Health for life

Am trying to reduce adding rice in most of my dishes especially when it comes to our dinner dishes like dosas or pongal. Yep nowadays am making pongal or non fermentation dosas with healthy grains like different millets,oats and cracked wheat. Trust me, we dont miss the rice in our dishes. Few days back, i tried making an interesting dumpling with super healthy foxtail millet aka thinai with mixed dals. This dumplings are just amazing with many nutritional value, serve simply with a shallot chutney makes a wonderful dinner too.

This dumpling batter goes for easy preparation and no fermentation is needed. Just leave the batter in room temperature for an hour and make your dumplings with your paniyaram pan. You can have them either for snacks or for dinner if you dont feel like making your dinner with other stuffs. You can feed easily everyone at home with millets without their knowledge as some wont like to have foods prepared with millets.Sending to my own event CWS-Urad Dal guest hosted by Sowmya of Nivedhanam and to my event Healthy Diet-Diabetic Friendly Recipes.


1cup Foxtail Millet/Thinai arisi
1/2cup Channadal
1/2cup Toor dal
1/2cup Yellow moongdal
1/2cup Urad dal
4nos Dry red chillies
1tsp Fennel seeds
3nos Garlic cloves
Salt

Soak the foxtail millet along with all dals for atleast 3 hours.

Grind thesoaked millet and dal with dry red chillies, fennel seeds, garlic cloves with enough water and salt as bit coarse paste.

Keep aside the batter for an hour or two hours in room temperature.

Heat the kuzhi paniyaram pan in medium heat, pour few drops of oil n pour a ladle of the batter.

Put the flame in simmer n cook slowly, turn on both sides until they get well cooked.

Dont cook them in high flame.

Serve hot with spicy coconut chutney or onion chutney..

I cant imagine my pantry without dals, usually we never failed to cook or have dals atleast once a day. One of the important ingredient of Indian cooking is dals. We cook variety of dals and obviously dals are consider as seeds. For this months Cooking with seeds event its going to Dals, even a simple tempered dal to a creamy dal makhani goes pectly under this theme.

Dal have many nutritional value especially proteins, vegetarians consumes atleast a day a dish prepared with dal for proteins.Dals are rich in vitamin B, thiamine and folic acid also several minerals especially the iron and zinc The word dal derives from Sanskrit and its means split, nowadays dal is cooked and eaten with rice as well as along with Indian breads.If you are cooking anything with dals,dont forget to send me, so that many peoples around the world may learn to cook dals.

Wat you need to do:

1)Cook or create dishes with dals as anything(vegetarian, vegan or non-vegetarian are accepted)..

2)Many entries per person are allowed..

3)Link back ur entry to this announcement..

4)Ill accept the old entries, if they are linked with this page..

5)Using logo will be appreciated..

6)Once you are done with your dal recipe, dont forget to link it back to the linky tool attached below.

Please take care to send all ur entries before 31st March 2013.
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