Ingredients
- Rice -2 cups
- Urad dal – 1 cups
- Salt – 1 or 2 tbsp
- Oil – 2 or 3 tbsp
Method
- Take a bowl, add raw rice and water
- Again, rewash them two to three times.
- Then soak for two hour.
- Then we have to take another bowl, add urud dal and water ,
- Then soak for two hours.
- After two hours, drain the excess water from the soaked ingredients and keep them aside.
- Then blend the soaked raw rice and urud dal with a stone grinder into a frothy, thick, smooth batter
- Then , set aside until four hours for the fermentation process.
- Heat water in an idli steamer, then place the idli plates .
- cover and boil them well.
- Then take a bowl and pour some of the fermented batter into it.
- Then add some salt and mix them well.
- Take a half coconut shell and grease it with some oil
- Then batter is poured into the coconut shell.
- Then place the coconut shell onto the steamed idli plates one by one.
- cover and cook for 8 to 9 minutes.
- Ones done turn off the flame and remove the coconut shell from the steamer.
- Take a spatula and remove the idli from the coconut shell.
- Serve and enjoy the tasty coconut shell idli with coconut chutney.
Killi Sambar
Ingredients
- Toor Dal – 1 cup
- Onion – 2 nos
- Shallots – 12 to 13 nos
- Tomato – 1 nos
- Tamarind – small ball
- Dry red chilli – 3 or 4 nos
- Sambar powder – 1 tbsp
- Asafoetida powder – 1/2 tbsp
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tbsp
- Mustard seed – 1 tsp
- Fenugreek seed – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1 or 2 tbsp
- Oil – 2 or 3 tbsp
Method
- Firstly, we have to wash and clean the toor dal
- Then take a pan, add cleaned toor dal and water .
- Cover and cook them well.
- Take a bowl, add tamarind and water.
- Soak for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Remove the lid and check whether the toor dal is cooked or not.
- Once the toor dal is well cooked
- Take the pan off the heat and set it aside.
- Heat oil in a pan .
- Add mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds.allowing them to splutter
- Then add dry red chilli and curry leaves .
- Saute for few seconds.
- Add chopped shallots and sauté them well.
- Then sprinkle some salt and sauté them well
- Then add the chopped tomatoes
- Saute them till they become soft.
- Then squeezed and drained the tamarind water ,set them a side.
- Then add curry powders like sambar powder,asafoetida powder and turmeric powder ,Sauté them well
- pour the squeezed tamarind water into the curry pan, mix them well.
- Then add cooked toor dal and combine them well.
- cover and boil them well.
- Take the pan off the heat and set it aside.
- Serve the tasty killi sambar with idli.
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