Shavige Bath from Basic Ingredients

Shavige Bath

It is always a good practice to commence with cooking from basic ingredients. Starting from basic ingredients gives you a control to vary the ingredients to suit the taste of the persons whom you are going to serve. This is a very simple dish which can be made very very tasty within 20 to 30 minutes.

The basic ingredients.

 

You can add Curry leaves if you like. With minimum pressure between the fingers, crush the Shavige noodles so that length does not exceed around one inch. Select Long Capsicum and Long Carrots.

Steam cook all the vegetables in a large pan and covering with a glass lid. Glass lid will help in in seeing the status of the cooking inside the pan.

As the vegetables are getting cooked, fry Chana Dahl and udad Dahl together with Ground nuts and curry leaves. As they turn brown, keep them aside for later use.

Look inside the pan. When it is fully cooked, keep clean water boiling in a separate vessel and heat the water to the boil.

Add the boiling water around 1 cup and then Shavige noodles as it is boiling and stir slowly. At this stage you can add salt. Keep on adding Noodles and water proportionately, till you get a good consistency. Do not move away from the stove as the noodles will cook very fast. You can add little cooking oil, if need be. Keep the situation   purely under your control. Make horizontal, vertical and cross movements with the wooden spatula to keep the noodles without sticking to each other. Do not apply pressure.

 

When the Shavige has reached the consistency, add Chena Dahl, Udad Dahl, Groundnut mixture and turn the Shavige gently without exerting pressure.

Make criss cross movements with the spatula till the Shavige are uniformly laid out and at the end you can add a few coriander leaves for taste and look.

Shavige Bath	Quantity
Ingredients
Shavige Thin ( Anil)
Onion	4 to 6 small
Carrot	Big One
Beans	8 to10 Nos
Capsicum Green	Long 2 nos
Capsicum Red	Long 1 No
Capsicum Yellow	Long 1 no
Ground Nuts	16 to 20 Nos
Ginger	Finely chopped
Cashew Nuts	Optional
Mutter- Green Peas	25 to 30 grams
Turmeric Powder	One pinch
Say No to Tomato	No tomato
Sauteing
Cooking oil	2 teaspoon
Udad Dahl Round	10 to 15 nos
Chena Dahl	10 t0 15 nos
Curry leaves	10 to 12
Asafoetida	to taste
Salt	to taste

Best wishes Rangarajan Ramaswamy Bangalore 20 Nov 2014