Paddu ( Appe)

Ingredients:

4 cups Bombay rava

1½ cups split black gram (white udad)

dal½ cup thick beaten rice (poha)

½ cup chopped onion

1 tsp minced ginger

Oil,

Salt

Method:
Soak rava and udad dal separately for about 4 to 6 hours.
Grind the udad dal with poha.
Mix in rava and let sit overnight.
Mix in onion, ginger and salt.
Heat the mould and pour a few drops of oil into each depression. Once hot, pour a tablespoon of the batter into each, cover and let cook on low heat for 3 minutes.
Turn and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Serve hot with coconut chutney and sambar

Palak Raita

For 4
Ingredients:
Curd 225 gm
Spinach 115gm
Salt to taste

For tempering :
Cumin ½ tsp
Mustard ½ tsp
Fenugreek ½ tsp
Whole red chillies 2 or 3
Oil 15 ml

Method :
1. Pick and wash spinach.
2. Beat curds and mix with steamed spinach and chopped green chillies. Add salt.
3. Heat oil. Add red chillies, mustard, cunin and fenugreek. When seeds crackle pour over spinach and curds mixture. Mix well.