Mooong Dal -Vegetable Dosa (Hesaru Bele Tarakari /Dose)

Moong daal is called Hesaru bele in Kannada. It is also called pesarittu in telugu. Adding vegetables to moong dal dough makes the dosa very tasty. We can have this dosa for breakfast, or as evening snack or for dinner too. Its a healthy dish and will be liked by all age group people.

Things Needed:
Moong Dal: 2 Cups
Rava(Samolina): 1/2 Cup
Coconut: 2 Table spoons
Green chilly : 2
Ginger: an inch
Curry leaves :  8 to 10
Coriander leaves : 2 ti 3 Table spoon
Carrots : 2
Capsicum:1
Jeera: 1/2 Tea spoon
Salt: Required.
Water: 1/2 Cup
Oil: 4 to 5 Table spoons.

Method:
1. Wash and soak MoonDaal for 2 to 3 hours. Wash coriander leaves and ginger and grate ginger and coconut and keep it aside.
2. Wash carrots and capsicum. Cut capsicum into very small and thin pieces and grate carrots.
3. Now grind moong dal, grated coconut, ginger, coriander leaves and curry leaves adding jeera and green chilly, nicely using little water.
4. Remove the ground moong daal mxture from the jar and put it in a bowl.
5. Add salt and rava to the mixture and mix it nicely.  Add grated carrots and cut capsicum and leave the prepared dough for 5 minutes.
6. Keep a pan on the fire and heat. Sprinkle oil around it.
7. Take a spoonful of Moong dal dough and spread it on the pan. Cook on medium heat for 10 to 15 seconds, Turn the dosa other side and cook for 10 seconds.
8. Serve Moong dal Rava dosa with a spoon of ghee on the top and any kind of chutney or chutney powder.

Note : Grind the moong dal till paste. Cook on low or medium flame. Use a medium size rava.(samolina). Must cut capsicum into thin slice. You can also add cut onions to the dough.

Serves 2 to 3.

Oats Laddus.

Oats laddus are easy to prepare and its healthy too. .These laddus are prepared using Oats, jaggery and coconut or copra. Oats laddus can be one of the Gokulastami special Laddus too.

Things needed:

Oats: 3 Cups

Jaggery: 1 Cup

Coconut: 1 Cup.

Cardamom pods: 5 to 6 

Ghee: 2 Table spoons 

Sesame seeds: 1 Table spoon.

Cashew Nuts and raisins : Each 1 Table spoon

Water: 1/4 Cup

Method :

1. Roast oats nicely till the raw smell disappear and leave it for cooling. Grate coconut or copra  and keep it aside.

2. Roast sesame seeds till brown and leave it for cooling.

3. Remove the skin of cardamom and mix the seeds, oats and sesame seeds together and dry grind till powder.

4. Put ground mixture in a big bowl. 

5. Keep a pan on the fire and heat. Put 1 tea spoon of ghee and fry cashew nuts and raisins til raisins bubble up and remove and mix with oats mixture. 

6. Now put jaggery to the same pan and add 1/4 cup water. Keep stirring till the bubble arise. Let it boil for 1 minute. Now pour this jaggery to the oats mixture and mix it slowly. Add the remaining ghee and put grated coconut and mix all the mixture together.

7. Take a handful of mixture and prepare the laddu. Repeat the same with the remaining mixture.

Note: Need to prepare the jaggery syrup on the low flame. The syrup should not be so thick. Can add more grated coconut. You can use copra also. You can also use almonds along with cashew nuts.  

20 Laddus can be prepared.

Time : 25 to 30 Minutes.