Apr 10 2008
Velli ulli karam or garlic coconut powder
Ingredients
2 tsp Oil
1¼ tsp Salt (or to taste)
½ tsp Asafoetida powder
10 nos Curry leaves (fresh)
½ cup Coconut (grated) (dry dessicated preferred)
6 clove Garlic
10 nos Dry red chili
½ cup urad dal
¼ cup chana dal
Method
- Heat 1 tsp oil in a kadai and roast the dry red chilies, garlic and curry leaves, remove.
- In the same pan add these in the following order and roast Bengal gram, toast until slightly golden and remove.
- Add the second tsp of oil, toast Split black gram until golden and remove,
- Now turn off the flame and toast the coconut (the heat in the pan should work) till slightly golden.
Remove and cool all the ingredients - Grind all the ingredients except garlic (dry red chilies + bengal gram + split black gram + curry leaves + salt + asafoetida) to a fine powder.
- When done add garlic cloves and run on pulse, (2 to 3 times) just to pound and blend.
- Cool again and then store in air-tight jars.
Serve this podi liberally drizzled with gingely oil as a side for steaming hot idlis.