Saturday, 11 August 2012

Kolkotte

     Princess is back in action. This time with her most favorite delicious dish which she thinks everybody should learn, prepare and eat and stay healthy and happy in her kingdom.

It is so easy to find the following Ingredients in the prosperous kingdom where princess lives.

1.     Urad dal -2 cup
2.     Ginger garlic paste-1 spoon
3.     Grated coconut-1/4th cup
4.     Grated carrot- 1/4th cup
5.     Green Chili-6
6.     Chopped onion-1
7.     Soda powder- 1/4th spoon
8.     Bombay rava-1/2 cup
9.     Maida flour-1/2 cup
10. Chopped coriander leaves- 1/2 cup
11. Salt


FAQ:: 
What to do with Maida?
Maida is mainly for preparing outer covering. so just put little salt and water and make a dough like chapati's and keep it aside.

What to do with other ingredients?

Soak urad dal in water for 4 hours. mean while u can go watch the TV. can easily cover 2 movies in that time. Ice age seems to be better option here. ;)
1.... 2.... 3..... finally 4 hours over. Now we have soft urad dal ready.
Grind soaked dal with chilies, ginger and garlic  to turn it into a fine paste. Just make sure batter is thicker than the one we prepare for idli .

Mix up all the ingredients listed above except Maida (we already have something to do with  Maida  )with the fine paste we just prepared and keep it for 15 mins. This is very much essential to soften rava we have  mixed.

How to prepare Maida leaves?

Let us go back to Maida. Make small chunks of Maida and roll them like chapati but to an elliptical shape. Make them as thin as possible. Let me give the proper size.. Distance between foci is 6 cms and keep semi major axis 5 cms.

How to bake the great dish?

Take the leaf you have just rolled and put a spoon or two of the mixture into it and  fold the leaves around the mixture. Cook in steam for 7-10 minutes.

How to Beautify?

Garnish with carrot and coriander leaves .. may be like the national flag or as i have shown in the picture 

How to EAT?

You know it :) but enrich the taste with coconut chatni