Ingredients- 1 bowl green moong, 1/2 bowl of rice, ginger, green chillies, salt, spices of your choice, onions, grated carrot, beetroot, chopped capsicum, oil/ghee, a handful of coriander leaves.
Recipe -
1. Soak moong and rice together for couple of hours. It'll be best If the moong get sprouted.
2. Grind moong and rice along with 2 green chilies, 1 inch of ginger.
3. Add salt and spices to the batter. Make a tadka and add the vegetables to the tadka. Add washed and chopped coriander leaves to the batter.
4. Add these vegetables to the batter. Grease appe pan with ghee. Pour the batter in appe pan.
5. Cover with lid and cook on slow flame. Flip after appe are cooked from one side. Cook again with lid for couple of minutes.
6. Serve with chutney of your choice.
2. Makhana thalipeeth
Ingredients - 1 bowl makhana, onions,carrots capsicum, salt, cumin and coriander powder, ghee/oil, a handful of coriander leaves.
Recipe -
1. Roast makhana on low flame. After it turns crispy, add it to the mixer jar and grind.
2. Add water little by little to the makhana powder ans kneed the dough. Add lil oil, salt to the dough. Add the vegetables and spices of your choice and washed and finely chopped coriander leaves to the batter.
3. Grease the tava and spread the dough on tava with hands. Flatten it with hands. Don't make it too thin.
4. Make two small holes and pour oil in between.
5. Roast properly on tava with lid on. Let it cook for couple of minutes.
6. Flip once cooked from one side and cook another side for couple of minutes. Serve hot with ketcup/chutney. It tastes best with a dollop of ghee/white butter on top.
Thailpeeth can be made with bhajani(mix flour of roasted grains) or by mixing several flours like jowar flour, wheat flour, rice flour and besan together.
3. Rice makhana kheer
Ingredients - 1 bowl of makhana powder, 1 bowl of rice, dryfruits, ghee, sweetener of your choice like sugar, dates powder or jaggery and cardamom powder.
Recipe -
1. Roast rice on ghee. Add milk, sweetener to the rice.
2. Roast dryfuits in ghee if you like. Chop them finely and add to the kheer.
3. Let the kheer boil. Keep on stirring. Now add makhana powder for thickness.
4. Add cardamom powder and malai on top. Serve hot when it has thickened enough.
4. Peanut laddus
Ingredients - 1 bowl of peanuts, jeggery/dates powder, dryfruits powder, ghee, cardamom powder.
Recipe -
1. Dry roast the peanuts on low flame.
2. Remove the peels and grind into a coarse powder.
3. Now slowly add ghee, sweetener and cardamom powder to the peanut powder.
4. Add dryfruits powder(This is optional)
5. Slowly form small laddus of this mixture.
6. Garnish with cashew on top or raisins.
7. We can also add roasted dry coconut powder to these laddus.(This is optional).
5. Sabudana chilla
Ingredients - 1 bowl Sabudana powder, 1 cucumber, 1 tb rajgira flour, green chillies, ginger, cumin seeds, ghee, salt, peanut powder, salt.
Recipe -
1. Grate the cucumber. Mix it with sabudana powder and rajgira flour.
2. Add peanut powder, salt, finely chopped green chillies, grated ginger, cumin seeds and chopped coriander to it. Slowly add water.
3. When it has correct consistency, pour it on tava greased with ghee.
4. Cook with lid on for couple of minutes. Flip once cooked from one side. Cook again for couple of minutes.
5. Serve hot with green chutney. This is a perfect fasting food too.
