Chowdeshwari Temple in middle of Shiraadi Ghat

This is something we were planning during every car journey however could not make it due to various reasons. This time during our return journey from Bangalore to Kaup we halted at this place. Since we had started from bangalore around 5AM, we could easily reach here around 10:30AM. This place at the border of Dakshina-Kannada and Hassan district along NH-75 and belongs to Haanubaalu hobali of Sakaleshpur Taluk. Devi Chowdeshwari is facing eastwards. There is a small seva counter too! The place is around 9kms from Gundya Forest Gate. Gundya River flows besides the temple. There was not much water in river. During Monsoon, you will see it full vigor ;-). The hillock near by has railway tracks which runs between Sakaleshpur and Subramanya Road. It was very much hazy and could not grab good picture [can capture good train video with zoom lens of 300mm ;-)]. CPL filters would have done great job here since Sun was approximately around 90 degrees to plane. There is Nagabana here too! Lots of truck stop here to take blessings or just too have small rest (there are shops nearby) or to have fun in river [any of three may be applicable :-)]. We did not go near by river since we had to leave for Subramanya. Nevertheless nice place to enjoy temple with beautiful western ghats :-). Here are some pictures

BEHIND THE TEMPLE

THE DEITY - CHOWDESHWARI

GUNDYA RIVER - NOT MUCH WATER (SEE REAR END)

TEMPLE PREMISES

SHIRAADI GHAT

SIDE VIEW OF TEMPLE

NH-75 TOWARDS MANGALORE

NH-75 TOWARDS SAKALESHPUR

Visit to Devarayanadurga and Namada Chilume

This is my second visit to some noted places nearby Tumkur area. First one was Goravanahalli Mahalakshmi Temple. This time I had decided to visit Devarayanadurga and Namada Chilume. There are many places which are worth watching however I did not have own vehicle (car is at native place). As usual I planned to start early Sunday morning, however some pending work and breakfast preparation took some time. I took the bike till KG Road since there are no buses to majestic from my place. I parked at Kempegowda Maharaja Complex. They were charging Rs.25 for 12 hrs.

After reaching Majestic bus stand, I enquired a bus conductor about the buses to Devarayanadurga. He guided me to take buses destined to Pavagada and get down in between at oordigere. From there I can get autos which take us to temple. The bus was ready and started towards Dabaspet. The fare is Rs.53/-. There was no traffic at all. It was around 10:10AM the bus started. Surprisingly there was traffic jam in Jalahalli Cross and Dabaspet toll gate :-(. This may be because of high traffic density and people not tendering exact change. The jams near toll gates added almost 25 minutes delay. After 90 minutes of journey I reached Oordigere. As soon as I alighted, autos were calling for passengers towards Devarayanadurga temple. I asked auto guy to dedicate the auto to me for the day and show me all the places nearby. We agreed upon a fare and started towards the temple.  Some pictures enroute to temple

YOU CAN START FROM BOTTOM OF HILL

THE YOGANARASIMHA TEMPLE VIEW

The temple is around 6kms from Oordigere. There are two temples. One below and one above the hillock. The below one is known as BhogaLakshmiNarasimha temple while the above one YogaLakshmiNarasimha temple. There is an entrance fee for private vehicles too! First he carried me to hillock temple. The hillock temple is open till 5PM only while the below one I believe 7:30PM. The vehicle has to climb the hill through steep turns and can reach until a point. From there on one has two step towards the hill for about 200 in number. Watch out for monkey herd in between. Do not dare to hold any food items open. They will easily snatch without any hesitation. They did not bother about DSLR. Probably they know in advance the publicity they get from DSLRs ;-). One can also step into the hill from bottom if wished. But it may be more than 1000 I believe. The steps are pretty well renovated. Enjoy the scenic rocky mountain view in between. I took many pics but cannot post everything here ;-). Some pictures

HANUMAN IDOL CARVED ON THE BOULDER

WE ARE READY TO CLIMB!

ROCKY HILL VIEW IN BETWEEN

ONE MORE VIEW OF AMAZING HILLS!

