Oats dosa

Ingredients:


3/4 cup - quick cook oats
1/2 cup - rice flour
1/4 cup - rawa or wheat flour
1 - green chilli, chopped
1 tbsp - coriander leaves, chopped
1 tsp - ginger, chopped
1 tsp - cumin seeds
1 tsp - pepper
1 - onion, chopped
Salt as needed
Water as needed

Method:

Make a thin batter of the all the ingredients except onion.
Heat dosa pan and sprinkle the onions and then pour the batter to make dosa.
Sprinkle little oil.
Cook in medium flame and no need to flip, when the dosa becomes golden brown, take out and transfer to the serving plate.
Enjoy with sambhar or any chutney.

Oats idli

A high fibre breakfast is the best way to lose weight as it takes a while to digest and gives you a feeling of fullness that lasts until lunch time. And what better way to take in fibre than to include oats? So, here we are with a selection of easy-to-make, delicious recipes where oats has been adapted to the Indian cuisine making it palatable and healthy.


Ingredients:

1 cup - oats
1/2 cup - wheat rava
1/2 cup - curd
Vegetables of your choice, as needed
1/2 cup + more - water, if needed
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp - Eno fruit salt
Lemon juice from 1/2 of a lemon
2 - green chillies, finely chopped 2
1 tbsp - chopped coriander leaves
1 tsp - chopped ginger

To temper:
1 tsp - oil
3/4 tsp - mustard
1 tsp - urad dal
1 tsp - channa dal
1 sprig - curry leaves

Method:

Dry roast oats for 3 minutes on a medium flame until a nice aroma arises.
Powder it coarsely after it cools down.
Heat a pan with oil and temper the items in the table ‘To temper’, followed by the veggies and ginger, green chillies and coriander leaves. Give it a quick fry and add the wheat rava and fry for a minute over a medium flame.

Transfer to a mixing bowl, add salt, curd, lemon juice, water as required and make a batter similar in consistency to idli batter; mix well. Add Eno fruit salt just before making the idlies and mix well.

This will give you a frothy/airy batter which gives soft spongy idlies.

Pour the batter into greased the idli plate and cook as you would the regular idlies but for some more time, say 10-15 minutes, until done.

Serve hot with a chutney of your choice.

An Eye Opener

HOW WASTEFUL WAS OUR OLDER GENERATION?

In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized to him and explained: "We didn't have the green

thing back in my day."

The clerk responded: "That's our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment."

He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store.

The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilised and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.
In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two blocks.

But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.
Back then, they washed the baby's nappies because they didn't have the throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 240 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes.

Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that old lady is right; they didn't have the green thing back in her day.

Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the Scotland. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything.
When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. They used a push lawn mower that ran on human power. They exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; they didn't have the green thing back then.

They drank from a glass tumbler when they were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But they didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the tram or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or rode the school bus instead of turning their mothers and fathers into a 24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they didn't need a computerised gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful the old folks were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?

108 Sharana Ghosham

With Mandalam coming up this month, To all Ayyappas devotees.

