Kollu podi recipe, healthy podi varieties with step by step pictures
Hope you all had a wonderful Diwali celebrations. We too had a great Diwali and after having all the sweets and oily food for the past few days, we started craving for a simple food and suddenly i thought about this Kollu podi and made the same today. I have heard that Kollu | horse gram is recommended for people who wants to reduce weight .
INGREDIENTS:
METHOD:
Hope you all had a wonderful Diwali celebrations. We too had a great Diwali and after having all the sweets and oily food for the past few days, we started craving for a simple food and suddenly i thought about this Kollu podi and made the same today. I have heard that Kollu | horse gram is recommended for people who wants to reduce weight .
INGREDIENTS:
| KOLLU | HORSE GRAM | 1/2 CUP |
| TOOR DAL | 2 TBLSP |
| OIL | 1/4 TSP |
| DRY RED CHILLI | 2 |
| BLACK PEPPER | 1 TSP |
| GARLIC | 2 PODS (OPTIONAL) |
| ASAFOETIDA | A PINCH |
| SALT | AS NEEDED |
METHOD:
- Heat a pan and add oil to this. Roast the horse gram | kollu and toor dal to this and nicely roast it without getting burnt. Keep it aside and roast the red chillies, garlic (if using), black pepper, asafoetida in a medium low flame. In the last add salt and switch off the flame.
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- Combine the roasted kollu and spice mixture. Allow them to cool completely. Grind it into a fine powder using a mixer.
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- When done allow the podi to get cool by spreading this in a plate. After 15 minutes, using a clean dry spoon transfer it to a dry container and store it .
- This can be mixed with hot rice along with few drops of sesame oil.
- Even you can have this with Idli | Dosa too instead of milagai podi.
