Rice Pizza

200 gm – Rice flour
50 gm – Peni Rava
1 cup - Chopped Onion
½ cup – grated Coconut
Finely chopped Coriander leaves
Finely chopped 3 green chilies
Salt, Refined oil

Mix rice flour, peni rava with finely chopped onion, coriander, grated coconut and chillies. Add required salt and water to make into dough consistency. Make small balls and keep it aside. Place wet white cloth on flattening stone, on this hand press the balls into size of a pizza. Transfer this piece on to hot tava by inverting the cloth with flat dough over it. Pour 3-4 spoons of oil on sides to fry. When color turns into deep golden, serve hot with any chutney or sambar. A lovely Indian pizza is ready!

Milk Poli

All are familiar with dhal pooranam (paruppu) poli, coconut poli but not Milk Poli. Take a cup of maidha and a cup of suji, mix well into dough. In a bowl boil a litre of milk with a cup of sugar, a pinch of saffron, cardamon seeds.

Make the dough into small balls, press and flatten like puris and fry in oil. As soon as it turns golden, drain the oil and transfer it to the sweet milk bowl. After soaking for a minute, take it with a wide chattuvam / annavti without damaging. Spread and arrange on a wide tray. Finally, pour the leftover milk on the arranged polis. Do not refrigerate it immediately. Leave it in kitchen temperature and after a day or two, keep it in fridge. The shelf life is for only 2-3 days.

Ingredients
Rava - 1 cup, maidha - 1 cup, oil to fry, sugar -2 cups, Milk - 1litre, saffron and cardamon as required.

Ural Puliyodharai

Take grated coconut (1 cup), dry red chilly (6), mustard (1 teaspoon), tamarind (1 marble size), salt and asofoetida and grind into coarse paste. Fry the paste in kadai with little oil, two chillies, 1 teaspoon uradhal/channa dhal, curryleaf, broken groundnuts, cashew nut till aroma fills you. Take 3-4 cups of cooked rice and mix evenly with this paste in the kadai. Garnish if required. Fried papad or vaththal is ideal side dish. Time taken is 15 minutes.

Since grinding stone was used in the past hence the name ural / rolu. This is Ural Puliyodharai in Tamil and Rolu Pulusu annam in Telugu.

Degree Filter Coffee

You would have tasted various types of coffee as prepared in Thanjavur, Kumbakonam, Kerala, etc. It would be a pleasure to witness our taste buds get tickled at the smell of roasted brew when we pass through a coffee grinding shop.
In Kerala, they pour powder directly in milk and boil. The sediments will settle down and some will float. In other vilages, they pour powder on a cotton cloth and tie up like a bulb and dip in boiling water to extract decoction. This will have a different likeable aroma.

Home preparation
Grind 1/2 kg Plantation-A berry coffee seeds for filter, then add 50gm chicory and you receive powder in packets. Many people pour out all packets in the container and soon the aroma goes missing within a week. Instead pour out the pack only when the container goes empty.

Pour 4-6 tb.spoon heaps of coffee powder in the metal filter, pour 100-150 ml of boiling water and close the lid. Allow the decocotion to collect at the bottom. Now boil fresh milk and allow the milk to rise. Now take the required quantity of decocotion and 2 spoons of sugar in a tumbler and to this add 2-4 karandi of milk. Now mix it well and this is degree coffee. If chicory is not added, decoction will be watery. It is your choice.

If you want you can add boiling water to the filter stuff a second time and extract decoction. The grade of decoction is low and not thick as the first. Don't prepare decoction and refrigerate in advance for a day.

Hotel preparation:
In hotels, they dry roast sugar to brown color and keep it aside. Whenever required hot coffee decoction is poured in dabarah with sugar. To this hot milk is added and mixed well until froth appears on top.

Tips: Don't reheat the preheated milk. For good result, boil fresh milk and use fresh decoction. Prepare coffee at home when all have assembled at the table. Simply heating the milk every time when each member turns up will spoil the coffee taste/aroma and result wil not be as expected.
Filter coffee lovers may not like Instant coffee . It is ideal in emergency.