Idli podi

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By Radha Nelanti

Mar, 5th

568

Servings
10 persons
Cook Time
15 minutes
Ingredients
6 - 8

Ingredients

  • Mustard
  • Red chilli
  • Urad dal
  • Bengal gram
  • Sesame
  • Hing
  • Salt
  • Oil

Instructions

  • Heat a pan. Add sesame seeds and fry the sesame seeds in low flame till it starts to sputter. Keep the roasted sesame seeds separately in a bowl. Heat 1 tsp oil in pan. Add mustard seeds when the oil is hot. When the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add urad dal. Fry the urad dal in medium flame till it becomes light brown. Take this roasted dal aside in a bowl. Add another tsp of oil in the pan. When the oil is hot, add the chana dal and fry the dal till it turns light golden brown. Take this aside along with roasted urad dal. Now, add 1 tsp oil in the pan and fry the red Chill till the colour of the chilli changes to light brown. Keep the flame in low so that it wont burn the chilli. Keep the fried chillies aside to cool before grinding. Allow all the fried ingredients to cool down. First take the roasted sesame seeds in a mixer jar. Grind it to smooth powder. Do not grind too long as it releases oil. Grind in regular intervals and make sure they are in powder form. Take this sesame powder aside. Next, take the chilies along with salt to the mixer jar and grind it to smooth powder. To the chili powder, now, add the roasted dals. grind it to a coarse powder. Finally add the ground sesame powder and give a pulse. Idli Podi is ready.