Idli Podi and Podi Idli Recipes
Here's a recipe to prepare delicious Idli podi and Podi idlis, or spiced fluffy India rice cakes. Follow the recipe to make Podi or spice mix powder with sesame seeds, chana daal, dried red chillies and urad daal.(the nutrition facts are for 1 jar of the idli podi made from this recipe)
Ingredients
For Podi/Gunpowder
- 1/8 cup sesame seeds about 20 g
- 3 tsp oil you can use sesame oil, coconut oil or any vegetable oil
- 10 dried red chilli
- 8-10 curry leaves
- ¼ cup chana dal about 42 g
- ½ cup urad dal about 105 g
- ½ tsp asafoetida/hing
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp oil
For Podi Idli fry
- 2 tsp oil
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 3-4 nos curry leaves
- 1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder To add colour to the dish
Instructions
Podi recipe:
- Dry roast sesame seeds in a cast iron skillet or other heavy bottomed pan until they turn golden brown, then set aside.
- Dry roast chana dal and urad dal till they turn golden brown or toasty. Add to the same bowl.
- Then in a separate pan, add 1 tsp oil and fry dried red chilli until they puff up or turn fragrant.
- Then add curry leaves, wait for the splutter and fry until the leaves turn crispy.
- Set aside and let it all cool. Transfer all the ingredients to a blender and blend to a coarse powder.
- The Podi or gunpowder is ready. You can store this in a mini jar up to a few weeks.
Podi Idli fry
- In a pan, heat up the oil, add mustard seeds. Once they begin crackling, add curry leaves.
- Then add the prepared Podi / gun powder and kashmiri red chilli powder. Mix well until combined.
- Then add the mini or large idlis. Mix really well, coating them in the mix with a silicon spatula.
- Fry the idlis for a minute, to warm them up and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Serving: 1JarCalories: 712kcalCarbohydrates: 77.2gProtein: 32.7gFat: 32.1gSaturated Fat: 4.3gSodium: 169mgPotassium: 1001mgFiber: 35.7gSugar: 4.7gCalcium: 317mgIron: 10mg
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