Mini tiffin

Recipe Cuisine: Indian |  Recipe Category: Breakfast/ Brunch
Prep Time: 30 mins   |  Cook time: 1 & 1/2 hrs |  Serves:3-4 | Author: Raks anand
Mini tiffin, Saravana bhavan style with mini idli, sambar, masala dosa, upma, kesari and chutneys. How to plan and prepare this special breakfast at home.

What all you need to prepare this menu?

• Idli dosa batter
• Onion
• Tomato
• Potato
• Coriander leaves
• Coconut
• Semolina/ rava/ Sooji
• Sugar
• Ghee

Apart from other dry ingredients like toor dal (for sambar), oil, tempering items, cashews.

How to prepare mini tiffin:

1. Chopping work :
   *Onion for sambar (I used small onion), red chutney, upma, potato masala.
   *Tomato for sambar, red chutney
   *Coconut for chutneys (I grate in bulk and freeze)
   *Coriander for chutney, sambar, curry leaves for all items, green chillies for sambar, upma, potato masala, chutneys.
2. Now on to the stove work. First pressure cook toor dal (I keep tamarind inside too for easy extraction of pulp) and potato, placed in two different vessels.
3. While the you can prepare kesari and upma. You can make kesari the before day itself and reheat to serve. But I did the same day. Kesari takes less time than upma. So prepare first kesari and then upma.
4. Set both in hot pack or keep covered aside.
5. By now, cooker should be ready to open. Prepare sambar let it boil in one stove, while you make ready the potato masala for masala dosa.
6. Lastly grind chutneys and temper (together) for the chutneys. After you take some tadka for coconut and coriander chutneys, you can prepare the red chutney in it (as it needs a boil).
7. Once all are ready, Make idli and dosa hot to serve.