The deity was very well decorated at the time I went. The temple premises seems to be recently renovated. Small sevas are also conducted here. However may be due to lack of space, they do not undertake larger ones. There are magnificent boulders in between. They are so well balanced too! Near the temple a small pushkarini can be seen and also Anjaneya temple. While stepping towards temple also one can visit Anajaneya temple. Do not miss the tasty cucumber and churumuri at the entrance. The churumuri just costs Rs.10/- with so many ingredients! They are really so tasty [I had around 5 cucumber pieces at a time with lime+salt+vegetables ;-)]. Also do not miss tender coconut water. Some people in their blogs had cited these eatables as unhealthy, however they are not atleast for me may be because I was grown up in village environment. We had enjoyed such things a lot during our childhood including churmuri in beach side despite the sand movement. So after so many pics taken, we moved towards the temple below the hillock.  Here are some pictures from hillock

HERE WE ARE FINALLY IN TEMPLE

VIEW FROM INSIDE

HUGE BOULDERS!

PUSHKARINI OF TEMPLE

FULL VIEW OF TEMPLE

It was already around 1:30PM when we reached the temple below the hill. This is BhogaLakshmiNarasimhaTemple. The deity looked similar to what was seen except expression on face. However crowd here was not so much or were they enjoying food? There is free lunch served near by temple in Anna Dasoha bhavan from 12PM to 3:30PM. One can even donate to this cause. This temple is also renovated and has more area too! I had lunch in Anna Dasoha bhavan and donated some money too! The lunch was very much simple and thats the way it should be. Rice, sambar, buttermilk and bit of payasam were the ingredients of lunch. It was tasty too since I was hungry :-). There are also monkeys and buffaloes near by temple.  Here are pictures nearby temple

BHOGA NARASIMHA TEMPLE BELOW HILL

VIEW OF HILL FROM BOTTOM

After my lunch which took some time, we moved to Namada Chilume. It has some mythology behind it too! There is small hole from where water spills out throughout the year. When I went it was not spillings but had water filled. There is fence around the point to protect from mangling by people. There are huge herds of nasty monkeys too. Also place belongs to Forest Department. Since it was spring, most trees had just shed their leaves. There are also lot of deers being fostered by forest department. You can also see lot of snack booths nearby. The entrance is Rs.3/- per head.  Here is a picture.

NAMADA CHILUME

It is believed that Lord Rama during vanavaasa had come here. He wanted to apply Tilak on his forehead. However there was no water nearby. Consequently he pierced the rock with arrow which resulted in water emerging out of the area. He used that water to apply Tilak. Since the water emerged due to reason Lord Rama wanted to apply Tilak, place is called Namada Chilume.

Two boys pleaded to take shot of theirs. I took some for their satisfaction. Seems like children of construction workers. They were really excited when I showed them pics. They asked me what would I do with pictures. I said will show it to many people so that they come here and shoot many pictures of you.

BOYS!

That's it end of my short journey. The rickshaw driver dropped me to Oordigere bus stop around 3:30PM. He was patient enough to wait for me all the time. I handed over him the money and my thanks! The buses here are infrequent and hence I went for quick tour of small town. Oh my God! Look at the fresh vegetables. They are so cheap and so nice! There were lot varieties too especially carrot, radish and green leafy vegetables. I do not require more so I bought only beans and carrot. My mother would have bought all of them I believe :-). Have a glance of oordigere market.

DO NOT MISS FRESH VEGETABLES IN OORDIGERE

I did not have much time since the bus arrived after 15 minutes. The bus was jam packed still managed a place to stand. I had to stand till Bangalore. Never mind, experienced it before too! Time for my DSLR to sleep for sometime before next journey. Unfortunately the bus got punctured near Dabaspet toll gate. Fortunately not within village limits which would have made us difficult for alternate transport. Driver was lamenting that roads past Oordigere towards Pavagada are in really in bad shape. Further to add to their pain, authorities force them to maintain time which compels them to drive with less care on those stretches. Finally we boarded alternate KSRTC bus to Bangalore and it was 5:30 when it reached Majestic bus stand.

