Idli, Sambar and vada.

Ingredients:

Idli:
Raw rice: 1 cup
Urud dal: 1/2 cup
Salt: tot aste

Sambar:
Onion: 1
Tomato:2
Garlic: 5 pods
Tuvar dal: 1/2 cup
Tamarind juice: 1 bowl, Can also use 1 lemon juice instead
Mustard: 1 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 stem
Dry chilly: 1
SAmbar powder: 2 tsp
Red chillt powder: 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder: 1/4th tsp
Salt: to taste
Sugar: 1 tsp

VAda:
Rice flour: 1 cup
Urud dal powder: 1 cup
Eno: 1 satchet
else,
Raw rice : 1 cup
Urud dal:1 cup

SAlt to taste
Onion: 1
green chilly:2
Mustard seeds:1 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 stem

Preperation:

Idli:
Soak Rice and urud dal for atleast 3 hours, Grind and make a paste, add salt and keep it for frementation for over night. Then in a deep vesel put 2 glass of water. While the water boils, Oil the idli vesels and pur the bacter on to it. Then put in the vessel and let it steem for 5 minutes. remove and serve.

Sambar:
Put in chopped onion, deskinned garlic pods, diced tomato and tuvar dal in a preassure cooker. add required water and red chilly powder and turmeric powder. Put on the wistle and let 2 whistles come. When the pressure within is done with, open the lid. Mix slightly with a spoon and add turmeric water ( if lemon juice... add a cup od water too). Then in a glass of water mix sambar masal and pour it in the curry. Let it cook and simmer till the right consistency of the curry is obtained. Then add sugar and salt. Then for tampering. In a small vessel, pour in oil, pop mustard seeds then red dry chilly and curry leaves and pour it on the curry. Serve with idli.

Vada:
If you want an instant vada, mix rice powder, urud dal powder with salt.Put in chopped onion, green chilly and tamper it with mustard seeds and curry leaves. Mix a bit of water till a dough is made with and add eno and mix till the dough becomes fluffy and soft... If not enough fluffy add 1 more eno satchet.

If the traditional way, Soak raw rice and urud dal. GRind it with minimum water. And add salt chopped onion, green chilly and tamper it with mustard seeds and curry leaves.keep it overnight.

Heat oil for deep frying. Rub water in your hands. TAke a small ball of dough roll to a ball pat it on your hand and make a hole in the middle put it in the oil and try till brown.

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