- Urad dal 1 cup
- Channa dal 2 table spoons (optional)
- red dried chilli 10 or 12
- white sesame seeds (vella ellu) 2 table spoons
- little mustard seeds
- little oil for frying
- hing or asafotida powder or the katti perungayam
- salt 2 t spoons
Take a Frying pan and add a t spoon of oil. put the mustard seeds and red chillies and the asafotida. When chillies turn a little brown remove from frying pan.
Now put the dals and fry till urad dal turns brown. remove from pan and put the sesame seeds in the pan and fry till brown.
switch off the stove and put the salt in the hot pan. mix well
Now grind all the ingredients in the mixer and the 'podi' is ready.
Note: If sesame seeds are not available podi can be done with just urad dal, and red chillies but the sesame seeds give the podi the needed added taste.
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