There are many places nearby like Goravanahalli Mahalakshmi Temple, Siddarabetta, Shivagange, Siddaganga Mutt etc.. However you need have own vehicle. That is the best option to enjoy these places. It would cost less too if you can sum up many people! Despite so much physical stress, I enjoyed the journey to max especially my DSLR :-) which took some great shots. Due to severe sun, I used view finder most of the time rather than live view for focusing. All photos were taken either in Av or M mode. At times I bumped up ISO to 800 to get interiors of temple but forgot to revert for outdoors. Fortunately I noticed pretty early before most shots grained out! Few pictures are edited using GIMP.

The best way to visit these places is by private vehicles. If you are traveling by bus, take a bus destined to Pavagada and alight at Oordigere. You can find many rickshaws plying to temple. They take around Rs.30/- per head for below temple and a bit more for above temple. Note that this is applicable for one way journey only. If you are traveling by private vehicle, reach Dabaspet town and take right deviation beneath NH-4 fly over. Ask locals who are the best people to guide. 14kms after, you will reach Oordigere town (you can recognise by seeing huge stocks of vegetables road side!). After Oordigere town, travel 1km along the same route and you will find a welcome gopura which will lead you to Devarayanadurga. Free meals is served in temple below from 12PM to 3:30PM. If you do not want them, carry your own food since there are only good snacks but not restaurants. The nearest place is tumkur itself which is around 20kms. Near to Dabaspet, there is Kamath Upahar also!

ಟೋಮಾಟೊ ತಂಬೂಳಿ

ಬಹಳ ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ತಯಾರಿಸಬಹುದಾದ ತಂಬೂಳಿ! ಬೇಗನೆ ತಯಾರಿಸಬಹುದು ಕೂಡ.

ಬೇಕಾಗುವ ಸಾಮಾಗ್ರಿಗಳು:

೧) ಮೊಸರು : ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟು
೨) ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ ಪದಾರ್ಥಗಳು: ಸಾಸಿವೆ, ಉದ್ದಿನ ಬೇಳೆ, ಬ್ಯಾಡಗಿ ಮೆಣಸು, ಕರಿಬೇವು ಸೊಪ್ಪು.
೩) ಟೋಮಾಟೊ : ಬೇಕಾಗುವಷ್ಟು.

ಮೊದಲು ಬಾಣಲಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ತುಪ್ಪ ಅಥವಾ ಎಣ್ಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ ತಯಾರಿಸಿ. ತಯಾರಾದ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆಗೆ ತುರಿದ ಟೋಮಾಟೊ ಸೇರಿಸಿ. ಟೋಮಾಟೊ ಹದವಾಗುವಷ್ಟು ಫ್ರೈ ಮಾಡಿ. ಒಂದು ತಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮೊಸರು ಮತ್ತು ಅದಕ್ಕೆ ಬೇಕಾಗುವಷ್ಟು ಉಪ್ಪು ಸೇರಿಸಿಡಿ. ನಂತರ ಬಾಣಲಿಯಲ್ಲಿನ ಮಿಶ್ರಣವನ್ನು ಮೊಸರಿನ ತಟ್ಟೆಗೆ ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಕಲಸಿ. ರುಚಿಯಾದ ತಂಬೂಳಿ  ತಯಾರು! ನಂತರ ಅನ್ನದೊಂದಿಗಿ ಕಲಸಿ ಆನಂದಿಸಿ :-)

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A day visit to Murudeshwara and Idagunji

This year end shutdown 2012 I had planned to visit nearby places. Consequently ended up in Murudeshwara and Idagunji. The journey was just for a day. It is hardly 2:30hrs journey from our place. We started at 8:30 AM and reached 11:30 AM. The heavy traffic between Kaup and Kundapur put breaks on our smooth journey. Since father was recovering from illness only me and mother traveled. This time it is Maruti Ritz VDi which was our transport :-). One never get strained driving this car and experience with CRDi engines is really awesome!

