Milagai Podi
Milagai Podi is a earthy, nutty, flavoursome side dish used with idly and dosa.
Servings 2 cups of powder
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup bengal gram
- 1/2 cup black gram
- 1/2 cup sesame seed
- 6-8 dry red chilli
- 2 teaspoon oil
- 1 small piece tamarind
- 1/4 teaspoon jaggery
- salt
Instructions
- Dry roast the sesame seeds. they splutter and give a good aroma. Similarly, dry roast the curry leaves.
- Take half a teaspoon of oil and roast the bengal gram. It should be golden in colour. Put it aside.
- Similarly, roast the black gram.
- Put the tamarind and toss it in the kadai for sometime.
- Take a little oil and roast the red chillies.
- Once the ingredients, cool down, at first grind the lentils and sesame. Do not run it for long, the oil may ooze out from the sesame seeds.
- Then, add the red chillies, salt, jaggery and tamarind. Grind them once again.
- Once, it is a coarse powder, remove and store in an airtight container.