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Rava Dosa recipe

Rava Dosa is a thin, lacy, and crisp dosa, perfect for breakfast.

Ingredients required:
Rava or sooji (fine semolina) – ½ cup
Rice flour -½ cup
All-purpose flour- ¼ cup
Curd – 3 tbsp
Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
Ginger (chopped)- 2 inch
Green chillies – 2
Chopped Onion – ½ cup
Curry leaves (chopped) – 1 tbsp
Cooking oil/ghee – 4 tbsp

How to make rava dosa:
1. Add rava, rice flour, and all-purpose flour to a bowl.
2. Add finely chopped onion, ginger, green chillies, and curry leaves.
3. Add curd, cumin seeds, and salt as per taste.
4. Mix all the ingredients well. Add 1 cup of water, as the consistency of the batter, should be thin.
5. Mix it properly, cover the bowl and leave the batter for 10 minutes to ferment.
6. After 10 minutes, the batter will become thick add ½ cup of water to make the batter thin.
7. Do not add water at once; the batter consistency should be slightly thicker than buttermilk.
8. Heat a pan and grease some oil on it.
9. Mix the batter using a ladle and add it to the pan.
10. Start by adding the batter from the sides of the pan and gradually filling the center.
11. Drizzle some oil or ghee on the sides of the pan.
12. Once the dosa starts cooking, it will start separating from the pan and turn brown at the center.
13. Keep drizzling oil/ghee into the pan. Flip it once it has turned brown and roast it from both sides.
14. Similarly, make other dosas, and serve them with sambar & chutney.

Kaju Katli

Ingredients required:
Cashew nuts – 1 cup
Sugar – ½ cup
Water – ¼ cup
Ghee melted – 1 tsp
Edible silver foil – optional

How to make kaju katli:
1. Grind the cashews into a fine powder.
2. Sieve the cashew powder to ensure there are no lumps.
3. In a broad non-stick pan, mix water and sugar on medium heat.
4. You will see tiny bubbles appear on the surface, stir gently, and let it come to a rolling boil. Lower the heat.
5. Bring it to a boil for about 4 minutes and let it come to 1 thread consistency
6. Turn the heat on low.
7. Add cashew powder and stir using a spatula to avoid lumping.
8. In a minute or so, you’ll see that the cashew mixture is getting thicker.
9. Add melted ghee.
10. Keep cooking; turn off the heat as the dough starts leaving the pan.
11. To check the right consistency, take a tiny pinch of the mixture in your hand and see if you can shape a little ball with your fingers.
12. Remove the dough from the pan on a greased plate or parchment paper and knead the dough to make it less grainy, glossy, and smooth (roughly 5-6 minutes)
13. On the rolling board, place a greaseproof paper and the kneaded cashew dough on it. Place another paper, sandwiching the mixture between two papers
14. Once cooled down, top with edible silver, and cut into diamonds.