Watermelon Dosa

Who dosen't love the sweet cool watermelon ? The sight of red watemelon slices makes my mouth water. I simply love the chilled watermelon. Its a delight in summer season. Mostly people eat the red part and discard the rest of it . But we usually eat the red part and the white part just before the rind of watermelon is used for making dosas or thalipits . I prepare sweet as well as savoury version of these dosas. Today I am posting the savoury dosas that are very delicious to eat.

Ingredients :

1 small - watermelon
3 cups - rice
3 to 4 - chopped green chillies
finely cut coriander leaves
salt
oil








Method :

  Soak rice in water overnight.
  After slicing out the red part , slice the white part separately and keep.










Grind the rice along with this white part .
Keep it to ferment for 4 to 6 hours .
Add salt, chopped chillies, cut coriander leaves and mix well.
Add water to make it to dosa batter consistency.
Smear oil on a non - stick tawa and make dosas.
They are trully delicious with home made butter and green chutney.







Linking this entry to Sangeeta's  spicy-treats  at Vardhini's show-me-your-hits-rice-event

Best Out Of Waste ( Bottle Gourd Skin Chutney )

We all know that the outer skin of the fruits and vegetables are richest in the nutrients and still sometimes we are helpless and have to throw the skin which we think are not edible. But believe me 95 % of times we can  make use of these peels  in some form or the other and prepare tasty dishes out of them . One such simple dish is this chutney make out of the Bottle gourd (Dudhi )skin . You can make similar chutneys using the peeled skins of pumpkin, ash gourd, ridge gourd etc.



Ingredients :

The peeled skin of Bottle gourd - 1 cup
Roasted groundnuts - 2 to 3 tbsp
Grated coconut - 2 to 3 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Pepper corns - 1 tsp
Green chillies - 4 to 5
Tamarind - size of half a small lemon
Ghee - 1 tsp
Salt
Sugar


Method :

Heat the ghee and add cumin seeds and peppercorns.
When they splutter add the peeled and washed  skin of bottle gourd and stir till it becomes  little soft.
Now combine all the ingredients and grind in the mixer.
This chutney tastes good as it is .
But if you want you can also temper it .

Tempering :

Heat 2 tsp ghee.
When hot add 1/2 tsp mustard seeds, broken pieces of 1 dry red chilly, some curry leaves and hing1/4 tsp.
Add this tempering to the chutney.