Akki Rotti/ Rice Flour Roti

Akki rotti is famous in Karnataka and prepared generally in houses. All it requires is rice flour. It does requires a bit of patience and practice to prepare without sticking the dough to hands  or plastic paper as its flatten using hands on plastic paper. But nevertheless its god-damn good with chutney and ghee and I cant resist  having it with ghee!

Ingredients:

1. Rice flour - 1 cup

2. Salt - for taste

3. Boiling water to prepare dough

4. Oil (optional, especially for beginners to roll out)

Method:
1. Take a cup of rice flour in a bowl, add salt and mix well
2. To this add boiling water and cover for few minutes say 2 to 3 mins and knead carefully when it is still warm to prepare a dough

Best with coconut chutney and ghee :)

Tomato Pasta

Ingredients:

For Pasta Sauce:
1. Onion - 1 big size
2. Tomato - 3 medium size
3. Green Chillies - 2
4. Ginger-Garlic paste - 1/2 tsp (optional)
5. Salt
6. Water
7. Extra virgin olive oil

For Garnish:
1. Cheese (grated)

And pasta of your choice:
Penne/Fusili/Spaghetti/Elbow

Procedure:
1. Cool the pasta with little salt and olive oil in water. The pasta should not be cooked too soft. Once it is cooked, drain the water and keep aside
2. Now heat olive oil in a pan, and add green chillies cut lengthwise and ginger garlic paste and sauté for few seconds
3. Now add onions chopped finely and sauté till translucent
4. Now add tomatoes chopped finely/roughly and cook till its mushy
5. If required add little water (1/2 cup) and simmer till tomatoes turns to thick paste, you can also mash the tomatoes with spatula, keep stirring so that it wont stick to the bottom of pan
6. The consistency should not be too thick or too water, add salt according to the taste, mix well and once cooked keep it aside
7. Now mix the cooked pasta to the sauce prepared and garnish with grated cheese and enjoy your pasta !

Note:
1. I have used mixture of penne rigate and fusili pasta
2. You can also garnish with basil leaves
Can enjoy it as breakfast or dinner :)

Kaju Katti

One of the most common sweets in India. Be it festivals, special occasions kaju sweets are usual! So I wanted to try it at home, and believe me its not difficult and tastes good !!!

Ingredients:

1. Cashews - 1cup

2. Sugar - 1/2 cup/as required

3. Water - 5 tbspn

4. Ghee/oil - 1 tbspn

5. Rose petals - 1tsp / Rose water- 9-9 drops (optional)

6. Saffron strands - few

Method:

1. Powder cashew in dry grinder. Cashew powder Should be dry and not oily

2. Heat sugar with water in low flame in a kadai

3. Grease a plate/tray and keep aside

4. When sugar dissolves add cashew powder

5. Keep stirring on low flame

6. Cashew mix starts thickening.

7. Cook cashew mix for 7-9 mins till whole mixture starts to come together

8. Remove whole lumps of mixture from pan and place it on surface/bowl

9. Add rose petals and ghee/oil to mixture

10. When its still hot enough to handle, knead the mixture

11. Flatten the dough and place on greased tray. Place the butter paper on top and roll gently from all sides

Allow it to cool and using sharp knife cut and remove using knife

12. Or take a lemon sized dough and make a ball. Place a pista on top to decor and allow it to cool completely

Note:

1. Knead the mixture lightly, do not overdo else  oil is released

2. If too dry or dense, add milk

3. If too soft, add milk powder

Taali Pattu/Masala Rotti

Bored of rice items??? Conscious about weight??? Want something healthy??? Then here is the recipe...
Its from my mom's kitchen. It goes well with coconut chutney.

Ingredients:

1. Rice Flour - 1 cup

2. Onion - 2

3. Sappige soppu/Dill leaves - 2 cups chopped finely

3. Coriander - fistful, chopped finely

4. Curry leaves - fistful, chopped

5. Kadle bele - 1tsp

6. Oil or butter to grease

To Grind:

1. Chilli - 4/ as required

2. Coconut - 1/2 grated

3. Sambar powder - 1 tbspn

4. Kadle bele - 1tsp

5. Salt

Method:

1. Grind the items to paste with all ingredients given under 'To Grind'.

2. Mix all (wet and dry ingredients) with rice flour using boiling water to for a dough

3. Make big lemon sized balls from dough 

3. Take butter paper/plastic paper, apply oil on it. Roll out the dough ball by putting another plastic paper greased with oil/butter or can roll out dry using rice flour

4. Heat the tawa on high flame, once its hot enough cook the rolled out dough on medium high flame on both sides

Enjoy as it is/with chutney and ghee :)