Instant Rava dosa recipe saved me this morning

Yes, so today,
7 AM wake up
7.30 AM wake up son
7:31 till 8:00 AM while getting breakfast and all other packing etc
Will you have this for lunch.
No.
Okay, this then.
No,
Okay this?
Nooo!
Alright, how about this ?
Noooooo!!
8:01 AM Panic!


My son kept on saying no to every option of lunch I offered for his lunch box. I was very much done and had given up on coming with anything he would finish. Another day for him to just eat half and bring back rest.


Then I gave a try searching for an instant rava dosa recipes. I literally had 15-20 mins to get everything done and leave for office. I devoted 2-3 minutes browsing for the recipes. And I stumbled across this easiest, tastiest and TRUST ME very nicely instructed recipe.


http://udupi-recipes.com/2014/06/instant-rava-dosa-recipe-with-video.html#comment-29193

I could not find the name though. The blog is above one. Also as I had absolutely no time this morning and got these dosas done just in the nick of the time. Also my son cleaned up the lunchbox so no leftover too :)

So, I could not take my own dosa photographs but they turned out pretty much like these snaps.

It's not my picture, just borrowed from the above website courtesy and copyright both - udupi-recipe.com

She has given very good details , videos of actual process of putting the dosa on the griddle, please visit.


I made a slight variation for


- Having that super mom time race
- A little taste for sour
- Slight thickness




So here are my used ingredients along with variation and a smaller quantity. I used the same proportion though as she mentioned. Rava/Suji : Rice flour : maida as 1:1:0.5.




4 spoons Rava (regular stainless spoons which about equals 1 and half tsp)
4 spoons Rice flour
2 spoons maida
1 spoon Dahi/yogurt (I used 0% fat, you can use any)
3-4 drops of lemon
1 cup water (A little over might be needed too)
A few curry leaves crushed and
A few coriander leaves cut.


I was in a hurry so did not follow the instructions of slowly adding water and then mix, but I had small quantity so when I beat it all together with very small amount of water first, made a paste and then added more water directly and beat again, it worked out.


So if you are in hurry you can live with this faster mixing. Will try sometime with more quantities as well.


And once mixed up, I used two griddles. The gravy really thickens fast so , sooner you make dosas out of it the better. Even with this less quantity I was able to make medium sized 5 dosas. Alternate in 2-3 turns I was done.


Awesome or what! The feeling of your kiddo has wiped off his lunch box and boasting about it is just great. He tried controlling smiling and slowly brought the lunch box to me and said , check for yourself mamma without shaking the box if I finished it all.


And he did. He didn't show this much appreciation for the traditional dosas too ever.


So , That recipe blog above just made my morning and my evening.


Now off to another super mom race. Dinner!


See you again to share another experience.

And we re-discovred The Bears' Vacation (The Berenstain Bears family)

There are many things I discovered after coming to the US. 
One of those was the kids' wonderful world of story books and magicians in that area such as Dr. Seuss  or Eric Carle (till recently I did not even pay attention to the author names, just the books). I did not understand enough when my son, back from pre-school one day, was sprouting all gibberish like 'one fish two fish, red fish blue fish'  (yeah , imagine my lack of awareness).  This in no way means I lacked for stories or books when I was a kid. Just the opposite. But that world was different. The world I saw thru his books was quite different.

One fine day , in the library sale, I just happened to have my hands on 'The Bears' Vacation' (not paying any attention to the author's name - again) and cracked up by each page. I just had to have it.

Not to mention, about the special emotions evoked in mothers. When they see things going wrong by the dads, they are delighted in a twisted way. (Am I alone in thinking this? I hope not). Although the book does not show that part I am sure it's meant to be understood. But yes, I had to share this with my son and his Dad.

And they cracked up too. My husband did give me a look of 'me getting the book just to tease him deliberately' but could not stop laughing.

My son had not even learned reading yet, not more than just basic words. He memorized the whole book by the pages. The lyrical text is of course genius but by no means short, the book is long for a 2-3 years old. But he loved it so much, he used to read it to us without any help by just starting on the first page and going thru all the rest of the pages, with just his memory. The mirth in between was priceless.

The way Dad teaches his son the rule of safe beach vacation - by hazarding his own safety at every turn by mistake , is just hilarious. He is the carelessness personified but still the role model for his innocent son .. as he thinks ... well .. Dad you are showing me how dangerous everything can be by actually doing it. Such great training. He is so innocent and in his eyes Dad can do no wrong. (all moms here - Wink ;) ).

We re-discovered the book after that time period around 4-5 years later , during my son's latest school projects. He had to pick up his favorite book. And when we were perusing our personal home library , the book popped out. Not only we had a laughing bed time that night, he had a fantastic time next day in the class during story reading. He found more friends relating to it who had already read it.

The rhyme is great, the pictures are 'in action'. But as always, what grabs you is the story. The best so far still I have seen even in last few years. Hope you have enjoyed it or if not , you would be at some point of time. Happy reading.

P.S. - I finally read the author's names :) Stan and Jan Berenstain. The style is reminiscent of Dr. Seuss but quite different. Although I found out he (Dr. Seuss i.e. ) did edit for them. This was quite a pleasant surprise for me. 
 Here is the authors' blog itself with an interesting story too. For those who are interested.

http://berenstainbears.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/book-5-the-bears-vacation/

 
 

So next to-do in my list , reading some more Berenstain bears family stories.

Till then.