Sajjige Bajil - Rosy Aunty

Recipe by Rosy Pinto


SAJJIGE 
Ingredients:
1 cup rava 
3 tbsp oil     
1-2 tsp ghee (optional)
1 tsp mustard seeds    
2 tsp urad dal                  
2 tsp chana dal
1 tbsp cashew nuts (chopped)          
10-15 curry leaves         
1-2 green chillies (chopped)
1/2" ginger (chopped)          
1 small onion                         
2 tbsp coriander  leaves (chopped)
2 1/2 cups water                         
3 tbsp grated coconut        
1 tsp sugar (to taste)
salt (to taste)

Steps:
  1. Heat a pan and roast rava on low flame, stirring from all the sides for 5 minutes and transfer it to a plate. 

  2. Heat oil in the same pan.
  3. Add mustard seeds and curry leaves. Saute well on low flame.
  4. Add urad dal, chana dal, cashew nuts and ginger and saute on low flame until dal turns golden 
  5. Add chopped green chilli and onion and saute for 1 to 2 minutes. 
  6. Add water, salt, sugar and bring it to boil
  7. Add roasted  rava slowly, keep stirring continuously to avoid lumps. Mix well and cook covered on low flame for 2 to 3 minutes.
  8. Add ghee, coconut and chopped coriander and mix. Cook for few seconds and switch off the flame. 
  9. ENJOY!

BAJIL 

2 cups thin poha/pov 
1/2 cup grated coconut  
3-4 tsp jaggery/sugar powdered  (to taste)
salt

For masala powder 
3 dry byadgi or Kashmiri chillies 
1 tbsp coriander seeds                               
1 tsp cumin seeds
curry leaves 
1 tsp oil (optional)

For tadka
1 tbsp oil or ghee 
1/2 tsp mustard
1/2 tsp urad dal      
1 sprig curry  leaves    
pinch of turmeric powder (optional)

Steps:

Masala powder
  1. In a pan, heat oil.
  2. Add chillies and coriander seeds, roast for few seconds 
  3. Add cumin and curry leaves. Roast for a minute on low flame.
  4. Once cooled, powder it.

  5. In a large mixing vessel, add coconut, jaggery, salt, masala powder and mix well. 
  6. Add pov and mix well with your fingers.
  7. In a tadka pan, heat ghee/oil.
  8. Add mustard, urad dal and saute well on medium low flame till it splutters.
  9. Add curry leaves and turmeric, switch off the flame,
  10. Pour over poha, mix and serve with sajjige,
  11. ENJOY!