Onion Uthappam

Ingredients:-
Dosa Batter - 1 cup
Onion, finely chopped - 1 nos
Green chilly, finely chopped - 1 nos
Oil/Ghee - 2 tsp

Preparation:-
1. Heat oil in a tawa.
2. Spread a ladle full of batter to thick dosa.

3. Sprinkle chopped onion and green chilly.

4. Drizzle a little oil/ghee around the uttapam and cook for 2-3 minutes.
5. Turn uttapam and cook on the other side for a minute.
6. Serve uttapam with chutney or sambar.

Tomato Garlic Chutney

Ingredients:-
Tomato - 1 , cubed
Garlic cloves -6 or 8 nos
Shallots(Small onion)- 4 or 5 nos
Dry red chillies - 4 or 5 nos
Salt to taste

To Temper:-
Mustard seeds-1tsp
Curry leaves - few
Hing - 1/4 tsp
Oil - 1 tsp

Preparation:-
1. Heat oil in a Vessel.
2. Add dry red chillies and garlic cloves and saute for a minutes.
3. Then add shallots and tomato. Saute until tomato turns soft.
4. Turn off the stove and let it cool completely.
5. Blend the tomato garlic mixture till coarse.
6. Heat the same pan with oil.
7. Add mustard seeds. When they splutter, add curry leaves and hing and turn off heat.
8. Pour this tempering over the chutney and mix well.
9. Serve with idli or dosa.

Oats Porridge / Oats Kanji

Ingredients:-

• Oats - 3 or 4 tsp
• Onion, chopped - 1nos
• Tomato, chopped - 1 nos
• Green chilly, chopped - 1 nos
• Grated ginger garlic - 1 tsp
• Mixed Veggies, Chopped - 1 cup (Carrot, beans, Corn and peas)
• Milk - 1/2 cup
• Pepper powder - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
• Cilantro, chopped - 2 handful
• Curry leaves - 1 spring
• Water - 2 cups
• Ghee - 1 tsp
• Oil - 1 tsp
• Salt - to taste 

Preparation:-
1. Heat a pan with oil, add grated ginger garlic and curry leaves. Saute for a minute.
2. Add green chilly, onion and tomato. Saute till onions turn translucent.
3. Then add mixed veggies and saute until raw smell leaves.
4. Add oats, saute for a couple of minutes.
5. Add 2 cups of water ,combine well and cook for 5 more minutes.
6. Add chilly powder, turmeric powder  and salt. Mix it well.
7. Now add milk , combine well and cook for a minute.
8. Finally add pepper powder and Ghee.
9. Garnish with cilantro.
10. Remove the porridge from the heat.
11. Serve hot.

Mango Ginger Chutney/Manga Inji Thokku

Ingredients:-

• Mango Ginger/Manga Inji - 500 grams
• Mustard seeds - 2 tsp
• Red Chilly powder - 2 tsp
• Fenugreek powder - 1/4 tsp
• Green Chilly - 2 nos
• Asafoetida - 1/2 tsp
• Tamarind Paste - 2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Jaggery - 1 tsp
• Curry leaves - 2 spring
• Gingerly oil - 5 or 6 tsp
• Salt to tast

Preparation:-

1. Wash and scrap the skin of Mango ginger/ Manga Inji well.

2. Cut the mango ginger into pieces and wash again well.

3. Grind it to a fine paste. Set aside.

4. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds.

5. When mustard seeds crackle, add asafoetida, curry leaves and green chilly and saute on medium flame for 3 minutes.

6. Then add the ground mango ginger paste and tamarind paste and saute for a minute.

7. Now add red chillly powder, fenugreek powder, turmeric powder, jaggery and salt. Mix it well.

8. Pour 2 tsp of gingerly oil and saute it until it leaves the oil floats on top.

9. Turn off the flame and allow the Chutney/Thokku to cool.

10. Store it in a glass bottle or air tight container.

11. Serve it with rice, idli, dosa, Chappati, Baji,Boonda, Adai etc.

Vegetable Chapati Noodles

Ingredients:-

• Chapati - 5 nos
• Onion, chopped lengthwise - 2 nos
• Green chilly, finely chopped - 1 nos
• Crushed Ginger garlic - 1 tsp
• Carrot, chopped lengthwise- 1
• Beans , chopped lengthwise - 1/4 cup
• Red chilly powder / Red chilly flakes - 1 tsp
• Pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp
• Soya Sauce - 1 tsp
• Tomato Sauce - 1 tsp
• Coriander leaves , chopped - 2 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil - 1 tsp

Preparation:-
  

     1. Stack the 3-4 chapati's and cut into 4 quarters. Then cut each quarters into thin long strips. Set aside.

     2. Heat oil in a pan. 
     3. Add onion , Green chilly and crushed ginger garlic and fry for a minute.
     4. Then add carrot and beans and saute for a minute.
     5. Add soya sauce, tomato sauce, pepper powder and salt. Mix well.      

     6. Now add chopped chapati's and toss well in high flame.
     7. Garnish with Coriander leaves/spring onion and serve immediately.