Vellai Appam

Ingredients:

• White Raw Rice or Pachaarusi - 200 gms
• Urad Dhal - 200 gms
• Green Chillies - 2
• Pepper Corns - 2 teaspoon
• Ghee - 1 teaspoon
• Cashew - 10
• Ginger small piece
• Curry Leaves, Coriander Leaves and Salt as required

Method:

Soak rice and urad dhal for half an hour. Grind the soaked dhal and rice along with green chillies and salt to taste. Make sure you dont add more water for grinding. Add ghee in a pan and fry finely chopped ginger, cashews, curryleaves and coriander leaves. Add it to the grinded dough. Make small balls of the dough and deep fry in oil.

Vellai Appam can be accompanied with cocnut chutney or kara chutney.

Vegetable Pokora

Ingredients

Mixed Vegetables - 1 cup ( Carrot, Beans, Cauliflower, Peas) or Your Choice
Onions - 1 big
Garlic - 3 Pods
Coriander Leaves - 1/4 bunch
Mint Leaves - 1/4 bunch
Fennel Seeds - half teaspoon
Besan Flower- 2 Spoons
Red Chilli powder - half teaspooon or as required
salt as required
Oil to fry

Method:

Boil the mixed vegetables and smash it coarsely(don't make it like a potato mash). Finely slice the onion, coriander and mint leaves add it to the vegetable smash. Add shredded garlic, chilli powder, fennel seeds, salt and besan flower to the vegetable smash and bind everything together. The water in the boiled vegetables is sufficient to bind all the ingredients together adjust besam flower accordingly. Make small balls with the prepared vegetable mix and deep fry it in oil. Avoid using more water and Besan flower as more water will absorb more oil and more besan flower the pokara will become soggy as opposed to crisp. Serve with yoghurt, mint sauce.