94. Spicy Idly Podi

Spicy side dish for breakfast from Andhra

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Ingredients:

• Coriander seeds - 4 TBSP

• Dry bengal gram - 3 TBSP

• Mustard - 1 tsp

• Fenugreek seeds — 1/4 tsp

• Peeled broken black gram - 1 tsp

• Red chillies - 10

• Peeled garlic — 10

• Curry leaves - 2 sprigs

• Sesame seeds (white) - 1 TBPS

• Gingelly oil - 2 TBSP

• Salt to taste

• Tamarind, the size of a small lemon

• Jaggery - 1 tsp

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Instruction:

1. Clean and dry the curry leaves

2. Heat oil in a wide pan (Kadai)

3. Add all the ingredients in the same order as the list above, except Jaggery and tamarind. Fry the ingredients till the dals turn golden and chillies are fried and the curry leaves become crispy. Mix well and switch off

4. Cool the ingredients to room temperature and grind to a coarse powder

5. Add tamarind and salt and grind again to the texture as in the picture above

6. Add a tsp of gingelly oil or ghee to 1 TBSP of this spicy powder and make a paste. This is used as an accompaniment for idli/dosa.

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