Ingredients
300 gms urad Dahl washed and soaked for 6 to 8 hrs.
Drain and grind with very little water to make a thick batter
Add tbsp of rice flour
Add in 1 finely chopped onion
2 green chilli finely chopped
Few curry leaves chopped
Few pieces of fresh coconut (optional)
Salt to taste
Method
Mix all the above together
Heat the oil till nice and hot . Wet your palm of your hand and fingers .take some of the batter with your thumb make a hole and slip into the hot oil. Cook till done.
For The Chutney
3 cups of desiccated coconut
4 green chilli
1 tsp tamarind and 1/4 tsp vinegar
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
Salt to taste
Little sugar
Grind all to a paste
Heat some oil add mustard seeds, curry leaves, kashmiri chilli when it's hot and boiling pour on to the chutney and mix well.
Sambar powder recipe
Ingredients
4 to 5 Red kashmiri chillies
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tsp pepper corn
1/2 tsp urad dal
1/2 tsp channa dal
1/2 tsp rice
1/4 tsp fenugreek seeds
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
8 curry leaves
Roast all the above and grind to a powder
1/4 Tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp hing / asafetida powder
Vegetables for the sambhar
Madras cucumbre or Madras onions/ small onions or drumsticks or a mix of vegetables of choice.
Ingredients for the sambhar
300 gms tuvar dal /pigeon pea lentil
Wash well and soak in water for sometime.
few mustard seeds
few curry leaves
1 kashmiri chillies
few madras onions or any vegetables of choice
small ball of tamarind or 1 tsp tamarind paste
Method
Add few mustard seeds , curry leaves and 1 Kashmiri chilli. Once it starts to splutter add 1 green tomato or 1 red tomato roughly chopped .Add the ground sambhar masala powder with little water. Mix well
Add the tuvar Dahl and enough water and salt to taste. Pressure cook on high 1 whistle then add vegetables or madras onion and pressure cook on low for 1 whistle. Release the steam . Mix in some amount of tamarind paste or tamarind and some amount of water and salt to taste.


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