This Navratri dig into some delicacies made out of Varai
Recipes — By Editor on September 30, 2011 at 8:00 AM
If you are among the few who choose to fast during all the nine days of Navratri, we tell you how to make it interesting with some lip-smacking recipes. Our reader Sindhu Bhadange shares three healthy and enjoyable recipes prepared from the very popular Maharashtrian speciality Varai.
Varai thalipeeth
Ingredients
- 2 bowls Varai
- ½ bowl Sabudana
- ½ bowl grinded groundnut
- 4 green chillies
- 1 boiled potato
- Sugar and salt as per taste
Method
- Soak varai and sabudana at night.
- Mix varai, sabudana, smashed potato, grinded groundnut, sugar and salt and grind it in a mixer.
- Add chilli paste to the mixture.
- Knead it into nice dough.
- Add little water if you find the mixture is too thick.
- Now remove small balls of the dough and roll it into a round thalipeeth.
- Serve hot.
Varai Dosa
Ingredients
- 2 bowls Varai dough
- 2 bowls Sabudana dough
- 2 boiled potato
- 4 green chillies paste
- Grinded groundnut as per taste
- Salt and sugar as per taste
Method
For Dosa
Mix Varai and Sabudana and prepare it into neat thin dough. Heat a pan and start removing crispy dosa of the same.
For chutney
- Add chillies paste to grinded groundnut, smashed potato, salt and sugar.
- Mix it well and bring to boil.
- Serve with hot Varai Dosa.
Varai Idli
Ingredients
- 2 bowls Varai
- 1/2 bowl Sabudana
- Grinded groundnut
- Green chilli paste
- Lemon
- Sugar and salt as per taste
Method
- Soak sabudana at night.
- Next day grind sabudana and varai in a mixer.
- Now add sugar and salt as per taste.
- Add this mixture in the Idli maker.
- Once the idli is ready remove it and cut in four slices.
- Heat oil in kadai and add chilli paste, groundnut, lemon juice and slices of idli.
- Fry till golden brown.
- Serve hot.
