Pottukadalai Poondu Podi Recipe | Fried Gram Dal Powder | Startup Cooking

 POTTUKADALAI POONDU PODI RECIPE | STARTUP COOKING

Pottukadalai Podi Recipe - a flavorful spice powder made of fried gram dal, garlic and red chillies. This is one of the comfort side dish recipe for morning breakfast in Tamil Nadu. During school days, 50% of all the school lunch boxes were packed with sesame oil coated podi Idly. In our house, we all need this podi even if there is chutney for Idly. 

Pottukadalai poondu podi recipe is easy to prepare and goes very well with Idli, dosa, uthappam and rice. This podi tastes little spicy and very flavorful to the mouth. For making podi idli, mix the idli podi with sesame oil and apply all over the idli and sprinkle the idli podi on top of the uthappam or dosa to make the recipe more delicious.  Follow my step by step photo recipe to prepare Pottukadalai Poondu Podi. If you like this recipe, share it, tweet it and pin it. Please do try and post your comments.

check out my other podi recipes

• Basic Idli podi
• Idli milagai podi
• Spicy Idli podi
• Murungai Keerai Podi
• Ellu podi
• Kollu podi

RECIPE FOR POTTUKDALAI POONDU PODI

Coarse       : Breakfast

Cuisine      : South Indian

Author       : Jayashree Karthik

Prep Time  : 5 min

Cook Time : 2 min

Total Time  : 7 min

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INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup pottukadalai (fried gram dal)

• 7 red chillies

• 8 garlic 

• salt to taste

• 1 tsp oil

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PROCEDURE

• dry roast pottukadalai (fried gram dal) for a minute in the pan and then set aside

• in the same pan, add a tsp of oil, roast red chillies and set aside

• again in the same pan, add chopped garlic and roast until slight golden brown and then switch off the flame

• cool down all the ingredients completely

• transfer into mixer grinder and grind to a fine powder

• store in an air tight container

• pottukadalai podi ready to serve with idli, dosa and rice

• taste delicious

NOTES

• adjust spice level according to your taste
• store at room temperate and stays good for 2 months
• serve with hot rice drizzled with a tsp of ghee
• serve with idli and dosa with a tsp of sesame oil

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Pottukadalai Poondu Podi With Step By Step Photo Recipe

dry roast pottukadalai in a pan for a minute, then set aside

roast red chillies in a tsp of oil  till changes color, 

then set aside

in the same pan, roast the garlic for couple of minutes 

and allowed to cool

add all the roasted ingredients into the mixer grinder along with salt

grind to a fine powder

store in an air tight container and serve for idli and dosa

POTTUKADALAI POONDU PODI