Dhideer Shaavige ---------------- Courtesy: Harish Amble Too tired? No time to cook an eloborate meal? Uninvited guests at your place all of a sudden? Single and trying to please your date with your culinary talents? Here's a recipe which you can prepare within 15 minutes and still satisfy the taste buds of most people (especially kannadigas). Do you remember those "Oththu Shaamige" eaten with both kaara type and with Paayasa. Rice noodles (called "Oththu Shaamige" in kannada) is still a long process in karnataka. It takes atleast 2 hours to prepare just the wet rice noodles with all those baking and steaming. But here in U.S it is easily available either at the Indian or Chines stores. Try to look at the ingradients of the packet before buying (should be only rice and water). Don't buy the ones with eggs in them. Here's a recipe for Kaarada "oththu shaamige". Ingradients: ------------ Base: ---- Rice noodles - One packet will feed atleast 10 people Mixture: ------- 1/2 cup coconut (Freshly grated preferred) 5-8 green or red chillies 1/4 teaspoon of coriander seeds A dash of Hingu (Asofoteida) OggaraNe: --------- 2 tablespoons of NelagaDale kaayi beeja (Raw peanuts) 1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds 5-6 leaves kari bhevu (kaDi paththa) [473 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=04_1997&mid=4966294&hilit=RAVE> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 04_1997&4681394 Score: 91 Subject: V: Audio-Cds