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dlies tastes best with Idly milagai podi. There are lots of variations in making idly podi. My mother used to make Ellu milagai podi for idlies and dosas. With the nutty flavor, this tastes best with idlies and dosas.
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Ellu (Sesame Seeds) Milagai Powder For Idly or Dosa
Ingredients
- Long Red Chillies - 1 cup or 30
- Channa Dhal - 1 cup
- Ured Dhal - 1 cup
- Black Sesame Seeds or Karuppu Ellu - 1 cup
- Salt - as needed or 1 tsp.
- Gingelly oil - 1 tsp.
Instructions
- Heat a pan with a teaspoon of gingelly oil.
- Fry all the ingredients except sesame seeds till golden brown in low flame. Do not burn them.
- Remove them and keep them in a plate to cool.
- Now add the sesame seeds in the same pan for a minute in low flame and switch off the pan.
- When cooled, first grind the ingredients other than sesame seeds to a fine powder.
- Now add sesame seeds and salt and grind to a smooth powder.
- Your healthy and tasty sesame seeds milagai podi is ready to serve.
- Enjoy with Idly or Dosa.