As always I mention in my previous posts, the travel between Mangalore and Karwar is real heaven with beautiful landscape, rivers, konkan railway tunnels, western ghats and sometimes beaches. As usual we stopped in Maravanthe beach for some time before proceeding further. The day was bit hazy so not the best time for photography unless you have ND or CPL filters. Still I captured some pictures of Souparnika River and Arabian Sea. There are some marine drive videos too ;-). I will upload sometimes later. Here are some pictures!

SOUPARNIKA RIVER NEAR MARAVANTHE BEACH

Around 11:30AM we reached Murudeshwara. We could get darshan of Lord Murudeshwara and had lunch in temple itself. Lunch was very good. Later we went to see Lord Shiva statue atop of hill. Also we went to beach. The sea was pretty much rough. There was huge crowd too! I wanted to have boat ride along sea but we did not have backup clothes. One had to walk for certain distance in sea water to have boat ride. We stayed till 4PM before leaving to Idagunji. Idagunji is only 20 minute drive from Murudeshwara. We had darshan and left from there. It was only 30 minute stay. I wanted to visit Honnavar to have look at majestic Sharavati river basin. However due to lack of time we dropped that plan. Here are pictures from Murudeshwara and Idagunji.

MURUDESHWARA TEMPLE

VIEW FROM ENTRANCE

VIEW FROM TEMPLE PREMISES - 1

VIEW FROM TEMPLE PREMISES -2

THE 117 FEET HIGH PINNACLE

THE MURUDESHWARA BEACH

SHIVA STATUE ATOP HILL

OM NAMO BHAGAVATHE RUDRAYA!

SHIVALINGA INSIDE HILL TEMPLE

MAJESTIC SHIVA FACING PINNACLE

IDAGUNJI VINAYAKA TEMPLE

TASTY CUCUMBER FOR HUMID WEATHER

We started around 5PM from Idagunji and again stopped at Maravanthe beach. There was really beautiful sky waiting for us there :-). I captured photos and video of the sky. Around 8:30PM we reached Kaup again. Here is one snap of evening sky in Maravanthe Beach

BEAUTIFUL SKY, MARAVANTHE BEACH

We chose Murudeshwara specifically for long time stay since we could not spend time during our last visits. Uttara Kannada district is the beautiful district in Karnataka in my opinion. During Monsoon, the district is simply awesome place to visit! I can never forget 4km scenic journey from Manki to Idagunji.

The videos!

Here I am back with boring videos ;). Please watch and comment for improvements. The video editor is the KDENLIVE under Linux, magnificent open source software. Watch the video of Murudeshwara and beautiful sky of Maravanthe beach!

Amazing ghat journey in Karwar-Yeshwantpur day train

Finally my day had arrived to travel in KAWR-YPR day train to enjoy the beautiful shiraadi ghat. I had the tickets booked way back 2 months from day of travel. So it was first day of new year when I travelled. The new day after the journey had really become so much memorable. So here are excerpts from journey.

I had to really rush to Udupi station since I started around 8:00AM and train was scheduled to depart from Udupi station at 8:40AM. The early morning truck traffic made the things miserable. Also the railway station of Udupi is near to manipal and not in heart of town. Somehow managed to reach by 8:40. LOL :D the announcement came that train will arrive around 9:20AM. I had no choice and sit idle for sometime with other waiting passengers. Finally train arrived around 9:40AM an hour late than schedule. The train started chugging towards Mangalore. It was around 1:30PM when the train reached Subramanya Road station. There was not so much rush until train reached Subramanya Road. I had booked Chair Car so that I do not get distracted by crowd ;). Eventually as expected the CC was 25% empty! There are some reasons which delays the train

1) The engine reversal has to happen in Mangalore junction and Arasikere junction
2) An extra engine has to be fit at the back in Subramanya Road to power the train up the ghats

These procedures add cumulative delay of around 1hr. That is the pain point. Anyways there is no work around even.

