Tomato Besan Omelette (No Egg)

This is a healthy and tasty breakfast dish. It is very easy to make too.

2 cups of besan (chickpea flour)
1 cup wheat flour
1 big finely chopped tomatoes
2 to 3 green chillis finely chopped
1/4 cup Mint leaves finely chopped
1/2 cup Coriander leaves finely chopped
few curry leaves chopped
1 tsp grated ginger
salt
Mix all the ingredients. Add water and mix to make a batter (like a pancake/dosa batter)
Heat a flat Omelette pan. Spread some oil in the pan. Pour the batter in the pan like an Omelette. Cook on both sides on medium high flame. Serve hot with ketchup or hot sauce.

Masala Vada

Here is our family's favorite breakfast dish/snack .

Chana Dal - 1 cup
Urad Dal - 1/3 cup
Moong Dal - 1/3 cup
Toor Dal - 1/3 cup
Green chilies - 2 to 3 finely chopped
Ginger - 1" cube grated
Garlic - 3 cloves crushed and chopped
Onion - 1 medium - finely chopped
Coriander leaves - 1 cup finely chopped
Mint - 1/2 cup finely chopped
Salt to taste
Oil to fry
Soak all Dals for about 1hr. Do not soak overnight.
Take 1/2 cup of mixture of all dals and keep it aside. Grind the rest coarsely in a food processor without adding water. Add all the other ingredients. Mix well and make 2" round flat vadas. Deep fry in oil until golden brown. Serve hot with chutneys.

Tomato Pickle

Hot pickle recipe from my mom's kitchen...

Chop tomatoes. Add tomatoes to a deep dutch oven type pan. Cook on medium heat until the tomatoes become soft and most of the water from tomatoes is evaporated. Mix in regular intervals so that tomatoes don't burn when they start thickening. Turn off the stove when it gets to pickle consistency.
Add red chilli powder, salt, cumin powder and methi powder to taste.

For tadka: Heat oil ( As it is a pickle, it needs lot of oil) and add cumin and mustard seeds, urad dal, dry red chillis, curry leaves, ginger garlic paste(about 1 tsp per cup of pickle).
Saute until the ginger garlic paste is browned and add it to the pickle. Mix well and cool it down.

Store it in the fridge in an air tight jar. This pickle will stay upto 1 month. Serve with idli, dosa, paratha, rice etc.