108 Sharana Ghoshams - Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa!

1. Om swamiyae saranam ayyappa

2. Om harihara sutane saranam ayyappa

3. Om kannimoola ganapati bhagavaanae saranam ayyappa

4. Om Shakti vadivelan sodaranae Saranam Ayyappa

5. Om Maalikappurattu manjammadevi lokamathavae Saranam Ayyappa

6. Om Vaavar Swamiyae Saranam Ayyappa

7. Om Karuppanna Swamiyae Saranam Ayyappa

8. Om Periya kadutta Swamiyae Saranam Ayyappa

9. Om Siriya kadutta Swamiyae Saranam Ayyappa

10. Om Vanadevata maarae Saranam Ayyappa

11. Om Durga bhagavati maarae Saranam Ayyappa

12. Om Achchan kovil arasae Saranam Ayyappa

13. Om Anaatha rakshakanae Saranam Ayyappa

14. Om Anna dhana prabhuvae Saranam Ayyappa

15. Om Achcham tavirpavanae Saranam Ayyappa

16. Om Ambalathu arasanae Saranam Ayyappa

17. Om Abhaya daayakanae Saranam Ayyappa

18. Om Ahandai azhippavanae Saranam Ayyappa

19. Om Ashtasiddhi daayakanae Saranam Ayyappa

20. Om Andinorai aadarikkum deivamae Saranam Ayyappa

21. Om Azhutayil vaasanae Saranam Ayyappa

22. Om Aaryangaavu Ayyaavae Saranam Ayyappa

23. Om Aapad baandhavanae Saranam Ayyappa

24. Om Ananda jyotiyae Saranam Ayyappa

25. Om Aatma swaroopiyae Saranam Ayyappa

26. Om Aanaimukhan thambiyae Saranam Ayyappa

27. Om lrumudi priyanae Saranam Ayyappa

28. Om lnnalai teerppavanae Saranam Ayyappa

29. Om ega para suka daayakanae Saranam Ayyappa

30. Om idaya kamala vaasanae Saranam Ayyappa

31. Om Eedillaa inbam alippavanae Saranam Ayyappa

32. Om Umaiyaval baalakanae Saranam Ayyappa

33. Om Oomaikku arul purindavanae Saranam Ayyappa

34. Om Oozhvinai akatruvonae Saranam Ayyappa

35. Om Ookkam alippavanae Saranam Ayyappa

36. Om Engum niraindoenae Saranam Ayyappa

37. Om Enillaa roopanae Saranam Ayyappa

38. Om En kula deivamae Saranam Ayyappa

39. Om En guru naathanae Saranam Ayyappa

40. Om Erumeli vaazhum kraada -shaastaavae Saranam Ayyappa

41. Om Engum nirainda naada brahmamae Saranam Ayyappa

42. Om Ellorkkum arul puribavanae Saranam Ayyappa

43. Om Aetrumaanoorappan maganae Saranam Ayyappa

44. Om Aekaantha vaasiyae Saranam Ayyappa

45. Om Aezhaikkarul puriyum eesanae Saranam Ayyappa

46. Om Aindumalai vaasanae Saranam Ayyappa

47. Om Aiyyangal teerppavanae Saranam Ayyappa

48. Om Opillaa maanikkamae Saranam Ayyappa

49. Om Omkaara parabramamae Saranam Ayyappa

50. Om Kaliyuga varadanae Saranam Ayyappa

51. Om Kan.kanda deivamae Saranam Ayyappa

52. Om Kambankudiku udaiya naathanae Saranam Ayyappa

53. Om Karunaa samudramae Saranam Ayyappa

54. Om Karpoora jyotiyae Saranam Ayyappa

55. Om Sabari giri vaasanae Saranam Ayyappa

56. Om Shatru samhaara moortiyae Saranam Ayyappa

57. Om Sharanaagata rakshakanae Saranam Ayyappa

58. Om Sharana ghosha priyanae Saranam Ayyappa

59. Om Shabarikku arul purindavanae Saranam Ayyappa

60. Om Shambhukumaaranae Saranam Ayyappa

61. Om Satya swaroopanae Saranam Ayyappa

62. Om Sankatam teerppavanae Saranam Ayyappa

63. Om Sanchalam azhippavanae Saranam Ayyappa

64. Om Shanmukha sodaranae Saranam Ayyappa

65. Om Dhanvantari moortiyae Saranam Ayyappa

66. Om Nambinorai kaakkum deivamae Saranam Ayyappa

67. Om Narttana priyanae Saranam Ayyappa

68. Om Pantala raajakumaaranae Saranam Ayyappa

69. Om Pambai baalakanae Saranam Ayyappa

70. Om Parasuraama poojithanae Saranam Ayyappa

71. Om Bhakta jana rakshakanae Saranam Ayyappa

72. Om Bhakta vatsalanae Saranam Ayyappa

73. Om Paramashivan puthiranae Saranam Ayyappa

74. Om Pambaa vaasanae Saranam Ayyappa

75. Om Parama dayaalanae Saranam Ayyappa

76. Om Manikanda porulae Saranam Ayyappa

77. Om Makara jyotiyae Saranam Ayyappa

78. Om Vaikkathu appan makanae Saranam Ayyappa

79. Om Kaanaka vaasanae Saranam Ayyappa

80. Om Kulattu puzhai baalakanae Saranam Ayyappa

81. Om Guruvaayoorappan makanae Saranam Ayyappa

82. Om Kaivalya pada daayakanae Saranam Ayyappa

83. Om Jaati mata bhedam illathavanae Saranam Ayyappa

84. Om Shivashakti Aikya svaroopanae Saranam Ayyappa

85. Om Sevippavarku aananda moorthiyae Saranam Ayyappa

86. Om Dushtar bhayam neekkubavanae Saranam Ayyappa

87. Om Devaadi devanae Saranam Ayyappa

88. Om Devargal tuyaram teerppavanae Saranam Ayyappa

89. Om Devendra poojitanae Saranam Ayyappa

90. Om Naaraayananmynthanae Saranam Ayyappa

91. Om Neiabhisheka priyanae Saranam Ayyappa

92. Om Pranava svaroopanae Saranam Ayyappa

93. Om Paapa samhaara moortiyae Saranam Ayyappa

94. Om Paayaasanna priyanae Saranam Ayyappa

95. Om Vanpuli vaagananae Saranam Ayyappa

96. Om Varapradaayaganae Saranam Ayyappa

97. Om Bhaagavatottamanae Saranam Ayyappa

98. Om Ponambala vaasanae Saranam Ayyappa

99. Om Mohini sutane Saranam Ayyappa

100. Om Mohana roopanae Saranam Ayyappa

101. Om Villan villaali veeranae Saranam Ayyappa

102. Om Veeramani kantanae Saranam Ayyappa

103. Om Sadguru nathanae Saranam Ayyappa

104. Om Sarva rokanivaarakanae Saranam Ayyappa

105. Om Sachithananda sorupiyae Saranam Ayyappa

106. Om Sarvaabheestha thayakanae Saranam Ayyappa

107. Om Saasvatapadam alippavanae Saranam Ayyappa

108. Om Patinettaam padikkutaiyanaadhane Saranam Ayyappa

Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa

Om Adiyen terindum teriyaamalum seidasakala Kutrangalaiyum poruttu kaattu rakshittuarula vendum, Shree satyamaana ponnupatinettaam padimel vaazhum om ShreeHarihara sutan kaliyugavaradan aanandachittan ayyan Ayyappa Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa