Indian Food Recipes

Spicy Onion Pickle Recipe

Ingredients:
Salt – 1/3 cup
Button/ Small onions – ½ kg
Green chillies (slit) – 16 Nos.
White Vinegar – 2 cups
Peppercorns – 16 Nos.
Cinnamon – 1” piece
Cloves – 4 Nos.

Method Of Preparation:
1.First peel onions. Rub salt over them and let aside for a day.
2.Drain off the salt water.
3.In a pan boil vinegar with other spices. Add green chillies and onions and bring to a boil.
4.Cool it and then store it in a jar.
5.Lay it aside for 4 days then it is ready to serve.

Onion Dosa Recipe

Ingredients

2 cups Rice
1 cup Urad Dal
5 Green Chillies (chopped)
¼ teaspoon Jeera Powder
4 twigs Coriander Leaves (chopped)
2 large Onions (chopped)
1 tablespoon Cooking Oil

How to make Onion Dosa

• Soak urad dal and rice in cold water separately, preferably overnight.
• Grind the soaked dal and rice to make a smooth paste. Add salt to this paste and mix well until it becomes a batter of semi-liquid consistency. Allow it to ferment for at least 3 hours.
• In the meanwhile, mix the chopped onions, green chilies and coriander leaves with salt and cumin powder in a bowl. Keep it aside.
• Now heat a flat pan on high flame. Apply little oil to the heated pan and then carefully pour a tbsp of batter onto the pan and immediately spread it evenly in a circular shape.
• Add a little oil to it and spread about 2 tsp of the onions-chilli-coriander-cumin and salt mixture on the uncooked side and wait for a few seconds.
• Turn over the dosa and again apply some oil to cook the other side.
• Onion Dosa is ready to eat. Serve hot with coconut chutney.

Onion Uthappam Recipe

Ingredients

2 cup rice (chawal)
1 cup split black gram lentil (dhuli urad dal)
2 green chilly (hari mirch)
3 onion (pyaj)
1 teaspoon salt (namak)
1 piece ginger (adrak)
1 teaspoon coriander leaves (dhania patti)
Oil
1/2 teaspoon red chilly powder (lal mirch)

How to make Onion Uthappam

• Soak rice and dal separately for about 6 hours.
• Then grind them separately.
• Mix them in a container and add salt.
• Cover and leave for fermentation for 12 hours.
• Finely chop adrak, pyaj, hari mirch and dhania.
• Mix lal mirch in chawal batter.
• Heat a non stick pan/tawa and spread 1 tbsp batter on it.
• Spread chopped vegetables on it.
• Cook at low flame and grease it on the corners and turn it to cook the other side.
• Serve it hot.
• If the batter sticks on a tawa, add little salt to the oil and grease the corners so that uttapam will not stick on tawa.
• Cook it at low flame to make it tastier

Onion Adai Recipe

Ingredients:

• Wash and soak the rice and the dals for about 4 hours.
• Wash and grind the green chillies, ginger, coriander leaves, curry leaves with red chillies and salt to a coarse paste.
• Peel and chop the onion finely and keep aside.
• Drain and grind the rice and dal to a coarse batter. Rest the batter for about an hour.
• Mix the paste, asafoetida, onion and coconut to this batter and mix well. Check for salt and keep aside.
• Heat a heavy dosa griddle, smear oil and spread one ladle full of this batter to a thick circular shape. Make a few holes in the center. Pour oil on the sides and in the center, cover and cook over low heat.
• Turn over and pour the oil and let it cook till it is crisp all around and golden brown in color.
• You can make about 8-10 adais. Serve hot with the chutney of your choice.