Kootan choru

Ingredients: 
Rice - 200 gms
Gram dhal or Thoor dhal- 50 gms 
(Gram dhal will give more taste)
chilli powder - 2 tspTurmeric - a pinch.
Asafoetida - a pinch.
tamarind - small gooseberry size.
cumin powder- 1/2 teaspoon.salt.
To grind :
grated coconut -  1/4 cup.
garlic- 2 cloves
small onion- 4 nos


vegetables:
mango - 4 pieces
carrot -1.
unripe banana- 1 small size.
brinjal - 2 small.
drumstick - 1.
tomato - 2
potato - 1 small size
murungakeerai  - a handful.
small onion - 5 nos.

Method:
Soak the  dhal and rice for 1/2 and hour.
cut the vegetables into small pieces.
Bring 4 cups of water to boil and add  dhal, turmeric, asafoetida. cook it almost soft. Then add rice and vegetables.
Then add chilli powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder and salt.
Then After 90 % cooked add tamarind extract and add grinded coconut. 
Then fry murungakeerai in kadaai with little oil and then add with rice. 
In kadaai fry mustard seed, 1 red chilli and curry leaves with oil and add to rice.
Reduce the flame and Cover it. After 10 minutes put off the flame . 
Now Kootan choru is ready.


Serve with Ellu thovaiyal, mango pickles, reidha and appalam.

Ellu Podi

Ingredients:
Black Ellu (sesame seeds) - 50 grms.
Dry red chilli - 7 nos
Tamarind - lemon size
salt - to taste 
garlic - 10 cloves
Asafoetida (hing / Perunkaayam) - 1 pinch

Method:
Heat a kadaai dry roast the ellu and keep aside.

Again heat the kadaai add 1 tsp oil and fry red chillies.

Put the roasted chillies along with the Ellu and let them cool completely.

After they get cooled, grind Ellu, red chillies,hing and garlic.


Then add tamarind and salt along with the ellu and grind together.


Now Ellu podi is ready and serve with idly or dosai.

Idly podi

Ingredients:
Channa dhal (Kadalai paruppu)- 100 gm 
Urad dhal (black gram) - 200 gm 
Dry red chilly - approximately 15 to 20 numbers
(Reduce chillies if you need a lesser spicy)
Curry leaf - 2 sprig
Pepper - 1 tsp
salt - to taste 
garlic - 7 cloves
Asafoetida (hing / Perunkaayam) - 2 pinch

Method:
Heat a kadaai and  roast the red chilli with 1 tsp oil. Keep aside.

Again heat the kadaai roast the urad dhal ,gram dhal , pepper ,curry leaves ,hing and pepper in remaining oil.


Put the roasted chillies, garlic,salt along with the others above and let them cool completely.

After they get cooled, grind them to a medium fine powder Store in air tight container.

Idly podi is ready!