Healthy Food Recipes - Mudakathan Keerai Dosai (Balloon Vine Leaves)
Posted on: 19/Jan/2015 3:18:31 PM
Ingredients:
- Raw Rice – ½ cup
- Parboiled Rice (Puzhungal Arisi) – ½ cup
- Urad dal – 2 spoons
- Fenugreek Seed – 1 spoon
- Mudakathan Keerai – 1 cup
- Red chilli – 3 nos
- Garlic – 5 cloves
- Salt – as required
- Cooking oil – 5 spoon
- Cooking soda – ½ spoon (optional)
Method:
- Take the leaves alone from the Mudakathan Keerai creeper, wash it well and keep it ready.
- Wash and soak both the rice, Urad dal and fenugreek seeds together for 2 hours.
- After 2 hrs, Drain the water from rice, Then grind rice, urad dal, fenugreek seed mixture, adding little water from time to time.
- Add the Mudakathan leaves, red chilli and garlic also in the end and grind it to a smooth paste. The consistency should be that of dosa batter consistency. The Dosa batter will be in a lovely light green colour..
- Finally add the required salt and mix well.
- If needed, mix 1/4 tsp of cooking soda in 2 spoons of water and add it to the batter.
- Leave it aside for half an hour and now the batter is ready to prepare dosa.
- Heat a tawa, pour a ladle of batter in the centre and spread it in a circular motion. You can even prepare thick dosas like uthapam or thin dosa with this batter.
- Drizzle a tsp of oil around the dosa, once the edges starts lifting up, flip it over to the other side and drizzle another 1/2 tsp of oil.
- Once cooked, remove from tawa and serve hot with any chutney of your choice!
Note:
- Mudakathan Keerai is top for the people who is having the bone joint pain.
- Now a days, you get this Keerai in the market. Remove its leaves from the creeper and store it in the fridge. Just wash few leaves and grind it with red chilli and garlic and add it to the dosa batter simply before the time of preparation.
- Simply you can sauté the Keerai leaves alone and add it to the rice flour and prepare the tasty Adai.
- Since ancient period, people used to incorporate these kinds of greens in their day to day life and thus indulge these greens in your diet and get its entire benefits and stay healthy.
Mudakathan Keerai Uses:
- Nature has provided us with many wonderful medicinal plants which has amazing healing properties. Balloon Vine leaves known as Mudakathan Keerai in Tamil is very effective in curing joint pains. It has anti-inflammatory properties and is a rich source of antioxidants.
- It is the best cure for Rheumatoid arthritis and Nervous breakdown.
- Since it has the potent to heal the patients with immobility in hands and legs, this green has got the name ‘Mudakathan’.
- We can prepare variety of dishes using Mudakathan Keerai like Dosai, Adai, Kozambhu, Thovayal, Rasam, and so on.
- We can collect leaves from the creeper and use it. If the creeper is very fresh and tender, you can use the creeper also for cooking.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