The train started moving slowly towards the ghat from Subramanya Road station. It does not cross 25kmph in ghats. The automatic break systems make sure that train speed is within limits. I was really excited when the train enetered first tunnel. People were whistling and screaming with joy. Some people like me were silently enjoying while others were sleeping ;). It is just amazing to see the western ghats throughout the journey. It is almost 2:30hrs journey for 55kms. Still you never feel journey to be such long. There are approximately 50 tunnels in the stretch which makes it nearly a tunnel/km. The same scenes are rarely visible along road i.e. the field of landscape. On road, you see hills at some places however the field of landscape is not vast and ofcourse no tunnels! I captured around 20GB of 1080p video and at the end battery drained. I had no backup battery even. Nevertheless I caught most of the journey. I did not capture any pictures since it requires time for focussing (I do not own Fast lens). No manual video mode since I did not wanted to spoil my maiden journey through ghats in train. May be next time I will try since it is no more maiden. I want to travel again in this train through the ghats during peak monsoon season. However would prefer from Sakaleshpur rather than Subramanya.

Overall the journey through ghats was wonderful and breath-taking. However it is really not worth travelling till Bangalore since it takes around 12 hrs and reaches bangalore around 10PM. It is difficult to commute at that time within city. Some non-exhaustive tips from my side

1) If you want to travel uphill, travel till Sakaleshpur and have some alternative
2) If you want to travel downhill, start from Sakaleshpur and travel till Mangalore since it reaches by 8
3) July Monsoon season is the best time to have journey provided there are no landslips in ghat.
4) Have sufficient food. In between Subramanya-Sakaleshapura no rail vendors can be seen.
5) Have backup battery if you are shooting videos extensively.
6) If you are travelling from Subramanya to Sakaleshpur, sit on left side footboard (and vice versa). The left part has most of the scenic view.

As always, the video was composed in KDENLIVE under Linux Mint 14. Enjoy 25 minute scenic journey through dense rain forest. Please watch full length if possible :-).
Watch all my channel videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/nakumar85/videos

Here is write-up of journey during peak monsoon season: http://paadooru.blogspot.com/2013/11/enchanting-train-journey-along.html

A year of youtube activity

It has been one year since I have started uploading videos onto YouTube (Even though I joined around 5 years ago). Since then I have uploaded around 33 videos and more to come. Initial days I did not knew about video editing and HD. That is the reason initial videos have no wide screen capture [even if my camera supports it :-)]. Once I could realize this, it has been all HD widescreen except for few old videos. Since I started uploading, the channel has seen considerable views but not much. In-spite of less views, I will continue uploading many videos. All videos are captured by me with no duplicates and wherever required suitable credit has been given to the audio used.

All of my videos (barring initial 4) are created using KDENLIVE, free open source non linear Video Editor. It has got great capabilities and my experience so far has been excellent. I have not yet enabled Adsense in YouTube. I will definitely donate  to the open source project if I enable AdSense and earn some money :-).

On this day, I am sharing 1080p video of my hometown kaup beach. This time there are clips with view from atop of light house. It is breath taking view from the top. The clips were shot with Canon EOS 550D with 18-55mm kit lens. I used 1080p, 25fps PAL encoding. The video was composed with 1080p, 25fps and h.264 encoding. Watch and enjoy. Please share if it is worth :-)

Severe traffic jam at shiraadi ghat near Sakaleshpur

This was taken during wee hours of Saturday morning 24-Nov-2012. Something familiar from past many years. Only difference was that I captured it for first time in camera. A truck accident took toll on the travelers on this way as the traffic remained stagnant for more than 3 hours. Even though huge trucks are not allowed during night, some sneak in after having understanding with security personnel and create such kind of havoc. It is difficult to clear the jam in such terrains and there are no emergency team here as of now. Even mobile network is inaccessible which creates more problem. Fortunately the incident happened somewhat near to Sakaleshpur so the traffic people could clear things at the earliest. It has been almost 5 years since the government officials kept on saying about concretion of shiraadi ghat road. However no progress has been made so far and not sure it will make any. It is believed that local contractors are major hurdle for improving the ghat road since it may block their maintenance money flow.

