Healthy Breakfast

Introduction
Lazy weekend, and no intention of cooking an Indian breakfast. Here is what I tried, and loved it completely. This is kind of a real experimental one, a mix of a very Indian and a very European breakfast style.
A) Ingredients
Boiled black gram peas - 1 bowl
1cm * 1cm Dices of swiss cheese - around 1/2 bowl
1/2 cm * 1/2 cm dices of red capsicum and green capsicum - 3/4 bowl.
Nescafe - 1 cup
Salt - per taste
Black pepper - per taste
red chilly powder - per taste
Everest Chat Masala - per taste
B) Method
Place the boiled grams peas, cheese dices and diced capsicum in a plate.
Sprinkle black pepper, red pepper, salt, chat masala as per taste.
I used an easy to make coffee sache of Nescafe to make me a cup of delicious coffee.

And thats it !! :) You are done. A super healthy and amazingly yum breakfast.

Sambhar Masala (Spicy)

Introduction
Sambhar : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambhar_(dish)
A) Ingredients
Arhar Daal - 1 bowl
Finely chopped mix of vegetables ( 4 beans, 1/4 red capsicum, 1/4 green capsicum, 1 mid sized potato, 2 green chillies) - 1 bowl
Onion (finely chopped) - 1
Mustard seeds (small) - 1 1/2 table spoon
Jeera - 1 table spoon
Dried full red chilli - 1
Turmeric - 1 table spoon
Red Chilly Powder - Per Taste
Salt - Per Taste
Sambhar Masala - 3 1/2 table spoon
Cooking Oil - 4 table spoons
B) Method
Souk the arhar daal in a bowl of water and keep aside.
Add 4 table spoons of oil in a pressure cooker, and let it heat.
Break the red chilli into two halfs and put in the oil when it is hot. Then add jeera (cumin seeds) and mustard seeds (small). Let the seeds break, and make sure they dont burn. Add chopped onion, and let it fry till it is translucent. Add the 1 bowl of vegetables, and stir fry for 1 min. Then add the 1 bowl of soaked daal. Stir nicely. Add turmeric, salt and red chilly powder. Finally add the sambhar masala and close the lid of the pressure cooker. Let it boil till it is completely cooked and mixed with each other very nicely.
Serve hot with rice, or uttapam, or dosas.

Tip: To add to the taste, add lemon juice before serving (per taste).
Do not use sweet vegetables such as carrot or peas for sambhar. That reduces the spicy nature.

Rava Uttapam Style Pancakes

Introduction

Rava Uttapam is a traditional south Indian dish, and I have just changed this a little bit and made it like little pancakes. Healthy, Light and tasty food - can be used for breakfast, lunch, snacks or dinner.

Recipe (server 1)

A) Ingredients

Sooji - 5-6 table spoons

Besan - 1 table spoon

Curd - 3-4 table spoons

1/4 Red Capsicum - sliced finely into 1/2 * 1/2 cm cubes

2 green chillies - sliced finely

1 baby corn - sliced into fine dices of 1/2 cm width

Curd - Enough to mix with 1 bowl of rice

Cooking oil

Salt - Per taste

Red Chilli Powder (Optional, Use if you like spicy food)

Chat Powder (Optional, Use if you like spicy food)

Water

B) Method

Mix Sooji, besan and curd nicely in a bowl and leave for 2-3 min.

Add all the sliced vegetables, salt (to taste).

If you need to make the whole thing more spicy add red chilli powder (1/2 spoon) and chat powder (1/2 table spoon).

Mix the whole mixture well and add little water (around 2-3 spoons) and get the mixture to a medium thick consistency.

Heat a pan, and add little oil. Spread out 2 table spoons of mixture at a time, and make small pancakes out of it.

Cook as much as you would like to have it crisp. Serve hot with sauce.

Tip: The vegetables mix can be varied and different combinations can be used, for example can use tomato, onion, beans etc. Try not to use something like carrots as that will get a sweet taste.

You can serve this with tomato sauce, coconut chutney, green chutney or any kind of chutneys you make like :)

Curd Rice

Introduction

Curd Rice is a very popular south Indian Dish. Why I always love it, it is the fastest, easiest and the most yummy dish :D

Recipe (server 1)

A) Ingredients

Boiled plain rice - 1 bowl

Curd - Enough to mix with 1 bowl of rice

Cooking oil - 1 1/2 table spoon

Full dried red chilly - 1 piece

Brown Mustard Seeds (small ones ) - 1/3 table spoon

Red Chilli Powder - Per taste

Salt - Per taste

B) Method

Mix the rice and curd nicely in a bowl and keep aside.

In a small pan, heat the one a half table spoon oil. Split the dry full chilly into two pieces and put into the oil, once the oil is hot. Then put around 1/3 spoon of mustard seeds (small ones) into the oil, and let them crack. Make sure the seeds dont burn. The moment they are cracked, pour the hot oil mixture from the pan straight into to rice-curd mixture.

Add red chilly powder and salt to taste, and serve hot.

Tip: Mustard is a special ancient spice used across India. This helps cure bronchitis, and reduces muscular and joints' pain.