Idli podi recipe

Take a heavy kadai or a pan and heat it. Add urad dal to the pan and dry roast till it becomes golden. Remove the roasted urad dal in a separate plate. Then add chana dal to the same pan. Keep on stirring often, while roasting chana dal. Remove aside in the same plate. Now take sesame seeds in the same pan and roast till they start popping. keep them aside.

In the same pan add oil. Add dry red chilies. Remove the crown from the red chilies, before roasting them. Break or halve the chilies and remove the seeds before roasting them. Add curry leaves to the pan. Stirring nonstop, fry for a few seconds till the curry leaves become crisp. Switch off the flame and add ½ teaspoon hing. Then add salt, mix again.

Take this spice mixture in the same plate. Let all the roasted spices cool down and come at room temperature. In a grinder jar, add the entire roasted spice mixture. Grind in intervals of some seconds to a coarse or fine powder. Do not grind at a stretch as then the sesame seeds will release oil.

Then spoon idli podi in a jar. Close tightly with a lid Serve it with idli, dosa, or rice.