JHATPAT CHATPAT- FOR QUICK, EASY AND TASTY RECIPES

Ragi is one of the healthiest cereals available in nature. My dentist claims that people who eat Ragi have the best quality teeth- one of the reasons could be because ragi balls are meant to be cut into small pieces, dipped in any tasty curry(veg/non veg) of your choice and gulped, not chewed. It settles well in the stomach, without giving you a stuffed feeling and keeps hunger away for a long time.

Thanks Suma for the mouthwatering recipe.

 Ragiball recipe:

1 cup Ragi flour
2 cups water
Salt if required
Bring water to a boil. Take a spoon of ragi flour. Mix with little water and add it to the boiling water. Once it boils, add the flour. Do not mix it. Cook it for 10 min. Now, remove the excess water in a container. Then, take a wooden ladle/ rolling pin and mix well. Now, dip your fingers in the water which you have removed and make balls of desired shape( this prevents the hot and slightly gooey batter from sticking to your hand)
You could prepare 2 ragi balls from 1 cup of ragi powder.



 Spinach alasande kalu(black eyed beans) curry

Ingredients used:
1 fistful of tuvardal
1 bunch of spinach cleaned and cut
1 cup of blackeyed bean/ alsanDe kaaLu
1.5 tsp sambar powder
1/2 lemon sized tamarind made into a paste
1.5 tsp huLi powder(optional)
Cooking oil
Mustard seeds
Curry leaves
Water


Cook fistful of toordal till soft in a pressure cooker. Cook spinach in a separate vessel. Cook sprouted alasande kaalu for two whistles. Mix everything together.  Add sambar powder, tamarind paste and salt. For thickness of the curry, you could add huLi powder which is available in some local stores of Karnataka. Season with 1 tsp cooking oil, 1/2 tsp  mustard seeds and 1/2 sprig of curry leaves.