Mini Idli With Sambar Recipe

Mini Idli With Sambar Recipe

Mini Idli With Sambar Recipe

Ingredients:

 

Idly Batter -2 cups

Toor dhal /Yellow split peas/Thuvaram Paruppu -1 cup

Split Bengal gram/ Kadalai Paruppu - 1 tspn

Dried Red chillies -3 nos

Coriander seeds - 1 tspn

Cumin seeds - 1 tspn

Fenugreek seeds - 1 tspn

Small onion -10 nos

Tomato - 2 nos

Grated coconut -2 tspn

Tamarind - small half lemon sized

Mustard seeds - 1/4 tspn

Urud dhal - 1/4 tspn

Asafoetida, curry leaves, coriander leaves and salt as needed

Gingelly Oil -2 tspn

Ghee – 1 tspn

Method:

 

Prepare mini idly.

Boil toor dhal in a cooker and smash it well.

Fry coriander seeds, red chillies, Bengal gram, fenugreek and grated coconut without oil in a pan and grind to powder.

Heat a pan with oil and saute with mustard, urud dhal and curry leaves.

Add onion and saute well.

Add tomato and salt and saute well.

Add tamarind water and boil it.

Add the grinded masala powder, curry leaves, asafoetida and salt and boil it till the raw smell goes off.

Add smashed thoor dhal into this and mix it well.

Boil for 10 minutes and Sambar is ready.

Now take a bowl with mini idly and pour the sambar over it, so that the idlys get immersed.

Add Ghee to the sambar idlys.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.