Idly & Idly Sambar

 Idly :

Ingredients:

Idly rice - 4 cups
Urad dal - 1 cup
Fenugreek seeds - 1 tsp
salt

Direction:

• Soak idly rice in the water for about 6 hours.
• Soak urad dal and fenugreek together for about 6 hours.
• Grind the rice first and then urad dal.
• Add required quantity of water while grinding.
• Now mix both batter together with salt.
• Ferment the batter by keeping aside overnight.
• Mix the batter well and pour batter in the idly pan.
• Steam for about 15 minutes.

Sambar:

Ingredients:

Moong dal - 1/2 cup
Tomato - 1
Onion - 1/4
Green chili - 5
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Asafoetida - a pinch
Sambar powder - 1 tsp
Curry leaves
Mustard seeds


Direction:

• Fry moong dal for about 3 minutes and then pressure cook it with asafoetida and turmeric powder.
• Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds,curry leaves and onion.
• Saute well until onion turns translucent.
• Add tomato & green chili and saute well.
• Add this to the cooked dal and add required water.
• Add sambar powder and salt.
• Give a boil and now our sambar is ready to eat with idly..