Panchapandavar Vadai

Ingredients
Chenna dal 1 cup
Urad dal 1 cup
Tuvar Dal 1cup
Moong Dal 1 cup
Black eyed peas (Karamani) 1 cup
Onions finely chopped – 1 cup
Grated coconut 1/2 cup
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves
Chillies
Salt
Oil

Get Cooking!
1. Grind the dals to a coarse powder (rava types)
2. When required, soak this rava for about an hour. Strain away excess water.
3. Mix in the other ingredients except oil and make into a vadai batter like that in aama vadai
4. Fry the vadais up and serve.

Kollu Podi

It is said that adding horse gram once a week in our daily diet is good for health, especially those on a diet
Ingredients
Horse gram 1/4 kg
Red Chillies 5
Black pepper seeds 10 grams
Dried curry leaves 50 grams
Salt to taste

Get Cooking!
1. Clean the horse gram and sun dry it for about 3 days.
2. Dry roast red chillies, black pepper seeds, curry leaves one by one and keep aside.
3. Grind all the ingredients to a powder.
4. Serve with rice.

Tips
For those who like garlic, take about 100 mg of garlic juice, mix it with the horsegram and then sun dry the mix for about 3 days.

Kothsu

Ingredients
Brinjal/ Sorakkai cut into small cubes 1 part
Onions finely chopped 2 parts
Moong dal 1 part
Tamarind extract (say from a ball of size of “nellikai”/ marble)
Sambar Powder
Slit green chillies
Salt
Mustard seeds
Curry leaves
Oil

Get Cooking!
1. Boil the moong dal in the tamarind water.
2. Add the vegetables, onions, chillies, sambar powder, salt and boil well.
3. Season with mustard seeds and curry leaves.
4. Serve with idlies or spicy pongal.