Rava dosa made into my favorite list the day I ate it opposite my college back in pune. The crispiness of the dosa along with the cashews spread on it made it so much more enjoyable. So when I saw my mom preparing it when I was in India in December and learnt that its so quick and simple, I had been meaning to make it like a long time. Today on Sunday I thought it would be a perfect way to make a tasty brunch that requires minimal efforts.

Ingredients

1 Cup Rava

1 Cup Rice Powder

1/4 Cup Maida

1/2 Spoon Jeera

1/4 Spoon Asafoetida

Finely chopped Roasted Cashews

2 Green Chillies

Salt to taste

Ghee

Method

Mix rava, rice powder, maida, finely chopped green chillies, jeera, asafoetida with salt.
Add in lots of water to make a thin batter.
Keep aside for 20 minutes
Add in more water so that it is thin consistency
Heat tawa on medium flame
Grease tawa with Ghee and pour the 1/2 cup batter at a time spreading it over the tawa.
Let it cook till the dosa gets light brown color.
Sprinkle couple of drops of ghee and flip the dosa and let the other side be cooked
Sprinkle some cashews and fold on either side and serve.

Notes

When I tried making it I didnt let the batter sit for those 20 minutes, because of which the batter kept on thickening - blaming it to the Rava. It made first two dosas thick and soggy. So I strongly suggest letting the batter sit for 20-30 minutes.

To spread the batter on the tawa I dropped the batter on tawa from a bit of distance and slowly over areas that didnt have batter, letting it form the mesh and yet avoiding forming layers, hence keeping it thin.

Chocochips Pan Cakes

I had been making pan cakes for quite some time. One of the easiest and tasty breakfast. I had made it with cranberries, mangoes, blue berries earlier. Today I didn't have any of the fruits that would go in it. So I decided to make it with what I had plenty - Dates and Chocochips. The pan cakes came out really nice and we had hearty breakfast on such a lovely bright day.

Ingredients

1/2 Cup Dates

1/4 Cup Choco Chips

1/2 Cup Wheat Flour

1/2 Cup Maida

3/4 Cup Curd

1 Egg

3/4 Spoon Sugar

1/2 Spoon Vanilla Essense

1/4 Spoon Baking Powder

1/4 Spoon Baking Soda

2.5 Spoon Melted Butter

Salt to taste

Oil

Method

Deseed the Dates and chop them into small pieces. Keep aside.
Sieve together wheat flour and maida
Add Sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda and mix well
Add egg, curd, melted butter and vanilla essence. Mix well.
Add 1/2 cup warm water and mix well to flowing consistency.
Heat a nonstick pan over medium flame.
Pour the pan cake batter 1/2 cup at a time on the non stick pan and top it with some choco-chips and dates
Over medium-low heat, cook the pan cakes till golden brown in color and bubbles up the top side. Flip and golden the other side too. Serve with honey and or maple syrup

Notes

The batter is so non sticky that I didnt have to grease the pan at all.

Ajoy felt that the sweetness from Dates was little too much, I guess using Dark choco chips might be good idea to balance the sweetness. I didnt have dark choco chips sot used semi sweet chips.