Ragi roti

Ingredients:

Ragi flour- 3 cups

Red chili powder- 11/2 tsp

Salt-1 tsp

Onion-1-medium- finely chopped

Coriander leaves- 1/4cup- finely chopped

Curry leaves -2tbsp- finely chopped

Carrot- 1- finely grated

Oil-2tbsp

How to make:

1. In a mixing bowl, mix everything adding water into a soft dough.

2. Take an aluminum foil/banana leaf, apply oil and spread it.

3. Take a big size Ragi balls and spread using hand with little oil sprinkled in hand.

4. Heat a dosa tawa and reduce the flame to low-medium.

5. Flip the spread roti on the tawa upside down and carefully remove foil.

6. Apply oil over the edges and cook for 3 min.

7. Flip it over and cook on the other side for 4 min.

8. Serve hot and enjoy.

9. Can eat as it is or if you want you can pair it with spicy coconut chutney.

Whole wheat chocolate chip cookies- adapted from New York Times chocochip cookies

Ingredients:

Whole wheat flour-1 1/2 cup

Baking soda-3/4 tsp

Baking powder-3/4 tsp

Salt-1/2 tsp

Butter-1 1/2 sticks - 3/4 cup

Brown/cane sugar-1 1/4 cup

Eggs-1

Vanilla extract-1 tsp

Chocolate chips- 1 1/2 cups

How to bake:

1. Sieve all the dry ingredients together.

2. Cream butter and sugar till creamy.

3. Add in eggs and mix well.

4. Add in vanilla extract and mix.

5. Now add in the sieved dry ingredients and mix well. Now this becomes a soft dough.

6. Add in chocolate chips and mix it with a spatula.

7. Store this dough in a airtight container in refrigerator for 36 hours.

8. While before starting baking keep the dough outside for 20 minutes.

9. Preheat the oven @350F/180C.

10. Scoop the dough in a cookie scoop and place it in a parchment paper lined cookie sheet in distances. The dough will expand into a big circle and so keep the scoop so that it doesn’t touch each other.

11. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-17 minutes.

12. Remove from the oven and keep it in tray for 5 minutes and then keep it in a wire rack for further cooling.

13. Keep the next batch of cookies the same way and bake remaining dough.

14. Store it in a airtight container after all the cookies are cool.