This our family’s favourite -Surprise the “surpriser” recipe.This recipe is very handy when we need to do something, when we’re out of supply of the produce, still has to serve the unexpected guests and impress them.So we always have the rice and dal combo powder in storage.Ok guys i could read your mind …. Here, the recipe is all yours now.
Rice – 1 cup
Toor dal -1/4 cup
Cumin seeds -1 tsp
Black Pepper – 1 tsp
Powder the rice and dal together to fine rava consistency. Powder the Cumin seeds and Black Pepper seperately and add it to the rice dal combo.So this is the basic powder you need for the patties.This powder can be stored in an airtight container for months.
To make patties:
rice & dhal combo rava -1 cup
water – 2 cups
oil – 1 tsp
salt – 1 tsp
Method:
Boil the water with salt and oil
Add the rice dal combo powder constantly stirring to avoid lumps
Continue stirring till the water is completely absorbed and resemble dough like consistency.
Once the dough is ready,divide into equal sized balls and make patties.
Fry them in pan and serve hot with onion chutney.
Recipe for Onion chutney:
White Onions – 3 (Avoid red onions as they turn bitter when blended and sauteed)
Dry Red chillies – 6
Tamarind juice – 1 Tbsp
Salt – as per taste
Jaggery – a small piece
Hing – a pinch
Curry leaves – a few
Blend all the above ingredients except curry leaves
Crackle mustard seeds in a tsp of oil, add curry leaves and pour the above blended mixture and saute till the raw smell goes.
Enjoy and let me know how you liked it.
I would like to contribute this recipe for
Paz’s -” FMR -For The Love Of Rice” and
Sailu’s “Jihva for Dal”


July 1, 2006 at 4:52 pm
I haven’t even tasted this and it’s a favorite of mine already! LOL! It sounds very delicious! Thanks for sharing and participating in the FMR event.
Best,
Paz
July 2, 2006 at 6:49 am
Hi ArSu,
Welcome to the fun world of food blogging — your patties look delicious
All the best from New England.
Linda
July 4, 2006 at 6:16 pm
That’s a very interesting recipe. Quite like the idea of preparing the pwd ahead and store.
Nice entry and good pics. Thanks for participating in JFI- Dal and see you at the round up.
July 5, 2006 at 6:48 pm
I hope u would try it Paz.
Thank you Linda!:-)
Thanks Sailaja! Just can’t wait to see the round up.
July 5, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Hi Arsu,
Welcome to food blog world nice entries in ur blog, hope to see many more yummy dishes from ur kitchen:)
July 5, 2006 at 7:53 pm
Hi ArSu,
Welcome to food blogging.
Patties with toordal is an excellent idea.
Hope to see more recipes from you.
Vineela
July 6, 2006 at 2:52 am
Hi
Welcome aboard, have fun blogging. Thank you for this recipe, this might even help us out to fix up dinner for one of those ” I am too tired to do anything else ” days. Looking forward to read more posts from you.
Archana
July 6, 2006 at 6:16 am
Wonderful recipe Arsu…it looks healthy and delicious. I like savouries more that sweets but they always come paired with oil. This recipe looks ideal for me
Will try it out this weekend.
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(I commented for the post on 30th..but I dont see it here
July 6, 2006 at 6:28 pm
Wow!!I love this recipe already.Such a easy recipe that is packed with protein. WUd definitely keep in mind and try sometime to impress my guests too…Thanks & Welcome to the world of food blogging!!!!
July 6, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Dear Tanuja,Vineela,Archana,Priya and BDSN
Thanks for your hearty welcome and words of encouragement. Hope to keep up to your expectation buddies.
Exactly Archana. The chutney also stays good for 2-3 days.
Yes Priya its quite delicious, let me know how it came out and how u liked it.
Btw sorry abt that your comment didn’t come out on 30th, I do wonder why! That’s kind of you to take time and comment on the recipe again.
Once again thank you buddies!
July 7, 2006 at 10:24 am
Surprise the “surpriser” recipe
Loved that concept, ArSu. Btw, do you not have to wash the rice and toor dal before grinding them?
July 7, 2006 at 1:09 pm
I have added this to my to do list and shall definitely leave my feed back…thanx for sharing!!
July 7, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Yes Vaishali you need to wash and dry them before u make rava out of them.
Hi Shynee!
So delighted to hear that you will try it soon. Hope you’ll like it.
July 11, 2006 at 6:32 am
Hi,
Nice recipe. Nice Blog. Thanx for sharing your recipe.
Pleasure is mine. Thanks for stopping by!
August 3, 2006 at 9:09 am
Hey ArSu,
That was a neat quickfix for unexpected guests! Really makes sense to keep a readymix powder stored for immediate use in the refrigerator. The patties bear a striking resemblance to the “adai” preparation of Tamil Nadu. For adais, we coarsely blend together one measure of raw rice, one measure of polished rice, half measure of toor dal, half measure of gram dal and 1 tablespoon of urad dal. Finely chopped onions, a pinch of asofoetida, powdered red chillies, cumin seeds and finely chopped curry leaves are then added to this and cooked on the tava like your patties.
Meenakshi at PRITYA
Hi Meenakshi ! Welcome to by blog. I am happy that you liked the idea of the readymix powder. We do prepare adai but your recipe sounds interesting and delicious. Thanks for sharing the recipe. Hope you would visit me often and offer your valuable suggestions.
August 5, 2006 at 11:30 am
Hi ArSu,
We are just about setting up our blog and are quite excited about it. We do have a website http://www.pritya.com. We are still trying to figure out wordpress fully. I really like your blog layout – simple and smart. I notice that the latest comments appear in the side bar. Did you do it up yourself?
Hi Pritya,
I have heard from fellow bloggers about ” Cooking at home with Pedatha ” and from the description and pictures from your website I am inspired in buying a copy soon. I am really looking forward for your blog, I am sure everyone would enjoy it.
I am glad that you liked the layout of my blog
. Regarding the “recent comments” on the side bar, It’s already available in the layout template in WordPress along with other choices like Search, Flickr, Meebo (a web-based instant message service that lets your blog visitors having account in major IM services like YahooMessenger,Msn Chat,GoogleTalk etc., to chat with the you in a browser window), Archives, Blog Statistics etc., Depending upon the layout template we choose in WordPress, these options may vary slightly. Hope this would help. I would be glad to help you further, if you need. You can also reach me at flavourride@gmail.com. Happy blogging!:-)
April 15, 2007 at 3:09 am
Interesting comments..
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