More Kali or More Koozh - An old is gold recipe

Ingredients:
Rice flour - 1 cup
Butter milk - 1 1/2 cups (a bit sour)
Red Chillies or More milagai - 4 nos
Salt to taste
Oil - 4 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tbsp
Urad dal - 2 tbsp
Asafodeita - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - a few
Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup finely chopped

Method:
Mix salt to the rice flour and mix it with butter milk and make a batter not thicker than dosa batter. In a pan heat oil and add mustard seeds and when it splutters add the urad dal and asafodeita. Add the batter slowly and keep stirring continuously so that it does not form any lump. Add curry leaves and coriander leaves. Reduce the flame and cover it with a lid (keep a wooden laddle in the pan, so that there will be a little gap and the steam will go out). Grease a plate with little oil and when it is cooked spread it in the plate, flatten it and make pieces. Serve it hot.

Gujarati Idly Powder

Ingredients:
Bengal gram - 1/4 cup
Thuvar Dal - 1/4 cup
Urad Dal - 1/4 cup
Sesame seeds - 1/4 cup
Moong Dal - 1/4th cup
Red chillies - 2 cups
Salt - 1/4 cup
Asafodeita - 1 inch piece

Method:
In a dry pan add the sesame seeds and fry till it splutters and becomes red. Fry bengal gram, thuvar dal and urad dal one by one. Fry all of them till they turn red. Reduce the flame and fry the moong dal till it becomes red. Fry the asafodeita then the red chillies. Ensure that it doesnot turn black. Let it cool and grind sesame seeds first and transfer it to a plate. Grind all the other ingredients together to a fine powder. In the end add the sesame seeds powder and grind it again so that all the ingredients mix well. Spread on a plate to cool. Store it in an air tight container.

Vathakuzhambu Powder Recipe

I normally make Vathakuzhambu with Sambar Podi. I tried out making Vathakuzhambu today using Vathakuzhambu powder. This recipe is given by my husband's grandmother.

Ingredients:
Coriander Seeds - 2 cups
Thuvar Dal - 1/4 cup
Bengal gram dal - 3/4th cup
Urad dal - 3/4th cup
Red chillies - 4 cups
Pepper - 1/4 cup
Jeera - 1/4 cup
Solid Hing - 1 inch piece
Curry Leaves - a few

Method to make Vathakuzhambu Powder
Dry roast all the ingredients separately and grind them to a fine powder.