Coconut Puri

Ingredients

For Dough:
2 cups maida (all-purpose) flour 8-10 sprigs curry leaves
1 cup wheat flour cut into fine pieces
2 tbsp oil 8 green chilies, chopped
1/2 tsp salt 1 cm ginger, finely chopped
for filling: 1/2 tsp chili powder
1 cup finely grated coconut 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 cup gram flour 1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp oil a pinch of asafoetida

Method

Mix maida, wheat flour, salt, oil with enough water to make a firm dough.
Heat oil in a pan, season with mustard seeds and asafoetida. When mustard splutters,
add green chilies, ginger, curry leaves and fry for few minutes.
Then add coconut, gram flour and fry till roasted. Allow it to cool.
Also add salt, chili powder, little water and mix well. Make into small balls.
Make larger balls of the dough, fill them with the coconut gram flour balls, flatten them and
gently roll them out into small puris. (Be careful that the filling does not come out).
Deep fry in hot oil till puffed, golden and serve hot with any chutney.

This entire month I'll be concentrating on Breakfasts..!

Banana Dosa

Ingredients

250g all-purpose flour (maida)
4 bananas, mashed
1 egg
75g sugar
2g cardamom powder
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 glass milk
50g oil

Method

Beat the egg well and to this, add sugar, milk and mashed bananas. These ingredients
can also be mixed in a blender.
To the all-purpose flour, add the above banana mixture and mix well to form dosa batter.
Now add cardamom powder and baking powder to the batter and mix well.
Heat a flat pan and make thin dosas. Fry on both sides until golden brown in color with
little oil.
Serve hot with any juice.