Instant Ragi Paper Roast Recipe / Ragi Dosai

This is instant ragi dosai with ragi flour and rice flour. This is very healthy and gluten free millet based breakfast.

Recipe Cuisine : South Indian | Recipe Category: Breakfast

Preparation Time: 5 mins  | Cooking Time: 5 mins | Yields: 8- 10 dosai

Ingredients:

Ragi Flour	1 cup
Rice Flour	½ cup
Finely Chopped Onion	¼ cup
Finely chopped Coriander Leaves	2 tbsp
Finely Chopped Green Chilli	1
Cumin Seeds	1 tsp
Salt	1 tsp
Water	2 ½ - 3 cups
Oil	As required

 Procedure:

1. In a wide bowl, add ragi flour, rice flour and salt. Mix them well.

2. Add cumin seeds and mix them again.

3. Add water little by little and make water  like consistency batter.

4. Close the lid of the bowl. Leave it for 10 mins.

5. Before making dosai, add onion, coriander leaves and green chillies. Mix them well. Ragi Dosa batter is ready.

6. Heat the dosa tawa, pour ladle full of batter and starting from the outer side of the tawa.

7. Pour oil around the dosai and cook till the both sides become golden in color and crisp.

   Healthy and yummy instant ragi paper roast is ready to serve. Serve with Kara Chutney.

Note:

1. Addition of onion is your choice.

2. Add curry leaves also.

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Ragi Masala Kadalai Recipe / Kara Kadalai / Masala Peanuts

Masala Kadalai is a very popular and healthy snack liked by one and all – from kids to elders. I thought of making a millet twist to this snack and have come up with the ragi kara kadalai recipe. It came out really well and all those to tasted it liked this as much as the normal masala kadalai.

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Recipe Cuisine : South Indian | Recipe Category: Snacks

Preparation Time: 10 mins  | Cooking Time : 10 mins |  Yields : 1 ½ cup

Ingredients:

Roasted Groundnuts	1 cup
Ragi Flour / Finger Millet Flour	¼ cup
Besan Flour / Kadalai Maavu	¼ cup
Red Chilli Powder	1 tsp
Turmeric Powder	¼ tsp
Salt	As required
Water	6 tbsp or required
Oil	For deep fry
Curry leaves (optional)	1 spring

Procedure:

1.  Add ragi flour, besan flour, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt together in a wide bowl. Mix them well.

2. Then add the roasted ground nuts and mix them well.

3. Add water little by little and make the mixture thick.

4. Heat the oil in a deep frying pan, till it becomes hot or put a piece of peanut into the oil. If the peanut comes up immediately, then this is the correct stage of oil heating.

5. Then sprinkle the peanuts over the hot oil. Separate the peanuts using the ladle. Turn over the peanuts occasionally using the ladle to cook evenly.

6. Cook them till the bubbles stops completely. Then take them out from the oil using the ladle.

7. Drain the excess oil using the tissue paper. Repeat the process for remaining peanuts. Then cool down completely and store it in an air tight container.

8. If you have used curry leaves, deep fry the leaves and mix with the peanuts.

      Really healthy and tasty snack is ready!!!

Note:

1. You can add hing, garlic, fennel seeds for extra flavor.

2. Do not over load the oil.

3. Adjust the water level according to your flour texture.

4. Do not add more water otherwise peanuts will absorb more oil.

5. Throughout the process keep the flame at medium.

6. You can use skinned, un skinned or partially skinned peanuts.

7. If you find it difficult to separate the peanuts while cooking, you can do it after the frying also.

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Ragi Carrot Roti / Finger Millet Carrot Roti | Millet Recipes

Ragi roti is normally made without mixing any vegetables. I added carrot which makes the roti more colorful and attractive. Recently we have starting having Ragi Roti as a full  meal instead of snack only as it is a good healthy dish.

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Recipe Cuisine : Indian| Recipe Category: Roti

Preparation Time: 10 mins  | Cooking Time: 5 mins | Yields: 10 nos.

Ingredients:

Ragi Flour	2 cups
Finely Chopped Onion	½ - ¾ cup
Grated Carrot	½ cup
Chopped Green Chilli	2
Chopped Curry Leaves	1 tbsp
Chopped Coriander Leaves	1 tbsp
Cumin Seeds	2 tsp
Salt	As required
Oil	As required (for cook the roti)
Water	1 cup

Procedure:

1. In a wide bowl, add ragi flour, carrot, onion, curry leaves, coriander leaves, green chillies, cumin seeds and salt.

2. Mix them with the wire wish or with your fingers.

3. Add water little by little and knead it into a soft and pliable dough.  Keep it aside for 5-10 mins.

4. Divide the dough into tomato size balls.

5. Spread over few drops of oil on the plastic sheet or banana leaf.

6. Now place the dough on the sheet and flatten the ball using the fingers. [Grease your fingers with oil].

7. Now heat the tawa and place rotti on the tawa. Pour oil along the sides of the rotti.

8. Cook both sides of the roti till black spots appear on it.

      Hot hot healthy finger millet carrot roti is ready! Serve with tomato chutney.

Note:

1. Ensure that the consistency of the dough is neither too loose nor too tight.

2.  You can add red chillies instead of green chillies. 

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Ragi Nei Appam / Finger Millet Ghee Paniyaram | Karthigai Deepam Recipes

Appam is the food for karthigai deepam. This karthigai deepam why not prepare a healthy millet based appam. The next step is why not avoid deep frying also. My suggestion is Ragi appam / Paniyaram because instead of deep frying we can prepare with paniyaram pan. This is all time snack which will last for more than 2 days at room temperature.

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1. Wheat Appam
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3. Thinai Appam
4. Palm Sugar Appam

Recipe Cuisine : South Indian | Recipe Category: Breakfast | Millets

Preparation Time: 10 mins  | Cooking Time: 10 mins | Yields: 15 nos.

Ingredients:                           

Wheat Flour	½ cup (1 cup = 240 ml)
Ragi Flour	½ cup
Grated Jaggery	½ cup
Grated Coconut	½ cup
Cardamom Powder	¼ tsp
Cooking Soda	½ tsp
Oil / Ghee	As required

Procedure:

1. Heat the grated jaggery in pan with 3 tbsp of water.

2. When the jaggery melts completely, switch off the flame.

3. Filter the jaggery syrup with steel filter and keep it aside.

4. Add wheat flour, ragi flour, cardamom powder and cooking soda in a wide bowl. Mix them well.

5. Add jaggery syrup (from 3) and grated coconut. Mix them well with the wire whisk.

6. Add ½ cup of water, them mix them gently.

7. Add  water little by little and mix them gently.

8. When the batter reaches the idli batter consistency, then stop to add water.

9. Leave the batter for 5-10 mins.

10. Heat the kuzhi / kuli paniyaram pan, pour few drops of oil or (oil+Ghee) and pour this batter only upto 3/4 of the kuzhi [depression]. Cook it in medium flame.

11. After few mins, flip them to the other side and cook well until they become golden color on both sides. Then take them out from the pan carefully.

      Tasty and healthy Ragi Nei Appam is ready to serve.

Note:

1. Adjust the jaggery level according to your taste.

2. Adjust the coconut level also.
3. You can deep fry with oil or ghee also.

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