Daal with Veggies

Ingredients:
1) 1 small capsicum (or 1/2 capsicum)
2) Around 100 gm of cabbage
Chop the above.
3) 7-8 garlic cloves
4) Ginger - 1 to 2 -inch piece
5) 1 big onion
6) 2 tomatoes
7) Channa Daal - 1 cup
8) Urad dhuli daal - 1/2 cup
9) Turmeric, Salt

Procedure:
1) Put the daals with water, turmeric and salt. Pressure cook them.
2) Put oil in a pan. Crush the garlic and put in oil. Put chopped onions and cook till they turn brown.
3) Put capsicum and cabbage and cook them. You can put red or green chillies depending on how much spicy you need it to be.
4) Put tomato and ginger. Fry them till they leave oil.
5) Mix the cooked daal and let it simmer for 5-7 mins.


Tip -- put good amounts of ginger, garlic, onion and tomato - it enhances the flavor.

Sooji-Wheat Chila/Pancake

A good snack/breakfast specially for kids, with many variants

What you need:
1) 1 cup wheat flour(you can take multigrain atta to make it more nutritional)
2) 1 or 3/4th cup of Sooji (preferably roasted)
3) 1 spoon butter
4)  Some milk
5) Salt to taste
6) Ginger - 1 small spoon grated

How you make:
Mix all the above ingredients. Mix enough milk to make the consistency of that of a dosa batter. Make pancakes or chila on a non-stick fan. It takes a bit of time to cook - but the end result is delicious

Variant -- Butter is optional, you can do away with it. Also instead of milk, you can put 1 large tablespoon of curd and let the batter set for 20 minutes. Use water to thinner it. If you want it spicy, add green chillies. You can also add finely chopped green coriander for that extra taste.