1) Add little oil in a pan and add small onions, tomatoes & saute it well.
2) Get this into the room temperature & than grind the same, to make it a paste.
3) On the other side, take a small pan add Fennel, Cloves and Cinnamon and roast these (without oil).
4) Once roasted well, place them in the grinder, add coconut, roasted gram and grind it well, to make it like a paste.
5) In another pan, add oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, add the the onion & tomato paste (as per 1st & 2nd step) & saute it well.
6) Add Turmeric Powder, Red Chilly Powder, Sambar Powder and Salt to taste & saute it again.
7) Add the second paste (as per 3rd & 4th steps) saute it well.
8) Add water as required and boil it for sometime.
9) Once it is boiled well, garnish with coriander leaves 😊
For Idly
1) Soak uncooked rice in a separate bowl for 4 to 5 hours
2) Soak Vigna mungo & Fenugreek seeds in a separate bowl for the same time as above
3) After 4-5 hours, grind Vigna mungo & Fenugreek seeds by adding little water to it, make it like a paste
4) Than, grind the soaked rice by adding water to it, make it like a paste
5) Mix both the paste in a container by adding rock salt to it – Idly Batter is ready
6) Keep the batter outside or under sun (if the weather is cold) for a day to ferment well
7) Next day, you can use 2 options to make idly:
a) Place a cloth on the idly stand & pour idly batter on it or
b) Apply oil on the plate & pour the idly batter on it
8) Steam/make idly by keeping in idly cooker, keep poking with a knife or a folk, to check if it has been cooked well.
9) Sprinkle some water on the idly, & than remove it from the cloth by just turning it upside down,
if used directly as per 7th step b, than you can remove it with a knife.