Unfortunately I did not see the news in newspapers at-least I see :(. The media which craves in to get garbage news out of mangalore never bothers to report such incidents. This would at-least help many people who suffer in such traffic jams. As somebody said world is full of contradictions :(.

The video was taken with canonSX210IS and edited using KDENLIVE under linux. Since it was dark, the video has come out bit noisier. Watch the short video. I create videos not only to show something but also to test my skills. Leave a comment if you have any improvement points.

Deepavali gift to myself

This deepavali I gifted a weird stuff [relatively ;)] to myself. It is quite unusual too. So what was it? I was scratching my head so much from many days that why my camera does not see like my eye. After so much R&D around net, I finally understood that I need a 50mm lens :D. The search was ON. First 50mm/f1.2 IS USM lens. I was shocked at its price and immediately went to 50mm/f1.4 IS USM lens. Its cost was also very high :(. The only option was 50mm/f1.8 EF II lens. It was relatively cheap than rest two. However the major drawback is no IS :(. The lack of IS could be felt sometimes. Nevertheless it is quite good for a beginner though. So I tested some captures and videos in my hometown and it came quite nice. I could achieve very nice shallow depth of field. The best thing about the lens is that it can maintain f/1.8 even at high shutter speeds. At nights it can grab more light so that you can capture very good image. I also captured some videos+images in beach side. I know it is not meant for landscape but still wanted to have a try ;). Overall it is good buy for money.

So here is the compilation of images and videos I took in my 50mm lens. All of them [Images+Videos] were taken in Manual Mode with lens in Manual Focus.

As every-time please comment on video so that I can improve further.

Music: Rank 1 - Airwave (Aaron static 2009 remix)

ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ

ಇಂದಿನ ತಿಂಡಿ ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ! ಸಾಮಾಗ್ರಿಗಳು ಇದ್ದರೆ 15 ನಿಮಿಷದ ಕೆಲಸ ಅಷ್ಟೇ ;). ನಾನು ತಯಾರಿಸುವ ವಿಧಾನವನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಮಹಾರಾಷ್ಟ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಇದನ್ನು ವಿಭಿನ್ನ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ತಯಾರಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ.

ಬೇಕಾಗುವ ಸಾಮಾಗ್ರಿಗಳು:

1) ದಪ್ಪ ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿ - 3/4 ಲೋಟೆ
2) ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ ಸಾಮಾಗ್ರಿಗಳು (ಎಣ್ಣೆ, ಸಾಸಿವೆ, ಕಡಲೆ ಬೇಳೆ, ಶೇಂಗಾ, ಘಾಟಿ ಮೆಣಸು, ಕರಿಬೇವು ಸೊಪ್ಪು)
3) ಹುಣಸೆ ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ನೀರು
4) ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಬೆಲ್ಲ
5) ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ತುರಿದ ತೆಂಗಿನಕಾಯಿ

ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ

ಮೊದಲು ದಪ್ಪ ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿಯನ್ನು ತೊಳೆದು 5 ನಿಮಿಷ ನೆನೆಯಲು ಬಿಡಿ. ನಂತರ ನೀರನ್ನು ಚೆಲ್ಲಿ ಸೋಸಲು ಇಡಿ (ಒಣಗಲಿಕ್ಕಾಗಿ). ಇದೆ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಾಣಲಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆಗೆ ಇಡಿ. ತುಪ್ಪದ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆಯಾದರೆ ರುಚಿ ವೃದ್ಧಿಸುವುದು. ಸಾಸಿವೆ, ಕಡಲೆ ಬೇಳೆ, ಶೇಂಗಾ, ಮೆಣಸು, ಕರಿಬೇವು ಸೊಪ್ಪು ಸರಿಯಾದ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆಗೆ ಹಾಕಿ ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟು ಫ್ರೈ ಮಾಡಿ. ತದನಂತರ ಹುಣಸೆ ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ನೀರನ್ನು ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆಗೆ ಹಾಕಿ. ನೀರನ್ನು ಬಿಸಿ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆಗೆ ಹಾಕುವುದರಿಂದ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಮೆಲ್ಲನೆ ಜಾಗರೂಕತೆಯಿಂದ ಹಾಕಿ. ನೀರಿನ ಮಿಶ್ರಣಕ್ಕೆ ತುಂಡು ಬೆಲ್ಲ ಸೇರಿಸಿ. ಕಡೆಗೆ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಉಪ್ಪು ಹಾಗು ಚಿಟಿಕೆ ಅರಿಶಿನ ಪುಡಿ ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಕುದಿಯಲು ಬಿಡಿ. ಸಿಮ್ಮಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕುದಿಸಿ. ನೀರಿನ ರುಚಿಯನ್ನು ಗಮನಿಸಿ ಬೇಕಾದನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿ. ನೀರು ದಪ್ಪ ದ್ರವವಾಗುವವರೆಗೆ ಕುದಿಸಿ . ತದನಂತರ ಸೋಸಿದ ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿಯನ್ನು ಬಾಣಲಿಗೆ ಸುರಿದು ಮಿಶ್ರಣವನ್ನು ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಕಲಸಿ. ನೀರು  ಆವಿಯಾದ ಮೇಲೆ ಗ್ಯಾಸ್ ಬಂದು ಮಾಡಿ. ನಂತರ ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ತುರಿದ ತೆಂಗಿನಕಾಯಿ ಸೇರಿಸಿದರೆ ರುಚಿಯಾದ ತಿಂಡಿ ತಯಾರು :-).

ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿ ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆಯನ್ನು ಚಿಪ್ಸ್ ಅಥವಾ ಮಿಕ್ಷರ್ ಜೊತೆ ತಿನ್ನಬಹುದು. ಕಡೆಗೆ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಮೊಸರಿನ ಜೊತೆ ತಿನ್ನಿ. ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಪೇಪರ್ ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿ ಕೂಡ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಬಹುದು. ಇದನ್ನು ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಲು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ ಇರಬೇಕು. ಇಲ್ಲವಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಮುದ್ದೆಯಾಗಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಯಾಕೆಂದರೆ ಪೇಪರ್ ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿಯನ್ನು ನೀರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ತೊಳೆದ ತಕ್ಷಣವೇ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಬೇಕು, ನೆನೆಸಿಡಬಾರದು.ಈ ತಿಂಡಿಗೆ ಕೆಲವರು ಈರುಳ್ಳಿ ಮತ್ತು ಬಟಾಟೆಯಯನ್ನು ಕೂಡ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ.

ಚಿತ್ರ: ನಾನು ಮಾಡಿದ ತಿಂಡಿ :-)

ನೀರು ದೋಸೆ

ಇವತ್ತು ನೀರು ದೋಸೆ ತಯಾರಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ತಯಾರಿನ ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಸಣ್ಣ ಬರಹ. ಕರಾವಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಕಂಡು ಬರುವ ದೋಸೆ ಇದು. ಇದನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸುವುದು ಬಹಳ ಸುಲಭ ಆದರೆ ಕಾವಲಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಯಿಸುವುದು ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಕಷ್ಟ (ಮೊದಲ ಬಾರಿ ಮಾತ್ರ). ಇದನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸುವ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಈ ದೋಸೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನವರು (ನನ್ನಂತವರು) ಕನಿಷ್ಠ ೭ ರವರೆಗೆ ತಿನ್ನುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಆದರೆ ಇದು ಬೇಗ ಕರಗುವುದರಿಂದ, ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನದ ವೇಳೆಗೆ ಬಹಳ ಬೇಗ ಹಸಿವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

