Gun Appam Aloo

So, we got a little innovative here, no idea actually what we were going to do. We happened to meet up and eat at a small south indian shop and among other things ate ghee onion mysore masala dosa. Ghee was a game changer, raising the dosa quality to another level. Thats where we got the idea of gun-appam-aloo which is a combination of gun powder, appam and aloo bhaji. Ended up being really tasty and was extremely satisfying sharing it with everyone which was our original idea of sharing tasty food with whoever we can.   

Ingredients

• Double Horse Palappam Mix - 8 Kg
• Potato - 10 kg
• Onion - 4 Kg
• Tomato - 2 Kg
• Tamrind - 0.5 Kg
• Bedgi Mirchi - 150 gms
• Guntur Mirchi - 150 gms
• Shengana - 1 Kg
• Chutney Chana - 0.5 Kg
• Urad Dal - 300 gms
• Chana Dal - 0.5 Kg
• Ghee - 2 Kg
• Green chilly - 200 gms
• Ginger - 200 gms
• Coriander - 1 Big
• Sugar, salt, haldi, jeera powder, chilli powder

Preparation

Gunpowder

• Saute shengana, urad dal, chana dal, bedgi mirchi, guntur mirchi till all are roasted. Keep aside and cool
• Then grind the above in mixer and add little tamrind, salt and sugar. Grind so that the mixture is a coarse powder, it should not be fine powder

Appam

• Mix 0.5 kg appam powder with 4 table spoon sugar, 1/2 tea spoon salt and 850 ml luke warm water and grind in a mixer for 1 minute
• Keep batter aside for 1 hour to ferment

Aloo

• Boil potatoes
• In another vessel, heat oil and add ginger and green chillies and saute
• Add little onions, haldi and saute
• Add jeera powder, chilli powder and saute
• Add boiled potatoes, salt and mix

Final Gun-appam-aloo

• In a vessel, heat oil, add onions and saute
• Add tomatoes and saute. Then turn off gas and keep this onion/tomatoes mixture aside in a vessel
• Pour appam batter on a normal tawa like dosa and heat both sides
• Then add gunpowder over the dosa to cover entire dosa
• Add ghee on the gunpowder
• Then take aloo bhaji and smear on the gun powder making a layer of flat aloo bhaji on entire appam dosa
• Fold dosa and cut into 2 pieces