Sooji cheela with carrots

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup sooji
2. 1/4th cup besan (optional) - it just gives different flavour
3. 1/4th cup grated carrots
4. salt - 2 tsp
5. water to make thick paste
6. Oil/Ghee to roast

Steps:

1. Sift sooji, besan and salt to mix properly.
2. Add water and make an even thick batter.
3. Add grated carrots and leave for 10 mins. Add more water if required. The amount of water to be used varies on the type of sooji being used.
4. Brush some oil in the tawa/girdle and pour a ladle of batter and spread.
5. Scatter few drops of ghee/oil on the visible side.
6. Once done, flip to roast from both sides.
7. Eat it with coriander-mint chutney or just plain ketchup.

Multi Grain Chilla

Ingredients
1 cup Multi Grain Powder*
1 cup water
1 finely chopped onion
1/4 cup finely chopped capsicum (I had put yellow and red ones)
2 green chillies finely chopped
salt and chili powder to taste

note - u can any other vegie u like

Method
1. Mix the powder with water to get a batter of smooth consistency...
2. Add salt, chilli powder and rest of the ingridents
3. Heat a tawa and spread the mixture on the tawa...
4. Roast on side and then turn and roast the other.
5. Enjoy with ketchup or green chutney...




* - the funda here is the powder... we usually make it the following way...
100gms ragi (Finger millet)
100 gms wheat
100 gms bajra Pearl Millet
100 gms jawar
100 gms corn
100 gms green moong dal
100 gms black gram
handful of almonds
handful of cashew

wash all the grains and the soak overnight for slight sprouting
dry roast them on low flame and then grind them till powder is ready

Its extremely nutritious and my son loves it... for him I usually make it by just cooking it for 5 mins with water and later feed him by mixing it with his formula or some curd

The above is a cumbersome process and if u dont have the time and energy to do so.. u can get a similar ready powder in the market (atleast in the southern parts of the country its pretty popular)

Wheat Flour Cheela

Kheer Cheela is one of the loved occasional weekend brunch at my in laws place. Occasional because its high in calories and loved because we all love sweets. Its nothing but rice kheer served with two kinds of cheelas.To all my south indian friends , cheela is nothing but small dosa.

Of the two kinds of cheela served , one is salty moong dal cheela. I did share the recipe here , the only difference is that instead of moong sprouts , moong dal is used.

Other one is the sweet wheet flour cheela. This post concentrates on this cheela , because Aryan loved it and I now make it often just for him , without kheer , as evening snack.

Ingredients

Wheat Flour - 1 Cup

Sugar - 1/2 Cup

Cardomom powdered - 1 pinch

Water - 1 glass

Steps
1. Mix water in flour , to make a smooth paste.

2. Add sugar and cardomon powder and leave for 10 minutes for sugar to dissolve.

3. Mix well. The paste should be of dripping consistency.

4. Spread like a dosa on a non stick tava and roast using little ghee.

Bad Picture Quality ..Sorry!

Thats my plate ..SLURP !!

To add to variety , coriander chutney and Potato gravy is also served along , but I did not make potato gravy and rather served another gravy from previous night.

Moong Sprouts Cheela

Aryan does not like sprouts. So what do I do ? Make something out of sprouts :D Here is what we had in breakfast yesterday :





Green gram (Whole Moong) : 1 cup
Chopped Onion : 1 tbsp
Grated Carrorts : 1 tbsp (not mandatory)
salt : to taste
Chilli powder : to taste
Coriander powder : 1/2 tsp
Mango powder : 1 pinch
Oil : 1 tsp

Sprouts :
Soak Green gram overnight.
Drain the water and keep for 24 hours in a covered container.
Your sprouts are ready.
You can alternatively buy sprouts from any super market or use any sprout maker.


Cheela/Dosa :

Grind the sprouts into smooth paste.
Add all the spices and carrots.
Heat oil on a nonstick tava and spread the mixture as a dosa.
Sprinkle fine chopped onion.
Roast on both sides.

Serve with Sauce /Green Coriander chutney. Some even like this with raita.