Daawat Newsletter      Dec 09, 2002      Issue # 79

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Ingredients:

1 cup rava (sooji)
1/2 cup rice flour
1/2 cup buttermilk (its better, if slightly sour)
3-4 green chilies, chopped
1" ginger piece
Salt to taste
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 large onion, chopped
Oil or ghee (butter) for frying

Rava Dosa
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An Indian spicy & tasty breakfast dish made with sooji, rice flour, buttermilk, green chilies, onions & ginger.

Method:
  1. Mix the rava and rice flour together with the buttermilk.
  2. Add water to bring it to dosa consistency. Don't make it too thin or watery.
  3. Then grind the ginger and green chilies and add this paste to the batter. Add salt to taste.
  4. Chop the onions finely and keep aside.
  5. Heat a flat pan and make thin dosas and sprinkle the chopped onions and little cumin seeds over the dosa with oil each time.
  6. Remove from pan after they are nicely done and look crisp.
    Serves: 4-6
    Preparation time: 15-20 minutes

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Tip of the week
Cooking:

If an onion is too sharp in taste, wash, drain and toss into some beaten curd. Add a dash of salt and pepper, it becomes a tasty raita.
Health:
Tip the Scales: To check the accuracy of your bathroom scale, weigh a 5-pound bag of sugar or flour. Remember, if you do weigh yourself regularly, weigh-in only once a week, at the same time of day, and without clothing.

Cookery term
Caramelization:

Browning sugar over a flame, with or without the addition of some water to aid the process. The temperature range in which sugar caramelizes is approximately 320º F to 360º F (160º C to 182º C).


Cooking For Health: Garlic

Eating one clove of raw or cooked garlic a day can protect you against stomach and colorectal cancers. Garlic has been used since the days of the Egyptians to treat wounds, infections, tumors, and intestinal parasites. Garlic is considered by many to be the best healing herb in nature. It displays a host of benefits --- it lowers high blood pressure, cholesterol, and fat in the bloodstream. Considered the "wonder-drug" of the herb kingdom, Garlic is now one of the most popular and well-researched herbs. Herbs are plants which possess some of the qualities of food and some of the properties of drugs. A perfect example of this is the well-known culinary and medicinal herb Garlic (Allium sativum).