Chiroti rava kozhakattai (dumplings) with burnt tomato chutney

I enjoy experiments, turned my kitchen into a lab today with some awesome chiroti rava dumplings and burnt a lovely looking tomato and made into a flavourful chutney.

It's the everyday recipes which becomes monotonous over a period of time. To break the pattern I try a small twist here and there thus making it interesting.

Chiroti sooji rava kozhakattai with burnt tomato, onion, peanut chutney, waa one such dish which I served today for breakfast.

Ingredients

Chiroti rava(it's fine sooji rava) 1 and 1/2 cup
Hot water 4 cups
Grated coconut 1 tbsp
Lemon extract from 1 medium lemon
Salt as required

For tempering

Gingly oil 2 tsp
Mustard 1/2 tsp
Channa dal 1/2 tsp
Urad dal 1/2 tsp
Broken dry red chilli 1
Curry leaves a few

Tips

Roast rava by adding little oil.

Keep boiled water ready as chiroti rava is very fine and gets roasted quickly.

Method

In a heated kadai add mustard, urad dal, channa dal and broken chilli, let mustard crackle add rava, pour a little oil and dry roast. Add curry leaves. Once rava emits mild aroma pour water 3 cups at first, then if needed one more cup. Mix in add lemon extract and grated coconut. I've added 4 cups of water as I want a very soft kozhukattai which melt in your mouth. The kozhukattai or rava dumpling dough is ready. Off stove and make small even lemon sized kozhukattai.

Use a steamer to steam kozhukattai for about 10 minutes. Serve.

Burnt tomato, onion, peanut chutney

Ingredients

One extra large tomato (wash , pat dry and directly burn it on fire)
Ginger a small piece
Green chillies 2
Peanuts 2 tbsp
Salt as required
Oil 1 tsp

Method

Chop onion, ginger and green chillies roughly, in a heated pan pour oil add peanuts, saute for a while add rest of the ingredients, cook till onion turn translucent. Remove the burnt outer skin of tomato, chop and mix in. Cook for 2 minutes. Off stove. Let it cool. Grind it in a mixer jar to a coarse paste or fine if you want. Pour it back to the pan, add a cup of hot water, cook for a few minutes. Off stove adjust salt. Serve with chiroti dumplings /kozhukattai. Its delicious and am sure your family will love it.