ನೀರು ದೋಸೆ

ಮೊದಲು ಊಟದ ಅಕ್ಕಿಯನ್ನು ಸುಮಾರು ೫-೬ ಘಂಟೆ ನೆನೆಸಿಡಿ. ನಂತರ ಅಕ್ಕಿಯನ್ನು ರುಬ್ಬಿ. ರುಬ್ಬುವಾಗ ನೀರು ಹದವಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿಸಿ. ತುಂಬಾ ನೀರಾದರೆ ದೋಸೆ ಎಬ್ಬಿಸುವುದು ಕಷ್ಟವಾಗುವುದು. ರುಬ್ಬುವ ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ತುರಿದ ತೆಂಗಿನಕಾಯಿ ಸೇರಿಸಿ. ಇದು ದೋಸೆಯನ್ನು ಬಹಳ ಮೆದುವಾಗಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಜಾಸ್ತಿ ಹಾಕಿದರೆ ಮತ್ತೆ ದೋಸೆ ಎಬ್ಬಿಸುವುದು ಕಷ್ಟವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಸುಮಾರು ೪೫ ನಿಮಿಷ ರುಬ್ಬಿದ ನಂತರ ಬೇಕಾದಷ್ಟು ನೀರು ಸೇರಿಸಿ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ರುಚಿಗೆ ತಕ್ಕ ಉಪ್ಪು ಹಾಕಿ. ಇದನ್ನು ತಕ್ಷಣವೇ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಬಹುದು. ನಾನ್-ಸ್ಟಿಕ್ ಕಾವಲಿ ಬಳಸಿದರೆ ಉತ್ತಮ. ದೋಸೆ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಎಬ್ಬಿಸಲು ಬರುತ್ತದೆ. ಬ್ಯಾಚುಲರ್ ಆದ ನನಗೆ ೧ ಲೋಟೆ ಅಕ್ಕಿಯ ಮಿಶ್ರಣ ಸುಮಾರು ಮೂರು ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಸಾಕಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

ಮಿಶ್ರಣ ತಯಾರಾದ ನಂತರ, ಕಾವಲಿ ಬಿಸಿಯಾಗುವ ತನಕ ಕಾಯಿರಿ. ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಎಣ್ಣೆಯನ್ನು ಹರಡಿ. ಸಣ್ಣಗೆ ತೆಳುವಾಗಿ ದೋಸೆ ಹಾಯಿಸಿ. ನಂತರ ಕಾವಲಿಯನ್ನು ಮುಚ್ಚಬೇಕು. ಸುಮಾರು ೨೦ ಸೆಕಂಡಿನ ನಂತರ ಮುಚ್ಚಳ ತೆಗೆದು ಮೆಲ್ಲನೆ ದೋಸೆ ತೆಗೆಯಿರಿ. ಗ್ಯಾಸ್ ನ ಬೆಂಕಿ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಜಾಸ್ತಿ ಇದ್ದರೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದು. ದೋಸೆಯನ್ನು ತುರಿದ ತೆಂಗಿನಕಾಯಿ ಮತ್ತು ಬೆಲ್ಲದ ಮಿಶ್ರಣದ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ತಿಂದರೆ ಬಹಳ ರುಚಿ. ಅದರ ಜೊತೆ ಮಾವಿನಹಣ್ಣು ರಸಾಯನ, ಬೆಣ್ಣೆ ಕೂಡ ಉತ್ತಮ ಕಾಂಬಿನೇಶನ್. ಕಡೆಗೆ 2 ದೋಸೆಯನ್ನು ಮೊಸರಿನೊಂದಿಗೆ ತಿನ್ನಿ. ಇದರ ಒಂದೆ ತೊಂದರೆಯೆಂದರೆ, ದೋಸೆ ಹಾಯಿಸುವಾಗ ಸುತ್ತಲೂ ಅದರ ಮಿಶ್ರಣ ಹರಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಪದೇ ಪದೇ ಕ್ಲೀನ್ ಮಾಡುವುದೇ ಕೆಲಸವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.

ಚಿತ್ರ: ನಾನು ತಯಾರು ಮಾಡಿದ ನೀರು ದೋಸೆ :-)