When we cook “tasty” food for our loved ones, the best reward we get is the happiness and joy seen in their eyes after the delicious meal. Cooking should not come out of compulsion, because tasty food is a result of interest, love, joy and satisfaction that are needed along with the other ingredients of the dish.

Egg Paniyaram

Ingredients:

  • Dosa batter - 1 bowl (4 cup)
  • Egg: 3 or 4
  • Small onions finely chopped - 3/4 of a 2 cup bowl
  • Garlic - 2 slices finely chopped
  • Green chillies 2 or 3 - finely chopped
  • Coriander leaves


To temper:

  • Oil
  • Jeera
  • Curry leaves


Egg Mix:

  • Prepare a batter with the eggs
  • Add a little salt and little crushed pepper
  • Mix it well and keep it aside


Tempered onion-chilly-garlic mix:

  • Heat a frying pan
  • Add some oil to temper
  • Once the oil is hot add some jeera and curry leaves
  • Then add the green chillies; fry a little and then add garlic
  • Fry the mix a little and then add onions 
  • Fry until it is golden brown
  • Turn off the fire and then add chopped coriander leaves to the mix
  • Add the fried mix to the dosa batter and mix it well

Preparation of Egg Paniyaram:

  • Heat the paniyaram pan
  • Add a little oil to all the shells in the pan (as required)
  • Once it is hot fill more than 3/4 of each shell of the pan with dosa mix
  • Then fill the remaining portion of each shell with the egg mix
  • Wait until the paniyarams are cooked on one side
  • Then turn it to the other side 
  • Once both the sides are cooked the paniyaram is ready to serve


The egg paniyaram can be served with coconut chutney and any spicy chutney




BEETROOT CHUTNEY

Ingredients:
  • Beetroot – ½ from a medium sized
  • Big Onion chopped – ¼ cup
  • Garlic – 4 pieces
  • Coriander Seeds – 2 table spoons
  • Cumin seeds – 2 table spoons
  • Dry chillies –  3 to 4
  • Tamarind - A small piece

To Temper

  • Oil
  • Mustard seeds
  • Urad dhal
  • Bengal Gram (chana dal)
  • Curry leaves 
  • Asafoetida

Preparation

  • Chop the beetroot into small pieces
  • Heat some oil in a frying pan
  • Add chopped onions, garlic and dry chillies to it
  • Saute for sometime and then add the cumin seeds, coriander seeds and tamarind piece
  • Fry until the fresh smell of cumin seeds and coriander vanish
  • Finally, add the chopped beetroot
  • Add some salt to taste
  • Fry until the beetroot gets cooked
  • Now, let the fried ingredient mix to cool down to room temperature
  • Grind the mix with little water in a mixer grinder until it gets the consistency of chutney
  • Temper with mustard seeds, urad dal, bengal gram, curry leaves & asafoetida