DABBA menu flaws...! - Page 5

Originally posted by: deejagi

In south India, we do make Rotis with Rice flour but that is tricky. We have to use warm (rather hot water) to knead the flour so that it doesn't give away while making roties. So she was clever enough to add some maida, so that it binds rice flour but taste will not be the same. Still OK. Both teh teams were making roties and in south it is more famous to add a spicy chatni (made out of coconut,). I could not see the plain rice from either of the team but both teams had prepared sambar (for what?)

However rather than discording the entire batter, they could have mixed enough qty. of souji and prepared soji dosa or utthappam. Or they caould have added some suger which binds and allow the appam to come out well.

Jaya

Originally posted by: deejagi

In south India, we do make Rotis with Rice flour but that is tricky. We have to use warm (rather hot water) to knead the flour so that it doesn't give away while making roties. So she was clever enough to add some maida, so that it binds rice flour but taste will not be the same. Still OK. Both teh teams were making roties and in south it is more famous to add a spicy chatni (made out of coconut,). I could not see the plain rice from either of the team but both teams had prepared sambar (for what?)

However rather than discording the entire batter, they could have mixed enough qty. of souji and prepared soji dosa or utthappam. Or they caould have added some suger which binds and allow the appam to come out well.

Jaya

@bold exactly...Sambar is usually used with plain rice or dosa

Originally posted by: -allizwell-

Was Rasam too in the list???😕

I thnk so...

and avial...its a curry used with rice ...Y they prepared it if dey didnt cook rice 😕

Originally posted by: -allizwell-

Thanks for the info. Jaya.😃

I have not heard about the rice rotis before... so this roti must be needing quite good quantity oil to cook it right...without or without maida... though maida helps as a binding agent...

Yeah plain rice is a better option compared to ghee rice as all don't prefer ghee on rice... especially when Sambhar is an accompaniment...!

They cud have added sooji, right, but without a proper fermentation, uthappams dont taste that good dear...!But for the thickness of the batter , it wud have defn. helped...!

But even if it is over fermented also, we can't remove it from the tava. Rather than keeping the batter aside till the end, they could have checked the consistancy in the begining which would have helped them to rework on that. If it wa over fermented, they could have added some rice flour (some salt to taste) and kept asiade. If it was less fermented, they could have added little qty. of baking soda and small portion of rice flour and mixed it by adding warm water (keep the container either on a vessel which is filled with some warm water or something warm) . They had 2 hours which would have been sufficient to gte the required fermentation. Jaya

Originally posted by: -allizwell-

Thanks for the info. Jaya.😃

I have not heard about the rice rotis before... so this roti must be needing quite good quantity oil to cook it right...without or without maida... though maida helps as a binding agent...

Yeah plain rice is a better option compared to ghee rice as all don't prefer ghee on rice... especially when Sambhar is an accompaniment...!

They cud have added sooji, right, but without a proper fermentation, uthappams dont taste that good dear...!But for the thickness of the batter , it wud have defn. helped...!

No, it doesn't require more oil. Since we use hot water to prepare the dough, it will be slightly doe and just smear teh oil on both side while flipping it. You can use it with out oil also. Further you can prepare it plain or masala roti.

Originally posted by: anusha.cochin

I thnk so...

and avial...its a curry used with rice ...Y they prepared it if dey didnt cook rice 😕

Originally posted by: deejagi

Normally South Indian meals go into a plotter. It is not anything and everything. But here they did what ever they wanted or heard of but things were not in combination.

Jaya

I m also South Indian...we usually have samabar and avial with plain rice only

Sambar s combination with dosa/iddli

But deir dishes are not n combination I thnk

I haven't read all the comments but agree with the ones I have.
I am originally from Kerala and have a good idea about cooking ( and eating!!) keralite food ( especially south kerala). Some of my points -

Avial is something that's commonly had for lunch but with plain white rice. I love avial, fish curry, moru (saw that in the menu when aditi went to change the prices) , some thoran and fish fry (yummy). My mum makes the best avial in the world. I miss it 😭

Thoran is a generic word - basically a vegetable cooked with grounded coconut. It can be cabbage thoran(the one they made) or pyar(beans) thoran or carrot-cabbage thoran. I have never seen brinjal thoran - that doesn't mean you can't make it - dunno if it's done in the other south indian states.

Brinjal is more for mezhuku poratiyathu, which roughly is vegetable but without coconut. We use ladiesfinger, brinjal or even carrot , cabbage for mezhuku poratiyathu.

We have naychoru (nay= ghee and choru = rice) with chicken or mutton - it's has keralite muslim origins.My mother makes it quite well and it's something we have with chicken or mutton when she can't be bothered to make biriyani. No way naychoryu goes with avial or sambhar, if someone served me that I would probably just walk out.

Actually when they were trying to make uttapum , i was surprised to see them doing it on a 'appa chatti'(the vessel used to cook 'appam' another breakfast/dinner bread delicacy of kerala)

I am grossly disappointed with this episode of masterchef , what with the dramabaazi and getting even the basic combinations wrong. It looks like the judges help a lot , couldn't they point the contestants in the right direction.

Like someone else mentioned in this thread, take it as one of those Kekta serials with the good looking guy(ripu although he's irritating me now), weepy heroine(yasmeen), underdog (khoku), happy go lucky guy(happy), nice saas(nisha) and well for vamp (it will have to be doyel). The rest of them , I can't be bothered to find roles.

yesterday Red team was serving avial with Malabari porotta 😕...Never heard of such a combination