It's Diwali Special. So I planned for the following special dishes...! yummy yummy !!!

* Breakfast Special
Chow chow Baath
Wondering what it is. It's Karnataka Special. It's a combination of Kesari Baath and Masal upma. What a great combi isn't it .......Have a look at it then! Kesari Baath
Masal Upma
Masal Vada

**Kesari Baath
Ingredients
Serve 2 person

Rava(Suji) - 1/2 cup
Sugar -1/2 cup {Adjust to taste}
Salt - a pinch
Ghee -1/8 cup
cardamom -1
Food Color -1/12 spoon
Cashews & Dry Grapes -1/8 Cup
Method*
Heat a Pan. Add little ghee and rava to it. Fry well and keep it aside.
Heat a deep bottom pan. Add 1 spoon ghee and fry cashew nut and grapes. Set aside.
Now add 3/4 water , cardamom to the same pan. Leave it to boil. Now add salt, rava to it. Stir well and cover it. After 2 minutes stir well and add sugar, ghee , roasted nuts to it.
Leave the cover for some more time and stir once. Little milk can be added (Optional). Serve hot.

* Masal Upma
Recipe in breakfast section.

* Masal Vada
Ingredients
Serve 3 Person

BG Dal or Bengal Gram or Channa Dal -3/4 Cup
Green Chilly - 3 to 4 Fine chopped
Sombu -1/8 spoon
Curry leaves -4
Coriander leaves
Onion -1/2 Fine chopped
Canola oil to deep fry
Salt
Method*
First Grind dal , sombu into a course paste in a mixer. Adding very little water to it. Transfer the paste to a bowl. Add all other ingredients except oil. Mix and keep aside. Now heat oil in a deep pan. Take a small portion of the above mixture. Roll and make it flat in the palm or in a sheet. Slide slowly into the hot oil. Fry till both the sides become golden brown. Serve hot.

Poli or Obatu or Babbatlu

This dish is widely Known as Poli in TamilNadu ,Obatu in Karnataka, and Babbatlu in Andra Pradesh. There r lot of varieties in it like Channa Dal + Jaggery stuffed sweet Poli, Dalya +chilly powder (spicy) Poli, Coconut Poli , Vegetable Poli.......and so on.

Here I've posted the Channa dal +jaggery stuffed recipe. This should be served with ghee spread on top and with any fruit(Mango or banana) pudding.

Ingredients

For 6 poli

Channa Dal -3/4 Cup

Grated or powdered Jaggery -3/4 Cup

Maida -3/4 cup

Turmeric powder -1/12 spoon

Salt, Oil

Ghee

Preparation

Take a bowl. Transfer maida ,salt, turmeric powder to it. Add water little by little and knead it to a soft dough. Add 3 Spoon of oil and knead it again. Leave it to rest for at least 3 to 4 hrs. Then make 6 balls out of it. Keep aside.

Boil Channa dal in a pot with enough water. Don't boil them in pressure cooker cause it might get over cooked. Boil till soft. It should be easy smash. Filter the water. Transfer to a tissue paper to absorb excess water for few seconds then immediately transfer to mixer. Add the grated jaggery to it. Grind it to form a thick paste ,don't add water. Now transfer the stuffing to a bowl. Make 6 balls out of it. This ball should be bigger than maida balls.

Now Take a thick plastic paper. Apply enough oil to it. Take a maida ball place it in the middle and press it with Ur fingers (use Ur index finger, middle finger and ring finger) to form a medium size ,next place stuffing ball on it. Cover it all together to form a big ball. Roll it in Ur palm. Then again place it in the sheet. Press it with Ur finger (I heard my friend using Roller Pin instead of pressing with finger but I felt using finger is easy and not messy). Do slowly if u r doing for the first time don't hurry it up. First press in the middle next edges again middle then edges........keep repeating the same till it is thin.

Now heat a Tava or pan. Just dribble oil on it. Now transfer the poli to the tava. If there is enough oil in the sheet it would come out easily without breaking so, always make sure to put enough oil before placing the balls. Now pour oil on the sides of the poli. Leave it to roast for 1 or 2 minutes then turn it over, again it might take 2 or more minutes. Transfer to a plate and apply ghee on top. Now Poli is ready to serve.