RONTOSSE & DALI THOY -Kochi GSB special Konkani dish/ Rice Flour Poories & Dal Potato Curry.

Rontosse & Dali Thoy is a traditional and popular Konkani dish.This is a very tasty, delicious and good combination and a special dish prepared on the Holi celebration day in almost all the GSB homes in Kochi.

Holi celebration is called "Ukkuli" in Kochi Konkani and the main function is Holika Dahan.Holika Dahan is called "Foddho Lassap" in Kochi Konkani.

A statue of Holika/ Foddho/ Boddho/ devil is made with clothes filled with cotton.Both adults and children equally participate in this Ukkuli celebration.They enjoy this festival by spraying and applying colour powders on each other.

There is a small procession with Foddho/ Holika and the children enjoy the celebration with music and band .The end of the celebration is the Holika Dahan/ Foddho lassap/ Boddha lassap.

Kochi GSB People gather together to watch the Holika Dahan /Foddho lassap.At the end water filled with Tumeric powder poured/ sprayed on the people to remove all the evils.

Rontosse and Dali Thoy is the special dish/Ukkuli Khan prepared on this special day in Kochi GSB homes.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare this delicious dish.

Ingredients for RONTOSSE:-

Rice flour. -1 cup
Hot water. -1 cup
Oil.            -1 tsp
Salt.            - to taste.

Ingredients for DALI THOY:-

Tur dal.                -1 cup
Potato.                  -1 big
Turmeric powder. -1/4 tsp
Green chillies.      -3
Salt.                      -to taste

For Seasoning Dali Thoy:-

CoconutOil/ Oil.  -2tsp
Mustard.              -1tsp
Cumin seeds.       -1/2 tsp
Dry Red chillies. -2
Curry leaves.      -1 spring

RONTOSSE/RICE POORIES Method:-

In a wide mixing bowl add 1cup Rice flour and add Salt and mix well.

Add 1cup hot boiled Water slowly and mix with the Rice flour little by little using a spoon.

Add 1tsp Oil and mix the Rice flour with your hands to make a soft dough.

Apply little Oil on your palms and make small lemon size balls of Rice dough and keep aside on a plate for 30 minutes.

Keep one plastic sheet on a Chapathi stone and apply little oil on it.

Keep one Rice ball in the middle of the plastic sheet .

Apply little oil on another Plastic sheet and keep it over the Rice ball.

Keep a flat bottom steel plate over the second Plastic sheet.

Press the centre of the steel plate with your hands to flatten the Rice ball in between Plastic sheets to make a medium thin Poori shape.

Remove the top platic sheet from the top of the Flattened Rice poori.

Heat oil in a deep frying pan and slowly drop the flatterned Rice poori into the hot Oil.Deep fry

 and cook on both sides till crisp and little golden colour.

Remove the deep fried Rice Poori/ Rontosse from the hot Oil with a strainer spatula and transfer to a plate.

Keep the deep fried Rontosse on a plate. 

Rontosse / Rice flour Poories are ready

Serve the Rontosse/Rice poories hot with Dali Thoy.

DALI THOY Method:-

Peel the skin ,wash and chop Potato into small cubes and keep aside.

Wash and half slit Green chillies lengthwise and keep aside.

Pressure cook Tur dal and chopped potatoes with half slit Green chillies and Turmeric powder for 4 whistels or till cooked soft and keep aside.

In a cooking vessel add the pressure cooked Tur dal and Potato cubes and boil for 2 minutes.

Add Salt.Boil and mix well for few minutes and switch off the flame.

Heat Coconut oil/ Oil in a pan and splutter Mustard seeds and Cumin seeds/ Jeera and saute well.

Add 2 broken Red chillies and Curry leaves and fry well for few seconds.Then switch off the flame.

Pour this Seasoning into the Dali Thoy in the cooking vessel and mix well.

Dali Thoy is ready.

A tasty, yummy,and good combination of Rontosse and Dali Thoy is ready to serve.