Dates Amla juice

My DH will consume dates as well as amla daily. One day amla was little sour and he asked me prepare it as a juice for him. Woowwwww. It came out excellent.Consuming dates and amla is very good for health for iron content.

Ingredients:

Amla - 1

Dates - 2 - seed variety

Brown sugar - 2 tbsp - preferred

Water to grind.

Preparation:

1. In a jar, add amla, dates and brown sugar. Grind it for  10 sec.

2. After it is well grounded, add some water to the jar and grind it again.

3. When it becomes a fine paste, remove and extract juice from the grounded one.

4. Pour it in a glass tumbler and serve. Consume as soon as possible.

Ragi and Oats Roti

In kongunadu, only ragi roti is eaten by most. So i planned to add oats to add more nutrients to the roti. It is healthy too as it is given here to post delivered women for milk as well as for weight reduction.

Here comes the recipe:

Ingredients:

Ragi flour/ Finger millet flour - 2 cup

Oats  - 1 cup ( powder it )

Onion - 2 medium - chop fine

Carrots - 2 medium - grate it

Red chilli powder - 2 tsp

Curry leaves - few - chop fine

Coriander leaves - few - chop fine

Oil

Salt

Method:

1. Mi all these to form a not stiff but not soft dough using water.

2. Heat a tava, sprinkle some oil, spread it and lower the flame.

3. Take a medium ball and place in the hot tava and spread as a thin roti.

4. Apply oil on both sides and cook.

5. Serve with coconut chutney or raitha or else it can be eaten without any side dish.

Variations:

1. You can add green chillies instead of red chilli powder.

2. You can also add grated cucumber.

Kambhu dosa/ Pearl Millet Dosa

Ingredients:

Kambhu/Pearl Millet - 2 cups

Idly rice - 1 cup

Urad dhal - 1/2 cup

Fenugreek seeds- 1 teaspoon

Small Onions - 15 no.s

Curry leaves - 1 cup

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Salt - as required

Method:

Grind Kambhu in a mixie and soak it for one hour.

Soak idly rice, Urad dhal and Fenugreek seeds together for 2 hours.

First grind the rice mixture and keep it separately

Then grind kambhu along with onions,curry leaves and cumin seeds

Mix these two adding salt.

Leave the batter to ferment for 8 hours.

Pour batter as a thin dosa applying oil to it.

Serve with coconut chutney, Masal kuzhambhu.