Palak Plain Dosa

Palak (Spinach) Dosa is one healthy breakfast option, instead of a regular plain Dosa. Adding Spinach to the regular dosa batter will make it rich in ironand vitamins. Palak dosa can be prepared in many ways like the one I have explained here by adding palak extract to the dosa batter / add palak sabzi along with boiled potato or paneer and spread it over the dosa / fry the spinach and add it in the dosa batter and prepare it like uttapam. Near to our house in Bangalore near the park a person serves 100 varieties of dosas, I love the sabzi that he prepares using palak, potato and cheese. It simply melts in the mouth. We will see below the simple way of preparing plain palak dosa by adding spinach extract to the dosa batter.

Shenga Hindi / Shengadanyachi Chutney

Shenga Hindi is a dry peanut chutney which is served along with the side dishes in complete North Karnataka / Maharashtra meal. It is served along with Bhakri (Jowar), chapati, dosas, rice. It's a dry chutney which goes best with curd. This chutney is must at our home. My mom used to make this and give when I was in hostel since I used to get bored with the same hostel mess menu.

This is not a difficult recipe, can be prepared with minimal number of ingredients easily available at home. Lets go through the procedure.

Fried Ice Cream

How about an ice cream which is cold inside and super hot outside on this rainy season?? Yes you got me right it's "Fried Ice Cream". The thing with opposite combinations tastes very unique like a hot Gulab Jamun in an ice cream or a ice cream on a hot cake. Mangalore being a place famous for the ice creams, there is a hotel by name  "Cherry Square" and it was indeed very famous for the desserts they served. They served a dessert called "Some Like it Hot!" where cold ice cream scoop is placed on hot chocolate cake with hot chocolate sauce on it. It was heavenly! Similar way the other day  was searching for such recipes over the internet and came across this fried ice cream recipe. You need not require much ingredients for this. I prepared it and it was a great success! In fact hardly got anything to taste since everything was finished by my son :) Hope you try it and like it.

Methi Pulao

Methi rice/ fenugreek Pulao is an healthy option for one pot meal. We already know how useful the methi is and also different ways of using it in our day to day life like preparing methi sabzi, methi paratha, methi dal and thepla. This is a very quick and different option for the surprise guests that you can offer at your home :) I add lemon juce and sugar for balancing the bitter taste of methi. I also add potatoes, onion and groundnut, you can add vegges of your choice like tomato, green peas etc.

Apple Pan Cake

Apple Pan cake is the best option for a sweet and healthier pan cake which I am sure your kids will surely like. This is the best option for making your son to have apples and get all the benefits of it. I usually make dosas at home but the sweeter version never tried. It makes a perfect taste for the kids. But be sure to fry these pan cakes well on both the sides. I added a pinch of chocolate powder to it and hence the color got changed. You need not add it. I also added Khishmish for better taste.

Tomato Dosa

Tomato Dosa is a slight variation to the usual dosa that we prepare. This is a good option to make your kid  benefited with the goodness of tomatoes along with the rice that we use for making dosas. My mom usually prepares instant dosa using wheat flour, gram flour, all purpose flour and joward flour by adding chopped veggies to it. For this I usually add chopped tomatoes/ grind the tomatoes and then add the juice to the usual dosa batter.

Instant Dhokla

Dhokla!!! is one of my favorite since childhood. I remember when we used to go to Sangli a place in Maharashtra for Diwali shopping my mom used to buy it for us. It was just for Rs.3  a packet with 6-7 small Dhokla's with fried Mirchi. It used to taste awesome, in fact its still available now. might the prize is increased to 10 or so. That was "The Dhokla" taste that I ever have in my mind. If we google now, there are many ways of preparing it! using Rava (Semolina), curd, etc etc.. The one that I prepare is using very minimal number of ingredients, its instant and all you need is Besan peeth (Gram flour) and a Eno packet as main ingredients, the rest of all are available in every kitchen.  I haven't tried the Dhokla yet with Semolina or with curd, will surely try someday :). Here is the procedure on how preparing this simple instant "Dhokla".

 

Lemon Rice

Lemon Rice is an easy bachelor recipe and such a simple one pot meal that it can be prepared by anyone :) We have already seen the recipe for Kanda Pohe. It is the same procedure, instead of soaked poha we need to add cooked rice, along with it we can also add nuts. This can also be prepared with the left over rice that you have in your kitchen. I usually prepare phodni bhaat with the left over rice using red chilli powder and tamrind paste instead of green chilli. But this one is very simple yet tasty. 

Potato Capsicum Veg Toast

We usually add mashed potatoes to the bread and grill it, why not add few more veggies along with it so that it becomes more healthier. I added bit of capsicum, to the mashed potatoes to get the crunch along with the roasted peanut powder instead of cornflour which is usually used in Maharashtrian food. This gave an awesome combination for the sandwich. You can add any veggies of your choice. I had to roast the veggies and then add to the boiled mashed potato.