will end up finding a good one. Most of the shops sell only the sweetest ones. So tried to prepare at home suiting to our taste with an equal ratio of the different tastes and flavour. sharing with you the recipe.

Prepare the Daabeli Masala Powder

Ingridients :- (makes 3 Nos)

1. Potato - 2 medium sized
2. Jeera - 1/2 tsp
3. Butter / ghee / oil - 2 tbsp
4. Daabeli Masala - 1 tsp
5. Salt to taste
6. Water
7. Onion - 1
8. Pomegranate seeds - 2 tbsp
9. Coriander leaves - 3 tbsp
10. Sev - 2 tbsp (optional)
11. Garlic Groundnut chutney
12. Tamarind Chutney
13. Green spicy chutney
14. Pav bread

Procedure :- 

• Boil, peel and mash potatoes completely
• Heat oil in a wok, add jeera, daabeli masala and saute for 10 seconds
• Add mashed potatoes, salt and water and cook the mixture well to let the masala blend.
• Cook till water is absorbed completely and the masala becomes dry and thick
• Add pomegranate seeds, chopped coriander leaves, mix well and keep aside
• Take the pav, cut it in 'L' shape (i.e.) slit two sides keeping the other two intact.
• Apply tamarind chutney, garlic groundnut chutney, green chutney
• sprinkle some onion, stuff potato mixture
• heat a tawa, apply some butter, roast both sides of the pav till they become crisp
• sprinkle sev and chopped onions on the sides, yummy daabeli is ready to be relished!

If you don;t have time to make the chutneys separately, you can grind them together.  

1. Tamarind - lemon sized (soak till they become tender)
2. Dates - 8 nos (soak along with tamarind)
3. Jaggery - 3 tbsp
4. Green chillies - 5 nos
5. red chilli powder - 2 pinch
6. Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
7. Mint leaves - 1/4 cup
8. Salt to taste

Grind the above ingridients together and use for daabeli and other chat items too.